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I am probably 220 out the door. I'm considering replacing my trusty Hornet 190 with a sportier model. I want advice from people about the relative merits of a big elliptical canopy (Maybe Stiletto 170) versus a smaller canopy with a less aggressive cut (maybe a Nitron 150). I jumped, in perfect conditions, a Nitron 135 a couple of months ago, and I had a good time on it, although I know that I do not want a Nitron at that wing loading as the canopy I have to land every time. I also jumped a Stiletto 170 this weekend, and I had a great time on it. In an attempt to try to keep this on topic, I am just looking for general opinions on the whole shape vs. size thing. An example of a question I would like answered is whether you guys would rather have a bigger elliptical than a smaller square when you are landing off in a difficult area. All responses appreciated. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>I am telling you that I do not think this way, but...you ever think that he may think that this country has issues??? Kinda like flying the flag upside down...like he was wearing it??? Just a thought. The way that the flag was hanging that he was wearing was backwards...a sign of a country in distress. -Slut

>>any suggestions for "curing blues"?

You yankees are so uptight about where you pee. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

West Tennessee Skydiving is not far off I-40. It is several exits east of Memphis, but west of Jackson. Hit the link in my sig for directions. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Sorry I did not see this post sooner. Welcome. Please introduce yourself to me at the dropzone next time you are at WTS - I wear a blue and red RW suit. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

search in photo and video forum. short answer is that most who have IP series cameras wish they had PC series cameras. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

The question here is what do we want our helmets to do? People who are wearing frap hats obviously look for a different level of protection than people wearing full-face helmets. Do you want a helmet that will absorb a small bump on the door frame as you climb out? One that will absorb a hard kick from an RW partner? One that will protect your head at 10 mph when you slide in on the tarmac? One that will protect your head at 60 mph when you blow your swoop? One that will protect you from a hard head to head knock when someone corks out of a freefly formation? One that will let you have an open casket if you go in terminal? These are all very different levels of protection, and it would be difficult to design a helmet for all these situations. The padding would need a soft layer for the light impacts, and a harder layer to spread out the bigger impacts. That means space, and that space creates snag hazards. And we have not even started talking about cameras, yet. Running a bolt through a helmet will create all kinds of problems that would void any certifications, and the bolt itself is a prime candidate to become an object that a surgeon would need to remove from your brain. I think that skydiving helmets would be very difficult to standardize and certify, just because of the different needs to which they are addressed. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

So do you have it yet? Surely there are enough clues in this thread that you have it by now. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I carry a Delica every day, clipped to my waistband with the clip under my belt. It is almost invisible. I have a MOD Hornet, also, but it was so fvkkin expensive that I never carry it. I used to have a MOD CQD, but I lost it (explaining my hesitation to carry the Hornet). Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I am only 33, and I was on a skeet team at my high school. I would bring my shotgun to school in my car, walk with it from the parking lot to the office, and put it in the gun locker that the school had for the dorm students' firearms and the ones that the school owned. Only rule was that you had to bring it straight from your car to the office, and that the action had to be open when you were walking around campus with it. We did not shoot each other. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I downloaded mine this morning. I think it is funny that we solved it before the link even worked. I also think it is funny that only 285 people have solved the first one. Skydivers are some geniuses! Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

chriswelker has that. We played it drunk at his house a couple of weekends ago, and it was fun. The formations you build are impossible by today's standards - 3-D with some belly, some head-down, and some standing all piled all over each other. It is still fun, though. The problem is that the gameplay itself is a little like the game Simon - a sequence of button pushes appears on the screen, and you have to duplicate it quickly to build the formation. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Vibes to you, Chris. Good luck. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I started out performing various types of matrix calculations to try to reduce the six bits of each letter to a decimal value that I assumed would correspond to a letter. But that did not work, and I abandoned it after several hours of wasted time. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

The irony here is about to make me wet my pants. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Roger that. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

It's not so much that it is easy - there is just a trick to it that will eventually come to you. You just have to "see" the trick. Brent EDITED to add a hint that will irritate Quade. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

We all fell for it for a little while. Don't feel too bad. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Get some moleskin to cover up the inevitable blisters. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Actually do the math to calculate a spot for a skydiver who wants to go in in the peas, one who wants to open at 3000 and fly directly into the wind the whole time his canopy is open, and one who wants to open at 3000, cut away at 2500, and have his canopy land in the peas. Make up a winds aloft forecast. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Finally. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut in the forest sometimes. Sadly, I spent way too much time on it. Probably three to four hours. I can't upload the screen shot because I am not computer savvy enough to make it a small enough file. 111010101100101110101110 101101011000010101001111 101010100000001010110000? Brent EDIT: Reduced the # of colors. EDITED AGAIN: Link to certificate still not working. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

You guys are ticking me off. I don't get this one. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

It is very hard to see that picture. Has anyone found a better one? ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>I for one don't believe in ADs, but rather NDs (negligent). That doesn't mean I'm saying you're lying, just my beliefe on weapons firing accidently because of mishandling. Please do relate the event as you know it.