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The best things in life are free -- but so are STDs. Blues, squares, PTiger
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Consensus on relaxing students/TDM passengers?
PalmettoTiger replied to cameramonkey's topic in Safety and Training
I think "scaring" the passengers will be viewed as vindictive and harmful by those who are already criticizing skydiving. Those who are in favor of skydiving and those who keep an open mind about it won't mind. So I think it's a question of influence - is it more important to be mindful of our critics or of our supporters? I personally enjoyed the jokes (both giving and receiving), and I have yet to see anyone decide not to jump because of the jokes. Couldn't have said it better myself. Blues, squares, PTiger -
Hey, anybody ever get the feeling that your co-workers got their degrees from this school? Blues, squares, PTiger
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Watched it for the first time last night. I gotta say that Joe Jennings, Tanya Garcia, Craig O'Brien, Keith Woolard, and everyone else involved did an outstanding job with the aerial footage. But where's the PLF training!?! I saw two or three long falls in the movie (like Drew Barrymore's fall from the glass window) that could have really benefitted from a proper PLF. My FJC instructor would have had an anyeurism if I had landed like they did!
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Coolest T-shirt I ever saw: all black, had 2 bands of 1-inch high caducei all the way around it. In between the bands, in small letters on the front and back, were the words "Multiple Orgasm Donor". I wish I knew where to get one!! Blues, squares, PTiger
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We're moving some people around at work. One of the desks was too wide, so we had to pull the door off the hinges. I yelled "DOOR" out of habit. Everyone looked at me strangely, and my heart rate doubled - but not because I was embarrassed!! One of my co-workers said it best. "Some of the women around here do nothing but eat and bitch. No wonder we're not turning a profit." Blues, squares, PTiger
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Why I don't jump without a CYPRES
PalmettoTiger replied to Freeflylizard's topic in Safety and Training
11 years ago there were more No Pull/Low Pull fatalities. He won't jump without a CYPRES because he wants to reduce his chance of dying due to NP/LP. If you think that means he's an unsafe jumper.... don't jump with him. What have you done about the one in your car? It produces just a little more heat than a CYPRES fire... Blues, squares, PTiger -
SLCB? Smells Like Crappy Beer? Smooth Looks Catch Brunettes? Snakes Lie Carefully Buried? Blues, squares, PTiger
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Well s#it, looks like they had it in for me!! I was a little nervous when the pilot put on dual shoulder restraints and all I had was a lap belt. He assured me it was for his bad back. I figured if we went in, the front of the plane would have to stop the middle and back of the plane, so whether or not I headbutted the instrument panel wouldn't really matter. Blues, squares, PTiger
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Have you ever taken an observer ride in a jump plane? I took a group down for the school's Sport Parachute Club but couldn't jump myself, so I rode shotgun in the Otter. It was soooooooooo freaky being in that aircraft without a rig on!! Blues, squares, PTiger
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doesn't show up... link might be broken..? Blues, squares, PTiger
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I scratched my head about pictures 2, 3, and 4 for a long time... why are the jumpers getting higher relative to the plane as the series progresses? And how the hell can a pilot keep it inverted long enough to manage an exit? I think they must have been doing a loop, or at least an Immelman. If it could be done fast enough, g-forces would hold the jumpers "down" on the ramp until exit time, and as their upward momentum spent itself and as the plane continues through the loop, they appear to be climbing relative to the plane. Does this make sense to anyone else? Blues, squares, PTiger
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Jason is absolutely right about the muscle memory. I was demonstrating emergency procedures w/o a rig on, and my instructor pointed out that I was consistently touching higher than where my reserve handle would actually be. I geared up and actually put a hand through it every time after that and now it's no problem. If, after you practice while geared up, you're still not comfortable with your ability to locate the reserve handle, practice grabbing your chest strap, sliding over to the main lift web, and then sliding down until you find the handle. Blues, squares, PTiger
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True that!! Sangiro, congrats on having an actual useful forum, where the word CYPRES can be posted without generating 18-day flame wars that are identical to the previous month's 18-day flame wars. I've quit rec.skydiving entirely in favor of DZ.com forums, and I'm positive that a question asked here will get more answers (not to mention more useful answers) than on wreckdot. Blues, squares, PTiger
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That EA game was (insert picture of steaming pile of dogs#it in shape of vodka bottle) Absolut Crap. I saw two or three gaming websites that gave it Worst of the Year awards. Blues, squares, PTiger
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Hee hee... did somebody get Helen Kellered? Blues, squares, PTiger
