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Actually, what the hell are you posting that for?

Clickity,Click, Click!

I heard that he and Alex were meeting up in Sebastian this weekend. Yes, Trevor has the green and black tie-dyed rigs and jumpsuits. Chuck

Raeford absolutely does. I offer individual coaching for jumpers at any experience level. I won't advertise costs, but will just say it's the same as Scott charges. Also, I have in the past and will continue to give free seminars to anyone who travels here for functions, after the beer light comes on or during periods of horribly rainy weather, like right now. Chuck

I believe it had it's grand opening during the PIA symposium.

Actually, I have seen IAD on a resurgence lately. There are a few reasons some operations are getting away from SL and going to IAD; we are among them. First off, it means that I can use my very nice AFF student Javelins in an "other than AFF" setting without having to change anything on the rig. As it is, I only very-rarely get anyone stopping by to do SL jumps; we teach ISP-based AFF at Raeford. Still, if someone wants me to teach them SL, I will certainly accomodate them; I have been SL rated for over 15 years. I generally maintain one rig set up for SL, so it's not a problem really. In the transition to IAD vs. SL I will free that rig up for AFF and rental usage without having to waste 20 minutes swapping the deployment system. In my opinion as someone with every other instructional rating, IAD is just as good as SL so long as you have very confident and competent instructors out there on the step. Hell, I was already standing out on the step with the student when I was dispatching SL students, so that's nothing new to me. The club I used to teach at, The Green Beret Sport Parachute Activity, recently completely changed over to IAD and cross-trained all it's instructors at one time. They report to me that it's going very well. Chuck

Very unfortunate, Jack. I made two yesterday and it's a wash today, so so far it's 0:2:0. Chuck

Another totally incorrect reply, Rob. The Sabre was designed as a performance canopy. It was the replacement for the crossbraced, tri-cell F-111 Excallibur. It was absolutely designed for swooping and performance maneuvers. Once again, believe me when I tell you that we all swooped the living shit out of Sabres. We had no choice, because PD refused to make us zero-P Excals to replace the worn out ones we all had in our rigs. Yes, a Sabre has a much shorter recovery arc than a modern performance nine-cell or crossbrace. No, you can't arbitrarily discount them as a performance or "swoop" main just because times have changed. Underestimating the potential of a relatively small zero-p main is what gets people hurt. Thinking a Sabre 150 is a good first main would have drawn howls from us not long ago. All this is completely beside the point of the thread, but your comment gone unchecked would have led others to believe that what you said "must be the right." Chuck

That's Stephen Lee's (Vertical Express) wife. Her drunken hillbilly ass finally beat me down to the point that I let her get a monkey hat. Kickstand (Stephen) got one as well. Chuck

I am assuming you are talking about Trevor Hill. Actually, Trev has made the majority of his jumps here at Raeford and at boogies. Anyone else you know make 130 jumps in five days at Richmond? That boy is a mess! Chuck

It's raining cats and dogs here at Raeford as well. Ugh...

Exactly what does him flying a Sabre 150 have to do with him not being able to swoop? A decade ago, 150's were very small parachutes. We swooped the piss out of them. Chuck

There is a picture of just what you are talking about running around here on the forums I think. Unless I am mistaken, it's Wendy Smith on Doug's back. Chuck

Like in prison!!!!!!

It's true. Both Amish and Droopy made their first two flights this afternoon. They lived, so it's all goody in the hoodie! We actually did a 4-way on the first jump, then Jeff had to bail, so Amish and Droop took the Cessna for their second flight. Noice. Chuck

"Old" AFF was seven levels. In "new" ISP=based AFF you are jumping with AFF Instructors for nine skydives. You, by USPA's definition are still considered a student untiil you have 20 jumps and have fully completed your A-license proficiency card. There are plenty of dropzones still teaching old AFF; many of those would lead you to believe you are good to go after graduating a 7-level program. Chuck

BWAHAHAHAHA! You are KILLING me. Let my dad read that post and he will be killing YOU.

What yo name is?

But, of course you are!

First ride is on MY back.

Come to Chuckie!

Lisa, did you say "bump?"

That's a nice pic! Hooty HOO!

Yes, I will absolutely do that.

The CYPRES 2 is, in fact, a tidy little unit.