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If nothing else, Aaron has about five jumps and I can tell you that he ruled right out the door on every one of his jumps. A natural.

At the CSS eater boogie/ symposium in 2001, I jumped with an over-60 guy who owned and regularly flew a SkyFlyer. There is no aga limit to this genre in my opinion. It is not very technical in the basic form and I would be extremely pleased if my dad tried it at this year's convention. Hell, he only has ten thousand jumps. Chuck

Sort of. My dad is the rarest: O negative. My mom is A I think. i am O positive. Off topic, but still genetics related is eye color. I always had the ass that I was the only person on both sides of my family, other than my brown eyed mother, who did not have blue eyes. I started out as true brown, but am now very green/hazel. Odd how that worked out. Chuck

Jim, cards are cheap. We only pay between thirty five and fifty bucks for nice cards here in Fayettenam. You will be amazed at how many "free" bubbles you will encounter once you get with the program.. Chuck PS: If Peanut does NOT come I am going to kill him.

I have never started out hating anyone, but more than a couple have turned out to be complete turds.

Bob is talking about Paul Rafferty, five time 8-way world champion and general "great guy." I doubt he really knows Raff's real deal because he is simply "one of the guys who works for me." That said, Raff is the consumate instrucor, besides being one of my best friends in the world. Bob was lucky enough to have Raff as his AFF/I on his last three jumps. Bob came out to the DZ today and dropped off his two cases of beer. One for standing up his last few landings and the other for getting signed off to Cat F and self supervision. He is not sucking here at Raeford. Chuck

set the standard

Actually, Tom should make O-4 pretty soon. It's hard to NOT make O-4 and O-5 nowadays. you MUST cover your dick with something; it might as well be a maple leaf...... Chuckie

wHAT YO NAME IS? No, I didn't do the caps lock in reverse order; that's the way I put ten labels all over the GK tandem team room about a year ago. KB was loving me for it..... Chuck

Not for any of the positions I am uniquely qualified to fill I don't. Still, I am not interested in any of that sort of work now. I am way too hippified now. Chuck

That's the reason I renewed mine the month before I retired. Very shrewd thinking.

Same procedure, actually. The EPSQ can be downloaded online; not sure about submission procedures for civilians when it comes to the TS level. FWIW, I have had a TS-SCI for over 15 years. Not that I want a job in retirement that requires it. Chuck

Outdrink? Who gives a shit. I don't like to drink to "double-vision" state. Still, when I put my mind to it I can go on forever. Chuck

You were typed wrong? That is incredible. Good thing you didn't get a "skin tag" under your arm, dude. Can you imagine? Chuck

Nice job, Tami. Can't wait to see you and your ugly husband at Rantoul. Peace, Chuckie

No, you are not.....But there might still be hope. Well, maybe not.

I'll take that bet....

Hey, what do you think the packing tabs are for on the Sabre2. I side, or "roll" pack my 97 about half the time with no noticeable difference in opening heading direction.

We were, in fact, in our normal, big circle, drinking like Vikings when the aforementioned landing occured. Chuck

Uh, what are you referring to?

All this can be read in the SIM and IRM, located HERE, at the USPA website.

Actually, that was vinyl top paint! Still, it was a very Derek-esqe experiment that I am quite proud of. Chuck

I, along with Bobby Pritchard, have done exactly that on several occasion. We exited last, dove down to the lead tracker with our hands behind our backs just flying with our elbows out, very arched. It was not a problem at all. At their break-off altitude, we simply rocketed up, up , and away.

Joe, chill out. JTVal2 is now permanently banned. The end. Chuck

Students here all get to "steer" and help land if they want to, unless they are not responding to commands. Either way, my hands are firs in the bottom rungs of the tggles to unstow the brakes. I then pull the bottom rungs down in front of the passenger and say "put your hands in here like me." Once they have the lower rung, I put my hands through the flare toggles and then put my hands over the top of the toggles with the control line coming up between my four fingers. I have much more control over the entire parachute that way and I have never been "over-controlled" by a student since I have done it that way. Paul Rafferty taught me that technique and if it worked for him, I figured it was good to go. Before that, I was taught another method which actually gives the student under anything other than a Sigma or an Icarus much-less control. I simply let them hold the flare toggles and mirrored what they did with my hands over the top of the regular toggles, which were strictly in my hands. All was well until the day a 240 pound guy "flared" too soon and too hard with the flare toggles, thus dumping us both on my ass, him on top of me. Nowadays with Sigma mains, and an Icarus 360 I have in a spare rig, I never, ever NEED any help to land anyone, but I still give them the toggles for at least down to just under 1000 feet. At that point, I take full control when the passenger indicates that they don't want to assist. Either way works for me. Chuck