mjosparky

Who are you? Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Tell them to kiss you ass and get off the plane. It's your life they are screwing with. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Very good advise in and public meeting area. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

It that why you went over to the dark side? (base)

What a unique concept. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Hank is also the one that invented the "curved pin" used through out the industry. Sparky Thanks for covering my 6. My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Yea right. And I think I will send them his cell phone number. I will try and send it to you tonight. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Which became Glide Path, which became Flight Concepts. And they still have small flares for line attachment points. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

You are right, ram air canopies have a greater control range than a round. But they are both parachutes.

I sent it by email, let me know if you get it. If not I will print out a copy and drop it in the mail tomorrow. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Why would one be called a "parachutists" and one called a "canopy pilot"? They are both using a parachute. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Probably the governing body of the Netherlands. They do not follow USPA SIM or BSR's. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

How many jumps did you put on a Quasar before you decided it was "second rate". All rigs "probably wouldn't kill you", but they are all capable of it. Your opinion would probably have more credibility if you had a name. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Try http://yousendit.com, if it is not a file that is illegal to distribute, and it is less than 1GB. It is free, and I have had success withit in the past. I tried it and it did not seem to work. It might be me, techno challenged. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Mike, I have a copy but the PDF file is too big to email. Any suggestions? Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

To the untrained eye they may look like cracks. In reality, they are parallel runways. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

The ram-air canopy, while a semi- rigid wing, is still classified as an aerodynamic deceleration devise. Sparky http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~adstc/PUBLICATIONS/tofc1st.html My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

I think you will find that line choice is customer driven. Smaller lines = more speed. But there are only a handful of canopy pilots that possess the skill for the extra speed to make a difference. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

At 480 meters you have about 8 or 9 seconds to impact. At 350 meters you have less then 6 seconds. And the last couple of seconds don't count because it is too late to do anything. At you experience level you would not have had a chance to cut away and get a reserve out. Go kiss your instructors feet for staying with you and waking you up. He was foolish for being down there with you but probably saved your life. You have no friends under 2000 feet (610 meters) Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

This is Perris in 2002. http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=10&Z=11&X=2398&Y=18678&W=2&qs=%7cperris%7cca%7c And Elsinore in 2002. http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=11&Z=11&X=1181&Y=9303&W=2&qs=%7cElsinore%7cca%7c Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Go to a plumbing supply house and you can get the small ones for under $2.00 each. Good luck trying to light the fuse under canopy. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Does that mean that everyone using a non-split bag is a retard? Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Who is Ted Williams? Does he jump in Tx? Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Yeigh!....Artwardo tells the best jump stories. (I already told all the scary ones that I can remember.) We need a good jump story to listen to....Steve1 So far, the best one Airtwardo has ever told was the night demo with pyrotechnics, and the other one about landing on the roof of a building in the city... just unbelievable and funny as hell, both of them! They're in here on this thread... *** Who.....ME?!?!? Okay.......... I gotta quick cute one... I doing a demo two weeks ago in Iowa, we were breaking in a new team member 'prospect'. A VERY accomplished skydiver and BASE jumper that I'd never met, but was a good friend of a couple of guys on the team. We were going to do a night pyro jump as part of the airshow night time festivities. The 'new guy' had been trained on the gear and now he was to 'train' me... it's a little exercise we do when breaking in a noob. I play the idiot, which isn't a real challenge...and have the prospect explain how everything works and how to use it, what to do as EP's etc... When he's through, I'll make some suggestions or corrections if needed. About 1/2 way into it... He's getting it right for the most part, but is getting a bit frustrated with some of my 'questions' about the system... Finally.... he says "Listen Jim... you should probably wait until this "Twardo" guy gets here to explain it all to you better... From what I hear he knows this stuff inside out...!" About this time everyone busts out laughing and we're more 'properly' introduced... ...We had to stand down from the first jump of the day beause of winds. We're all sitting around the team bus telling stories about demos and such...when the 'new guy' starts telling about this crazy bunch of old time outlaw club jumpers from the midwest... He was telling a tale he'd heard about this goofy fuck that was sitting on the jump step throwing Coors Bottles at grain silos as they flew past them....from 500 feet! All the guys on the team go quiet and look over at ME.... So I went ahead and corrected him, it was BUDWEISER bottles...and it was from 200 feet.... AND........ I got 8 out of 12 hits!! Well, did you learn anything?