AndyMan

Me too. I put "AndyCam!" or "AndyCam.org" on the lower corner of all my internet published photos. Example here: http://www.skydivecsc.com/images_updates/IMG_2431-s.jpg. Also, you'll never see me distributing large digital files. A lot of my work gets sent out over the DZ's email updates and the images there are always saved with a very high level of compression, so that there's visible artifacting. The images as they go out to the public are rarely fit for print. I know that won't save me from a DZO who's too much of an ass to ask for permission, but at least I know they won't end up in Sport Illustrated without me getting rich. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

You're not the first person to get annoyed with this particular operation. Personally, having the pictures pulled down would not be good enough. I'd want financial compensation for them being published in the first place. AW told me that he believed copyright disapears once a photo hits the internet, a stance that is obviously incorrect. I mention this only because he believes (or at least claims) that he's not breaking any laws. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

My mistake was choice of gear. I needed to go back to back and don't have a second rig. I had a choice between a Stileto that was one size smaller than what I'm used to, or a Saber-1 of the same size. I chose wrong. My first Saber-Slam(tm). D'oh. A Chiropractor is a good idea. I'll check one out tomorow. Dave and Steve, thanks for the tip. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

A bad week for sure. I don't have any evidence except a persistent dull neck pain, stiffness, and somewhat limited range of motion. I think I'm going to be sitting out for a week or 3 at least, and I'm thinking about having it checked out. Shitty. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Here's my favorites. 4way, freeflying, whacky RW, and a tandem or two. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

The problem is hardly limited to small females. I'm 6'0 and well over 200 pounds. I can not see my handles when wearing a Z-1 helmet. That doesn't bother me any more than the fact that I also can not see my main deployment handle... _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Yup, that's exactly what I did. I bought a Javelin J3, which is designed for a 170 main. I put a few hundred jumps on a Triathlon 190 before downsizing to a Stileto 150. Both the triathlon 190 and the Stiletto 150 fit very well. Now I'm downsizing to a 135 so I've got a new container. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Funniest. Thread. Ever. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Bummer! I'm down 3.5!!! Current: 226.5 Total: 17. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

I think you have no idea who I'm talking about. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

I don't necesarily disagree, but still. Here's some thoughts. I have roughly 30 jumps on Raven and 300 jumps on a Triathlon. Granted that the Triathlon is ZP, but its permiability was probably a lot closer to a modern rarely used reserve than most "F111" canopies. People rarely jump reserves, but it's not too dificult to find canopies that fly a lot like a modern reserve. It's certainly true that when we use our reserve we've very likely to land off. But the flipside of that is that for each time we land off, we're far more likely to be under our main than reserve. Yes people need to be able to land their reserve into a tight "off" location - but they need to be able to do that with their main, too. Far more people end up opening low with their main then they do with their reserve. People are also jazzed and excited when swooping their main, or landing downwind, or just completed a 300-way. Not to discount it, landing a reserve for my first time certainly gave me a buzz, but so did the first jump on my Stileto, or the last time I had a killer swoop. ( i think, that was a long time ago... ) Very true. Such events are rare, though. While I'm sure there's some people who are being underconfident in picking their reserve canopies, I also think there's a lot of people who are being overconfident in ther main sizing. Does somebody who jumps a 150 main REALLY need a 240 reserve? Probably not. Should someone who needs a 240 reserve be jumping a 150 main? Probably not. I think the real situation for most people lies somewhere inbetween those statements. For the record, my second rig will have a 135 main with a 150 reserve. I doubt I'll ever go smaller than the 150 reserve for all the reasons above you've mentioned. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

It's not falling down drunk pilots I worry about, because I don't think that's such a big problem and they're easy to spot. The problem I've seen is hungover pilots. The FAA 8 hour limit doesn't address that. Ultimately, as I said in the first post, it's degrees. I really don't like it when pilots are drinking at the bonfire after I go to bed. I'd rather not have pilots drinking at the bonfire in the first place. Ultimately, it'd be nice if I knew that a given pilot didn't drink at all. There'd be no question. When I was jumping in Upstate New York, the pilot would be at the nudie bar in Canada every friday and saturday night. At the time I didn't know any better, but now I'm happy to know that this guy isn't flying jumpers anymore. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Of course it's a stretch. It's a degree. All else being equal, I'd prefer an instructor/pilot/cop/US Marine/doctor/lawyer who doesn't drink. Rarely is everything else equal. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

