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>>I ordered a 168 reluctantly .....but am 'happy' that this is the right thing to do...( I will load a 168 at 1.4-1.5).......

>>what was the worst injury/ies you have suffered with an opening only??

>>How could an RSL have helped me on those 14 mals? Your reserve would have been a great help if your main had mal'd.

OK so I will admit to not reading all the posts in this thread, but who all remembers the guy from the CIA who was always threatening everyone? Was that spectre230? ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Don't most people wet the bed as children? ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Are you using a microdrive? ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Another parallel is the sudden change in rides despite having lots of total (but no relevant) experience. I rode minibikes and motocrossers every single day of my childhood until I got a car, then I rode less, but still often. By almost any standard, I was a good dirt bike rider. If you asked me, I was a great motorcycle rider. One of my old buds who had moved out of town and started riding street bikes moved back to town with his mom when I was about 17 or 18. He had a Honda Hurricane 1000. I took it for one ride. I had done lots of things on a motorcycle prior to that, and I was comfortable at both speed and altitude with a CR125 under me. I cannot think of a time when I was as scared as I was on that Hurricane, and all I did was take it around a parking lot then out down a straight street. I did not tear up his bike or myself, but that bike wanted to do both like nothing I had experienced before. It was an entirely different animal, and I was completely unprepared to ride it. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

As an aside, I do not really understand the whole dropping of the handles thing. The one time I pulled mine, I am surprised I did not damage them from the grip I had on them. Once I calmed down, it would have been easy to have dropped them, but until the reserve was flying, those things were getting the crap squeezed out of them. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>a two out situation is only dangerous when you have two square parachutes out.

>>Flare when your feet touch the corn!

I and several other people at my dz do that. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Call drakeshelby. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Oh, my head. I'm never drinking again. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>I went with silver

>>I know what a stall feels like. Learning where the stall point is if I can only stall with a wrap won't tell me anything useful about flying close to the ground without a wrap.

Cool. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>I think thats a cop out. If a incident occurred then post what ever facts you know even if its just a terse "Incident at DZ X on x/x/2005, no details can anyone give further information" Setting a seed like this has many times caused someone else to pipe up with concrete info

Your poll does not have enough choices. It needs "I don't post uninformed, irrelevant information concerning incidents about which I know nothing." I know of a couple of crashes at my dz that did not make the Incidents forum. I know of a bunch more that did. But in order to make a good post, you have to have someone who 1. wants to post, 2. actually knows what happened, and 3. doesn't mid if noone listens anyway. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

My only cutaway was from a similar situation. Since I was very lightly loaded, I consider it a cutaway from a "turning malfunction" out of deference to those who have experienced a legitimate spinning malfunction. The short story is this: I was (and you were) under a canopy you did not believe you could land safely. After that, there is only one solution - replace it with a different one. BMcD... ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Happy birthday, bro. Don't forget about your MEM peeps in ATL. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

You got me backwards. I do not think there should be a law against flag burning, I just think that the fact that the flag burner was engaged in flag burning should be an affirmative defense for kicking their ass. As long as we are having a theoretical argument about burning the flag, I am on the side of those who say that flag burning is a form of expression and should be protected. If you are actually burning the flag, I will then argue that kicking your ass is my form of expression. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>I should have qualified "educated" with "educated in things that are true."

>> but in CA we can pretty much rely on the winds to change drastically

Does anyone even still talk about figure 8's? It is in the Basic Canopy Flight video. That video does a great job discussing ground track vs. heading, something that those of us who have lived most of lives not in a moving airmass do not know about instinctively. It also has a great computer animation to explain the accuracy trick. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I have always felt like the Congress has no business banning the desecration of the flag. What they should ban is the prosecution of anyone who kicks some else's ass for doing it. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com