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a really wide angle lens. Nah, I think its a good montage........But a good one nevertheless. Cya D

Aw man thats just so wrong, in the UK vernacular, pants are underwear...... Cya D

Thanks Kate, check your private mail. Power to your pinkness, and good luck with the record and fund raiser. Cya D

Are there any British chicks doing jump for the cause over in Perris? If so who?? Cya D

"Beer good...dead people..BAD...." Yeah, they never, ever, buy their round when its their turn.... Cya D

At first I thought so what??, then I spun the wheelie mouse and whoah.......Where did it come from? Cya D

Good news on the Physio, keep it up.. You are right of course, in that you don't want to commit to a date, but on the other hand, having a date goal helped me when I was in your situation. Of course I had to keep revising it, as I simply wasn't ready as soon as I hoped. You'll know when its right for you. Cya D

"walking dove" How long till 'jumping dove' my wee pal? Cya D

"besides, rolling is fun" Fully agree, we should roll together sometime then..... Cya D

It has a kind of 'zen' approach, but I thought it was excellent value, cos the zen thing works for me. http://www.works-words.com/freakfly.htm for some extracts from the book Cya D

Yup what Richard said, H2S, or hydrogen sulphide. Its a gas that smells like rotten eggs, then you can't smell it cause its killed your sense of smell (olfactory system), then it kills ya. Its just one of many nasty things (there's hot stuff, high pressure stuff, radioactive stuff, poisonous smelly stuff, suffocating stuff, corrosive stuff, erosive stuff, and of course highly flammable and explosive stuff) that comes out of the ground (or from beneath the quite often deep water or thick ice) with the oil that we need so badly to drive our kids to soccer games, visit the mall etc, in our 6 litre SUVs. Its an accepted risk we face when getting fuel for you guys, along with hard things that go up and down, and round and round really quickly, really nasty weather, choppers ditching in the sea, getting guns pointed at us, kidnappings, and being subjected to food poisoning in countries a lot of people don't even know exist. Enjoy your cruising, just don't complain about the price of gas..... Cya D

Awww your sooo nice.....see what I mean folks? 'If I don't see agin in this world, I'll see you in the next one, don't be late' --Jimmi Hendrix-Voodo Chile, (also immortalised by local boy Stevie Ray Vaughan). The skydiving world is a very small one Jessica, I'm sure we'll meet at some blown out, back of beyond DZ, somewhere over the rainbow, way up high........ Cya D

"this is a "one in a million" question" Aha, in accident statistic terms, the million to one shot comes up nine times out of ten. A good friend of mine (anyone here know 'Badger'--Alasdair Fortune from the Deland heydays? He was the first guy in the UK to skysurf) went through a canopy a number of years back, it damn near killed him. Totally trashed the canopy. Somebody deployed way too high and in the wrong place. So you have to look at each incident in isolation and sort things out amongst yourselves. I've witnessed a canopy getting trashed in Spain by a collision after a high jumper hooked into a lower one also.....Scary....Nobody got hurt though. Cya D

"it reminds me of when we do H2S training on just about every drilling project i've been on in the last 27 years, if H2S is present, and your best friend is lying near the rig, leave him there, cause you will most certainly lose your life as well," I hear that brother, design case 17% H2S on Kashagan, you smell it (if your lucky), then you die.....On Sunkar, the swamp barge Parker put down there a couple of years back, there wasn't enough escape sets for the full crew compliment when they spudded ...... shivvers...... "down past 2K, when they're AAD equipped is an excersize in futility" I'm with you, but it must take discipline to make that decision, its a difficult call to make in the heat of the moment. Cya D

"In the end we still walk away without delving into personal attacks, " I gotta disagree with you, you great big redneck inbred son of a gun. Seriously, as a traveller and temporary guest in Texas, I've found this forum very useful (I merely lurked before). I've made some great friends through the forum, and not only met, but I've even jumped with a whole lot of regular (and one or two irregular

This is going off next weekend (17-19 may) right? I wanna come up and play and watch, and check out San Marcos. But I'm way off joining you all for the big ways... Besides, by the sound of it, there will be nobody left at Spaceland to play with..... Cya D

Flying on your back is cool, try some solos, doing just that, especially if you want to explore the dark side. I did a freefly with Omri last weekend and spent most of the dive on my back, he is a wee guy, I am.... well lets just say I am not a natural slow faller. Going on my back allowed me to stay with Omri. For RW, and general 2 d flying, what they said up above....... Cya D

"he is a old salty fearless dawg" And Satan looks after his own Cya D

I'm on record here, it looks like we'll do a Paula- way... Cya D

Rem....biting my lip, I'm not advocating back tracking.....doh, lets not go there again........ Cya D

Och, its only cos my g/f checks these forums from Scotland, and she's already giving me a hard time 'bout being here and not home with her.... If your watching this thread, I love you Susie....... Cya D

"Just don't uuuuuuussseeee the sheep. " Just ewes 'em and lose em...... Are you shearing that sheep? No, get yer own....... Cya D

Me! I barrell roll before I pull..... To roll, get a good speed up and then cork screw your body by 'twisting' your upper torso/shoulders, or from your delta track, throw one hand across your chest, this will cause you to BR.....Then a big body flare ( stop forward motion by 'braking' de-arching slightly, followed by a big arch ), and a wave off before pitching the PC. Practice it, its fun

Someone is trying to score before someone goes back to scotland... [DeNiro] You talkin' bout me [/DeNiro] Hey Paula, you got any Scottish blood in ya? Do ya want some?

Nah Bill, you are mistaking my intention. I am advocating replacing a pad with a loop a bit like a flexible reserve handle, not changing anything else. My handles are in the same place and they perform the same functions, the handle design is simply reversed ie a pad on the reserve and a looped handle on the cutaway. My point being, if people are worried that they can't grasp, or have an effective grip on a reserve pad, what makes em think that the cutaway handle is any less important. With modern canopies spinning people up quickly, being able to jab a thumb through the cutaway handle is becoming more relevant than before (IMHO). Not only are you fighting higher centrifugal (centripetal?) forces to place your hand on the handle in the first place, your risers may also be twisting up tighter than the original design allowed for, mebbe to such an extent that you can no longer see your pad, and possibly causing even higher cutaway forces to be required on the cutaway pad pull. Similarly, I'm hearing about articulated harnesses distorting unpredictably (placing the handle in an unfamiliar location and attitude) under these conditions, again possibly further exacerbating the situation. What I am worried about is a missed or partial pull on the cutaway, followed by a good reserve pull, resulting in an entaglement. More and more people are reporting "hard pulls" on cutaways. I see a looped handle as one mitigation against this, along with a return to hard cable housings, improved end ferrule design, and hard riser channels. These are not fundamental changes, more like enhancements to well designed and thought out existing systems. EVERYBODY has a set of procedures in their head and we all practice them religously right? I'm not suggesting a change to those procedures, just the handle design. This setup that I have is a factory option on my container-Javelin Odessy-not something I have hatched after some beer and a session in my workshop. But then again, my previous javelin had soft housings, and they proved to be a bad idea..... For the record, I genuinely respect your opinion, and actually admire the tireless development work that you have undertaken over the last 30 years. Cya D