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Nooo, if I had meant that guy I would have called him xXx Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

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Disclaimer: I am not a base jumper. The base jumper involved in this escapade will be named as XXX. It took place in a country where base jumping is illegal. Saturday 4th Sep. 2004: I am doing a Tandem video from out C182. Tandem master and base jumper XXX asks the pilot to fly over a certain part of town where a street party is taking place. XXX points out of the window as in an excited voice says "Look! there it is!". I see a rather large crane. This crane is hauling people up to the top in a cage so they can have a birds eye view of the town. It's about 240 ft high. I know what XXX is thinking and I say there is nowhere to land. XXX says " It's tricky, but base is always a little bit tricky". Saturday evening: I get a telephone call from XXX. He has a plan. Now think about it. You want to do an illegal base jump from a crane. You need the crane driver to operate the thing to get you up there. The crane is surrounded by parting folks and... police. I say he crazy and it will not work. Sunday 5th Sep 2004. The evil plan. XXX with an accomplice drive to the street party. They approach the operator of the cage and says "O.K. I'm here to do the base jump from the crane." They have T-Shirts with BASE stunt crew written on them. Operator.. "What base jump?" XXX ... "What! they didn't tell you? Jesus, I have been booked to do the jump at 14:00, I have travelled a long way to get here, let's get going or I'm going to miss the 14:00 deadline." Operator.. "eerrmm I have to talk to the crane driver" A bit more discussion here and there and the jump is O.K.ed. The operator asks XXX if a moderator at the party should announce the jump. XXX says " ermmm no, everyone will see it anyway". He climbs on top of the cage and get's hauled to the top. Suddenly the party has all gone quiet. 1..2..3 XXX jumps to wild cheers and applause. He lands in an area just slightly larger than his canopy and says to his accomplice, Let's split". And they're gone. I had a real problem believing the crane operators fell for it. Maybe the police thought is really was a planned stunt. Oh, and of course it's all on video. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

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I did a tandem video no so long ago where we decided to use the C182 instead of the Caravan for the jump. This meant that the exit altitude would be 10k instead of 14k. Due to confusion and a pilot that sinks link hell on climb out, the exit altitude was in the end 8k. I always film the certificate at the end of the jump for the video and guess what altitude was on the certificate? Yep 14k. It took some nifty video editing to get everything matched up in the end Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

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It there anywhere online where I can see the complete results of the swoop competition? Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

No, it would not benifit from a re-trim That is the way it was designed. The front riser pressure is so light that you can easily fly the canopy using only the front risers. Try putting a VX in a dive with the left F-Riser and the swopping to the right F-Riser. Unless you are Arnold Schwarzenegger you'll never get the right Riser down. The idea is that you can control the heading of the dive just by using both front risers. This is acheived by hanging the pilot more under the center of the wing rather than under the nose (Velocity style). This of course creates far more pressure on the rear risers. If you are not used to it you will be wary of applying the pressure needed to land with the rears for fear of stalling the canopy. I have landed the R.A.G.E 97 and 86 with rears. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

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Give the whuffo either of my rigs and he's gonna die Cypres is hardly going to save him, he would not know how to switch it on And which vidiot supplied the footage to the TV station of that Scott guy? If I had filmed it I would certainly not let the TV station air my footage in such a fashion. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

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If there's not enough drag to clear the riser covers then there is probably not enough drag to for the risers to separate after cutting away. Once the reserved is pulled, there is less pressure on the main container. I have heard that this may cause the main to deploy in certain circumstances. If the main does deploy as the reserve is deploying I wonder whether it is better cut away or still attached. I will cut away and pull the reserve even in a high speed mal. Using the same procedure means I don't have different actions to take with different mals. True I may spend extra time cutting away when it's not necessary, but I intend to execute my E.P.'s at an altitude that permits this time. I have seen a video from a camera guy who dumped and nothing happened. He cut away and pulled silver. Upon looking up he saw to his horror that his main was entangled in his reserve. He started praying and his prayer was answered. The main freed it's self and drifted away. Of course I don't know what would have happened had he not cutaway. Hint: when flying camera suits, throwing you pilot chute into you burble is not a good thing to do. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

