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I started in COLORADO in October.... A few weekend days I was jumping when it was well below freezing on the ground... The humidity from the humans in the plane would turn to ice crystals and snow the second you opened the door... BUT, I had a lot of fun, and did not even think, "this is insane cold" except once. Landing in snow is fun, and they even plowed the peas so you could hit frozen rock if the snow looked too soft and playful for ya... So, don't worry about the weather... Worry about the money... Save up enough to blaze thru AFF, then you can slow down a bit once you get the core muscle memories built. Once the fun of skydiving hits, a minute of negative 20 air you will not even notice. That is my two cents. (P.S. I plan on jumping in the winter again this year.)
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Jumping while chewing gum = bad idea, right?
tdog replied to Jeth's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
A TI was chewing gum a few weeks back... I said, "you skydive with gum?" He said, "Ya, but once it gets a hair in it from the student, I have to spit it out." I said, so, in freefall, which is faster, gum or a human pair with a drogue? The humans fall faster. I guess the packers are lucky it does not seem to stick to the drogue upon spitout. -
whats the average and highest exit altitude you get AGL?
tdog replied to Newbie's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Well... It is 12.8-12.9K AGL on average. Ad that to the field elevation of 5.1K and you get 17.9-18 MSL... Class A (Instrument Flight Rules, Flight Plan Required) airspace starts at 18K, so basically it seems that we are scraping the bottom of the controlled airspace on every jump... So at our DZ, "all the way" really is "all the way up"... -
Plastic bumper on rapide links has a hole in it
tdog replied to Newbie's topic in Safety and Training
I am not a rigger, but have you seen the goo that comes from duct tape as it ages... I wouldn't do it for long, just because I would not want the goo all over my rig. Isn't that cover just a plastic tube? If so, I would have thought the plumbing section of the local hardware store would have a clear plastic tube that would slide over as a possible solution??? -
Slider Zoo (as in zoo dive) Carvie (as in to carve in freefly) Pin But I like toggles a lot too. I think it is my vote.
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In that config - how fast were you going??? Head Down and Stand in the same airstream only with a board to slow you down??? Just wondering.
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What age did you start skydiving?
tdog replied to GoRdOn8619's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Wow, we have something in common... If you subtract 1 from your start age, you get my start age. If you subtract 1 from your start year, you get my birth year. -
I agree, I think it stalled because the angle of attack was increased to the point it would not fly anymore by the turbulence/thermal.... I don't think this was a user initiated stall. Agree or disagree?
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Well - maybe she should go bowling with my dog - sounds like they have a lot in common.
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I played that in slowmo... When you enter a thermal, your paraglider can go behind you... I was taught to fly with some brakes and when the glider surges back, let up to get it going faster, and if it surges forward, slow it down... Basic paragliding skills... I sat in a harness simulator with my eyes shut as my instructor pushed me around and had me "correct" with my toggles until the muscle memory was built. It looks like this paraglider surges back with great lift on the nose - a sign he entered an awesome thermal or turbulence going up.... I don't see any signs of a stall initiating this, does anyone else???
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... So, on the "first attempt" - you pulled the cutaway all the way to arms length but the cable was still thru the loop... Then you deployed the reserve. Then the main inflated and you had a hard time finishing the chop?? I just want to make sure I understand the order of events.
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Then I would run to the nearest DZ, because you are surrounding your self with freaks here. (Well, I don't know if the DZ will be any better, so your choice.)
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I think you shot first then asked the question latter.
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We must have a lot in common... I turned 30 this year... A few weeks before my 30th - I was on a commercial flight with a good friend who was younger but spent the weekend razzing me about my age... I sat in the exit row like I always do for the legroom... The flight attendant said, "Are you at least 15 years old, because you have to be that old to sit here?" She did not say it to the group, but just to me, after "inspecting our row." I said, "Ya, I am sixteen, you can just ask my father who is sitting next to me." So far, the best years of my life have been: 9 12 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 25 29 30
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I would consider you a skydiver now... You have saved your own life 4 times, and you are learning... I still learn just as much every time I visit the DZ now, that I did when I was in AFF. You never stop learning - so, by that token, don't get a mindset that completing AFF is all it takes to become a skydiver or something, because the fun is just beginning there... So, to me... If someone has jumped a few times in the last few weeks/months - and they plan on jumping sometime soon in the future - they are a skydiver... If they USED to jump, even with godzillion jumps, they "skydived"... That is the way I look at it.
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How many forum posters does it take to change a lightbulb?
tdog replied to Ragnarok's topic in The Bonfire
And 1 to start a new thread: "Should you change a light bulb without an AAD?" which will start a whole new debate if changing the lightbulb was just too risky to start with where 47 people will post that they used to change the bulbs without AADs in the olden days 32 will say it is too risky to change bulbs and 54 will say they would never would change a bulb without one... -
Smith 545-87-9856 1287 or was it Johnson 824-57-9652 8752 or was it Landra 354-65-8753 8589 or was it Raven 963-54-8785 3265 I just can never remember any more.
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A lot of the skydiving words seem to be male, like "spot" as in to spot the plane... Here are some words that came to mind that might inspire you to find something that fits by turning it feminine: Otter Shark (as in the Otter at Perris called that) Boogie Freak (as in Freak Fly) Go (as in ready set go) Pin Check Dive Tracker (as in tracking) Bird (as in Birdman) Gravity Point (as in 4way) Alti (as in altitude) Wing Bridal Hacky Jumpy
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God, if I got married on a balloon jump, I hope someone else would give me a gear check and remind me to pull... Talk about overload. Nice video. Nice wedding. Congrats.
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See my avatar? That is my dog who goes to work with me every day and even pisses on the tree this truck was under... (Last time it was hit it was far from the trees, that is not a link) The problem... There is a busy road that would kill both the dog and the squirrel should a game of cat and mouse start. And, in the past, the squirrel just climbs the trees and looks down at my dog with his tongue sticking out and a look of "nanny-nanny-bo-bo".
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He hit my 4runner when it was cold out... The mechanic told me, "they like the warm engine". Then he hit the company truck when it was 100 out... Perhaps the new line will be, "they like the shade under the hood."
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If that rant was specifically to me, I fully agree. But it was nice to have a rigger - that without the manual - could show me what each part was (by name), why it was there, etc... His knowledge about the system was much greater than what any manual said. Clearly he researched the system a lot. Could he have packed it without the design knowledge, sure... But, I would not have learned as much as I did either.
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Now that video made my day... (Actually, although I am angry at hell at the little bugger, if I do anything, it would be to set up a trap and move the guy to another part of the river our office is next to.)
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Ok, so as an atheist, my true answer is probably not what you want to hear... But if I am wrong, and there is an afterlife, then I will have a few questions to ask in my entrance interview... The first will be, where are my pets? If the answer from the pearl gates is, "not here" then I can tell you I am going on an after-life road trip until I find them. I think "pet heaven" would be much more fun to be in than "human heaven", and I know "pet god" would allow me to be in "pet heaven" even if "human god" does not allow pets into "our heaven." Have you ever seen a dog wage war because of religion? How about a dog who shows prejudice to race, religion, sexuality, etc? I think they would have an awesome god and heaven! T.
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YES! A 3rd complaint and still NO RESPONSE at all from the company. What kind of customer service is this?? They should be ashamed! I want my $3 (or was it $2?) back! Dave You know, one of the rubber bands I got had a birth defect. It was thicker on one side than the other. I shot it at a friend and it went off course and hit him in the face when I was going for something much lower... I want my money back too. How about a class action?