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I'd tell you but I'm getting tired of talking to shrinks about simple solutions. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

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Kick ass Beech King Air B90 0-15K in 7.5 minutes. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

Thanks. The fun part was standing in the clouds taking it. BTW that was under canopy with a telephoto - not in freefall with a wide angle. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

I think he was a theme park character. We get alot of cast members here for tandems. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

Left out the picture of the wildfire. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

There is a broader perspective on this than skydiving, flight school, and tower. On one side of the debate is the skydiving busisness. The DZ is relatively mature business. It is cyclical with a winter peak. The jumps per day factor for teams is a necessity to draw them. The Plus on the draw is the proximity of several manufacturers. The other plus on the draw is the weather and local infrastructure for accomodations. The manufacturers benefit from a local DZ for jump availability for testing, some incremental walk in business and a symbiosis of proximity. Relative Workshop and PD rely on an established skill base which would be expensive to develop elsewhere and more expensive to move. Other manufacturers may have similar problems to a lesser degree. Government contracts and mail order are staples, local testing is a benefit that may suffer but perhaps not significantly if a DZ continues to operate in some capacity. As for the flight schools, a local tower would benefit them. Controlled airport light communications training and practice is an important aspect of any flight curriculum. Uncontrolled practice can be conducted at any number of nearby local airports and is necessary to a lesser degree. It is a good fit with a flight school. The bigger picture from the City and County is the potential for commercial air traffic. A commercial airport represents non-cyclic business in any government's eyes. It represents growth, which is another attractive aspect that politicians lust for. Proximity to Orlando attractions has been responsible for some growth in air traffic at Daytona and more recently Sanford. Whether or not it will effect Deland is a question mark, but anything that means more tax dollars for a politician to spend is generally good in their eyes. At the end of the day, this will go where it goes, but our industry and sport has always been small and not well organized or understood by the general populace. We do not have a lobby or public relations face. Not that skydiving publicity is bad, it's just non-existant. Historically nomadic hunter gatherers die out when farmers begin taking over the land. I fear this is just an example of that. Good luck at the hearings. Remember that the first step to to avoiding a trap is knowing that it is there. Planting the seeds of doubt as to how good the unproven alternative revenue sources are is as important as demonstrating how good the existing ones are. You won't win the argument, but you may help the other side loose theirs. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

If you mean inside the chamber, shoot from a low angle or high angle not directly across. If you mean outside the chamber, use a black "donut" of neoprene or something similar wrapped around the lens hood and blaock all ambient light from outside the chamber from bouncing on the glass. Also shoot at verticle angles. Another trick is to use a faster film or setting and put a condom (a real condom - unlubricated) over the flash. It simlulates a bounch flash (which wouldn't be practical inside the chamber. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

Good - Kim at PD Good - Kristen at Griffin Rigging Outstanding - Mads at L&B - Customer service so good, when my ProTrack quit working I bought another L&B product. Good - Ward H. but don't I said so. Abysmal - Birdman (the company not their dealers) --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

Useless trivia. Two things that have a unique smell when they're new: Cars Dogs --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

Ahhh training a puppy. Rule number 1 - Never assume the dog understands anything you say or do until it is 3 years old. Till then it will always occur to the little critter that it might just be possible to get away with something. Rule number 2 - get a crate. When you go anywhere - put the dog in the crate an put the crate in the car. I know you know enough to never leave it in a closed car. Take the dog along. At home, oen the car, park it in the shade, and leaqve the dog in the crate in the car. Take it out frequently for breaks and water. Don't tie the pup on a leash and leave it - put it in a crate. Tying out the pup will make leash training much more difficult, could hurt the pup if it panics, and could trip someone. Crates are good - teach the pup to like the crate and you will enjoy the pup more. When you aren't watching the pup, crate it. If it gets into trouble it's your fault. This tip will save you a bunch of grief in the future, especially if it's a larger breed. Now while it is young restrain the pup with your body for 3-5 minutes once or twice a day. I just laid down on the little guy giving him enough freedom to breath, but not allowing him to escape or struggle much. It will help when socializing him or her later. Also, get in their face - alot - when they are puppies. That is, actually put your face right against theirs - forehead to forehead. I call it the Weimaraner mind meld. Getting in an adult dog's face is an aggressive move, but kids do it all the time. By doing it alot when it is a pup, they get used to it and see that it is not a threat. When the puppy is in a quiet mood, put you finger it its mouth. If it applies ANY pressure at all, screech OWWW!! and then praise it when it gets away from the finger. Do this alot too. The purpose is to learn that humans in no way shape or form belong it a dog's mouth. Caution - doing this when the puppy is in a frisky mood is a waste of time. Some things you don't want to know about your puppy. They have two teething stages just when you think they have grown out of the chewing stage (afound 6 months) they go though it again (at about 9 months) for their back teeth. They have two fear imprint stages don't scare them and help them through things they are afraid of gently and with lots of patience. If you don't you maight end up with an fear biter or a submissive pee'er. Wait for any training that might scare puppy till after they are 1 year old. Till then easy does it, introduce them to noises from far away, and scarey sights - like shadows, umbrellas, Frenchy, from a distance and approach slowly. The "sneaky lines" trick is a good one and isn't scary. It can be trained at 12 weeks if you are gentle. Just like kids, pups test you to see if they are big enough to be the boss. They will continue to test you till they are 2-3 years old. Till then their apparent compliance is a ruse. Think your puppy has learned a command? Lie on the floor with your arms at your sides and your eyes closed and wisper the command. If the pup performs the command it has learned it. If it doesn't keep working, it will learn. There are about a hundred other things I won't write down cause I've rambled on too much. Just this - get a book. Any book, there are a few ai like, but any will do. Then stick to it. Don't mix and experiment with other techniques. The secret is consistency, persistence, and patience. It's the best advice I can give and it's the kindest thing you can do for the puppy. Good luck and PM me if you have a question or a special problem. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

