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That is exactly the board we use. We have three identical editing stations setup with those boards, DVD/VHS burner and MP3 players. We also have a separate burner (or two) for burning photo CD's. Chuck

no at Raeford, we have a liner board, dvd burner and mp3...not even a titler....my videos fully edited for the customer usally run about 7-10 minutes Is this similar to your linear board? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7512921294&category=21169#ebayphotohosting No, our boards don't look anything like that.

Why not backfly under them?

Packing is hard on your body. The more you pack the more worn out you are. Tandems are hard on your body. The more you do, the more worn out you are. The difference is that doing tandems is skydiving for a living and packing is not. I'll take getting beat up doing tandems anyday. Chuck

it's flock-a-dilly-ishious!

It makes me fucking nuts that this was not announced sooner! I had a blast there last year and would have absolutely planned on returning if I knew they were doing a comp again (PST or not). If anyone finds the millions of braincells that I left in that hotel room those three days/nights after the meet last year, please return them. Chuck

I would just call manifest and have one of them paged.

I have had Tony himself get up from his desk, stop what he was doing, and fix a suit for me right then and there when I was down there visiting and blew out a zipper.

Aggie Dave has a girlie truck! My golf cart has a bigger lift kit!

BWAHAHAHA! I don't know what the hell I was thinking, but the way I remembered it, it had something to do with the model number equating to a unit of measure. I remember a BT 40 being around 120 and a BT 80 being a tandem main.

Like Jake said, we don't even use the titler anymore. I think a good leader is important and we have changed ours around a few times in the past couple of years. Spending some good quality time in Premier to work your leader out is beneficial. You can do any fancy titling you like there. We keep our leader loaded as a file in our DVD burners and just upload our linearly-edited footage as another file then hit "record". It's very quick.

I love my little PC 109, but it's discontinued now. On a good note, that means you can get them for dirt cheap! Chuck

I estimate that I can "pull" my .3 lens in to about .45 before it goes fuzzy. I do the "in your face" ground interview stuff with it all the way out to .3, but generally always do the actual skydive with it zoomed to near the max available (around .45). Chuck

There absolutely has to be one over on the cape (Canaveral), but there may be a facility at JAX or Patrick.

"Chuck, you cunt!" The first words out of Will's mouth upon finally meeting me at Eloy.

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I have two sport rigs, my wife has two sport rigs, and we own a tandem rig. Katie has just recently put an AAD (a Vigil) in her second rig, but I simply don't care to put one in my second rig. Chuck

the "60" is square meters, so do the math and you will get the square feet.

The ParaPoint could be guided from the ground or it could be setup to follow a transponder worn by a jumper on that load. There were instances where the heavilly loaded ParaPoint would attempt to run down the jumper in the air; not the hot ticket. Chuck

Or remove it. A good point. I own an original Factory Diver, but hardly ever wear it. When I DO wear it (generally in the wind tunnel), I normally jump it with the visor off and goggles pulled over the top of the helmet.

I equate it to the equally-valid "trailer queen", used when describing a motorcycle that gets pulled from city to city in a trailer instead of actually *gasp!* being ridden. In this context it means that it's a rig in generally good shape which, for one reason or another, just has not been jumped and has been collecting dust in the closet. Chuck

These quotes from Skratch's post sum up my feelings entirely. In 24 years of skydiving I have seen many, many ugly things. I continue to jump because it's what I do. I am neither shocked nor in awe of anything I see anymore. Chuck

If you've never been on a motorcycle (as a rider, not a passenger), then I would not recommend wearing a Z1 as your sole form of protection. If you are riding as a passenger with an experienced, mature rider, then I personally would not sweat it for most rides. I don't have any problems riding my Harley FLTR Road Glide with a novelty helmet, but then again I don't ride it like a squid. I will most likely not be riding my new Buell XB9R (which I pickup on Wednesday) with that novelty helmet. That said, I would much rather have a full-face skydiving helmet (for protection) than my beanie lid. I absolutely have worn my factory diver on my bike in the winter on long road trips. Quick bit of info: I have been riding motorcycles since I was six years old. I have dropped each and every motorcycle and ATV I have ever owned for one reason or another. Motocross wrecks; endo'ing crossing a deep creek; hitting lose gravel in the road in the middle of a turn; skidding right off an exit ramp on I-95 in the rain in Emporia, VA! I consider myself a very, very accomplished rider, but sometimes "shit happens". You definitely want something on your head if there is any possibility that you will go down with enough force to smash your head. Cruising the strip at Myrtle Beach or Daytona running 5mph doesn't warrant a lid in my opinion, but dodging around in rush hour traffic sure does. Chuck

That is correct!

Jason, while you may have gotten away with a few high altitude jumps using other-than-USAF mandated 02 procedures, that does not make it "right." Rocketing up to 23k in Mike's King Air is very, very different on your body than lumbering around in a C-130 at altitude or sitting around waiting for the trail plane to catch up at that altitude. Of course I would not expect you or anyone else to understand that if you have not been chambered. These days pretty much anyone can call and reserve a slot at the nearest physiological training facility (the closest one to here is Shaw AFB and I had to go and get chambered every three, then later, five years I was on military freefall status). I recommend you go, if for nothing else but to help you find your oxygen deprivation/blackout point. In hypobaric chamber training you are exposed to the actual atmospheric conditions all the way up to 33k feet. You unmask at "altitude" and are giving some rudimentary tasks to complete (puzzles, writing your name, identifying map features). Some people will last only a few seconds before they are incapacitated and others will go and go; we call that "king of the chamber." People who are in good cardiovascular shape can generally stay unmasked longer than people who are out of shape. People who live at higher altitudes generally do well too. Still, there are exceptions to every rule and that's what the chamber is for; to see how you really do at altitude. In the military aviation (to include military freefall) world people take it very seriously. Without that chamber card and a good flight/MFF physical you are grounded. Want to do high altitude the correct, safety-proven and government trained way? Is so, then you are going to mask at 10,000 if your jump altitude is between 12,999 and 18,000 feet. Planning on going above 18,000? Then you will pre-breath 100% oxygen for 30 minutes prior. Dick around if you like, but don't get in anyone's ass when they recite the regulation. It just makes you look dumb to those on the forums who have actually been trained and do the stuff for a living. Even doing things by the book will not guarantee that your body is going to be able to take it over and over. Ron "Body" Plunkett was an MFF instructor at Yuma who got DCS so bad that they took him off of jump status. Guess what? He never went above 22k. Ron was my roomate for a couple of years when he was working on Pope AFB and I asked him about it. He said he had done nothing short of the SOP on any of his work jumps at the school. Likewise, I can count several times where AF loadmasters were dicking around in the back of the plane just passing around "walk around bottles" looking cool only to pass the fuck out when the ramp came open. There are more than a couple of stories over the last decade about people on record formation loads passing out in the plane or simply stumbling out the door in a daze only to regain their senses when they got down in the "thick" air. Ultimately, military oxygen use procedures were established for a reason. Chuck Blue D-12501 Military Freefall Jumpmaster (among other things)