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I was wondering about that. I thought that a red shoulder loop was a weird place for a main handle, but I never put two and two together. Looks like it's time to get Good Stuff out again.
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I saw the commercial. It was odd. My best guess was that if the rig was assembled so incorrectly that both risers would release at deployment, then the RSL wasn't connected either.
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Has anyone here jumped or had any experience with the Genera?
indyz replied to Viking's topic in Gear and Rigging
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You should take this to one of the other forums, like Safety and Training. Although I suspect that you won't like the answer that they will give you.
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Give me Emacs or give me death (or possibly jed).
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Navy SEALS has a HALO scene with a cutaway about halfway through the film.
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Erno: But are you a sitcom character? I just played a few more times. It got Mr Roper from Three's Company, and Duke and Scarlet from G.I. Joe.
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A couple months ago I spent a solid two hours trying to figure this thing out. Dictators, sorta wanna be dictators, sitcom characters, cartoon characters (Thundercats isn't a sitcom), professional wrestlers, it knew everybody. And since then the database has only gotten smarter.
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On RealTV the other day there was a guy who went out in a tube, had a premature, and got lines or risers around his arm. The canopy appeared to be inflated and he was spinning fast. He finally got it chopped around 1000 feet, and came under his reserve at 400 feet.
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0:6:probably Two hop 'n pops on Friday. Two two ways, a three way, and a solo sit attempt on Saturday. Got video of one of the two ways and the three way but the dude had a PAL format camera (foreign visitor), and nobody on the dropzone had a dual format VCR and we couldn't figure out any way to convert it.
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I know a DZO who is (or was, anyway) a male nurse. He made good cash, enough to take a few vacations a year to do BASE stuff and skydive.
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My dbag is also pretty big for my container (actually, it's the right size but my main is big). The trick the packers here showed me is to put it in lines down, then lift up on the rig at the bottom of the reserve container (I do it by pulling straight up on the top main flap). This makes the container into sort of an /\ shape with the bottom of the main container and the top of the rig on the ground, but the middle lifted up 4 or 5 inches. Then rotate the bag, and let the rig down again. Lifting the rig like that seems to give it a little more room to rotate.
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The online SIM says "landed within 10 meters of target center on ten jumps." I interpret that as making initial contact with the ground within the cirlce, and once you've done that anything goes (falling down, running out the landing outside of the cirlce, whatever).
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I got one on the toes doing gardening. Figured I would save the trip to the hospital, taped the little guy to hos neighbor, and went back to work. I'm still not sure if I broke it, but if I did, it was my only break.
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Archway does them on weekend mornings at 10:00 AM. It's convenient for us, a college club, because students have a hard time sneaking off to the DZ on weekdays. That said, a course could probably be arranged on a weekday if enough people came out.
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I'm guessing DVD fever might just be an American thing then, but the U.S. has bought 30 million players in five years (compared to 13 for VHS players), and DVDs are outselling tape movies now.
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Been a while since I browsed that site, and of course I had to find this (not safe for work, children, and anybody who just ate or plans to eat in the near future).
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Speaking of the wolmari pack, does anybody have a link to a description of how to do it, preferably with photos? I found two different links to parasale.com, but one page is a 404, and the other is just two lines of a language that I don't speak.
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Empuriabrava, Spain?
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At least one person on these boards has faced repercusions at work because of a profile picture involving nudity.
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This is one of these things that I found on cow.org, then lost/forgot for a long time, then stumbled across again tonight. Link and attachment not safe for work.
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Don't forget that some of that (possibly a lot of that) is extra fuel that is required by the FAA in case there is some delay in landing. I seem to recall 30 minutes of fuel during the day and 45 minutes after sunset, but that was for private planes and I could be just plain wrong about the numbers.
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They starred in the craptacular Sgt. Pepper movie, so it wouldn't surprise me...
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This is sort of a joke. FallingMarc sent me an IM a while back about how he skips a lot of posts on here, "especially these 'what color are your socks' ones." Anyway, I'm not wearing any (sandals).
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You have interpreted my response correctly, although I wouldn't call Timothy McVeigh a "mastermind." He built a really crude bomb, put it in a truck that he rented with a cheap fake ID, and parked it outside a building. He left bomb residue on his clothes, fingerprints on receipts for ammonium nitrate fertilizer, phone cards that showed his path, and, yes, he drove a car that didn't have license plates. The police catch hardened killers every day, killers who are carrying weapons that choose not to use them. Remember, McVeigh probably thought that he was just going to get a ticket for driving without plates. Then he'd just disappear. By the time he was caught with the gun, he knew he was going to jail but didn't think he would be connected with the bombing. Then he would just get out on bail and skip town. The cops just got lucky. I also cannot find one single reference to ATF agents sweeping the compound the morning before the blast. I would appreciate it if you could point one out to me.