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  1. flyboyne
    Look it up in the Airport Facility Directory or go online and search for the airport your dropzone is on. It should be listed there already.
  2. flyboyne
    Looks like a Caravan w/ a cargo pod to me
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    Having a new paint job can protect the airframe from getting corrosion if there is any bare metal showing. People will tend to clean the bugs off of a nice shiney looking airplane, which can help reduce parasite drag a litltle and help w/ the climb rate. Whatever you do dont try and polish it. I've polished a couple of luscombes, a swift, and a straight tail C-182. It litterally takes hundreds of hours of hard work and a lot of money for compounds and you still have to keep up w/ the polishing to keep it looking good. Paint doesn't add that much weight. Good luck w/ the boogie.
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    Probably just a clever way to hide a hole in the drywall!
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    Yeah, I think we deserve at least 4 months of perfect weekends as payment
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    Yeah he made a couple and flew 2 or 3 on Sat.
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    Got in 4 jumps and flew 12 loads.
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    It looks like the main D-bag and pilot chute are hung up on somthing causing the spin.
  9. flyboyne
    I have jumped a Ven. 107 for about 300 jumps and have great openings. Way better then the Sabre 150 I used to jump. I always propack and am not that neat of a packer.
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    Now this guy was probably a jump pilot!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ546BEps-M
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    Its not the cold, its the humidity that makes things miserable.
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    Dont know about the WCF but it was -8 at 4k. The jumpers said it wasn't as bad as they thought it would be. It was a demo for a groundhogs day parade.
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    It was 5 deg. today and I flew one load. Was the coldest temps I have ever witnessed people jumping in!!!
  14. flyboyne
    You must not have seen the late Bobby Younkin do his aerobatic routine in a stock Beech 18 that included low level loops and rolls. Very cool!!!
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    Christian Beechcraft
  16. flyboyne
    I have the pussy so I make the rules
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    Frat boyz

    flyboyne replied to Slappie's topic in The Bonfire

    The Frat boy scene definately depends on the school. I went the University of NE and the frat boys there were a bunch of pricks. They got to spend mommy and daddys money thinking they were somehow better then everybody else. If you were not in a frat there was no way in hell you were allowed near one of their parties. I often wondered how these assholes made real friends once they got out of school and couldn't buy their way into anything.
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    My dad was a pilot and when I was younger we would fly out to a little airport that had a small dropzone on it. I would watch the skydivers for hours on end. Then when I was learning to fly my flight instructor was a skydiver and flew jumpers. That was all it took and now I fly jumpers and jump at that same little dropzone.
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    Its gotta be the 182. They have been flying jumpers longer than any of the above listed aircraft and you cant beat the cheap jump ticket prices!
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    flyboyne replied to boinky's topic in The Bonfire

    This was me at the Perrine Bridge in Idaho last weekend.
  21. flyboyne
    As the saying goes for Iowans... Idiots Out Wondering Around.
  22. flyboyne
    I dont know the exact roll rate of a citabria, but it is slow- maybe around 180 deg. a second. I've flown some aerobatics in a citabria and they do loops, rolls, spins, and hammerheads just fine. The vertical performance is pretty weak and inverted flight takes full forward stick and you are still decending. It is definatley one of the easiest flying aerobatic airplanes to land and they have great short field performance.
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    I was lucky enough to solo on my 16th B-day in a C-150. I later soled a J-3 Cub which was a lot more fun to fly then the C-150. I then was tought how to fly aerobatics which was a blast. The flying quickly led me into the skydiving world. Now I split my time flying jumpers and jumping. I still cant decide what is better. Anyway congrats on the solo and keep after it.
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    Count me in. Can't freakin wait!!! Jack
  25. flyboyne
    The problem with turning in a skydiver to the FAA is that the FAA can do little to the jumper except issue a civil fine. Most likely the FAA will go after the pilot who flew the offending skydiver unless the jumper happens to hold an FAA license which includes riggers, pilots, and mechanics. And what does this really solve? Jumpers who don't hold any FAA ratings and get busted can still get on the next load without worrying about anything except a small fine, while the person who holds an FAA rating could lose their way of life. In my opinion the FAA should be left out of it if at all possible.