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    Sex will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no sex. Easy Does It
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    In your case I don't think you need to upsize - your profile says you're just above 1:1 - You're fine. I never though about the excercise thing - I can't get to the gym easily but I'm sure I canfind excercises to do around the house (pushups, etc-) That will probably help burn some of the calories I've been consuming, too. Easy Does It
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    Whos the hottest

    Dumpster replied to Yoshi's topic in The Bonfire

    Out of the selection provided, I have to go with Kate. Easy Does It
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    Be patient my friend! A few extra weeks/ months healing is worth the wait. Realistically, I think I'll be back in the air around March. In the meantime I'll be hanging around the DZ and after I get the cast off and start physical therapy I'll work helping out around the DZ what I can. I'll also be upsizing from 150 to a 170. I really have no need to be jumping at 1.35. I don't swoop and I don't need to get down to the ground fast like a video flyer. Easy Does It
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    Probably no problem. I had to lock mine up good last summer and had some nice blue smoke coming off the front - I couldn't find a flat spot at all. I think the harder compound tires don't wear as easily. Easy Does It
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    Since I first posted in 2001 I guess, I've averged about 100 or so jumps a year, just about all of them RW jumps. I've spent a little time in the tunnel in Orlando. Learned alot in just half an hour. Jumped at six different dropzones. Became a coach, and I'd like to think a halfway decent belly flier. I've been on some 15-point skydives. Helped my daughter learn to skydive. I have to say that was the highlight of this past season. Next season, (after I get done healing from this little injury-) my goals are to continue coaching the young jumpers just off AFF status, and hopefully get my AFF rating in June. I also am planning on competing again in 4-way.
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    Glad to hear you're OK and you handled the situation - I learned real quick when I started that once you get on a bike EVERYONE in a car is out to get you. I ride very defensively. Tailgaters are one of my biggest worries, along with the fool who's going to run a red light or pull out in fromt of you. Definitely scope out your tires just in case. Can't be too careful! Easy Does It
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    I'm really anxious to get back to work - Short-term-disability gives me some cash flow but not really enough, especially with the holidays on top of us. Plus I've got projects at work that are suffering becuase I'm not there. The longer I'm off work the more mess I'll have to clean up, y'know? I am fortunate that my insurance will cover the lions' share of the $16,000 bill for this 'lil screw-up of mine. But I must admit it has given me some things to think about. And you get lots of time to think while laid up with an injury like this. I hate to admit it but the thought has briefly crossed my mind, to hang up the jumpsuit and start building custom motorcycles instead. But that's when I'll get a phone call or an email or I start posting here and it goes away!!! Easy Does It
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    Not too weird - \ Just last week I had a dream I was a sniper and had been spotted - I was hiding under a pallet in the middle of the woods while the enemy was stepping on top of me - Maybe I'd been watching too much Discovery channel- Easy Does It
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    About the whotsit - I recall static ports being toward the rear of aircraft I worked on when I was employed at an aircraft refinishing company years ago - Pitot tubes are probably on the leading edge of the wings some where- I'm not sure what the relationship is between the two and the airspeed indicator- Edited for crappy spelling-
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    That's an unusual location for the whotsit-thingy - I thought they usually go up by the front of the airplane, but nowadayze ya never know - We have three folks going out to check one out - (Maybe they are going to Davis?) All three are jumpers with up to 10,000 jumps experience, and two of them are jump pilots, so I'm confident in thier ablilty to evaluate the plane. We'll just see! Easy Does It
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    Can't be worse than a 182, can it? Easy Does It
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    That would be perfect - Wish I had the resources to do just that! Easy Does It
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    Yeah it sucks being broken - I'm off work on short-term disablilty and bored stiff. Can't wait to get back to it! Easy Does It
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    How much shorter than say, a Caravan?
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    Oh yeah - I am host to a plate and eight screws now. Nice scar on the outside of my leg, too! I've been initiated into the "club" of skydivers with hardware.
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    LMAO! Didn't think about the schools-! Easy Does It
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    I feel your pain, man. I got busted on a landing three weeks ago - Tib and fib in the ankle and some dislocation.
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    Didn't realize Bush was in your town - Then I doubt the missles would be inert. I still wonder why no wing man though. I think those pesky Cessnas could be easily dispatched with some of that tasty 20mm cannon fire, though. Easy Does It
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    The missles may have been inert - I take it the plane was flying solo? That would different - Most of the time they fly in pairs at least. Easy Does It
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    I would imagine one would have to put his or her own plan together in most cases.
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    I've talked to a guy who did wingsuit jumps from the PAC at Rantoul, said the "low" tail wasn't a biggie.
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    Oh yeah - We got it bad out here. H2s, and any flavor of high-end-gas-guzzling SUV you can imagine. People with absolutely nothing better to do with thier money, and these trucks will never, ever leave a paved road. They will take up two spaces, (Diagonally no less-) and drive like they are the only people who have the right to be on the road. Yeah, I live in the middle of status-symbol-land. (10,000 square foot McMansions and all!)
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    I would think that taking four jumpers on a PAC would be fairly uncommon. Perhaps the usual minumum would be 6-8 jumpers on a PAC. On weekends, put two 4-way teams on there with video and maybe a Tandem pair, or a bunch of Tandems and/or AFF1 students, a 10-way and a few freeflyers, etc - and we're talking some considerable revenue to offset those few 4-jumper loads that barely pay fuel and pilot. And I imagine we'll still have our faithfull Cessna for low-ceiling hop-n-pop days, too.
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    You're right on - When i was selling cars for a Dodge dealership out in western NY, the owner looked at heavily modded trucks with such disdain. Very few got favorable treatment, most he gave low-ball trades on and they went right to the hoop. But once in a great while he would see one that was done right and would keep it. But that was very rarely