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***When it came out 200 feet from the ground in a stall position he impacted on the roof of a car on the parking lot, slid down the hood and was standing up in front of the car as I arrived expecting to see a lot of blood. I ask him was he okay, he brushed me aside and said, " I'm okay, I have done this before?" Sounds like a emergency procedure worth remembering If your have to land hard in a parking lot, go for the trunck or hood of a large car and some of the impact will be absorbed by the inclined sheet metal. The car owners might have collision or comprehensive insurance coverage the jumper could pay the owners deductable which would be less expensive than the ride to the hospital. R.I.P.

"Back in the day" Piggybacks and even B-4's were to long for us short folks. I bought a crossbow container system from a guy (1970) who had modified it for his wife. To reduce some of the length he took a hotknife

Hi Aprilcat Seeing your picture's reminds me that B&W photography is truely a art form. We spent 19 years growing up in a apartment in the bronx and your photo of the hallway where you used to play with the other kids brought back some fond memories. The beauty & craftsmanship of the tile work on the floor of the hallway, can only be expressed in B&W. Your use of the job title "super" and the challenges that the job represents brought back some funny memories. IMO great job Keep it up. R.I.P.

Cheryle Stearns Kate Cooper Jane Meyer Packin Kathy Snackbar lady at Z-Hills

If you guy's landed out would you be pissed if no one came looking for you?

This is starting to sound like high school and we can analyse this to hell and back, now we have the "failure to communicate"excuse which BTW always reminds me of the Wardens statement in the Cool Hand Luke movie. A long time ago someone wrote a letter to the editor in Parachutist that basically said if you don't like whats going on at the DZ don't continue coming back and bitch and whine. If your not happy just stay home! That kind of a response tells me that the law of supply and demand is in that DZO's favor. Just look at the level of customer service the Tandems and AFF customers get. IMO the purpose of Mr funks message has been achieved. R.I.P.

So now we have to jump with cell phone's!! IMO first time shame on the DZ, second time shame on the jumper! Find another DZ that will give you the customer service you expect and deserve. Of course the DZ won't miss you, they still have their Tandems and AFF money train, & the waiver you signed. R.I.P.

Where's Bob Hope when we need him? R.I.P

I can't speak for John >>Go here for a list of parachute centers which are members of the USPA. They're all friendly! http://www.uspa.org/dz/index.htm >> IMO that was Rich

Strangest out landing was in a field at Ft Lewis. After we crawled under the barbed wire to the dirt road we got to see all the signs on the fence WARNING!!!!! Keep Out!!!!!! Impact Area!!!!! Prior to landing we wondered why all the tree's were laying down in a random pattern. R.I.P.

A DC-3/ Lodestar took off with a bunch of folks during low cloud cover conditions. Someone had made arrangements with ATC to monitor their radar and notify the pilot when the plane was over the DZ. There was some confusion caused by a smaller plane circleing over the DZ which may have caused ATC to incorrectly locate the jumplane. The exit point ended out over lake Erie and only a couple of folks made it back, while all the family members were waiting at the DZ for their loved one's. Before my time loss of life was upper teens. R.I.P.

Sorry me bad the jumpers were "stacking their opening altitudes" opening at different altitude's so everyone could have a clean shot at the 50 yard line. Compared to the injuries we're hearing about these days one bad nose that took out a few empty seats, and a injured ankle isn't to bad. The seats are toast. Beware second hand info! R.I.P.

A friend of mine was on the subject jump and called me a couple of days after the event. So the following is second hand info from from of the jumpers (no newspaer/radio) so take it for what it's worth. The jumpers had a wind meter and the winds never exceeded 20 mph. the location of the reading was on top of the stadium. A WDI was used but the spotter took the spot to long. I may be wrong but He may have been one of the injured. The person who landed in the seats in the stadium "knew he was coming up short and should have landed in the parking lot outside the stadium" The person with the sprained/broken ankle was a bird colonel who landed on the sidelines. The jumper at the bottom of the stack landed on the 50 yard line in spite of the long spot. He saw the spot was long on exit and ran it in. The fourth jumper also had a uneventful landing in the turf. The winds below the top of the inside of the stadium were 180 degree's off the windline. All jumpers recieved autographed parts of the seats that were replaced due to unforseen circumstances related to the jump.

100-200 jumps/year no problem. Jumping every week isn't going to happen, especially this time of year. R.I.P.

We saw the womens story on another local news channel.Go figure the story is not the same as KOMO. The 3 minute blurb we saw said that she was she has diabetes ( we don't know how long she's been diagnosed) and had just moved to the area from texas. Anyone know if being a diabetic would disqualify a soldier from being sent to Iraq, or if tests for diabetes are routinely given prior to deployment? R.I.P.

We had one about the size of a pea on our wrist. The Doc said something about a sac of fluid, & in the old days they would just slam it with a heavy book to pop it. We talked about our options (no book) and we decided to wait. After a year or two it went away by itself or I banged it by accident and didn't know it. R.I.P.

Bug out to a different DZ. Six month's is long enough to feel the vibes. Find another DZ that will make you happy, there's plenty of them. There's a reason there aren't any new jumpers at the DZ your at.There not needed or wanted. Don't worry be happy R.I.P.

Behind every good man is a good women. Someone buy Jay's wife Vivian some chocolate!

Jay will probably be fun jumping by the weekend if not sooner. R.I.P.

The prosecuters reasoning for allowing the plea bargin was twofold. The police only had evidence to tie Mr Ridgeway to seven of the murders. By takeing the death penalty off the table Mr Ridgeway confessed to the other 42 murders and led police to some of the victims remains that hadn't been discovered yet. "Closure for the victims family members" Economic's: The county was paying for Mr Ridgeway's legal defense (7 lawyers) and the estimated total cost of the trial was $20,000,000. R.I.P.

Seattle metro plex Serial Murders:Ted Bundy, Green river guy, among others. R.I.P.

When we first moved to Seattle in 85 we were walking along the Green River and wondered.... Then we used to walk our hounds south of the Airport and wondered..... Folks would ask us if were were concerned about living in the green river murder's stomping ground? Nope wife isn't a prostitute. A month ago our Van died and we hitched a ride home with a guy who told us (after we got in his car) that he and his wife used to work with Mr Ridgeway at the Kenworth truck factory. The guy told us the folks at work suspected Mr Ridgeway was the bad dude but kept on working with him until they were laid off. R.I.P.

Who invented the pilot chute in tow R.I.P.

I would like to make a pledge to Mr Stokes new record attempt but the Link to his websight doesn't work. Anybody got a Email address or knows whats going on with his websight R.I.P.

We started a new job with the Gov't, And they requested my initials for their Computer data base. "RP" Response: Need three initials "Sorry only got two" Response:Make one up R.I.P. Response: You gotta be kidding! "It will be easy to remember R.I.P. was born The DZ's waiver with those 15 paragraph's where each one have to be initialed? R.I.P.,R.I.P........ You guessed it. Manifest ? You guessed it. But a couple of years ago the local DZ assigned a unique number to every jumper. We ended up with a 4 digit number that we couldn't remember, so after a couple of weeks we asked if anyone had been assigned 666. For some reason that number had been "overlooked". So we took that slot.