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Oh, well in that case, I think it's probably a scam to charge you $1000 for a tandem ride. I don't think it's particularly difficult for a tandem instructor to make a student motion sick. The hospital thing is just a run-around. Instead of going to the hospital, you should go down to the nearest police station, explain your situation to them, and ask them to prosecute the company's owners for fraud. You're a tourist, you're an easy target. If you decide to try skydiving again, I'd suggest perhaps a reputable company in Australia, maybe near one of the indoor skydiving facilities in the country. Or come to the USA in the winter (November-February) and do it at Eloy in Arizona. Sure it's probably two days travel to get here, but it doesn't sound significantly more expensive than Thailand, and way less sketchy. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Having not seen your reaction to your last tandem jump, I'm not going to second-guess your instructor. They are at least going to refund the remainder of your money? All the gliding sports require a more strategic approach to flying. You're always looking for the next thermal as well as constantly evaluating potential landing areas within your range in case you can't find any more thermals. It's not bad, just somewhat different than skydiving. From watching the videos, it does seem more relaxed than skydiving, though I doubt you'll ever get that massive adrenaline rush we get at the door. If you decide you like it, it might be easier to launch a paraglider than do a skydive, if Bangladesh doesn't have many dropzones. You'd want to check your country's regulations on operating that type of aircraft prior to buying gear. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Oh I know exactly who you're talking about! But you'd get an extra $30 for her! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Oh that's good. It's normal to be scared. If you're not scared, there's probably something wrong with you! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I'm picturing the inside of one of the Eloy skyvans at noon in the middle of July *shudder* I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Heh heh. It's because of the DZ I know that a 7 gallon keg of Sawtooth is $75 I didn't even know about the tunnel until after my AFF 1. IIRC I did about 7 minutes between my AFF 2 and 3, and was sore for days afterwards. The instructors did see a difference in my flying, though. I did 2 or 3 more sessions down there while on coach status. If I had a do-over, I'd do some more tunnel time before my first AFF jump, but I'm still not convinced how much it helps early on. The only person I know who had tunnel time prior to an AFF jump had about an hour in the tunnel and still ended up freezing up on her AFF 1. But she's done great on subsequent jumps and her instructors could tell she'd had tunnel time. I'd love to do a study with a control group but it would be prohibitively expensive and I think skydiving's really too random to get any useful data. It IS very nice to have video of your early flying. The AFF newbies think us experienced skydivers are bad-ass (I still very clearly am not) so it's nice to be able to show them my early tunnel minutes and couple of AFF jumps I have video of so they can see I started in the same place they are. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

It seems like a fair number of tandem students get motion sick. It seems like it's a lot less common when you're flying your own canopy. I think it's a similar difference to driving a car versus being a passenger. Talk to your instructor prior to the next one and see if you can fly the canopy this time. Also ask them not to make any such extreme maneuvers. If you end up sick after two or three solo canopy flights, then you might want to start considering your options, but one tandem flight doesn't give you enough information. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

That sounds like about the right ballpark. I repeated a couple of AFF levels and did a canopy course before getting my A license. I guesstimate I spent about $20000 my first year between jump tickets, gear rental and buying my own gear. I live just across town from my DZ, so I was over there constantly. The biggest chunk of all that was my gear. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

