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Dunno, I'll let you know in 9 jump.
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I think it would be a stupid thing for a DZO to say. When someone burns in at your DZ it'll hurt your place's rep no matter what the circumstances were. You'd be better off banning the guy from jumping at your DZ and let him kill himself at a competing DZ.
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I'd say post it in Events and Places to Jump. List your DZ, where you live and that you're looking for a ride to it on the weekends and are willing to chip in for gas money. I know I'd be happy to drive other people out to the DZ who needed a ride and lived near me. Just be sure to put the DZ in the post subject.
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A dovo would work, but shaving with a straight takes awhile to learn and you can't do a quick shave with one of them(unless you're sporting a gotee).
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Looks like wingsuits. He's wobbling like it was a wingsuit and during one of the wobbles you can sort of make out the wing between his legs. Killer videos though.
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That's a good read. Personally I don't really understand how getting married has snowballed into such merchandising thing. A couple getting married these days usually ends up spending 10-20k on the entire wedding, money that basically evaporates into some pictures and a worthless rock on a ring. That's a lot of money that a couple just starting out in life could've used on more practical things, like a downpayment on a house to raise a family in.
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I put an order in on the 23rd and got a sales receipt email right after placing the order, but haven't gotten anything else. Dunno if they send you any kind of notice or anything until it ships.
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Dropzone for Clewiston Pics and news
MarkM replied to skydivingwill's topic in Events & Places to Jump
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See http://www.uspa.org/publications/SIM/2004SIM/section5.htm#52d
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The problem though is that you don't always know who the "DOING SOMETHING STUPID" people are, until they've already done something stupid. The canopy selection doesn't mean that they won't do something stupid, it just means they'll be more likely to survive it. So even if 9 out of 10 guys will be fine, you put all 10 on a light canopy load so that 1 guy won't leave a red smear on the runway when he hooks it in.
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This reads like fiction. Some choice quotes: Was the above anything like that robot fighting tv show? A smart man. Yeah, I hate how Miami has big armored bulldozers rampaging through it.
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Sometimes when you're doing something stupid it doesn't quite register that you're doing something stupid and you need a friend or someone you respect to put you in your place.
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UK -- Skydiver sends text message suicide note -- Press Clips
MarkM replied to quade's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
BS. When you get terminal cancer you don't choose to die. When you have heart failure, you don't choose to slowly waste away. Suicide is a choice and depression is treatable. It's because many of us are sick of the "everyone is a victim" BS culture that pervades modern day life. People are responsible for themselves and their actions and I'm sorry, but if you take your life over a breakup with a girl, yes you are an idiot. No one is attacking that this guy was feeling depressed and most people aren't going to condem a person for killing themselves if they're dying from a terminal painful disease. But to kill yourself when there are other options is indeed stupid, idiotic and selfish. -
Most of the injuries I've seen have been legs, ankles and even a wrist type of thing. Basically parts of your body that you're putting towards the ground on a bad landing. Though I've heard of concussions from strikes with the airplane on bad exits. Some high timers probably have more of a perspective of things though. You could also look into ski helmets for better protection than what a skydiving helmet would provide(which is practically nothing).
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I like the "Professional Aerial Photographer and Videographer", because it makes it sound like jumping out of an airplane is a classy thing While being a DBA, what OSes were you working under? I'd assume Windows, but NT or 2000 or both? Any Unix/Linux experience? List all of that so an employer will know you understand the server operating system he's running.
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Not from my novice/intermediate perspective. I'm on a Tri 160 right now but am looking to replace it because it's a bit worn out. Had a conversation with the DZO Saturday about a sabre2 150, but he wouldn't sell it to me because I'd be loading it over 1.1 and it's a more aggressive cut compared to my Tri. Never mind that I had been doing pretty well with my landings under the Tri. Well, the next day under my Tri I got too aggressive on my input right after a turn into final(that I made a little too low to begin with) which rocked my canopy into a nice dive right into the ground. I barely managed to PLF out of breaking bones, just got bruised up a little, and I'm sure if I was under anything more aggressive I would've been screwed up pretty badly. So yeah, you're babying them but until someone invents a canopy flies as a 1.25 under ideal settings but changes into a 1.0 canopy when they make a stupid newbie mistake, they need to be babied.
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It'd be about the same as hitting concrete.
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Hey you look a little pale, you might be coming down with the flu or something. Might be best to call in to work sick Thursday or Friday.
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I don't think the Cypres locks on the altitude it starts at, because the air pressure will change during the day which affects it's reading. Like my neptune will read 0 as -160 MSL early on in a day at the DZ but then later it might read zero as -60 MSL. It has to constantly sample the pressure and try to figure out when I'm still on the ground so it can zero itself out based on the current air pressure. Cruising in a plane at 1.5k for awhile might confuse it into think that the air pressure at 1.5k was the ground, so it would reset itself there. I have had my Neptune think I was in freefall mode while still in the plane when it was decending, but it corrected itself when the plane leveled out and logged everything fine. I'm on software revision 2.1.1. I think though you can force set it to stay locked onto a certain reading to avoid this sort of issue. You can put it on Manual Mode under DZ Setup.
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3:15:0 The 3 being: 1 really bad ground strike under canopy that would have busted me up pretty bad if I hadn't done a very solid PLF. 1 bruised ego. 1 pained pride. But tattered ego and pride won't keep me from jumping again next weekend
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Watching Rob Harris sky surf really got me interested in the sport beyond my first jump. Seeing vids of the experienced people in this sport keeps motivating me to push myself to learn new skills and improve myself. For example I once saw a vid of Phreezone doing a track and it was one of the coolest things I'd seen, just the way he did it so naturally, so for the next 10 or so jumps all I did was practice tracking.
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LOL, what do they call that, low timer blader syndrome? I always used to pee on the 10 min call figuring that'd hold me over til I was back on the ground. I had a system: 15 min call, jumpsuit and alt on, gear check, zero the alt, stop drinking fuilds. 10 min call, go pee, another gear check, make sure my alt was zero'd. 5 min call, gear check, throw the rig on, make sure the alt was zero'd, wait by the plane.
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Hey, in a month or two hopefully Pahokee will having some jumping going on at it. There's nothing better than jumping all day at the lake then partying all night on the beach.
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Personally I don't get the connection of carrying someone bags or opening a door for them as showing respect. It's polite for sure, but it shows respect? I guess I see respect as being a much deeper thing, something beyond a simple behavior a trained chimp could duplicate.
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RevJim, Have you ever heard of shrinkage? It's a bit nippy at the summit of Everest. I just thought I'd point that out... Heh. It was a Fandango reference. See http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=1241