wildcard451

Right on, I'm just in a crotchety old fuck "get off my lawn" mood this morning.

get 3-4 of them. make them curved. have three or 4 sit fliers flying around a VFS team like 4speed. BOOM! Matrix freeflying. Mind. blown.

is it possible to sell GoPro video for outside tandem vid ? Anything is possible.

For supposedly being in college, spelling things with a 'Z' instead of an 'S' immediately brings into question the integrity of any analysis you would be able to do with my information. It also makes me sad overall that text speak routinely makes it into real documents. Just something for you to think about as you go forth in life, your education, and career. Yes, I know this comment makes me look like an ass but it's a personal pet peeve.

I'd go with the same thing, only to add that you should do whatever it takes to make it easier for someone else to take over your job, even if it means putting in some extra time. I.e. that leftover paperwork, writing up some procedures for things that you're the main person who does them. That will go a fair way towards making it easier on your boss (whom you like), and being remembered as a class act. Wendy P. If your boss has you escorted to the door, hell with them and the paperwork. Quite situational.

This. All this talk about karma and all is bullshit. He already know what is going to happen if he gives them respect from the employee side and gives a "notice" - escorted out and no more cash for him, that he has earned. If not under a contract, that's perfectly fine from the company's standpoint. All this talk about "giving them the respect they deserve" is a bunch of crap too. Sign on with the new job. Give them your start date -two weeks after you plan to quit - tell them it may be sooner. Work til you get your commission. Give your two weeks. Leave if they fire you, work the two weeks if they don't. You profit. You are respectable from the business side. You move on to new job, possibly enjoying a 2 week vacation in the process. How is this even still up for debate?

Because apparently they have done it before? Work your two weeks. Get your commissions, then put in your two weeks and be escorted out that day. Win for you.

Quit talking the truth man!

Smile all you want, and try as I might, I see no experience jumper pricing info on there. Please show me where I missed it. http://www.virginiaskydivingcenter.com/pricing/ About a third of the way down the page lists tickets to 5000 and full altitude. Thanks for adding it to the page.

Smile all you want, and try as I might, I see no experience jumper pricing info on there. Please show me where I missed it.

What's ticket prices at the new place? Full and H&P?

http://www.wingmancam.com/WingmanCam/Home.html

I count 17 screws.

From 650ish with the toggles already out I was able to bring about a 180deg turn slowly to land in an open field. Could have likely stood it up, but PLF'd anyways. It flew like a big ass boat. Sab2 170 I think a Raven 181. I don't remember the reserve exactly.

Awesome. now quit posting about it online. I would love to portray you as greedy by opposing counsel. /hate lawyers //best of luck

They still have to heed the warning. I do so dislike working on broken and dead jumpers.

Can we get a post stickyfied with the links to Ted and Sangi's and other people who have been TBTB at the top of Canopy Control? Actually, I don;t know why I ask, it won;t change anything.

The concepts of the pattern, slow flight and accuracy and how they apply to swooping. With out accuracy with the pattern and slow flight, you'll never be able to accurately get to your initiation point at the right altitude, direction and flight configuration. So it took a long time of learning how to do that, but doing that with a much faster canopy. A canopy that I was able to fly "OK" normally, but was way too much canopy for me if something went wrong or I was trying to swoop. Swooping is the application of the basics, refined to a razor edge and applied perfectly at exactly the right time. I didn't get that back then. I thought it was all front risers and beer lines. Think of it as giving the keys to an F1 car to a 18 y/o kid that hasn't ever raced, but just driven street legal cars. They aren't gonna know how to keep the right line on the track, etc, and prolly gonna do some damage in the process. It's gonna take them a lot longer to learn that car than an 18y/o kid that has been racing since they were 8, and they will be lucky if they don't die in the process.

Please don't push me out of the door while my PC is still inside the AC. If you haven't climbed-out and I see your PC loose inside the AC, I'm gonna try to capture it before it (and you) go out. I guess it all depends on the situation, if the door is open and your right next to it. The chance of you grabbing the pilot chute before it gets taken away in the wind is a bit different than if it was maybe further back in the plane. Like Krip said some of us don't have the reaction times yet to even probably do anything.... Maybe we should practice this at our DZ on the ground so we could get it as a reaction, like our our EP are. Contrary to whuffo belief things are not automatically sucked out of the door of our aircraft. There can be quite a few spots of dead air, even right near an open door, that a pilot chute might just flop out into. Esp true if you are putting a chunk in the door and there are already people outside. Don't just launch a person out the door unless stuff is already headed that way. If the situation provides time to think, please do. If it does not, then send them on their way.

Even though I had been doing about 300 hop and pops in a row and dedicated canopy exercises, I went through the "summer of rapid downsizing" where I went from a XF2 169 @ 1.48 to a Velo 111 @ 2.2 over about 6 months and 250 hop and pops. What happened? ...a bunch of good slides, some torn pants, and a nice crash that should have broken my ankle, yet, just a bad sprain that still hurts me two years later. I learned a few bad habits that took me a while to undue, and hindered my start in competition swooping. Now two years later and a good bit of competing has taught me more than I ever thought I could do with a canopy, and yet, I still know nothing compared to my peers. Should have taken it slower. I didn't. The pain reminds me daily.

FTFY

He's still out here living the dream. Bastard still won't come and drink with me. He's scared.

Carry on all the time. TSA agents can be idiots, but once you get the supervisors with the actual rule book it's ok. Only had a real problem flying out of MCO. Once through security no issues, it is just a carry-on. I know it's early, and you wanna tell everyone that you are a skydiver.....but when flying, just shut up, and carry the rig on, and no one will ever know.

Not jump in marginal conditions?

Good on you man. Glad she will get her rig back!