My plan would be to do water training and get the B license, and to hit the dropzones that are nice in the winter once or twice (Eloy or Deland for a week at a time maybe.) Supplement with tunnel time and fair weather skydiving as needed. If you still aspire to coaching or any sort of RW, reset those goals and try again next year. You don't have to go stampeding into freeflying in the tunnel, either. If you work on belly skills, your belly skills will improve. There's no need to be discouraged. My summer didn't go as planned either -- bad weather, an infestation of family and the worst allergy attacks I've ever suffered kept me from getting to where I wanted to be with my skydiving this year. We've only had really decent skydiving weather for the last month. So I'll just jump the good days, work the tunnel, try to hit Eloy once or twice, and see if I can pick up where I left off next spring. It's not like the sky's going anywhere. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I dunno about that, but my folks used to buy us those bubblegum cigarettes back in the 70s. They had powdered sugar in them which you could blow out and pretend you were smoking. You can buy them now on amazon.com, just in time for Halloween! I wonder if handing out bubblegum cigarettes on Halloween would be enough to land you on the local news... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Well it's not so much that as what you learn in the process, isn't it? These days with 3D printing and globalization it's pretty easy to make something happen. You just need to interface with Alibaba and someone can make it happen. The workmanship will probably be shit but the price should be right. So if you want that Domanatrix Barbie super-sized and you can work the global market, I'm pretty sure that could be arranged. Sadly she's likely to be "Anatomically Correct" in the Mattel definition of the word. Here's one for you, though! "Jeb Corloss Action Figure With Kung-Fu Grip"! (Jeb, if you're reading this and think it's a great idea, I might be able to find a 3D artist to make a 3D-Printed prototype. Call me!) I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

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Is the one in black Jeb? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

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I always enjoy a good gainer. I really ought to try one out of a hot air balloon one of these days... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yeah, I heard some of the people loading the sabre2 at the DZ more lightly had trouble with end-cell closure and otherwise funky openin. I never had a severely off-heading opening on it. The PD pulse I'm jumping now opens off heading pretty much every time, and everyone I've talked to says ones they jumped always opened on heading. That might just come down to the personality of the individual canopy. Having watched a friend jump two different Sabre1s, it seems like really hard openings can be dealt with. He talked to a rigger and they ended up putting a pocket in his slider, which at least seemed to keep him from getting bruises on every jump. Funnily it took some convincing for him to realize that wasn't normal. He won't jump anything else after having flown it, though. I keep joking with him that he's going to have to contact PD for his next downsize, and convince them to make him a new Sabre 1. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Seems like a lot of people, men and women, bounce right back into a relationship immediately after one ends. I think a person should learn to be happy by themselves, before they try it with someone else. And quite possibly, they're so desperate not to be alone, they'll try way too hard to make whatever random person fit with them. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I've only ever flown the rental one at the DZ. I have a number of early jumps logged on that canopy with "Hard opening" "Hard opening" and one that was so hard I saw stars briefly. Then one of the riggers dicked with the line trim to try to fix an end cell closure problem the more lightly loading students were complaining about, and I never had another hard opening on it. Why would I keep jumping it if I kept having hard openings on it? Well I didn't notice the pattern at first, and by the time I did I enjoyed flying it more than I hated the openings. Once the rigger did his thing, it became my favorite rental rig in the place. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

What would be the point? Maybe you found a bipolar one. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

For some reason it reminds me of a sand flea. Funnily if I had the resources, anything in the supercar range wouldn't interest me. The current 370Z Nismo is plenty of car for me. Anything more than that would get me in trouble. Now a King Air or Twin Otter on the other hand... I find a three-decade-old twin otter held together by duct tape to be a way sexier machine than the Lambo. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

_> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_mKR5843DE I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Nope, but you kind of get used to feeling that way. Other countries have skydiving. Or maybe indoor wind tunnels. If that's available, you could spend an hour or six in a tunnel learning how to fly your body. It's not quite the same, but it'll do in a fix. If you can't do either, you could just spend all your free time obsessively reading skydiving articles and watching youtube videos! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Not your everyday warning! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Well we have some guys in Longmont Colorado who do Balloon jumps year 'round. We're still kind of a haul from Idaho, though. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yeah, it all looks more difficult on paper that it actually is in practice. The dive flow of the early AFF jumps may seem complicated right now, but you'll find once you become a licensed skydiver that they're really pretty easy and you could probably complete them on your own on a solo jump in the first 10 seconds or so of the jump. One of the really cool things about this sport is watching how quickly peoples' abilities progress in it. I think every one of the AFF jumps, on the ground I thought "Oh my god, how am I going to do THAT?" and I did every one of them! And I was terrible at landing for a long time. I think I was in the mid 50s before I even stood one up. People tend to think their experience is unique, but we've all been there. Just stick with it and don't get discouraged! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?