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  1. bob.dino
    Preferably a structured path containing plenty of objective feedback. A great example of this is Bill von Novak's Downsizing Checklist. "You want to downsize? Come back when you can do all these." Would it be worth trying to put together a similar checklist for aspiring swoopers?
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    Out of curiosity, how would you judge this?
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    Nope. Just read the instructions and you should be fine.
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    You wish boyo. Last year, it was €4.60 a Guinness, so that's 0.182 Guinness, or just over 100ml, to the dollar. Ireland isn't exactly a cheap country to visit anymore. Dublin is, in many ways, as expensive as London.
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    He sold his soul to Slaton.
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    As others have said, Euro (there's no s on the plural, fact fans!). Ireland switched 4-5 years ago. Take your ATM (debit) card out of your wallet. Look at the back. Does it have Cirrus, Plus, or Maestro on it? If so, it'll work in pretty much every ATM in Ireland. Ask your bank how much they charge on foreign currency withdrawals - $2 + 1.5% is common. This can work out substiantially cheaper than going to your local Bureau de Change if you take out $200 at a time. Have fun!
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    Nope. Use Firefox instead of IE, and stop visiting dodgy porn sites .
  8. bob.dino
    Welcome to the club. Now you are a real skydiver. From Dolph's profile: Location: Europe/Denmark
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    I can check my own gear. I can't reliably check an adjustible-MLW Telesis with a ripcord-activated spring-loaded pilot chute and an FXC 12000 on the main.
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    We can fit 17 in ours with the copilot seat in & facing forward. It's cramped, but doable, as long as there are no tandems or wingsuits on the load. Those seem to reduce capacity to 16.
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    Number 9, when I stayed at the hotel. Wasn't all that great, and it tasted like it had been sitting for a while then reheated. Great decor, lousy room-service food.
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    Years ago, the Aussie 16-way team were the only ones in the world taking complete 16-ways out of the Otter. At the World Meet, one of the pilots stalled the Otter on jump-run. Cost them a lot of points.
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    Two teammates. One is 5'3" and one is 6'8". When they sit down they're the same height. Raw height has less to do with rig sizing than is commonly supposed. Second-hand rigs that take 190s are damn hard to find at the moment in Australia. A glut of folk coming through have drained the market pretty much dry.
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    Deep Survival : Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why - Laurence Gonzales Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
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    It's alive and well here in Australia too, though I don't know if it's enforced for tandem reserve rides.
  16. bob.dino
    Bloody skydivers. Always geeking the camera .
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    I was waiting for that, though it was Oli I was expecting to chime in .
  18. bob.dino
    "Drunk Riggers Pack Better"
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    wingtip vortices

    bob.dino replied to micro's topic in The Bonfire

    I'm not talking about the vortices coming off the flaps, you doofus. I'm talking about those great big curly cue clouds that were formed by the... say it with me now.... ...moisture in the atmosphere?
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    Yup, I don't use one either - I also have slider keepers on my risers. However, the slider still rides high enough to make rearwards visibility a pain, which is where I could see the on-rig keeper having an advantage.
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    Given that you're one of the producers of the Parabatix DVD, I'm thinking that advertising is supposed to be paid for. See Rule 3
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    Eek. There's a big difference between a 1-2Kg laptop and 15Kg of rackmountable steel. I'd vote overkill on that one.
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    I've found that video-editing on my laptop is CPU-bound. DV only comes out of your camera at 25Mbps, which any decent HD will keep up with. The two critical factors are CPU and physical memory. Get a bare minimum of 1GB RAM, and preferably more. I'm not completely current on the latest processor models from Intel & AMD, but a CoreDuo Intel chip more than likely would do nicely. Note: Processor MHz/GHz is not the be-all and end-all of determining the speed of the processor. As long as the video card doesn't use system memory, you'll be fine. It's not critical.
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    What would you consider a more well-rounded canopy? /just curious.
  25. bob.dino
    ...and it should be a rubber band, not anything stronger, so that if you chop after stowing it, the band will break and you won't end up with a main-reserve entanglement. (I'm sure you know this. Just putting it out for general knowledge.)