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  1. wildcard451
    One thing I would recommend adding to that, if a newer jumper is not comfortable with the idea, is a 2-way where the younger jumper is not wearing an alti, so they can work on getting a feel for things, but still have a friend there in case the eyeball and internal timing don't work, possibly a coach/AFF instructor than knows they can be there and relative. /run on sentence ftw.
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    Well, if it was working well for the first half, then you probably knew you were somewhere around 6k ish or so. You're good to deploy most anywhere below that, after the time it takes you to realize things aren't working, you should be in the 4,5 range. If you're so low that you are scared, and the ground is huge, then well, judgment call at that point. At your level of experience you should be a little more heads up on altitude than that, so it is not a HUGE surprise to you when your alti stops midway. I've had the exact situation happen before. My neptune was resetting on me in freefall, and I would stare over and see a serial number. After a few jumps of it doing it, I changed battery and had a firmware update. No harm no foul really, but I also had enough jumps at the time that I didn't really mind.
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    When filming 4 way, I never even look at mine, until breakoff, or if the team has been turning points long enough that I get scared. The benefit is that I get to stare at the ground the whole skydive, and get a great feeling for what it looks like at normal breakoff. Also, after a good number a jumps, you have a general "feel" for how long belly, freefly, etc freefall should last....granted without an altimeter can I tell you I pulled at 3250 feet? Nope, but I can't tell you that with one either. Close enough works for either case. "when the people look like ants, pull. When the ants look like people, pray."
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    Mainly the altimeter for me. I wore contacts for a long time, now have had lasik and don't prefer to expose my eyes to raw wind. Helmet and shoes? A few years back sure, but now consider them essential equipment given canopy and WL choices...
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    Skydive Orange is about 45 min from 95 in Central VA. Come on by, we'd be happy to have you.
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    I think I love you. Me too. Could not have said it better myself, and I am not that old.
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    Fucking hillarious An entry from an Elsinore Film Festival that someone linked on FB. Apologies if it has been here before, but it make me laugh hard in a few spots.
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    remhwa's post about gloves over in the gopro thread and Dave's response made me remember this one. Don't remember when it was, but it was early on in my time with camera wings.... - Put wing loops on under gloves. - Could not get to my brakes - Had to undo gloves, altimeter, etc before I could get flying with anything more than harness, which on my Sabre2 190 wasn't all that much. Nothing bad happened, but same situation with a simple mal/line twist may have earned me a chop or worse.
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    Well, they do have a point... Axis of Awesome
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    My DZ has a great payment plan: I pay them $19 and the give me 6000'. I packed some, used some extra student loans, a LOT of my poker winnings. Now I just have a really well paying job.
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    So I had an interesting event this weekend. Deployed into line twists, was able to kick out, but when the slider finished coming down, it had come undone from the rear rings and was flapping around. On video review it appears that the rear edge cutaway lanyard works itself out during the spin. Befor I could control the edge, it seems that the R cable hit the slider and cut it in two places and scratched a third. I did not notice this until the next jump. I was using just the removable slider at the time and did not have the bag and pilot chute attached. -Is this a common occurance during line twists that I need to be more aware of and control that edge faster? -would a patch significantly affect the slider performance? -any other points of caution from those more experienced that I need to be aware of or other anecdotal pearls of wisdom?
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    why dont you get the fuck over yourself, no body cares how many exact jumps you have, if you are deciding on who to jump with b/c of jump numbers then you obviously have not learned enough in your 27months in the sport. the other thing is, info on a fucking forum doesnt mean shit! have a nice day. That's about the only intelligent thing I have heard come from you. Namely because it agrees with me.
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    Yeah - But to call a USA player for a phantom foul and not call the bear hug/molestation on Bradley is just irritating. I wish he had to answer for his idiocy. There is NO accountability if he does not. At leas the MLB umpire that robbed the perfect game the other night is thanking this guy.
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    I can't believe that no one has made a comment on this. I have never seen such a fucking crock of a call in my entire life. Although the way he was calling the rest of the game it doesn;t surprise me. To top it all off, based on the FIFA rules, he doesn't even have to explain why he called it back. If this was a Columbian team that got robbed like that, I am sure that someone would be pulling an Escobar on that referee. What a load of crap.
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    Holly fuck. Who told him that? The SAM does not recover quickly from a dive. At all. It's time like this that I really pray that you are trolling my friend
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    No he's saying you'd be surprised at the stupid shit people do. Until you are no longer surprised by stupidity.
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    Ok? No. What's gonna happen? He'll be just fine until he isn't. It may never come, and god willing it never does. But, possibly not having had a spinner on something less radical, this person may not be... Fuck it, there are no new lessons here.
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    It's 4way. You're gonna kick people in the face, get kicked, ridden like a damned beaten mule, raped by a camera guy who found too much of the burble...etc. Enjoy it.
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    Wait for it http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-15-2010/respect-my-authoritah
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    There is nothing of value here that one needs to get to during the day/on the move.
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    "Well, if I had let go of the fronts, I would have missed the gates..."
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    I'm curious about this one - I've heard Perris enforces that as well. Does your DZ say that *any* AAD fire means you're grounded or only one that was due to a loss of altitude awareness? A legit save, to me, might or might not be a legitimate reason for grounding, depending on how/why the jumper became incapacitated. The only legit reason for a cypres fire is if you are dead or unconscious. In that case, a grounding is the least of your worries. /maybe a student all out of fuck saved after getting away from the instructor, but that is a whole 'nother bag of worms.
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    So....you knew it was coming adult signature required - and left someone there to pick it up that didn't meet the policy? Did I miss something here?
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    Did the fraternity thing. Overall a good experience. Some hazing, mostly mental, but nothing too harsh, and nothing compared to what I experienced in residency. I spent 2.5 years as the house treasurer - and managed to keep us in the black even undergoing house renovations -- actually taught me a shitload about managing money. As far as "buying your friends" -- Yeah, you had to pay dues. After all, getting bands, entertaining ladies, buying enough beer for the GDIs, maintaining the property, etc sure as hell wasn't free. Lots of good friends. Some professional contacts. Would recommend. As others have said though, he can spend all of his time with cheap sorority whores and doing blow if he wants......but I still dont know if that is a bad thing.
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    Meh, on the (admittedly few) tracking dives I've been on, track is not MAX track but more like wingsuiting in brakes with a newbie. IE, flying like that will not help your max tracking skills. I like filming the "not the best" tracker in whatever team/group I'm filming, myself I like calling them out in the debrief personally.