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How did his shoe get bloody? Leg injury? Hangnail? Maybe a roid bleeding really bad?

Disagree. OP: no need to feel your english is bad, you are using the correct terminology... ***************** Main Entry: 1pi·lot Function: noun Etymology: Middle French pilote, from Italian pilota, alteration of pedota, from Middle Greek, from Greek steering oars, plural, probably akin to Greek pod-, pous foot — more at foot Date: 1530 1 a: one employed to steer a ship : helmsman b: a person who is qualified and usually licensed to conduct a ship into and out of a port or in specified waters c: a person who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft -

Rule of thumb: Do not make performance maneuvers beneath an altitude you are not willing to cutaway from (I.E. your hard deck). Glad you survived - fun fun fun eh? Ummmmm, BEER... - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Doesn’t sound unsafe, just that you are breaking away from the trained method. A couple of fine tunings you may want to consider: 1) This sounds like nitpicking but you did not mention altitude checks in your post. Certainly it goes without saying but it is very easy to get into the habit of not being altitude aware enough under canopy and when dealing with Low Speed Partials that are potentially fixable. To better avoid this make altitude checks (PLURAL) part of your written plan. 2) I usually leave my brakes stowed while taking care of my wings etcetera, depending on my altitude. Once under canopy if my altitude is close to my hard deck, then I will un-stow my brakes and perform a control check before taking care of my other issues. As others have mentioned, it is important to perform your control check above your hard deck, many “experienced” skydivers have met their demise as a result of either discovering a problem or creating a problem too close to the ground. Usually when flying a camera slot you are deploying higher but if this routine becomes a habit and one day you are flying a slot in the formation you may find yourself resorting to your usual routine when you should be making a control check. Good rule of thumb is to perform the control check above your hard deck always, establish your priorities based on your altitude. Remember, you can land safely with your slider open and your wings still clipped, I have landed this way many times if I am in a position that requires my full attention. 3) If you cannot reach your toggles with your swoop cords in place then they are too tight. I simply trained my fat ass to fly without swoop cords – in the event of a premature brake release or broken control line it is imperative that you are able to reach your toggles immediately. I know I am leaving out some points I would usually want to make but I am in tremendous pain right now and must get away from this sitting position for a bit. I guess the salient point is to build your practices that always put safety first, and keep your safety priorities simple and fundamental. If you are a beast of routine then perhaps it should be best to perform a control check first so you are always in the habit of doing just that. - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

I dunno how 2 wright...

Pretend like Pamela Anderson is in front of you, and Tommy Lee is BEHIND you!

If you can land in a tree, that is pretty darn good accuracy eh? Same as you, I usually set my brakes right after landing as well. - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Anything else to add concerning dealing with LT's? Are you forgetting anything? Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Quotei suck at computers.Quote Jest make shrue you unpug dat cumputer befer u put yur lips on it to avuid elektric shock... - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

If you are still in the sport 10 years and or 3,000 jumps from now, you may feel differently. Let's say you stay in the sport another decade, and have 3,000 more jumps, by that time, it is very likely that you would have forgotten more about skydiving than you have learned so far at your current experience level. - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Is that a USPA DZ? - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Glad you mom is alright, sounds like a pretty intense experience from just having blood drawn. As for the afterlife? I once read that the chances of anyone finding out what really is going on is so absurdly remote, it is just best to hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied (Douglass Adams). This bit of advice has really helped me a lot – death will work itself out, living has enough concerns of its own… - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Yes- set brakes cock PC and Slider Lay it our and get it ready for him to pack - A nice tip at the end of the day too... - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Of course not, questions should be asked but MANY questions have been answered already in countless topics. For example: In the Search box I typed in the words Exit Separation and got a reply that said: “Your search for exit separation returned 1425 results”. There are 57 pages of links to dialogue that had already taken place in the past discussing this issue in detail. Over the years, nearly every conceivable aspect of exit separation has been addressed and there is some very good information in those threads already. Simply grab a cup of joe, do a search and read. Then if you cannot find a suitable answer to your inquiry, instead of starting a new and separate thread all you have to do is simply resurrect the topic by making a reply in the existing thread and it will bring that thread/topic back to the top in everyone’s browsers thus reducing the amount of different threads concerning the same topics which will result in making the Search function easier to use. At least I think that is how this site works… - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

"Oh no, not again"... Seems like more than a thousand eh? And nothing new will be covered this time either... - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

The only thing that went through mind of the petunias as it fell was; "Oh-no! Not again! - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Unfortunately, this is not the case… - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Apathy – I think that is the key word. As someone mentioned, there are rating holders who have 8,000 jumps and they trust their expertise as skydiving mentors about as far as they could comfortably spit out a rat. I am often times astonished at the apathetic attitude and practices that some rating holders/S&TA’s/DZ’s seem to illustrate. The “playing the odds of nothing will likely happen so why put forth the effort mentality”, or perhaps that is just what they might think is quality training in contrast to what I personally believe it is. Acquisition of a rating and the standards to obtain one notwithstanding, the bottom line I believe is the attitude and effort the individual rating holder is willing to put forth. I make this comment based on the fact that I have seen outstanding instructors that attained their rating in the new system that I consider quality teachers in contrast to some rating holders that were bred from the old system that, (for lack of a better word) suck as skydiving mentors. - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

How many inches is that? Sorry stupid American (me) dont know what 4000meters iz..

Japan's military is restricted by Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan of 1946, which states that "Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes." Thus, Japan's current constitution prohibits the use of military force to wage war against other countries. Japan's military is governed by the Ministry of Defense and primarily consists of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. The military budget of Japan is less than one percent of its GDP, though it is estimated to be the fourth largest in the world at $44.3 billion per year, as of 2005. The forces have been recently used in peacekeeping operations and the deployment of Japanese troops to Iraq marked the first overseas use of its military since World War II. In 2004, the Japanese government ordered a deployment of troops to Iraq at the request of the United States: A contingent of the Japan Self-Defense Forces was sent in order to assist the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, sending 600 soldiers into Iraqi soil. This controversial deployment marked a significant turning point in Japan's history as it represents the first foreign deployment of Japanese troops since the end of World War II, excluding those deployments conducted under United Nations auspices. As Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan prohibits Japan from using military forces, the legality of this intervention is contested domestically.

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Firefly is the best camers suit I have flown so far - well constructed, in fact, built like a brick shithuose! I have 2 Tonys II leave in the locer and rarely use, the FF is superior... Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

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It's called a LOGBOOK... Get one of those biguns, and by the time you finish it you will have learned a lot. - Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Just do a search or simply begin reading - there are thousands and thousands of postings here you can read through and probably find a lot of the stories you are looking for. Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…