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  1. SkymonkeyONE
    funny comment in a tunnel thread - must,,,,,resist.....smart ass...... response.....AAAGGGGGHHH Why, exactly, do you feel the need to make a smart ass remark about his mentioning Jeffro?
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    To everyone involved in that blatant hijack: stop it. Seriously. This is not the bonfire. I don't have time this month to go around locking threads for nonsensical reasons, so please don't make a lot of work for me. Chuck
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    The only "pure" skydiving wingsuiting fatality since Patrick DeGuyardon was a kid with under 500 jumps who got very-poor training from another inexperienced guy (both wingsuit and otherwise) on a suit that he had bought from someone who clearly didn't care that he was selling it to an unqualified person. Do yourself a favor and AT LEAST find a VERY experienced wingsuit pilot to train you if you cannot find a BMI.
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    I second that. All of you really made great efforts last year.
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    Katie thinks my pen is just fine, thank you.
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    You guys have a bad habit of scheduling events which conflict with other, already-scheduled boogies, fool!
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    My only two fairly recent reserve rides were under my old Tempo 120's and they landed me fine. I have PD 106Rs in both of my rigs now and had the opportunity to demo the canopy on main risers before making that choice. Not sure if Aerodyne has that demo option yet, but in the meantime you can order a PD R (hooked up like a main) anytime you like for demo. Chuck
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    If it's John's helo, they don't fly it anywhere. It gets moved from boogie to boogie on a trailer, then setup upon arrival. Chuck
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    You asked me, didn't you? I didn't write the word "moron" anywhere in my post, so I don't know where your original comment/question came from anyway.
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    Mike, I have to stay with Sparky on this one. My first sport jump was under a 28 foot 7-TU and my dad, Buddy Blue D-597, taught me to pull down on my rears just prior to landing. I used that technique my entire 21 year military jumping career with the same, satisfactory results. Likewise, all the jump meets and demos my dad took me to in the 1960's and early 1970's lead me to believe that was what everyone was doing back then; not the opposite as you state. Maybe it was the fad where you were jumping, but definitely not in the old Cottonbelt Parachute Council. Cheers, Chuck Blue, D-12501
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    DUDE! How about Fridge getting in all that trouble for the AH-1 Cobra jump!!!
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    Define "east coast?" AAC over in Maggie Valley, NC is not far from I-40 in western North Carolina, not far from Asheville. Chuck
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    No, but I could if you like.
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    The Perfect Spot restaurant has really good biscuits and gravy! Seriously. Also, jumping starts early (as previously stated), even during the week, when teams are training.
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    Dude your pen is definitely not mightier than your sword.
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    Are you a Seventh Day Adventist or a Jehovah's Witness? Edited to add: Mormon? They are all about lists.
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    Dublin is a remarkably large boogie for being run by such a grass-cutting redneck! I can't wait.
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    and that's absolutely available at any dropzone. That's not what he was asking for though. He was wanting debrief footage so that he could better understand what he was doing wrong. Yes, a guy out front and a little high could get the entire body, but I promise you that I can get any relevant problem in frame, without trying, from the main side while hanging on. We don't push outside AFF video at this dropzone at all, but more than willing to provide it for standard video cost if that is what the student wants. Chuck
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    Dude, use private messages for stuff like that.
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    I have never needed a lawyer for any skydiving-related matter in the 25 years I have been jumping. That said, my father, who has been jumping for twice that long and runs a DZ has needed one and it was very expensive for him to defend his dz and assets even though he and his plane/equipment/instructors had no part in the incident. It's pretty common for DZ's to have to fight off frivilous lawsuits launched by angry, grieving parents/loved-ones of people who have done something wrong. It's not that common at all for an individual skydiver to be involved in something like that, unless he is the one suing for his own stupidity.
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    Feel free to PM the author of the thread, call the dropzone, or PM or call Brian for the price.
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    People party at the farm? Whodathunkit.
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    I regularly wear my video helmet when I do AFF (from either side). A .3 lens allows me to get everything I need to see in-frame without distracting me from my job of taking care of my student. I debrief with my raw footage and I don't charge anything for it. There are at least three of us here at Raeford that do it this way. Chuck
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    It was a pleasure to jump with you and wife yesterday. You pulled your string and lived; success. Definitely not a bad way to end the day. Yep, too bad he had to leave; it was dollar beer night in Aviators. I recognized him from his avatar after Tony told me his name. Peace, Chuck
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    Joey D'Annunzio and I were out flying today. As he totally pounded in his Stryker yesterday afternoon (didn't know if it were upright or inverted and piled in at full throttle from about 40 feet when he tried to "pull up"), we botched together a plane out of some of our many wrecked parts. We screwed a Speed 550 brushed motor on the top-rear of an Aerobird Challenger wing, used an ESC, servos and batteries from his Corsair, and put it all in a busted up Challenger fuse. It was very heavilly wingloaded, but we thought it might fly. We were, of course, wrong. Under-batteried was my final conclusion. I didn't want to smoke his ESC with my big LiPo, so we called that plane dead. On a different note, I have been amazingly good these past two days with my much-wrecked P-51. I seem to have it totally dialed now and flew three full LiPo battery evolutions without ever smacking in. I guess it's gonna be some time till I transfer the electrics over to my Stryker....