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Hey Tim, I've got solvent, a solvent gun, and plenty of compressors in my hangar if you want to come out to szp. I'll even let you drool over my classic singer collection, they even work... Hell chip in for gas and I may even pick you up. Jim

I do, out of my 172 all the time. Not really a big deal.

You don't have to imagine what its like, just head out to skydive san joaquin. There not currently jumping but will be when the new runway is done. There off I-5 at copus rd. just a few miles from arvin.

Damn my local library only has Sky Diver Back to June 1969. Kid just looked at me funny when I asked for microphish... I'm seriously impressed that you remember that. I tried the leading edge rollover exit on a Grumman Agcat recently and chickened out. Walked to the back of the wing and left like a normal person. Got to love a plane that slows to 45 knotts. Jim

Thanks all for the usefull info. Work is pretty busy now, but I'm hoping to jump it some time in the next two months. The owner is only a few hangars from mine and won't be going anywhere. I'll glady let you know when it happens.

That sounds like an uncomfortable ride to altitude, especially with the size of gear in 1969! I kind of discounted most exits off the wiing as its a long climb from the seat to the wing.

Top of a roll is what I was thinking, wondering if I should have him push the nose down (down elevator when inverted) while I exit.

Anybody out there ever jump one? A friend of mine offered to take me up in his, just trying to figure out the best exit configuration.

Yep, probably 100 jumps there. George and Robin are the most amazing Dzo's I've ever met. Fun accommodating, I look forward to many more seasons with them.

No issues at all, in fact I'm glad someone is watching all that old crap. Here's some stills from those jumps. Amazing how much better stills make you look than video... By the way you'vegot waaaay too much time on your hands.

Were you just hanging on, or did you use any kind of saftey?

Yeah, like that. I wonder what kind of waiver one would need for that, and if the fsdo would even know what to do with that request...

Anybody out there ever ride to altitude hugging the cabane? If so please send me a pm. Thanks

Relax, it's nothing to get stressed over. It's all part of aircraft ownership. I've started a collection of pictures for the hangar of me stuck with a broken airplane after a particularly bad month. A flat nose wheel on landing, the yoke broke while flaring, the nose strut decompressed, and my strobes quit all in a three week period. Don't let it get you down. Jim

Kind of a long shot, but does anyone know the part number for cessna quick release door hinge pins (for a 172)? Thanks in advance, Jim

Hi Craig! There out of Camarillo. I keep my plane at Santa Paula (5 minutes away) and heard rumors of a new D.Z. in the area and had to check it out. So far they don't have much info for upjumpers but seem very happy to book tandems. I hope it doesn't stay that way... Jim

Hmm, all I could think about when I watched that was the shitty spot...

Back in the day I'd wear my rig, but also wear my thin rain gear over my rig. No issues in two years of commuting to the d.z. two to three weekends a month.

The thing on the front is a servo that drives the iris. The camera head takes 12v in, and sends a composite video feed out the bnc connector in back. You can get a bnc to rca adaptor from radio shack if you want to hook the camera up to consumer video gear.

Check if your editing gear is using the composite (yellow rca cable) or S-video input on their mixer. S video has separate pins for lumanance (black and white information) and chroma (color ). It is possible for your camera to have an issue with the s-video output but work fine with composite. Jim

What dates? I think I flew with you guys once or twice CJ

PC's are still easy to find if you look in the right places. Last month I was in New York and picked up a pc-105 for $400 and a pc-101 for $300 (brand new in factory boxes, with all accessories and warranties). A lot of the smaller electronics shops in Manhattan still have 9's, 101's, and 109's on the shelf. The going rate was around $500 for a 109. PM me and I'll be glad to give you the phone numbers of a few of the shops I've been to. As far as HDV goes, until an affordable means to burning a widely accepted media format becomes available, SD will have to suffice for the average weekend tandem cameraperson. On the subject of NLE, while it blows away linear editing in terms quality and finite control of your final project, it just can't compare to the speed of linear editing. Yesterday I did 7 tandem videos in six hours and managed to edit every one of them in between loads, there is no way I would have been able to do that with an NLE system. The HDV cameras available today are very impressive, but I do not believe they are yet ready to be put to work in the tandem environment. I'm not dismissing them completely, just saying that I don't yet see any way to send the average Joe home with an edited video in a format he can easily play at home. Until a standardized affordable media format becomes available SD will have to do. Long live the PC, Jim

The reflection is upside down and backward, wouldn't that indicate that the reflection is happening behind the lens (reflections between the back of the lens and the imaging sensor)?

Here is a classic example of a bad case of vertical smear.

Sounds kind of like vertical smear, a common problem with a lot of ccd's that only shows itself when the camera is used in a high contrast situation ( exit shot with the bottom of the plane in one part of the screen and the sun in the other, or when shooting a tandem from underneath with the sun behind ). Sadly, if that is your issue there is not much to be done about it. If I get some free time I'll see if I can find a frame in some of my video and post it.