JohnMitchell

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  1. JohnMitchell
    The "pull" sign in AFF means "chin up" in the wind tunnel. Most floating reserve handles should just be ignored, IMHO. You probably won't need it and it's always at the end of the ripcord cable, so relax.
  2. JohnMitchell
    How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but it will take 30 visits and it won't stay changed... How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but it takes a long, long time, it's very expensive, and the light bulb has to WANT to change.
  3. JohnMitchell
    Hey, you told me I bought the winning tickets already.
  4. JohnMitchell
    Okay, now it's perverted. . . And a little bit sex-ay!
  5. JohnMitchell
    Sounds like how Detroit used to "measure" and market horsepower ratings back in the muscle car days.
  6. JohnMitchell
    running some numbers I estimate you used to weigh 273 and now weigh 208. 1.3 wingloading would be a 160. Pretty sporty for 300 jumps. Would you be interested in a 170 or bigger?
  7. JohnMitchell
    This scares the hell out of me...
  8. JohnMitchell
    Made you a clicky. I like #168 the best, but I have no idea what a foil is.
  9. JohnMitchell
    All great advice and I esp. like this last part. We have all different sizes of AFF instructors at our DZ and try to match the students accordingly. I look at the students from the side, gauging the distance from backbone to belly. The longer the distance, the faster the fall rate. I refer to it as the ballistic coefficient method.
  10. JohnMitchell
    Absolutely. Nice pic.
  11. JohnMitchell
    Nice caveat, but I don't think ALL of us are have no idea what we're talking about. I've worked with a few students in my day.
  12. JohnMitchell
    That is the way I'd LIKE to teach, but you're stuck with the syllabus of whatever school you work for. Thanks for the input.
  13. JohnMitchell
    I've been back to making about 250 a year since I retired from the FAA. Once I get some more real estate sold off I hope to make 300 a year. It sure is an incentive to keep in shape. I made 2 tandems with family members on Friday, then 5 on Saturday and 5 on Sunday, a mix of RW, tandems and AFF. Not a blistering rate but our season is slowing down up here. If I could do that all year round (no rainy season) that would be about 600 a year.
  14. JohnMitchell
    I know you were asking him, but my answer is that I'm still basically a weekend jumper and I mix fun jumping with work jumps. If I were to do only one or the other, or jump 5 days a week, I think I would have burned out years ago. I took the middle path.
  15. JohnMitchell
    Oops. that's right. The rooster lays the HEN.
  16. JohnMitchell
    Every direction is South from there.
  17. JohnMitchell
    Nice throwing
  18. JohnMitchell
    I'm guessing this should be in SC, but you raise some great points. I don't think there's a chance in hell of a secular democracy finding fertile ground in any of those countries.
  19. JohnMitchell
    60's? Sorry, I was in grade school. Boxman, mantis, frog . . . so many different positions, so little time. I find myself using all of them, trying to be well rounded. I know most of those tunnel instructors are pretty damn good.
  20. JohnMitchell
    I like this too. I always travel with my Kindle and enjoy my reading time, waiting at the gate. Accept it? Nope, I stuff 'em out of the way and shove my bag in. It's a baggage compartment, not a wardrobe.
  21. JohnMitchell
    Very good job. I've got 40 years in this fall, started, like you, at 17. 6180 jumps, Tandem, AFF-I, etc. Made 2 on Friday and 5 today. Been all kinds of places jumping with my beautiful wife. Hey, life is good, ain't it?
  22. JohnMitchell
    I remember being a noob in the 70's and getting that kind of instruction. Very few people really had figured out "how" they did stuff yet.
  23. JohnMitchell
    Boy yeah, it sure does. Sorry for your coworker and his loved ones. I wake up happy every day . . . just for waking up.
  24. JohnMitchell
    $hit! $hit! $hit! One of my daughters used her debit card on line and the info got jacked. Next thing you know she's buying plane tickets to the Philippines.
  25. JohnMitchell
    $hit! $hit! $hit!