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OK peeps help me feed my family . . . and get a plasma TV. Just go to www.myextrahour.com and find my entry in the "view all movies section". The avatar is in the attachment. It's the only one that shows the only sensible thing to do with an extra hour. After I win you're all invited over for beer and a movie. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

Watchin the race(s) --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

1. Bring your rig to the DZ (even if you don't plan on jumping it). 2. Jump the rental - because you gotta jump if you come to the DZ.

Could someone in South Africa PM me please. If you work with or for ESCOM that would be even better. Allen --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

When you got married you thought it would be forever, now you know it won't. But it will be for the rest of your lives. That is a wonderful feeling. It started with you trying to be the person you thought the other wanted you to be and survived the part where you found out who eachother really were and like that better. Each day each minute seems like an hour, an hour seems like day and tomorrow yesterday's hours seem like minutes. You can walk into an empty house and know it's empty before you check to see if the other is home. You know when people say, "Wow, 50 years, that doesn't happen much any more." that they are wrong. People still meet, then find eachother, and live ever after - happily. Because the good times and the bad times together are better than any times apart. Congratulations ! ! ! --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

Yes Sometimes It depends --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

I bought the boxed sets of the first and second seasons of the original Superman series that aired in the early 1950's. I noticed while I was watching many of the episodes that I remembered them - vividly, right down to parts of the dialogue (sink - lead pipe, etc.) Now what does that say about the impact of television on the very young, I was 3 years old when I started watching and stopped watching then when I was 8 and didn't watch them again till now. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

Don't know what made me do it, but I had the urge to find something about what happened to my old plane. When I googled it I found a cute story about how a club that owned it nicknamed it Barbeque (757BQ). It had made it's way from shuttling my butt around Iowa to Pennsylvania. Then this NTSB Identification: NYC87FA095 . The docket is stored on NTSB microfiche number 34542. 14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation Accident occurred Sunday, February 22, 1987 in PORT MATILDA, PA Probable Cause Approval Date: 7/15/1988 Aircraft: CESSNA 152C, registration: N757BQ Injuries: 2 Fatal. THE UNIVERSITY STUDENT DEPARTED THE UNIVERSITY AIR PARK AIRPORT IN STATE COLLEGE, PA ON A LOCAL FLIGHT IN VFR WEATHER CONDITIONS. THE AIRCRAFT NOSED INTO THE GROUND IN AN APPROXIMATE 70 DEGREE DIVE ABOUT 10 MINUTES AFTER TAKEOFF. THE PILOT WAS ENGAGED IN LOW FLIGHT OVER HIS PARENTS RESIDENCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING AN 'AIR DROP'. EXAMINATION OF THE WRECKAGE DID NOT REVEAL ANY PRE-IMPACT FAILURES OR MALFUNCTIONS OF THE AIRCRAFT STRUCTURE, FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS OR POWERPLANT. The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows: AIRSPEED..NOT MAINTAINED..PILOT IN COMMAND ALTITUDE..NOT MAINTAINED..PILOT IN COMMAND Contributing Factors LOW PASS..PERFORMED..PILOT IN COMMAND PROCEDURES/DIRECTIVES..NOT FOLLOWED..PILOT IN COMMAND --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

You can play the jump and canopy ride back on the Altitrack itself in 1/4 speed, 1x speed, and fast forward. You can also reverse and stop the playback. The pictures on the web site are better than any I could take. Note that the 12 to 6 O'clock position are 1000 ft increments, 6-9 2000 ft increments, and 9-12 and beyond 3000 ft increments. You can also delete individual jumps. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.