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here is a shot of the students right arm caught in the deployment

here is a pic a a sloppy job by the JM. He trainded the student to climb out backwards, and the student got as PC in the face, this resulted in a student cutaway!

Yeah, all I asked if it was possible to tighten them in drouge fall. I now believe in this photo it is hard because of the distance fron there bodies, if it were closer them maybe possible, but this would maybe be hard due to the fact that you have to lift there body weight to tighten up. A shot in time, a static photo, rating lost? The entire skydive was like this, this isn't just a shot from the hip Tk, it is the entire skydive position. OH did I mention I respect your opinion

Thanks, I found it hard to believe that a dz would allow a jumper(student) TO THROW AWAY A REAL pc. a balled up piece of new paper ah? that is very interesting. believabale but interesting. Are there any other ideas as to how to PRCP an IAD student?

Okeedooke! to all Tandem Instructors you have read it here first ...... there is no need to completly hook up, or to suck up all the slack in the straps. A good deployment is garenteed by TK Hayes and Skymonkey one

Johnno Gordan is an awsome pilot, and a good man, he will be missed by all of us here in New Orleans, I hope he quits Eddows soon and come to work fo us full time. He will be bringing the skyvan to us in Feburary for a boogie. Hope to see ya soon Johnoo, remember up the butt, no babies! WB

>>What sort of problem would you EXPECT to see during deployment?

>>How many unwanted children have you adopted?

Yeah, 5 seconds delay has to be a S/L training method. Remember what the SIM state. 1 Know altitude (altimiter) 2 arch 3 check legs ( click heels together) 4 relax ( breath) #3 if the side of one foot touches your ankel on the other, your feet aren't even. It is hard to see your legs, so you will have to "feel" them. good luck with your training, and try to get your I to video your next exit,it could help you see what your doing.

How dose a student demonstrate 3 practice deployments on IAD if the instructor is deploying the PC?

Yea, I saw that, do you think O'riley is a bad man? Or do you think he gat screwed over?

Anybody know when the caravan is comming back?

I think the relitave workshop released a statment saying that only one of the top hook up need to exit in emerengcy, now with that said I do not believe the T-I will go to terminal with out pulling. Or to attempt an emerengcy exit below reserve deployment altitude, thanks JP

Yep I knew they would pie me for my 100 th so I kept it quiet, some how they found out and all they could find was mayo, on a paper plate. Luckly my bro pulled me away from my rig which I was packing and they slammed me rubbed it in kinda thing! I had this weird rig of oil left on my clothe after I washed them. I went an changeg my cloths and put what I was wearing in a trash bag. It sat in the bed of my truck for a while till I got to the wash, the cloths still have this weird grease ring that won/t come out in the wash. Please stop using Mayo!

I think they were snapped just not tightened. How much money?

Is it possible to tighten the lower straps in drouge fall? this picture may help you understand what I talking about cause I don know all the terminology. Thanks

yep, maybe the insergence crossing the border in Iraq will give the US the reason to go into Iran. I'm guessing it will be Iran first. N. Koriea I think were gonna save for China first, then maybe if they do nothing we may go there second.

The argument I make about gay marriage is how do you define it? The church says a man and a woman and now the courts will also define that way. What is to stop gay peoply from having sex with animals and call that a union? If we allow men to marry men then why not let them marry a three way or have severial partners all married to someone else. Have you ever seen gay dogs? birds? fish? Being gay is only in humans, and I'm not so sure that is a minority, or a civil right. I am not screaming here, or a homophobe, i just don't understand how this has anything to do with civil rights. If your gay then your gay, you can still marry a woman, and sneak around commiting on how sexy that man's hairy ass is. If you want to walk down Burbon st. in New Orleans with only a set of chaps, and a bow tie, you can, and maybe your wife will understand, so how is that taking away your rights. the reason we were born with sexual organs was to procreate (breed) gay people can still do this just not with each other. $.02

The day Daschle stood on the senate floor crying and saying that this president should apologize, is the day I became a republican. and that Kennedy fat cat is he a democrat? he needs to go also. I just don't like him either.

sounds kinda old and slow!

This weekend I was visiting a very large DZ when I compare it to my 182 home DZ. There is a resturant/bar that serves drinks. there are signs posted everywhere NO jumping if you are drinking. while waiting for fuel, I saw severial men standing around, some drinking red bull, some drinking beer. I was geared up waiting for the plane to fuel and to my surprise all of them geared up and borded the plane. I noticed as I was entering the plane I turned to see who was onbord to load ther correct way that these guys who were just drinking in front of everyone were bording the plane for a jump. I said to my self that "well I wont jump with them" Question.....Is this a vilolation of the BSR for me? to have knowledge of this and to remain silent. remember they werent stinking drunk. no one else noticed them drinking.

it is a good idea to practice your e procedures on the ground after you have checked with the rigger. you want to make sure he is avabile to repack your reserve, have an instructor watch you pull the handles, you should remember to lube your cutaway cables, and be carefull not to weaken your velcro by repeatedly pulling of the handles. As for as for dumping your reserve at terminal, 1- be sure of the spot, making sure you will be able to find your freebag 2- have a plan to tell the s&ta you couldn't get to your main handle 3- take a deep breath cause it going to be a quick deployment. It may hurt a bit at terminal. 4- do it high enough to use a hook knife to cut the reserve risers and use your main if you have a function on your reserve, or to cut a line 5- be prepaired to purshase a new reserve if you repeaditly do this ( it can cause wear on your reserve canopy, this is why PD wants riggers to put an " X " in the box) 6- remember to do a couple of practice flares up high so you will have a nice landing. 7- don't forget to clear your burble 8- don't brag about doing it, or tell anyone you are going to do it. you may be seen as a risk taker or a nuckelhead I won't do it, i just feel it is unnessary. There are severial boogies where PD will let you fly there reserves as mains if your interested in seeing how they fly. If you know what your looking for, you can open your reserve on the ground, and walk up the lines and tell if it would have opened, sorta. please be carefull not to endanger anyone else in doing this, your taking an unnessary risk.

"Monkey go by, Monkey caught my eye. Wait, Monkey can't fly! Monkey fall, Monkey die." Author: my wife

>>>practice the evaluation dives before going If the candidate has not read the IRM dealing with primary/recency curve, or has been introduced to the learning objective outlined in each category, practicing evaluation dives may be a receipt for failure. Remember your Course Director is your mentor and he will be expecting you to teach him or the evaluator the same methods he just got finished teaching you the day before. .02$ worth

>>So I'm sure when the time comes, I will do it just like that. I still practice cutaway procedures with both hands on the cutaway handle and look at the reserve handle before pulling the cutaway etc.... I have had 1 cutaway at AOTMB last year, I couldn't get linetwist out,I was at 1800 so I chopped I didn't second guess it, just did it,grabbed each handle with each hand, peeled and started my EP's. This is not what I practiced, but it is what I did. I think we are trained a certain way, worst case scenario would require both hands, but in my situation everything worked out even though I did not respond to how I train. I kept both handles .02 $ worth