FlyingRhenquest

That'd be nice. We could get better performance just by picking random people from a phone book. Maybe that should be how choose our lawmakers from now on. Just have a draft. Kind of like jury duty, but with a six digit salary. Just try to do your best and you can leave in 6 years. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Hey! At least you're persistent! And it sounds like it's paid off! Congratulations and welcome to the sport! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Here's a little ammunition for you! 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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This is what happened here where I live, Beaverton, Oregon. As to shown where, it was numerous articles in the local newspaper. I cannot offer any thoughts on shorter times for yellow lights, etc; but I do know that here, there was an increase in traffic accidents. Not so much now as people are getting used to them and are more wary. JerryBaumchen Yeah, people would slam on the brakes rather than go through the light with the camera, and get rear-ended by the people tailgating them. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Got a wind tunnel near you? It's a lot fewer requirements and you can learn to fly your body. It's a nice little taste if you can't go skydiving yet. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Depends on your definition of "good effect". I tried them on and felt like about 60 degrees was being trimmed off my field of vision. And the software was buggy as hell (I've heard they released a patch a while back.) It's a neat idea (I suppose) but not anything I'd ever actually wear while skydiving. 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=rosKCW68Z7o Can't find the original scene, which this guy mangled a bit. Should I be worried that I can do this for, like, any comment on the site? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

But it's random whether they catch anyone that way or not! This technology can still be improved upon! My red light software would wait until there are one or more cars inside the danger zone before turning the light to yellow, which would then last a barely-perceptible fraction of a second! It would catch one or more cars on every light change! Muahahahahahaha! Oh yes, did I mention I'm evil? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I have a couple of my early ones up on my youtube channel and like to post them here from time to time. My AFF 5 exit is pretty comical. I have more tunnel videos than skydiving videos, but you can watch my abilities improve dramatically in my first few tunnel videos. Seems like a lot of people feel like they should be awesome immediately and get discouraged when they're not, but truth of the matter is we all have to learn this the same way and all have remarkably similar experiences at various points along the way. There's really not a lot standing between where you're at and where I'm at right now. I started in July of 2012 am not even to 10 hours of freefall yet. You'd be amazed at how fast you get here once you get over these early humps. For me, AFF 4 went fairly well. After my AFF 5 exit, I was on the fence about repeating it (My instructor left it up to me.) Going back and looking at the video the fact that I was able to get stable and was altitude aware through my turns at pull time, that's the only reason I decided I was probably OK to go on to 6. He agreed with me and 6 and 7 went pretty well. I learned I have a tight little barrel roll. I haven't done one in a while. Now I'm going to have to do flips and barrel rolls again next time I go skydiving! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

That would mean that there are an infinite amount of Turtles.

Dunno where that is. In Longmont we hit 100% snow pack by sometime in December I think. Hopefully whenever it all decides to melt, it doesn't cause epic flooding again. I've had more than enough of that for one century. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I was listening to a Buddhist lecture a while back on the nature of love. I'm not a Buddhist, but appreciate their perspective on things, which they seem to think about quite deeply. The gist of one of the things he said was "Just because they're gone doesn't mean you have to stop loving them." For nearly 18 years, you must have had some great moments together. For that, he will always have a place in your heart. All my past pets except one visit me in my dreams from time to time. When I wake up, I'm always happy to have seen them again. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

But... that would require... an infinite amount of beer! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

http://io9.com/this-sound-system-is-so-powerful-no-human-could-survive-1512501017 Yeah. A sound that kills. Muahahahahahahah! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

