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BZZZZT! Wrong! The format is humps:jumps:beer owed. One may substitute another number for the humps number as long as you explain its significance; your numbers for this past weekend should read ?:8:?, but once you supply the values for "?" you need to add 1 to your number of cases owed due to messing the post up. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

750 miles and 4 DZs, but:only 2:0 Took a CA greenie for her introductory tour of FL and got in a jump each at Sebatian and DeLand. A very tiring but enjoyable weekend, despite being unable to jump at Titusville or JAX. I don't owe any beer, but skybytch on the other hand... (Edited to add that Lisa can sitfly -- first jump on Thursday not withstanding) Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

You're happy? Hell, you've done nothing but grouse and sulk since you got here. I'll be happy to get rid of your loser butt. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

I think using watermelons, potatos, or greencards for bait is just wrong and Oh, wait, I just read the Subject line closer, it's about Hunting Ethics! [Emily_Latella_voice] Never mind. [/Emily_Latella_voice] Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

Nope, Jim, you don't need to buy a clue. Chris is starting to walk on some mighty thin ice. I think he thinks he is being funny, but he isn't. I blame bad influences from certain "funny" newbies. I'm On The Highway To Hell!

Even if I didn't have anything better to do, I'd find it. Talk about a wast of bandwidth. (Oh, the electrons! Oh, the Electrons!) Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

BULLSHIT!!! I've heard that it could feel like you've been kicked between the legs and the feeling lasts a month I had that twang of pain once on each vas, but it was only momentary as in the quote above. I walked out, drove home, used the jock as directed, applied ice for the first day and was back to work, non the worse for the wear after my three day break. No big deal. But allowing my wife to not have to use vile concoctions of hormones to avoid pregnancy was a big benefit. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

Me Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

0:0:0 Hum-ho. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

Nope, not gonna touch this one. Not me! Uh-uh. Not with a ten-foot pole. Or a six-foot Norwegian! Beth, Bernice, Judy, Don, etc. (mainly the Rantoul government types) please note I was not the one to bring this up! Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

AndyMan and Craichead? I kind of got the impression that our newest dynamic duo was going to be in attendance. Oh yeah, must no forget BB. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

50 points from Phree's house for not including me and TLML on his initial post. 50 points to Sunshine's house for adding us without prompting. We will be arriving about noon on the 31st and will purchase the funiture from the Couch Gypsies so it can be in place before everyone starts adding packing tarps, TVs, video gear, etc. The Carbones will arrive before us and hook up power cords and set up some lights. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

Kris, this guy is a nothing! A nothing! Do you hear me? Get your hands on the June/July issue of Air & Space Smithsonian and read the article with pix about nine guys who have built full-on flight sims. We're talking working instruments hooked up to the 'puter, salvaged F16 cockpits to house it all in, de-armed ejection seats, etc. I'm serious, dude, these folks have real obsessions about their FS. Unfortunately, the online mag gives a short description of the article, but no pix online as of today. The feller in that pic is obviously on his way, but he ain't there yet! Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

Oh. Shit... Even I wasn't going to go there. Been nice knowing you.

Sloe Comfortable Screw #1 Ingredients: 3 oz Sloe gin 3 oz Southern Comfort 3 oz Orange juice 3 oz Vodka Mixing instructions: stir or shake ingredients & serve with ice Hell, I've not even had that drink, I added a bit of Galiano (the stuff that makes a screwdriver a Harvey Wallbanger) to make (Wait for it...) A Sloe Comfortable Screw Against the Wall Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

Ths short answer is that it is the recommended course of instruction according to USPA's Skydivers Information Manual. The other answer is that it is a clearly delineated course of training that takes a skydiving student from first jump all the way through to his or her "A" license. It incorporates increased canopy control instruction among other changes. In the old AFF program, it was left to the student to make progress towards the "A" license once cleared from AFF. Not all DZs use the ISP, though it is recommended that they do so; some still use the 7 level AFF program plus a Level 8 clear and pull. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

