indyz
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Since nobody has gotten around to answering the question, lemme ask: Is the date on the reserve card the last day that it can be jumped, or the first day that it can't be jumped?
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If you aren't responsible enough to drive sober, then you probably aren't responsible enough to fly sober.
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A bunch of people grab hands (or whatevers), form a chain, and complete a circuit from a wall outlet. It's neat.
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At the dropzone I've been jumping at during the summer, students are required to do some coach jumps beyond graduating from AFF or S/L. This is the point where they transition from ripcord rigs to more modern rigs with throwouts and smaller canopies. The DZ has a few different size mains: a Sabre 170, Sabre2 170, Sabre2 150, and some larger canopies. Yesterday a JM was teaching a student the transition gear. He asked him how much he weighed, and the student said 160-something pounds. The Sabre2 170 was in the plane, I don't know where the Sabre 170 was. He told the student about the 150 and said that it was faster than what he had been jumping (square F111), but it was a windy day, so it should make the landing easier. He then asked the student, "Do you think you can handle it?" How many students would tell their JM, "No, I don't think I can handle it?"
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Crap. I thought that it was the tail. Now for the only question I have left: Is that plane flying from left-to-right or right-to-left in the frame?
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Why, I do believe that I still have the original copy of that picture. PM me for my PayPal information.
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I work for a company that contracts video game services to amusement parks, so I'm expected to be available for work on the 4th of July and every other holiday, plus at least one of Saturday or Sunday every week. Sucks, but at least I get paid well for doing almost no work.
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I had packed somebody else's rig earlier in the day and I was a nervous wreck until I saw him come under a good canopy. I was still a little nervous about jumping my own pack job but I forgot about it as soon as I went out the door. The jump took me down the side of a 4000 foot tall cloud. It looked sooo freakin' cool. The reason that it took me more than hour to pack was because I started over 5 times. Most of those times I was pretty sure it would have worked, or that I had fixed the mistake I made, but I didn't want to chance it. When I finally closed the rig I was as sure as anybody can be that I had done everything correctly.
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0:2:2 First jump on my own pack job. Only took me 45 minutes to get to the point where it was in the bag. Then I thought that I had bagged it upside down so I pulled it out, only to realize that I had done it right the first time. Total time packing: 1 hour and 10 minutes. Still looked like crap, but it opened pretty nice. And (drum roll please).... A LICENSE! Finally! I got in on a pretty messy pieing for Eduardo's 100th. Watched another jumper take a nasty downwinder into a fence. He was fine, just a couple of cuts, a dirty rig, and a bruised ego. Saw a tandem student puke. All in all, a pretty good weekend.
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That sounds like the makings of a good date.
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F-U-F-Me was short for Fuck You Fuck Me. I was a piece of hardware that plugged into the IDE bus on a Windows computer. There was a mens model and femal model. One had a hole, the other had a, well, you know. Using their software, to users could copulate (big word!) over the internet. Homosexual intercouse was possible, but not supported or recommended. Anyway, the site had graphics and stuff. It was funny. The Wayback Machine is down right now but you might be able to find it in there.
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fufme is down. It was a hilarious site but it died a while back.
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In only 31 jumps, I've been on at least two loads where the guy looking at the GPS was yelling, "Go! Go!," and the guy with his head out the door was yelling, "No! No!" The load took the visual spot over the GPS spot and I, one of the last jumpers out, made the landing area both times.
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Ok, ok. I just sent over a couple of thugs with a bucket of saltwater, a car battery, and some jumper cables.
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Got it! The top looks just like everybody else's errors, but I get this weird "doubling" thing at the bottom.
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how long did it take you to get over sensory overload
indyz replied to SilentJ's topic in Safety and Training
I did static line so I did 6 or 7 jumps before I had time to overload. Even then it didn't really hit me until my 14th jump, a 20 second delay, when the instructor went poised and I dove. I came off the hill, looked out, and there he was, 20 feet away. I just stared for a second or two until my brain was like, "Dude! Back to work!" Related note, I never noticed myself smiling in freefall until my 30th jump. -
Ditto, Mozilla 0.9.6 on Linux. The same thing everyone else has, although I've been getting an interesting variation lately. I'll grab a screenshot if it happens again.
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Damn, you edited it before i could point out that you needed a sex. And a time different than mine. -- Brian
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The list on the Falling Illini site: http://www.uiuc.edu/ro/fallingillini/links.html#college Some of the links are dead. -- Brian
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Do you mean "Detachible Penis" by King Missile?
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Seen American Grafitti a few too many times? Seriously, that would be hilarious though. -- Brian
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Really? I found them for $70 on Wiley-X's web site and at the local Harley shop. -- Brian
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12:30 AM Central Time. Boy. Gross. -- Brian
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My opinions: Archway Skydiving: Good site with no dynamic content. Everything is pretty easy to find. Consistent layout throughout the site. Sky Knights SPC: Not as good but still not bad, and with all dynamic content. A little too "busy" for my tastes, but all of the information is available on the left hand nav bar. Places where a dynamic site is good: Calendars, photo galleries, gear for sale. Not necessary: Front pages, driving directions, contact info, etc. I have run into developers who get really gung-ho and insist on doing an entire site with a database drive template system. I think that leaving most of the site static and only using dynamic content in the places that I mentioned would be best for dropzone sites. Personal opinion, of course. -- Brian
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This is a cut-n-paste from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel web site. It apparently happened on 15th. BSBD, Brian