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I am in a way envious, wish I could jump with my dad, he was jumping back in he 50's and 60's - enjoy... Congrats... - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

I want in, only if I dont have to pay a membership fee, or jump nekkid.. I can handle looking at videos of people dying in order to learn from, or training tough, but jumping nekkid? Hell, I shower in swimming trunks...

Everyone where I learned thought I would not live to see 100 jumps. I was jumping a docile canopy, but wreckless nontheless. Survived though, turned out to be an ok instrucor only to be taken out by a spinal tumor... I always wanted 10 inches, just not like that! I just figured it is a misunderstanding.

Take Peckerheads tip He is just looking out for you and explained it better than I have ever heard... Don't fly beneath tandems... - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

...and according to some other posts I've seen by you, you jump a diablo. Smart. A diablo with: Jumps : 29 That can't be right...

but don't drink any beer the night before. (See Tonto's thread in General) Well, I wouldnt say don't drink ANY... Although I don't drink often/much these days, as long as it does not still have any effect on you what so ever that will affect your safety, moderate drinking on evenings before the average student go's out for student jumps, there is not a problem. You can go to the USPA website and DL a pdf file called the Skydivers Information Manual. There is hardly an instructor out there that does not encourage students to read this manual. In it, there are guidelines not only pertaining to alcohol use and skydiving, but much more. To those of us who are USPA members, it is kinda like our Bible so to speak. The USPA offers the manual downloads for free here: http://uspa.org/publications/manuals.htm Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Why? Glad I got a chance to receive the link, I found it educational.

We all die; it is just a matter of how and when “Braveheart” I have a good friend who’s young son was given a “participation trophy” for being on a loosing little league baseball team. He threw it in the trash! Said he didn’t want a trophy his team did not earn… My hats off to this young man! In today’s “PC stroke em on the hand and tell em it’s ok” society we exist in, I often times come across as a hash asshole, but I do not care. If my methods don’t communicate well, then there is always someone who will read the post later that will get the gist of it, and there is always some “libbo-dogooder” that will stroke the hand in a “gentler and kinder” way to save the day and express the intended communication to those who need to be treated as if the world is actually a nice and forgiving place. So it takes all kinds, assholes like me and the alter ego’s out there who better understand the intricate workings of the human mind better than I. We all serve the greater purpose... Bottom line – life is all that’s important. How we keep each other alive are just the details of the desired end result of not having to deal with a bloodied corpse lying out in the landing area. How can someone be “made to feel” any emotion? Aren’t individuals the ones who decide how they will react to any given situations? Any comment that contains the phrase “your making me feel” followed by an emotion is cop out psychobabblebullshit because people do not want to take responsibility for their own feelings. In skydiving, I was taught to, and have spent years looking for problems with other peoples gear and will continue to point out whenever I think I see a problem – and anytime I am mistaken, if someone wants to have a shitty attitude about it, I don’t care, at least I will be able to sleep at night knowing someone did not fall out of their rig over a matter of pride (and that is all it is, pride)… - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Was any further action taken against said prideful dumbass?

It can, but you need about 3 feet of hose! Seriously though, I have seen probably hundreds (it seems) of canopies buck low to the ground an never have I seen one end in catastrophe, they always seem to re-inflate quickly whether or not the jumper goes to partial brakes or lets it fly. One lesson I learned the hard way that resulted in a sprained ankle, it that when the canopy has a partial collapse low to the ground, don’t look up! Keep your eyes on where you are going - paying attention to the ground may help more than looking up at a problem you can do little about. Feet and knees together and get ready to knock the earth off it’s axis! - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

You are totally and in everyway – INCORRECT! If a fellow skydiver on every load wants to actually lay their hands on me because they think they see a problem with my gear, what is the problem with that? If they are mistaken, then they are increasing their body of knowledge if they are right then I am increasing my body of knowledge and not DEAD (as in no longer among the living, unable to hug loved ones or watch sunsets - ya know, dead). I had to wait 7 years and thousands of jumps before I finally found a misrouted chest strap on the airplane and how many times I thought I saw a problem and actually had someone checked is quite a few. Right or wrong, it is our job to look out for one another, and even if you are WRONG (mistaken), but if you think you see a problem wth someones gear, CHECK IT! Even if they have a shitty I don’t need gear/pin checks cuz I take care of myself attitude. Just imagine, for a moment what it must have been like for that person a few years back, struggling, trying to stay in their harness when they slipped out of it, hanging on with their feet desperately trying to reach up an take a hold, only to have it slip away. Imagine what it must have felt like, those first few moments watching in horror as their gear got smaller and smaller as they fell away. Imagine what it must have felt like for the surviving love ones – or maybe those that where sitting on the airplane on the way to altitude and did nothing about the misrouted chest-strap! I would imagine those sitting in close proximity must have felt bad that they did nothing, when a misrouted chest-strap was sitting within reach and they did nothing and it resulted in the death of one of our fellow jumpers (I did not bring up the gender of the deceased because it can happen to any of us)... Now tell us that you don’t want someone to check your gear if they THINK they see a problem… Pride - it is the undoing of all of humanity... - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Do what you instructors tell you to, listen to them as if your life depends on it. Don't get your advice from any other source while you are on student status. - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Ain't sure if I know anyone making ($37,330.75) that kinda scratch teaching people how to skydive or shooting tandems. Maybe a couple guys who do it all (rigging and everything) but they work their asses into the ground and make +-/1,000 jumps a year on top of that but still don't know if they are making all that. All's I know is I have not gotten close to that during my short 6 year fulltime skydiving sabbatical. (Maybe I just didnt do it right!)

