FrogNog

Nice picture. Where's the video? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Sorry for continuing this in the "wrong" forum, but not like I can move this post myself, so nevermind. My question is: would a 4-line check have caught this? I only ask because I do NOT want to pack one of these for myself, and I know I twirl up my canopy pretty good sometimes between landing and repacking, and the way I check that everything is in order is to run the lines up, hang the lines over both shoulders, and check the four groups of lines individually to make sure they go to the correct four quarters of the canopy without crossing anywhere. And I just want to know if my procedure would likely catch a step-through. I guess I could just do a step-through next weekend and see... -=-=-=-=- Pull.

You don't get to pick what kind of accident your head is going to have. There are small accidents, medium ones, and large ones. A Gath helmet may completely or partially protect your head in a small accident. Personally, I have a tendency to whack my head against the wing or the door on the 182. I reckon even a Gath helmet or a frap hat would make this hurt less than naked skull. (But I wear a Protec.) -=-=-=-=- Pull.

My friend lost his freebag and reserve handle this evening. He got the main without a problem. He says he wouldn't have dropped the handle except the risers slapped him due to a back-to-earth deployment. (I think he was screaming like a little girl and just dropped it. Then he gave himself those forehead welts to look like a victim. ) Perhaps the freebag will show up tomorrow. The handle was disposable; I believe he lost his pillow reserve handle a ways back and this was a temp D-ring replacement in the mean time. He blames my spot. I blame his farting in the 182 right before we turned onto jump run.* Take that! * Technical review will reveal that the spot was long, which doesn't seem to make sense due to his farting - I should have been in a hurry to exit. However, the spot went long because I was so dazed by the gas that I was having trouble climbing out. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I know what you are talking about... I've tried front risering on a manta, and its just really... sad. has anybody tried to front riser a triathalon? I've tried it (im loading it at ~1.3) and it barely makes it go faster. not to mention, the risers don't move from their orginal spot.... when I finally do a pullup on them, the risers come down, but so does the nose... it folds in on itself... kinda freaky. any thoughts? I've done it on a Triathlon 190. My advice is to pull harder.

Its endearing feature is that after the canopy comes out of the bag, the PC changes from an anchor to a rag. It does this by having two connections to the canopy/bag pair. One line (the PC bridle, I believe) connects the apex of the PC to the bag, and the other line (the kill line) connects the crown of the PC to the canopy tie-on point. These lines are typically coaxial - the kill line is often something like a suspension line and runs inside the PC bridle, which is like a hollow piece of webbing. The kill line is free enough to slide inside the PC bridle so that when the canopy gets out of the bag, the bag can slide backward away from the canopy and toward the PC, which lengthens the apex connection compared to the crown connection and effectively turns the PC inside out. I believe there is also a backup piece of PC bridle from the bag to the canopy connection point so in case the kill line wears out and snaps, the PC can still do the critical part of its job (deploying the canopy), it just won't collapse when it's done. (I apologize to any old-timers if I have explained this backwards or confused any of the forces involved. This is the state of the art of my understanding based on my own inspection and use.) Kill-line PCs must be "cocked" before each use. This act moves the slack in the kill line from the canopy/bag end of the PC bridle to the inside of the PC so the PC has the right geometry to be an anchor again for a little while. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I've heard of people having the "suicide-threatening-prospective-ex months-long-breakup" problem before. My current GF had that with one of her previous BFs. I happened to be a fine replacement for him at that point (seeing as I was _not_ threatening weird shit like that). So the way she broke up with him was, after a lunch and a dinner with me, she took me to the place they all hung out so I could meet him. Oh, and told me about it in the car on the way there. "Hi, my name is Eugene, and I'm going to be stealing your girlfriend and having sex with her. A lot. Because she likes me, and she doesn't like you." -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Um, is it possible to be a troll if you start the discussion? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I don't see a yellow curb... -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I used to be claustrophobic until I started riding 182s to 10k with 3 other jumpers. Now as long as I can expand my ribs, I've got enough space.

