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    Planes which smell of stale pizza, anyone?
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    WFFC
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    Better watch it, Shimmell! Hansie will squash you like a bug.
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    If you fly an S3 and hold the wingtips for the entire flight, minus docking, then it's nearly impossible to view a wrist alti. Chuck
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    I think a mudflap mount is a great idea. I used to have a "wedge" mount, but someone found they liked it better than me and stole the fucker. I was pissed to say the least.
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    I think this subject is pretty debated to death, but I can tell you that I do a 270 almost every single time for basically the same reasons you listed, as do the majority of other competitors. I used to split evenly between 180's and 270's a couple of years ago, but an old neck injury makes it such that I have an easier time surveying the swoop lane from the perpendicular 270 setup. Chuck
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    Hey Josh, have you never seen Eric Butts' video of his reserve malfunction? He barely got it cleared.
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    Actually, Katie and I are going to drive right by anyway on the way to Key West, so either we will get to jump or we won't. Either way, that's fine and we will still get to see our friends. This is the weekend after the Bytch Boogie at Sebastian, is it not? Chuck
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    Absolutely the opposite in almost ever case. I never pull below 4000 feet in a wingsuit due to the added possibility of suit or main malfunction and the additional time required to deal with them. These, the same reasons we pull higher on Tandems and while skysurfing.
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    I am at work as well, but I can't be sucking, right? I mean I do work full-time on a dropzone. The weather sucks completely today and we are all standing around with our thumbs up our butts. Happy hour is going to begin much earlier today. Chuck
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    If you had read more than the first page of this forum you would have found any and all answers to your questions; they are all there. Do searches under "swoop progression", etc.
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    VERY good point. IIRC, to make a VCD, you only need to convert the file to MPEG2. Most CD burning software will burn a VCD This must be what went on in the situation I first mentioned. Matt, I am talking about the thing Josh the packer wrote to make that copy for me......Whatever it is, it was copied off a DVD, made on a CD burner, and plays in my DVD player as a DVD. Do you follow me? Chuck
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    Don't be a pansy; drive the fucking car. Drive it like you stole it. I got exactly 110 miles out of the first set of back tires on my last Corvette (97 C5, the first in North Carolina). Burnouts backed up to the front door of my then-favorite bar until the smoke cleared the whole place out makes for a good show. Replacing Eagle F1 run-flats at the tune of $460 per tire gets expensive though, so I ceased that very-entertaining practice. I have always been of the school of thought that cars were meant for driving....hard.
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    I totally spaced Skreamer, Freaksis, etc. JT and Wingie have been around since the beginning as well, but make no mistake, while he is the extreme post whore, Clay Fowler is a fucking newbie.
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    Dave, make sure I am not in screaming distance when you tell the duck joke, please.
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    And that, my friend, is why so many relationships of that sort fail. You cannot subordinate yourself and stay happy. If you do so, you have not achieved mutual respect. Your mate must be the most important thing in your life. I am talking marriage and serious relationships, not casual dating. Oddly, it was not children, but parents of several of my, then, mates which led to breakups. Only once did the status of a child cause any problems. That had to do with her fighting with her ex over visitation, etc.
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    Really? I had not heard that, not even in the dungeon. Cool.
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    I have a lot of pictures of Sunshine passed out and she looks remarkably the same in every one of them.
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    The old days? Froggie, FFF, Pyke, Pammi and Merrick, Stacy, JumpinKayAus. Plenty of post whoring going on back in the day.
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    My grandmother taught me this one quite some time ago and I just now remembered it: For a relationship to work, you can put no other person above your mate. Not your parents, not your children, nobody. This is especially critical in marriages/relationships where children from past relationships are involved. I didn't take much credence in this advice until much later in life when I saw so many, many of my friend's relationships fail because of this lack of primary focus. Chuck
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    No, that was Trevor. Actually, they both barfed. Trev barfed all over the sleeping bag and the floor though. Lovely.
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    That's what I call "rock skipping." Kim Griffing told me how to do that in 2000.
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    DeLand? Eight hours.
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    That was not really my point. I am not making any pokes whatsoever at the Canon City incident. What I will say though is that snap 180 degree turns while maintaining the same glide ratio, exactly like in the GK diamond track are pretty simple and look great with smoke. Several of the GK's have been jumping BirdMan suits lately to see if it's something they want to replace traditional diamond tracking with. Chuck
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    Who you calling "jerk", Steve? Another note: What a person really needs to understand and know about glide paths and possible trajectory changes associated with different body positions is "the accuracy trick." Yes, the same accuracy trick you use on a landing approach. While your target may be moving, the accuracy trick absolutely applies if you have already setup what you think ought to be your proposed glide for the approach/swoop/closing maneuver. Something must remain constant for you to be able to make any such judgement, so constantly changing your body position, or "chasing" your optimum glide just doesn't work. There is a good example of such flailing on the BirdMan site in the Cinco De Mayo video. Not a personal dig in anyway on Kevin, but that video of you chasing Lou while he was on his back is a great example of what not to do. Chuck