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Actually, I have PM'd Jonathan and asked him to "dumb down" his ad, even more than I edited it already. For future reference to everyone else out there running courses, posting a link to your own page here about a course and adding a general description is fine. Posting prices, slogans such as "the best value for the money", etc, is not. It's actually best to have someone other than yourself post about these upcoming courses. Yes, canopy control training is incredibly important these days. No, it's not OK to use this forum as a means of free outright advertising for your money-making ventures. Particularly by those who offer no free advice in these forums. Anyone with any grief over this policy feel free to PM me and I will put you in contact with the guy who makes the rules here. Chuck

I load my Sabre2 97 at 1.8 and you better bet your ass I swoop the piss out of it.

Yes, I will be at Dublin.

Just bring coctails and party favors.

Hey Bill, I think we should have another "data compilation meeting" next time I see you. Chuck

What a fucking idiot. How did he fall out of the car like that?

You are a bad, bad man, Gus!

I would still like to know if there are going to be any white folks at this boogie.

That would be nice for vanity maybe, but you are actually supposed to sign your work AFF jumps as AFFI-06, or the year you are current to. Not the year you got your rating.

Thanks, Jason. Could you also hold my pee pee when I need to wee wee? Where are you guys staying?

I totally tried to fly my Extreme with the smaller Challenger wing, but it simply wouldn't lift off the ground from taxi launch and wouldn't say airborne from a hand launch. I would have thought it would have had the balls to do it with the big Speed 550 in it.... I am seriously considering putting a brushless motor on my Extreme and using the receiver and servos from a trashed P-51. The only problem then comes from inproper weight distribution. The LiPo up front is simply way too light, so I would have to throw some ballast up front.

I don't know about that, Mike. I have been sport jumping for just over 25 years now and jumped rounds for the entire 21 years I was in the Army. Anytime I jumped a round, I always pulled down on the rears just prior to landing and only very-rarely didn't stand up the landing.

You must have never seen the 5000 square foot house that Ben Butler lives in or the Lamborghini that Cary drives.

Nancy Tremblay's swoop pants www.ouragansuits.com are very tough. They are expensive, but totally worth it in my opinion. I personally compete over rough terrain in Fox motocross pants and over decent terrain in my Bomber Freefly/Swoop shorts. I am still totally impressed with Nancy's stuff though and her's is what I bought when I wanted a freefly suit. Chuck

I have taken two incredibly-tall, larger guys on tandems out of Cessnas. One was 6'7" and the very next guy was 6'8". It was a royal pain in the ass to wiggle our combined mass out onto the step, but both tandems went perfectly. I am only 5'7" tall

I have gotten away with it twice so far; once in a wingsuit! Shaking violently from side to side got the main out on both occasions. Ultimately, it's very dumb to not cock your PC.

I will take that one on. I jumped PD Stillettos in sizes 107 and 97 for six years prior to trying out other stuff. When I did so, I bought both an Alpha/Impulse/Space 84 and an Icarus VX-74. The Alpha/Space/Impulse is a great opening, longer-than-Stilletto-diving nine-cell. Compare it to a a PD Katana, Icarus Crossfire, HiPer Nitro, Flight Concepts Rage. I competed on what is now know as the PST as a professional under Atair canopies for three years prior to switching back to crossbraces (PD Velocities in sizes 75, 79, and 84). I ended up back where I started (PD) several years later and really love my Velo, Sabre2 and my PD reserves, but I have more than 1000 jumps under Atair stuff and will gladly anser more questions for you via PM if you wish. Chuck

Well I was just at my local crack dealer (Hayes Hobby Shop) and I bought me some new shit. -ParkZone Typhoon 3D. I bought this because I am totally ready for it and am wanting to throw down some hover action. I already have the upgrade 2100 mah LiPo for it. This is the smartest choice as a four-channel RTF 3D plane on the market in my opinion. It comes brushless and ready to run my upgrade Thunder Power LiPo. -Replacement fuselage , cowling, and prop for my ParkZone P-51. This is positively the last time I am going to rebuild this airplane. I was smart enough to buy some of the thin birch plywood as well. I am going to reinforce the backside of the firewall with it. I am also either going to do one of the two following extreme things to the fuse: *install the electrics and then totally fill it with polyethelyne expanding foam.... or... *expoxy the entire fuse to make it stiffer and more damage-proof Either will make it substantially heavier, but I really don't care since I run a big LiPo in this plane. Which would you do if you knew this was a "throw away" plane on it's last chance at life? I also ordered a new replacement fuselage for my AeroBird Extreme from HobbyZone. I don't care how fun the Typhoon might be, the Extreme is still going to be flown tons. Chuck

