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    I was just goofin about that part and forgot the little smiley face One thing I have noticed in this thread of just two pages, but it would appear that there were two "Student" rigs rented to experienced skydivers who had mals this weekend.
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    HELP!!!

    nightjumps replied to Marz's topic in The Bonfire

    A bazillion... Google [images] type ambigram.
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    HELP!!!

    nightjumps replied to Marz's topic in The Bonfire

    And an Ambigram is a word or words that can be read in more than one way or from more than a single vantage point, such as both right side up and upside down.
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    Your Honor, it's all a big misunderstanding. I thought she said; she wanted to have sex while on fire. I didn't hear that she wanted to have sex BY the fire. And the Police Officers misunderstood me too. I said, "The Rotweiller is out and will attack you" and before I could say, "Let me put him up," they jumped me. So, as you can see, I'm just a victim in all this.
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    I wouldn't pay it - any of it. And ya know, that line of "You didn't pay for an opening, you paid for a pack job" is starting to wear on me. Cypres sells openings, how come packers can't?
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    . I'm with you on this. Tilly can be talking on T.V. in another room and the magnetic needle points north.
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    I enjoy mid-19th to mid-20th century. Testimony of Two Men - Taylor Caldwell Naked Came I - Weiss Madame Bouvary - Flaubert The Pickwick Papers - Dickens Forever Amber - Winsor The Naked and the Dead - Mailer And one of my favorites, that I've read several times, but am in need of reading once again is; Kon-Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl
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    Ya know, I read about four books a month and am sharing your pain. I just finished DaVinci Code and embarked on Angels & Demons cause I thought it would be as good, if not better. Read "Flyboys" by James Bradley, author of "Flags of our Fathers" and am reading Grisham's new novel, "The Last Juror." I think I'm about to tiptoe back through some classics. I haven't read Steinbeck's "The Winter of our Discontent" in about 25 years.
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    OIC. OK, now I'm with you. Thanks.
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    DD, I'm not trying to be dense here. I've heard this more than once. Are we sure it was a P/C in tow and not a horseshoe? If it is a true P/C in tow and the main is cutaway, how is it getting wrapped in the reserve? I guess I'm needing pictures or sumpin. Are folks just firing the reserve and not cutting away at the same time the drag of the towed P/C wriggles the pin out?
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    He was lucky. Excellent - Kudos to you!! well, if one cuts away the main as part of the EPs.... Even if you have a pilot chute in tow and do your normal right, left, arch... If the main does come out, its gone. If it doesn't you're gonna land with it. Last year, I was the organizer for the Skydive Tulsa C-182 most jumps in 12 hours (104). Exit was 2500, pull at 2000 for 12 hours. Only reserve ride was P/C in tow. He did his EPs SO FAST we could barely see cutaway first in the frame by frame on the video. He was in the saddle at 1200.
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    Why and When did this thought process occur?!?!? If you have a PC in tow and you reach your hand around; 1) you are taking a serious chance on your hand getting wrapped up in lines, thereby preventing you from using both hands for EPs, 2) Why spend precious time fumbling for something you can't see, that you should have seen prior to donning your gear, 3) This is not in any training methodology - anywhere. Review the video, "Breakaway."
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    That's really an issue for the Senior Instructor, DZO, or S&TA to take up with the TI.
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    Are you interested in "fitness" or size? "Whatever" is a pretty broad scope.
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    We use, 1, 2 & 3. Since there was no "Multiple Selections" allowed, I'll vote 3 (since its mostly) Forgive my ignorance, but what the hell is number 4 and how does that work?!?!? Just thinking about that puckers me butt.
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    One of the local DZO's has a rule - Unless you are a student; you fart, that's all the altitude you get. So; it's always the students.
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    OK.. I'm with you now. Semantics. Offheading from the brake lines not being symmetrical, versus line twists... Which reminds me... I wonder how many twists one of the brake lines has in it? I'll check out Rollins. Gots to run... Blue skies
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    I need your help in understanding this comment. Been thinking about this for awhile and am not quite sure I'm there yet. I'm not sure I understand how even a partial line twist is not an offheading opening.
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    Oh yeah. While I don't always agree, I do love his passion to rant.
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    LB, I don't think an good exchange of opinion warrants flaming. Regarding the pull-up cord through the three-rings... Sometimes, the more we compound change and the harder we try, the more we fail. Sometimes the answer is found by just going back to the basics. Whether you make sure your risers are symmetrical by using a pull-up cord or by visual check... its just one of the basics. I "believe" the more weight-loading placed on a canopy, the more symmetrical it has to be. "That's just my opinion, I could be wrong."
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    Do you tie your three rings together with a pull-up cord before packing? Do you ensure your excess line is not placed at the bottom of the reserve tray, but at a 45 degree angle down from the reserve tray into the main pack tray? Can you put your d-bag in the main pack tray straight up and down, rather than rotating the d-bag? Are your legstraps tightened symmetrically? Food for thought.
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    Isn't there a weight restriction for the mini-three rings and mini-risers? If so, wouldn't the manufacturers be safe in assuming that if you need large rings, you probably need large risers?
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    I luv to play chess and listen to italian tenors.
  24. nightjumps
    Well, believe it or not, your local "Interstate Batteries" has them in stock - $3.00 a piece.
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    The bill eventually passed 160-0, with no debate. Ridiculous