bigbearfng
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I was only reading this until your second post. Dude-how old are you????? It obviously sounds like you havn't been on the receiving end of one of those phone calls in your life yet......... GROW UP!
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I believe it was in the history and trivia forum that I found a link a while ago to the military jump from a high altitude balloon-he broke the sound barrier jumping from 108K??? Is that the correct altitude anyone???
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Hey Bill, you've just got to move up here ...live at 7000ft helps, but then your doc might try to tell you you're polycythemic.
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In my FJC Pat made some very "adamant" statements about paying attention, and if you don't get this you're not going to jump-we'll give you your money back and go away; because if you screw up you'll die. Personally I didn't have any problems at all with those statements........if that was the jist of what was said to get a point across...sounds like maybe someone didn't like it???? Some whuffos I've talked to believe its like a cool amusement park ride....NOT...
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Just curious-do you wear glasses? Reason for asking is one of the folk I was jumping with recently was really having problems landing; she wasn't wearing her glasses because they didn't fit under her goggles. She bought a pair of goggles that her glasses fit under; wore them....viola! She was standin' em up. May or may not apply, but thought I'd throw it out in case it might.
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From Dr Peter Hackets mountain medicine class-(he really did have it listed, not making it up!!!) High altitude pulmunary edema=HAPE High altitude cerebral edema=HACE High altitude flatus expulsion=HAFE
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Anaheim??? Sure it's not another iteration of skyride???
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"Ballistic Meatball" with a few q's
bigbearfng replied to outrageousphoto's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
If you get down to 245lbs then you should be good to go for AFF at most DZs. Perris states max 245lb. If you're still over it can be done; there's quite a few folk on here that have, but it'll take some shopping for DZs. Also I beleive one really big guy had to buy his own gear before AFF1. But where theres a will, there's usually a way. I'm sure the bigger folk will be jumping in here with their experiences soon.... -
Sounds like a plan. Anymore I wouldn't recommend anyone looking at LE to apply in Ca.....just too much crap! Always wear a tape recorder and use it....saved my butt from accusations before! Are ya'll anywhere near Marshall? I was there not too long ago on an extradition. Nice little town, and the inmate said, "I won't give ya any trouble, just please take me back to a Ca. jail." I really laughed hard at that one, too bad we couldn't have just left him there!
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PD.....yea, first thought was perf. designs.....cool.....then public defender.....Aggie? Naw! PD=police dept......OK, now that fits! Good luck with the app process. BTW, how long is the app for new app there? In Ca. the apps are running about a year.
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But I didn't see her "dizzy cat" in there....told Christy she should copyright a few 2-way names.:)
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But the suspect is usually the husband/boyfriend....I wish more victims would fight back!
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I've also succumbed to the presure of "GO"; and after opening too close for comfort from a jumper from the previous 4-way I will err on the side of "rather give it plus 2 or 3 seconds than minus 2 or 3 seconds! Also as Bill said-I take more than just a cursory look for other aircraft now-after opening and one of my partners found a Cessna aprox. 500ft below him.....so go ahead and yell....I'll respectively step aside and let them go first!
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After flying armed (legally, extraditions!) I won't even go into all the "gaps" I've seen....
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live on a mountain. is that a reason to turn off Cypress?
bigbearfng replied to Kuper's topic in Gear and Rigging
Sparky; if I remember correctly you live in the high desert? So driving home may well make it go "active"? Since I live in Big Bear, it sounds like a good idea to turn it off....I have to hit "I'm at DZ" on my neptune after I get home as otherwise it'll stay on and say "slow climb". -
Hopefully with the cooler weather, it won't sink into the pavement to the hubs if it sits for ten minutes in one place on the blacktop runway!!! That wasn't a pretty sight...
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Last I heard, PD would send you the appropiate adjusted slider size if you asked while holding your credit card, although if I remember correctly it wasn't as simple as the next sized up slider, it had different demensions. As Aggiedave says above-I contacted PD, and they sent me a new slightly larger slider (in one dimension only)-night and day diff!
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Today on our last load-first out a 3way, then me and a partner on a 2way, then FF's. Yes really looked out the door-no other air traffic visible. Everyone exited. My partner and I tracked off, pulled at 3000ft. After opening there's a small plane-Cessna (est. by my partner-I saw it later) about 100ft. passing under him. Our pilot and other folk on the ground saw him flying near open canopies too. Yup, yelled at, new pilot, all shook up then and blew his approach.... I'm just looking/hoping for ideas to use to help spot these things...short of assigning someone on the jump to look out for aircraft approaching while in freefall. I've read the statements about seeing an airplane while spotting on jumprun; however those statements seem to apply to a nice clear day; which it wasn't today-Scattered clouds at about 6000ft, and the plane was just toolin' along below them.... Thoughts?
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I've noticed that some jumps my neptune will show some odd numbers... Exit alt=12500; mph at 12000=0???? Other jumps it'll show mph at 12000=60 or so. I just recently bought it and it does have the most current software. Have other folk noticed this?
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I know this has been mentioned before... I've been rolling the crap out of the nose, then I would get pretty bad hunting and off heading openings-but the opening force was consistently decent. Packing it to eliminate the off heading hunting-then it would open "brisk" and once in awhile give a "little" smack. I talked to PD, and they sent out a new slider. I've had a chance to put a few jumps on it now and it's night and day. I'm just stuffing the nose in a bit, and you'd 'bout think it was a Spectre opening; with minimal hunting/off heading. (And yes, I'd tried a lot of advice on flying the opening , feet together, etc. to counter the off headings.) Mine is a 190 DOM97, that originally had a 23X31; the new slider is 26X31. Anyway-figured I'd post this for anyone doing a search on the subject to find-just talk to PD and spend the $ for their recommendation on a new slider size!!!!
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I take it this will be at Elsinore? What day?!!
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Most everyone is referring to him as a dumbass due to his own comments. As someone previously said-if it wasn't for his actions and words afterwards-it would just be a student that kinda blew it, and no big deal against the guy. But this guy ranted about his instructors not knowing what they were doing and just made up incredible BS to try to make himself look good! And then tried to sue! As I understood it, he tried to not only sue the dz, but also the power co. for putting those power lines there in his way! BTW-I had to repeat level 4 twice, it seems like most folk get hung up on level 4....so no big deal...
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A badspot driver is hired by a DZ (usually at minimum wage!). The driver watches loads for openings, if a cutaway, checks that the jumper has a good reserve, if it looks like anyone has a hard landing renders first aid and notifies manifest to call 911, follows down the free bag and reserve and recovers it after a chop, and drives out to pick up jumpers that land out. Along with etc. etc. After working as a volunteer at nationals I have a lot more respect and appreciation for Badspots and Manifest!!!!!!!
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If you know someone is impaired, and is on the next load, you can make the decision to inform the pilot or dzo and if nothing else, you can always stay on the ground. -- It's the pilot's license-so you bet I'm talking to the pilot. If the pilot loses his license, then I can't jump!
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I figure that if I have to chop and the main goes drifting away; the badspot driver is saving me quite a bit of money to follow and recover it! So personally I'd heavily tip. But I've recently seen that this doesn't seem to be the trend. (Even when the badspot spent more than an hour and used an ultralight to find it after it really blew in high winds.) Thoughts?