skybytch

The only beer that I can state categorically is the favorite of every person at Skydance is that oh-so-wonderful brand known as "Free."

See? They all love the BytchSlap (tm). Do I need to take your phone away, Jim?

A ragged out 421 tandem main. Close second was the 500 tandem main. Close third and fourth were the other two 421's. Unlike some folks, I loved my ragged out Fury even if it did have no flare.

Good luck with that. The address book doesn't work in Firefox either; the question has been asked here at least once before with no reply.

A "friend" sent the attached picture to me today. I may never recover from this one.

Females can't have sex on Sundays?

Agreed, but when the consequences of said bad decision are your kid a) having a child and giving it up for adoption, b) having a child and trying to raise it when they are still children themselves, c) having an abortion, d) getting an STD and/or e) getting AIDS - any one of which will likely affect them for the rest of their lives (some more than others of course) - imho it's far better to hand the kid a box of condoms and tell them to use them every damn time!

Yeah. That's my big worry. My credit is so totally screwed after my "adventure" in Florida that I doubt I'll be able to get any student loans; I need to keep my GPA waaaay up there to get the scholarships I'm gonna need to make school doable once I transfer. I'm gonna be really pissed off if this subject is what keeps me from getting a BA.

I hate the ER too. My recent visit was a total waste of my main canopy - yes, it cost almost exactly what I sold my main for.

I dunno... it was hard... Conjugating verbs is no fun at all!

Is that a currency issue? Or would you continue to jump a crossbraced canopy as a full time skydiver even with an injury to protect?

You won't catch me at the top of a 6 foot ladder. I get really scared on the roof of a single story building. I'm not all that excited about climbing trees either. But once I'm above 1000 feet in a plane with a parachute on my back I'm fine. Under 1000 feet in the airplane and I'm scared because a) I'm not in control and b) below 1000 feet is when we're most likely to crash and I'm least likely to be able to get out and use my parachute. It's wierd though; being at or below 1000 feet under canopy isn't nearly as bad as being in the plane.

Reading it isn't all that hard; it's speaking, hearing and writing that I'm finding difficult. I would have understood my post before this class, but I couldn't have written it.

It's "Soy estudiante" because I'm really crap at languages other than English. It's okay, I can admit it.

It's required - if I don't take two semesters of a foreign language I can't transfer to the 4 year university of my choice. Unlike French, Italian, etc, Spanish will be useful... after this class I should be able to tell my neighbors to tell their friends to not park in my parking space, dammit.

Soy estudiante de espanol. Es muy dificil y no divertida! Hoy esta mi examen primera. (translation -I think) - I'm a student of Spanish. It's very hard and no fun!! Today is my first test. I am so not ready... watch my GPA go right down the drain...

Richard Hutchison (sp?)? Dammit! WTF happened? BSBD, Hutch. I enjoyed talking with you.

This question is aimed specifically at those who have been jumping crossbraced canopies for 500 or more jumps. Reason for this limitation is that crossbraced canopies are a significant step up from Katana/Crossfire class canopies, and 500 jumps is the equivalent of a season or two of jumping (long enough to become addicted to what a crossbraced canopy can do). Sport canopies used on fun jumps only here; the tandem canopy you get paid to jump doesn't count. Let's say you hurt yourself bad enough or there becomes some other compelling reason (getting older, having a kid, beoming more risk-averse, etc) that makes you determine that continuing to jump your current canopy is too risky. Would/could you be happy jumping a larger, less aggressive canopy all the time, whether Katana/Crossfire class or Sabre2/Safire2 class. even though you could continue to do high performance approaches with it? Or do the rewards of flying what you do (not just the swoop but everything involved in flying a crossbrace, from opening to packing) outweigh the other rewards of skydiving for you? Is the freefall and the "joy of being in the air" still enough to keep you interested/jumping? .

Yes.

You were old enough to buy a car in 1971? Daaaaaayum. You is an old fucker.

I can handle Giant Cheez Nips.

Would you be okay with some toe sucking? I hear Turtle likes to suck.... toes.

The companies are not making "huge profits." They have to sell them for that much to make a profit at all. Unlike motorcycle, snowboard, skateboard, etc. helmet manufacturers, whose markets number in the millions of potential customers, skydiving helmet manufacturers sell to a very small market. When you're likely to sell several hundred thousand units you can afford to make less profit per unit than can someone who is only likely to sell 20,000 units. Simple economics. Then don't. Or if it bothers you that much, you could always design, build and market a skydiving helmet that you think is worth the money...

Bummer. Serious suggestion - go check dumpsters within a mile or so radius of where your car was parked. I had the same thing happen once; I found my logbook and jumpsuit in a dumpster a mile away from where my car was parked.

Off key?