FinlanderSisu

Thanks alot for the information, Really appreciate you guys. This website along with my home DZ make me appreciate the tight knit skydiving community. Im ex military, college etc and ive never been around people with the same camraderie and helpfullness, thanks again. Blue skies

Been Jumping like many from a c182, question is are they relatively safe generally speaking. Read a post in here somewhere had a crash on take-off. And my jump pilot also wears a Rig, ive just never been on a plane that thats the case. Not skeered just curious.

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Can someone please tell me the difference of a pilot chute and a drogue chute? On my first tandem we threw out the drogue chute i think to slow us down, how is that different than soloing and pulling the drogue chute to pull the main canopy? Thanks and blue skies

I appreciate everyones input. Don't know what I was thinking, never even thought about stretching as didn't think it was that strenous of a sport will definately be doing neck and additional stretching. Learning the hard way much like the first time to the golf driving range and feeling like Lennox Lewis had his way with my ribs.

About 3 weeks ago did my first tandem jump, the following weekend did my first Static line, Weather stopped student jumping this last weekend. Question is my neck has been sore since the first jump. A little sore feeling like if I had slept on it wrong, nothing major. Last couple days has been getting worse, this morning OUCH. Going to the Doc on Friday to get it checked on. Don't get me wrong im not whining or wanting $$ ,my big concern is when Im going to get back on the C182. Becoming Very passionate about this sport and like a profesional football player don't want to sit a season out. Is there anything I might have done wrong. Something I can do better to prevent in the future? Anyone else have this happen jumping?

Well since the Facts of his movie that are on his website are direct links to cnn,cbs,fox,pbs,.gov, etc. Yeah i'd be likely to believe he doesn't have the divine intervention to mess with independent news sources. But good try

I absolutely, positively agree. Well said. Im a military vet and have seen much waste to ensure they get alloted the same amount $ next fiscal year. I very much dislike the rights view that democrats want to give handouts. I for one will never help anyone that can help themselves but won't.Period. Different story for people that "can't" help themselves. I think its irresponsible,inapropriate, and foolish to give tax cuts while we have a, what is it now a 6 trillion $ dollar national debt. Think to the previous example of salary vs. taxes(governments income). If you have a 50K credit card debt (i.e national debt) would it be wise to offer to have youre salary cut?? Supply side economics is ridiculous. Give Wal-Mart couple billion dollar tax cut to create jobs. Are you going to shop at walmart more if there are more workers ther??

Disclaimer: I ,being a liberal democrat, am not trying to speak on behalf of all democrats nor when I say “republican” am I trying to classify all Republicans into one pile. I am merely speaking in generality as perceived by me on current election topics. Abortion- Despite how the media, republican pundits, or conservatives like to classify, categorize or demonize democrats, Pro-Choice does not, let me repeat, DOES NOT equal Pro-Death. We are not in the corner twisting our handlebar mustaches looking for ways to kill babies. We simply do not want Government intervention in personal affairs. Once you set that precedence what is next, being like China and imposing hefty fines for having more than one child? Me, I’m Pro-life and Pro-choice, yes it is possible. I think abortion is wrong but ultimately it’s not for me to decide. Each woman will have to answer to her maker for HER choice. Death Penalty- Wrong on many different levels. 1. It does not say “thou shalt not kill unless………”. Again I am pro-life as stated above so don’t try to slam me here. 2. Has never proven to be an effective deterrent. 3. Its not cost effective- Research the fact, yes, fact that the death penalty is far more costly than life in Incarceration. Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing is wrong? War In Iraq and Flip-flopping- We all know now that there are no WMD in Iraq, that’s a given. If you know you are wrong, the world sees we are wrong for the “original reason” we went to war- WMD- how many soldiers and civilians have to die before we admit we are wrong. I would respect “W” a lot more if he could admit he made a mistake , any mistake. Instead he holds the words “resolve” “committed” and “hard work” to avoid any chance that he has to face the facts. But the political spinners have moved away from the WMD issue to being liberators. In other words we will concoct a reason after the war started to remain popular in eyes of the voters. Side note- Shaaaaame on the RNC for wearing blue band-aids mocking Kerry’s war wounds. What message does that send to our soldiers in harms way? Taxes- Econ 101, let me compare the u.s economy with our personal finances. Taxes (for the government) equate to you’re salary as an employee. The government has bills to pay- you have bills to pay. You’re salary pays the rent, electricity, water, etc. Taxes pay the fire departments, education, health care, etc. See the correlation? So a tax cut is basically a salary cut in this example. The questions are 1) What are we going to reduce with less taxes? And 2) Where are tax cuts going to come from? Bend down I got a secret to whisper to ya. When Bush or any President cuts taxes the government still has bills to pay so, are ya ready, we can 1)either raise taxes on the state level to make up for it or 2)Get deeper in debt for our children. Food for thought

To anyone that thinks Fahrenheit 9/11 is based on lies,fabrications,editing,fairy tales and/or pixy dust I ask you go to michaelmoore.com where he show the SOURCES for his movie LINE by LINE. Rather hard to dispute no matter how much you dislike him or the democratic causeQuote

So glad I found this site. Did my first Tandem jump 2 weeks ago and was absolutely sold. Did first student S/L jump this past weekend and after first tandem and taste of the freefall I will be a permenent name on the manifest at my DZ. Learning Curve is steep learning the new "jumping" language and love the educational posts. Thanks to everyone and hope to get to jump with some of you soon, Blue Skies- Woody