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Better change the name of your field to Deadwood after the way the Dukies handled you today. Seriously, scoreless for 34 minutes and a 12 unanswered points. Maybe Pietro's recruiting team should scour talent west of Boy's Latin. It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

:4:0 Absolutely the shittiest day of jumping I've had. 1st ff I just sat filming Dan nailing his sit. 2nd ff two of us did Simon Bones drill of trying to pass a pull up cord between hands in a sit. (flying a sit w/o arms). Unstable the whole time. I started feeling like something was not right with me but did a 3rd which was a solo with a HD exit. F'ed it up and was on my back staring at the plane, transitioned to sit and cartwheeled to HD but felt like I was fighting it with my torso. I said I was done but my FF partner gave me the don't be a pussy thing and I went up on the last load. 3 way and for whatever reason, I corked out of my sit. It's been like 200 since I corked except for the earlier drill that day. I got to my back immediately and came back on level. The spot was way long and barely made it back. One crappy day in the books. I felt progressively worse on Sunday and am sick with something today. It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

It's a kind of sex you have after a fight. You really need to piss a dude off and then invite him into the bed for a litte of the Makeup. Then you will wake up with some. It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

Hey Kim, How you doing? It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

100th naked Hi-altitude (02 jump) Hi-altitude naked 4-way noodle war Cross country Naked cross country Naked Cross country night jump but really what's the point Put Bolas on the load It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

+1 to what Drew said. (I think he's said it so many times he has it saved to cut & paste) Take a canopy course. Then work on everything on that downsizing list. Yes that means you have to practice down and crosswind landings. If you have a canopy coach at your DZ, use them. Some of the inputs you're not going to be able to do on large canopies but try it and you will learn which do something and which do nothing. I do alot of cross winders and downwinds and if someone is available, I will have them video the landings because we don't have a canopy coach here. But having gone thru a course and BGs book, I can evaluate my tape. Matter of fact, two weeks ago I had to make a low flat turn to a crosswind landing when landing out because I didn't see a wire along a dirt drive and I was not going to clear it trying to land into the wind. Practice paying off. Billvon also has a downsizing list somewhere here on DZ.com too. So go make a bunch of cheap Hop n Pops and see what canopy control is all about and work on one of the lists. You might find it's more fun than belly flying :-) It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

I remember something like: Every time you go low, God kills a cat. Jump it alot and go low every time It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

That's my guess too. I thought that maybe a line from the left side was trapped unter the toggle tab but going back to the slider earlier in the sequence it looks like the slider is keeping it over there. Possibly the tab on you slider kill line has it wrapped. It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

After 12 years of Copenhagen- I finally found out that I was mistaken- It's not really something thats gonna add years to my life. That's why I'm still dipping it today- And each and every morning I hear mama say- That shits gonna kill ya if the women don't get ya first. ~Pat Green It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

The instruments that you were billed are probably one-time use or disposable instruments. There are laproscopic instruments like that and some other types that can't be stearilized again. Some places bill out a sterilization fee and some don't. Asprin or meds -- cost more because of nursing and PharmD salaries. The realistic way to bill would be one nurse at X hrs of care but you're not allowed to do that so nursing and pharmacist salaries are covered by cost of drugs and rooms. And the hospital pharmacists are not the same as the grocery store folks. I checked that a couple weeks ago when I was at a party with four pharmacy grads. They all work for a grocery chain pharmacy and they said they are not Clinical PharmD. I might change that line to - If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough and have a good medical plan It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

Okay I'll bite and try to help you with why Ortho is so expensive and the expense is not in the implant hardware. If there are any Orthopods lurking, feel free to correct or clairify. Typically the hospital owns the sets/trays of instruments used in the OR for implantation of a certain system (read manufacturer) of ortho hardware. There are many manufacturers and each intrument set contains "tools" that work with that system. Think of all the "special" tools required by an auto shop to work on the different makes of autos. All of these "tools" are very expensive just as equiping your tool shed is to you. You may only require one set of socket wrenches but the OR may require 3 sets for multiple procedures. Think of a large place that does level 1 trauma and a multiple victim 3 car accident. You need a lot of tool sets just to handle that one incident. Now you have a set of instruments that can put in a femoral rod. There are screw drivers, pneumatic drills, hammers, reamers, and the requisite clamps, hemostats, retractors, etc. All made out of metals that can be stearilized repeated under high pressure steam. Tools wear out and need to be replaced also. So the hospital has a capital outlay of lets say 35K for just one set of instruments to handle your femoral rodding. Now they have to pay for the implants (rods, plates, screws). The implants are usually consigned and paid for at time of use. So your stainless steel rod costs 385.00 and is marked up to help defray the cost of that very expensive set of instruments. Depending on the ortho volume, the set of instruments may not be paid for in 5 years or may be paid off in 6 months. Now you go and totally fuck yourself up by catching your leg on the bank of the swoop pond and then flip thru your risers and faceplant into mother earch. Now you require a maxilliofacial tray with a whole set of very tiny plates and screws and drill bits etc. to put your smile back in the game. Add another 30K to the "tool" chest. And if you broke your hip, that's another tray that has pneumatic saws, jigs, etc. It adds up. A large facility can easily have a million or two tied up in ortho instrumentation of various manufacturer systems depending on their surgeons, prefrences, and training. Just as a TI is trained on a Strong or UPT system, so is an orthopod trained on an implant system. He/she may only use Zimmer and Synthes and not Smith & Nephew implants because he does not have training on that system. Some trauma stuff may only be used once or twice a fiscal year but the capital cost is still there. It's much like a rigger who outlays the cost of his training and tools. If he buys a sewing machine or two but only uses them for a repair once in awhile, he's going to have to recover that cost by increasing his repacks a bit. So that's the layman condensed version of why your implant costs as much as it does. It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

