FlyingRhenquest

I probably talked myself out of going to the dropzone 10 or 12 times in my first 60 jumps. Just couldn't deal with it those days. I'd always go back and do a jump a couple days later. The more you do it and the more current you are when you do it, the less nervous you'll be. I was always much less nervous on the second jump the few times I did a second jump on the same day. Stick with it, the nerves will go away. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

From the description, it isn't unclaimed or abandoned. The guy who owns it doesn't want to move it at the moment. The hull is probably worth several hundred dollars for the scrap metal alone. If it were to "disappear" the cops would probably get involved. If it's been sitting there rotting for this many years, it's debatable that it's not been abandoned. Question is, is it worth enough to encourage someone risk having that debate in a court of law. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Heh, buy her $100 ring and give her a skydiving rig! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Is there any salvage law that could be invoked? Even in a crap state, a unclaimed and obviously abandoned aircraft has got to be worth the effort to take it off and tear it down for parts or scrap. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I was in the liquor store over by the drop zone a few days ago and noticed a six pack of root beer sitting in with the miscellaneous 'other" brewed type drinks. Alcoholic root beer. Apparently these are gaining popularity at the moment. So I shrugged and decided to give it a try. Turns out the only thing better than root beer over ice is alcoholic root beer over ice. This stuff is delicious. I'm going to have to try to make float out of it. And in case you missed it, the brand name of this particular one is "Not Your Father's Root Beer." Cute. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Huh. I never had that problem in the Z, but that car was loud as hell. If you live anywhere it gets cold, carbon monoxide detectors in the house are also a good idea. Apparently they're a good idea anyway. I mean really, just replace the 9 volt battery every couple years... I am a bit surprised that the newer cars actually put out enough carbon monoxide to actually off someone. If they'd got a hybrid, it might actually have just stopped the engine after idling for a couple of minutes. Personally I kind of liked the keyless ignition, but it wasn't an option on the WRX I traded the Z in on. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Setting it on fire comes to mind. You can solve most of life's problems by setting them on fire. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Hmph. Just take your preacher up on a hot air balloon, get married and then jump out. Post the video to youtube later. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Practice, I reckon. I've noticed a huge improvement in my accuracy and patterns in the last 50 or 60 jumps. If your canopy is glidey, you just need to take that and wind speed into account when you start your pattern. I'd suggest doing a bunch of hop and pops, shooting for a specific target like a cone or frisbee, and pay attention to where you start your downwind in relation to the target and how close you get each time. Beyond that, if you have a canopy coach at your dropzone, working with them would move you along better than trying to figure it out on your own. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

The only way it could get better would be that he gets another ticket when he's forced to return to the state to appear in court for his previous ticket. Well either that or he doesn't show up in court and has a warrant set for his arrest. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Und now ve jump! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

