FrogNog

The Pull-Out version of a PC-in-tow is called "floating PUD". -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Whether something is a good deal is up to you. If you get what you want and don't have to give up too much for it, then it's good enough for you. I think it was mean of them to put in the skydiving exclusion, but it probably wasn't personal. (I.e. they are being impersonally rude, just like they are to everyone else.) Deep breaths, eat something yummy, move on. I don't know where you would go to find other coverage, but surely there must be someone. Which reminds me I need to see if they would cover my main if I lose it in a cutaway.... -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Do you know how this would sound to a Whuffo? But we all understand. LOL! Price to ship rig: $25 Price to fix problem: not much, mfgr may stand behind own work and do it for free. Price to rent rig in the mean time because you must jump: $100. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Yeah, the last time I overpaid $22 for a lifesaving skydiving device I never hope to use, I was pissed at myself for weeks. If you assume 200 jumps per year (as your lengthier message did), that would be 5.5 cents of overpayment per jump... -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Please, one typo or spelling error per sig sentence max! -=-=-=-=- Pull.

There are people at work who are OK to hear about your skydiving, and there are people at work who you should be quiet around. Sounds like this guy is going for group #2. But it may not be his fault he's a dick. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Nobody needs hard housings until they really need them. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I dislike when someone tells me a practice is outdated without telling me why it's outdated. It's compounding the original problem: someone told someone else to spin the rings, and didn't say why, but told the student to just accept it on faith. Now the student is told to not do that anymore, and nevermind why, it's an old technique no longer necessary, and just accept it on faith. It was my understanding that spinning the rings in the olden days was a good thing because the hardware was not tough enough to accept openings without deforming (stretching) slightly, and spinning the rings helped ensure the hardware deformed consistently around the entire ring. I suppose this would ensure the ring didn't stretch to breaking at x,000 jumps, it would either stretch to breaking at x0,000 jumps or it would just swell until it wouldn't release. The reason I was told not to rotate the rings nowadays was: 1. the cost is webbing wear 2. the previous advantage, distributing the stretching deformation around the entire ring, is gone because today's hardware is much tougher. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

It depends on what the outs look like. If the outs look reasonably safe, I would land off. If it's unreasonably unsafe to land off, I have to protect Number One. "Reasonably Safe" has to do with my skill level at the time and knowledge of the area. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

"One Slip" by Pink Floyd. (The sad ending could totally be a happy ending if it's with the right person.) -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I get a "dropping" sensation a lot in the plane when the air is chunky. I haven't hit my head yet, but I have been prompted to put my hands up more than once. I used to be so sensitive to it that when the pilot set the flaps back to 0 on climbout, I would pucker. It rapidly became normal, of course. Until a different pilot pushed in on the yoke a bit while setting the flaps to 0. again! -=-=-=-=- Pull.

The blood should rush to your head when you are head-down at any steady velocity. I reckon you don't notice it doing so because you're amped. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

The standards reasoning is that the main and reserve containers are a couple of boxes stacked against each other, the reserve being packed tight most of the time. When the reserve container disgorges its load, it is no longer a solid box abutting the main container, therefore the main container could become looser and a previously-stuck main d-bag could finally come loose. This theory is supported by two-outs that initiate at reserve deployment time after the main failed to deploy earlier. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

NOICE. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Isn't it an acceptable procedure to put people in jail for a little while when they are accused of crimes with serious penalties, until appropriate bail can be set and all that? I guess they could have been nicer and put him in some sort of "jail light" until that could be done, seeing as he was an old man and not likely to be a tough customer. But I don't think releasing him on his own recognizance, after he just accidentally killed someone, has any guarantee he'll stick around for trial. the dreaded "left hand turn in front of motorcyclist". It's the biker equivalent of low turns. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Reminds me of accidents I've seen around here (after they've happened) where the skidmarks show these people get 30, 45, even 60 degrees off of the freeway axis. Real work. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Dang, dude, this is talkback. At least knock a few back and post some inane drunken question. Here's an example for you: "How many of yo have kissed adog (a reall dog I am so drunk..." -=-=-=-=- Pull.

If you mean stainless steel rig hardware does not rust as much as plain steel would, I agree. If you mean stainless steel rig hardware does not rust at all, I disagree; I have seen rust on stainless steel rig hardware that was neglected. (It probably would have buffed off real nice, but it was still rust, and it still gave me the heebies seeing it making the reserve line ends dark red. ) -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Yeah, but that's 180 Canadian days, which is basically worth 120 U.S. days. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Whale aren't fish. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I just don't like tying knots in my equipment where there aren't supposed to be knots. If someone needs that as an aid to packing properly, go for it. Personally I just cock the PC after I lay the cocoon down and I check that the PC catches air and has the right geometry after I close the container but before I pack the PC into the BOC. (The geometry check is easy, now that someone showed me: pull the top (hacky) and bottom (bridle attachment point) of the PC apart, and see if the internal PC tapes are taught.) Then I check the window after it's all packed up. With three different checks at three different places, I'm not worried about forgetting to cock the PC. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

My Infinity is soooo beautiful that y'all don't get all the pictures at once. This is the first installment. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

An experienced camera guy at my DZ told me he doesn't turn his camera off until he's on the ground. He says if his landing was uneventful, he rewinds the tape to the end of the freefall, then shuts it off, so when he records for the next jump he will overwrite his landing. I didn't think much of this until I heard some people found someone hurt on the ground in an off landing. He had a camera on his helmet and they checked it, and it showed him with a good canopy at decent altitude, then next thing it showed the ground, not moving. (He turned it back on somehow after he crashed.) End result is zero camera information about what happened. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Don't forget to get over to the Hottie thread and register yourself. Hope to do some more RW with you soon, and I'll try not to blow the formation this time. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I resemble that.. and on my SLAMMER FROM HELL that broke my Triathalon on Sunday.... no bruises on my legs...I got the wide leg straps an I am a big girl who bruises easy. You milage may vary Hey, Jeannie, are you going to get a little stencil of a Triathlon embroidered on your Infinity now? You have one kill...