Those who mastered dark power became dark power. They unleashed destruction, for no other reason for selfish gain. They despoiled nations…destroyed whole civilizations. Some of them, I am ashamed to say, were Buff's." Some one at his DZ has to keep folks on their asses and heads since you ran off with a DROUGE. You could have some out to swoop school Sunday because I know that the bases were to low to huck. It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

Those who mastered dark power became dark power. They unleashed destruction, for no other reason for selfish gain. They despoiled nations…destroyed whole civilizations. Some of them, I am ashamed to say, were Buff's." Hey buddy, someone has to keep people on this DZ on their asses and heads. You started it and ran off with a Drouge. You could have come out to swoop school Sunday b/c I know the base was to low to tote meat. It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

:11:0 Saturday got in one FF and then sucked into doing a coach jump. The kid then did 3 more with me. Between the packing, dive flows, jump, video debreif, I spent almost my whole day on MY BELLY!wtf!! Today the weather was shit with low clouds, sputtering rain, some sleet up high, and only 4 of us at the DZ so............... We set up a swoop lane of cones and did 4K hop n pops until we were tired. 6 of them for me. It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

I'm not a big fan of LG. We purchased 23 of them at work in Oct of 2006 42 and 50+ inches depending on where they were going in the building. 9 of them did not last 3 years and they are not on 24/7 either. We took one down to the TV shop and they wanted $200 just to run diagnostic on it. Some would just shut off and then come back on for an hour and die and others just died. We took one apart looking for fuses and such but I think our plant guy determined that it was the power supply or distribution board in it that was shit. It was enough to put me off from buying a flat panel TV since I don't watch that much. It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

I had to radio IAD FJ students for the first time last weekend. I used to be ATC so it kind of came naturally to me. I used "Jumper Number One", "Jumper Number Two" and the students were told that if they went NORDO, to fly the briefed pattern and look for paddles on final. I think the paddles work better than saying "flare, flare, flare" as you just lower the paddles and they mirror your hands. So the I've got the 4th student of the day on base and I said, " Make a left 90 degree turn onto final approach, watch the paddles, knees and feet together and prepare to land." So the kid is right on track to me in the peas but his body is total Gumby. Legs full on Xman. I've got the paddles straight up and I yell at him "feet and knees together!" He's about 50 feet and still Gumby so I take my right leg and stick it out to my side like a cheerleader and then bring it down so I look like I'm ready to PLF. Well guess what the FJ did? Yep he sticks one leg up and out at about 30 feet!!! I'm standing there and he's comming right at me with one leg down and one leg out. I start yelling PLF, PLF and begin working the paddles to flare him and I'm thinking I just FEMURed the dude. At about 5 feet he figures that maybe he should drop his leg thankfully. He had a great landing and all I could do was sit down and laugh my ass off. Lesson learned

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My dad is a crew pilot on the AA Flagship Detroit, the oldest flying DC-3 left. I've been trying to talk them into removing that damn AirStair door for years and letting us jump her. Still get the AYFC! If I get up to Oshkosh with them this year, I'll be pester them the whole time while I'm doing grunt work.

You need to learn to fly your body period. I don't understand the immediate need to strap a POV cam on such as these GoPro's. Is it so that you can throw it up on YouTube and impress someone with a bunch of sky? You're not shooting 4 way, if you are in a FS group, chances are you are just seeing faces or your mirror. If you are FF, then you are shooting everyone else. How does this help you? It doesn't. Low jumpers need to learn how to fly the basics, sit at the bonfire, listen, and learn. Get an experienced CAM FLYER TO SHOOT YOU and learn from the film. Then when you have the experience (more than the min #) get the cam flyer to work with you doing 2-ways and progress from there. I've never had an instructor or coach tell me to take my camera up and then then evaluate my FS or FF or landing skills from the shit on my own camera. If I was Simon Bones and my FF partner was a clone of Bones, why would we need cameras to learn from? Alas I'm not Bones so both of us film each other and analyze tape b/c the tunnel is far far away. Does that make sense? It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

I wouldn't think a tunnel would help. You don't have a rig on, you have unlimited time, you're not going to lose altitude awareness, and there is not a subject to frame. The tunnel is to learn to fly your body. If you can fly your body, you can get where you need to be to shoot your subject. If you can't fly your body, strapping a camera on is not going to get you much for youtube. It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

+1 I don't have large numbers and didn't start flying camera until around 300+ but I agree that the GoPros are no different than any other setup in regards to what the SIM recommends. From a look at the video, there are several problems with the "mad skills" of this jumper. Packing - 4-line check would have caught step thru. Looks like deployment was around between 4 & 3.5 K from last look at alti. Camera looking at feet :10 sec At no time does POV look for traffic or at alti. POV looks at canopy at :12 or :13sec and there is an obvious step thru situation (line from one group around other group) No traffic check or obvious alti check from the POV. I believe I counted 5 complete revolutions before the chop at :28sec. Never saw hands on risers to attempt to stop the spin, never saw alti in the POV. So being conservative, it took :15 sec to go from the visualization of the mal to reserve out while rapidly spinning and burning altitude. Way too much time to initiate EPs on a mal that is an obivious chop. It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama

I may be mistaken but I think the lowest canopy alarm you can set is 300 feet. It's called the Hillbilly Hop N Pop dude. If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough. That's fucked up. Watermelons do not grow on trees! ~Skymama