Wouldn't that actually be coprophagiphobia, or coprophagieaphobia? I'm only trying to help. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

311,921? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

OK, just took me a month to get these pics back and scan 'em. Here we go. These are from December. Or maybe November. I forget. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Me too. Everyone makes fun of me for that too. Other things i'm scared of: Clowns Spiders Heights Water Sleeping Sometimes I sleep in the bath. Usually I wake up remembering that nothing but my nose is above water, but once I woke up confused. Thankfully I didn't inhale, I only sunk while I worked on figuring it out. However, I think my GF is afraid of my sleeping in water, because when I tell her about it she reacts like she did when I told her about my cutaway, or about my line twists, or etc.. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

How old were they? I refuse to listen to stats about the deaths of "children" over the age of 17, yet certain groups consider people up to and including age 25 "children". And "shot dead" is not an indication that there is a problem, exactly. As some people say, some people "need shooting". If the "children" "shot dead" were, say, warring factions in a gang-related turf war who shot each other, I'm far less concerned than if they were children shot "accidentally" by their friends while playing with a gun they shouldn't have been. Of course, the US highways should have killed around a hundred people today, give or take (I'm sure there are weekday variances). 1 -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Uh, no, DaGimp does not turn my crank. He's just not my type. (Or, if DaGimp is a "she", she's just not my type.) -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Stupid people expect the noises, therefore they put them in. Same reason when a large explosion goes off a quarter mile away, the sound is heard instantly. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Erm... DaGimp OnMyBelly? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Try putting the slider up and see if that helps. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Does Lake Whales have a per-day gear rental price, and if so does that give you a savings on the $300 to $400 rental? $2500 could get you a used container, main, and reserve, I think. AAD would be extra. But that would take time and patience, and would not have the same downsizability thing. Sounds like maybe it's a fair deal in the end, though. $2500 to get going including AAD, then buy the main and container later. When you "buy" the new reserve up front, do you buy a real canopy that stays with you? That could be awkward as you downsize. Or do you buy a virtual canopy that they realize when you make your size decision and buy the main and container? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Didja try a pickle? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Good save, glad you didn't die, but why dincha just go head-down or roll over on yer back to get the handle? I have to be briefer and use a more positive light with the GF and her parents, or the GF gets skeered and the parents ask why I have a death wish. They don't let me get to the sublime part of the tale, e.g. how very peaceful it was for the first second after I pulled my SOS handle. (That was sweet.) Some of my other, closer whuffo friends will either listen carefully or glaze their eyes over and wait for me to be done, depending on how much I've bored them previously with my skydiving chatter. (With one of them, who has low tolerance, I've taken to saying "I did you-know-what this weekend" and leaving it at that.) -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I'm afraid of encountering jellyfishes while swimming. I stopped six inches short of one in Cabo two weeks ago. I'm also afraid of falling from way up high. It's not basic fear of heights, it's fear of falling. Skydiving has helped this.

This mirrors my experience with my student canopy, the Skymaster 290. I could pull the riser about 8 inches and next to nothing would happen. Finally when I hauled one in like a foot or a foot and a half, I would get a slow turn. I didn't have a stopwatch in my other hand, but it felt like 10 seconds to make a 180 heading change. In my not very experienced experience, the student canopies are huge, stable skybarges that don't want to turn fast unless you make them. I believe also that front riser turns can behave differently depending on how quickly you go from no riser pull to riser pulled in. That is, if you pull in very gently and slowly, you can get much less turning than if you pull it in quickly. So try pulling the front riser in further, quicker. You can always let it out again later.

IMO the Darwin Awards have totally gone downhill. I believe plenty of people are killing themselves fresh and stupid every year, but the DA people can't be bothered to research it, preferring to recycle old jokes. The Zimbabwe bus driver is so old I remember hearing it in high school. http://www.gcfl.net/archive/20021017.html, printed 2002-10-17 http://www.netscrap.com/netscrap_detail.cfm?scrap_id=599, entered 1998-06-06 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JdJ/message/746, sent 2002-04-16 -=-=-=-=- Pull.