I do not have a double standard. I do think that all things being equal, an instructor who doesn't drink is better than one who does. Same thing with weed. I openly acknoledge there are many areas where I could do better. As it is, since I don't smoke weed I'm in better shape than many. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Since I don't own a DZ and you don't work for me, it really doesn't matter what I think. That said, that's something I respect in a Pilot. No particular reason you have to agree. There are too many pilots in skydiving who are too loose with booze. I'd prefer there be no question. Pilots who draw a plain and simple line and don't cross it earn my respect. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Pilots Guilty of Being Drunk in Cockpit. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/sns-ap-drunken-pilots,1,2118171.story?coll=chi-news-hed By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Writer Published June 8, 2005, 1:38 PM CDT MIAMI -- Two former America West pilots were convicted Wednesday of being drunk in the cockpit after an all-night drinking binge at a sports bar. They face a minimum of probation and a maximum of five years in prison after being found guilty of operating an aircraft while drunk. Defendants Thomas Cloyd and Christopher Hughes both bowed their heads when the verdict was read after a two-week trial and jury deliberations over parts of two days. Each man hugged weeping loved ones before being handcuffed and taken to jail. Cloyd and Hughes were arrested July 1, 2002, as their Phoenix-bound jet was being pushed back from its gate at Miami International Airport. Police ordered the plane to turn back and arrested the pilots after security screeners smelled a strong odor of alcohol on Hughes, and Cloyd got in an argument over his attempts to bring aboard a cup of coffee. The pilots had 14 beers between them at a bar the night before the flight, closing out their $122 tab at about 4:40 a.m. -- roughly six hours before their flight was to depart. Hours later, they registered blood-alcohol levels above Florida's 0.08 legal limit. The pilots maintained they were not operating the aircraft because it was being pushed by a runway tug and its steering was disengaged at the time it was ordered back to the terminal. They were fired by America West after their arrests and lost their commercial pilot's licenses. "Within the aviation community, it was clear they were operating this aircraft," said prosecutor Armando Hernandez. Assistant State Attorney Deisy Rodriguez called the defendants "stumbling, fumbling" drunks who put 124 passengers and three flight attendants in grave danger. The pilots refused comment, as did their attorneys. Judge David Young ordered both men held without bail and set sentencing for July 20. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

It may be true that you can only do this to some canopies, but the difference is not aspect ratios. I've put both my Triathlon loaded at 1.0 and my Stiletto loaded at 1.7 into line twists by being dumb with the toggles. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Do a search. Just because a legal document says something, doesn't make it so. Not all legal documents are binding. Not all clauses in a legal document are binding. A typical skydiving waiver is mostly binding, but there's often clauses that are absurd and would be easy to get dismissed. This thread doesn't need to go there. I never said I'd be suing a DZO for repairs. I said I'd expect him to pay. There's many other ways beyond sueing to get someone to pay for repairs. Having good relationships and mutual respect is a great place to start. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Here's my list: 1. Love repeating the same tasks over and over. Follow a checklist every time. 2. don't be lazy. Don't take shortcuts. 3. Don't drink. Often times pilots are offered drinks at the end of the day. Good pilots turn them down when they have to work the next day. No, not even "just 1". I've mentioned my first 3, and the pilot hasn't even gotten off the ground yet. 4. Don't show off. Low flybys, zero/negative-g's, unnecesarily steep climbs at the end of the takeoff, and wingovers at the end of jumprun are all unnecesary. Do those with your own plane without passengers. 5. Communicate. Keep good relationshions with your airport, other users of the airport, air traffic control, and manifest. At Chicagoland we have gliders at the other end of the runway. Lastly, fly a good jumprun and know how to spot. In my book, this is at the bottom of the list for a reason. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Wings will, too. I'm curious how well that works, because you don't have to travel very far to hear people complain about how their Wings container doesnt' fit very well, or has oddities like flaps popping open. I've often wondered if there is a connection. Other manufacturers don't do it because they say it's too complicated to figure out the patterns. That makes sense to me as an engineer. Even with CAD systems, the complexity is enormous! Just last week Bill Booth was complaining about the number of options on a rig already, even without having to dynamically scale for every canopy combination. I digress. The argument that you should have similarly sized canopies because "two out sucks" never made sense to me. Having two out is perhaps the simplest malfunction to avoid. Respect your hard decks and an AAD fire is pretty unlikely. Modern gear rarely results in accidental reserve activation. Contrast that with the thought that landing your reserve downwind into a tight area off the DZ can be pretty common, it makes more sense to me for someone to jump a reserve they can land anywhere, anytime than it does to jump two canopies of the same size. People should jump a reserve they can land anytime, anywhere. Of course this begs the question, why aren't we all jumping with SET-400's? Why don't we assume canopy skills apply to both canopies? When I ordered my PDR143 I knew that I could fly my Stileto 150 reasonably safely, so I figured how much harder to land could a modern reserve possibly be? I got a demo, landed it 5 times downwind (even off the DZ once) just to see if I could. Of course I could. Not surprisingly, the skills I had under my main were just as useful under the demo reserve. If someone flys a hotshot postage-stamp sized main but thinks they need a 230 reserve in order to land safely... I find that a bit odd. I'm not going to argue the point, but it seems that either they're being overconfident on their main, or under confident on their reserve. Eric's 97 and 135 aren't that different in size anyways, are they? I'd guess they'd probably play well togeather anyways. Gotta run, _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Actually, it can work. A couple weeks ago Craichead and I were flying side by side under canopy. She was on a bigass Navigator 240 loaded at 0.875 and I was under my Stiletto 150 loaded at 1.7. I was in half brakes and she was in full flight. I really didn't have any troubles at all. We flew like that for about a minute or so until I dropped out with the slightest input into fronts, I was instantly gone. Flying with other people under canopy sure is fun! _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

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We use a camera with a broken lens, bouht from ebay. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Clickies posted as attachments cuz they didn't work. SFW. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.