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I considered that possibility briefly, but the bent portion is somewhat bigger than the grommet. Here's a higher resolution picture. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

The oldest I've taken has been a 95 year old man and a 90 year old woman. I've taken 77 and 80 year old men in the past two weekends (the latter 60 years since his first jump...he was a smoke jumper in Missoula in 1948). I'm pretty sure the movie the "Bucket List" is contributing to an increase in elderly tandems at the moment. They're a lot more work than most and ya gotta be careful, but they are also a lot more rewarding than taking a fit 20-something person who could just as easily take a first jump course. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I think your frequent requests to fondle me have been sufficient evidence of that. Now quit sending me man-porn! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

It's something I do too much for half the year and too little during the other half. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Like this: Dave, you're an asshole! Exactly! And hey, being an asshole has got to be at least a thousand times better than being French or Canadian, much less both. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

More boobies and more latitude to say what we want. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Although I've had my main flap open in freefall because some muppet couldn't get it stowed correctly after doing a gear check. If I had less closing loop tension I would have had a premature deployment (I've packed rigs owned by whimps and girls who preferred less tension over learning the techniques that would let them close a tight container with less strength). If that happened during a vertical freefly move at 160 MPH there could have been a fatality. I check everything on the ground and feel back there before exit to make sure the container is still closed. I'm with you on that point. Once I've got the rig on, I don't want anyone touching it except on my request, and I'll only ask people I know and trust. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I bought that exact thing (X-pen). Minka managed to climb out of it her first weekend at the DZ when she was 9 weeks old (it took doing a sideways chin-up...LITERALLY a chin-up, as in her head was what pulled her up so she could get a leg over the top of the fence). I've found it works much better at keeping her out of an area than keeping her in an area. In any case, now she's either crated inside my trailer, tied out to the bumper, or on a leash whenever skydiving operations are going on. I have to be at the dropzone every single weekend that we're open, and I have to be at work every day during the week. Evenings and weekends are when Minka gets to be with me. If I couldn't bring her to the DZ, in the short-term I'd find somewhere off the DZ to park my trailer and I'd cut out early every day to go "home". More than likely I'd at some point have to choose between finding Minka a better home and frequenting a more distant but dog-friendly dropzone. I'd be breaking a promise either way, but breaking the one to my dog would be worse because she couldn't possibly understand why I was doing so. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Really? I replaced my broken Pro-Track with another Pro-Track because it seems to give far better data than my Neptune. The Neptune is all over the map with regard to fallrates and has been since I got it (last year). I've assumed it just reports "snapshots" in time that don't take into account hand movement, etc, as opposed to averaging over some longer time interval. Blues, Dave Do you fly a wingsuit? Only occasionally. I'm not sure if I've used my Neptune on a wingsuit jump, but my Pro-Track has always given me data that matched up reasonably with my subjective impressions of the jumps. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Really? I replaced my broken Pro-Track with another Pro-Track because it seems to give far better data than my Neptune. The Neptune is all over the map with regard to fallrates and has been since I got it (last year). I've assumed it just reports "snapshots" in time that don't take into account hand movement, etc, as opposed to averaging over some longer time interval. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I didn't even earn the damn pie! Lesson learned: Dave is a sneaky fucker and you can't trust Princess. :6:1 1 hopnpop 1 7-way 3 4-way scrambles Dave's 2000th 12-way Beer for 1st jump on my new canopy. Actually, you did earn the pie. I'd told you that I would prefer a nice bottle of wine to a pieing and you opted to pie me anyhow. I just happened to have a contingency plan in place with your co-conspirators. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Nobody is particularly sure how it happened. The best guess seemed to be that he caught the flap on a bench while sliding down to sit on the floor, after which I suppose he could have leaned back against the bench and bent it back. Or it could have happened somehow during transport home last weekend or back to the DZ on Saturday morning, but he doesn't remember trying to cram it into anything. As for the request for a higher res picture, sorry, all I had on me was my phone. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

One of our local jumpers was inspecting his rig Saturday morning before jumping and found this. The ripcord was just installed last weekend. Our suspicion is that he caught the flap on a bench while sitting on the floor, but a line snag is possible too (except nobody noticed any burns). Yes, looking at it gave me the jitters. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

What fun is that??????? Ya shoulda been here

What she said. And of course it's sunny today. The weather was nice all weekend at the Ritz (sunny and warm though occasionally windy). The Caravan was flying Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

:10:0 4 tandems 2 hop & pops 1 A-license check dive 3 RW loads, including a 12-way with some long-time friends on my 2000th

I figured you were tough enough that I should maintain a little skepticism...that's why I called you instead of her. Glad you ain't dead, brother. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

The prospect of dog fucking is horrible. Finding your mom's collection of videos of her fucking three dogs seems like it would seriously enhance the gross-out factor. That their three dogs then have to be euthanized for it? Wow. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Pete Hill sent out a case of animal beer to pay his fine. I'm bringing a couple bottles of Veuve Clicquot cremant demi-sec to commemorate my last jump on Saturday. Please don't spill it or get any whipped cream in it. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

He actually told me, "I am a professional extreme athlete and serious injuries and death come with the job description." Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

for being called a skygod. Anyone else want to be an S&TA? It's incredibly rewarding to be told you're a skygod and a big meany for advising someone that they can't take their BASE rig out of the airplane, need refresher EP training for wanting to launch their reserve straight into a baglock, shouldn't jump unfamiliar gear into an unfamiliar dropzone in 35 mph winds (especially when 8 months uncurrent), and shouldn't jump their wingsuit yet because they only have forty jumps (over 2 or 3 years). I'm such an asshole. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

This thread has more brown-nosing going on than a dog pound! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I believe that exemption was qualified as being for "existing customers." Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Nice one, Remster. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

You got cold beer? I gotta bring something over to your house shortly. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)