Airgump

my gut says start with a 190. Stuffed in a container that should hold a 170. Since your a noob. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ get a used rig sized as stated above, a 7 cell 190 may have the same pack volume as a 9-170. give yourself a year in the sport to decide where your path takes you, CRW, RW, FF, WS, Camera. there are many disciplines that require different canopy/rig choices.

first time my AFF instructor turned me loose in freefall i became "Spin Spinerton" ended up dumping around 7 or 8 grand, surprised AFFI to not have a single line twist. when i was living on Z-hills, a guy from MI had the nickname "ball-sack jack" from when he climbed into a 182 and his shorts split open and his package fell out onto the floor of the aircraft. he fell into the fire pit at Z-hills buck naked and his nickname was adjusted to "burnt ball-sack jack"

have stayed in all three, the bunkhouse, the campground, and team rooms over the years, all are good. you can get a membership at the gym on the dz and get a little more private shower facilities if barracks style showers bother you. though it's not alaska, warm and dry is nice this time of year in AZ. http://www.skydiveaz.com/skydiving-Facilities/lodging

some smaller DZs don't have the flight line to keep turning loads back to back, additionally you may not get 13.5K. not a big deal if doing static line, but in AFF that's several more seconds of freefall. at 13.5 over the DZ all you can see below you is airport, plenty of space to learn to fly your canopy. Z-hills is where it's at, bring a tent or rent a trailer from judy. and jump all day and all weekend long. find out when TK is cooking breakfast, really great way to start the morning and a lot of fun in the serving line. get to know the folks there, they're awesome people! don't forget to get fitted for a Tonysuit while there so whether you're any good or not in the air, you look damn good on the ground and in the airplane on the way to altitude!

well ya see, there is this camel back behind the hanger..........

http://www.timescall.com/longmont-local-news/ci_28513042/motorcyclists-descend-longmont-week maybe making her a part of the scavenger hunt? like find the wicked witch of the west???

My favorites in the dust up. "4. Guess what ace, airplanes take off and land, that is what they do, it's an integral part of the concept called flight 5. Let's see the airport was there first, and built with our tax payer monies and is open to the public, so anyone can use it. Some moron comes along and builds houses, so another moron can come along and buy it, for the "view" and sounds of silence, never bothering to do any due diligence, researching the hood and area, then after moves in discovers the fact there is a active runway at the end of block. Seem to me, you just can't fix stupid!

scotty Carbone and johnny gates, and Rick if he could get away from the paparazzi

instead of going to bed in advance of a campaign trip to the same sin city that he derided a few years earlier, i feel a stroll down to the situation room and spend every hour there trying to help the ambassador and fellow Americans in anyway possible. if he had make any effort to help, i'm sure there would be an in-house photog pic of it. instead, the above mentioned crickets. the only back this cat has is his own.

funny thing is when he was thumping his chest and OBL was sleeping with the fishes, there were pics out the kazoo of him monitoring from the situation room and the news conferences of how he got the boogie man of the century all by himself. when one our ambassadors is killed along with other American's that save many lives and in turn fall performing that duty, you don't hear anything but denials and how it's all so hard to do and then crickets when you request the documents to back up the administration's fairy tale(s).

too bad the prez wouldn't work it like chris at Bonehead does with his bonehead bucks. talk about a good return on initial investment!

that was my underlying point.......along the lines of lawrocket's post, it's a crew served weapon, which even when used as a sniper weapon it has to be mounted. the BAR, Thompson and the M60 that arnie liked so much are about the only weapons a criminal could use against their fellow citizens efficiently.

http://texashideout.tripod.com/guns.html other than the chicago typewriter that gained fame from kallend's home 20. The BAR that Clyde used was pretty handy for dispatching folks. this link also shows a weapon that he modified for a bigger magazine for his scatter gun, so much for limiting mag size. if push comes to shove, i bet even lefty billy could devise the same. along with the above mentioned weapons, got to have a special license to posses one, but once again.......criminals don't spend any time with following the letter of the law towards possession of weapons.

http://guns.wikia.com/wiki/M2_Browning when i was in the army many years ago the field manual addressed the 50 cal for sniper use. pretty sure it got a lot of use from mountain top to mountain top in the korean police action. we had a lot of vehicle mounted ones in the field artillery units. they sure are a hoot on live fire exercises!

yeah, something down scotty carbone's alley if the legend is correct.

was in perris when they were there, much the same experience. one of their instructors even landed opposite of the the pattern on the grass with not much punishment levied from the DZ staff, if memory serves he was banished from jumping the rest of the day, maybe 1 or 2 loads went up following this incident. out of pure self defense i tried to stay off loads that they were on or settled for hop-n-pops and landed in the north field. what added insult to the whole debacle was that the bomb shelter gladly removed pork from their menu the duration of their visit. what a crock of crap. would be interested if eloy did the same.......

glad to see he has progressed so well. and to see him back in the sky! he was always one of those i looked forward to seeing during random perris visits. totally upbeat and a genuinely great human being. way to go brotherman!

not to worry ObamaCare will ensure that you don't!

reminds me of what we had to cadence during corporal punishment during basic training for referring to our rifle/weapon as a gun. standing at attention with our rifle held at arms length in front we sounded off with....... "this is my rifle, this is my gun, this one's for fighting, this one's for fun." not much fight in this one unless you consider violating another country's sovereign air space and killing people on a secret list with no due process with robotic aircraft.

how does he find the time to chamber a few rounds with all that time donated to vacations and his remaining time filled with hoops and shooting those elusive "golphs"

so where is the plug in so "mister" von can justify buying it?

Additionally, if one form of energy is charged "x" amount of fines for "y" amount of damage, in this case bird kills, then the formula should be spread equally across the board. The current double standard of this administration does not reflect their "everyone deserves a fair shot" mantra. CA is a good example of the ostrich with it's head in the hole while the rest of the body remains in harm's way. They preached boycotting AZ over their passage of tougher immigration laws oblivious of the amount of their electrical power that is generated in AZ to power their perfect little world. Wonder how many wind turbines and solar panels it takes to generate the power for Qualcom to manufacture their products? (Most likely they are made in China using coal fired power plants) How much pollution does the electronics and plastics industries generate pushing this so called green technology?

Hmmmmm, the spotted owl and the death of the timber industry easily comes to mind when knee jerk reactions win the day.

Bill, care to show proof of senseless killing of birds by trees? The bunk you speak of couldn't, by chance, be tired to Leroy the evil bird killer who's picture is attached?

So, when the wind stops blowing and the sun goes down, i guess the liberals are stuck with that evil natural gas to AC or heat the caves they live in and charge those insanely expensive electric cars they want all of us to be forced to purchase. Makes me wonder just how much the cost per Kw stacks up between the two in real dollars, and in the environmental carnage to the birds that the tree huggers are so eager to protect from evil oil. What use is a tree if there aren't any birds to roost in and sing from it? We already are finding out more and more how everybody deserves their fair shot under this current administration. If one bird dies on an oil field location it's several thousand dollars worth of fines, but if hundreds upon thousands die to wind turbines it's utterly ignored by those same zealots. Snapped the attached pic on a windless day just before sunset. All those "green, bird killers" sitting idle while a gas well is being fractured in the center of large wind farm in western Oklahoma. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-08-28/national/35269438_1_wind-turbines-wind-farms-wind-power http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/17/us-wind-farms-under-fire-for-bird-kills/ Save an Eagle, dismantle the killer insanely expensive wind farms while we still have a few birds left!