MarkM

Ahhh, another addict is amoung us.

Don't forget students to hold on tight when they open the plane door so you don't get sucked out!

Well, the increased price would reduce the number of necklaces requested and allow you to surplus supplies. You could also do things like advertise that each necklace takes a month to create and to allow 2-4 weeks shipping, etc. If you enjoy doing it, there really are ways to control how much of your time it'll take up. Just a thought.

Ack! I email Pammi asking to make me a necklace and she closes shop! This is not good. How are we supposed to spot other DZ.commers without the necklaces? Maybe you could raise your prices to make it more worth your time to make them?

Call up the manufacturer, ask them how much it'd cost to have you shipped it to them and inspect it.

C'mon rigger, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel

Haven't seen anything like this. Do people just write it on, or can you request this from certain manufacturers? Seen the joke where you put "Plan B, Part 1" "Plan B, Part 2" on a student's cutaway and reserve handles though.

Oh I wasn't saying the jumper wasn't at fault. IMHO the guy had zero business using a rig he'd never touched before on a student training jump. I'm pretty sure that student never jumped again.

alt.sex.skydiving.bondage Laugh. And you thought base jumping was dangerous.

The rig the instructor was using was borrowed, and the previous owner didn't think to mention that the spandex on the BOC pouch was loose. The owner knew to fold to handle that, the instructor folded the PC as he normally did. On the jump when the student waved off, the instructor quickly lifted his legs as if he was going to sit with the intent to twist his body around and rapidly change direction to track away. The air caught the pouch, the PC came out, he deployed. The student was focused on deploying his own canopy, didn't know the instructor was deploying, and the student's deploying main wrapped the instructor. Student cut away and deployed reserve. Instructor fought the lines and canopy of the student main and his own main until about 900 feet when he managed to get his reserve out which fortunately was a round. Lessons learned while I watched this: 1> Nothing fancy on gear you don't know. 2> Make sure your damn PC is secure. I don't know what's potentially more dangerous. A hard pull where you go to reserve, or having your main deploy when you're not ready for it.

Bill's got the right idea. Have it in the middle of F'in nowhere so the local population won't get bent out of shape by a bunch of nude maniac drunk skydivers that are wacked out on adrenalin or other substances.

Cutaway wasn't too bad. Seen worse(*cough* Dropzone *cough*).

The WFFC is suing Quincy? That's just sad. Quincy is full of pricks, but sometimes I wonder the WFFC organizers are any better.

She won't hit 120mph on a SL jump, just about 80 from the plane as she exits. The car test is a good idea though.

I jump with an old pair of New Balance shoes, use them on my motorcycle too so I scruff up my new ones. They're women's shoes, but you can't tell by looking at em :)

Do they cause problems for her on a commercial flight? If not, there's zero reason not to wear them skydiving. She'll be wearing a helmet, they shouldn't fall out or anything. The instructors will be using a radio to communicate with her from the ground, so she'll need them in to hear the landing instructions anyway.

LMAO

Monkey fists aren't the only worry though. Saw a nasty near fatal wrap when an instructor's pilot chute dumped when he turned to track away from a student. Wasn't pretty.

1> Jump more. 2> Have sex more. .... Sorry, can't think of anything else worthwhile.

Don't know if I'd call it a mal, but on my 4th or 5th SL jump I ended up upside down at 3500 feet with my legs tangled up in the lines of my deploying main. The bruising only lasted a month or so and the scar went away after a year.

"One camera man observed this jumper spinning out of control, and went twice for the reserve handle, succeeding on the 2nd attempt." I don't know about you. But I'll sure as hell jump at a DZ where the camera men will dive down to my spinning unconscious body and go for my reserve, not once but twice.

Heh. Some guys have a foot fetish. Guess I have a canopy fetish. If I start running around dropzones sniffing everyone's canopy I promise I'll seek therapy.

The musty scent is the fabric the canopies are made of. I've caught myself once or twice burying my face in my canopy and taking a big old sniff. Gets the blood pumping :)

They make a Jet A perfume we can give to our whuffo girlfriends?

Then they'll just have to learn to live and let live. Peaceful protest only works among those that respect life. Example: Ghandi's crusade to remove the British from India. But peaceful demonstrations wouldn't have helped the Jews in Germany during WW2. Japanese totaliaritism and Nazi fanatacism were responded to by force and defeated. The countries remain, the people remain, but they were reformed around Western principles of democracy which generally respects the rights of others to behave as they choose. IMHO, the problem in the middle east isn't the average middle eastern citizen, they could care less about America. It's with a few Islamic Fundamentalists, who like the Nazis, use a campaign of hate mongering(down with the evil America) to rally an economically downtrodden people around their cause. Some people say we can't defeat that, and I've yet to hear why. We defeated Nazism. We fended off Japanese suicide attackers. Not only defeated, but rebuilt both into free societies who today are close allies. To ignore the Taliban would be to ignore the suffering they've not only caused on US soil, but the suffering they've caused on their own populations.