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Nice one! If the cabin is depressurized the cypress should conclude from the air pressure that the jumper is rising instead of falling. Blue ones Dorothee

arg. Hellian. /me can't get to grips with loggin in

that was me btw... forgot to login

Craig, you posted the URL for an ftp site with loads of skydiving vids... can you post it again as i cannot remmebr the URl or the thread that is was in... went looking in old archived forums... if it wasn't you that posted it, does anyone know it anyway? i download the low pulln with the guy landing next to the garden shed, and that was like *wow* so i wanted more....

i'm thinking about going to thomaston this weekend.i'd like to check it out again. if you dod find out any info please leeme know

heh, nice quote. i always think the ants one is amusing "when people look like ants, pull when ants look like people, cry" hehe, there's a slightly, ahem, ruder ending on some versions... ;)

i agree, the new site and forums rock :)

Yeah, forgot that one, sorry. I was thinking about that today, but forgot to put it in the poll.

I suspect that skydivers smoke for the same reason they skydive: they have addictive type personalities and crave a variety of drugs. Some smoke just before jumping to calm their nerves. Some smoke after jumping to calm their nerves. Some smoke while jumping even though they know it makes them hypoxic. Speaking of flying instructors smoking in the airplane ... back when I was a student pilot, I did a less than perfect check ride and then chewed out the examiner when he started to light up in the plane. Surprise, surprise, he signed me off!

Hey, what kind of crap is this? DZ.com gone politically correct? If smoke bothers you so much skeamer? stand upwind!!!

I can't figure out what I did, but my last post was anonymous, as is this one. IT'S ME... JUMPERGIRL!!

Skreamer... I have been good. I didn't get to jump, although the weather was beautiful this past weekend. 70 degrees and beautiful blue skies!! I kicked myself for not having my gear with me!! I am planning to go make a few jumps this weekend though!! Sangrio... you need to have the threads ready to post pictures by... then end of March! That is a very friendly request on behalf of myself and Froggie! We'll make it worth your time and trouble! ;-)

OK, I still can't log on, even from that link. It now says that Speed Racer is an invalid userid. -Speed Racer

Me *blaming* the head honcho, el numero uno, the uber dude Sangiro? :) Tigra if you read my original post again you will see I used the phrase 'it saddens me' and I did also acknowledge the fact that Sangiro has put in a hell of a lot of work to give us a better dz.com. If that article was used, but with the opening sentence edited out, would that be such a bad thing? I don't think so. There is bad reporting, there is really bad reporting and then there is this article. I disagree that we should print whatever some whuffo journalist decides to write, simply because they are a journalist and we should accept their crap off SAPA or Reuters. This was a tragic incident, I don't *blame* Sangiro for using the story, I just feel that the opening sentence for that article is exacerbating an already sad situation. Would you really want somebody considering AFF to read that article as it is? This was a No Pull, maybe a cypres would have made a difference, we'll never know. I stand by what I posted previously - this article (as it is at present) should not be on dz.com (IMHO). And no, obviously I don't know all the facts, but I do know that that opening sentence is misleading and potentialy damaging to this site and the sport. But then the journalist probably made lots of $$$ when his story got picked up by all the bigger papers. *sigh* /s

always gets the views. I was just wondering, is it normal? that I now think about skydiving more then I think about sex

I was wondering if anyone could tell me if you need a certain amount of jumps, or if someone knows of a place where they jump from balloons. Its been recomended to me, but where I was, you needed 200 jumps :) oh well no rush all in good time. but if you have any info please let me know

SanMan, As a "Newbie", I have relied on this site to answer many simple questions beginners face. I always found my answers before I had to ask by reviewing past threads. Killer advice has been given in the past and there was such a wealth of information available. Do I assume that there isnt anyway to look at past threads? If this is the fact, I'll also assume that I'll just have to wait for those same questions to be asked and addressed before they will show in the the new DZ.COM format? There were so many good ones. GREAT NEW FORMAT!!!

it's me the one and only wingnut!!!!!!!!!!!! i haven't left yet. my flight got delayed of sorts! sangiro, can i have my username? well talk to ya guys later......