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Thoughts: -the lights work perfectly fine on my golf cart; why weren't they ON? -hammers work fine for mending bent aluminum wheels. At least good enough to get the cart home. -NOBODY was up later than me on Saturday night. I can PROMISE you that. Gimme the award. -I am not the Hog Flop champion for 2005, but I sure was for 2003! -Pete the pilot (Spy38w) was one drunk motherfucker Saturday night! Mission accomplised! -Perry "Chainsaw Trowbridge" was absolutely nuts for jumping with an entire palm full of stitches. -Thank god for the "hot dog guys". Chuck
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When did it say how old they were? I was channel flipping back and forth between there and Las Vegas so I must have missed it.
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Jay just wants to get laid and party. Happy birthhday, Jay.
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What the fuck was that stinky woman doing married to that 18 year old? There is not way in the world that fruitcake was older than 20. Wearing skirts and playing with sticks? Dumpster diving for food just because others "waste so much." That episode was nuts.
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I won't be coming if I have to pay the $900 vendor fee PLUS the tent fee again! Holy shit. Chuck
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Perry "Chainsaw Trowbridge" wimped out on his "low pull rig" this weekend and dumped at 1000 feet while flying a Prodigy from a helicopter. We all went "I thought Perry was going to dump low", but such was not the case. Still, the man is crazy for skydiving at all with an entire palm full of stitches. Chuck
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That's fucking FUNNY, Matt!
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This is the plane Tim and I both have: http://www.modelflight.com.au/rc_model_electric_planes/hobbyzone_aerobird_xtreme.htm
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What ever it is, that was a cool video!
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Oddly, and totally by coincidence Tim Tennant has the exact same airplane and it's on a different channel so we won't have problem flying them together. It's fun. chuck
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Well, I have spent two afternoons out at the dropzone playing around with my new RC plane. I piled it in pretty hard four times today (out of seven flights) and only broke it bad enough on the last try that I could not give it another whirl. What great fun! I flew the damn thing right into a tree one time when I flew it out of radio range. It's pretty amazing how resiliant my plane is. It's an AeroBird Extreme fully-aerobatic electric. It was a tad too windy to fly this plane, but I simply could not quit. Into the wind it wanted to stall on me unless I was trimmed down a bit. It actually hammer-headed on me a couple of times with me being able to fly out of it cleanly (thankfully) before I piled it in on a lesser maneuver. It barrel rolled on me once when I held the rudder over for too long (it's a V-tail) and I got away with that once too! What fun. I went by the hobby store and bought an extra wing and tail "just in case". Chuck
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Right, Chris. I don't think there is such a thing these days (at least not in the USA) as a "poorly constructed" rig. I have owned a little of everything in my nearly 25 years skydiving, but my current sport rigs are Wings EXT's. The Micron/V3 is a great rig, but feels stiff on my back. My last Vector was a Vector 2 (I have owned four RWS rigs), but my wife owns a V3 as her backup rig and really likes it now that it's broken in a bit. Chuck
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Agreed.
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We have never had an out of sequence student cutaway since I have been working at Raeford. That said, I think the system has it's merits. I don't know why you would want to switch the risers from that rig onto another type of rig or vice-versa. As to taking them apart and hooking them back up (for maintanence I would assume), it's not a big deal. You just have two cutaway cables on each side which go through either end of a free-floating white loop. Anyone who has ever packed a tandem rig will know immediately how to stow the cables and how NOT to stow them. Chuck
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do you give free coaching jumps to low timers?
SkymonkeyONE replied to D22369's topic in Instructors
I taught for free at the Green Beret Parachute Club for over a decade. I still jump with low-time friends for free, but don't have a lot of time for it on "work" days at the dropzone. Chuck -
You are going to see a significant increase in forward speed, rate of turn, and flare power under your new canopy. You will be loading it at about 1:1, so that doesn't concern me to much. Make sure you get an experienced person (an Instructor) to talk you through the differences you are going to have to deal with and to watch and critique your initial landing(s). Common mistakes people make when making such a change in canopy size/type are: flaring too high, flaring too hard (one stage), and overshooting their intended landing area. Chuck
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Exactly. The "regular" cutaway handle (on the right) is exactly that. The silver steel reserve ripcord, in it's standard location on the left, acts just like an SOS if you screw up and pull the wrong handle first.
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Once (for the rest of the weekend) for taking a downplane below 500 feet. We broke off at around 250.
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All of the student rigs we (Raeford Parachute Center) bought in mid 2001 were student Javelins which were all equipped with what you are calling "universal risers". In reality, they are just SOS rigs with a separate cutaway. As not all of our student rigs are so equipped, we never told the student that pulling the wrong handle first would not kill them. There really isn't a problem with the longer-needed reserve handle pull on the rig since if you pull it far enough to cutaway, but not far enough to activate the reserve, the RSL will still take care of that. Once again, we still only taught the proper two-handed "look, reach, look reach, pull, pull, clear" technique to all of our students no matter what they were jumping. I have never heard of the system in question being called "universal risers" though. Chuck Blue D-12501 AFF/SL/TM-I, BMCI, PRO
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Looks like an S3S with some mylar supports in the front air deflectors.
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Naked Girl? Skydive Venezuela Ad in Parachutist
SkymonkeyONE replied to jumpnaked69's topic in The Bonfire
Multiple dropzone.com accounts, eh? Marissa.... The former "freeflyplaymate". Different last name now though. You must have gotten married. I can't believe none of the other "original" dz.com crew have not picked up on that. Cheers, Chuck -
$180,000 would buy you a 3000 square foot brick house in a gated community here around Fayetteville, NC. Oh, and there are TWO turbine dropzones in town and another one 70 miles north of here. It's very easy to find 1600 square foot NEW houses within five minutes of Raeford Parachute Center for under $100,000 Chuck
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you're stupee
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Most get either $25 or $30 dollars (US) per jump if they are not packing.
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Hopefully no AFFI leaves it loose to give their student room to arch since you arch at the hips, not in the chest. The chest strap has zero influence on a student's arch. I have seen too many AFFI's teach students to arch in the chest and they do, but then they de-arch at the hips and are not stable. Derek Exactly, Derek. Good post.