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Yea, Eiley's still doing manifest for us over 10s of 1000s of miles away. Love you so much - thank you for responding. RkyMtnHigh... the boogie is a great time! Live music & all. The regular fun jumpers make a set donation for raffle tix for the prizes & there's so many people having a good time - really great to see. This year (my 1st one) there was a boogie fee that provided a t-shirt & food for the day. You didn't have to pay the fee to participate in the other events though. There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

THAT Saltco thing is the most aggrivating game in the universe!! I want the last hour back!! There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

Good to know - thanks for keeping us informed. There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

So, did yall get it? thanks Lolie, couldn't figure out where "ze" came from. There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

I just clicked on everything possible. Also, on some screens, if I hit the tab key multiple times it showed me where i could click. i can't remember what i clicked on which screen, but there is a certain order. There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

OMG did I just spend all that time just to save a trunkship? interesting names on the credits though... any idea what nationality they are? There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

I've been considering purchasing an Icarus canopy... is this indicitative of poor customer service (which includes being able to get ahold of them)? There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

I have a few questions. 1) what's the differnce between flaring & giving brakes? I think I should know by now, but apparently I don't. Isn't flaring actully giving brakes? In this case just pulling on the brake line unevenly to keep it straight. 2) if you have a full line over, I believe I've heard this option. If the line that's over the canopy is not a support line, that you can cut it w/ a knife. Is this correct? Is it a viable option & would one want to do it instead of cutting the whole canopy? Also, which lines are not support lines? Thank you!! There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

I'll get it out of my system, eventually... just like I'll get this whole silly breathing thing out of my system There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

Serious props!! I've only seen vid of hoops being thrown cross the sky after an "entrance" of that caliber. Thanks for the first laugh of my day! There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

jeesh... it took you long enough. now, when next season rolls round (May); you'll only be 3 months uncurrent rather than 5 months . oh, and - get a room! oh, btw CONGRADULATIONS!! There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

MMMM, louisrich turkey dogs... I eat bacon/hot dogs/sausage & the rest, but love turkey dogs, turkey bacon & turkey ham - great taste! There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

Welcome back to the sport! Have lotsalotsa fund w/ us hippies up in the air - yahoo!! Sounds like your going a very good & safe route. gack.. don't say that, I'm too commitment phobic to think like that. Though it's easier to sell a main than a spouse I'd imagine There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

I wouldn't think so, the cell phoner would get aggrivated @ not being able to reach the non @ all times & the non would get aggrivated @ the user calling from everywhere. But I bet the user would be most aggrivated. I don't know you & you are the only person I now that does not have a cell phone. Even my grandfather has one! And he's mennonite (amish w/ phones, electricity & cars) ! There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

Date someone that speaks the language. Each person learns differently. I can't learn from softwere or self study... and now that i'm not in college, I keep missing class - depends for which method you have the dicipline. There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

Florida - hot, humid, hard to find a decent paying job, FLYING COCKROACHES. lots of silly rednecks (I'm from Bradenton & fam is currently in Lakeland). It's a great place to Visit!! Austin - very nice, high cost of living, job market is on the downward slope, still on the hotter side Arizona - nice if you enjoy the color of sand & brick. the dry weather is hell on your skin, so you'll age faster too. S. Cal - over priced, stuck up. (execpt the skydivers I met there - just the rest of the population) Chicagoarea - 10 dzs w/in a 5 hr drive. however, HORRID winters & a higher cost of living (if your w/in 30 miles of Chicago, in a decent neighborhood). DC - what Justin said. however, you chould check out Charlottesville, further west & a bit south. On the eastern side of the blue ridge mtns, very nice!! But then, I'd pick... Raleigh over Charlottesville; although you are getting further south & more bugs flying around. Don't know, I'd pick Charlottesville (VA), Raleigh, or if there's a dz in TN, somewhere there. All have nice temperate weather. Good change of seasons. Mountains, lakes or ocean, laid back attitude w/ a decent size city nearby. Ok job market & average cost of living. There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

