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Nope, sure looks like the afterburner's on to me. Dave
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I thought this was gonna be the "shooting the monkey out of the tree" problem.
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...move along...nothing to see here
pilotdave replied to MissMissy's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Any chance this could lead to a cat fight or a one on one skydiving competition? If either is possible, I say we split up, take sides, and let em go at it! Dave -
No comments from the peanut gallery on that??
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I dont think that web server has the wmv MIME type set. My browser tries to view it as text. Edit: never mind. I shoulda just read your post. Edit again: never mind my never mind. Still won't play for me. If you can get it to me, I'll put it on my site right away. The download functionality of the site is done, just not uploads. Dave
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Ya know, right after posting it, I realized I shoulda said flaps, not slats. Slats go forward and down, flaps just go down. But I had no idea they were automated like that. That's really cool. Gotta love fly by wire. Here's a question. Looks like his afterburner is on. After an ejection, does the power stay where the pilot left it, or does the aircraft shut down? I'm just picturing an F-16 flying away with no pilot...
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This company'll just stop your service for that. They don't even allow legal adult websites. They also don't allow "dumpsites" where you store files with no web content. Not sure why they'd care if I'm using my hosting to back up a hard drive, but they don't allow it. Oh well, no skydiver porn on my site. Dave
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Ummm, can you explain free distant healing? I'm just curious. I've seen reiki being done before and, well, I just didn't get it. Dave
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Pilots do normally use MSL. I believe in this case, the pilot did not use an altimeter setting but rather set his altimeter to the field elevation of his home base without thinking. But for aerobatics, where you're landing at the same elevation you took off at only a short time later, zeroing the altimeter might be a good idea. I'd rather not have to think about how high I actually am every time I check my altitude. (I dont do aerobatics, btw) Dave
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The pilot now works at the pentagon. Dave
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His leading edge slats are extended. Like flaps, but on the front of the wing to increase camber for low speed flight. Dave
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Naah, I hate ads and dealing with money. We'll see what my costs end up being though, and I might reconsider.
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Hehe, I have to start paying extra after I go over 100 gigs/month. I'm betting it's gonna happen the first or second month the new skydivingmovies.com is up and running. I'll be able to take some pressure off if you want.
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I did some jumps out of a kingair a couple weeks ago with big engines, but not as big as Mullins. We were doing 2000+ fpm all the way to altitude. I'm sure mullins plane can do a bit better than that. Dave
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Ya know, there are political newsgroups and forums... Dave
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If someone put a gun to my head and made me choose between a velocity 120 or a PD 106R, I'm pretty sure I'd be safer under the PD. Dave
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A wingloading of 1:1 during AFF is probably uncommon, but not unheard of. I waited till I had over 100 jumps to go down to 1:1. I went through AFF at a loading of about .56, then bought a main with a loading of about .85. But some DZs start students on much higher loadings. Personally I'm glad I took it slow, but at the same time I'm sure I could have handled my current canopy just fine under MOST circumstances many jumps ago. It's actually considerably easier to land than my old canopy was. But I was glad to have a slow F111 canopy for a few off landings I've had. Dave
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Yeah about half as many people use 800x600 as 1024x768 in my case, but if the site was 1024 wide, I'd have pissed off 9395 visitors. On my home computer I use 1280x1024, but I almost never maximize browser windows, so wide websites piss me off. Dave
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Attached is about 2 years worth of screen resolution stats for skydivingmovies.com. I'd go with 800x600 personally. Dave
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Well, downloads are fast, but there will be no streaming. All files will have to be downloaded completely to watch them. The web hosting company informed me of that as soon as they saw the name of my site. Not exactly sure why it uses more bandwidth to stream than to download, but it's their rule, not mine. Dave
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Windows media encoder is probably the easiest way. It's free from microsoft. Dave
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The old website had been down for a few weeks before I decided to create the new one. The current temporary FTP server has been the only source of the videos since it went up. But anyway, now you JUST HAVE TO WAIT! File uploading to the new site is in progress (somewhere in the area of 1400 files), and then descriptions need to be written for each. But I'm guessing within a couple weeks, we'll be looking for some beta testers to give some input, make sure it works properly, and to test download/upload speed. Just FYI, download speeds have been in the 295 KB/sec range for me so far. I think you're gonna like the new site. Dave
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If you're trying to use ftp.skydivingmovies.com, then yes, you're doing something wrong. Just use ftp://ftp.jaffie.com for now. ftp.skydivingmovies.com will no longer accept anonymous (public) access. Once the website is finished, there will be no need for the ftp server. Dave
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Same with the club I was in. Nearly everyone was either engineering or computer science. Dave
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Jumping is a whole lot more fun than tunnel time, but I totally disagree with you. What's the point for a fun jumper? The point is to learn new skills in a controlled environment. I did 20 minutes in the orlando tunnel last week with a group of 8 other skydivers (3 hours of tunnel time total) and 2 coaches. We had between 19 and 300 jumps. The low timer is still a student, the highest timer is on a 4-way team. And yet EVERY one of us learned something. Surprisingly, we all learned the same thing, just to different degrees... the mantis position. So in 3 hours of sitting by the tunnel and another couple hours of instruction outside the tunnel, we were each able to get an equivalent freefall time of around 20 jumps. But there's no way we could have learned the same amount in 20 jumps. I doubt I could have learned as much in 40 jumps. So, I don't think any skydivers are going tunneling instead of skydiving for fun. But the tunnel is a great tool for skydivers at any skill level. Dave