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Eagle and the Hawk - John Denver ------ --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

Assuming I find the arch, stop the potato chipping, and eventually solo with confidence, I'm looking for a DZ that has a scenic mountain backdrop for FF and canopy video and still. Any suggestions. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

Quote Made my first jump when I was 18 too. Restarted at 54 Cranked it back up on my birthday in March Lost 7 pounds so far - Rediscovered my arch. Handled the "midlife crisis" and "re-living his youth" comments from my children - told them they are old enough to take care of themselves now, I'm getting back to who I am. 30 is great - life is in perspective, health is tolerant of the things that are bad for you, you have time to invest, insurance is as cheap as you'll ever get it, and you don't have to pay cash to rent a car. Speaking from experience, you're gonna love the next 24 years. --------------------------- --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

Remembering watching a weekly TV show about skydiving: "Ripcord". 50's TV (3rd family in town to have one) Scuba - Mike Nelson - "Sea Hunt" Space - "Men in Space" Sky - "Sky King" Equine - "Mr. Ed" War Heros - "Combat" Wilderness Heros - "Davy Crockett" Super Heros - "Flash Gordon" Real Super Heros - "Mr Green Jeans" (How did we know that, the tv was black and white - that always bothered me) First token pathetic male figure in a sitcom - Ozzie Nelsen Who Girls wanted their dad to be like - "Jim Anderson", Robert Young in "Father Knows Best" Who boys wanted their dad to be like - Ward Cleaver Whose name boys wanted on their football helmet - Babe Perelli Sex Symbols - FORBIDDEN!!!! Yeh, growin up in a small town in Iowa was great except for one thing - having 50 sets of parents. You couldn't get away with anything and when you always got caught you were punished by the ones that caught you and your own when they were told. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

You're right. I checked their web site and it looks like it does ercorc the altitude. With a little work you could probably export to excel and calculate the fall rate. gps sampling rate would be an issue if you wanted really tight tracking curves. For $100 it might be enough. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

I use a software for SAR called Fugawi http://www.fugawi.com/ Not much on altitude and fall rate (vertical rate) but for Lat Lon it will let you take a map or aerial photo like from terraserver and superimpose your track. Once you have the map "registered" you can use it over and over - good for drop zones. May not make much sense for what you're looking for, but it's there. I think I'd look at combining a Pro-Track/Jump Track with a small GPS. If you check Garmin might even reprogram for you to sample faster. For the Lat Lon portion though, you probably don't need it. They make some very small stuff that would work and --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

That's because to a dog you're family - to a cat you're staff. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

Good for you. I'll keep an eye out for you. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

I used to make some demo jumps in the old days. Anyone with more than a hundred jumps and a para-commander was usually invited. Well anyhow after a 25 year lay off I started jumping again. Quote I 've been readin and enjoyin but I couldn't bring myself to post till I read this. I spent some time in a government position in the 60's and 70's. Couldn't really call it skydiving - just doing what UPS does today - delivering the mail (me mail). I got started in sport jumping in Idaho Falls (The Tiki Room) in '75 but new nonskid on the 182 strut took a layer of skin off my arm the day my new wife made her wuffo debut and my blood and the fact that our JM broke his leg in front of her was her scariest and my last day of jumping. 30 years later she gave me a ballon ride coupon with a skydiver and a paraglider on it and went home to visit her mother. Figuring at this age I could claim I forgot the "never again promise", I re-zeroed the log book, figured what the heck and headed for the DZ. These young guys are pretty patient with an old man and the gear is the balls! - so I'll share my scary story (and it wasn't when my wife got home from her mother's) Circa 1968 somewhere hot and humid - I'm headed for a pre-dawn twilight SO. Just like well manicured stadium grass, elephant grass is hard to judge. Treat it like water - right? I end up on my chin in the tall tall grass - not so scary. When my ears stopped ringing I could hear a hiss like an air hose leak at Dobber's filling station back home. Another second and my vision cleared enough to actually focus on the cobra that might have been 10 feet away but looked like it was in my face. Now that's scary. After getting up and being yanked back on my ass trying to run away in harness I did an adrenaline induced cutaway then made an orderly and dignified exit (sort of). --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

The dog caught my attention - every club needs a cool dog (loyal, trustworthy, more sense than most humans) --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

So I was just talking about this with my wife this evening and then read this thread - wierd. In the 60's we didn't do it and I can't really say about much of the 70's and on cause I took an extended vacation from FF for the past 30 years. It took me by surprise the first jump I made a few weeks ago but hey, go with the flow. Our "saying" came after the PLF (they were all plf's) and it was simply "Cheated death again!" Thank God for square chutes and Advil. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

Doing AFF at Skydive Space Center - great bunch of people, relaxed atmosphere and 15,000 ft jumps. I'm spending some serious time in the tunnel trying to get my "groove" back, but there are an awful lot of wrinkles in it, and it has been gone a long time. Still, it's the best reason yet to drop 15-20 lbs. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.

So after giving it up for love 30 years ago I'm back. Don't quite bend the right way but I don't spin and these new canopies beat the heck outta rags. Tandem, AFF, Tunnels - who knew! Orlando seems to be a great place to live for this sport. Why'd I come back - don't like golf. --------------------------------------------- Every day is a bonus - every night is an adventure.