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I did - once. The ice crystals hurt. It was just a drizzle's worth. It may have just been supercooled rain, but it was below freezing at altitude on that jump and there was a few frozen droplets of ICE on my goggles when I opened.

QuoteHey everyone, I know this topic comes up all the time and I've gone through about 30 different threads to get the answer iI'm looking for.Hello Chris. I'll let your instructors cover your gear issue (just make sure to pass all the good online answers through your instructors!) It's nice to hear from another fellow Ottawa skydiver. Send me a PM if you need a roadtrip buddy to share transportation costs to your dropzone Mile High Parachuting -- I'm between jobs, and like to save costs by carpooling. I'm not jumping as much, but am doing a couple of skydives here and there. This goes to any of you Ottawa skydivers. I'm a downtown dweller who don't own a car, so that's a free jump ticket (for those who's doing the driving!).

Finally, our logo! I am happy to announce that we now have our new logo for Rainbow Boogie 2006! It is now on the www.rainbowskydive.com website. Martin and I worked quite a bit to get the new graphics art integrated. You can see a thumbnail of the new logo to the left as my avatar. About our mag ads... we finished them recently and submitted them a few weeks ago. Here's our sneak preview of our magazine advertisements coming in the very next issue of all skydiving magazines (Parachutist, CanPara, and Skydiving Magazine) are located here: >> Rainbow Boogie Blog About our Load Organizer... It's also confirmed: Kirsten Johnson of Skydive Spaceland is definitely indeed coming to load organize during our boogie. We're still looking for volunteers for smaller load organizing (freefly, CRW) that meets NouvelAir's credentials. Packers are also welcome. (Unfortunately, this year, the dropzone isn't accepting any new temporary boogie-specific Tandem Instructors -- we've got asked this question several times from potential visiting instructors) About T-Shirts... Should be available by end of this month! I know, we had expected to have these done by now, but we had a delay regarding the design of the new logo... (Don't you just love Murphy's Law). We're getting new T-Shirts printed later this month with our new logo; we will contact everyone who registered if they would like to purchase one to help support the boogie, especially as our attendance is bigger than originally expected at the beginning of the year! If you want a T-shirt, make sure to register so we can contact you (even if you're not planning to attend). Reminder about airfares... For those of you planning to attend, don't forget to book your airfares! I'll contact everyone individually (all 100+ registrations). With the usual Canadians and dropzone regulars, dozens coming from the U.S. and we've got one from NZ, a few from UK, a few from Europe, and even one tentative from Moscow and from Australia. As mentioned on our website, everyone is invited; lots are bringing friends; about 25% of our attendees are straight so there is plenty of company for everyone! Here's a bigger version of our new logo. It symbolizes our worldwide attendance too as well as the equality and all-inclusiveness. [inline rainbowboogie2006_logo_240pix.gif]

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Easy. I just pasted your question into google and found the answer right away

I'm flying a wingloading that most people rarely complain about -- 1.1:1 for almost the last 100 jumps (although with my weight gain, I'm now about 1.15:1). While ever so borderline slightly aggressive wingload at 57 jumps, I have noticed it is somewhat more dangerous landing at this wingloading after a winter layover, than when I was jumping frequently last year. It really underlines how currency is important. Landing in zero wind on a 170 after having only jumped 4 times in 4 months (Pesky Canadian winters...), is a tad *exciting* even if I stood it up... Although I think my downwinder under a Manta 288 was a little more scary than that. (Even though the 170 is obviously more dangerous.) My jumping pace shall pick up soon, I may have a possible job lead...

The Surgeon General says: These rules do not apply to whuffos, Students, or A License jumpers. For more information about risks to new skydivers, please ask your friendly neighbourhood dropzone instructor

FOUR? If that was my rig, it's grounded until I find out why it's having an abnormally high mal rate!!!! Out of curiousity, what happened to the rig?

There's a guy that did 500 jumps in one day as part of a charity fundrasier I believe. But you can't get a D license from that (Yes - all low altitude hop n pops - yes, had his own planes, only passenger, dedicated staff, big set of rigs, something like 2 to 3 minutes per jump.) Still between jobs, or I'd be jumping more than I have now.

That's funny. Using his illusionist tricks to escape being robbed -- making himself look penniless. I saw David Copperfield a couple months ago when he came to Ottawa. Fun!

It's a fine wind tunnel for its time -- but it's a very old design that requires those silly looking futuristic sci-fi windtunnel suits. There are superior designs that are more skydiving realistic, and Flyaway wind speeds are too slow and more like a ride for the whuffos, but I heard it is still a useful training tool for newbie skydivers less than 100 jumps. It's not as skydiving-realistic as the modern newer windtunnels such as SkyVenture. Still worth a try - at least for a few minutes - you can get a windtunnel fix. The novelty of a windtunnel is fun enough that if Flyaway for a few minutes is your only chance of a first time in a windtunnel, GO FOR IT!

