SkymonkeyONE

Quite dirty. As an ex skysurfer (about 100 jumps in 1990), I was never able to outfly a regular skydiver in a track. Not on my 42 incher, nor my 48 incher.

I had absolutely no problem whatsoever flying level with Kris.

Barney freak? That would have to be Kris! A big, round, purple canonball. Chuckie PS: Orange and Blue for me.

You already owe me, LIKE IN PRION! Give up the shirt, squirt! Also: I agree with the majority here that the sleeve design probably ough to be in a lighter, more "smacky-booty" color like ORANGE. C. Blue, esq.

Droop is buying his own sheeeeeut, so Amish will be jumping the GTi as long as he likes. I am sure it will fit him much better than my Classic (which I bought from Bobby Pritchard, just to train folks). cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek it!

I am standing on the edge, with a vision in my head..... I, Carlos Azul, and my lovely concubine, Katie, will probably be staying at my fellow monkey Stephan Lipp's house. We have already laid on a contingency plan, but I think we have it set. No, if you are not a monkey you will not be privy to the activities at Stephans place. Chuckie

Here is a pic of Amish after his first flight.

While I do carry a substantial amount of unsecured debt, I personally don't care. I own an awful lot of stuff outright and live a simple existence now. The money I make skydiving more than provides for all the beer I can drink and any gear I might want. My pension makes it so that I really don't even need to "work" at all. I just choose to do so because it's what it's what I ought to be doing.

Me too, Lisa, but I think I will just lay around instead. I am considering hopping on The RedBone Express and heading to Myrtle Beach in about an hour. Chuckie

I was emptying out some photos on my picture phone and realized I had some pretty cool pics from my last trip to deland. Here are some of them. First is me and the devil himself, Vladi Pesa Second is Jari and I Third is Kev and Kimmie, outside the BirdHouse Peace! Chuckie

Steve, have you not done any "four second turn drills" at altitude to see exactly how much altitude you actually lose in a turn from a known starting altitude? For that matter, it does not have to be a carve at all. the same principles apply for any type of turn. Get on an easy to identify heading (like up and down the runway). Wait till you are at an even "thousand number" on your altimeter, then throw your turn until you are around as far as you intend to be on your "real" landing. One you swing through the corner and onto the horizontal plane simply check your altimeter again. The difference in the two altitudes is the altitude you need to throw your turn. Know that if you do this drill at high altitude you are going to get a larger number since the air is thinner up there. What that means is that you are automatically adding a sort of buffer for your actual landing turn. Practicing at say 3000 feet will give you a more realistic "actual" turn altitude. Chuck

Actually, I said that. If not here, then in the last thread we had on this topic. That, of course, applies to all forms of instruction. I have seen quite a few timid SL jumpmasters and I's in my lifetime. Not only not willing, but quite scared to get out on the step with SL students. I have always done that; it makes it easier to "shortline" SL students who are about to flip through their risers. As to the discussion about who to hook up and when, here is how I, and both of the dropzones I have worked at do it as our SOP: First man is hooked up at either 1000 or 1500 feet and will exit on his main at that altitude or higher in even of an emergency before jumprun. Second and third students exit on reserves if they are not already transitioned to the "student" position and hooked up for their jumprun. I have worked on SL programs where two types of deployment systems are used. My dad's place uses SL assist mated to standard spring-loaded pilot chute freefall systems. The military club I worked at has the D-bag hooked securely to the SL and it stays with the plane after doing it's job. I like the security of the D-bag system, but even with removing all metal grommets from the bags, their sheer mass still beats planes up more that SL assist. All that is out the window with IAD. Chuck

-Schtum: Skydiver

Very nice. Please tell my buddy Chris Talbert to "push the button, monkey." He will definitely laugh outloud.

to the best of my recollection, my best was 13; five being tandems. I packed them all. Chuck

Yeah, get with the program, damnit!

Woo HOO! Kramer was on that jump! That boy ain't right! Holy shit. I thought I had it bad when I got saurkraut in my pies for my 3000th. It was absolutely disgusting. Chuckie

I have carried some incredibly tall and large passengers. Six foot seven, two hundred sixty five pounds and another guy on the very next jump who was six eight, two seventy. Both of those out of a Cessna 182. I was the epitome of the Wally Gubbins skit, but it turned out that both of those tandems, VERY early after I got my ticket were totally great, other than wrassling to get out the damn door. Those two jumps made me realize that I needn't be scared of getting overpowered on a skydive. I got out, waited till I was flat and threw the drogue. It's only the "hair trigger" drogue throwers who get caught off guard. If you are on your side or fighting for stability, then maybe tandems are not for you. We take on an incredible responsibility as tandem instructors. We are in charge of the destiny of two people and therefore we must be extremely and absolutely confident in our ability to get belly down. If someone big or tall is trying to take me for a ride, then I will simply build speed until my shorter appendages have the requisite drag to allow me to snap them around and get belly to earth. I am totally not afraid of big and tall passengers. My smaller size (five seven, one fifty-five) allow me to easilly get away with much more than some of the larger TM's can. Chuck

The wind howled most of the day, but I still managed to get two AFF jumps in late in the day with P-Raff. It was a good student, so we were both happy. Total ended up being: 0:4:0

Noice.

eight year layoff with how many jumps??????What license?????

Hey, Michelle, tell yo assed husband to come fetch his "swoop team" visor.

I totally agree with Bildo on this point . When you think you have gone the max out of your Stiilletto, come to Eloy( or Raeford) and watch accomplished skydivers with over 10,000 skydives show you what you can REALLY do with a ST. Gimme a break and don't fuck yourself up. Downsize when you can throw a circle surf on your rears (no transition) while geeking the crowd, which just happens to be facing 90 degrees off your desired landing direction. Chuck

Listen: No matter what they tell you at your home dropzone., you are technically a student (assuming USA here) until you have an A-license. Do NOT leave your home dropzone unless you have a properly filled out A-card in your possession and a properly fillled out logbook. I will promise you that you will find that pretty much every dropzone has different standards. Keep yoursielf inline with the highest national standards and you will have no problems. Leave your dropzone without that documentation and you will find out exactly how bad your system sucks. Chuck

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