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>>IF YOU DO SOMETHING AS STUPID AS THIS YOU JUST MIGHT BE GOING TO JAIL FOR MURDER

>>i'm not sure what an A-license check dive consists of

>>Throw in 2.5 trillion dollars and your first draft pick and it's a deal

We'll trade you John McCain and Arnold for Zell. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>I'm a southern democrat Ron, we give ass whuppings where ass whuppings are due.

Bush at least says he will be fiscally conservative. Kerry will never have the opportunity fulfill his campaign promises. POLITICAL NOTE: I have never been a fan of tax and spend Democrats. I have never been a fan of "just spend" Republicans. Why oh why oh why do the Libertarians have to have a naive foreign policy that guarantees that none of them will ever be elected to major national offices? Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

There are two ways to deal with this situation, but I think an ass beating is more appropriate than a stabbing. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Why did I drop off the list? Wasn't Keanu going to play me about six months ago? Oh well. I guess I wound up on the cutting room floor. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Arriving Wednesday night, so jumping Thurs to Sunday of the second weekend, weather permitting. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

If you actually hit his intensity level 10 on each exercise, you will not be able to exercise that muscle group any more. That is what intensity level 10 means. Part of the reason it is so hard is that you really have to push yourself. I would consistently come close to death in the last 3 minutes of my runs, even though I was only running for 20 minutes total. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>Anyone else on here have the card, but not into it for money?

>>It also has a history of being horribly biased.

>>You asked for help, some very experienced skydivers gave you good information and you chose to ignore it. Why bother asking the question in the first place?

I'll give you an honest answer. Nobody wants to upsize, so the people who are telling you to do so are giving advice that does not count, because you probably will ignore it. Keep jumping the Nitro 150. It is small for your experience by my estimation, but you seem to be willing to take the risk, so that's your choice. If you want something that will swoop, you've got it right there. You just have to learn to fly it better. Your wl is higher than mine, but I can do a decent swoop once in a while. It is a common misconception that you need a high wl to swoop. You really do not. Please do not make the mistake of downsizing in order to go faster when your current canopy has the potential to go a lot faster. It annoys me when people want to land faster so they downsize rather than learning induced-speed approaches on their current canopy. The beauty of learning induced speed approaches is that if you want to land at 40 mph, you can. But you still have low gear if you need to use it. If you downsize until you are doing 40 mph landing straight in, then you have no choice but to land at 40 mph EVERY time, even when there are trees in the way. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I can offer you no source for the belief that your gear checker was incorrect other than the fact that tons of people choose to remove or disconnect the RSL for all kinds of reasons on rigs that were manufactured with one. My own rig currently has the RSL removed. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>You're mixing apples and oranges.

That was a funny repost bust. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>> i just have a hard time in understanding why if two groups are opening at the same time (flat out first and then free) there is less danger than with free flyers opening 20 seconds before hand. It seems to me that wind drift aside a 4 way flat followed by a four way free has more chance of meeting somewhere in the middle on track off than the other way round. i.e. one from each group tracks directly at the other and due to the speed difference they will be opening at similar times. < But wind drift is what it is all about. Even if there are no upper winds whatsoever, the slower-falling RW group will not get as much forward throw as the freefliers, because their body position makes them bleed off the initial horizontal component of their trajectory more quickly. The freefliers, on the other hand, will have more forward throw. So in no wind, just the difference in forward throw would tend to increase rather than decrease the separation between the groups if the belly guys go out first. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Once again, all this discussion really relates specifically to turbine dropzones with lots of groups per pass. A freefall collision from a Cessna will kill you just as dead as one from a larger plane, but the small number of groups from the Cessna allows the jump run to be divided into big enough chunks for ample separation. It is a lot easier to divide the sky between two groups than ten. I would be quite comfortable getting out to do a solo freefly first from a Cessna with a two jumpmaster AFF behind me, since they would be able to leave about 50 seconds after me, even on a low-uppers day. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Another hint - get the two page card, not the four page card. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

The more you start thinking about things like how quickly two groups can drift together horizontally and how far the individuals in the group can track away from the center of the group, the more you start to think that you want one group on each pass. However, that is not going to happen, so we do what we can. Fast fallers last does increase canopy congestion, but I would rather sort that out under canopy than be killed in freefall. You're not any less dead when you wrap at 200 feet than you are when you fall through a canopy at 3000, but it is hoped that the former is easier to avoid than the latter. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Oops. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=167583#167583 My link still works, though. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Yet another flash song http://www.elfrigo.org/flash/chowmein.htm Don't watch if you love Chinese food. Brent Safe for Work ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Did students get out first on the same pass as other jumpers? Or did SL students get out first, then the plane went to altitude, and experienced jumpers got out? ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Checking against the mfg.'s trim table will work for any canopy. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com