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hmmmm Kallend: 1900 jumps Smooth: 1400 jumps Mirage62: 2100 jumps Gemini: 2500 jumps Propacker: 5100 jumps Me: sigh I guess I'll swim quietly back over to the kiddie pool Owned by Remi #?
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Ummm.... avoid light / sky blue maybe? A green canopy might be harder to spot after a cutaway. Have fun Owned by Remi #?
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Micro and Royd Owned by Remi #?
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Then why didn't you PM that to Phree? Damned insiders. Owned by Remi #?
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Huh? I think he meant exactly what he said. There are "a very few" Owned by Remi #?
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I went to the Complete Systems category and searched just that category for the keyword "170" Have fun Owned by Remi #?
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Or even $194,200. Some of it went for a bike and a VCR, didn't it? Give the guy some credit, though. He had to find some way to put Jr through Yale. Owned by Remi #?
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Any reason it has to be a CYPRES 2? Other than that 30 seconds in the classified and I found this: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/detail_page.cgi?ID=41629&d=1 And this: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/detail_page.cgi?ID=42087&d=1 And this: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/detail_page.cgi?ID=41330&d=1 And then I stopped looking at all the other listings. Owned by Remi #?
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I think it's a government cover-up. Owned by Remi #?
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Why not wait until after you've done at least 1 freefly jump to buy a suit? Hell. you might not even like it. Owned by Remi #?
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Which was? Owned by Remi #?
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C'mon. You're cuter than she is so take that part of the problem off your plate. As others have said: stick to the high road. Owned by Remi #?
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I think that's true Owned by Remi #?
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And how does that explain overall licenses increasing at a steady rate? Edit for the beer. Owned by Remi #?
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Dead center wet one You can't change the graph, dear. You're already in it as one of the "average" jumpers. Owned by Remi #?
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Get trashed, rant, go throw ice cubes at a brick wall. It feels good and the ice cubes sound like breaking glass, which satisfies the urge to break shit. Don't take revenge. It cheapens you in the long run, not her. Owned by Remi #?
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I'm bummed. What I thought promised to be an interesting discussion about why license numbers don't seem to match membership numbers is going to become yet another discussion about why people quit jumping. Edit to add: And, it seems, yet another discussion about pie. Take it to the bonfire, eh? Owned by Remi #?
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Well... the people who went on to get B licences had to buy gear too, but those numbers seem pretty constant so it isn't really a question of why people are stopping at A as much as why overall membership numbers are dropping if overall license numbers are rising. Think it through. If B, C, and D remain constant and A increases more than the others, then why is overall membership down? Everyone seems to be scope-locking on why people stop at A. Owned by Remi #?
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Where does the SIM say that you only have to be B qualified? Edit: Never mind, I found it. Owned by Remi #?
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To answer that, you'd have to also present data that shows how many members had licenses then versus now. If only 50 percent of the USPA members had a license 10 years ago vs. 75 percent having them now then there's no conundrum at all. Membership could drop a big percentage with the license rate remaining the same. I'm not saying that's the case, just that it's a factor you have to include if you want to be objective. Owned by Remi #?
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Again, I don't really have the knowledge or experience to comment about what does or doesn't make people stick around, but this graph, from a purely statistical view, doesn't show numbers dwindling. It show a pretty constant rate of licensing until the "A" spike mid 90's. The number of people continuing along to B, C, and D remains pretty constant, with more people getting A's and not going any further. Owned by Remi #?
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Are you sure that was random? Awesome Owned by Remi #?
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Because it sets a goal and gives the license holder privledges they don't have with an A. Just because a lot of people skip over it doesn't mean it doesn't have value to some. I skipped my B because I never needed it. If something had come up that I wanted to do between B and C and required a B (night jumps) I would have faxed in the paperwork and forked over my 20 bucks. Some people take longer than others to complete the requirements also. I went from B qualified to C qualified, as do many others) in a short time. Some don't. Owned by Remi #?
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Because a B is not required to get a C. A lot of people skip the B and go directly to C. Owned by Remi #?
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When did tandems become "mainstream"? Edit to add: I haven't been around long so I can't compare the culture in skydiving now to the culture that existed years ago, but I did wonder if tandems increased the accessibility of trying a skydive for many people who then went on to get an A license and lost interest in a shorter span of time than someone who experienced their first jump as a "solo". It seems possible IMO that people who braved the static line experience may have been approaching the skydive with a higher likelyhood of sticking with it because it involved a little more personal commitment than a tandem. Owned by Remi #?