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OK, what I wanna know is, how did Noah keep the Kronosaurus from eating horses, cattle, or sheep. during the time of the great flood, did God infuse veganism on all the carnivores? Maybe Noah figured out how to point Kronosaurus to the rear of the ark, breathe fire, and create the world's first jet-powered ship? Or, since Kronosaurus could also swim, could he have been in the water acting as propulsion? (Sorry, I didn't read the link to understanding Christianity, had a couple of them at the DZ today talking about their religion as they were prepping for their tandems. Their ignorance was palpable, leaving me with the impression that I could study their beliefs for all of my days and still walk away amazed at the gullibility of some.

http://www.creationmuseum.org/ Dinosaurs with humans, Noah shown building an ark while elephants look on, snakes literally speaking to Eve... The bible is a great collection of metaphors, but to accept it as literal to the point of spending 27M to demonstrate such a lack of intelligence baffles me. Only Hollywood budgets more in the presentation of fantasy! Visitors to the museum will be dumber for the experience, IMO.

For what it's worth, since we're not hearing from the "real" Jarrett, I'd like to read a response from the TM or the DZO that apparently encourages this. I agree, they're responsible for him being permitted/encouraged to do this. However now that he knows it's not safe to fly beneath and does it anyway, it's now Jarrett's albatross.

So Jarrett are you willing to risk your dads house, car, and everything else he has worked for as long as you have been alive? And to you Mr. DZO who would let him keep doing so, are you also willing to risk the cost to defend this minors actions you were paying him to do, in a court of law ??? Not trying to pick on ya Jarrett dude, but trying to get you to look at this from another point of view you may not have thought of yet, the leagle ramifacitions for all the players involved, the lawyers love to sue everyone (right Mr. RW) and your under age, guess who they will seek money the from. Nah...That can't happen ...The person posting isn't the real Jarrett. Therefore his argument can be that he wasn't *really* flying under a tandem. Although I had a tremendous respect for this young man, after several PM's and reading posts here and in the video forum (remember the "I hold on to the tandem harness thread?" I find myself now believing he's an irresponsible kid in a highly responsible position. In PM's he's written that "no on on DZ.com is real." Jarrett, like many others here, I post under my real name so you'll always know who I am. Like most everyone else here, I'd speak to you in person exactly as I'm speaking to you here. And like most every person here, if you spoke to me the way you're posting, it wouldn't be a pleasant scene.

So that makes it OK? RW groups know what it means to have the vidiot below them on his back. They're able to at least recognize what's up, even if they can't get completely clear. If the vidiot is too close, then they're in his burble anyway. Additionally, they're all very experienced skydivers. A tandem student not only doesn't know what's going on, but has zero ability to respond to it. Neither does a TM/TI. Bottom line is, no matter how hard you try to argue or justify, there is no justification for flying directly beneath a tandem. There is not any possible means you can guarantee that on each and every skydive, you are 100% certain that you will not experience a premie, and no way you can guarantee with 100% certainty that you're in control. Not at 500 jumps, not at 5000 jumps, and not at 50,000 jumps. IMO, a tandem skydive should be fairly boring for the vidiot. The student doesn't know the difference between you backflying beneath them and sit-flying/tweenie in front of them. Skydiving is entirely about mitigated risks. Increasing the risk to yourself is no big deal, but increasing the risk to an unsuspecting tandem student...it's called "gross negligence." It's wrong, we all know it's wrong, and knowing it's wrong and doing it anyway vs not knowing it's wrong and doing it, is where you cross the line between negligence and gross negligence. I wouldn't be surprised if whomever makes the rig your dad is flying would jerk his rating if they read this thread. At the end of the day, what you're doing makes all camera flyers look bad, particularly if you harm some one else. It's *not* all about you. If you truly love this sport for the sport, and not for your ego, act responsibly. I wish you luck; with your cavalier attitude, I suspect you need as much of it as you can get. Hope to see you here in a few years, and I'll bet you look back and read this with the thought of "What an idiot I was." Forums like this tend to be the new chronicles of our lives....Whether this is the "real" Jarrett or not.

OFF TOPIC (sorry): Packing Jarrett, It's great that you like to backfly, just please stop doing it DIRECTLY BENEATH the tandems. That airspace belongs to them. -dp I don't understand about this video, it seem regular to me. Back-flyin as videographer is great to capture memory. I notice most videographer do back-fly under the large group of RW. Backflying beneath the center of a large RW group is *very* different than backflying directly beneath a tandem. If you have a premature opening beneath the center of an RW group, you're not as likely to hit anyone square on. Beneath a tandem, you're guaranteed to hit two people square on.

No, we didn't "all" lose our lunch or jump on him. Some of us tried to speak to Jarrett in a civil tone. Upshot of it is, who you are on the internet is likely who we should be afraid of. Our character is usually defined by who we are when no one is looking at us.

This is a very cool event, we went the other night. I too, wish the building was staying, yet this could serve as a springboard for similar "shows"

Not my best, not my worst, but I liked how the composition came together. Wish I'd been further back, however. It was my initial experience with this particular camera.

