DrewEckhardt

They taught us in the basic MSF safety course. Something like look left, push left, go left. Practical application followed with swerving maneuvers in the parking lot. Best $80? I spent.

Might help you sleep too. diphenhydramine hcl is marketed as both an anti-histamine and a sleep aid (Nytol, Tylenol PM) at the same dosage. For some activities you may prefer something like Claratin

The Coen Brothers do a great job without making the same films as everyone else. Raising Arizona (protagonists usually don't steal babies) or Barton Fink (I'm not quite sure how you'd classify that) are great departures from mainstream. The rest of their oeuvre is excellent too but fits more in with accepted formulas. David Lynch's flawed protagonists and darkness in every day life are another welcome detour off the beaten path . Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart would be my favorites; Lost Highway is still good but Lynch seems to have become too self-indulgent to do a decent job editing.

It was excellent, with the character development and dialog you'd expect from Tarantino. Waltz is especially good as Hans Landa.

Boulder, CO. Good snow, turbine DZ 15 minutes away, nearest ski area 45 minutes (with good snow after a storm on week days), decent live music. 300 days of sunshine a year. Low cost of living compared to other places you'd actually want to live. Some people like Denver for a more urban environment. Although starting at 5000 feet MSL you still get to 12,500 AGL. Jumps from over 18,000 MSL happen sometimes but require air traffic approval. California is nice and sunny. The San Francisco bay area has music and food and it's easy to catch a train to the City for an evening. Temperature is great - you don't ever need your winter coat. Between tax laws keeping people in homes they've owned forever, growth controls, and tech millions property values are obscene (example: 3 bedroom, 2 bath 1500 square foot ranch house - $1.5M). Rent is only some what out of hand (two bedrooms for $2000 a month). Coastal snow also sucks - there's too much moisture in it. I haven't tried California skiing yet but expect to be unimpressed after British Columbia and Washington State - you need some place high and dry like the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming to get good snow.

Sure. More relevant issues are how slow can it be trimmed to fly with no vertical speed at a given suspended weight and as that approaches how easy is it to kill the remaining forward speed with an abrupt pitch change. Newer cross-braced and bi-cell tapered designs go slower before you can't avoid downwards vertical acceleration, and some canopies are decidedly easier to stop when you don't care to start running on landing when that happens.

No one my first four-way freefly round (two head up, two head down, built after exiting) had fewer than 500 jumps and I think three of us had 750+. IOW, $12,000 - $18,000 in jump tickets. Tunnel flyers get there in a small number of hours although it could be a few before you get to actually sit flying.

It is a magical place where there are very few rules, lots of free beer( 24-7) some great evening meals provided, entertainment every night and most days, okay almost all the time. Once you go, you will never want to miss this boogie again. oh skydiving also happens at this boogie, or so I am told. I had more fun at Quincy apart from the temperature. Better load organizing, lots of demo gear, more naked skydiving, less waiting.. Couch Freaks was more exciting though. Without the planned activities we made our own fun, like the Stiletto 120 Mr. Bill followed by Bill's low pull. I forgot about the human bowling - that was a fun spectator sport.

Depends on what sort of complications you had. I managed to stretch a nerve and couldn't walk due to pain for three months. There was also a delayed union where the doctor wanted me non weight bearing for a while.

1. Being stupid requires being tough. Grr! 2. Learn accuracy before swooping 3. Learn swooping before down sizing

Man, hat's not even a warm up. I'm out of shape so it takes less. 20 miles is enough to tire me out like 100 used to.

I put a torque wrench through the (closed) garage door when things shifted and the spark plug broke leaving insulator pieces in a cylinder. The wrench didn't seem any worse for the experience. The garage door had a hole which may have been part of why the HOA made me replace it. I didn't get my titanium from a motorcycle and got to upgrade to an insulated garage door so maybe it wasn't all bad.

Of course.

It's as good as a Javelin, just not as pretty. Both rigs were deisgned by Mike Furry. Both have issues with non-belly to earth orientations in older configurations (you wouldn't want to sit fly with an ROL pilot chute pouch equipped javelin).

Go for a bike ride, listen to loud music especially Rammstein, drink beer. Riding for 30-60 minutes works best.

Let me quote my earlier post: "I figure the FAA would take a dim view of any TM drinking less than 8 hours prior to jumping or jumping with a measurable BA. Is that written for TM's? I don't think so, but, like I said, maybe it's a good place to start." 14 CFR 91.17 prohibits flying 1. Within 8 hours of consumption of alcohol 2. While under the influence of alcohol 3. While using drugs contrary to any safety 4. While having a blood alcohol content greater than .04% where #2 may be stricter than #4.

I still have an irrational desire for a 993 Turbo (Last of the air-cooled Porsche 911s), although the Ultima GTR appeals to me as a garage sort of guy with a decent set of tools. I drive a 1998 Audi A4 2.8 Quatro. Manual transmission, of course.

If you're not trying to get sponsored by Go Fast, No Fear, or Red Bull it doesn't matter what's extreme. Climb a mountain, smoke a snow bong at the top, and ride the freshies in the trees. Go for a nice hike in Moab and take the fast way down. Skydive with a small parachute, get some speed for landing, and land with a 90 degree turn around the hanger below roof top level. Regardless of what floats your boat don't worry about what's extreme.

Get paid with paypal. Ship via USPS global express. They charge for actual weight while Fed-Ex will charge more based on dimensions. They'll provide a tracking number so you can verify delivery (but you need to check if the postal system in the country its going to will) and not have a bogus paypal non-delivery claim. List full value on the shipping and customs forms so thats what you get when your package goes missing after it leaves America (you get the insured value plus shipping charges, although it does take close to two months for your package to go from missing to having an investigation run its course). A little looking on the web will turn up what sort of requirements the destination country has for documentation; like two copies of an invoice to go with the customs forms.

Metal detectors work fine on non-ferrous materials. If they didn't I'd have a hard time triggering traffic lights with my bicycle that's nearly all titanium and aluminum with stainless steel spokes. Non ferrous conductive materials also do a fine job creating magnetic fields. If they didn't speakers with aluminum voice coils wouldn't work. Metal detectors create a magnetic field which induces eddy currents in all conductive materials. After that they can look for losses, look for decay times in pulses, or look for the magnetism resulting from the eddy currents. Some metals can be ignored intentionally due to phase response. I don't set off walk-through detectors, although hand-held wands notice my tibial nail.

No, but I've had the Vosges Mo's Bacon Bar which is a chocolate bar with btis of bacon instead of the usual nuts. http://www.chocolateobsession.com/2007/06/review_vosges_bacon_bar.htm It was surprisingly tasty.

12 For what I had been paying for gear rentals I could have tossed the whole thing in the dumpster at 70 jumps and still come out ahead.

I'd save Willard my cat first. He's sweet, friendly, and keeps my wife and I happy.

Find a hole.

Bike weight and size are only an issue when it comes to getting it up on the center stand, out of a down-hill parking job (meaning you've screwed up), or off-the ground (meaning you've screwed up, perhaps getting it on the center stand).