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The thing that determines whether the plane will take off is the airspeed over the wings. The RPM of the wheels is completely insignificant. Theoretically, you could balance a wheel-less plane on a tripod, send it down the runway on your contraption and it would take off. I dont know how you would land that kind of plane though.

Steve, We all miss ya down here. Sorry to hear you won't make it to eloy though. You better get back to colorado at some point next summer though!

Nice Job! I had my first cutaway a year ago at eloy too!! You know what that means though... I should be around on wednesday or thursday to collect

It's the best of both worlds here in Colorado! It's 60 degrees in Denver today and it's supposed to stay that way all weekend. Meanwhile 30 miles away in the mountains 9-12 inches of snow is falling.

I am in the process of trying to find a new place to live right now. Whenever I am looking at apartments and houses online and see they are in Lone Tree, I think, "Hmm..."

Don't forget the high octane margaritas across the street at Rio Grande.

The desert is an amazing place. I have been lucky enough to row down the grand canyon several times. I love the contrast between the dry, arid landscape of the desert of the inner canyon and the life and power of the river. In the desert, energy seems to be in a raw form in abundance.

you're below the hard deck... go for silver. ohh....silver is shiny!

A shot called "Atomic Hot Vodka"....you put a shot of vodka in the microwave for about 30 seconds to get it nice and hot, then add a splash of habenero extract sauce. The temperature opens up all of your taste buds and glands for the vodka to burn like hell followed by the habenero sauce. I will NEVER drink that again. I also didnt care for the taste of Absinthe too much either.

Well, my friends and I have a big party going on *tommorow* night in Arvada a few miles from where you live. We are getting ready for it tonight....

A fancy GPS might incorperate all of this internally fyi. Your GPS also might also just let you set a waypoint at the starting point and you could walk until the distance and direction to the waypoint was where you wanted it to be. ie for the 329.728 degrees and, say, 1600 feet you could walk until the gps read the direction back to the way point was 1600 feet on the opposite compass bearing (329.728 - 180 = 149.728)

You can use bearings and lengths to get approximate GPS coordinates. The easiest way to do this is to change the units on your GPS to UTM. UTM stands for Universal Transverse Mercatur coordinates. When you pull up a UTM coodinate It will look something like this: 10 S 0559741 4282182 The "10S" describes the zone you are in. Zones are very large and you will probably not need to worry about this number. The second number describes your east-west position within a zone in meters. The third number describes your north south position within a zone in meters. So if you walk 1 meter due north the bottom number will increase by 1. If you walk 1 meter due east, the top number will increase by 1. Let's say you are standing at the point above and you want to navigate to another point with a known bearing and direction. The first step is to calculate the components in each principal direction. Using the first bearing line ( N52*40'42"E), let's say we want to go 1600 feet along this line. We have to walk both north and east to get there. How far north and east though? We can figure that out using trig. So 50 degrees, 40 minutes, 42 seconds = 50 + (40 + 42/60)/60 degrees OR 50.678 degrees We can convert this into a northing component using the sine of the bearing angle: So the northing component is: 1600*sin(50.678) = 1237.8 feet Use the cosine to convert this to an easting component: the easting component is: 1600*cos(50.678) = 1013.9 feet Now we have our northing and easting components of the bearing line. We need to convert them to metric for use in UTM. So we divide them both by 3.28 to get 377.3 m, and 309.0 meters respectively. If the Bearing line were southerly, we would subtract the northing component, if it were westerly we would subtract the easting component. In this case, our line is North and East, so we add both components. so our new coordinates would be: 0559741 + 309 = 560050 (easting) and 4282182 + 377 = 4282559 (northing) Just plug this number into the GPS and walk to this point.

We got that in my office yesterday and we all thought it was hilarious. Espically to those of us that spend 45+ hours a week producing just that type of plans!

N52*40'42"E N30*16'19"E Those are *not* lat long. They do not signify a point on any map. Those are bearing lines. Essentially it is surveyors talk for the direction of a line. Generally they are accompianed with the length of the line they are describing Both Refer to lines that bear more or less northeast. For example, the first line means that you start due north, go 52 degrees, 40 minutes and 42 seconds toward the east and that is the direction of the line. S52*40'42"W would describe the same line, but the opposite direction. Because this is north-east it also exactly cooresponds to the compass heading of 52 degrees. I work with this stuff all the time. PM me if you need help.

You might also consider adding University of Colorado at Boulder to the list. They have all three programs you are looking for and a very strong journaism school. It is about an hour to the best skiing in the country and 15 mins to the closest dropzone. Not to mention backpacking, rock climbing, the new wind tunnel and awesome weather. Boulder is a very chill town too.

Good news. The mining law provisions were dropped from the budget bill today

Here's some good reading to get you started.

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3 Jars of Vasoline 2 Garden Gnomes 5 Rolls Of Duct Tape Young Priest Old Preist 16 Nuns 134 Penguins Cast Iron Tub 89 Bottles of Whipped Cream 120 ft of 16' Copper Wire 2 Lemons 3 Chickens Chocolate Syrup Strawberries 12 Kegs of Imported German Lager (Personal Use) Copy of The Satanic Bible 100 Yard Flamingos Leather Whip 14 Pairs of Handcuffs Cactus The Village People Gary Busey Crisco Twister Duct tape WD40 Tequila!(Patron) Jello Jet-A BANG BANG BANG Bus jumbo box of rubbers a jade monkey 32 locking caribiners 10 boxes of ziploc bags

I am thinking we need to throw some tequila into the mix.

Count me in. I'll bring the copper wire, the Duct Tape, the strawberries and the chickens.

I worry that my reserve won't open about as much as I worry that my emergency brake will fail on my car when I am driving in the mountains....that is to say not much. I am more worried that I will have a mal on my main and start emergency procedures too late...or fail to find my handles at all...or lose altitude awareness and pull too low...or fail to see another canopy close to the ground and have a canopy collison...or make a hard turn too low...or any of the multitude of more likely things that I actually have control over. I trust my reserve and I trust it will open when the time comes.

In general, 24 is a case. However when dealing with Microbrews and more expensive beers, the maximum quantity you can buy them in is often 12, and that seems to be considered a case for those beers.

Time to check in with this thread again!! I made this post just over a year ago... What a year it's been! Since that post I have: - Made 95 jumps, - Have gotten much better at both RW and freeflying - Had one cutaway - Made jumps from a balloon and a helicopter - Attended the Eloy holiday boogie, the American boogie, and the MOAB boogie. Outside skydiving: - Got about 25 skiing days in - Organized a 7-day rafting trip for 24 people on the middle fork of the salmon river in Idaho - Spent about 30 days total on the river - Went on some amazing backpacking trips - Changed jobs to a much better job. In the next year, I have the following goals: - Accumulate 250 to 300 total skydives by year's end - Get a coach rating - Continue working on RW and freefly skills. I would like to have a solid headdown by this time next year. - Take advantage of Skyventure Colorado as much as possible. Outside Skydiving: - I am planning a 3-week grand canyon whitewater rafting trip in June and July - Get out as much as possible on the river and into the backcountry. - Stay Balanced. Try not to let skydiving take over my life I will use most of my vacation time for the grand canyon rafting trip, so I'm not sure how many boogies I will be able to attend....hopefully I'll make it to a few!

I jumped all day yesterday. It was beautiful jumping weather. Of course everyone thought we were insane for doing a high pull on sunset load