Kris

I'm on track 2. This mix is stylin', Amish! Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

What a small world! Larry Maxwell was my vice principal at Edmond mid-high, and my principal at Edmond HS (back when there was just one HS). I graduated in 90. I pulled some small shenanigans so while he probably wouldn't recognize my name, I'm sure he'd remember my face. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

I know I've met very few DZO's who weren't also pilots. The vast majority had their commercial ticket and also at least a Senior Rigger rating as well as several instructional ratings. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

There, fixed it for you. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

No worries, Mike. You can make it up to me at WFFC. I'll bring the rum. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

I don't wear polarized now, but my old pair was. Polarized under a visor gives a really odd rainbow/shimmer effect, so not really recommended. I haven't noticed any problems with my depth perception but it did take a couple of jumps to get used to. However, I have two eyes, so I don't know about polarized and a single eye and couldn't say if it would affect you.

The Vector3 is a really nice rig. I just won't use an RLSL or Skyhoook since I fly video. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

I have Oakley Minutes and I absolutely love them. They're O-matter frames with poly lenses and the optics are incredible. This pair has lasted me 2 years and is going strong. The pair before that went 2 years until a riser strike whipped across my face and melted the lens and part of the frame with the friction. They didn't break or shatter though.

Bingo. People have killed and seriously injured themselves cutting away over water. Judging height over water is incredibly hard to do. You may think you're less than 20 feet up, when you may really be over 80 feet. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Thanks for your willingness to look into this, Ward. I appreciate it. The serial number on my rig is 3543, born in Sept, 2001. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Can you run on it with no pain? Can you jump off an object with no pain? Always check with your doc. When I trashed my ankle a few years back, I held off until I could run and hop on it. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

That's not true. I know that there's supposedly orange groves and old ladies all over the place, too. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Damn, Josh. I'd figured you were just taking a break from the boards. Glad to hear you're still walking the planet, senor!

Oh, hell. I was under the impression that it was a non-injury crash. At least nobody else was hurt. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

There is no initiation. You have to party & jump with SkymonkeyONE or Bytch and prove that you can bring the fiesta in full force and be a friend to all the monkeys. As for the sangria, Me & Dagny, Stacy & Galen, and HeatherB & possibly Ron are meeting up this Thursday at a restaurant in St. Pete to hang out, have some messican food, and quench our thirsts with some sangria. You're more than welcome to join us. Just shoot me a PM if you're interested. We'll probably be hitting the restaurant around 7. Lemme' know!

I've already got your new ASUS AMD 64 motherboard sitting in my suitcase, blondie. I'll be calling you and Heather this Wed night after I get to Dagny's and we'll get everything planned out.

All the best, Rosa!

Get well soon, Alanazilla!

Exactly, there is no excuse, but when "that crew" was in charge, I had no desire to deal with them after everything myself and a friend had been through. I truly hope you have improved service, as it had nowhere to go but up from where it was before. It was less hassle to keep it as is then to put up with the poor customer service at the time. My rig is an M4, sized to hold a 170 main and PD-160 reserve. And if you really want to know how bad the sizing on my rig is, it's that loose in the main container with a Tempo 210 and a Cypres in it. I'm ordering a Smart or PD reserve in a couple of months in the 160 range, and I can't wait to see how loose my 190 is after that, although I'll probably have my 170 by then. Which means that my rig, which was built to hold a 170, will have to be disposed of instead of lasting like I thought it would. I did contact Mirage about it, but the attitude I got, coupled with everything else made it not worth it. I'd rather be angry every time I put the rig on than have had to go through that with them at the time. The embroidery was nothing major, it was the alien logo on the pin flap. Mine was one of 4 staff rigs ordered. All of them had the embroidery but mine. That should have been an omen right there. Honestly, the only way my rig can be fixed is with a complete rebuild, which I doubt is going to happen. There's no way to tweak the sizing of the main container after it's built that I know of. And I don't want it band-aided with a sewn in pad. My rig really is beautiful, and it's very secure, I just wish it was what I ordered. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

You're a good man, Charlie Brown. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Well, since you ask, here's the list. Rig ---- Legstraps 3" too long, I have to crank like you wouldn't believe to get them to snug up after they hit the leg pads. The rig was ordered to hold a Sabre 170 extremely tight. I can easily get my Stiletto 190 in it and when I put a demo 150 in it, the only thing keeping it shut was the fact that I shortened the closing loop to 1/16" of an inch and cranked that through the grommets to hold it shut. I could pull on the pin and move the 4 flaps up and down easily. A 170 is not at all tight in it. I jumped the 150 by holding the back of my rig on climb out and doing a hop & pop. Not a major gripe, but some embroidery was missed on the rig when it was ordered. Immediately after getting the rig, I went through 2 replacement pilot chutes before I got a good one. Customer Service -------------------- Once the rig was in my hands, I got the impression that I was a bother calling to complain with my issues. Once the money was transferred, I was suddenly 2nd priority. When asked about re-work, I was told my rig would be gone for several weeks. I'd already sold my other rig and couldn't be without. Considering my rig went from order to in my hands in about 14 days, I thought that was excessive. As for my friend, she got yanked around on some repair work a couple of years back, to the point that calls to Mirage ended with her in tears at one point. The repair came back ugly as sin. A rigger with a sewing machine could have done that work in 5 mins, it was definitely not a pretty repair, which is what should have come from a manufacturer. Here are two threads, one on her issue and one other from that time period... Thread 1 Thread 2 Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Yup. I'm making sure to bring extra bail money. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Yeah, but you have Rum Runners, which automatically puts you into the "awesome" category. Give Cara a rub behind the ears for me.

Oh, I guess the alzheimer's hasn't quite kicked in yet then, eh'? In that case, I take it all back. Really. Rev, thanks, I'll try to keep from breaking myself in the future. I'll leave that to a certain female. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™