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Hi NW Vibes going your way for gettng the D-30000 liscense number Of course with a great liscence number comes great responsiability. BEER

+1 I can definitely tell you that it is taught in the Navy that the "racking the shotgun" myth is pure Hollywood. I've been taught by retired Sheriff's Department, city police, and SWAT members (provided by the Navy Training) and they all say the same. From a personal experience, I can tell you that my screen door sounds exactly like a racking shotgun. Plus people "rack" differently. The slow types, you hear two distinctive "chink, chink" sound. Others you hear a quick "sshink" that sounds a lot different. Don't know nothing about hollywood or what the cops think about the "racking ther slide myth" The military and police are dealing in a different enviroment than joe/mary home owner. If I heard a slide rack I would shit my pants. Distinctive "chink, chink" sound Once we were riding a bus through the hood and closed the latch's on our lunch box "Chink chink". The bro sitting in front of us must have heard that noise jumped up and gave us rhe look. One Jump Wonder

Hi NG Depends: If I owned the land the wind farm was sitting on However if my neighbor owned the property and the wind farm hade some noise issues so that I couldn't lrave my windows open, or devalued my property values. NIMBY One Jump Wonder

Hi J&V Rougher A half way decent lawyer, (she's a victim) A publicist A book, & made for T.V movie One Jump Wonder

Suggest checking out some of the light weight camping cots. Frame and legs are made of Acft aluminum that fold inside themselves, Sleeping portion is made of some kind of nylon with pinholes for air flow. The cot sits about a foot off the ground and breaks down to about the same size as an ar mattress. Fire ants in Florida. Flood in the tent. uneven ground or rocks No crawling out of the tent on your hand and kness with a full bladder. Check out places like REI. We've had ours for about 20 yr's and no flats. Downside is it don't float worth a damn. We've flown with ours all over the US. One Jump Wonder

We tried that with our insurance co, claiming we were overchaged. Insurance co said services were rendered so they had to pay. One Jump Wonder

Since you asked, IMO yes you are pimping yourself out. Bait and switch Amost as bad as slyride. What ever floats your boat. One Jump Wonder

And lock the deak drawers if condoms are kept there... co-workers looking for "something" may stumble across them... We kept a stockpile of condoms, lube, adult depends, bible etc in our desk as a work place survial kit. Eventually the bosses started excludeing us from mtgs. That was a good thing Early retirement? Thank you very much

I'm not impressed with the employer for allowing this crap to continue. Wher there's smoke there's fire, there's other crap going on that your unaware of. One Jump Wonder

Hi Mx I'll let others comment about the wisdom of taking the fast track thru your recovery, except the sky isn't going anywhere. Did you get a video of your operation? (The autoscopic stuff is done with a camera.) Will you post it? If you do the fast track back to jumping and something inside accidently lets go and you have to go back in for a quick repair. Tell the docs you want video and post it

Everyone's already told you that you're not too old. So I'm going to focus on the 2nd part of your question about payment options, that everyone else has overlooked. She may just be exercising wisdom to save you money, because many people who start AFF, give it up after a short while. And if you pay for it all up front, but then don't finish the program, you may be out some money. So she's probably just offering a "go slow" approach to allow you to try it out and see if it's really for you, before you jump in with both feet and a fat wallet. I think she's giving you good advice, and she's being straight-forward honest by not trying to take a huge chunk of money from you, knowing that there are some odds that you won't use it all. Paying for it in an up front lump makes it cheaper overall if you finish the whole program. However, if you drop out, there may be some non-refundable portion. Paying one jump at a time as-you-go is more expensive in the long run, but if you drop out early, you've gotten exactly what you paid for, with no worries about losing money you didn't use. +1

And that's why you keep opening them, right? I think that large round thing at the lower left of the x-ray might be the big ball (singular). Big attaboy to spot for carrying on the tradition of posting pics of his injury. If the metal (bling bling) on the xray look industrial size I can't imagine what the pain was like Spot your the man One Jump Wonder

Keep us posted, okay? Spot, if you get a chance to read this, we're all thinking of you and wanting you to heal fast. You'll make it back.

