SkydiveMonkey

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  1. SkydiveMonkey
    At least not without good training and lots of skydiving experience anyway. When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  2. SkydiveMonkey
    I find it really annoying when people, especially News reporters, give the wrong facts about skydiving / base injuries or fatalities. I'm not specifically refering to this one, but it'd be nice to hear something other than "his parachute didn't open" once in a while. When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  3. SkydiveMonkey
    If you've still got height, SLOWLY let up the toggles, if not, flare with what's left and be prepared to do a PLF. When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  4. SkydiveMonkey
    The thing about landing a suit is that becuase of all the forward movement, what's going to impact first? Your head. When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  5. SkydiveMonkey
    I finally got to jump my new kit today, and my hornet (170 at 1.2:1) rocks !! Opened nice, turned really quick and crisp, and loads of flare. If you're thinking about a first kit - GET ONE !!
  6. SkydiveMonkey
    Any chance we could link these two together, so that people you have added to your address book in the forums are carried over to the email section? When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  7. SkydiveMonkey
    Did you see the last round of the supbikes (not this weekends) where Noriyuki Haga hit a bird? Feathers everywhere !! When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  8. SkydiveMonkey
    Instead of chickens, we could fill it with hackeys and we have a cluster bomb When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  9. SkydiveMonkey
    It's on the new Mirage I think. When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  10. SkydiveMonkey
    Never thought of that. I won't try it though, cos I will forget it's there !! When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  11. SkydiveMonkey
    At least they've got priorities !! When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  12. SkydiveMonkey
    I can give you a real one if you want When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  13. SkydiveMonkey
    Get a kit car !!
  14. SkydiveMonkey
    If you are in a different time zone, you can offset it in the control panel to your own time zone. (But it is 7 minutes fast
  15. SkydiveMonkey
    Trust me, you'll be sitting by the window waiting for the truck to pull up outside your house !!
  16. SkydiveMonkey
    You olny have to pay 45 dollars for the year ??!! We have to pay 66.50 pounds !!! When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  17. SkydiveMonkey
    I think some good canopy control lessons are in order from your instructors. On a student kit, turning 180 degrees in 250 feet should not be a problem. Have you heard of a flat turn? This is where you turn, but in brakes (ie. both toggles are down, but one further down than the other in order to turn). When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  18. SkydiveMonkey
    Are we talking helmet lens? Camera? When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  19. SkydiveMonkey
    I was chatting with the resident instructor at my DZ today after he looked at my kit and he said the best was to grab a reserve pad is to get the metal cable between your thumb and finger (like a handle) and grab the pad normally. It works if you've grabbed it normally and lost your grip and the pad it floating - just grab the cable instead of wasting altitude trying to grab the pad. just thought I'd say, cos I've never thought of doing that until today, and I know more and more people jump with pads now. When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  20. SkydiveMonkey
    They'd never give you the keys to the hanger !! When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  21. SkydiveMonkey
    I can't be as good as my bowling ball gun !! When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  22. SkydiveMonkey
    That's the thing - it's gone too far the other way by making people sign. Checks sould be compulsory, but on a more casual level ie. it's still your ass you're responsible for, noone else. When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  23. SkydiveMonkey
    I still say the way forward is a street-luge straped onto you
  24. SkydiveMonkey
    That's why I like my teardrop SF - its a pop top, so you've only got the one pin to check in plane, and it's easy to do without having to open the pin cover. I know that once I've checked my reserve pin on the fround, it's not going anywhere until I want it to. When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or you're loose, its how drunk you get.
  25. SkydiveMonkey
    I'll see that, and throw in another two - beer case