Bozo, come to our DZ; if you'd like, I'm sure we can arrange a life-time banning. We want to be special too.

Very few videographers are more respected than Norman Kent. He doesn't fly under tandems. Or directly under others.

Gotcha. I'm not yet an AFF I, but working towards that as a goal. Once saw a situation where a radio failed, and student did not follow what he'd been taught (I was standing next to instructor as instructor continued to give directions, radio worked when student was up high, but somehow the volume was turned down as he began his downwind) and the student had a nasty landing, and suffered minor injuries as a result. It was the student's final AFF jump and he should have been aware of what he was doing. Perhaps he was so dependent on the radio that he was waiting for instructions to turn. I don't know, but it was odd to see him continue downwind when not only was the instructor telling him what to do over the dead radio, but he'd landed this pattern several times previously. He couldn't explain why he didn't follow the pattern he'd used in previous landings. I'll guess he was waiting for radio instruction.

Probably so. As with Native American stories; the stories of Untigilla, etc. They're probably more bible-borne than oral history, but regardless of the source, they exist. We heard them as kids; I'm familiar now with at least 3 flooding stories in indigenous culture. But...that still doesn't quite explain how some folks in the current world believe that all of the earth was covered with water and Noah had rhinos, elephants, giraffes, etc on his ark. Can't forget that son of Ham either.

y'know...of all the bullshit in the bible, this is one story I actually could believe. Suppose it's a local story that took on international flair...maybe Noah just knew his immediate region, so the only animals on the ark were cows, horses, pigs, chickens, etc. It's modern day storytellers that added elephants, giraffes, and whatever else. If you lived in New Orleans and had no awareness of the outside world, wouldn't Katrina have qualified as a similar cataclysmic event that might grow in stature in coming generations? Just look at Elvis...the modern day Jesus. Fantasy turned to reality in the minds of a few fanatics. On the flip side, if you accept 100% of the earth was covered in water after a 40 day rain... rent "Waterworld" with Kevin Costner. It was inspired by the story of Noah, and an equally riveting fantasy/surrealism.

That's a great point. I'd forgotten this. If you go into the Control Panel/Network connections, you should see the 1394 card there. right click, and choose "Disable" it will disable it as a networking device.

It also goes without saying that this substantially increases bulk. If you're putting light over dark, you often will also need a masking layer to keep the light colors visible. Best results are dark images/letters over light colors. Having been waiting for a custom canopy since November, I've learned a lot about why the manufacturer moves so carefully at sewing logos on to ZP It's not cheap, either.

I'm confused. Are you advocating non-use of radio in favor of..? (paddles, flags? Some other indicator, or nothing at all?)

As Dragon said, there is no way to capture via USB; as a *general* rule the USB2 bus isn't fast enough on many computers. The Firewire card shouldn't mess with your broadband card if it's at least one slot away. Plus, you can go into Control Panel and reset your resources. Is this a single proc or dual proc system? If it's single proc, you might set it to a resource share for the video card or the USB port, i you haev no other resources available. Firewire has it's own bus, so is usually quite easy to configure. Not always, however... How is it that the Firewire card is messing with your broadband card?

Had an EZPnP device that blew apart after a few uses. I'm looking for a device that will allow me to transfer CF to DVD without a computer. Other than EZPnP, anyone using anything worth a damn out there?

Skydive Utah: 2 main landing areas; 1 for students, 1 for D and/or tandems. Swooping area limited to west side of D license area. Student and D area separated by apron/tie down area. Student landing area divided by bright orange concrete markers embedded in ground. You fly left hand pattern on west side of line, right hand pattern on east side of line.

Recently I saw an image of someone with a side mount cam, risers either hitting the cam or very, very close. If I recall correctly, it was a belly cam photo, but I'm not sure. Does anyone know what photo I'm referring to (it's not on DZ.com, and if not, does anyone have anything similar? I'm looking to illustrate riser slap/potential hazards.

Should be the same as Minolta. I don't have an AX, but since it was originally a Minolta cam...

Very nice, great post! Sweet pix, too

The suit was a custom job, and although I've tried to contact the guy that owned it, the email I have for him keeps bouncing back (he's overseas). It's not my helmet, it's just how my wings flap when I go elbows-in. My Bev suit doesn't have jitter either, but the wings are also very narrow/long. Chatting with a few other cinematographers, this isn't a new question. As mentioned, the eye can't see the jitter. But it's very much there. It's similar to using stabilization on a tripod. If you have pixel-tracking software, you can easily see it. If it messes with the encoding (which it plainly does), then I want to eliminate as much of it as I can. Yeah, I know...I'm drilling into the minutae. At the end of the day, that sort of thing is why I've been successful on the ground, and I want the same quality in the air.

Nope, not at all. What I want to do is have greater stability for myself, particularly with heavier setups. I jumped this older suit with fairly thick wings a couple months ago, and was very surprised at how much more stable/less jittered my frames are. Wings flapping cause quite a bit of jitter. The eye doesn't really see the jitter, but the encoder does, and colors lose their richness when the final content is corrected and output. It's a very small tweak in my setup, but the small tweaks seem to make the biggest difference.