Zennie

Gee... I kinda liked octapussies myself. -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

God, Weekly World News will have a field day with that. -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

Hey, we're just here to help. -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

Yes I've been somewhat quiet about this whole mess mainly because, quite frankly, I'm depressed as hell about the whole thing. Things like this aren't doing much to improve my mood. Here's a choice quote: "'I’m proud to be American and I hate Arabs and I always have,' said 19-year-old Colin Zaremba, who marched with the group from Oak Lawn." **Sigh** -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

You know you're getting old when your anti-hangover cocktail before going to bed consists of the following: * 2 Excedrin * 1 Sudafed (alcohol-induced nasal probs) * 1 Pepsid A/C * 1 litre of water -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

So I guess the core question is whether DZ operations fall under the category of General Aviation. Pardon my cluelessness here, but I take it that it is given the previous posts. Are there situations when it isn't? -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

Isn't the plural of Thesaurus Thesauri? -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

WHAT!? But... but... everything on the Internet is true! Woohoo! If you could be done by this Saturday that would be most excellent!

I know it's frustrating, but you'll be happy achieving your dream and now having equity going to you instead of your landlord. You'll be back soon enough! The sky isn't going anywhere. -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

Congrats dude! Now the fun begins! -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

Ooops. My bad. I thought you were talking about a Z1. I was. -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

Sorry you have to deal with crap like this Snowflake. I can't even begin to imagine having to go my whole life dealing with stupid bullshit like that. I'll let you know when I'm heading toward SM, maybe we can do a few jumps. -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

WTF? And these comments were necessary why? -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

Sorry my bad. I asked Bossman to maybe put the current record(s), the date(s) locations, holders in The Pub. That would be nice both for the holders and the people shooting for a new record -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

With cyber in town & talk of another dz.com record attempt, I thought we might want to start recording the current record(s), dates, locations and holders somewhere in the Pub. This would recognize the achievements of those who hold the record as well as give the others an idea of what to shoot for. I thought the record was 4 but I'm going off memory. So it would be nice to actually have a place to go to look it up. I suppose we could even have a history of each record so you could see who held it when & for how long. -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

Dear God man! Have you been living under a rock? Sure I'm in. But I'll stick to my belly for this kind of thing (see my Freefly Safety 101 thread). I'd also toss out a dz.com formation record attempt. If you Brit, ramon & Cyber are in, plus me Paula & Mikey that's 7 which easily breaks the current record of 4. Hell we could prolly turn a few points on the sucker. -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

Yet another reason why I shouldn't have been trying this in the first place. -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

What is this "round" of which everyone speaks? -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

Don't ask me why I did this, but I did.... Last jump on Saturday I get with a friend who's learning freefly to see if he wants to do a 2-way sit (I'm still learning myself). He said sure, but there's another guy that wants to jump too. So I thought "three way sit should be OK". Well about 5 minutes before the load goes up a 4th guy comes up and says he's going to follow us in a stand. Um....... OK. So out we goes. I of course fall faster than everyone else as I usually do so I try to get back up to them without too much luck. Our stand guy goes shooting down. Then the other two who were in a sit go into a head down. So I decide "OK I'll give it a shot". Now keep in mind I've only done head-down by myself. So I go into a head down with 3 other people in the sky. None of whom are close to me. Now at this point I'm sure most of you are shaking your heads. I agree that this was all incredibly stupid on my (our) part. But I'm posting this hopefully so that others won't make the same mistake with worse results. In any event, once I'm head down I realize why this was all such a bad idea.... I have absolutley no idea where everyone else is and I can't really find out because my field of vision in head-down is extremely limited. And I can't really move around much for fear of corking into someone I don't see. So I make the best of a bad situation and pull my arms back and go straight down as fast as I can until breakoff altitude. It was the only direction I could see and I could see that it was clear. As I level off, I look up as I usually do before pulling only to see our stand person tracking right above me. So it was an absolute fiasco and luckily no one got hurt. But it sure solidified how dangerous freefly can be. Please please don't do anything more than a 2-way freefly until you have a lot of experience with it. And don't try any radical moves until you have them down cold solo. It's awfully tempting to try new fun stuff to show off & have fun. But if you aren't rock solid, the results could be disastrous. -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

Nice pics. Where are you cyber? -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

I've had mine flip up in a sit. Sometimes you think it's clicked into place what it really isn't fully. Just flipping it down isn't enough. So now I press down on the visor and then try to push it back up with my hand before I go out. My only complaint is that the drawstring is a little flimsy. It's almost ready to break on me so I think I'll replace it with shoestring or something. -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

Sweeet! Let us know when you get in. FYI the weather is supposed to be great this weekend. -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

Huh huh huh huh.... She said "head down..." Huh huh.... -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

The other cool thing about that is your 4-way instantly becomes an 8-way! -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool

Happy belated birthday! Heh. I'm 36 & I feel like a geezer at the DZ. You young whippersnappers don't know how good you have it! Why, when I was your age we didn't have airplanes to jump from! We jumped off of stepladders with pillowcases and we were grateful! -------- Zennie "I know the pieces fit. 'Cause I watched them fall away..." --Tool