JohnMitchell

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  1. JohnMitchell
    I think a pole would be a good addition to any DZ.
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    Those guys are great. And the tunnels in FL and AZ can help you practice your skills for less $$ per minute.
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    Interesting idea. I would like to see no age restrictions on it, but that probably wouldn't fly.
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    So . . . is this a hobby of hers or does she do it professionally?
  5. JohnMitchell
    Good advice. Our DZ goes from 7 to 4 days a week next month.
  6. JohnMitchell
    Doing anything special for your B-day?
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    I LIKE it!
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    +1 Ahh, but concluding and supposing are two different things. If we are just supposing, wouldn't the smart thing to suppose is that we and our situation are nothing special? To imagine we are the only system with planets and the only place with intelligent life in the universe seems to me to be the height of conceit.
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    It's been shown that fear sweat does have different aroma from regular sweat. All the scared chemicals coming out of the pores. DangerRoo's first jump after her Level 7 was a four way sequential with 3 instructors. It was a blast.
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    There are a lot of great rigs on the market and lots of good manufacturers, but Kelly's reputation for painstaking quality might have helped a bit. I know I'd take an Infinity to the edge of space.
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    I tore the rotator cuff and partial bicep tendon 3 year ago on my right shoulder. Surgery and 6 months rehab before jumping again. Last year I did the same to the left side, surgery and 6 months rehab. While they were in there each time they took care of some bone spurs that were making me susceptible to that type of injury. Now, almost a year later, I've had a great Summer of jumping; tandem, AFF, freeflying, wingsuiting and FS, the works. Follow their instructions, be diligent in doing all the excercises in rehab and you'll come back as strong as ever. Good luck.
  12. JohnMitchell
    That's cool. You need to teach her to look for which harnesses have hook-ups on the risers and no backpacks.
  13. JohnMitchell
    No, that was Cool! Not FOOL!
  14. JohnMitchell
    Happy birthday, Jim. Have the extinguisher ready for the cake. At our age you shouldn't blow too hard.
  15. JohnMitchell
    I want to be that guy some day.
  16. JohnMitchell
    Kelly said that both cut away cables are rigged with stops on them so neither handle can be pulled. Then, when you open either canopy, a pyro cutter cuts the stops off the cutaway cables for which ever parachute was opened and also disables the pyro cutters on the remaining closed parachute. Slick, huh?
  17. JohnMitchell
    The drogue wouldn't have been too bad, but an early deployment on the main or reserve would have been. The EP for that is to cutaway whichever canopy is open, since the suit doesn't have enough O2 for a 1-2 hour canopy ride. Both the main and reserve may be cut away on Felix's rig. And once you cutaway either, it disables the cutaway mechanism on the other one so there is no way you could accidentally chop both. Pretty cool setup. Kelly Farrington told me how it all worked.
  18. JohnMitchell
    And the Pulitzer prize goes to . . . .
  19. JohnMitchell
    No kidding. I see a full ride scholarship in his future. What a leg!
  20. JohnMitchell
    The technology in even light aircraft is super these days. I call traffic to Cessnas and they say "I have him on TCAS, searching." Makes me feel almost useless. And with all the GPS I hardly ever get a lost pilot anymore. Had one the other day but that was because he had a new GPS unit and couldn't figure out how to use it. Do you have Nexrad weather in your Mooney? We have it on our scopes and I spend considerable radio time calling precip info to pilots when they often have the same display right in front of them.
  21. JohnMitchell
    I imagine she got anything she wanted. Now we have google right at the supervisor's desk. It's made that a lot easier. We used to get planes with ADF asking for the best frequency to listen to the ball games.
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    I don't think I would have taken it down lower. Kelly Farrington told me one of the big challenges was figuring out handle placement/feel/function to be used by a jumper wearing a clumsy pressure suit, fat gloves and vision restricting helmet. The rig was well designed but much more complex than a regular sport rig. The complications of the pressure suit certainly called for a higher opening altitude. Also, I wonder how much the field elevation changed under Felix as he drifted some 45 miles from the take off point. Did they give him topographical data prior to his jump? Or did they say "Okay, the LZ is a little lower than the take off point. We'll just let him pull high." A lot of time and effort went into this jump. There is no real comparison between Felix's real free fall and Joe's drogue fall. It would have been stupid to smoke it down to break a non-existent record.
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    Too true. Plus they assume I've got the credit rating/purchasing power to make them money down the road. Unfair, but sweet young kids just don't get the same service as a guy with the platinum card,
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    You've been a missing a-hole recently.
  25. JohnMitchell
    Girls are like parachutes. . . If you find one that you really like, you want to jump it all the time.