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Clicky Volcano! Why America's coast could be toast By Steve Connor, Science Editor 10 August 2004 It sounds like the plot of a fanciful Hollywood disaster movie. A dangerous volcano in the Canary Islands erupts, sends a giant tsunami travelling faster than a jet aircraft into the major population centres of America's east coast, killing tens of millions and wiping out New York and Washington DC. But unlike the eruption in the 1997 film Volcano (which threatened in its tagline that 'the coast is toast') scientists believe the threat from the volcano of Cumbre Vieja on the island of La Palma is real, and that it could send a massive slab of rock twice the size of the Isle of Man crashing into the Atlantic. The effect would be to generate a huge wave with the energy equivalent to the combined output of America's power stations working flat out for six months. After travelling across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic for about nine hours the tsunami would hit the Caribbean islands and the east coasts of Canada and the US with devastating effect. It would stretch for many miles and sweep into the estuaries and harbours for up to 20 miles inland, destroying everything in its path. Those scientists are warning that the US government is not taking the threat from Cumbre Vieja seriously enough and not enough is being done to monitor it. Professor Bill McGuire, the director of the Benfield Grieg Hazard Research Centre at University College, London, warned that Boston, New York, Washington DC and Miami could be virtually wiped out. Professor McGuire said close monitoring might at best provide two weeks warning of the disaster but that despite knowing about the danger for a decade, no one was keeping a proper watch on the mountain. The two or three seismographs left to pick up signs of movement in the rock were not capable of detecting a looming eruption weeks in advance, Professor McGuire warned. "What we need now is an integrated volcanic monitoring set up to give maximum warning of a coming eruption. The US government must be aware of the La Palma threat. They should certainly be worried, and so should the island states in the Caribbean that will really bear the brunt of a collapse. "They're not taking it seriously. Governments change every four to five years and generally they're not interested in these things," he added. A monitoring station equip-ped to look deep into the heart of the mountain and spot the early signs of an eruption might cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. In comparison, the US was spending $4m (£2.2m) a year scouring the skies for kilometre-sized asteroids which were much less of a threat, Professor McGuire said. The Cumbre Vieja volcano last erupted in 1949 and its western flank is highly unstable. It could literally split apart next time the volcano erupts, which could be at any time in the next 1,000 years. Any evacuation plan would have to be based on the forecast of an eruption, since once the collapse happened it would be too late, he said. However, it could be a false alarm. Several eruptions could come and go before one of them sent the mountainside crashing into the sea in a matter of minutes. Professor McGuire acknowledged that the decision to depopulate the US eastern seaboard would not be an easy one. "I don't honestly know how we handle that," he said. "As scientists all we should really do is advise people of what we think the risks are." The wave front from the collapse of the mountain would spread out in a crescent, striking the west African coast with a wall of water more than 300ft high in two to three hours. Its northern side would also brush against Europe. Within three to four hours, a 33ft-high wave would smash into the south coast of England, causing immense damage. Unlike a normal wave, the tsunami would not break rapidly but just keep coming, said Professor McGuire. "You're not talking about the destruction of the UK economy, but very serious damage along the south coast," he said. Trying to stop the mountain collapsing was simply out of the question, he said. He has calculated that it would take 35 million years to dig out the dangerous part of the volcano and move it away. ---------------------------------------------------- Surfers, get your boards ready Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

My probelms when working on consistency .... 1. At the moment I am doing a load of Tandem Videos. For these I use my second rig with a bigger canopy for the long spots. When I come back to my velo I have to re-learn the heights. 2. Traffic! It's difficult to fly the set up I want, time after time, due to all the others that are trying out their canopies by spiralling them all over the DZ. Have you not noticed this? I have never understood why holding one toggle down for a minute is trying out your canopy. Still, all the money I get from the videos can be used for training jumps in the winter from the C182 Just ordered a direct bag for my Velo. This will save time messing about with the RDS

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How sad that you did not jump. You could have done your first B.A.S.E. and your first wingsuit in one go Your dream is not a sign of anything. It was just a dream

The sketch..... Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets. Whenever the word "spam" is repeated, they begin singing and/or chanting. A man and his wife enter. The man is played by Eric Idle, the wife is played by Graham Chapman (in drag), and the waitress is played by Terry Jones, also in drag. Man: You sit here, dear. Wife: All right. Man: Morning! Waitress: Morning! Man: Well, what've you got? Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam... Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam. Wife: Have you got anything without spam? Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it. Wife: I don't want ANY spam! Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage? Wife: THAT'S got spam in it! Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it? Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... (Crescendo through next few lines...) Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then? Waitress: Urgghh! Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam! Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up! Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam. Wife: I don't like spam! Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam! Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off. Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then? Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words) Vikings: (Singing elaborately...) Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam! Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Bingo! That's what I generally use. The pull ups that most people use, I call loop saws They trash your closing loop big time. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

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Last Sunday I made my first jump with an RDS. Now I know it's all about those extra few feet or a few m.p.h more but.... As I was reeling in the D-bag and pilot chute I can't say that the drag was very significant. Of course this was done while the canopy was breaked and I suppose at the high speeds when swooping the drag may increase dramatically. I guess a good test would be to drive my car at 60 mph and then stick the gubbins out of the window and see what sort of drag is generated then Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Well no one has mentioned who won the intermediate class yet.... 1st place Tobi Scherrinsky