nacmacfeegle

If... "If ifs and ands Were pots and pans We wouldnae need the tinkers..." Granny Macfeegle -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"When you have another 3000 posts and can be considered my peer, we'll talk about it" *Sniff* [Sardonic voice] dunno why I bother speaking to you at all [/sardonic voice] -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Never seen it. Should I?" Bladerunning sequence on a slalom slope at Tahoe right at the end....... I guess you must have been there subconciuosly (sp?)cos you describe it pretty well...... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Yeah, get me a burritto, can't get decent if any burrittos here. Oh, and a 'coke'..... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Dude, you gotta stop falling asleep while watching Chronicles..... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Speaking of emergency egress, have you guys seen this? http://www.aerialegress.com/index.html" Hmmm, similar proposals were made a while back, and discussed here http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=48395#48395 Upshot ofthe discussion was it would make more sense to give everyone a set of nomex coveralls, heat resistant gloves, and a chemical lightstick. We have these on offshore rigs in grab bags.... Its a cool thought to imagine jumping to safety, but can you imagine say 3000 people all throwing themselves out, then tieing up the EMTs with minor sprains, broken ankles, chutes hung up all over the place on power lines, lampposts etc..... etc..... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Dunno Ray tried here? http://www.fai.org/parachuting/documents/#2 -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Wouldn't it be poetic justice if the parts they stole were radioactive and fried their privates?" Gawsh I hope not, otherwise the vapourised trail of radio active contamination will, by now, be spread over a larger area than the debris filed. But torching the culprit's private parts does seem fitting. Have these people no respect? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Thanks for the offer Blue, but I believe there may be slight sizing issues..... I feel I may need one soon tho..... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Scroll back up, you should be able to delete unwanted posts.....it will be in teh same place as the reply, edit, etc link.... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Poor Mr President. He's becoming the butt of all great satire lately. " Or, Poor Mr Butt, he's the president of all satire lately.. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Hey Macca, you having troubles today as well? A spaceball is a weighted (lead or steel filled) tennis ball, it falls straight down, at a constant velocity, so you can use it as a traing aid, kinda like a point of reference. You can also chuck it around with your pals, kinda like 'catch' or "keepie up" at 180 mph.... They have to be caught when playtime is over otherwise you have a fast moving object that WILL cause damage when it impacts. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Hey T, You may get a better response and a more lively debate by puting this over on the Freeflier's forum. "are they dangerous" Hell yes, but managed properly they can be a great toy. Remember jumping out of aircraft is 'dangerous'..... "should you ask permission from the DZ " Definitely, its the DZO that will take the flak from irate neighbours. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Sorry to hear about this man, I've enjoyed hearing what you have had to say over the last couple of years.... Well I'll miss you anyways. Is this anything to do with the fact that when you were posting from Ferrin places, dizzydotcom gave you a link to your pals, and the sport you obviously love, but couldn't access? Now your back in the USof A that void has been filled... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