Plane Crashes Off Florida Keys Sunday, April 22, 2007 6:43:45 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recovery crews continue to search for debris, following Friday's small crash off the Florida Keys. Three people, including a Eustis man, are believed dead. So far, only two bodies have been recovered. They have not yet been identified. Authorities says the single-engine Cessna registered to 56-year-old Mark Chase had just left Key West on its way to Leesburg when it hit a wire on a government blimp and crashed. One of Chase's close friends told News 13 he was shocked by the crash, because he was under the impression the plane would not be flying that day. "Wednesday night, he asked me to take his calls Thursday and Friday because he was going to be out going to an air show,” BJ Eakin said. “I asked him was he taking his plane, and he said no. That he didn't have enough room at the air show for his plane. So he was going to take a bus with his wife and her cousin." The plane then crashed in about two feet of water. The investigation into what happened is ongoing. Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

what does that come out to in USD? Cuz there aint no way you are gonna make kinda coin that in the US skydiving.

Do a search on ramen noodles... Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

What a great story!

Aren’t there proper legal documents that can take your families wishes out of the equitation?

For a little bit? If you THINK you have time? 1000’? Decision Altitudes? The 1,000 foot cutaway (which we teach as 1500 where I instruct) is an absolute minimum cutaway altitude in the event the jumper is faced with an act of desperation (creating a self induced malfunction etcetera). The trick is to not self induce a critical situation and to make you decisions before you are in the basement, make your priorities based on what? Good rule of thumb: Do not make performance maneuvers under canopy beneath an altitude you are not willing to cutaway from (above recommended decision altitude). It is TOTALLY recommend that if a parachute if fixable, to fix it, but not if the jumper THINKS they have time, but if they do indeed have time – based on what? There should be nothing but absolute assuredness as to whether or not they have time (“thinking” is guesswork, that is not good enough), there is a way to determine for a fact if time is available or not (based on what?). Why cut away a main that can be safely landed? How could someone with 80 skydives and not even familiar with the fundamentals possibly know what is “often not even recommended for people with low jump numbers”? No matter WHAT it is? Total Malfunction? PC entangled wit an extremity but the pin has not been extracted? Out of sequence deployment? Horseshoe? Premature brake release? Broken control line? Limits of controllability? Evaluation of Structural Damage, PC Entanglement, Silder Hang-up (etcetera)? Two Canopies out? Potentially fixable partial malfunction (It is TOTALLY recommend that if a parachute if fixable, to fix it, but not if the jumper THINKS they have time, but if they do indeed have time – based on what)? What are the suggested guidelines in dealing with High/Low speed partials? I stand by my statement, that if the OP is illustrating what they know as to how to properly deal with malfunctioning situations, then remedial training is absolutely necessary. I will never understand why a skydiver will not humbly continue to train as to how to deal with the multitude of varying situations (including canopy piloting) that can arise while participating in skydiving activities after acquisition of the “A” License (many do, many do not). Since in-depth malfunction training is impossible to do online, I have only asked questions and made vague comments to think about. This will likely be my last post in this thread - the last word is yours... - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

I am curious, were you trained to dive for your student H&P? Teaching to dive makes sense, especially after that one skydiver (March of 05?) had a cypress save after hitting the rear hortiz wing (got knocked out) of a Beech during an EmerExit. - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

What a great point (worth repeating) about loosing altitude awareness by not following fundamental guidelines. Baglock is a High Speed Parial Malfunction: Cutaway and Deploy the Reserve now. Under no circumstances is it recommended to attempt to correct this problem! - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Picking on? This is some strange usage of the term “picking on” that I am not aware of. Just merely pointing out that many of us here will take such inquiries more seriously by non-anonymous posters. OK… Not a good idea as phoenix already pointed out. If a Baglock stands you up there are some schools of thought that suggest once you loose the drag of your body you may increase your descent speed (perhaps the drag of the trailing PC and BL will compensate?). If the canopy comes out of the bag at this point (increase rate of descent/poor body position + other factors it would take a physics professor to figure out) then there is a possibility that the canopy may open violently, possibly resulting in pain and suffering to the person suspended under said mess… Case in point: A friend experienced a Baglock at 13k after a clear and pull (Hop&Pop) from altitude – he did not want to cut it away at that altitude because he thought he would never find his main after chopping it that high. At 9k or so the canopy opened violently resulting in a back that was broken in 2 places. It is not a good idea to take this course of action, althouh it did work for Kris, it is not a chance I would be willing to take (back surgeries suck). It would have been much more inexpensive, less painful, less hosipital time and less time out of the sport to go ahead and loose the canopy… In learning the basic fundamentals of dealing with malfunctions, an adequately trained skydiver will understand that any high speed partial malfunction requires immediate action (cutaway/deploy reserve) because with the high rate of descent /adrenaline pumping fun , it may be very possible for any skydiver to loose track of altitude. Baglock is a High Speed Parial Malfunction: Cutaway and Deploy the Reserve now. - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Does this question make sense to any trained skydivers out there? Me neither... Real Name: No name entered. Email: No email entered. Jump Profile Home DZ: No home dropzone entered. Gear Container: No container entered. Main Canopy: No main entered. Reserve Canopy: No reserve entered. AAD: No AAD entered. Forum Activity Status: Registered User Registered: Jan 4, 2007, 7:54 AM Last Logon: Apr 18, 2007, 9:14 PM Local Time: Apr 19, 2007, 6:16 AM Posts: 37 (0.4 per day)

It was not ruined if that is what your client wanted. A good tandem video will be all about the student, what they want and how they want it. Most will never jump again, and these pictures will be something they show their grandchildren one day. Just think, you may be inspiring someone to make a skydive generations from now - (wow, look what great grandma did when she was young!)... Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…