Thanks! With the Safire2, I pulled @ 7.5 - getting out after the tandems was weird! I loved playing w/ that canopy & discovered why people enjoy their time spent there. Just didn't write anything down... good idea for next time! How many jumps did you avg/canopy & did you do different ones in the same day/weekend? There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

Thank you... this is the kind of info I was wanting to get before going out & demoing all of the many many canopies. Does anyone know, is there somekind of site that would have direct comparisons? (like some car, shoe, hote & phone sites) There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

beautiful hinckley sunset flock. (not me in the pic ) There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

Ken, Lisa & Andy, just wanted to say thank you all so much for the info (had to leave work a tad early yesterday). Lisa esp cleared a lot up, people were swearing up & down that the Safire2 was so much more eliptical than my Spectre. I didn't think so, but don't know enough to argue. The Safire2 149 landings were not "hot". I was nervous, but listened to the demo guy when he said to pay attn to the vertical speed & try to not focus on the fact that the horizontal speed is much faster (don't let it trip me out). The low wind landings were wonderful, small (10ft) surf was fun . On the one NO wind landing @ dusk, I put my knees down. Vertical desent was a tad too fast to stay standing. Ken thanks for the comparison of Sabre2 & Lotus - hadn't even had Lotus or the fact that they're air locked pointed out to me. Andy, I won't rule out the Stileto I guess. Jeesh, there's just so many! edited to add... Another interesting thing is that I was so excited bout getting to travel further (ie. not sink as quickly) on the 9-cell over the 7, but others also swore all over that the glide ratio was the same & I wasn't traveling any further. But from actually reading in this forum, it appears that my thougth/feeling was correct - , may be I do know everything (KIDDING!!) I know I know next to nothing! There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

Currently I'm @ a 1.02 (Spectre 190) & jumped the Safire2 169, then 149. It was the 149's in flight characteristics that I loved (1.38 wl). the turns are amazingly fun!! And the difference in response unbelievable. As some background, I understand that's a huge step & that's why I'm changing planeforms first, then downsizing more slowly (already got rheemed out in talkback). I'm not looking for a canopy that has hot landings - I want one that can do simple landings. Also, no hard openings (I will not be trying the Stilleto). There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

But thanks for being a there for me gas-bag - there's all kinds of ways to learn. and i think if you go into something knowing what to look for, you'll take more out of the experience. There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

that's what I'm asking... if someone would kindly point out to me the differences for which I should be looking. unless I do 10 jumps on 1 canopy on a day & then 10 jumps on another the very next day, I highly doubt I'll remember how one was to compair it to the other. and considering that I rarely do over 6 jumps in a day, it'll take me weeks w/ many days in between to demo all kinds. So the one done the first weekend of a month will have faded from memory or the memory will have warped by the time I get to the 4th weekend of the month. Smooth - yea! very good reason, should be an interesting next season! There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

K, so I'm moving from 7 cell to 9 cell. Not now, but later spring when I'm re-current. and later in the year I'll work on down sizing. My question is this, what's the difference between canopies - honestly. I'm not too keen on big swoops or hook-turn landings. I like nice easy straight in apporach. However, up in the air, I love more zippy turns & what-not. I jumped a Safire 2 & love the responsiveness of it (granted there was a big downsize too) up in the air - pinpoint radical turns, near-stalls, everything & the ability to land w/ the down-cross-up wind landing pattern easily. Everyone is suggesting trying Saber2 & others; but my curiosity is what's really so different. If your not a hot shot canopy pilot, will I even notice much? I have no problem demoing all kinds of gear - but why? And if there's a link to a thread that already goes over the different canopies flight characteristics, feel free to point me to them - please! There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

In the skyvan, about 3 loads in a row... the pilot was doing a very sharply banked spiraling ride to altitude. Though I was going to get motion sick for the first time in my life. I understood why they did it to 3k for the hop-n-pop; but why the rest of the way up? There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear. PMS #227 (just like the TV show)