There's a list of local car hire places on Sebastian's website. http://www.skydiveseb.com/location.htm#Car%20Rental Any use? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"The original motivation for the persecution of Jews was the old "They have wealth & we want it". Basically, it started out as legalised state robbery of a group already disliked as a race by the christian majority." I'm not having this, your explanation doesn't fit the treatment of blacks, homosexuals, mentally handicapped, the Russians, Slovaks and other "untermenschen" (sp?). I believe the Germans at the time in question were extending a potentially flawed philosophy based on Nietzsche's idea of "Ubermenschen", and the provision of a lebensraum, or free land where the Aryan race could expand. But hey, I'm all about free and open debate, something your relatives, and mine fought for.... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Techniquely, you can't do that either" And all credibility goes out the window.... For the record..... From the Cambridge English dictionary... "they" pronoun used as the subject of a verb to refer to people, animals or things already mentioned or, more generally, to a group of people not clearly described (informal) They can be used to avoid saying 'he or she'. "There's someone on the phone for you." "What do they want?" But I'm no Grammar Nazi, I was having a larff with my Finnish friend.... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Like this? "save a file from the Internet to their own computer " "file to the webpage they were making" "edit the page they had just edited" Its okay, I'll keep you right in this "politically correct" minefield.... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Can I chime in? Make a little lanyard to secure the knife from a pull up that inevitably accompanied your Square1 order... Double over the pull up and make something like the attached pic, position it in the mud flap and finally fit the snap so that the handle extends enough for you to get a finger into it. You can buy snaps at any hardware or dressmaking (I'm told!)store. Hand stitch the pull up so it is reasonably snug on the metal frame of the knife. The elastoplast tape will keep the lanyard and knife in place, but will still allow a degree of flexing, In an emergency, the tape will tear and let you get your eager digits into the handle without any drama. The tape will also prevent the knife slipping out of the mud flap and flailing around in freefall... On the subject of knives, they are there for cutting things in an emergency, so don't use them to fix your closing loops, trim laces, etc etc. Happy flying... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"For me the pillow is just a fashion marketing gag. Metal has always worked why do you want to change that?" Thats an opinion, and fine I respect it, but a lot of this equipment was designed for an entirely different type of jumping, ie belly flying on light to medium canopy loadings. Freeflying requires a much more robust equipment setup. Not only because we are now taking grips, launching pieces etc in a very different fashion from belly fliers, the hazards are a little different, freefliers can die from a premature reserve deployment (even if the parachute remains intact and flyable, the jumper could be damaged beyond their ability to control the canopy). This is a hazard that rarely beset belly jumpers with 'traditional' equipment. Now then, add into the mix the cutaway pad, which was conceived and developed when mains were relatively lightly loaded, three rings and riser design favoured lower cutaway loads, and malfunctions were not as violent. I believe that nowadays, a case can be made for 'swapping' the handle design over. We are seeing more and more reports of hard cutaways, this has, in part, been mitigated by fitting riser inserts. However a violent spinning mal will eat altitude and the forces required to cutaway are inherently higher, these higher forces can be compounded by using mini risers and rings (another fashion decision?). It becomes increasingly important to effect a clean cutaway at a sufficient altitude (thereby avoiding an AAD fire) to enable effective reserve deplyoment, in order to avoid a main resrve entanglement, a malfunction from which there is little prospect of recovery. Me, I have a soft ring on my cutaway, and a pad on my reserve. That is my choice, and I have had long discussions with the well respected Mr Booth, and the knowledgable Hooknswoop over this. I would ask that people think about their gear choice, the factors affecting its design and operation, and follow neither tradition, nor fashion, but their own sense of what best suits them. Jumpers should consider their canopy loading, where they are likely to be when exiting the plane, and their chosen style of flying, even whether or not they have an AAD.... Given that people have varying requirements from their equipment, it is unlikely that we will see a "one size fits all" solution to this..... Choose wisely young Jedi... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"save a file from the Internet to her own computer " "file to the webpage she was making" "edit the page she just edited" Well Erno, there you have it!.... Nac runs and hides from gangs of techno suffragettes...... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

I jumped American gear in Germany (Rhine DZ) last year, but they may have treated me as a 'visitor'.. "Rules in general vary greatly from country to country, including who issues rigger ratings, what rating you need to do stuff and what standards have to be met." This is why its such a good idea to have your local rigger give your rig a complete check prior to taking it abroad. Apart from the fact that trying to get your rig fixed for some minor thing like velcro, can be a real pain in the pooper. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Great news Dude, I look forward to laughing and chatting with you again. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Coming in kinda late...sorry, but its a GMT thang. Ethically responsible? All of us are responsible for advising our peers, even if it means offering different advice from that person's instructor, which can put you in a whole new dilemma. Legally responsibe? Well that depends who the guy's family can sue.... Lisa's approach may seem severe to some but I think its admirable, placing a stranger's safety above profit. I guess like she says, she wants to sleep of an evening. "She was as easy as the Daily Star crossword." Not much point trying to get one across on her then.... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Hehe John, just having a Rant, I'd already posted eth surfflite link way up there.. Seriously though, why don't Parachutist publish their more 'educational' articles like last year's swooping series on the net? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson