wildblue

3-ways? 4-ways? Big-ways? Pulling your pud? I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

Bah... every DZ has something bad to say about every other DZ. The amount of bad stuff seems inversely proportional to how far away the said rival DZ is. Go there yourself, check the place out. Look at the gear, talk to the people, see if you can take an observation ride in the plane and watch how they handle students. I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

geeze... I guess you're against cat-passing in freefall too, huh? C'mon, they're having a good time! Some people. Ok, well what about the para-pubs in WWII ? Was that wrong and cruel and stuff? I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

Nerp. Maybe happened once or twice, but I wouldn't call that a problem. Now this other canopy (from a different manufacture) I demo'd for awhile, I had closed end cells on 9 out of 10 openings! I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

A lot of TMs get grumpy if you get right below them too. I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

Can I hide in your luggage? Actually, I have an aunt/uncle in Tucson... hmm.. I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

Geeze.... at least I didn't post a link to Ask Chimpuat and Chris Rock Jesus I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

Roo and Ass go skydiving. http://www.chimptopia.com/rooass/skydiving.html I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

"The Lord tells me that he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure you're fucked. Hahaha!" I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

Little tip for the code-code PITA - before you use a tape, put it in your camera, put the lense cap on, and hit record. It'll put down the time code for your tape. When you go back and re-record, you don't have to worry about breaking the time code. Makes life much easier. And logging - just setup an excel spreadsheet and log each tape, make sure you include the time code start and stop points of clips (doesn't have to be exact) should only take you 1/2 hour or less (you can fast forward though stuff ya know) When I make a movie, I take all the good clips and put them on one tape. It's easy to do when you have a friend with a similar camera, and you just firewire all the good clips onto one tape. Then just capture that one tape. I have studio 7, and can just let it capture according to shooting date/time. Hit capture and walk away for an hour. Seems to work for me. There are programs out there that will help you catalog your tapes. If I ever find one again, I"ll let you know. I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

What I meant was it's very possible for the entire opening sequence to take that long. According to the difference between what your altimeter says as you decide to deploy, and the what your pro-track says you were open at. I should have been more clear. No, I don't think I would stare at a canopy for 8 seconds (althought I think I've come close, my hands we on the handles when it finally inflated) I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

What do you want to know? It pretty much lived up to the hype. Little zippier than the original Sabre Lighter toggle pressure Slightly lighter front riser pressure Good flare power throughout the landing Seems to hold built-up speed a lot better. I notice I seem to scream across the ground a lot faster than my old sabre Beautiful openings. No more rolling the crap out of the nose/tail, pocket sliders, whatever.. just stuff it in the bag and have a sweet, soft opening. I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

Ya, it's Coke or 'soda' ... c'mon.. 'soda'??? I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

Umm.. here's an idea - while it'd be cool and all to do some covert-op type shit and rescue a bunch of poor defenseless doggies - why not just do some research, sneak a picture or two, get some statements, and take it all to your local TV station. You can never go wrong with puppies, people love puppies. Get them to run a story on it I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

K, if you can't even copy it to your drive, it's not a winzip problem. Try a different computer (to make sure it's not the drive you're using) or try a different disk in that drive. Try copying the disk, see if it'll let you do that I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

Let's not stereotype and blame it on economics.. I hate when people do that... "Oh, well most black people are poor and live in the ghetto on foodstamps, so they couldn't possibly afford to skydive" Two problems with this: a) Show me how there's more poor black people than poor white people b) How many poor skydivers do you know? You know, the ones who have a $200 car (if they even have a car) but have 2 rigs and a camera, work around the dz for whatever money they can to jump Probably a lot of it is location, but I'm sure there's a good part of it that stems from attitudes shown by the earlier statement. Most skydivers I know don't see people as black or white (or asian or hispanic or whatever) but as jumpers and wuffos Well, ok, maybe we remember they're different when their girlfriend jokes about painting him blue to prevent racial profiling... and you go "huh?... oh right.. he's black.. I get it now.. that's funny" But anyway, back to my point - it only takes one or two people with a prejudice to turn someone off skydiving. How would you feel (I'm assuming you're white) if you showed up at a DZ and you were the only white guy there? I'm sure all it would take is for one or two people to look at you funny, and you wouldn't want to come back. The really sad thing is, someone may look at you funny and not even realize they did it. "Wow, he can afford to come do this?" I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

To sorta answer your other question - it's very possible to make a sabre take 800 - 1000 feet to open. I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

Try copying it to your hard drive, then opening and see what you get. If you still get errors, run scan disk with surface test on the floppy. I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

hehe... don't reach next time, you might be ok Goober Now hurry up and heal so we can go to Florida next month. I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

Hell no! I want to be thrown clear! Geeze... it worked for that guy who stole the 'Vette and hit a semi at about 110 mph I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

Yes, someone to help that's done it before is priceless. Buy him a beer and have him help out. Do a search on this forum for 'dbox' or 'mounting' or something like that - it's been covered (and well) a few times before. Lots of good tips and stuff. I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

This is taken from a post by Avitarr in the Gear and Rigging forum: ---------- The potential problem is that if there is too much volume packed into the top of the freebag, the freebag can(and has) be caught under some of the lips from the closing flaps and riser covers up at the top of the container....and to make it worse, the bridle is attached up there, so it continues to pull at such an angle(when belly to earth or head high) that the bag will not clear the reserve container.. Most riggers are aware of this, and deal with the problem by packing very little volume in the top of the freebag, and most in the bottom.. Go to the Jumpshack website, click download, then "spin test" to see a demonstration.. A couple of the local riggers in my area have had Vectors come in for repacks and been able to do the same thing you'll see in the spin test video.. Mike I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

Close enough.... I think the 1700 you were thinking of goes with 2200 - simulate money going into a pay-phone. mmmm.... blue boxing.... mmmm.... red boxing.... I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

Casa here $60 though I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag

that's funny! Here's another story Jumping Into Trouble L O S A N G E L E S — Next time, look before you leap onto a police squad car. Robert Tompkins had no trouble parachuting off a downtown Los Angeles office tower, police say, but he landed squarely on the black-and-white patrol vehicle driven by the officers investigating an alarm in the buildings. "He broke a front light," said Officer Guillermo Campos, a spokesman for the department, referring to the damaged car. Tompkins, 29, was apparently uninjured. Police were called to the 36-story, 496-foot-tall building around 2 a.m. on Tuesday. "We had been called by security at the building saying we have an alarm going off," Campos said. Police said they believed Tompkins was simply a thrill-seeker who had broken into the building. After they removed him from the top of their car, the officers arrested him and charged him with trespassing. Tompkins' choice of locations may have been doomed from the start. The building houses offices for numerous government agencies, including the FBI. I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad I got sunshine, in a bag