Being ejected (at least from a plane) is not one of them. HW Hi HW FWIW "Back in the day" the rigs were also carried on C-130's for bailout purposes and for the loadmasters to wear during equipment/paratrooper drops. We started sport jumping just in case we fell out of the C-130 during equipment drop wearing one of these rigs. We were wearing that crap as low as 300ft.. If things got bad enough that we fell off ramp I doubt we could find the rip cord which was a POS blast handle Orders are orders, so we folowed SOP's, eventually a directive would come down from HQ to nix the rig and go with a harness and lanyard, which would eventually be changed back to wearing the rig During paratrooper ops the loadmasters and the army jumpmasters would wear the same rigs. That SOP never changed by the time I got out in 1970 and I suspect that it's still being done today. On a happy note In the 4 yrs i was in the air force I never heard of anyone accidentally falling out of a Cargo plane during drop ops

If Mr Spot isn't ready to post a pic of his Ball. I sure hope his internet family at a mimimum gets to see his x-rays. There's a long tradition in skydiving "if we don't get to see the pics it didn't happen". Some of the more memorable incidents that have been documented on the net were Dead Mike (he lived

Hard to tell who that is without a ..........tail number One Jump Wonder

Wow, that's really 'back in the day'. HW Hi HW Today will be "back in the day" tomorrow. really One Jump Wonder

Hi MIH If the proposal wasn't so it would be . I had a brain fart of the nationals in Arizona with slyride as the event sponsor and USPA getting a piece of the action. In reality the sponsor would probably be Red Bull. What is USPA thinkingMaybe Slyde is right One Jump Wonder

Good thing you said they were reading the pm's before I sent naked pics to cheer you up! You never sent naked pix, because I'd send copies of mine right back. I no longer have "balls." I have a "ball." I'm a one-ball-man. It's circumfrence is slightly smaller than that of a football. Yes, the nurses make fun of me. Yes, they take photos. Yes, there is even one on someone's facebook page. "Hurt" doesn't describe this purple/blue/red/yello/green marble that prevents legs from closing. They tie my ankles together at night to prevent my legs from sliding off either side of the bed. I have my own "nut bra" made from a pillow case. Tomorrow I'm being transferred to convalescent care for the next 3 weeks or so. I'm supposed to be walking with a walker by then, and crutches in 5 weeks. In the meantime, I'm considering the benefits of becoming a eunich anyway. I'm not the first to experience this, not the last, but damn....it hurts. Stupid hurts. Mr Spot Your a video dude We want pics FWIW Don't beat yourself up about the stupid part. Your alive.

Hi SERE sorry I wasn't clear When I was explaining the dude connected the risers the wrong way to the harness it was a lot worse than backwards If he had to use the reserve in the air it would have disconnected from the harness If I remember correctly the reserve container was connected to the main container on the back with a zipper. incorrect riser connection the zipper would only keep the containers connected. Might have been a pioneer product, maybe designed for doing intentional main cutaways, so two reserves were required. Sorry it was a long time ago, even have trouble remembering the really good times Just like it did on the ground One Jump Wonder

I can barely remember when we were getting started in 1068-69 in abilene tx when a guy had some kind of a reversable piggy back. The guy was very experienced ("back in the day") and tall enough to wear one of those long piggy back rigs. Anyway I still remember one day when he found out on the ground after a jump that his reseerve (back mounted) wasn't properly connected to his harness.If he had to use it on that jump he would have had a dual cutaway. I was younger and dumber than I am now so don't know/remember what the owner did to screw up with the critical connection. I guess the dude learned his lesson and continued to jump the rig until I moved on. Don't remember if he continued to switch the reserve from back to front and back but I doubt it. Thanks for the memory One Jump Wonder

Well - Ok. You asked . . . Full Frontal ok with you? Relaxing around the house . . . More, More, Pls more One Jump Wonder

Hi Mr Spot Damn man you sure don't do anything half assed You know the real deal, and you will excell in your recovery just like you've done with every other thing you've attempted. No pain no gain One Jump Wonder

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You're a sweetheart. That was a nice thing to do.