SkymonkeyONE

I would never, ever recommend to Brit that she wear HALF HER BODY WEIGHT in lead just to compete.

I can always get the last word.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! chuck and gimpy: "hey, wake up and give us your beer!" scotty: "Chuckie Blue, GO AWAY!"

My wife has two of them and has never complained to me about any hard openings.

I, personally, have never been in that tunnel, but by all accounts from very good friends of mine it is a great tunnel. CERTAINLY a much better skydiving-like experience than PF. Chuck

I never had any doubts as to the ability of one of your new guys.

I have actually seen both extremes with some very, very-experienced FS jumpers. Some nail it right out the door and come right up to you and dock within ten seconds. One in particular just never got out of the boxman no matter how much in-air coaching I gave; he fell like a rock on the first dive and didn't do much better on his second dive. Whatever; he still had fun. Chuck

I must still be sleeping; I didn't even notice that. Perry, you need to stick with one name or the other. Chuck

Well, a same-sized velo packs about 20 percent larger than a non-braced canopy. He may be able to get a 103 in that rig tight, but I seriously doubt a 111 would go in there. By comparison (I jump also jump Wings EXT's), I just barely can fit my Velo 84 in the same size container that I have my Sabre2 97 in.

YOU DA MAN, Andy!

You can expect to have to wear a balloon suit and to be beat up by the air at Pigeon Forge.

Actually, there are quite a number of military guys out there who got their AFF tickets with four hours of freefall. They only use their ratings to assist in running their own, in-house freefall programs though and cannot touch a civilian until they have attained six hours of freefall. Same thing with tandems. There are a ton of guys around here with RWS tandem ratings who got them for "miltary use only" with as little as 200 jumps. Same rule applies: no civilian tandem passengers till they have 500 jumps. Back to the topic at hand though: tunnel time. The great amount of my 254 hours of tunnel time has been working with freefall students and doing "instructor drills". It is positively the best tool available for doing "flip over drills", blocking "students" who cork up on you, and spin stops. That and "king of the tunnel" drills where you try to steal the high safety's air. Thank god I didn't have to pay for any of that time! Chuck

"alright, Meow, let me see your drivers license and registration" "excuse me?" "right meow, boy!" "let me see your license and registration......CHICKEN FUCKER!!....Caw! Caw! Caw!

That's really dumb, you fooking deeeef bastard! PS: war damn eagle love and kisses, Chuckie

Dude, you will want that hair on your head after dark at Eloy; it's fucking cold.

Uh, that's called "warping" and CRW guys do it all the time, Mark.

Tess, this is probably not the right forum to address your "tandom" concerns, but I am going to do it anyway. Basically, if I can adjust a passenger harness to safely and securely fit a passenger, then I will jump them. I have jumped tandEm passengers as small as 4'8" (about 90 pounds) and as large as 6'8" (and 275 pounds). The big guy was fit and I didn't have any problem correctly adjusting the harness to fit him. That said, I have had fat passengers show up who are right at the 230 "limit" some DZ's mandate who simply would not fit in the harness. Those fat people who I can fit safely in the harness often complain of discomfort during the canopy ride and, on rare occasions, even pass out under canopy due to their blood flow being cut off to their extremities. Ultimately, it's up to the individual tandem instructor (and the rules specified the gear manufacturers) whether or not larger people are going to get to jump. As I weigh only 155 pounds and have a ton of skydives (actually over two tons), I don't have any problem taking passengers larger than some of my more beefy co-workers do. That still doesn't guarantee that I am going to be able to accomodate people that simply will not fit into a harness. Chuck Blue D-12501 BMCI-4, AFF/SL/TM-I, PRO Raeford Parachute Center

Nothing near the blaspheme that occured when the old Lime Light closed.

Isn't that the AMAZINGLY dumb redneck girl that Paul Jr hooked up with a couple of years ago in Daytona?

My only comment to that last post concerns pack volume. I very-seriously doubt you are going to get a Velo 103 into a container properly sized for a Katana 107.

I have a spare 5KW generator that I can drag down there for you to use, Lee, but it's gonna cost you!! It already has a 30 amp pigtail, too. As to the list, I am not sure why Kramer's name (as well as Katie and I) was not added the first time he mentioned it. It only makes sense that you update the MOST COMPLETE list in your posts, you freakin morons! PS: please bring the pain, Lee. Chuck PSS: edit THIS list, you freakin morons! CSpenceFLY & The RoamingDZ plus a few quarts of Peach Mountain Dew Mrs RoamingDZ.com Popsjumper Katiebear, SkymonkeyONE and DaGimp in "The Monkey Mansion" MOUTH Psycho Bob & Psycho Patty (My wife) RkyMtnHigh stl135... Wonderhog... Thanatos340 Skymama jumpchikk Jumpnkramer Goofyjumper Skinnyshrek and his "Den of Iniquity" Flytex revillusion Skychick312 & Avalonwings Lauralicious Skyjenb Skydivermandy and Dave Darkwing Nut n lucky Dbattman (tentative) Icon134 micduran,with her new camper Chaoskitty Pyke Yardhippe & Redhot wife (maybe) FrogLady PSW097 missg8tordivr NYBryan selbbub78 ncfitzge Jumpingbean001 FoxyRoxtail + hubby The_Don & jeannier

Why don't you do what all the european gypsy skydivers we have in the USA do: follow the sun. Find you a nice warm place to skydive/work in the winter if that's what you really want to do. Chuck

I agree. It's a phenomenal facility and they give a great, informative tour. Chuck

i want "and need" another p.d. reserve. anyone want to hook a brother up?.. Come on, Mark. Didn't you change flags three times last season?

That actually has the perfect patriotic beat.