JeffGordon

You can land two miles off and still be on the airport

The ozone layer is starting to repair itself. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/09/17/ozone.australia.reut/index.html

homemade chili and rice. boiled eggs and beer. (Don't you wish you were riding to 13.5 with me tomorrow

I have flown with my rig a dozen times over the past year and the only hassle I've gotten was at Tampa Intl. They xrayed my gear bag, saw the metal on the rig and made me open the gear bag. I explained what a sport parachute is and that I was a skydiver. I explained the AAD and how it couldn't possibly activate on the plane (I have an Astra). Well why don't you just check it? Because it costs more than my car. I had to wait while the called a supervisor, then wait for them to xray it again. Explained again that skydiving rigs are specifically allowed by FAA regulations and by Delta airlines policy. Had to wait for another supervisor and explain again that sport parachutes were allowed by FAA regulations and Delta airlines policy. This time the supervisor checked the list and asked me "Is your little thingy turned on?" I showed her the Astra was not turned on, She thanked me for my patience and let me go. Took almost three hours. Leaving Baltimore, I had a man ask me about my rig. I told him it was a sport parachuting rig and he just said "I should have been able to tell that by looking at your shirt"

Former astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin punched independent filmmaker Bart Sibrel. after Sibrel approched him trying to get Aldrin to swear on a Bible that he actually walked on the moon. The full story is at http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/09/10/aldrin.skeptic.reut/index.html

I took the four question and part of the long printout was You tend to stay away from traditional leadership roles, and would rather lead with your ideas...you don't get emotionally involved, but rather tend to follow logical reasoning.....leisure has two dimensions to you: first, you like to concentrate and reflect on conceptual matters -- second, you like to take risks in the external world (like skydiving?)...

My roommate was leaving the house wearing a backpack and said "Am I forgeting anthing" Then checked his handles.

I have seen an incident similar to this when a static line student had a premature deployment while hanging from the strut of a 182. Fortunately the jumper was not injured, but the starboard horizontal stabilizer was torn up pretty good. After the incident, the pilot and I discussed the pilot watching for a premature deployment and using quick rudder controls to move the tail away from the deploying parachute. Any thoughts on this from any pilots out there?

I've jumped there a few times. They are a pretty small drop zone with a couple of 182's. There weren't that many fun jumpers whenever I was there, but I had a blast. The visual is so good because you are right over the beach. No beach landings while I was there because someone had hooked in on the beach. They are very carefull about wing loading and weighed me before I jumped (They won't allow above 1.4 with under 500 jumps)

The tandem master, Chip Steele, is a good friend of mine

My friend says he is going to get a really mean pit bull and name it Monarch.

You can call USPA and they will give you the number over the phone.

or sold your house (at a loss) to move in with a fellow jumper

Saturday, while putting out a static line student, I had the Cessna door slam down on my left thumb. Not the whole nail is green and blue and black. Today, when I was outside on a smoke break, one of the work whuffos (who doesn't know I jump) asked what happened to my thumb. So I started the story "I was throwing a girl out of an airplane......"

I flew from Charleston to austin and carried my rig in an overnight bag. I also had a laptop. They just xrayed the rig but it took about 20 minutes to get the laptop through. They didn't even complain about the hook knife on the leg strap. (Wouldn't that show up as a big razor blade on xray?)

Guy at my home dz jumped with his keys in his pants pocket. On opening, the leg strap jammed his car key almost all the way into his leg. He said he had to keep shifting in his harness to try keep it from pushing it in further.

Sunday, my friend Chip Steele celebrated his 3000th skydive. Although we had been warned by S&TAs and other psychic advisors, we decided to pie him anyway. As Chip was being pied, the jump plane he was in was landing and barely missed a Citiation landing on the same runway. One of the instigators (me) who happened to be in the air at the time, experinced a lineover and had to cut away his main. (This is all on the same video with the pieing. I learned today my main was damaged by the lineover). Within hours after the pieing, the clouds rolled in and jumping ceased. Please people do not sacrifice safety for a momentary cheap thrill!! NEVER pie a skygod.

The people. There are a couple of dz's about the same distance away from my house, and i've jumped them both but leaving Walterboro would be like leaving home.

Have y'all seen this link? http://www.fieler.com/terror

I have been doing this for a while now. It would be great to have a dropzone.com team

Two words: Marine Corps

That's better than I could do. I don't even know if South Carolina HAS a song. I know we have a dance. It is called the Shag

Slammer

good one is

Just talked to USPA. My new D license # is D-24650