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Get rid of both video and sound at the end to trim your project. Also, you might've said, this video is pretty large: 32 MB. I got to 'Rantoul' tho, then it quit on me? ciel bleu, Saskia

That is just nuts? How can a company destroy something that's not their property anymore? Declare it unairworthy, okay, but not damaging it in any way. Well I happen to have an old Chute Shop container, with retrofitted RSL. Tough. ciel bleu, Saskia

No first hand experience, but I know this about it: - can also be used as a main canopy - I think this is the only 9 cell reserve ever made (??) - made by Chute Shop, South Africa - I think this is the right website: http://www.parachutesystems.co.za/ ciel bleu, Saskia

Dunno about the weather (although we did have an awesome summer, and a lower ceiling is less op a problem for low hops), and no swoop pond, but at Teuge, The Netherlands things are starting to pick up, swooopwise. We'll have a Dutch Swoooping Tour in 2004, starting and ending in Teuge. I'm sure Henny Wiggers'll post more details on that when everything's been finalized and the website is up and running. We have a very big landing area, in which we can set up entry gates and a course for swoooping, and usually the sunset load has some swooopers with gates etc right in front of the hangar. Way cool. Jumps are from a Grand Caravan, maybe 2, next year, with occasionally an extra C182, 206 or 208. 10 jumps a day is doable but may not always be. Jump prices are according to exit heights and day-of-the-week and membership: € 12 for 3.5/5k for non members, + 1 € on a Sunday/holiday. We also have a bunkhouse and a bar that are really good. ciel bleu, Saskia

Right now I got the white-blue XF2. http://www.downplane.com/ Gotta have a pic of me flying in my birdsuit tho!!! ciel bleu, Saskia

Remko I'm not at work I don't wanna see code go away! I'll try this when I'm back at work, luckily I don't have a C compiler at home! (Hmmm I do actually have Cobol lying around here somewhere heh heh) But the point was, 'ouch'? Could've told ya that! ciel bleu, Saskia

car van bycicle horse mule eh skates? I'm really good at driving those bump-cars at fairs! (no rules ) ciel bleu, Saskia

Are all the canopies you've jumped so far student canopies? Ie detuned, real long steering lines, not easily stall-able? If so, you'll notice a difference all right going to a 210 non-student canopy. Not so much because of the size difference, but because the canopy will handle way different. I went from a Manta/Skymaster 280 to a Skymaster 230 (didn't notice any difference, WL still next to nothing). Then a Merit 190 (WL 0,78) at 50 jumps. Holy sh*t!!! The 190 in and of itself wasn't the problem I think, tho I believe a Spectre 190 or 210 would've been more appropriate for me at the time. But a Merit is much more agile (tapered 9cell, hybrid F111/ZP, with the typical french control range ie short!). The first 6 jumps I went head over heels a couple times . When first landing the Merit: Wow!!! Heeelp! Where's the f*ng BRAKES on this thing! (A Merit KEEPS flying) After I learned to land it right tho (took me 12 jumps), the Spectre 190 I jumped next was easy in comparison... The reasoning behind putting me on the Merit 190 (there's a Merit 210, Spectre 210 and Spectre 190 also) was: We wouldn't want you to think a 'real' canopy was as slow as a student canopy.' Uh huh. Well it scared me a bit.... I'm a wuss... It was 3 things at the same time: conversion ripcord to throwout, no more detuned lines, and a 'real' canopy. A bit much for me at least... Anyway I'm rambling on, what I wanted to say was I don't think the WL will be a problem for you (not knowing you tho), but if it's your first non-detuned-canopy, be careful. ciel bleu, Saskia

See pic, hope it is clear it's late! ciel bleu, Saskia

Hint: there's nothing to pull at besides your cutaway and reserve handles! This is his our SL rigs work (there are slightly different systems): The SL is connected to the airplane on one side, and to both a flexible pin which goes thru the mainloop, and to the mainbag on the other. When you jump the SL gets taut and pulls out first the flexpin then the bag follows (stays connected to the SL so to the plane) and the canopy comes out. There is no way you can get your main out yourself if the SL isn't hooked up... ciel bleu, Saskia

Yup I removed both of them. And both came back. The laptop really thinks it's in there, apperantly... What I meant was in safe mode I got only drive E but both hardware drives were visible, with the SCSI drive still disabled. In normal mode the Sony drive is both E and F. And no way that I'm going to reinstall XP... ciel bleu, Saskia

