nightjumps

Well, it would appear from your avatar that I'm going to have to stick my Master Blaster wings sticker back on my truck before heading back down to Skydive Dallas

Reasonable amount of experience or not, pulling the bridle with your hands can get that arm severely wrapped up in risers, toggles, suspension lines. Then what? Wait on your AAD to fire? If its not what you recommend and its not what you teach.... Luv ya, man.

I'm with you on this one, Mike. While there are anamolies, there's also huge legal issues with those under 18 entering into a contract (waiver) in virtually every state. And if anyone under 18 ever goes in, we're going to see state, federal & local authorities and the press climbing so far up the parents/DZO's ass, that we'll all be taking laxatives for a year to get 'em out. And then it will happen. The FAA will step in and figure out a way to regulate it.

Spank maybe. Never Kick.

I took mine off the staff page, ran it thru Paint Shop Pro using the JPEG Optimizer to squeeze it to HH's parameters and uploaded.

Seemed only fair since you uploaded the one of you in lingerie

Just seeing if I was successful

The probability of the chute not opening is 1:50,000. The odds are 50/50 (actually 1:1). Or would the percentage of 99.997 of it opening be the probability? So long ago... anyone help? Paging Dr. John, Paging Dr. John.

Depending on the number of jumps you had, instructional methodology, licenses/ratings held etc., your local DZ will help develop a path for you to get back in the sport.

Hmmm... Goo cake + female anatomy. Must do some research. I'll get back to you.

VERY nice. I like the subtle black gray tie-dye. It has a bit of urban warfare look to it. Think that would make for a cool BASE rig color scheme.

When I was a SysAdmin in a previous life, I used to build my own desktops. At our company, we used Compaq Servers & HP clients, so when my desktop computer needed upgrading, the price of desktops had come down so much that it was cheaper to buy off the shelf than to build one. I bought an HP Pavilion 6730 PII Win98 4.1. 96 meg of ram, 40 gig hard drive (1999). I took it home with the understanding that it would probably shit the bed eventually and was religous about nightly backups (another geek trait). I took all the proprietary software bullshit off and just used MS Office/Outlook and a couple of web design tools. I ran a scheduled maintenance program of HD cleanups and disk defrags. That HP served me perfectly for four years - not one "restore" the whole time. A couple of weeks ago, I decided it was time to upgrade. I spent two weeks researching HP, Compaq, etc. I went to the Gateway store where a friend works and busted open the case to look at the components. Another friend works at a local CompUSA and he and I busted open Compaqs, HP, Sony and eMachines. Interestingly enough, they all use the same components (I didn't look inside a Dell or Alienware). I settled on two eMachines. Both are T2542's with Intel Celeron 2.5 GHz processors, 256 DDR Ram and a 40 Gig HD for $399.00 with a $50.00 mail-in rebate. Nothing major as these are home computers with wireless network connectivity used mostly for the occasional website build, chess.net, emails and cruisin dz.com. I went into this with the knowledge that they were clones and the opportunity for disaster was as equal as the others. My backup now consists of a 256 MB Bus memory card which I wrote a batch file that dumps from "My Documents" to the Bus Card nightly. The really really important stuff, I back up weekly to a folder on a webserver which does nightly backups. My thoughts are that for $349.00 - even if they last a year, that's roughly $28.00/month. My other thought is that with the ever-increasing, software-driven processor/ram requirements, we're looking at a two year cycle to upgrade the entire machine. The point to this is; If most of them are using the same components, go cheap, do regularly scheduled maintenance, and backup often. Even the best will shit the bed. And, figure that every couple of years, you're going to need a new one. Personally, I don't think we're far from ISP driven ASP servers and a home client that consists of a monitor and a keyboard.

You got it, homie.

Interesting. Earlier this year at Skyfest, I organized a Texas Two Ton twenty way. You had to be over 200 pounds. I was last one out. Nearly standing on my head the whole time to get to the formation and just as I was in decelerate mode, they started tracking. Point bering, there's more than just a couple of us.

Wow. You need to spend more time jumping and less time worrying about hypoxia. When the pilot starts worrying about hypoxia, then you can worry about it. He's still got a plane to land.

You are more than welcome to visit skydivetulsa.com and bring your HALO rig. There are four of us over 6' in the 200+ pound range. WE have several HALO rigs laying around and the DZO owns one that he uses for his big flag on demos. The only stipulation he has is that if only two of us peg out the weight limit of the 182, that we pick up the third slot. Other than that... no worries. I'll go up with you any time, my exit weight is 265. I think Tony's is about the same. Anthony's - same. We are an Anvil friendly DZ. Home of the Anvil Brothers!!!!

Well, it would also be much safer during duck season in most states.

That was my recommendation. I'm sure other recommendations would be welcome.

If you are a paying an annual membership fee, and that membership fee makes you a part of the organization, you choose to sue the organization, you are in turn; bringing suit against yourself.

According to your profile, you live in Ohio. If that is still the case, you can submit a complaint to the Ohio Department of Insurance (most states have an insurance regulatory agency). My suggestion would be to fill out a complaint form (located on the website), formalize a chronological letter of events and steps you've taken to resolve the issue. Send a letter including the complaint to the ODI to all parties including the collections agency. http://www.ohioinsurance.gov/Newsroom/scripts/Release.asp?ReleaseID=840 Hope that helps.

On a scale of 1-10, I'd give it a 6. However, the book, "The Da Vinci Code," I 'd give a 12 on the same scale.

Here's one:

This was a birthday jump for his 90th. When he was leaving he said, "Good Lord willin, I'll see you guys next year!"

I got to put a 90 year old out and it made ~Michele smile. It doesn't get any better of a day than that.

Brother, you have no idea.... The DZO and I personally took his rig off the student rack, double checked everything and repacked it like it was a reserve. We were hand-ironing the folds, he was double checking the line order... We spent two hours making sure we'd gone over everything with a fine tooth comb before he even showed up. I think it was more stressful on us, than him.