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Ski lifts are typically run by diesel engines aren't they? A jump plane would seem to serve the same purpose as a ski lift. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

..:13:0 10 tandems, 1 rodeo jump, 1 zoo load, 1 hop & pop One of the tandems was a gal celebrating her 80th birthday. Had the news crews out there & stuff and we had a blast.

You're forgetting an option, soft loops. I keep meaning to switch to them but haven't gotten around to it. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Could someone who's built their own linesets in the past please translate this document into plain English? I can't tell if the trim specs are above baseline (A-line length) or above the preceeding value, e.g. the difference between A-B, B-C, and C-D. The brake line lengths are specified as X inches longer than the D's, but I don't get the brake setting specs. Why would we measure them above A rather than above the knot? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Commit kitticide. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Hey Rhonda...Looks like you guys gave him a good send-off (and I hope that zoomie guy bought beer!). I really liked this line from the webpage: Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

LOL - I just passed the course with Jay in June. The 206 w/ cargo door exit is easy enough to control that he never really hosed us there, but man did he forget what we taught him soon thereafter! I thought his funniest trick was driving forward just as I got out front on Cat.D, trying to bump his head into mine so he'd have an excuse to roll over. I'd seen that one already, so started backsliding and got my hands up...lightly block him at the shoulders and yep, there's his excuse...over he goes. His close second was waving at & giving the thumbs up to the camera while spinning on his back. Honorable mention goes to a Cat. C on which he was backsliding pretty hard. We were maybe a foot or two in front of him on either side, driving pretty hard while flashing legs out....whoops, here he comes in full drive. We both got him at about the elbows, but at the same time so he couldn't roll over from the extremity dock, and his exuse during debrief for the hard backslide to hard forward motion transition was "Well I saw TWO legs out signals, so I figured I should stick them out TWICE as hard". Toooo funny. NOO MOOORE TUURRRNNS!!! LOL Congrats on the rating! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Here's my daughter, Jacqueline. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I hope you at least scored with the chick for your trouble! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

According to whom? According to Snopes, he was 6 feet tall and 195 lbs at the time of his admission to the hospital. Maybe that's "clinically obese" in your book, but it's certainly not in mine. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I don't know what makes me feel more whorish, the fact that I thought "Right on!" when I read that, or the fact that I do tandems in the first place. You seemed to watch the hookup process a little more intently on Sunday. I'm sure I'll be there. You now have competition vying for the different crashpads in town, and the bed in the little trailer is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Here's one idea. Hot pink still sucks though! :-) Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Buy the current TI's at your DZ lots of beer so they'll share their knowledge. There are some good points made in this thread. My life got a lot easier when I quit worrying so much about my student's body position and just worked at outflying them. As you know, I'll still occasionally pull their legs up with mine, but that's more for the video than anything else (and irritation relief). Make sure your students get a good briefing, focus on controlling the exit/freefall and not just getting to droguefall quickly, fly big enough that you don't have to sweat the small stuff in freefall/droguefall, get a *good* practice landing or two up high, be ready to lift/push their legs with your's if necessary on landing, approach every student's safety like you would if they were a family member. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I had a long trapdoor followed by 8 or so line twists on an Icarus last week. I started thinking about chopping on 3 separate occasions...during the trapdoor, during the first 5 or so seconds under canopy (spinning line twists), and about 700 kicks later when I still had a couple twists to go (OK, maybe it just seemed like 700 ) . At one point I instructed my student to help me kick, but that was just frustration talking, as trying to time it so his input is of assistance rather than a detriment is an iffy proposition. In any case, he just assumed freefall position and left the line twists to me. It took me a little while, but I eventually got rid of all of them. Tandem line twists are a pain in the ass. You have to really exaggerate the kicks for them to be effective. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Floating dildo - A PUD that is waving around behind you instead of sitting nicely where it is supposed to be. "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

It's been my impression that ALL women love Skyvans, but the reason why has nothing to do with speed, roominess, or the exit. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

1.25 : 17 : -1.5 1.25 tons of meat hauled, 17 jumps, no beer owed but bought some beverages anyhow. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

OK Chrissy, cover your eyes for a second (Whispering to everyone else)God help us...our manifest bitch has found the dropzone.com forums. OK Chrissy, you can look now. Like Roy said, run stuff you learn here past one of us before trying it. Outside of that, I'm sure you'll find these forums to be a fantastic time-waster. As for jabber, you don't have ANYTHING on some of the posters here! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Right now they pay very little to no income tax. I thought I read earlier in this thread that we were basically limiting "non-essentials" to food and maybe some bare minimum clothing. You'll still be buying things like tools, appliances, electronics, toys for the kids, bedding, furniture, home decorations, etc. My suspicion is that those people who aren't drastically affected by our current income tax would be more substantially affected by a sales tax. Unless of course we're talking about some magical system that will give the rich a huge tax break without recouping that money from somewhere else farther down the chain. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Actually, I'd like to see more of people being honest in their assessments of boogies, DZ's, gear, etc. Go look at the DZ reviews and gear reviews on this site. According to those, one would have to believe that almost every single DZ in the world is the best DZ in the world, except those rare DZ's that are the worst. Most boogies are pretty cool and an awful lot of DZ's are cool too. Some places/events are great, and others are a bit lacking. I like reading when people get on here after a boogie and say they had a blast, and if someone didn't have so much fun, I want to hear that too. What's better are those all too few posts that detail the positives AND the negatives about any particular DZ, boogie, or piece of equipment. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

So in your model, where does the government collect taxes? I thought we were talking about a national sales tax on all non-necessities, so if I went out and spent that $1000, the IRS *would* take some percentage of it. I agree that the rich would have more money available to spend on a home and higher end house values would go up, but the lower income people (those who would see a net increase in taxation in this model) would have less money available, and there'd be some percentage of the home's value (sales tax) tacked onto the closing costs, putting it farther out of reach. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I don't think homes sales would plummet, but supply/demand suggests the values would adjust to reflect the lost deduction, sales tax due at closing, and the change in what buyers can afford (e.g. mansion values might go up because the rich have more money to spend, pre-fab values might go down because low-income people have less to spend). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Man is that woman quick! I've talked to her before via email, and once or twice on the phone, but we'd never actually met in person. I saw her walking across the packing area at LP Saturday, walked up to her, and said "Hey DJan, I'm Dave Todak...you know, livendive?" She didn't wait one second before coming back with "So that IS your real picture in your avatar!" Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Shhhh!!! We all know you were hating it just like the rest of us. Now repeat after me, "The weather was terrible, the skydives sucked, the beer was warm, and there were too many damn Canadians." Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I spent a fair amount of time the other day looking for just such an option before finally accepting that feature does not exist. I found the way to kill-file PMs from a person, but not forum posts. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)