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  1. SkymonkeyONE
    BWAHAHAHAHA!
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    I only get "special" jumps signed anymore. For example, on the 20th anniversary of "official" tandem jumping I was at Carolina Sky Sports along with Bill Booth, Ted Strong, and a lot of other people who wanted to be a part of the 20-tandem (two CASAs in formation) skydive. I followed Bill Booth out of the airplane with my passenger, landed safely on target, then got Bill to sign my logbook for that jump. Truthfully, you really don't need signatures at all once you have met the criteria for whatever terminal rating you might want to get. If nothing else, get signatures for your first 500 jumps and at least six hours of freefall. Likewise, you will need signatures for your "declared" jumps and your yearly renewal jumps for your PRO card if you want one or need to maintain it. Chuck
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    So did Sonny Kerr. So did GPT.
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    No. You are forever doomed.
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    "Riser Tits" don't allow you to pull the slider down nearly far enough to get it out of your way in my opinion. True, It gets it down, but only straight behind your head. I have them on my wingsuit rig's risers, but that's only because I have enough other shit to deal with that I don't want the hassle of a better option.
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    A picture of what? You in your underwear? Ed has a very, very different prototype that he has been jumping. If the suit would have fit me and you, it would be us jumping it.
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    Excess cable is coiled up and put inside the same pocket as the main unit.
  8. SkymonkeyONE
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High? Correct answer!
  9. SkymonkeyONE
    You mean the guy from North Carolina that generally only flies wingsuits these days?
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    Straight out of the "rules" at the top of the forum. Please put stuff like this in the classifieds, people.
  11. SkymonkeyONE
    You said it, Rob!
  12. SkymonkeyONE
    nothing a little P-tex a file, and some wax won't fix.
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    "anything from side two of Led Zeppelin IV...." name the movie that came from
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    Students are rarely USPA members. How is this a conflict of interest if the loosing parties aren't members? _Am Students are required to join USPA by their fourth skydive, at least at any of the schools I have ever worked at.
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    Espana.
  16. SkymonkeyONE
    simple answer: yes.
  17. SkymonkeyONE
    SkyCAT Equipment.
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    The highest paid employee (other than the owner of the entire airport and all the buildings and airplanes) at Raeford is a packer. Even as manager/chief instructor/full-time AFF and tandem guy I never came close to making what Liz made in a month. Still, packing is not "skydiving for a living" so I didn't mind.
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    That's a really big suit.
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    Yes, military water jumps absolutely count as "water training". It used to be a requirement for the D license to do one intentional water jump, but people got tired of submerging their $4000 rigs and new jumpers were scared to jump with older gear it seems. Oh well. Like you, I have a lot of jumps chasing zodiacs (in soft and hard-duck configuration) out the back of C-130's, primarilly into Flemming Bay, Antigua, and Vieques. Chuck
  21. SkymonkeyONE
    I average about 480 a year these days.
  22. SkymonkeyONE
    If you are shipping something to your house make sure you tell them where to leave the package in the event you are not home to receive it. I have had more than a couple multi-thousand-dollar packages left on my front porch when I was out of town; it makes me furious. The UPS guy that delivers to my neighborhood has a serious "ring and run" problem. We just put up a small sign on the front door telling deliverymen never to leave anything at our front door.
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    Dan Preston was the first person I saw who had one of those for jumping. Looked fine to me.
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    Simple. It's all covered in the Skydivers Information Manual. You can teach right out of the book if you are too lazy to make your own handouts. Chuck
  25. SkymonkeyONE
    My suit flies very nice. Nancy makes suits with varying degrees of drag; mine is just a tiny bit fuller than the Dave Brown cut (which is very, very form-fitting) and it's fast. No, I don't have any swoop shorts from Nancy yet; just the one-piece freefly suit.