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From Waller or San Marcos? This happened at Spaceland. San Marcos had the accident with the formation load last year, but it was the (?) Kingair pilot flying out of formation. Not a gas or engine problem. Fly Your Slot !

Is that English? Fly Your Slot !

Spacyland borrowed their otter and pilot to do 40 way this weekend. We sent them our cessna and Rabbit to fly it. Fly Your Slot !

me too alot. But I keep my Gath around, just in case. Fly Your Slot !

Chris: Yes, no one is disputing that it was a "big deal", it sucked, but.... when they validated the decision to abort the formation load, wasn't that the right decision and the proper "decision making"-for the pilots and the organizers? You have soooo much experience with formation loads, and yes, point well taken....make sure you have gas. But when they started to run low, they aborted. In skydiving, it's not just one thing, but a string of things. Im thinking they broke the string of "bad aura". I'll shut up now. Fly Your Slot !

Just get Antimike to say OK. Good Luck. Fly Your Slot !

I have this fantasy skydive ...(he..he.. she said fantasy) of exiting in a total and complete liplock....eyes closed, tongues just erotic as you can be making out in freefall till the dytters go off. I can't get Mikie off the big ways to do a 2 way tongue dive Man, I really wanna do that skydive. Fly Your Slot !

ta-kill-ya....duhhh....Texas Girl.... Thought you guys new me better than that! Fly Your Slot !

This was an article I wrote for Compuserve Extreme Sports Forum: My First Jump September 5th, 1998 my palms were sweaty and my mind was racing as I made the long 80-mile drive to the regional airport in Wharton Texas. Today, I was going to the First Jump Class required to make my first skydive. My two friends had jumped several months before and were nearly complete with their student training. The nerves quickly changed to fascination as I walked into the Drop Zones hanger and saw multi colored parachutes on the carpeted floor. Outside behind the hanger, skydivers landed seemingly like birds, the aircraft pulled up to the loading area and more skydivers climbed aboard. “Welcome to Our World” was the slogan on a sign in the office, certainly I felt like I had stepped into a different world. The class began promptly with seven of us eager to make a skydive. Although I would be making my freefall with two Jumpmasters to assists me; I still had to land safely. I learned the basics about how I would get ready to jump, exit the airplane and perform during the skydive. How to deploy the parachute, fly the parachute and most important, land safely. By the end of the day with a wealth of information in my already racing mind, I got to go first. I would be jumping with the class instructor and another Jumpmaster. We briefed over all we had talked about, and got me a jumpsuit, altimeter (to measure altitude), two way radio (for canopy flying instructions), helmet, goggles and parachute pack. I think we check my gear about 25 times before I got on the plane and another 10 times before I jumped. We talked about the skydive again in the plane. Briefed on the Exit from the plane, keeping a good arch to stay stable in freefall and hand signals they might give me. My heart pounding was the only sound as the door came open and the Jumpmasters signaled me to take my position in the doorway. The ground 13,000 feet below me looked like a live road map with beautiful colors set against a perfect clear blue sky. The excitement and thrill of sitting in the doorway looking down soon turned to reality as the Jumpmasters got into position. “Check left”; I yelled, “OK” said the left side Jumpmaster. “Check Right”, with a giant lump in my throat and not quit as much enthusiasm, “OK”, yelled the right side Jumpmaster. Then I experienced a sensation I had never consciously felt, Sensory Overload. It took my mind awhile to catch up my body. There I was in freefall, the wind rushing past me. My body weightless. Check for Jumpmasters, good they are there. Check altitude, WOW, we have only fallen to 10,000. Seemed like eternity already. Practice touching the rip cord, good found it easy. Wave off, pull the ripcord. I sat there under the parachute for a second, rushing and breathing and calmly aware of a great sense of achievement and accomplishment. An open canopy is the most beautiful sight in the world right now. Then my mind was snatched back as the radio on my chest echoed “Nice Parachute. Let’s release those steering lines and make a turn to the left if you can hear me..” I didn’t have a landing like a bird, but good enough to get my feet on the ground. I was instantly hooked on the sport, and my life changed forever. June 7th, 2001 I now have 306 jumps with 5 hours, 44 minutes and 7 seconds of freefall. I have jumped from 7 different types of aircraft, in a bikini, in a rubber life raft and through a hoop. I average 5-10 jumps a month and have a lot to learn about the sport I love so much. Most of the people in the sport are just like me. Middle aged, career minded educated and family oriented average people. Why skydive? We have found a sport that gives you a great sense of accomplishment, motivation and mental sharpening. For more information on skydiving and member Drop Zones, please check with the United States Parachute Association. Blue Skies. Fly Your Slot !

