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    http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3140496;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread This thread seems to apply to your question about Tandem Ratings for USPA. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    , 8, 0 An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    You can bunk in the hanger (bring a sleeping bag) and shower at the FBO (bring soap on a rope). Be prepared to have fun! An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    Yep the Tetris has booties. I like the booties since they can help over power a bad student body position with them when I need too. In my freefly suit I have lots of drag and I can right things 99% of the time with my skill and experience, but I have little control over the fabric. Try it and if it works go with it, it is about what helps you do your job right. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    I wear a Michiagn Suits Tetris with built in sleeves. I also wear it for AFF and Coaching jumps, some RW as well. I have a 2 peice Freefly suit that is on stand by for multi-use as well. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    Dad Husband Semi Pro Skydiver Semi Pro Motorcycle Racer Published Writer Soldier and currently working in Film Production. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    But it may be the same dictionary the 13B's was a usen when I asked to; "add 50 and Fire for Effect". Then the damn rounds would go over the horizon, and may still be in orbit. inexact, is that a real word or a wikapedia word? An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    Ain't my program. I was trying trying to figure out "why" myself. As far as I could tell jumps #4 and 5 where just fillers any way. But the USPA answer is just like yours (only relavent as the program mentioned is run by a USPA member). An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    I would never call my mom a witch! That may be the name of the glue or maybe liquid stitch? It was few years back. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    Yep, and it is heavy. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    http://www.teamfastrax.org/demoPhotoGalley.aspx Here you go. The caption says 7000' but it measures out bigger. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    For the reasons you stated that is why I like Kips Course. He will work with you during the pre-course and get your flying checked out. He will work out tips and experience issues too. In other words in the pre-course he TEACHES, it is the Certification Course that he INSTRUCTS and EVALUATES. (I hear this is the same way Bram works too.) During the course I took with Kip another AFF CD ws ther and observed most of the pre-course, he stated he liked a lot of what he saw from Kip and was adopting it to his course. I did like (after wards of course) a few of the "students" the Evaluators played, it was some thing I had experienced numerous times and had gotten pretty good at adapting too, but AFF is a new scene and I had to be ready to adapt my tech to it. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    What Phree said. On another note, the Large Flag industry is getting bigger. Some of us have been jumping and learning as we go for years now, that means the new jumpers can learn from the old jumpers and not make the same mistakes. At least I would hope that. I train still, and get classes on the new systems and sizes, including going to the sew shop and and learning more than: "it hangs, I fly". An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    Flight Concepts International makes Flags from 500' to 7800' for us on Fastrax. Red is using the same material you would find in the Manta, good ole f-111 type nylon. Please be careful with flags, I have hundreds of flag jumps and they are always way more exciting to me than the crowd, if you know what I mean. We also had a fairly bad injury last year with a flag getting caught on something prior to landing. Biggest thing is no when to say "NO" and practice! An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    Mom used a material that was not "Fuzzy" like fur but thick and soft like "felt weave"(?). Then using some kind of fabric glue it was glued together with "text book press'" for the weight. I think she got all the components at Hancocks(?). You may even find a tiger cordura and use it as the re-enforcement under a fluffier material. Just don't slide into second base and not have shorts on under the suit. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    Do you mean like "Tony the Tiger" tiger stripe or military camoflague tiger stripe? If it is the "Tony the Tiger" kind, several years ago when involved in Little League mom built a tiger costume and glued layers of cordura under the Tiger Stripe pattern to make it wear better. Those re-enforced parts out lasted the whole suit. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    PRO- My brother lives there with his son.
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    Paris jumped in Camden till he got back home, he never stopped just slowed down. JR would be doing fine if the apathy had not settled in. The apathy settled into the DZO's too, not just us jumpers. The Club members killed the Club before it even lost its A/C. The A/C was just life support. I drive and car pool those things are what I do as the alternative. Would I like to jump in my own back yard? sure. But I need to see a change or two first. Would you care to enlighten us as to who you are? For me it would at least shed some light as to why you feel the way you do. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    3, 4, a 4.5 hours. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    So you must be in the upper reaches of Ky if your driving 6 hours to Cullman. Of course since you didn't put any info in your just opened profile I will haveto wait for you to say where your driving from. Chuck isn't the problem. Apathy is the problem. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    From a top USPA Official. Insert a Practice clear and pull (IAD or SL) and keep on in IAD or Staticline. or Insert a Practice Clear and pull and go AFF USING an AFF-I. or Go strait to AFF using an AFF-I. From ME: Bottom line the ISP has a way to do it SAFE, why not use it? FYI- UPT, Strong and Jump Shack do not authorize a harness hold jump UNLESS you are a AFF-I already. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    Your right Students did jump. But what about an up jumper who got told to go away? Since you won't answer a PM. I risk a post here. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    They already knew. My being on a Military Demo Team was how the job got offered to me. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    How could we not know you posted it here http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3133322;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread I guess they may have been flying today, after the snow storms we had here Friday I am amazed the landing areas aren't just mud. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!
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    In the BSR's I fugured E.6.a to be clear and mean, that is when coach may do linked exits. In the previous BSR it has no mention of a linked exit by a IAD or SL I as a advancement criteria. All this DZ needs to do is put in the PRCP and go with the delays from then on, no need to ask a Non-AFF-I to risk a suspension of his/her other ratings, right? An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!