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Some GPS units have atmospheric pressure sensors to give more accurate altitude information. I don't really trust GPS altitude over short distances. With 9 satellites locked the whole way, I did a 100 foot vertical ascent (as marked on a sign and confirmed with a barometric altimeter) up about a 50% grade. The GPS said that I had descended 12 feet.
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Links connect the lines on your canopy to your risers. #3.5 and #5 links are made out of metal, with the number indicating different sizes. Slinks are soft links, that is they are made out of a strong type of line instead of metal. The attached file "links.jpg" is a picture of two #3.5 stainless links. "slinksmall.gif" shows a slink in the process of being attached.
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For some reason, I am incredibly amused that there is a Trent Lott International Airport. From Gulf Live
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Very few people who want their license don't get it. It really isn't that hard. There are, however, many people who do one or two student jumps and decide that they don't want to go all the way. When I took my first jump class, there were 10 of us. A year and a half later, two of us are licensed and still jump. Most of the people in the class made one or two jumps that day, then never came back. One other person made something like 6 jumps before dropping out.
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An old electrician's trick: Keep one hand in your pocket at all times. Some of the capacitors in a TV can carry a lethal charge for quite a long time. The last thing you want is to create a path up one arm, through the heart, and out the other arm. Really though, modern TVs say "no user serviceable parts" on them, and they mean it.
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3 hours working on the car:0:0 Oil changed, tires rotated, cleaned top to bottom, inside and out. Homework. That's about it.
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Would you jump (and land!) a round?
indyz replied to eddytheeagle's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Maybe not an unmodified round, but I'd jump at the chance (har har) to try a PC. What I really want to jump, though, is a Paradactyl. For some reason I've been enamored with those things ever since I first saw a picture of one. -
Good Morning Miami - Tandem Scene
indyz replied to skyPrincess2002's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Sure. A Caravan can do 160 mph without too much trouble, which would put the plane and the bomb more than 10 miles from Jack after four minutes. At that point it all depends on the size of the bomb. I can't recall if the size of the bomb was ever mentioned on the TV show. From what I can find on Google, it looks like a megaton or under would be pretty survivable, if he got out the area right away. -
That's probably Terri. I don't think she's a rigger, but she does run the gear store and knows her stuff. Anyway, congrats on the ticket, Tracy. As for the original question, there's at least one female rigger at Sky Knights (she's also an AFF I/E, I think).
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The Secret Service was originally put together to do security and police work for the US Treasury. They still do that, and have since picked up the protective services duty, among other things.
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I saw somebody with a Hun t-shirt at school the other day. I was gonna say something, but I didn't want to go up to somebody and say, "Hey! It looks like you get your porno at the same place I get my porno!"
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Nope, but I did notice that there were a bunch of skydiving graphics that somebody has printed and taped to the insided of the fuselage. Looked pretty cheesy.
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The patent refers to the loop that holds the medium ring as "attaching means 16" and the loop that holds the small ring as "attaching means 17" (the numbers refer to labels on a diagram). After literally minutes of research, that is the best answer that I can come up with. The patent is available here for your viewing pleasure (as an aside, the USPTO's website kicks ass). I'm only a wannabe rigger so take this with a grain of salt, but if I found that my risers needed the repairs that you are asking about, I would just buy new ones.
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Pop quiz for everybody who has it: Page 13, "Stacking over the Coast," what is wrong (maybe "unusual" would be a better word) in that photo?
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Running commentary as I watched: That's a nice Square One jumpsuit he's wearing. Looks like an Otter from the outside, but not from the inside. Oh, they got to the door before the tandem was hooked up. Scary. Conversing in freefall. No drogue.
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In order: C-182 King Air Caravan Casa I hear Sky Knights is getting a Super Otter in April, so that'll probably be the next one on my list, unless I manage to get to SDC again before then (two trips, money on account, and no jumps. sheesh).
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Fixed! SPD had CAS latency at 2.5 (and so did the label on the DIMM), but it needs an even 2 to run stable. Windows works great, the graphics smoke. Linux support is a little goofy. Audio kinda works. nV ethernet works, 3com doesn't. DMA on the drives doesn't work. All of that can be fixed with a kernel upgrade, no sweat. But what is driving me nuts, AGP only works with nVidia cards, so I am stuck using the awesome power of the 9700 in Vesa mode.
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Sitting on my floor right now: Athlon 2400+ 512 PC2700 Crucial, x2 Asus A7N8X Deluxe Radeon 9700 Pro 128 Some random case I found locally, but it's way nice. I'm putting it together for a friend. Having random read/write errors, it's driving me nuts. The only thing I haven't tried changing is the memory, and that's just because I don't have any spares at the moment. Looks like I'm off to make a memtest86 boot disk. You're right though, the a7n8x looks totally sweet. I just haven't been able to get an OS to install to test it out.
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What is your favorite cartoon from when you were very little
indyz replied to Squeak's topic in The Bonfire
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Ever play the Japanese version, Top Secret? Replace all of the eagle symbols in the American version with swastikas, and call the bad guys Nazz instead of Badds, and you're pretty much there. Some stuff got past the Nintendo censors during the conversion. If you manage to get to the end, the final bad guy is Hitler (renamed "Master D" in the American version, but he looks the same, see attached).
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I barely fiction, though. The references to real people, places, and events are thinly disguised.
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The narrator (it's fiction, for what it's worth) is a former Party bigwig who later in life decided that maybe communism wasn't all it was cracked up to be. He gets thrown in jail and there are a bunch of flashbacks where he reflects on the events that changed him from a Party hardliner to somebody who was liberal enough to be killed (oops, I gave away the ending). Edit to add: The main story takes place during the purges in the 1930s, and the flashbacks go as far back as the early 1900s, to the Communist underground in prewar Europe.
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Do you have Darkness At Noon? It's probably my favorite book on Stalinism.
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TSA's new mandatory background check and threat assesment before boarding an airliner. If you come back as "red," they will ban you from flying commercially indefinitely, with no ability to appeal! If you get flagged as yellow, you will be subject to a thorough search (how thorough is unspecified, but I wouldn't put strip or cavity searches past them) every time you board an aircraft, for an indefinite period of time. These threat assesments will be stored for up to 50 years!
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The restriction is on shipping, so you can still use the motors, you just might have a hard time getting them. And they actually do make very large "stock" motors sizes, well into the upper half of the alphabet (the lowest power starts at 'A').