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  1. diverdriver
    Sitting in a hotel waiting for contract concession talks to finish up so we can vote on it. Yah, like we have a choice.
  2. diverdriver
    Ahhhh.....shut your trap cabin queen! ......LOL......j/k
  3. diverdriver
    Yeah right! I heard how sly you pilots are! "Hey baby come to the cockpit I seemed to have spilled some coffee on myself" Ed Well ED, fortunately you will never have to find out.
  4. diverdriver
    I know I'm not Bill but I'll try to answer anyway. Let's say you have air flowing over a large hanger. It may be of such size and form that it can act like Bill's "microburst" example. The air flows over the top of the hanger and then down the other side and then "splashing out". You get the flow seperation and some rotors on either side. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125
  5. diverdriver
    It was to male pilots. And they say that one had spilled coffee on himself. A FA saw him when she was summoned to the cockpit with papertowels and soda water. But with the sexual harasment hair trigger that many have it may be they need to be seen as "doing something about this."......we'll see.
  6. diverdriver
    Actually you need to read the whole thing. Don't quote just one part and think that it supports a certain view. Keep it all in context. This part of that same article supports what Bill says and completes the picture. note: emphasis is mine Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125
  7. diverdriver
    Bill, that's the most excellent post I've seen on canopy flight in turbulence. Well done. I think it gets across the point that going into breaks should be done AS the turbulent event starts near the ground. You don't want to get to the turbulent event in 1/2 breaks because your momentum will be less especially on the smaller/faster canopies. I just hope people take the time to read the whole thing. I fear that some only read Talk Back and that's it. Again, excellent post Bill. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125
  8. diverdriver
    So you are judging the DZs stance by the comments of a student there. How does the student's comments imply that the DZ thinks any other DZ is unsafe. I think this is a bit of a stretch.
  9. diverdriver
    You had better run......you're lucky i'm in Colorado.
  10. diverdriver
    Ba ba ba .....but........ I can't win this one.
  11. diverdriver
    Did not!!!!!!!!!!
  12. diverdriver
    If you take that implication you do it on your own. I don't remember seeing anywhere (and I could have missed it) that they say people who don't have that rule are unsafe. They just say they have that as their rule. The only thing you can ding them on is that they didn't have the rule in a conspicuous place and it seems they have corrected that. Chris
  13. diverdriver
    What's up with the Pub?
  14. diverdriver
    My record was 1:45. But that was a LOOOooonng time ago.
  15. diverdriver
    OMG! Why yes it was. Dana Savorelli and Jerry. Boy, those were the dayz. My first season there was their last in operation. Grrrrrrr....... But it set me on a course to be where I am today. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125
  16. diverdriver
    You need a second aircraft radio in case the first craps out while you are in formation. You need to hear the commands from the lead. It can't be a student radio.
  17. diverdriver
    Hey Jayhawk! I'm not the one saying stuff about Skydive Kansas. I know, I know. Just replied to the wrong post. Don't make me start routing for K-state! Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125
  18. diverdriver
    If you could actually track the climb rate of the planes (this would require A/C owners and DZOs to be honest about their climbrates other than "fastest climber in the 5 county area!") you would want your fast climbers taking off last. Put the slow climbers up front so they don't have to manuever as much. But let's say they do get the planes and pilots. Now you have to make sure that no one misques. It's tough enough with 14 planes. You're gonna have to make sure that they all have two radios. I haven't seen many C-182s that do. Then, what altitude you gonna take them too. At best you'll get the 182s to 13K AGL. Heck, I think most 60 ways I've been on like going to 15k. So that's your next challenge. But....necessity is the mother of invention. If you get enough people believing they can do it then whatever hurdles come their way they can overcome. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125
  19. diverdriver
    Then you haven't been around the sport long. Look at the majority of the "big name" skydivers and they came from small cessna DZs to start. I did. 3 Cessna DZ. Student gear was Goliaths and Sentinel AADs. That was SE of Kansas City. I believe Damian Hrdlika (pilot or former pilot for Perris Valley) came from the Kansas area. Shoobi Knutson I'm pretty sure came from the midwest. Mike Eakins from Mirror Image......midwest.....small DZ. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125
  20. diverdriver
    Maybe it wasn't for the jumpers but it's tough on the pilots. The further you fly from an object the harder it is to see its relative change. Add a small ripple.....the wave grows through the whole wing. Those pilots had better be "on". Several wave V formations would be easier on the pilots. And remember, that line-abreast thing might be neet and we did it at the 300-way but it is damn tough to turn that formation in the sky. Now they want to double the amount of planes? Tougher still. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125
  21. diverdriver
    Yah, get this shit. They went and put that technologically superior fiber optic crap in for the phone lines around here so we CAN'T get DSL because it only goes across copper lines. Like WTF....over.....
  22. diverdriver
    DUUUUUUDE! Some of us don't have broadband. Grrrrrrrrr........I'll never download all those.
  23. diverdriver
    For once I thought I was beating everyone to the punch on something new AND funny rather than just another accident report. Curses.
  24. diverdriver
    Damnit all to hell. Sorry for being such a slow loser.
  25. diverdriver
    Just too funny. http://ourworld.cs.com/Diverdriver9/untitled.bmp