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Paula Rocks!

156, Damn I gotta get out of this neighborhood, the kids are takeing over!

The insurance covers much more than hitting cars, and many of them you may or may not have thought about. I once had a CRW wrap cut away that resulted in the cutaway mains landing in a power line. The bill to have the power company come out and remove them from the line on Sunday was over $800. USPA insurance picked up the whole tab. I never would have thought that would happen, but it did and that covered about 16 years worth of membership in one afternoon. Doug

I have bought and sold many items from DZ.com by shipping COD through the US post office with no troubles. Post office won't hand over the package until you have made payment. You can specify the type of payment ie. cash, postal money order. It's not fool proof, but it's easy quick and cheep. It primarily protects the seller, as the package could be empty, but the post office takes postal fraud very seriously. Doug

Some camera flyers use them for getting the right angle on a tandem. Feet low head high infront of a tandem pair you can use web gloves to dig forward and keep yourself in that position. DA

Well unless you are wearing a neptune, then you will be able to tell exactly what your decent rate is...

Well unless you are wearing a neptune, then you will be able to tell exactly what your decent rate is...

Do you know what's really hard to estimate at 2000ft? Descent rate. By the time you figure out that your canopy is descending inadvisably fast, it may be too late to get something else over your head. That's why I'd err of the side of getting off it. The chances of a reserve malfunction are an awful lot lower than the chances of me mis-estimating the survivability of landing my damaged parachute. My sprained ankle would have to agree with that statement. Two and a half weeks ago I landed a partial mal that had a higher descent rate than I realized. At 2000 ft made the final decision to land it. At 500 ft realized that was a bad decision and the landing was going to hurt. Ooof, PLF, ouch, still limping. That was under a big canopy that I use for CRW (PD218). Wont do that again. Doug P.S. The mal wasn't broken lines. This main has a 3 ring bridal and bag retraction system that got hung up on deployment causing the top skin right side to be pulled toward the center. All cells open, but the right 3 not supporting there share of weight. Flying straight with 50% right toggle

Ditch the bungee and order a new colapsable. If you don't want to spend the cash on a new one, ask around your DZ, someone prob has a used one in good shape that they will part with for 30-50 bucks that would work with your main. DA

Ankle is getting better. Hobbeling around on it now. Getting back in the plane on the 25th. Should make crab feed (crossing fingers). By the way that was Marsha Marsha. Wish I could make your 3000th, but I'm out for at least another couple of weeks.

Got pied for my 500th. The only pie I ever administered was to a great lady who had been in the sport for a long time and had never been pied. She called me up on a Wednesday and told me it was the 20th anniversary of her first jump. She wanted to go out to the DZ and do 4-way, so off I went. At the end of the day, we planned an elaborate pieing. We handed her a brown paper bag that we told her was a "gift". Video guy in front filming the "gift" opening. I came in like a gazelle from behind taking long fast quiet strides and smacked her square with a pie on video. She was completely surprised, never saw it coming. Inside the bag was a warm damp towel.

15" mp 2100rpm 2000fpm aprox. Doug

We have been useing a Piston powered Beaver at Skydive Twincities sence 1983. We fly with 8 jumpers. There are many mods out there for Beavers. Whipair in St.Paul MN does quite a few of them. For the first 15 years our Beav flew in stock form with 8 jumpers and was cramped. We got the cabin mod from Whipair about 10 years ago extending the cabin interior back about 24 inches. We still fly with 8 jumpers and it's almost roomy now. Burns about 12 gal per load of avgas. Time to 10,000 varies with the seasons 14-18 min. On a hot summer day the climb speed is dictated by the oil temp, so time to 10,000 can go to 20-22 min if you have to lower the nose to keep that big radial from bakeing itself. Anyway, I have about 600 hours in it and I love that old plane. Doug

The dollar jumps were just for the 25th aniv Shots for boobs sounds fun. Your going to have to demonstrate that I think.

Shelly whats the word on the jet?

Billy Billy Billy, I'm up in YUL, still getting home at 4:30pm Thurs. Truck is all packed and waiting in the airport parking garage, and the camper is staged in Eagan for a speedy departure. We'll be there by 8:30. SAVE ME A SPOT (and a cold beer)

Put a couple of jumps on the 109, wasen't overly impressed at that wingloading (1.9). My impression was that it felt like a barge. I'm sure if it was loaded up a bit more it would be a different canopy. I only put a couple of jumps on it so I did not get to get a good feel for it's total potential, but that was my first impression. Doug

You want danger, try the hot tub at 1am. Just be sure to bring along a minnow scoop to clean out all the big chunks before ya get in.

Thanks for posting my Vid....I think Actually lots of outs there. The people standing there are all jumpers and that area is used for swooping quite a bit. The only people I pass are towards the end of my swoop when I'm going much slower. With all the recent canopy issues I understand your concern. Swooping on every load is not a right. Knowing when to swoop and when to lay off is very important and I do try to practice that philosophy. On that jump however no one was at risk on the ground or in the air. My group was first out and I landed well before anyone else on the load so there was no other traffic at my altitude. See ya at couch in 4 days!!!! I'll be the one swooping the lane.....when conditions permit of course.

The airport is much higher than the river so that shouldn't be a prob. I'll be rollin in around noon on Fri, save me a spot!!

There are various types of "commercial operations". Skydiving operations fall under part 61 and part 91. To say that only an annual inspection is required under part 91 is incorrect. Any A/C operated under part 91/61 for hire is required to have an annual and a 100hr inspection. An example of a non commercial operation as it relates to skydiving would be some friends getting together to skydive, useing an unpayed pilot and splitting the overall cost of the A/C operating expenses between them. That would include the pilot. The second you introduce students that are paying for there jump, or charge for a jump ticket, it becomes a commercial operation and thus the A/C is required to have both the annual and 100hr. Blue ones DA

I have owned 3 canopies made out of that fabric. Triathalon 160, Viper 135, Viper 120. A 120 mile wind shakes things out pretty fast. It would have opened but may have had a slight hesitation or other quirky opening. I do know what you mean by the brick effect, but I bet if you pull the main out of the bag after being packed for only a couple of weeks you'll see the same thing. Previous poster is right, 120 bay repack cycle applies to mains as well as reserves, at least in the US. If you have any doubt about your rigs integrity, pull it out and repack it. Doug

The manual shows the end of the excess brake line with the pin passing through it and then going into the pin slot. That's how I have been stowing my toggles on my Vector III. I have never had a toggle release prematurely or had anything hang up by stowing them like this. I see alot of people with there excess brake line hanging free and to me thats just asking for a brake fire.

When you see a beard like that you know your in good hands.