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  1. nacmacfeegle
    "Kate Cooper dislocated her shoulder on the second jump," Thats a serious blow, send Kate all our vibes, I'm sure she will keep you guys motivated though. -------------------- 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
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    Isn't that the Queen's personal Herc? Its white and the others will be usual camo paint job..... -------------------- 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
  3. nacmacfeegle
    In my experience, if the grass appears greener on the other side, its probably moss, or a leaking septic tank..... -------------------- 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
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    We used to use Chinooks to fly to offshore oilrigs quite a lot. Then one dark day a gearbox failed causing the rotors to clash,and killed 44 guys, which was lucky for me as I narrowly missed that flight. They are grounded for civilian transport here now...... -------------------- 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
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    "what's a wacker? " Its a curved line which forms part of the formation...named after weed whackers (we call them strimmers over here) Check out the world team site for a diagram of the dive. "what's the APU on the plane?" Auxiliary power unit, its basically a box of gubbins that is used to start the plane engines. "what's the job of the floater? What's the super floater?" Floaters go out first, they exit before the base (core of the formation) and have to 'float' up to it instead of diving down to it. Super floater has further to float up as they signal the exit to the other aircraft. "If 3100ft is the highest pull altitude of the teams, what's the lowest?" Probably around 1200-1500 ft Edit to add... I'd heartily recommend checking out the world team site referred to above.... -------------------- 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
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    Morning Zee Dude. "This could be the 'Non Americans' thread MKII." Yeah, you have to watch out, the forum isn't really supposed to be used as a chat place. Some of us veterans from the NA thread got a mild forking over this. But if someone were to start a new thread discussing the possibility of a UK get together / boogie / pissup...well that might be different. -------------------- 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
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    "It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound." ..... "It took less time to find Saddam's sons in Iraq than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records." ..... "It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Teddy Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sunk at Chappaquiddick." ..... "It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida." Aye, but you ddn't have the Brits helping, and the French hindering.... I remain opposed to the political reason for this conflict, but am similarly impressed with the efficient expediting of the mission. -------------------- 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
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    "How long can you keep a Mini DV tape until it gets mouldy?" I dunno, I vacuum-pack mine with a little sachet of silica dessicant. I have tapes from '98 that play fine. I live on the coast of a damp, cold, grey island, my house is about 130 years old so its not the ideal place to keep these.
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    "PAL is the European format isnt it? and NTSC the US version? " More or less, there are funky variants used in France, but PAL is predominantly the choice in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia. The primary difference is PAL is 25 frames per second. NTSC is 'about' 30- frames per second. NTSC has historic issues with colour resolution, but I think that is largely a thing of the past Long story short, buy a PAL model if you intend jumping in the UK. -------------------- 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
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    I'm sure I've seen video of Patrick De Gayardon doing this on one of the early Travelling films or similar. I've done it from a S/L to get photos of a students perpective of a hangup. I used a climbing sit harness and a karabiner thru my chest strap to keep me head up. I just cut the S/L with a hook knife. It was pretty easy to stay stable. -------------------- 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
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    "I don't want to be on a team on my own" Och, ah'll be on your side lassie. But we'll have to do some training with giant Grolsch bottles first........ -------------------- 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
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    "you just try coming down here and saying that, and after we've all stopped moaning and whining about the weather we'll all gang up and whup your arse all the way back up north!" I'd love to pop down for a sesh, but all the trains planes and roads are cream crackered south of the border.... -------------------- 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
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    "don't we have to put up with enought stereotypes as it is?!! " Typical whiney soft southerner, you'll not hear a decent northerner whingeing away like that. -------------------- 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
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    "So what did you want to be?" A burden on society. But I became and engineer instead. -------------------- 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
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    Hope it all helps to get you back in the air. Vibes Chris.... -------------------- 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
  16. nacmacfeegle
    Not a Mac user but what I do is archive footage to minidv tape, and burn all associated project files(Graphics, premiere PPJ files titles etc) to CD-R. I also trim all clips used on the project prior to archiving, this is simple in Premiere, not sure about FCP. Dunno if this suits your way of doing things. -------------------- 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
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    "to think that we may be limited beyond a 400 way just because of lack of lift power! " I reckon altitude and formation build time will, and always has limited the big ones. I don't know for sure but am pretty certain that exit heights much above 25k will be impractical, above that bail out O2 might be necessary. A few peeps on the last Thailand bash were complaining of hypoxia (anoxia?) effects with exit altitudes approaching 25k. Dunno, anyone else have any thoughts on limiting factors? Landing space? Safe break off heights? -------------------- 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
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    "I mean wtf!! where do they come up with this stuff" It comes out of their ass, ah, probably the wrong ass..... Anyways Aberdeen, right now...see attached. Its not that bad just a couple of inches, the usual roads are blocked, but it was piss easy with Audi's quattro 4 wheel drive (S3). The boss says we can go home early -------------------- 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
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    "Plus, is the postal code in the UK six digits? " Not necessarily, I've seen 5, 6, and 7 digit postcodes. Mac's link will robably get you by......
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    Certainly the case in Scotland. -------------------- 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
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    "All we need is for spike to post an then thats the british PW contingent all here. " Hey, don't forget the one of the biggest UK post whores on the forum........ -------------------- 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
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    "Too bad he's namibian..." I was looking forward to seeing the
  23. nacmacfeegle
    Way too much hatred and xenophobia on this thread, a little mirth was required.
  24. nacmacfeegle
    "I will take a plane though rather than my sailing vessel" Visualising a 747 with a dragon's prow fitted......
  25. nacmacfeegle
    "if they could fight as a man" I reckon Jeanne would be up to the challenge. All you'd need to do would be to fit some horns to your Bonehead, and sew some brass breastplates into your freefly suit and you'd be the terror of Northern Europe. -------------------- 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