Here's mine. Really, It's me. Fly Your Slot !

Both photos were taken at couchfreaks 2000

Enjoy what? The paybacks or the pic's of Kelli and I? What is it you enjoy? Fly Your Slot !

How'd you get that picture of my Ex? Fly Your Slot !

Paybacks are always nice. Fly Your Slot !

Ok, Skycat got me with the revealing photo. Gotta girl. Here's one of Kelli, she's the cute and sexy one. Fly Your Slot !

sounds like your finding some good people to jump with too. Any Organizers? So, what's the biggest diffrence between Skydive Dallas and Spaceyland? Fly Your Slot !

http:// http://ddi.digital.net/~bryan/bry14.html Florida Record... Awesome! Fly Your Slot !

Anyone got a 20 pound weighvest? Fly Your Slot !

Your talking Completely Full Loads Full RW Gear Go Arounds Exact Spots Traffic Formation Flying Lots of floaters Long Climb-out - Don't cha think just maybe they used a little more gas than a normal load? Gez, Im not a pilot, but just because the low fuel light comes on doesn't mean FREAK AND PANIC AND CALL THE FAA, does it? Maybe it means, hey...let's scratch the formation load at this point and get everyone down safe. Which is exactly what happened. Two perfect 20 way rounds. Fly Your Slot !

Wow... The most incredible thing that I have seen in Skydiving in my short time in the sport. Two very very nice Otters, flying in formation. Two (2) 20 way's leave from both planes then, clear as day... build a formation so distictive and precise that you could see each slot. Break off in giant waves .....and the base looked like you could touch them... .. then THE LOUDEST WHOOOSSSS I've ever heard. 40 Canopies in the air - at the same time. At my Dropzone. Every single landing picture perfect. - I am in strickened amazement by the RW that I saw today. Last jump of the day.....4 point 40 way! RW ROCKS! Fly Your Slot !

Sorry, Im not into rumors or gossip- just too much tequilla. Actually didn't the incident involve a go around or so and some challenging formation flying? Think they were all up there waiting for the right conditions and decisions. Your talking about the two best Otters in Texas...and a lot of experience. Fly Your Slot !

Wow... The most incredible thing that I have seen in Skydiving in my short time in the sport. Two very very nice Otters, flying in formation. Two (2) 20 way's leave from both planes then, clear as day... build a formation so distictive and precise that you could see each slot. Break off in giant waves .....and the base looked like you could touch them... .. then THE LOUDEST WHOOOSSSS I've ever heard. 40 Canopies in the air - at the same time. At my Dropzone. Every single landing picture perfect. - I am in strickened amazement by the RW that I saw today. Last jump of the day.....4 point 40 way! RW ROCKS! Fly Your Slot !

I get the 'WILLIES' after about two weeks. Like Lisa said, once you get there, check your gear, touch your handles 100 times and get your AROUSAL LEVEL under control. Just Skydive. You might wanna go through mal's in your mind. Think of each kind, what they look like, and what you would do. Don't forget to stand up your landing.

Plus most dropzones hold a "safety day" in March. Get everyone together, refresh, think safe. Ask your DZ if they are planning a Safety Day. It'll do you wonders to get together and talk about Safety before your real season starts. Fly Your Slot !

I think (I know, scary) that you could TRY to change the name, come up with one, sanction it.... but everyone would still call them Whuffo's. Fly Your Slot !