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As both a very-busy instructor and professional swooper, I do everything in my power to avoid other traffic in my approach to that all-important final turn. Raeford is a very busy student dropzone. Three separate schools running concurently, with SL, AFF and tandems. Lots of kids on radios being guided to safe landings out in the middle of the landing area. Those of us who swoop the beer line do so to minimize conflict with all that other traffic. Believe me when I tell you that people flying around 1000 feet below me are very much in my way. I do everything in my power to anticipate their turns and approaches. Cut a student off and endanger him (or her) and it's your ass. People at my experience level have no excuse to cut corners just so we get the glory swoop. You were in the right; the other guy was just pissed because he had to alter his line. Chuck My webpage HERE

Right ON! I thought AA had made a mark then beat a permanent retreat. A fantastic tale. Chuck My webpage HERE

I was very saddened to watch my Auburn Tigers get smacked around by the very-lame Crimson Tide, and on sacred ground no less! (Jordan Hare Stadium). 'tiss a sad day. Not sure if it's this way where you guys are from, but in the state of Alabama it's one way or the other....period. My favorite teams are Auburn and ANYONE playing The Tide. War Damn Eagle! Chuck My webpage HERE

All very scenic pictures! Nice. It would take me well over a year to scan in all the pictures I have taken in my travels, but I really need to get busy doing it. Having them all stored electronically is definitely a smart move. Chuck My webpage HERE

It's really not too much of a pain in the ass to pull a slider down over 2-inch risers, so long as you don't have big, huge covers on your rapide links. In the case of your very-large (by my standards) Safire, you will not be doing so much to allow the wing to flatten as getting that noisy slider out from over your head. Chuck My webpage HERE

Outstanding news, Nelson! Good luck! Chuck My webpage HERE

BWAHAHAHA! You are Keeeeeeeling me! Stacy, was that a CRW canopy you were demoing or a Cobalt? Seems like you jumped one at Easter. Chuck My webpage HERE

People land off at Louisburg (CSS) because everything is out in one pass....PERIOD. Lots of DZ's with high volume are this way in an effort to maximize profit. Want to make sure you land on the airport? Get our first or wear a birdman suit.

NO SHIT on the captions! Even rank novice HTML monkeys know to add "ALT" and description to the IMG tag. Jeeeeezus! That would really help us that don't know the faces. Chuck My webpage HERE

Actually, I would be very surprised is they were not flying. Call the DZ and see, or go by the website (www.skydiveelsinore.com) and see what's up. My teammate Bryan Harrel works at the school there. Chuck My webpage HERE

This list has been going around for a while, and the answer to your question is: YES, it's very accurate. Seriously.

Actually, the slightly larger crocheted ones were originally called "sippas", while the leather ones were the actual "hackeys". Not sure when they started all being called the same thing, but who gives a shit. I suck at hackey in bare feet and tevas also, but do pretty damn well in my coral dive-booties and my Sabra Negev swooping boots. Both are slightly over the ankle and flat-sided. Chuck My webpage HERE

The Bob Buquor Memorial Star Crest is now administrated by Bob Newell. Applications for any of the awards ought to be available on any DZ with any salt to it. If not, then the applications are available by mail for sure. The address is always listed in the back of parachutist magazine every month; Skydiving also, unless I am mistaken. There are actually several really neat awards that are offered by the same foundation. Some involve building a formation, then flying individually through a Hula Hoop, then re-forming the formation. SCR and SCS awards are also awarded for night jumps (the patch is black). Once again, some dropzones keep the practice alive and well as a sort of stepping stone for the younger jumpers. Others rarely if ever do SCR/SCS specific dives for the purpose of obtaining the award. Personally, anything that involves skydiving and partying is good in my book! Chuck My webpage HERE

Pammi, are you jumping booties? If so, the "stop" part of the swoop is different than if you are not using them; at least for me it certainly is. If using booties and you are swooping a formation, then to stop, your feet go together in a kind of toes-out squat for the best results. If you are currently sitting in a chair, then point your toes out and touch your heels together. Next, point your knees outward. Arms go out to your sides like you are grabbing a refridgerator. What this will do is sit you up and present a much larger braking surface than just sticking your feet on your ass and sticking your arms out. If you put your jumpsuit on and sit in a chair, then do just what I said, you will see how much flat surface you are presenting on the lower half of your body. Stick those legs out and you will continue to just fly over the formation. Getting back up efficiently requires a very similar move. The old "hug a ball" trick, when done with booties, will send you rocketing as much forward as up. The very-elongated superman works better with booties in that instance. C. Blue, esquire My webpage HERE

SCR= Star Crest Recipient. That means you were on a free-flown (no grips on exit) eight-way or larger formation. SCS= Star Crest Soloist. That means you docked eigth or later on an (obviously) eight-way or larger formation. Both are awarded by the Bob Buquor Memorial as testament to proven relative work skill. Chuck My webpage HERE

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Baaaaah! Baaaah! Funny, I didn't notice any sheep when I was there. Hey, Stacy, are you and Kelly going to CSS at Thanksgiving? Chuck My webpage HERE

Exactly. That, or if you screw up and get over a raft that people have just spilled out of; ugly. Same goes for people hitting parachutes on the way by. Chuck My webpage HERE

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Sound about right, Clay. HOOOOOOOOOKIT MONKEY! Me: five foot seven inches, 153 pounds. My rig weighs 16.3 pounds. My weight vest weights between six and 12 pounds. My RV weighs over 10,000 pounds. My Harley weighs about 650 pounds. The boxing gloves I fought with yesterday weigh 18 ounces apiece. My favorite pool cue weighs 21 ounces. My webpage HERE

Not that I have heard of. Derick and all of the boys were just here at Raeford doing TSO 23-D testing on the Odyssey a few weeks ago. None of them mentioned anything. Still, it's a shame that your boys got a bad deal. I am sure it will get rectified. Chuck My webpage HERE

Not sure if everyone is having this problem or not, but I am getting an error message everytime I try and answer back to a private message. It says that there was nothing in the "to" field. Actually, there is no "to" field now, but at the top of the reply box it says exactly where my reply will go. That has been happening for the past two days and before that I was getting a page of straight HTML text which when decifered by the trained eye turned out to be the same error message. Good thing I took that class! Anyway, I doubt my replies are getting out, as Freaksis did not get one I sent to her yesterday. Chuck My webpage HERE

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Tell your boy to piss off. Just because he wants to make some money does not mean that you are not free to do exactly what you like in the interest of helping others. You also indicated that he "wants to start" a school. If that is the case, you might want to beat him to the punch or just go straight to the DZO and inform him that this other guy probably does not have sufficient experience to be teaching anyone, therefore he need not get sole-provider rights. Actually, this DOES happen in RW also. An example I will give are all the dropzones who affiliate themselves with Skydive University or any other knock-offs. If permitted by the DZO, these organizations will try to move in and monopolize intermediate training; often when they are not needed. I had a friend at Perris a few weeks ago tell me that the Perris school told him he MUST get his RW training through Skydive U. Of course they were telling him a lie just to hook their buddies up, which is a crock of shit in my book. This would never fly at our DZ because there are so many of us Instructors who freely volunteer our time to assist others. The only thing I have EVER asked of a group of jumpers is that they split my load if I am already busy doing something else. Other than that, if I am not doing anything in particular I always ask who needs some help and pay my own way. Chuck D-12501 My webpage HERE

KIAS= Knots Indicated Air Speed. My webpage HERE