peacefuljeffrey

I'm not sure I get you, John. Are you saying that you end up making one strand that has two loops, one on each end? If you could post pics, I would really like that. Also, I can't imagine the line being able to accommodate not one but two strands of itself through the core. I know that the 550 cord would not do that. Spectra can? And about the wire/fid... You said when you needed one... How on earth can a loop be pulled without something to slide into the hollow of the cord? And what would I ask for, in what kind of hobby shop, to get the wire you mentioned? Thanks, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Piggybacking on this thread, if I may -- another Pro-Track question: Say you have done ten jumps on your Pro-Track, #1-10, and on jump #10 it was a high-altitude Hop-and-Pop, with not enough freefall to activate the device, and so jump #10 does not record any data whatsoever. (The machine thinks there was no such jump.) Can you set for the next jump number to be #11 without making the numbers for each of the previous jumps shift in any way? (i.e. that cool tracking dive will still be #8, or something, and not change to another number?) I would rather leave blank data for jump #10 and have jump #11 record AS #11 instead of taking #10's place... I don't know if this can be done. Help? Thanks, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

And by vending machines too... Vending machines kill more people every year than sharks! I'll bet it's more accurate to say, "Vending machines don't kill people; people trying to rip-off vending machines get themselves killed by vending machines succumbing to gravity and the extension of their centers of gravity over the edges of their bases." I am pretty sure that a vending machine, just sitting there unmolested, hasn't the power to kill anyone. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

How is that different from driving a car? Is anyone somehow protected against having a person in the oncoming lane veer across the lines and smack 'em head-on? Certainly not. Every time you get into your car, you are every bit as vulnerable to injury or death as you are when you get into an airplane to skydive. The BIG difference that I see is that it is much more likely that if you get killed in skydiving, barring aircraft malfunction, it will have been almost entirely your fault. Not so with driving a car. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I guess you can't call 175 jumps "many," but so far I have had no serious injuries beyond an occasional muscle pull or sore foot (I jump barefoot and while most landings are fine, I've skidded through the peas and gotten the tiniest bit foot-sore). With a little luck and a lot of being careful, I hope to go indefinitely.

That's a wicked interesting idea, but it raises questions. Isn't it kind of inviting risk? If you know the surrounding areas well enough, I guess it's safer, but I wonder, if you get sent somewhere that you don't really know, how do you know you will have a safe place to land? Over here at Sebastian, we have, erm, the Atlantic Ocean on one side, and a river and lots of marshy land to the other... Not the most hospitable place to do what you were saying... But I trust that you guys use good judgment when you do that. Sounds like fun, wish I could join you for it sometime. Blue skies, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's a great point. It's kinda like having had my one cutaway... Until that point, you just can't really know that you'll properly address your mal at the time, and cut it away before you futz with it for too long. I was very glad when I forced myself to be altitude-aware under a spinning line-twist and got rid of it for my reserve. Kind of settles a big question that looms until you do it for the first time. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Glad you made it safely! I know the feeling (though I haven't been forced into a downwinder...) of squeakin' it in. Hopefully each time it happens we get better at being able to identify it before we're caught in a tight spot. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'm curious about this. I have 175 jumps, and have never landed off. By "landing off" I am thinking of "totally outside the intended landing area/airport/DZ/LZ." I am not including landing in a different field on the airport from what you intended, or landing outside a "beer line." I'm talking about outside the airport, where you had to hike it back, or maybe they sent the DZ's van or golf cart to get you. Also, I realize that some jumps are not set up to even really have a designated landing area, like, say, a beach jump, or somewhere out in the desert like when they drop a car from the plane into no-man's-land. I don't mean to be smug about this, at all. I know that every jump brings with it the possibility that I land off. I know I am not charmed against it in any way. And with (only) 175 jumps, it's not like I've been through everything that can happen. I did once make a poor decision to struggle to make it back to the field at Pahokee, and I came in with my feet about level with the crowns of two of the palm trees that line the fence at the east edge of the airport. I had been watching my "outs" the whole way back, fighthing the wind, and only just made it back over the fence... I did a big "whew" and pretty much learned never to let my ego about landing in make my decisions again -- if it's safest to land out as opposed to striving to land in, that's what I'll do. So, anyone else never ever land out? How about filling in a poll answer and posting? Please also post your jump total so we know if it's a "never, but only 7 jumps," as opposed to a "3, but I have 6500 jumps!" Blue skies, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I know someone who landed, standing, smack in the middle of the tarmac at Pahokee on his graduation jump. DOUBLE BEER!! P.S. I cheated. Pilot training makes it, in my opinion, much much easier to have and keep your bearings while flying your canopy, and landing it. I would love to read comments on that. Do other pilots agree that your skills are helped by pilot training? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