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I coulda sworn that I saw an advisory about this very issue in the past few days. IIRC it was an official thing from the Infinity's manufacturer, explaining the problem, how it happened in the manufacturing process, how they've fixed it, and exactly what riggers should look for when inspecting it. BUT... I've surfed an assload of skydiving-related sites in the past 10 days looking for used gear, and I can't find it anymore. So to answer your question, yes it seems like some others have experienced the same thing. Blues, squares, PTiger
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The question was posed several times in the short period that I followed rec.skydiving, and the answers always included at least 2 of the following: 1) calling the airline ahead of time to get an official statement of their policy on parachutes (get a paper copy if you can), b) carrying it on rather than checking it, and IV) bringing along a copy of DOT's acknowledgement that CYPRES units do not pose a threat to airliners. Some people recommended against calling the airline and asking, implying that they might flag your ticket as belonging to a potential terrorist, but you can always avoid giving your name and address until you hear their policy and request a paper copy. Blues, squares, PTiger
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Stacy not only jumps there, but she is the webmaster, er, webmistress, for Cross Keys as well as one of the manifest employees. Froggie also jumps there. Check with either of those two and I'm sure you'll get the answers you need. Blues, squares, PTiger
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That's for sure. Florida has become The Land of Retired Yankees and Displaced Cubans... although they did give us Lynyrd Skynyrd a few decades back so I guess we can give them a little credit on that. Come to think of it, was Florida ever "Southern?" About all they did in the Civil War was grow oranges for the rest of the Confederacy and make it harder for the US Navy to sail from DC and points north to New Orleans... PS Before any Sons of Floridian Veterans get irritated with me I'm only kidding!! Blues, squares, PTiger
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Why not just let go of the tube, as long as you're spotted near the airfield? They wouldn't fall fast enough to damage anything, would they? I've also seen video of people swooping tubes to grab them after they've released them and opened, but that's probably just as dangerous as deploying while you're attached. Blues, squares, PTiger
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I don't know how many of you have been following the story about Mr. Tito, the millionaire who paid the Russians about $20 million for a ride to the International Space Station. If you read some of his quotes about being in space, you could substitute "skydiving" for "space" and it would sound just like a giddy first jump story... if only we could get the media to cover skydiving like this, rather than focussing on fatality reports!! Examples: See? Just change "time in space" to "time in freefall" and it would work! Come to think of it, he technically IS in freefall. He just doesn't have to worry about his pins snagging on the door or all that other stuff I slept through in the FJC. Blues, squares, PTiger
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His thing about grinning right before he jumps is dead on! On my first jump, my video proves that I had a s#it-eating grin plastered on my face. The only reason I can come up with is that I knew I was getting video and I didn't want to have a pitiful look of fear for all the world to see. But I was definitely scared. I got so nervous that I nearly talked myself out of it at 7k but decided to go for it by the time we reached 10k. When we got to the door, I just froze. Part of me was very analytical and was saying "So where will I put my feet? I don't see any stairs." The other part of me was saying "There is NO F@CKING WAY I am leaving this aircraft." But I had told Jacko that I knew I would freeze in the door and he should just push me out. I remembered to thank him for that on the way down.
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I hear you on that one. I flew from Charlotte, NC to Bemidji, MN via Minneapolis last summer. The plane from Charlotte looked like a miniature C-17: round body, big tail, four jet engines, high sloping wings, all that. But it wasn't nearly as big; I think it was a relatively new regional jet made by Saab. Anyway there was something about that plane that made me want to get the hell off of it. My sisters, neither of whom skydives or is particularly comfortable in airplanes, both felt fine. There was just something in the way the damn thing moved that unnerved me. The leg from Minneapolis to Bemidji (tiny little town in the far north of MN, so small they don't even have metal detectors at their "airport") was on a twin-engine turboprop that oddly enough felt lots safer than the regional jet. The guy next to me remarked that I looked a little nervous (I have a habit of staring out the window the whole flight), and I told him "Last time I was in a plane this small, I jumped out of it." He didn't know whether I was joking or not! Blues, squares, PTiger
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whuffo: What happens if your parachute doesn't open? jumper: I use my reserve parachute. whuffo: What if that doesn't open? jumper: Right before I hit the ground, I hold my left arm way up. whuffo: Whuffo? jumper: Altimeters are expensive! You want to save them if you can. A tandem master deploys the parachute, which immediately develops a lineover. As he tries to correct it, the passenger is giggling and says "Wheeee! This spinning stuff is cool!" T/M decides he can't fix it, so he chops and deploys the reserve. Nauseated by the sudden drop, the tandem passenger looks back at the T/M and says "Boy, I hope we don't do that again!" Blues, squares, PTiger