I neglected to answer the second part of your question, so I will do it now. I would recommend ANY used entry-to-intermediate-level wingsuit that you can fit into as a first suit. There are quite a few Classic, Classic II, and GTi's out there that can be had for as little as $300 bucks. There are also a number of mono-wings out there on the used market. The bottom line is that you simply probably ought not go out and buy yourself an original SkyFlyer as your first suit, even if it fits perfect. Same for any other big-winged performance suit.

I am amazingly close to going out and buying (or ordering) a Blade CP. I am too stupid to buy the counter-rotating version first and am simply going to order two crash kits up front and the training gear. I would rather grow into an airplane than grow out of one. Currently, I get the most fun out of flying my Aerobird Extreme with the Pro tail mod and an over-charged battery. I have destroyed three complete fuselages on that plane and over-stressed too main V-tails to count at this point. I fly it very, very hard and don't give a rat's ass if I pound in trying stupid new tricks in too-high wind conditionns. It's a fucking blast. I totally burned up the receiver/servo plate in my last one when I thought it prudent to run my three-cell 2100mh LiPo out of my P-51 in it. It flew amazingly fast for about three minutes before it fried the board and the plane pounded in. You can do some amazing aerobatics with this plane after you get used to it. I also have a slightly-smaller Aerobird Challenger which I don't fly much anymore (I keep snapping main wings doing high-G maneuvers. I also have a Parkzone P-51 which has turned out to be the most fragile piece of shit I have ever seen. Even very small imperfections in your landings lead to broken firewalls, snapped props, and snapped wings. I am about to order my third bare fuselage and give this airframe one more chance. I am going to beef up the firewall during assembly. I already figured out that foam-safe CA works great on busted wings. I run a Thunder Power 2100mah LiPo in this plane now. Once I destory another fuselage on this plane, I am going to put all the servos and radio gear into another, stronger ARF. My next plane is going to be the Parkzone Typhoon 3D. It's like $220 at the local hobby shop and comes complete with radio, just like all the other Hobbyzone/Parkzone offerings. I am either going to buy that plane or the Blade CP heli today. There are a lot of us at Raeford flying these days. It's terribly fun to goad your friends into trying new tricks before they are ready! ALL of us have destroyed at least two planes apiece in the past month and a half. RC planes are the shit! Fly hard and take chances! Chuck

someone, somewhere probably has video of the naked Hooters girls in the Fort Bragg tunnel in the early 1990's. There was a time when almost anything was possible at that place if you showed up with the right kind of beer.

Our two current sleds: 2001 HD FLTR. 95 cu inch. Lowered two inches. Vance and Hines Pro Pipe. Screamin Eagle ignition, carb and air cleaner. No longer running the faggoty-ass stock white walls shown in the pic. Two different seats, three different windshields. XM satellite radio. This bagger was nice enough that I traded my incredibly-modified bar bike "the redbone express" for it straight across. 2003 Buell XB9S. Jardine RT-one pipe, ASB airbox eliminator, K&N filter, Buell race ECM, CRG bar-end mirrors, ASB "pasta-strainer eliminator" tail section. An amazingly fun bike to ride hard, but tractable enough for Katie to ride.

Not a TM yet but interested, will JumpShack make whatever size you want or is it only 298, 350 or 396? Have you seen any 298's? rm I would have absolutely bought the 298 if it weren't for the fact that I actually wanted to make money with the rig. I wouldn't be comfortable taking a 240 pound linebacker on a skydive under that 298, but I have no problems swooping guys that big in under my 350. Still, in a perfect world where I only jumped people around my size (I weigh 160) or smaller, I would absolutely have a 300 foot tandem main. Anything more would be absolute overkill.

I think it's absurd. I will ALWAYS weigh in on the side of safety. Charging someone extra for radio rental is like charging someone extra to fly "in the big airplane".

My tandem students generally are too busy deploying the parachute to grab onto my hands. If they are not a "training" tandem though, no, I don't ever grab them. I don't even give them any signal that I am going to deploy the parachute. The instant my droge is released, I am looking up at my deploying parachute and reaching for the risers.