FlyingRhenquest

If I were guessing, a tracking jump that went up jump run. It looked like he was well away from the other members of his group. They mostly seemed to be off to his right. That canopy didn't seem to come from any of them. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Every piece of literature I found on flying the wingsuit for the first time and every wingsuit guy led me to expect line twists on early wingsuit jumps. I also got the feeling from the wingsuit guys I talked to that uncontrollable flat turns are very common early on, and I had no problem with that. And fact of the matter is I'm not actually sure how many skydives I've done, which is one of the reasons I mumbled about it. I had several pages go missing from my AFF book (Pages came out of their bindings and got lost) which I only noticed after changing logbooks. I also know for certain that I've forgotten to log several jumps since I got my digital altimeter. It's quite possible that the DZ's software thinks I'd done more than 200 jumps at the time, even though I only had officially logged 195 of them. I was half-way expecting them to tell me I'd have to do another jump or two before doing the wingsuit class, and was prepared to knock out a couple of hop and pops if they had. It's supposed to hit 69 tomorrow. I was thinking of taking the day off from work and doing a few more wingsuit jumps out of the King Air, but it's going to be awfully (AWFULLY) hard to avoid doing good old fashioned 12K high pulls all day if it's really that warm. I thought I was done with those for the season, but we're on track for it to be REALLY nice. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yes. We DID all that. Come to sunny Longmont. Weed's legal (and taxed), driving under the influence is still illegal, and we'll have a delicious Dorito bar opening next year! Though I notice that since they passed that amendment, everyone seems to be driving under the speed limit now. I still can't touch the stuff, but I don't want or need to either. Hell with drugs, man. Calculate how much the fast food restaurants cost society and tax THEM appropriately. The cost of McDonalds and its ilk go well beyond the damage to the public's health. When their underpaid employees are forced to turn to public programs for assistance, we all pay for that. In a very real way, we're all subsidizing the cost of that food and the cost of fixing the people who eat nothing but that food. Even before the new healthcare law this was true, whether those people had a health plan or showed up at an emergency room and were unable to pay the bill. I believe what we're trying to say is, No Fatties! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Crafted in the troll-forges of Mount Trollington. While others were content to fling racial and homophobic slurs, its crafter worked tirelessly, day and night, sweat pouring from his skin. Finally it was done and in its completion perfect. The one true troll, ready to be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world! Think that's enough warning? Ok here it goes! Behold! "Now that gay marriage is legal, can I gay marry my brother?" It's... beautiful... And copyrighted! That's copyrighted! If Rand Paul plagiarizes that, I'll be coming for my royalties! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Er, yeah, duh, that's what we did. Next year I plan to open a Dorito bar in Longmont. I'm in the "rounding up investors" phase now. My business plan is "Pot's legal here now. And these Doritos are DELICIOUS!" I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

That's also a dick move. If you're going to make a dick move anyway, you should make one with style! Err... the mods won't mind us discussing our favorite suicide methods will they? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Well I didn't think that'd be safe, but fortunately every single skydiver is the same and you can judge them entirely on the number of jumps they have without having flown them, met them and probably without being able to remember any other post of theirs you've ever seen on internet forums. So I guess now I have to go off to the bank to take out a line of credit for all those go pro cameras! I'll be sure to post an 8-POV video on teh internets, ASAP! Several of my instructors, coaches and people I've flown with over the past year and a half were similarly enthusiastic! If any of them had told me to slow it down, I'd have been happy to listen to them! They might not be terribly happy about all the cameras I'm going to have to hang off my ass now, but I'll tell them some guy on the internet told me to hurry up and do it! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Mine is from Robert Anton Wilson's "Scrodinger's Cat". I was looking for something that wouldn't need a number attached to it and "Greyfox" was already taken everywhere by then. I was reading the book at the time. In this book, some guy decides to cut off his whang and become a woman. The rest of the book could potentially be discussed as the adventures of this whang. It travels through a couple of different universes, in one of which it's referred to as a "Rhenquest" and goes flying by the nose of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Kind of like... well... kind of like this. There was a bit about "A miraculous flying rhenquest". I thought that was awesome and I went for it! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Ooo... yeah... no can-do! It's right on a flight path! Plus I hear it doesn't have hardwood floors. I like my hardwood floors! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

You can go to other DZs, just be sure to take your A card that you're working on and your log book with you. Other DZs may want you to do a check dive with an more highly rated instructor, but once they're sure you know what you're doing, you should still be able to do some coach/supervised jumps if they offer those. Call in advance and talk to them about it. Maybe go visit somewhere in Florida or Arizona. I'm pretty sure Deland and the one in Phoenix both have wind tunnels nearby, too. My home DZ in Colorado is open all winter too, but only 3 days a week for winter hours. Some days it gets pretty miserable, too. Last Friday was cold as hell, for example, but Saturday and Sunday were nice (Before the winds kicked up.) I plan on doing more hop and pops this winter, and spending more time in the tunnel. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Win I can see why he thought it was terrifying. That chip in the windshild could obstruct the driver's vision and get you a ticket! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

It'd be funny if Robin Williams answered the door... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Nope! I just find these things, I don't make them! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Extacy would also work! Once the song gets in your head, it's AWFULLY hard to get it out! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