Right, forgot about that thanx. But, no good. 3 drives, back in force Although strangely in safe mode there was only the one. ciel bleu, Saskia

OK, how then?? ciel bleu, Saskia

Nope no good. Not sure I even HAVE a safe mode anymore in XP home, so I did this in the normal mode. There's 2 drives listed, a SONY one and an AXV (SCSI). Uninstalling both then rebooting results in 3 drive letters again. Disabling the second drive results in 2, so at least a marginal improvement How come my laptop insists there's a SCSI drive in there too..? ciel bleu, Saskia

Anybody who can help me with this one? I have a Sony Vaio laptop with a dvd/cd-burner combo. Used to show up in Explorer as drive E. I have XP home. For some reason (we've been trying out various types of networks, and I've downloaded some XP upgrades too) now there are 3 drives showing, E/F/G. I think it split itself to a cd, dvd and cd-burner. I'm not really liking this, tho it's more of a nuisance then a real problem. Also I've noticed that all of a sudden any picture that's directly on my desktop (not in a dir) won't display in Explorer anymore, the rest works fine. Another weird thing was that the Winamp version I had would play 1 track then play on but the sound (Wave, only) would be all the way down in Volume Control. So no more music. Solved that one by getting Winamp3. Seems like a WinXP update causing all this? ciel bleu, Saskia

Yup it sure is a nice suit! Now I'm waiting for some nice weather tho... Freefly coaching there is somewhat expensive. But just jumping your ass off shouldn't be a problem; if I manifested I never got more then a 10 min call. 10 jumps a day is doable, with a nice lunchbreak in the middle. Don't know how many jumps you were planning on making Like I said, what was the problem?? ciel bleu, Saskia

Jelle, what was the problem??? I've only been there once, during the european championships so everything was hectic. But I sure liked it. It was the first foreign dz and the third dz total for me to jump at. I didn't have 400 jumps yet, in fact I had like 205 and grounded myself once when a 200 jump limit was posted. We all got grounded by Tramanotana for another day or 2 but we amused ourselves otherwise. I liked the Otters, a Porter I can jump out of here as well, but still a nice plane. Accomodations were good. The staff speaks all kinds of languages. Jump tickets are less then in Holland. The weather is generally much nicer. Besides a bit of wind sometimes, what's not to like? I didn't jump my ass of because I was there for another reason, but I could've... ciel bleu, Saskia

I'd like the price to show when you open an add. Now I have to back up a page sometimes if the seller doesn't list the price again. ciel bleu, Saskia

My favorite: when a tandem student has ear problems after landing, often TM's tell them to grab their ankles and start hopping around. Hilarious! And some say it works getting their ears cleared, too We even had a student that was a medical dr fall for this ciel bleu, Saskia

Allow me to say: BRRRRRRRRRRR! NOT looking forward to winter.... However the background is awesome

An Icarus representative gave me this link: http://www.nzaerosports.com/ These guys could probably tell you more about the canopy. Apperantly you can still order an Alpha or Beta? Or the order form needs updating... ciel bleu, Saskia

Huh if you can do THAT, try Dutch ! I can actually understand almost all what you guys just wrote ciel bleu, Saskia

Hah hah well luckily I don't have any pics from me in the Matter suit; those things only look good in flight! And, I do believe any S3 looks the worse from the deflector thing........ Hmmm a good reason to stick with my Classic2 for a while?! LOL ciel bleu, Saskia

If that slider can come down on it's own, maybe because you have minilinks and big grommets or have slinks without bumpers, then you're better off pulling the slider down (before releasing the brakes!). If you don't, it may come down later. Mine did, 3 times, of which 2 < 1000 ft. Not funny! Had to correct a turn during flaring because the slider came down asymmetrically and trapped the right steering line a bit. So I got really short risers for my main rig so I could reach the slider and put slider bumpers on my other rig to keep the slider up. Now I purchased another set of really short risers but haven't put them on yet. Got annoyed by the constant flapping noise of a slider I can't reach... I think if you really don't want to get the slider down, for instance some toggle systems are fairly big so getting the grommets to pass those is difficult withour releasing the brakes first, you may want to collapse the slider. I think it stays up better that way but not sure. Anyway you get rid of the flapping noise and it reduces wear and tear... ciel bleu, Saskia

LOL no idea what peptobismol is either, but if you're right with that pic then I gotta agree: definately not stylin' ciel bleu, Saskia