As Kris has already pointed out, there is a companion site for you piot types. Had you done a quick search on this forum, you would have found this thread (among others) to give you a little background. At any rate, welcome to dropzone.com. Enjoy your stay. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

Our rigger charges $40. We pay him $45. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

Happy Birthday, ya young pup! Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

Well, anyone with any sense knows the meaning of life is 42! In this case, I believe it stands for the factor used when computing the fun level of one's skydiving. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

The Lady of My Life. Jack, give Lynn a great huge hug for me, and tell her "very well done". Whew..... Ciels- Michele Actually, Rev Jim has the "correct" answer in his post, but I like your explanation as well, Michele. Consider her hugged hugely. And thank you. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

I know it's only Friday, but we're done for out weekend, so... 64 Godzillion Cars on I95:2:0 We were only planning on jumping today as I do NOT want to battle race day traffic on I95 tomorrow and Lynn works Sundays; the weather cooperated today and we looked forward to a good day at Deland. We made one jump and as we are walking to the packing hangar, we see our good friend John. We haven't jumped with him for a while so it promised to put an even nicer glow on the day. For this jump we decided that John and Lynn would exit in a sit train and I would follow closely. Once we got off the hill, they would break and we would take turns swapping docks. Got all set and they exited in the train with my holding on lightly to the top of TLML's rig. Lynn didn't hold on to John tight enough, so the train fell apart at once. Oh well. John went a bit lower than Lynn, so I did a quick dock on her foot then dove down to John and docked on his knees. Lynn had gotten down to our level by then but had to back off a bit as she felt my burble. One more dock on her, and it was time to head for the barn. I waved and tracked off and once I deployed, I saw john off to my right with his canopy coming out and then TLML went by off to my left but something didn't look right -- she was at line stretch, but there was little canopy to be seen and the bag was spinning madly. This is not good. At that point, my canopy was fully open but starting a slow spin, so I quickly flew that out. I then saw below me a white canopy with no PC. "Hmm," I thought, adding 2 and 2 together and looked off to my left where I had seen TLML before, Sure enough there was a purple Safire all barberpoled up, making its solitary descent. I headed off to keep an eye on the cutaway canopy but it kept flying at me, trying to dock with me! I told myself that this was ungood and backed way off and kept my eye on it. Once I was certain that it would fall on the grass on the airport, I headed for the landing area to see what had happened. John was following the (not so) free bag, btw. I landed near TLML who was standing near the peas and asked her what had happened. "I had a malfunction" was her reply. "Well, duh? I said, I meant what sort of mal?". She said that she deployed normally and got pulled into the saddle, but that the dang canopy just wasn't opening. She looked up once and saw fabric but not in its normal configuration and decided that it was not going to help her land safely so she cut it away. She had a bit of a problem pulling the silver handle for a couple seconds, but got a good grip on it and was rewarded by the sight of her Tempo 170. She flew it to a nice landing but was po'ed because she forgot to make allowance for the steeper approach of a 7-cell and came up short of the peas! Her Pro-Track showed her deployment altitude as 900 feet and even though she pulled first, her CyPReS got scared. Someone asked if she had her handles and she said "No, I wasn't even thinking about them. I just wanted to save my life." We all agreed that this was a good sentiment. Once all the gear was recovered (and yes, we did get both handles back -- thanks, Paxton), we couldn't make a definitive cause of the problem, but suspect that it lay with one of the locking stows -- someone had put a big tough red rubber band in place of a normal band; we feel that this held that side of the bag shut and started spin. Once it had spun itself silly, it was released and caused what spectators on the ground described as a "real ball of shit!" Seeing as not only was her CyPRes scared, but it was born in June of 1999, it has been sent off to SSK for 4-year service and dual cutter replacement (it doesn't have the field-replaceable cutters). Lynn said on the ride home that it was the most scared she has ever been on a skydive, but it was fine once her reserve was out. So how did your weekend go? Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

Take care of yourself, Lisa. Heal quickly and well. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

Dude! His airplane re-kitted itself when that junk happened! Is any part of it salvageable? Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

Good on ya, Jessica. Knock 'em dead, kiddo. Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?