#3. It was my first freefall jump after 2 static lines. On SL #1, I landed on my feet and then tottered back to my butt. On SL #2, I landed on my feet and sprawled onto my hands. Then came AFF #1 and I stepped it out and remained standing. Fast forward some years ahead... When I resumed training with the intent of getting licensed, I kept careful track of logging which landings I stood up and which I stumbled. Since I've been standing them up regularly for over a hundred jumps, I put a mark on one log entry that says, "All entries henceforth will assume stand-up landing unless otherwise noted.*" That was on New Year's Day this year.

Um, the ships are breeding with humans? Why does this sound suspiciously like both the X-Files and Taken? And why would it make sense that aliens that want to take over would want to do so after mixing races with us? Why not BE the aliens AND take over? Instead, they want to thin out their heritage? I don't get it. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Interpersonal relations. And my laziness/procrastination problem. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, I was thinking of some people who have shown me that although they are popular here, they are not nice people. Not at all. But then the audicity to tell someone who responds irritably to being treated like shit, that they have an "ugly" side, man, that's really out there. It's like an armed robber condescending to a shoplifter, telling him that he's a cancer on society. You hit it right on the head; there is a major difference between someone having "friends" because she is attractive and having real friends because she is a good person. And a person who is sweet to her friends but is a "Heather" to anyone else is not a good person. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Bleaaahhh. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You forgot: Those that don't like to be treated as a criminal with no cause Those that don't like cops asking to search their vehicle for drugs and weapons when they were stopped for a headlight out Those that don't like police-state roadblocks set up at random places where you are examined as though you are drunk or high, and your PAPERSSSS are demanded even though there was no cause to think you were intoxicated or doing anything wrong. Those people have a problem with cops, too -- and they haven't done anything wrong. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yes it does, you're fumming I can sense it from here in Oz Go on let it out, give it to 'em, you KNOW you want to You're another one I don't mind letting think what he wants. Being wrong is certainly your right. At this point, this thread is just random weird time-killing entertainment to me, and a decent way of seeing how people really are. Thanks for the show!

No question, that's true. And I have no shortage of friends. But what did that have to do with what I was saying? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

LOL! Keep 'er! When a person can be as vindictive as that and yet you think she's so wonderful, it kinda reminds me of newspaper stories about the stick-up man/carjacker/murderer kid that the cops shot, and all his parents and friends are quoted in the story saying how he was such a sweet person "who always had a smile for everyone" and "was turning his life around"... You know, they ignore the fact that he robbed some 84-year-old woman and knocked her down snatching her purse, breaking her hip and three ribs and an elbow, because he used to help his neighbors rake leaves. I don't find it as easy to separate the "wonderfulness" of a person from the nasty things they've done or said -- unless maybe they've attempted to apologize for them or something afterward. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Only that old red and white Plymouth Fury I had a while back, in high school... But I had it compacted into a cube at the junkyard... Wait a minute... That wasn't me! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

If in fact there were such a thing. Oh, honey... you ARE an ass!!!! PJ... don't take that shit... fight back... come on.... do it!! kick some ass!! Not worth it, hon. Besides, I wouldn't wanna get banned for it. They can have their fun. Don't mean shit to me. If people who don't know me get off on spouting bullshit about me, I guess they really need it, so they can have it. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I appreciate your kindness, Rosa. Thank you. Ain't it the truth Not worried, there. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, I've never seen a pic of you, so I don't want to jump to any conclusions... Ummm... j/k! Blue skies, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Youre kidding right? You didnt hear that word in your first year of skydiving?? Are you saying what they said wasnt offensive and what I said was offensive? He's too busy coming up with new digs at me, veiled with a bullshit "" so moderators won't think he's really just ranking on me. Cracks about a person's personality... Gee, those aren't "personal attacks"... no sirreeee. Do you see me making them back at him? Nope. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Wow. Thanks for stating pretty much the rest of what I felt. Now someone's probably gonna look and see, "Oh, yeah, 2 posts? That's probably peacefuljeffrey using a different name to bolster his own statements." But they'd be wrong. But anyway, thanks for articulating some stuff that really is true. The clicquey thing is kind of rampant here, and god help you if you're not in it, or you're not a girl who's posted either a) hot pics of herself or b) that she's fairly easy. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"