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Jez, take care, following is a cut and paste from the Diplomat Internatiomal Travel policy wording: The Diplomat International provides Accident and Sickness Medical Coverage, Travel Assistance, and Accidental Death and Dismemberment benefits to Individuals while traveling outside their Home Country, but not to the United States. Coverage is available for you, a second adult, unmarried dependent Children, or Children traveling alone.

I'm sure you've checked the policy wording with respect of cover for parachuting / sport parachuting / skydiving. Regardless, it's always good to call their help line and ask specific questions. Take the name of the person you spoke to and take notes, including date and time of the call. Be sure to check maximum duration of any single trip. Although you may have bought a 12 month policy, there is likely to be a limit on any one trip. It's often 60 days. Occasionally 90 days. I had an uninsured skydiving accident in the 70's in the US. Broke my femur and various other injuries. First Hospital the ambulance took me to refused to accept me due no insurance. Next 10 days was surgery and minimum recuperation time and cost equivalent of 7 months salary. Then flew home and had next 3 months in an aussie hospital at a total cost of around a hundred dollars. Yahoo for Medicare. DO NOT skydive in the US unless you are 110% certain that you have medical cover that will cover you.

UC is a very good university. 2 hours to the surf. 2 hours to the snow. 2 hours to Picton or Moruya DZs. Nice countryside. Relaxed city. Would be a good choice.

Hey stevo, I'm back there next week, wednesday to Friday. Fergs

... a walking-Around-Legend.

... and I pass through Singapore again tomorrow. I used Scoot out of Sydney this trip - $260 or so each way - not bad. Tunnel, DZ, free accommodation, Skyvans, Twotters, balloon .... you are still a tart. hahaha. Ciao, f

Squeak, let me know how it all works out. I've had a cpl sessions in the Singapore tunnel and like the location. So am interested to see how they come at bulk time buys. Ciao, fergs

Then start training yourself to hold your breath longer.... Post pics.

What size Firebolt are you looking for?

Sad to hear.

Although some years ago, I made Headcorn my home-DZ when living a couple of years in the UK. It was easy to get to, friendly crowd there, great jumping, nice pubs nearby and all in all a very good drop zone. So just try it and make your own decision. If you pay attention to all the whiners and whingers, you'll never end up going anywhere. Just find somewhere that makes your skydiving easy and fun. Then jump lots and enjoy. Life is good, Headcorn or a host of dz's can make it better. .

Total respect from Australia, Bill. You rock always!

Hi, 1. You just had an opening hard enough for you to remember it. 2. No 3. Analog for a hundred or two jumps. 3. Now 4.listen to your instructor. 5. Yes, as long as you can still afford jump tickets. 6. Yes 7. Flare at the correct height. 8. Kilkenny or Boddingtons or Guiness. Cheers, fergs

Gary has my total respect and admiration. I certainly look forward to seeing his successful landing. He has put in meticulous planning and training for this project. Do it!

Douglas, Brilliant - I'll do so this evening. Thanks, you're a star!! Ciao, f

Good morning, I have been using Pro 10/Prod Assistant on a PC and lap top (great combo, incidentally). Just bought a powerful new laptop for editing and want to install Vegas Pro 10 onto it. The Sony site now only seems to offer Vegas Pro 11. Can someone assist me on how to load Vegas Pro 10 with my existing gen-key thingy onto the new laptop? Or am I now forced to upgrade the PC to Pro 11 and then use the new key-gen to download Pro 11 to the new laptop? Is it perhaps a good deal to upgrade to Pro 11 regardless? When I get Pro 10 onto the new lap top, will I have the same problem with Production Assistant? Thanks for your help from a wet Canberra.

I have both - a dual GoPro and a CX/GoPro. Both have the "photo" GoPro mounted in Portrait mode, which gives really well framed stills for handicam. Blue Skies, fergs

Thanks Douglas, Where do I find the "graphic for auto launch". I'll remake another template in Template Creator and hopefully that will solve the gaps and crossfades issue. Hopefully I'll report back with the news that I've finally cracked it. For now, I'll postpone all, as it's way past 0200 hrs and I need sleep. Defeated once again by PA. Ha. Thanks again, f

Hi Douglas and G'day again from Oz, Well I give up ... I'm totally familiar with Pro 9 and 10 and have used them to create hundreds of edits / DVD's. So I was excited to purchase Production Assistant 2 a few weeks back. I've now tried and tried and tried for night after night to have it launch when a card is inserted. I cannot find any Detect Card tab anywhere that will instruct it to do so. Is there some secret? Also, I cannot for the life of me have it automatically close gaps and create crossfades after it processes. I have to do this manually each and every time. So where I'm at so far, Production Assistant does not save me any time - rather, it takes far longer than manually dropping the files into the home made template I've been using for ages with Pro 9 and 10. I'm certain there's simply something I'm unable to find and use for the Detect Card feature you've described - plus having it automatically close gaps and create crossfades after it Processes. Please help. Thanks - and glad you've recovered from your accident. I bashed up my right leg and knee pretty badly last October ... a double mal spoiled my day big time. Thanks, fergs

I did 20 on the 20th anniversary of my first jump. Then I did 50 on my 50th birthday. For a number of years I'd go to the DZ and not stop til I'd made 10. Now days I'm happy with between 5 and 8 a day .... ocasionally 8 to 10.

Here's my solution. Gives GoPro stills in portrait mode - with spectacular results in my totally-biased opinion. GoPro is set in every 2 second mode and goes on and off same time as CX100. Customer ends up with 175 or so still shots. Plus the drag and drop of pics to the CD or DVD is literally a 8 to 10 second job. CX100 makes the great vids as usual. Could be argued to pose an additional snag hazard, so care to be taken, as with any skydive. fergs

Sony has a February upgrade sale on - upgrade from your Platinum to Pro 10 for only $240 or so, less than half price. That's a great deal!!!!

... Or Jim Hanbury...