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[Freud accent] so your consience iz a woman to you? Tell me abowchor muzza [/f a]

Why would they need to be? The wallet has a clear warning that if anyone is fool enough to mess wit da man's wallet den day dezurv da cap day get in day ass. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

Is it the one that says "Bad Mutha Fucker" on it?

What if her Cypres had been turned on at home and then she drove to an airport elevation that did not correspond with where she set it at? That's even more spooky to me. Your buddy gives a gear check and sees the zero with arrow down. Thinks everything is cool. Then they go in and it was set for a lower altitude than the ground. I would like to add to the ground/no ground discussion. Some people oppose grounding. That's cool. They want education. Very cool. So, if you take her asside and spend some time re-educating her about ALL of her gear so you stamp out other misconceptions have you not effectively "grounded" her from jumping again for at least some time? I think those that say "ground her" have some of this intent too. Some who say ground her say it meaning permanently but I'm not sure everyone is making that distinction about which grounding they mean. And yes, attitude of the student towards this situation is key to whether they should be allowed to continue. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

Umm... I just hit a deer yesterday morning. Damn lucky it didn't come through the windshield. Hit it doing about 70 mph. Had my new car about a month. Glad it wasn't in my Honda. My Impala is pretty banged up but it certainly made it better for me. The deer, as you can imagine, did not survive.

"Revenge of the Nerds" was funny. Napolean Dynamite sucked. edit: I can't spell even in a one line post. Sheeesh...out of practice.

Funny I travel all the time and the only place I ever get harassed is Portland, ME. I don't mean when I am travelling with my rig. I just get harassed there all the time. The TSA agents are insane there. I think it has something to do with the fact that the 9/11 hijackers went through security there. Really? I thought it was Boston Logan... Nope... Portland, ME. They flew to Boston. Then boarded the planes that they ultimately hi-jacked. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

Guys, stop talking about what sharp objects TSA will and won't catch on a security screen m'k? They just might figure it out and ban all rigs or someone with bad intentions might read it and figure out how they are going to get their blade through security. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

Are you sure about this? Still alive after a terminal impact? That is impossible. No it's not. Depends on how they hit and what they hit. And people have survived terminal impacts before. Rare cases but it does happen. Never say impossible. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

My guess is between 600-800 feet for fully open canopy judging on the canopy ride length. What prize do I win if I'm right? Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

I miss your old avatar. It had a much bigger cranium.

Not sure if there is an extra weight restriction on the nose compartment due to choppy water or maybe it is due to water spray and keeping from the engines. But those are just guesses but I had heard this before that float Otters get the stub nose. Aparently, that's not always true. Not sure why. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

"All your base belongs to us."

Stub nose even if it's a -200/-300 Otter? Or are you refering to the stall fences around the Ailerons? Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

Cora, when I started posting about aircraft safety I was bombarded with people who were pissed about me posting accidents. These were the official accident reports that anyone could find online. And they were pissed. They said I had an "agenda". Well, yah, safety is my agenda. The heat this DZ is taking seems similar to the heat another DZ just to the south of you took some years back over a long period. Do you see any similarities? Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

Chris! You're posting here! Sweet. Wow, someone else remember Horizon. I flew there the last summer it was open. Still a damn shame how it closed. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

Well Bill, that's how I did it for about 2,000 hours in the Otter. It seemed to get good results and no one complained ever about it. I'm sure that flying the turn coordinated is what some others would prefer so not saying one way is right or wrong. Just different. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

On the otter I power with 20 lbs Tq on the right and pull back to about 10ish on the left. There is a natural skid doing this so I fly a bit uncoordinated and let the right engine pull us around the curve. If I fly coordinated I would need more bank to gate the same degree of turn per minute. I'm trying to keep the floor as level as possible for the tandems making their way to the back of the plane. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

mmm k.. yes, you look at what direction the plane is traveling when *you* exit... On a curved jump run, going parallel to where *you* exit could send you straight into where someone else ends up if they go parallel to where *they* exit could it not? How much of a curve are we talking? This is why you need to communicate with your jump pilot when doing these tracking dives. They can alter their plan or suggest a direction to you. You come up with a common plan and then stick to it. A curved jumprun can really stretch things out. More time means more people will be landed by the time you open. I would suggest that you put a tracking dive out last (or last before tandems) and discuss which direction to go. The curved jumprun is used mostly on no wind days or very light winds. You can track in any direction almost and make it back. edit to add: NEVER EVER FLY OVER TERRITORY YOU JUST DROPPED ON! That is one rule your pilot should adhere to. I would fly a slight offset to being directly over the top. This would give me enough room in my "drop cone" (what I picture in my mind as usuable drop space in the horizontal plane) to make the turn and have people continue to exit. Like Hookit said, I would be turning and in his mind it was still a good spot. But of course that's the point. You fly a pattern to stay in usable area and don't get too long. At SDC the way the airport is set up it lent itself to a common crosswind jumprun which kept the ground speed up so that spacing between groups was constant because after your 180 you were still crosswind. At Monterey Bay it was a bit tougher due to airspace and topagraphy issue but a curved run and not necessarily a complete 180 was best. It's all situational with the DZ you have. What works best at SDC did not work at SMB but was similar. What works best at ZHills does not work at X-Keys. It all has to be worked out and it takes some getting used to by the jumpers. Many DZs teach that if the plane banks you are to stop exiting. More than once I was yelling "Go" because they stopped. I tried to always brief that if the light is on I feel it is still ok to exit. Again, you have to develop YOUR own method of communication and what is acceptable and what isn't. As for how I flew a hooked jumprun I would bank some and skid some. Your jump pilot may not like this at first and that's cool. But I would try to give the turn with the least amount of bank angle necessary. It takes practice. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

Most skydivers have hundreds or thousands of canopy landings...but I would venture to guess that the vast majority have very few small plane landings. Being apprehensive about a small plane landing doesn't make someone a "wuss". Yes it does. You should here the whimpering and crying that goes on when I tell them we are landing the plane without dropping. And I'm considered to be one of the "good" pilots out there. Friggin sissies. ...said in all jest too. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

So you are saying that they DID do a full tear down on the engine? Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

And they should be 25-30!! Ok...had to interject. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

Fuck. That just sucks.

C-5 loaded with dry ice. Start dropping and collapse one side of the hurricane. It's worked well on landmass thunderstorms by collapsing them in 5 minutes with a C-130 loaded with dry ice. A C-5B should do the trick. Chris Schindler www.diverdriver.com ATP/D-19012 FB #4125

No shit! You rock! I know you didn't post it to get praise but rather to report their grateful attitude. But still... YOU GUYS ROCK!!