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BWAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! I'm on my way to TX next week to jump with Aggies...be gentle! Just about anywher you jump in Texas you'll be jumpin' with Aggies. We tried to exterminate them years ago but they just wouldn't go away!

Texas: Friendship Come to our dz and enjoy the friendship! So you don't like it? Get the fuck out and don't let the panhandle hit ya in the ass on the way out!

And since the X-braces really aren't loaded under 1.6/1 I'll recommend first time jumpers start off at 1.4/1 conservatively and hopefully have them comfortably up to the recommended loading of 1.6/1 by the time they are on their own off student status! After this accelerated training we should be able to field world class canopy pilots by 200-300 jumps for the circuit! Of course we'll have a boat load of new ambitious students waiting to fill the spots lost through attrition, injury and possibly death.

I'm thinking that we should just go ahead and start the newbies on lightly loaded X-braced canopies so that they can just downsize without going to a different planform. If we hadn't seen the sun we wouldn't curse the rain.

QuoteHey , at least here we don't start training students on stilettos Our students learn on Sabres and the new student canopies will be Sabre-2's!

No someone would have wanted to know his number of jumps.. wing loading type of canopy etc. I stay out of the incidents forum here because I do not have the morbid curiosity that some have. I respect that but I think most (jumpers) that go there, do so for knowledge not morbidity. IMO

If this were a skydiver in a Pluto outfit that had DIED would we be joking about an accident he never saw coming? Blue skies to him and peace to his family

Agreed, would you by a new car when you knew that you would sell it in a year for something sportier, probably used! Look at the initial depreciation! Wait until you get to a size where you will stay for a long time. And those colors do like a student or tandem canopy IMHO.

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Precision told me the Xaos logo was like $1100. more on mine and would increse the pack volume considerably. If he's still hell bent on jumping this, I vote we go ahead and move it to incidents early.

Beer, it's not a term, it's a demand!!

and the fact that every beach in the state has brown water and tarballs. I must have been dazed surfing chrystal clear 3' overhead waves at the jetties at South Padre's white sand beaches where no cars are allowed and no tar!

Misread, he said the night life at Spaceland isn't what it was at Wayne county. Spaceland is only 20 something miles from Houston and the after jump crowd is changing as they just opened "the upstairs". Nor is it what it was when the "Carbonezone" was here.

Still think this is a Troll. But if not; I think when you can start being current enough to do 300+ jumps a year you may consider downsizing to eventually get to that W/L. At about 300+ jumps I was near that W/L on a Crossfire but I was in the 300+ jumps a year mode and was still over my head. I was lucky enough to never find myself in a bad situation where I very easily could have been broken up bad. This is a VERY bad decision and you will not let it sit there until you ARE ready! If you are bound and determined to go elliptical get something in a size that you can learn on soon, not a few years down the road.

but Quade is evil and scary! Not da kid!

SFW, yes

I say if you really don't want to be part of the good ole US of A....then we'll smack on the ass on the way out the door and say "Have a nice day!" Now that wasn't very Texas Christian like!

Now Dave THAT had me bustin' a gut!

We have our own dictionary, thank you!

Texas ROCKS!!

860 jumps and noone will jump with ya? Never been to Spaceland, Skydive Houston, Beaumont, Aggieland? Just because you don't like Dallas you bash the whole state?

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