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Just tell him the firewall is blocking the quality porn. It'll be down in under 2 minutes. Dave
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whew...just you. don't scare me like that.
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...and proud of it! Dave
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Awaiting permission to post the file... Dave
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Sounds like you're starting off way more prepared than the average student. I think before AFF all I had done was looked at some skydiving pictures and read the DZs website a few times. But just remember that there can be multiple ways to do things and teach things. Listen to your instructors and not the books (when they conflict). The books are probably right (instructors can be wrong), but it's the instructors that you need to count on. Dave
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Nope, I can only get data since counting started (Feb 10, 2002). It's probably about time to reset the counters. I voted for 1280x1024, but at work I actually use 1024x768 (can't change it). Everything looks so big!
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Attached is over 2 years worth of screen resolution info for skydivingmovies.com. Dave
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I gotta agree with the handheld GPS. It's not really an IFR-related gift (since it won't be certified for IFR use), but it's a wonderful way to forget how to plan a flight and just go up and have some fun. Dave
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If you can get the person to do a direct connection, you can use netstat from a dos prompt to find the person's IP address. It's not much but it's something... Dave
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Hey Tom, if you know the admins, you can let them know I'd be happy to host the file on skydivingmovies.com if they want. If they have a bunch of videos, I could make an offheading.com category within /BASE. Out of curiosity, is there any relationship between offheading.com and onheading.com? Dave
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Well, I'm really a Maryland fan but since I live in CT, WOOOOHOOOOO anyway.
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Yeah but how many skydivers will climb a 10 foot ladder to get a cat or of a tree? We're all afraid of heights!
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Your dad doesn't like performing in front of large audiences, huh? Dave
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Close... If you assign a value to each letter, ie A=1, B=2, C=3, etc, with the hebrew alphabet, the word for life has a sum of 18. It's very common for cash gifts to be $18 or multiples of $18, depending on how much you want to give. Otherwise, teens like video games and stuff.
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I'd rather jump a spectre 120 than a velocity 150 (if there was such a thing). I'd bet that a 90 lb student would be safer under the spectre too. Sure, a spectre 120 might be more responsive than a spectre 150, even at equal wing loadings, but a docile 150 canopy loaded at 1:1 is not going to suddenly be super twitchy and over-responsive at 120 loaded at 1:1. Dave
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Years ago I was having problems on skydivingmovies.com with people uploading pirated movies and software. I noticed it was almost all coming from very similar IPs so I banned them. Turned out I had banned most of germany and a lot of other europeans. OOPS!
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Skydiving platform PURPOSE designed
pilotdave replied to Praetorian's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
I wouldn't go with a single piston engine on a plane that size. Jet fuel is cheaper and turboprops are much more reliable. Avgas is easier to get at most airports now, but it'll be phased out over the next 20 years anyway. If the new diesels "take off," jet fuel will become common. Dave -
Bought my sabre2 used from the dz.com classifieds. Did my first 99 jumps on F111 canopies. Didn't find out what a soft opening was until I demoed a sabre2 on my 100th. My PD 9 cell doesn't usually open hard, but it definitely doesn't snivel either. Spectre openings scared the crap outta me... going from no snivel to a long snivel was a big change. The Sabre2 falls somewhere in between. Dave
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I like the idea too. Actually I've always assumed this feature existed. I don't use dz.com email, so I never check it. This thread got me to open it up and i found out i got a somewhat important email almost a month ago that i never read. Doh! Dave
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I'm not a rigger and know nothing about the rules in australia, but I do know a friend of mine has a Vector2 with tuck tabs. He apparently has some kind of authorization letter from the FAA for the modification. He ran into a problem when he brought the rig to RWS for some (unrelated) work and they told him his rig violated the TSO, but he was able to prove his rig was legal. Otherwise RWS wasn't going to do any work unless he let them put the velcro back on. Dave
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Looked to me like he meant to swoop but came in too high. He basically didn't flare. If he flared, he woulda missed the pond. Dave
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1787 or 1887? Dave
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See I'd have no problem paying $5 to get someone to do my dishes, take out my trash, or especially do my laundry. Laundry is the worst of all. I already pay to get my oil changed. I need a butler... I was late really learning to pack. I mean I took a $50 packing class after AFF, but I kept paying packers until I bought my own rig at around 40 jumps. Probably easily could have "slipped through the cracks" and never started packing if I didn't want to. I just hated packing the huge student mains. Too damn big for me!
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After maybe 120 jumps on F111 canopies (almost all PD 9 cells), my landings are consistently better on my Sabre2 135 and have been better since jump #1 on it. It may be a lot faster than my old PD150, but it's MUCH easier to land. I can definitely understand why they'd make great student canopies, along with proper training, at light loadings. Dave