SkymonkeyONE

Will, stop being a cunt. You know that is not true.

That fucker needs to go to prison immediately.

You can buy at least three different varieties of flat, wide-angle lenses for that camera: WayCool, Royal Optics, and Xdream Optics. There are threads all over this forum which discuss those lenses.

Katie and I bought our plane tickets last month. We arrive on Wednesday and leave Monday.

Those are not the accurate records. The record was a multi-plane, multi-point formation at Z-hills this past Christmas holiday. Oren Kalb organized. There was an "almost as large" formation at Eloy that same time frame unless I am mistaken.

that's fucking cool.

I didn't bother to ask, but I am sure Jake knows the who/when on them. I know that one of them was PMOY 2003. Chuck

Well then, I must be special, cause I've done about a dozen jet jumps Right, what implications? I have quite a few jet jumps (C-141, C-17, C-5) and don't seem any worse for wear. Most of those jumps were with a MT-XX/MC-4 and combat equipment hung from my 150 pound body too. Jets are no big deal, door or ramp. Chuck

Ex-Golden Knight Neal Beverly went right at 5000 before he took his first ride. He chopped a Sabre with a broken control line even though he could have easilly landed it. Reason? He was getting his tandem rating and needed an actual cutaway to get the rating.

I will second that the entire lot of them, NFL alumni and the bunnies, were very cordial. None of the girls were catty at all and Katie even said they were nice. I didn't speak to any of the girls, but the NFL guys had a blast and were fun to drink with. Jake made me proud by standing up all his landings, but he didn't get saddled with any of the man-beef NFL dudes. Chuck

Hey Skinny, I have a very noisy 5000 watt generator you can borrow! Guaranteed to run off all but the heartiest partiers, but it will light your mess up like a christmas tree!

I have been the hanger and the pilot before. I was actually the hanger while jumping my own suit. It's tough on the arms to be the pilot (like any other rodeo), but it's definitely more stable than a regular rodeo; at least in my opinion.

Exactly! That's a great pic of exactly what I was talking about.

Absolutely.

I would not want my 1000 pound electric golf cart rolling over with me strapped into it! Electric carts are MUCH heavier than gassers. I would much rather be thrown clean from a flipping cart, same as a motorcycle or ATV. I have no windshield, top, or rollbar on my cart and very, very few people have cages capable of stopping a rollover. The flimsy tops on golf carts will do very little to prevent you from being crushed should a cart roll all the way over on you. On that note though, there are a lot of communities which permit golf carts to be driven on the street. Peachtree City, GA is king among them. Most places which permit such activity require the carts to have lights and to be registered. Others require the carts to meet "NEV" (neighborhood electric vehicle) standards. NEV requires headlights, taillights, brakelights, blinkers, and yes, seatbelts. They are required to, generally, have a top speed of 25mph. Anyone who has ever been to the beach and seen the "Island Egg" vehicles running down the street can understand the complexity the government holds people to. Chuck

We have a whole pallet of GoFast at Raeford in SkyCAT. I don't drink redbull at all.

Back in the late 70's and early 80's LOTS of us used to jump in "old school" flip flops. The trick was simply securing a retainer band around the part that goes between your toes. When not jumping, the rubber band just stuck straight up. When you got ready to jump you just pulled the rubber band around your big toe. It'd be like "flap flap flap flap!" in freefall against your heel, but would not come off. That was the epitome of DZ stylin! That method worked just fine, well before the advent of "Teva-type" flip flops with the ankle wrap. I was never down with barefoot jumping because there were sand spurs all over the landing area at Raeford if you landed anywhere but right in front of manifest. Likewise, you never knew when you might get a bad spot and have to land out, potentially in the biggest briar patch in Hoke County. Even if you did find an obstacle free place to land, you still had to deal with walking back out. Simply not my bag. Even back in the day when the then-very-hippified Jack Jeffries jumped shoeless, he still had a set of flip-flops down his jumpsuit for walking back in. The only person I know that still jumps shoeless with regularity is Ponce. Chuck

boozehag!

Did you pack those yourself or did a "professional" fuck you like that?

do a search in this and the gear forum and you will find plenty of discussions on the canopy. It flies like a Crossfire/Cobalt. There are quite a few of them around here. Chuck

Right now it looks like Katie and I are tenting it as well. That is unless we can punk Skinny into letting us stay in his camper with him!

Cancer Chris Ware has done exactly that. He wasn't able to get his normal deployment handle at Z-hills (at flock and dock if I remember correctly). I very nearly had to chop at terminal one time at the Mardi Gras boogie because I neglected to cock the pilot chute on the demo main I was jumping (a Blade 98 I think). Arch HARD collapsing your leg wing, keep your head up, bring both hands in symetrically, and perform your EP's. Not a big deal. Even trailing a collapsed PC (which eventually opened the main after some vigorous "wiggling"). If you have any doubts as to whether you will be able to maintain heading during such a maneuver, just do some full-flight cutaway drills on your next wingsuit flight. Chuck Chuck

Nice one, Dan!

Stick your tongue out all you like, but you are exactly correct.

Upside down rodeos are fucking cool. You don't even have to wrap your legs around the pilot, you can simply hand from the mudflaps or chest strap. The the uninitiated: Face off in "Mister Bill" fashion with the pilot poising and the passenger back to the wind in the door. Exit in "out-in-fly" fashion and simply cruise away. Your passenger can either wrap legs around your waist or hand underneath you; it's cool that way. They fly along underneath you and drop off when their grip fails or you get them safely back over top of the "normal" freefall cone. Chuck