If I remember right, it was a BASE jumper that built the contraption himself, and he was his own guinea pig! The story is linked from somewhere on skydivingmovies, forgot which section, where a friend of his wrote about it. (I think)

Very funny flash video! Living downtown, I currently use VRTUCAR, a car sharing service that costs me about 4 bucks an hour. (It's similiar to ZipCar in the states.)

No, but we have another sponsor from the "gay industry" that will be announced shortly. The contract is signed and the transaction is in progress. Also, one magazine advertisement is paid for. We have a new logo too: CLICKY: Magazine Advertisement with new Rainbow Boogie 2006 Logo (This is the web viewable resolution; not the 600dpi TIFF version for print) I'm a bit bit behind in the posters, but I got business cards printed, at least! And I promoted them at a local Ottawa gay business fair as well. Also, I notice that 25% of our attendance will be straight, basically friends coming with our attendees, and many regulars to NouvelAir are interested in going anyway. If the weather ends up better than expected, NouvelAir may have to have all operating planes flying!

Alternate idea. Easy tatto modification. Turn it into an acronym. Turn ANNA into A.N.N.A. by tattoing periods between them. Come up with something that fits your life. Such as: All Naked Nukes Abolished! A Nice & Naughty Ass Adventurous Nice & Naughty Aries etc.

Don't become dependant on those - can fracture your vertebrae, especially if you land away from the "relatively safe" grass fields. Places like hard surfaces, hidden stones, pavement. I have read multiple dropzone.com threads in the last year about these horror stories that have actually happened. Nontheless, it does appear that a butt slide landing is acceptable in many cases -- Tandems do that all the time -- and a couple of disabled guys do it too -- just don't make it your only landing knowledge if possible. PS: I am not an instructor. Do lots of research and talk to instructors.

While I know that I should never be sloppy with the lines and the slider on any canopy, I have a question about the folds: I heard somebody say that the folds (in a standard pro pack) don't necessarily need to be totally neat and flat; or the fabric slips faster and the openings becomes harder. Just quickly flaked rather than meticulously folded... True or false? - I have wondered? I'm happy with my Sabre 170. Most openings are pretty comfortable (~600 feet from PC pitch to full canopy). I've noticed slightly more frequent "brisk" openings in colder weather than warm weather, I think because the fabric is stiff/dry/slippery rather than warm/sticky from the humidity.

DAMN! I said "F***ING crazy skydivers" several times during this one. Definitely a keeper among my favourite "crazy" vids that I save to my laptop. (VX39 landing, catapult BASE, rocket birdman, Flying wingsuit 6 feet above ski slope (Loic Jean), etc.) Stuff I'd never do. Safe jumps please... Don't get killed! That spinning linetwists into the trees was definitely shocking. (In fact, I believe a copy of that should be edited out and saved to the mals area!) Obviously, some of these videos set a bad example but I just simply have to save them to disk for my laptop! The big video (breaking_thru.wmv) is a great one, more balanced too. Landing spinning linetwists is something I never want to do. (I yelled at the video, cut away, cut away, cut away...)

Actually, there probably is a fatality involved with the fatal error: Some program crashed or a software execution thread got killed, or a query got terminated. In computer geek terms, that's a fatality. Edit: I just got a fatal error now. My condolences to the database query that got terminated. BSBD.

I am no instructor but I heard from many authoritative sources that it's not a stupid thing to do: It gives you ability to steer your openings a little, important if you're flying in crowded airspace. I guess it is all about tradeoffs -- a cut finger or a midair collision.

dropzone.com is a proper tool for students? My instructors told me otherwise!

Amazingly enough, yes. Some of these people are on Solo or A license status, so it's not entirely surprising.

My myspace.com profile has been useful in finding a number of new gay skydivers who's interested in attending Rainbow Boogie 2006. I believe it added about 5 additional registrations, from previously unknown skydivers who weren't members of dropzone.com. Apparently, there are skydivers who are members of myspace, who aren't members of dropzone.com!

IAD can still knock you out. Head hitting the step or tail. Errant freeflyer invading your airspace. Heart attack, oxygen deprivation. All of them have happened before... I'd jump without an AAD now that I'm B license, but I'm keeping my AAD in my rig. Better it being there than not -- I am informed enough about my Cypres2 and my jumping to know that none of my jumping tests the known safety margin and reliability of the Cypres2. Plus, some dropzones and some countries won't let you jump without an AAD.

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