It's raining again and it looks like the entire state is under a flash flood watch. Fuck you Mother Nature! I'm going to buy a humvee! Phoenix is looking more and more tempting. Anyone know of any decent jobs around an airport that an IT-oriented skydiver could do? My skill set is getting increasingly more strange as time goes on... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Ooh I had one for this! http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4940173 I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yes, but there were probably better options. If you're going to quit you might as well take it up the chain first. What do you have to lose at that point? People often quit their bosses, not their company. Oh my god. This is so fucking tragically hilarious. I am/was at 2nd interview stage with another company. I just got drunk dialled by the Managing Director to negotiate the employment terms at 10:30:at night (midnight for him). Think I'll pass on that job You probably could have negotiated some pretty good terms at that point. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Death may have some opinions on the subject. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Crossing the runway on base leg is NOT a good idea if you want to stay alive in this sport. That I realize, and thats one of the things they taught me in my FJC. My instructor did say it was allowable depending on the circumstances as long as you continue your situational awareness. Even so its not something I plan on doing ever, seeing as we have lots of soft corn for outs Ah yeah, our ground school instructor told some horrific story about watching a guy lose his legs to a landing plane that way. Also one about nearly ripping his big toe off landing on asphalt in flip-flops, and apparently his instruction in EPs and PLFs stuck pretty well too. See? I WAS awake in ground school! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I wonder where the fire-fighting planes are based? If they're not at Longmont, they should be. They operate out of Rocky Mtn Regional, which is 3 miles West of me. A couple years ago when there was a big fire North of here, they had slurry bombers taking off at 15m intervals, and after departing, they turned North right over my house. It was pretty cool getting a non-stop display of WWII-era bombers from sunrise to sunset! I had one of those fly what felt like 15 feet over my car on my way back from Blackhawk one day. Once I got done shitting myself, I thought it was cool. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yeah, linked exit for now. Once you get off the hill, staying at the same altitude seems to be a lot easier. Spend half an hour in the tunnnel going up and down like a yo-yo. Have slow-fall competitions with your instructor in the tunnel. At some point it'll click and be easy, just like everything else. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Not really, but I've done some hot air balloon jumps. Those are fun, and actually require you to do your own spotting. On those, I've landed in a school football field (School was out at the time,) a field surrounded by an electrified fence (That was fun,) in the field we launched the balloon from and in the middle of a big field full of mud. On that last one, I foolishly followed the first guy out, despite being more than a little tempted to bail for the school football field again. Night jump landings are usually fun as well. I'm dreading night jumps this year, though. It's been so wet, the mosquitoes are pretty bad during the day. If we go out to that field for night jumps, they might find nothing but bloodless husks the next day... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Well if we have to evacuate due to flooding we can always head for the swoop pond. It seems to be the driest place in Colorado right now. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

That's just the cheap $150 walmart suit off the rack at the dropzone. I go through one about every 150 jumps or so. Usually by then they also have a couple hours of tunnel time on 'em. You saw where I came from, though. You don't just get that way overnight. Takes practice. And I'm still not a great freeflier, mostly because I don't practice it at all. Friend of mine has maybe a quarter of the tunnel time I do and is already better in the other orientations. She's working on sit flying now. I'm clearly much more comfortable on my belly and she admires how smooth I can be, but it's all just practice. Given a few more hours, she should be as smooth in all the orientations as the instructors are. Sounds like the tunnel did you some good, so just keep at it. You don't have to rush headlong into freefly at the first opportunity unless you want to. If you stay on your belly for an hour or two, I think you'd be surprised at what you can learn in "boring old belly!" I feel like the tunnel time on my belly really helped when I started to fly the wingsuit. I doubt I'd have been ready at 200 jumps if I hadn't had a few hours in the tunnel by then too. I still opened into more line twists than I'd ever seen before on my first one, but that hasn't happened again since then! I'm still flying a comparatively huge canopy, too. But I like that. It's got some decent glide, and I'm getting really comfortable with how it flies now. I may never actually downsize below 230, just because I don't see the need. I could definitely see just buying another Safire 230 whenever my current one gives up the ghost (Should be at least a couple thousand jumps left in it though.) I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Probably not. All that crap was north of 66. I did see the tornado while I was going out to get dinner. I look straight up South Pratt and think "Huh... is that a funnel cloud?" Then the tornado alarms started going off. I guesstimated it to be about 10 miles off and upon reviewing the locations later I was remarkably accurate about it. Suppose I should have run up that way and tried to get a picture of it. Hindsight... Other planes were flying out of the airport today, but the weather was likely too shitty for much skydiving. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Haven't experienced or seen it. You'd think one would pop up in the Friday Freakout if it happened. I don't know all the Friday Freakouts, but I don't recall that one. Most people I know who are doing barrel rolls just do it at the end of the freefall to clear their airspace. By that time all the other crap you were doing on your jump probably would have caused the accidental deploy already, if it was going to happen. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yeah. Besides, Family Guy called it back in 2009. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

It's probably fine as long as what they're doing is safeish. If they're borrowing your rig, you can ask them to please not get blood on it. Or if they have to, at least not too much blood. I haven't put a whole lot of thought into what constitutes too much blood, but if they could just get a little less than that much on there, that'd be awesome. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?