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I didn't hardly recognize her. She still lives up there and skydives at X-keys.

Make sure you bring proper attire. I have heard some strange noises coming out of that van.

I just saw Froggie at Crosskeys, alive and well!

No homing device needed. Nine times out of ten, Sunny will be planted firmly on the couch in the DZ.com tent, lengthwise.

ONE! (middle finger extended)

Pay off bills and my house. Buy a bigger camper. Buy another Harley (a dresser). Invest the rest.

This really doesn't have anything to do with gear or rigging and I am sure the thread will be moved somewhere else, but I will answer anyway. There are a LOT of jobs in the military that supposedly require you to have color vision, but there are ways around pretty much anything except "GT" score requirements (which can also be waived a bit in some cases). For example, I am pretty damn colorblind (4 out of 16 on the PIP test), but I was in CMF 18 for all but two of my 21 years in the army without getting relieved. The bottom line is that so long as you can tell green from red, you are good to go. Chuck

I have to admit that I have never heard of that company.

Great idea, Mike! I am totally down with that. I think the dive I put together will will be wingsuit assisted.

I just saw Carl today. They stopped off in Raeford in the Deland Otter to get fuel for the rest of their trip back to FL. Carl is far from the clean-cut guy back in his serious ten-way days. He has very-long curly hair.

I always PRO pack that way. Once layed down on the ground and flattened out, I kneel on the canopy on the "container" end nearest the slider, pull the canopy up to my chest and then roll it down like a sleeping bag. No real folds at all. It's very tidy.

-seeing friends -teaching others how to fly wingsuits -making some money

I think it is because none, or only very few of the people instructing freeflying these days were even jumping when "sit suits" (aka: chute asis) were around. Most people jumping these days have never even seen such a suit, much less jumped one, therefore they see no merit in using such a suit as a tool. I never owned a big-winged sit suit, but I still own my original skysurfing suit that I had built in 1990. Skysurfing suits have much smaller wings and I, when jumping with others on chute assis jumps, found myself layed out pretty far on my back to keep from sinking out on them. True sit suits were really hard on your shoulders and arms in general, but I do believe they were a fine tool to get a newbie "feet down." That said, there are so few of those suits laying around these days that it would be asking a lot to expect a school to keep enough around to fit every potential student. As to the "bad habit" remark, I disagree. I didn't learn any bad habits using my skysurf suits on head-up skydives. Likewise, I laugh at people who tell me I can't skydive head-down in my RW bootie suit. You will do well in whatever form of clothing you practice enough in, no matter the discipline. Chuck

I lost the entire sole off of a shoe one time when I was the bottom, upside-down guy in a pendullum (drag plane). The sole met it's fate when the top guy dropped we two on bottom into the downplane. I laughed my ass off.

Yea, small hands (ok, who knows where that is from) "and they smell like cabbage!" That's from "austin powers"

I agree that SunCheHag would be a fantastic carny. Seriously.

If an unattended phone rings long enough, I am sure to simply turn the damn thing off.

You got THAT right, big daddy!

How do your forearms feel? Were you flying holding your wingtips?

On first tandems, I let the passenger fly, or assist flying the canopy down to 500 feet, then I take the controls and land the canopy. If it is a tandem progression student I am going to let them start helping with the whole landing on the second jump. edited to add: I don't need any assistance to flare any "modern" tandem canopy to a nice landing. When I was jumping old 360's and 421's, even EZ's, I would generally always let the passenger help with the landing. Yes, I had them flare hard and high on me several times, but luckilly I was never injured, nor were the passengers. Chuck

I started jumping a throwout pilot chute when they were invented, but I am sure you are asking about what dropzones currently use. At Raeford we teach BOC straight from the start. Likewise, the IAD students at the other operation in town also go straight to BOC. Chuck

If there are any such skydives, they will occur at the end of the day when the skies are less crowded with "raining skydivers". Yes, though, we will be putting together many, many flocks. Chuck

Myself and Vladi Pesa will be at Chester, SC all weekend with demo suits and some Pantz. We will be doing first flight instruction, organizing flocks, and running a BMI course. Come out and play if you can. Chuck BMCI

Rest your precious soul

a few:more than 10:0 I went over 4000 jumps sometime on Saturday and didn't even realize it. It was either an AFF or a tandem; I didn't have time to fun jump at all this weekend. No big deal. Burried a good friend and co-worker at Raeford, Carlos Rivers on Sunday. It was a nice funeral. Myself and five other staff members did pallbearer duty in black jumpsuits. Found out the horrific news that my friend Nate had died. Life is so fragile.