We should hire this guy to point out the direction of the problem. 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 guess, yeah. She usually had it on a night stand but moved it to the floor for some reason. I'm going to assume it was an ambien haze. She also later told me she had several phone and text message conversations with friends that she didn't remember having when she was on the stuff. I have a lot of trouble sleeping, but I don't think I'll be resorting to that stuff anytime soon! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Why do you say that? For me personally, it's just too much fun to stomp that throttle and makes me drive aggressive, I can't be the only one, right? We really don't need anymore aggressive drivers in California. Yeah, I'm kind of like that with my Nismo. Especially when I get amped up. I was all amped up on Sunday. I think it was daylight savings time or something. And since we got the mj, everyone else in Colorado seems to want to creep along 5-8 miles under the speed limit. I should probably open a Dorito bar somewhere... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

And that's a valid opinion, but at 25 jumps not many people actually have their own gear anyway, and they're discouraged from even looking for some until they get their license and downsize a bit. While you're renting, you do start looking at your rig and parachute and picking up some stuff by osmosis. Somewhere between 25 and 50 jumps really seems like a good place to really start thinking about that stuff, not so much between 1 and 25 where everything is still so new to you. I didn't really "Get it" with packing until I took my rig home unpacked and spent 10 tries trying to get a brand new ZP canopy into the !@#%! bag! She put up quite the fight! The rental rigs with thousands of jumps on them, they just meekly go in the bag. Not this one, no sirree! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yep! And that's why we have... SCIENCE! Muahahahaha! Sadly I don't know of anyone with big pockets who'd be likely to want to fund the study I suggest. Perhaps I should run it past the Mythbusters or something. Isn't always about "how can I get this the fastest" with young people? It's because they're young. I'm not sure that for most people the process really needs to be slowed down. If my experience is any example, most of the people who start AFF never finish it, much less get their A license. There were 12 people in my AFF ground school. I only ever saw a couple of them again after that. After a month I never saw any of 'em again. One guy did get in touch with me about a year later that he was starting up again, but I haven't heard from him again since then either. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Apparently I work with her brother. He was on about it this morning. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

To fall back. Oh... wait... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Many humans I meet are virtually indistinguishable from plants. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Scariest medication I've ever taken. Seriously. So? You're a skydiver aren't you? Oh yeah, that reminds me, my room mate got a prescription for the stuff a while back and the first night she took it I heard someone in the back yard and then knocking at the door, at 2 AM. Now I don't usually get visitors at 2 AM, so I grab my katana on the way up the stairs. Also, since I'm half asleep I forgot to put my shirt on. At least I was wearing pants. So I open the door and there are 3 or 4 cops there. They see me and go for their guns and I'm like "AAaaah wait wait wait!" and hand the sword to one of them. They explain they'd had a 911 call from the house. Well at this point I'm a bit concerned that my room mate's having a problem and they're probably concerned that I may have just murdered my room mate with a katana, so I holler down at her and make her get her ass out of bed so we can all see she's OK. Turns out she'd left her phone on the floor and her cat logically thought it was a perfect kitty bed and somehow managed to dial 911 on it while wiggling around on the damn things. Apparently also not the first time this particular cat had done that. The cops were somewhat skeptical about this explanation but didn't seem they had enough to go on to force themselves in, so they gave me back my sword and went away. So anyway, good reason to avoid Ambien! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

First, congrats on your FFC. Second, why the linetwists? More importantly, why the off landing? I was a bit lower than I should have been. The hackey slipped from between my fingers the first time I made a grab for it, and I think I didn't bring my legs back far enough. When I closed my wings I turned to the left a bit and started to dive. I spread my wings out to get stable again, then tried again. The second attempt worked, but I think I still had the body position that caused the turn to the left on the first attempt. Another dive to the left as the canopy was deploying would probably explain the line twists. I checked my altimeter as the lines were twisting up and saw I was at 3500, still comfortably above my decision altitude, and the canopy was flying straight. So I tried kicking the line twists out and saw it was working. Once I kicked them out, I checked my altitude again, saw I was still doing OK, so I unzipped my arms and pulled the rear riser down to turn me back toward the landing area. It took me a bit of time to get the legs undone. I finally unstowed my toggles around 2100 feet. I could probably have made it back to the landing area and taken a downwind landing out by the fence, but felt that flying a pattern over the empty field just south of the airport was a much safer option. The wind was behind me but there wasn't very much of it. I probably would have crossed the fence to the airport at about 350-400 feet, which would have forced me to take a downwind landing by the swoop pond (Fence on my right, swoop pond on my left, and even if a 180 was safe at that altitude, it would have put me in the fence I'd just crossed.) If I'd deployed the main on the first attempt I think I would have made it back. I was only low by a few hundred feet. I'd been doing practice touches from the moment I put the suit on, and did a couple more than the dive flow called for. I knew I could get it, my grip was just a bit off the first time. As I was spreading my wings out to return to stable flight after the first attempt, I was already thinking "If this next one doesn't work, I'm going to the reserve." Same thing occurred to me as I watched the line twists spinning up. If my canopy were diving or my altitude was too low, I'd have gone to reserve. I was ready for EPs, just didn't need to use them. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?