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Too true. It has nothing to do with insecurity, it's just curiousity. That, and all men have done "the tuck" in front of a mirror at some point in their lives too
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Well, in the US if you don't have your A you're not supposed to jump with anyone except for coaches and instructors. You need your A to be able to jump with other licensed skydivers. If you travel to other dropzones they're likely to make you do a checkout dive of some sort before letting you jump solo there. Also, if you're off the sport for awhile and come back, it may be a little more involved to get recurrent if you're not a licensed skydiver. There are also more restrictive wind restrictions for non-licensed skydivers and you may not be elligible for special jumps(like night jumps) if you don't have any license at all. That's in the US and I think most of the DZs here are good about honoring equivilant UK licenses.
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I had a purple/blue freefly jumpsuit and the attached rig. Now that you have a free jump, you're gonna have to finish AFF
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Ahh, were you the one wearing the red hat with an A on it? Then I saw ya, but didn't know it was you. There were a lot of people there today.
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LOL, no. You can never ask what women want, you have to guess.
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Well I'm not even a decent freeflyer so there's no problem there
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There's some GA DZs with a long and well known, uh, "history" with each other. The DZs in FL are pretty crowded together and they tend to get along pretty well. It's common to see Deland, Sebastian and Clewiston share planes.
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That would actually be kind of funny. Ship a cutter and a plastic bowling ball. Didn't Cypres used to have tshirts or something?
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How old should your child be before they can go to spring break in Mexico
MarkM replied to Bouda's topic in The Bonfire
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does anyone pull at high altitude ?
MarkM replied to superman0710's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Can't really do it at Homestead because they have to bus you back to the DZ and they can't always wait 15 mins for you to get down. But at Sebastian you'll usually see one HAHO a day. -
I own a tie dye mirage. When you buy them like that, they make you sign a waiver stating you won't do RW with it
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1> If I don't have free will but say I do, I had no choice in the matter. 2> If I don't have free will and say I don't, I still had no choice in the matter. 3> If I do have free will but say I don't, then I'm really wrong. 4> If I do have free will and say I do, then I'm right. So the obvious choice is 4.
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Clicky: http://www.ouragansuits.com/rig.html I saw Nancy's rig up at Sebastian last weekend. It was pretty cool.
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How bad are the termites in that part of Florida?
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I think this is a US-UK difference, not anything to do with Perris. At most DZs I go to you're pretty much expected to know what you're doing, what other people around you are doing and get into the plane in the correct order without anyone having to tell you what to do.
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It evens me out.
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Free pizza, raffles, a 30-something smart ass cracking jokes with the packers, and a bunch of whuffo's trying to pick up Kat. The usual Oh, and there'll be an otter down from Skydive Ohio.
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If you can't live life with just yourself, how is anyone else going to stand you??
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Hmm, I was gonna say the brown hair blended with the eyes more while the black hair contrasts with them, sort of makes them pop and draws you to them.
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Gimme Any general idea when we'll be able to buy this?
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Where he jumps at they start people off on tandems, then progress into AFF. superman, ever watch motorcycle racing? They run at speeds up to 160 mph and often when they wipe out they roll, slide, get up and brush off the dust. That's because the energy bleeds off in the slide along the ground. Landing fast under a canopy(downwind) can be the same, even if you're going across the ground at 15 mph you can roll and bleed off the energy of the horizontal speed. But when you turn you dump altitude, you have verticle speed. If you impact the ground like that you can't bleed off the verticle energy as easily, it has no place to go but into your body. It's like a motorcycle racer falling off his bike and slamming into a concrete wall. Talk to Greg about it next time you're out at Homestead. He's really good about answering any questions a student has about things like this.
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For various reasons I ended up being a student at 5 different dropzones and they all had gaps in what they taught. That didn't make any one of them unsafe, it's just that there's a lot to teach and different instructors prioritize different things outside of the core basics. Past that, you may or may not be on your own after graduation off student status depending on the DZ. I've been to DZs where I was showed errors in my packing by instructors even though I haven't been a student for a year and I've been to DZs where they don't even ask if I'm current after having not seen me in 6 months. But either way, I think learning to look out for yourself and being able to seek sources of learning(not just wait for them to come to you) it the #1 skill to learn post AFF.
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What? Naaaahhh.
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Being screwed by skydiving center
MarkM replied to AiRpollUtiOn's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
No, in the US we have small claims court. The only thing it would cost you is court fees. I'm sure where you're at has something similair. -
http://www.dzcomic.com/?strip_id=0 I really don't see why checking your own gear is so hard. Check the kill line before donning the rig, check the straps before you walk to the plane, check the BOC before getting near the prop blast of the plane, after undoing your seat belt check your reserve and cutaway handles, check the chest and leg straps on the boring ride up, check the BOC right before the door opens, after you get up from sitting reach back to check main closing flap, then pat the BOC one last time as you move towards the open door.