This is a large part of why you feel so discouraged- because you think each AFF level is a test, so needing to repeat a level is "failure". Well, that's not correct. AFF levels are not tests, they are training - practice - in a radically new skill set that you've never tried before, in a radically foreign environment (freefall). It's just that each level is so expensive, it feels like a test. That's unfortunate, but it's the nature of the AFF training method. Just as when you learned to drive, you had to practice certain maneuvers (like parallel parking) multiple times to do it correctly, your new skydiving skills need to be practiced multiple times to learn them, too. The first tries aren't "failure", they're just practice. I agree. I saw, on each AFF jump I repeated, that I was learning something each time. In fact, I was probably learning more than if it had gone smoothly. By the time I was done, I was quite confident of my ability to get stable whenever I wanted to be. You only fail if you don't learn from your mistakes. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I think I had to repeat about half of my AFF jumps. How you do in AFF has very little bearing on what kind of skydiver you are. If you have a vertical wind tunnel near you, you can go work on your stability in the tunnel. IIRC I did a couple of tunnel sessions before I got out of AFF and it really helped a lot. Nothing you're going through is abnormal. Everyone has some trouble in AFF. It's also very easy to talk yourself out of it -- you look for excuses not to go. It seems like most AFF students never finish AFF -- I've seen one other guy from my ground school at the DZ, and he popped up after about a year to restart his training. But if you can power through the stress, there's no reason you can't do this. Just view every repeat as a learning experience and try not to repeat the mistakes you made in the past. AFFs 5, 6 and 7 are pretty fun jumps where you actually get to do some more interesting things. It'd be a bummer to get through the "boring" ones and then miss out on those! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Well here in the USA, the AFF is a series of 7 jumps designed to teach you the basic skills so you can fall out of an airplane, stay stable, hold a heading, pull at the correct altitude for your skill level and get a canopy to the ground safely...ish. After that there are a minimum of 18 more "supervised" jumps where you go out with coaches and refine those skills. That gets you your A license, which allows you to make solo jumps at most dropzones (Some DZs have more restricted landing areas and may require a higher level of license to jump, always call in advance and ask when going to a new one.) Of course we use Imperial licensing. I don't know much about your metric, but most of the training programs I've heard about sound pretty similar. They might slightly more or less demonstration of technical skill, but they're all basically oriented to teach you to know what you need to know so you can begin to learn safely. I'm glossing over a whole bunch of details there, but hopefully that answer provides some of the info you're looking for. *edit* Oh, in the USA at least you should be able to go to another dropzone and continue your training as long as you've logged your jumps. You should also get an A license proficiency card, start filling it in and having your coaches sign off on the things you accomplished on your jumps. I'm not sure how well that would work going from country to country, though. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Oh. Good point. Go... get in a wind tunnel! Friend of mine's putting in some minutes in the tunnel and hopes to do AFF a bit later on. She's already flying about as well as I was at the end of AFF. The first couple sessions are kind of boring, but then you get to the point where you can actually fly and it starts being more fun. Plus it's easier to get video, so you can actually watch your skills improve. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/01/31/george-zimmerman-boxing-celebrity-match/5077607/ Hm. George Zimmerman vs. Mike Tyson. Who will win? Humanity! Well I don't know that it would be Mike Tyson, but that's who I'd pick if I were setting up that match. You know he's going to get in the ring, the big black guy is going to come at him and he's going to pull out a gun and shoot him! That's how I think that's going to go down. Damn... I'm mean... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Everyone's different and everyone nerves up for that first jump in their own way. There's only so much you can tell someone about what it's going to be like, because their experience is going to be completely different, but I prefer to greet new people enthusiastically. Sure something like 98% of the tandem students I talk to and 90% of the AFF students will not complete their training and get a license, but at least they're going out there and jumping out of a plane, and that alone will forever set them apart from the people who will never know what it's like up there. There's more than enough to keep anyone busy if you love to fly. But you really won't know if you will until you go try it. Sure, you can die, but you can die doing anything. I lost a couple of co-workers last year to household accidents. One of them was fascinated by my skydiving stores and said (As many people do) that this was something they had on their bucket list. So go do it at least once and that happens to be when you're gonna go, at least you won't have walked the earth for years with your eyes turned skyward, wondering. And if it turns out that you're a wild child of the wind, your first jump will be like coming home and you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Damn that's an inspirational speech! I'm totally stealing that if I ever become an AFFI! :-D I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

And then... you could LAND ON YOUR BIKE while someone plays an AWESOME HEAVY METAL RIFF! WhhhaAAAAAAAAAAA! FUCK YEAH! *edit* Naturally there'd have to be some explosions. And you could be ON FIRE! Excuse me, I just had an idea for the BEST COMMERCIAL EVER! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I don't think I recall a saltwater tank that didn't have an eel in it somewhere. If you're not planning on eatin' it, it's a pettin' eel. It's job is to sit there and look pretty. This was the sort of restaurant where you might enjoy looking at the eels until the chef comes out from the back to retrieve them. That'll do, eel. That'll do. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Seems like this could be solved quite handily by shooting the guys complaining about the delays into space. Maybe they'd be a bit more keen to make sure everything is correct, then... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?