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I'd probably quit my job, it's funny, a few years ago I would have thought that I'd want to work, now I realize that I work only to have money for the fun things in life. Of course I'd have to invest some of it to make sure I had something left in 10 years. As for the rest of it... maybe do the motorhome thing and see the country, make stops at any DZ that happened to be in my path and change my path to make it to the DZ. I'd have to make stops at Carhenge and the worlds largest ball of string, things like that. I think I'd like to have big boat and sail around the world. I would make sure the people are love are debt free and leave them a little something extra. Whatever's left over I think I would just use for whatever caught my attention at the moment. They say that money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a certain amount of freedom, I think I'd like that.
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They can do that? "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Oh, quit yer whining will ya? For cryin' out loud it's been at least a year since your supposed 'near death' experience, let it go! Ya try something that almost kills a girl just ONCE and you'll never hear the end of it! Sheesh! - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Yer right Big Guy. And here's a picture in your honor. "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Not really, neither is appropriate for WORK. That's why they call it work and not 'surf the web on the man's dime all day'. I must have missed the part of the rules where it mentions you have to put "Not safe for work" on pictures that some people might find objectionable. Besides, what are you worried about, do you even have a job? Should we start labeling pictures 'Not Viking Safe'? Let those of us who actually have a job worry about what is and isn't appropriate for work and leave those who don't label pictures alone. I'm done ranting now. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Dude, relax. If people have the time or the freedom to poke around dz.com all day then they can probably get away with having a picture a nasty boob on the screen for a few seconds. Who died made you the 'work safe' police? "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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I don't know what strength they are, I'm sure Dan could answer that. I'm sure there's nothing to be concerned about, it's just another style of soft link, there are many on the market these days. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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*cough* bullshit Just try and file a claim. Even though their rates are usually better than everyone on the planet my experience has been that their customer service couldn't suck more. Others in my family have had similar experiences. There was a time when USAA set the bar for technology and customer service in the insurance industry, sadly that time is past. Oh yeah, about that check, it's actually a dividend, not a rebate. I still have one laying around here somewhere for about $4.00, it's a few years old, think it's still good? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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These are the measurements of the PD Sabre 170 and Sabre 150. Do you think you'd notice the difference? Sabre-170 Span: 20.45 Chord: 8.18 Aspect Ratio: 2.5:1 Sabre-150 Span: 19.21 Chord: 7.68 Aspect Ratio: 2.5:1 That's 20 square feet with a difference of 15 inches on the span and 6 inches on the chord. I think it would be very easy to miss the 6 inches on the chord without a measuring tape, there's just too much 'play' if you're simply laying the canopies on top of, or next to each other. These are PD's measurements for a 'square' canopy, things get even more difficult when measuring elliptical canopies. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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I thought that plan B was to get BIG and hope for the best? Did I miss something? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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You're missing the whole the picture, multiply the span difference by the chord difference and you'll have a few more square feet. You can't accurately compare two canopies based on only one dimension, think what would happen if you tried to compare a Spectre 170 and a Sabre 2 170 based only on the difference in span length. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Yeah! I'm sure she would Dave! "Hi, I'm Dave, I'm the official Deland welcome wagon". HA! "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Where? "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Are you sure those are real? There's several pics of them doing 4 way over national landmarks, but they all look same. Is it it just me, or are these photoshopped? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Precision built the Crossfire too, why wasn't that measured differently? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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CSS. The whole load got out about 5 miles away from the DZ, I had trees on my left, power lines on my right, and a very small median in the middle. Had I chose to land in the median I would have likely hit the trees or the power lines with the sides of the canopy. I chose the trees. I didn't really land 'in' the tree, so much as I did 'against' the tree. It was quite scary when it happened, quite amusing after it happened. I think I had about 30 jumps at the time. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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That's actually kind of funny, I don't think I've ever heard of that happening before. Good choice. I've become comfortable enough with off field landings (and scared enough of landing in another tree) that I'll always take the off field landing if there is even a little bit of doubt that I'll make it back. Better to land off and in one piece than on and broken. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Damn you and everyone else who got to jump this weekend. The weather in NJ has been low low clouds since Friday. "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Actually, it was simply a smart ass answer. People take things way too seriously sometimes. If anyone really cares about wingloading they can check the Canopy and Swooping forum, this has been covered more than once. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Do we have to do EVERYTHING? "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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And this is important, some of those stories are of how people dealt with whatever shit they found themselves in that day. I've found there's a lot of knowledge to be gleaned after the beer light goes on, things they don't teach in the FJC that just might save your life one day. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Are you sure you're not thinking of ftp://ftp.skydivingmovies.com/ There's plenty of skydiving video there. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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0.06:1 "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Uh, how much damage can a rubber band do your closing pin? If the answer is 'even a little bit', I suggest you find a new closing pin or maybe some new rubber bands.. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Warning! Unairworthy CYPRES Pictured On eBay (Again)
Jimbo replied to slotperfect's topic in The Bonfire
That's what I was afraid of, I would have hoped that upon hearing of the semi-destruction of their product that SSK would have bought them back before they made it into the hands of the public. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.