jerry81

Got any realtives or close friends with very good business ties or shitloads of money? If not, tough luck... Skydiving is not very attractive to sponsors as it is not exactly a spectator sport. Getting sponsors is more or less among the more impossible things in skydiving unless you're really good/widely recognized or you have the proper connections.

I knew you could!

Dude, we've already decoded the clue! The secret message, however, has more to do with Pink Floyd than NASA...

Less than perfect job on the boobie animation. Yuck!

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Three times so far. Twice we were forced to land (1x traffic control, 1x engine problems) and once I chose to ride it down. I wasn't wearing a parachute at that time, so I think I made the right decision. But the two times I had to stay in I would have been much happier getting out. An Antonov-2 lands about as smoothly and gracefully as a cow. (Looks somewhat the same in the air, too.)

Damn, I step out for a beer and you beat me to it! I can't imagine how anyone was supposed to solve this without clues, though.

If that passage is indeed the clue, we have "in" "our" and "the" shouldn't be too hard to guess. Also, s can only be this ||| (double s in vastness). Which would mean letters are variable length. This doesn't feel completely right to me yet...

The second sentence of the clue begins with this sequence; •••ll•••lll••l•••••l. (number of symbols in it irrelevant for my point). So does the part after the first comma. This either means the first word of the sentence and the first word after the comma are the same, or that they're different, but begin with the same letters. That might make finding the text easier.

For a while, I was sure the dots would spell 'LEGO' if I shifted them around enough. Okay, so I wasn't exactly sober at the time. But add that to the list of false answers as well...

Bah, that's just meteorologic speculation. Hogwash! It's the aliens, I tell you...

Please don't get him started on anything like that. Grega has had his G4 for almost a year now and his relationship to that rig really worries us sometimes.

Yep. Although my Neptune has so far never failed to beep at the right altitudes, it has reported some very strange data on a few occasions...a 20 second freefall on a hop&pop, deployment at 3500 when I pulled after I heard the 3300 alarm (which was, according to visual alti, right on the spot) and (on version 1.15) an almost Mach-breaking speed of 960kph logged at 6k (with max speed being 260kph). Such bugs are getting fewer and fewer with new firmware versions, but I wouldn't worry much about the 2800' deployment altitude if it happened on just one jump. If you do a couple of jumps and the dep. altitude stays the same, I'd check it against an analog altimeter first before deciding to pull higher. And maybe ask Alti-2 about the Neptune's method of recording the deployment altitude (i.e. at what speed does freefall end)

I went directly to that version from 1.17. My Neptune freaked out, doubled a couple of my exit altitudes (ff time and average speed remains normal) and shifted around the dates of my jumps without any obvious pattern. I had to change the date on every jump I uploaded, with an exception of five that Paralog won't take because they're from the future. I suspect this was because the "new" battery I used when upgrading apparently wasn't so new after all.

I'm not really sure how to answer the poll. Without doubt, some of the best trackers are know are relative workers. On the other hand, some of the worst trackers I know are relative workers as well. Freefliers are scarce in my country, let alone at my club, but most of us can haul ass at break-off, although we also have some more initial vertical speed to work with. If I should decide on a certain group of people for their superior tracking, I'd probably choose base jumpers- after all, walls are far less forgiving than the sky and good technique is that more important for them than for either belly- or freeflyers. Furthermore, I'm not sure doing freefly tracking dives has a very big impact on "real" tracking skills- i.e. going faster, longer and slower. Freefly tracks are, if I understand correctly, mostly about flocking together and having fun, not getting as far as possible. As for opinions about freefly- I know exactly what you mean. I like both hard tracking solo dives and relaxed flocks with more people, but most of the freefliers I've jumped or jump with don't show much enthusiasm for those kind of jumps.

Voodoo 2.0 V2, 6 months. Jerry 6'0 180#, 22 years.

But first I'll go out Meet with whuffo friends again Party like rockstars.

No jumps, but it's cool I did twenty-two last week

I think that's just a sample of how it looks like. No code, just a repeating pattern of sticks, ovals and dots. However, re: Quade's code; perhaps it's meant to be read from the inside out, like a normal cd, not outside in like this transcription?

Wow! Must be a bitch getting rolled-up bills to fit into that hole.

Oh, the nose. Yeah, I think I see it! It's right there above the boo...I'm sorry, what were you talking about? Anyway, if there's just one hole, she must have been a pretty heavy user. I was under the impression that damage to the septum usually just enables the person to do cool stuff like putting a finger into one nostril and wiggling it out the other, or wear a big bull ring without piercing.

Huh? Nose? Sorry, I don't follow...

Someone once told me that they have some sort of BASE association in Germany that requires jumpers to wear reserves. Front-mounted rounds/squares? that are only there for regulation purposes, but the organisation makes it much easier to access all sorts of objects. Anyone know if this is true? (Actually, I'd be surprised if it wasn't, since the person who told me about it knows very well what he's talking about, especially if it's any kind of parachuting or flying in general.) [edit]I used some google and eventually found a discussion about that right here on dz.com. D'oh!

Dude, that's wicked!!! I don't think I ever got over 10' on mine.

Would that explain the spiraling? In other words, if you stall one side of the canopy and put it in a turn, would it keep turning even when that side reinflated?