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  1. PilotMike
    ... Canned air is nothing. Where I work, we have some shit thats like compressed arctic. Its meant for removing gum from walls and stuff, you just spray it on, and break it off. Its fun, you can freeze pens and drop them, and they shatter... you can freeze plastic bottles and drop then and they shatter... you can freeze the cat and drop it and it shatters... all kinds of fun stuff. I want some! -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    Lemme know if you need that one stolen next year -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    Thanx boss! -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    I thought it was funny looking at this from a pilot's perspective. We're students till we get licensed (obviously). Then to get your commercial ticket, you need 250 hours (Intermediate). And to fly twin turbines for a DZ, you need 1,000 hours. If you do a little math, an "advanced" skydiver with 1,000 jumps at 1 minute per jump, only has 16.667 hours of practice. I know some pilots that hadn't even soloed an airplane with that many hours... -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=653448#653448 This thread spends a lot of time talking about another RealTV guy... -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    I talked with a local "CReW Dog" who said that they have sat around and tested all the different hook knives on actual lines with tension. He said that the "cheap plastic ones" always broke before cutting the lines. I would say if you're going to jump with a hook knife, make it metal or Jack the Ripper... -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    I think I saw that somewhere too. If I have 1.17 and I'm waiting for 2.0 does that mean I have 83 updates to go? -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    I messed up an 8-way hybrid this past weekend. Felt stupid, but I'll just remind you that the first 3 letters of funnel is FUN!! -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    I like 1 and 4 the best. The gray ones look too much like student rigs to me. Have you thought about different color riser covers? We just got 5 new Vector 3 staff rigs at Aggieland and I think the colored riser covers break it up a bit. The piping on the main compartment looks better than without IMHO. Also, I'm not a big fan of the extended triangle look from the center main to the pin cover as on 2, 3, 6, 7, and 9. PS - Nice Screenname! -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    I got to POUR! -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    I just got my Neptune on Wednesday, two days before out Casa Boogie. I was pretty happy cuz I got to use it 12 times in a couple of days. When we don't have visiting planes/pilots, I only jump probably once a week. Everything worked well on it. I did scuff the screen a little on the first day. I ended up putting a piece of clear mailing tape over the face to protect it from stuff like that. My only hope for the next revision will be the changeable target altitude. I have version 1.17 and couldn't figure out how to change it. It worked great this weekend cuz we went to 13.5 everytime but now that we'll be back to the Cessna, we'll be going to 11. -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    Regarding the Lutz videos. I don't know if the original incorrect version was on RealTV or Maximum Exposure. I do know that Fox aired the same footage on "Stupid Behavior Caught on Tape" sometime this past summer. That version explained that he pulled the cutaway among other mistakes and was in general a dumbass (aka "Lutz"). -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=644884#644884 -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    Opos, I jsut snet tihs emial to a cupole of skydviing frineds befroe I chekced this thraed... -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    I'm buying a car in 22 hours! 2003 Mazda6 S! Zoom-Zoom!! It'll be here in Texas next Thursday, I can't wait! -------- Does anyone have any of those canopy stickers from Square1? If you want to give me one, you know it will have a special place on my back window... They want a $25 minimum order and the sticker is only $2.50 -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    I think there are 7 valid dolphins...the other two are kinda iffy -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    Laptops with wireless connectivity were required in ALL my aviation classes at UND. I spent a lot of time playing Family Feud on uproar.com... -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    Crazy Days

    PilotMike replied to SKY's topic in The Bonfire

    Thought about when I could start flying... -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    I've been jumping for over 7 years and have less than 500 jumps, flying jumpers for about a year and 3 months with close to 1,000 loads. If I was getting paid to jump, the numbers would be a lot different I think. -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    Can I be next? -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    I'll have my 1,000th jump flight in a month or so, it'd be cool to time it so I can do my 500th jump the same day, but I really doubt that'll happen. -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    Somebody mention visiting planes and Aggieland?? You all know about the Casa coming Sept 19-21 right? -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    Took me just under 1 year. I was a high school senior, going to Junior College 2 days a week and taking flying lessons 3 days a week. The weather in Kansas City usually gave one weekend a month or so that was what my dad and I considered jumpable during the winter and we'd only do 1 or 2 when we went out there... -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    Yeah, when do they start to count as "skydivers?" Sounds like that would change multiple people's numbers (mine included). -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'
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    Yeah....but Jim....then I could have sent pics of the very fine pierced nipple boobies I saw Saturday night. I wonder what the people at the phone company thinks of some of the random stuff they see... Do you think they can monitor messages/pictures going between phones? -------- Benefitting from the 'free capture of verticality.'