Kris

In-n-Out rules! I'll take a Double-Double....animal style. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Here's Skydive Hinton, Oklahoma's rocket 205. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Uh, I think you mean 120-0 instantly will kill you. The other one will kill you just as dead, too. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Winds & clouds...but tomorrow is supposed to be gorgeous. Still chillin' at the DZ anyway. I haven't been able to make a jump in 5 weeks since my last mal. So I had better get to go up this weekend. My reserve is packed, I have a sweet Sabre2 to check out as an option for a second BM-only rig...now I just need sky. sigh. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

And from the names SkymonkeyONE has been known to give out, I'll just stay an unnamed Sky, thankyouverymuch. Kris

Damn...I can't seem to find the "eye-rolling" emoticon. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

That would be this one. Truly soul catching. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

12.5 in a 182? Cute. Try 10.5-11....on a really good day. Like Amazon, I have over 200 jumps from 182's, 205/6's and one thing about a small Cessna that a turbine won't give you is the exit experience. If you can chunk a 4-way out of a Cessna you can lauch from anything. Those Cessna's will always be the backbone workhorse of skydiving. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Chuck, you are my new hero, bro! That one is now sitting on the top of my bookmarks. I knew it rocked when I tuned into the Vocal Trance channel and it was playing the Armand VanBuren remix of Motorcycle's "As The Rush Comes" from the Swedish Freefly Festival Episode III trailer. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Not quite... http://www.imakenews.com/symmttd/e_article000096182.cfm Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Cheater!!!! Damn...I have a Wacom tablet...why didn't I think of that. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

What are you trying to do? Make CrazyIvan insanely jealous? Oh....GOOD JOB!!! Big congrats to you and your new wife, Andy!!!

It's about time you aired out your bad-ass pink freefly suit, Pam!

No shit! Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Did somebody mention my name? You can PM me for the password and you can PM me if you want to be on the list. Be sure to check the website frequently for updates. The date of the last update will be placed on the web page. I won't send out e-mails or PM's, it's up to you to see if a new list is available. The rules are that you must be at least "Old Hand" status (300+ posts) and I have to have your number in return. For the ladies, if you want, you can get on the list with "PM" in place of your phone number. That way, if someone wants your number, they have to PM you for it but they will know you want to be included on the list. I really don't like doing that because it's very one-sided, but I also recognize that some women really don't want to be stalked by others.

Bad answer. Rounds are okay for that but a ram-air is the last thing you want to put someone with no canopy experience under....even while in tow. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Depends on how much data you're backing up. Right now I have over 700MB of disk storage on my PC. The important stuff I keep in a RAID 5. If I lose a HD I put in a spare and I keep on cruising after it automatically rebuilds. For anything over 4 GB (4GB or less, use DVD) you'll want to go tape. You're looking at DAT, AIT, Ultrium, or DLT formats. Tape is damn pricey but worth it if the stuff you are backing up is 'mission critical'. For home use, you're better off with DAT (I use DDS-4 which gives me 20GB native and up to 40GB compressed per DAT tape) or Travan. If it's just home stuff I'd spring for another hard drive and a Promise RAID card that will do RAID-1 (mirroring). It'll basically copy everthing you do to the other drive. If one drive gets written to, so does the other. Two 100GB drives in a RAID-1 will give you 100GB of storage. Myself, I like RAID-5 (striping with parity). If one drive hoses, you're only down until you can throw in a replacement (if you don't have a hot-spare on stand-by). You need a controller card that will handle it and at least 3 drives. If you have 3 100GB drives you have 200GB of storage. 1/3 of the space on each drive holds parity data that can be used to recreate your data in the event one drive fails. If two drives fail at once you are well & truly fucked but that's rare. I run 4 Maxtor 160GB SATA drives on a Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 card with 256MB of cache on-board. That's 480GB of storage. Total cost for that 480GB of very fast (because it's striped) protected storage is $166 for the card and $145 each for the drives from

Spending 2x (or more) the normal jump ticket price for a faster ride and *possibly* a bit better altitude wouldn't grab me. For anything bigger than a 4-way you'd eat up the extra altitude just trying to get the base together and flying the distance to the formation due to the much higher exit speed. Now...taking my new Bird-Man GTi out of it would be quite the fun time as I would like to see if I could get over the top of the jet on exit. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Yeah...good luck getting the women to fill out that bit of info, HH. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Agreed. I would love the chance to jump from a jet but after a few jumps the novelty would wear off pretty quickly. While I do love CASA's and Skyvan's, I still prefer to do RW and freefly from Otters. There's just something about that door I like for setting up exits. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. -- Eric Hoffer Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Welcome to the sky, Jeff. You picked a great DZ to learn at. Mike has always run a top-notch student program. Cushing is where I learned how to skydive, made a lot of great friends, and eventually earned my Instructor rating. For personal reasons I don't jump there anymore, but it's a wonderful DZ. Just watch out for the prison, stay away from the oil tanks, and don't touch Palmer's Ron Centenario rum. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Butch: Will you hand me a towel, tulip? Fabienne: Ah, I like that. I like tulip. Tulip is much better than mongoloid. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

DRAT!!!!!!!! DOUBLE DRAT!!!!! Sigh. I'll be out of town that weekend. I haven't been able to make it there when the King Air has been there all year. *off to sob pitifully in the corner* Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Sigh...time to upgrade my 20GB iPod to the 40GB. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™