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    Fucking Rain

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

    Weather forecasts are often wrong. Go, learn, meet people.
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    The other half of Step One is for you to pack for someone who is known to have nice openings. "Hi, I'm having brutally hard openings and I'm trying to find out if it's my packing. Can I pack for you?"
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    I missed this post the first time through, but it sounds like you've made an eminently sensible decision... good luck with the future
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    That would be a really good idea... if there were any tunnels in Texas . Mykel: sorry to hear you've been forced to retire from the sport. Hope you can keep the happy memories and find something else to fill the hole left in your life.
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    If he wasn't rich, famous, and good-looking, then yeah.
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    *Waah* I can't afford to fix my canopy so I'm buying a sportbike. *Waaah*
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    Clearly you've never purchased it in a bar. ...or in Australia. It's a premium beer here, which seems to obscurely offend most Californians.
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    Really? My gf just laughs at me .
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    That's normal.
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    Step one: find out if the problem is your packing or your gear. Get someone else to pack for you for a weekend or two. If there are no slammers, it's probably your packing technique.
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    I agree with much of what you say, but this rings false. 500 jumps @ $20/jump is $10k. Add student jumps, a rig or two, and other miscellaneous expenses, and I think you'll find that skydiving instructors are paying at least $15-20k to get their ratings.
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    Dunno. Can they go up? And I'm not talking about on a high-speed tailgate exit either... True. I'd never really looked up the definition before - "going up" was just where I personally put the marker. I know when doing 4-way that I'm falling, not flying (no smart remarks, boyo ).
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    When you can go up in freefall, you're flying. Otherwise you're falling. Note: you don't have to be able to go up indefinitely - unpowered aircraft will run out of airspeed, powered ones fuel, and birds will run out of energy. You just have to be able to go up for a bit.
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    Probably, but I don't know enough to comment. 1:1 is not a particularly light wingloading, and it's definitely not dangerously light. It's a damn good wingloading and it's where I spent my first 450-odd jumps.
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    Changing from RW to FF speeds mid-jump will mean that Group A experiences less freefall drift than planned. However, if Group B left soon enough that that becomes a factor, there was a fairly serious exit separation problem in the first place. Are you sure that the person from Group A that ended up under Group B wasn't backsliding madly up jump-run?
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    I prefer the frames on the Gatorz, but I think the lenses on my Oakleys were better...
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    NWFlyer's link will help. Once you've finished initial training (this will consist of a ground school plus a number of jumps that depend on the training method), a student is usually allowed to jump on their own, or with an instructor/senior jumper. They will then have to complete further requirements such as number of jumps and landing accuracy to receive their initial licence (usually "A licence") that certifies them to jump with other jumpers. If he doesn't know enough to know exactly what he wants, he's almost certainly better off spending a little more and buying through people in Argentina. They'll help him get equipment that suits. After all, it's not a bargain if it contributes to an accident requiring hospitalisation Not a problem.
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    I'm 6'3". A friend of mine is 6'8". Both of us can find plenty of second-hand rigs that fit - many tall people have much of their height in their legs.
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    how old will you be?
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    damn boy, for that I'll eat the candles too! Allez les bougies!
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    Chianti with candles on it? What will they think of next? Kick-off is at too-fucking-early o'clock here, and I have work afterwards. On my birthday too! Whee.
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    It is a fuckin' ugly helmet.
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    Read Joel on Software on writing specification documents that are actually read. While I don't think his approach is perfect, it definitely does make things easier. As to why developers ignore specs? They're often wrong/out of date/unreadable. Besides, it's much more fun to make it up as you go .
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    Simple, but wrong. People are actually rooting for Italy, because if you're going to lose, it might as well have been to the World Champions. Tim Cahill (Aussie soccer player) has been instrumental in promoting this view.