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Hey Max! I can't be 100% certain because I wasn't THAT into the Big Hair metal (I can hold my own) but I'm quite sure that the Dal Bello 'guy' you refer to is actually not a guy. Lisa Dal Bello had a single out called Let's Tango in 1987 that I just can't forget, so I did some digging. http://www.lostidols.com/files/d/dalbello.html given that bio, I'd bet my last jump ticket that she's the Metal Queen that penned the stalker song Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

HBBDTY Adrian! Sorry I missed the ritualistic mudsplatting of the Voodoo - sounds better than the one I did by your description - and I've seen you run/tumble a landing before so this one must have been special. Pity it had rained ... I was on the other side of the lake playing with a chainsaw at the family cottage. Damn oh damn why did we not build ofn the WEST side of the lake? Sounds like the rest of your day went outstandingly well - I second your feelings on birthdays but that only makes the surprises that much better. PM me on the downwinder - I'm curious. I can also tell you about my hop n pop from Hell as a lesson on stable deployments (Jay saw that one too) Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Ryan: VERY nice (set of) posts on the line dump/ line twist situation. There are 2 things you've said that make PEREFECT sense in light of some recent events I've had. I fly a Raven (old, tired 1:1) and as I learned the canopy it slammed me many many times. It's a reserve design, after all and it SHOULD open briskly. I've jumped big Sabres with hard openings before but when I get slammed under the Raven it's Badddd. My rigger/DZO has done lots to improve life including building a pocketed oversized slider to replace the slider I killed with hard openings. I cloverleaf like PD suggests (I'm now VERY anal about slider position and grommet position while packing) and I am VERY conscious about having snug elastics and large bights per the jumpshack manual (old Racer). Bad openings often accompanied broken elastics which sounds a lot like a chicken/egg scenario. I've not yet downsized the p/c but it's a big F-111 (30" I believe) and I bet I could soften the whole process up by reducing the anchor force... Regarding your comment on line slack - when I first started flat packing my rig off student status one thing tha my rigger commetned was that "it's better to have more slack than less as long as at's neatly placed in the container" - now as a rule I almost always have 24-30" of slack after the last stow ... enough to make another stow and then a bit - since I quit binding the lines all the way down I have had NO line twists at all ... except for this weekend where I dumped headlow, had a p/c entanglement /horseshoe (Beer!). Once I kicked the p/c out to where it should have been and the Raven opened with a mighty FOOMP! the line twists were right at the risers - and I was STILL on the heading I thought I should have been on. Good words from you. Confirms some suspicions for me. Dave PS: I've been able to pack the big Sabres so that they actually snivel and their owners LIKE this Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

May I? Cessnas (Cessnae?) Rock!! I've only jumped the KA at Hollister (that rocked too) but there's something about being sardined into a flying soupcan with 3 of your (now) closest friends for 20-25 minutes, fighting every wee waft of turbulence and then exposing HALF the right side of the plane to 'Out There', sticking half the weight of the plane in people on a litle aluminum step, and thinking it will all go well. It has for me... ...except the time it almost stalled on jumprun I think that , like learning to drive on a rented Mercedez Benz when you have only afford a beater Chevy, that learning on a turbine from 13,500 jades you for the simpler, poorer life. (yes, I'm jealous ) Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

My ex-ride was a 1974 honda CJ-360T and my main is a 1991 Raven II (218). ...so call me slower, but sticking the motor at "legal" highway speed is still a wild ride ... just like a low toggle turn abandoned for a downwinder/plf ... I took a brand new Ninja 600R for a rip in 1986 with the owner as a passenger - well before I had a license. After I hit 120 on a major city route I pulled over, dismounted, and didn't ride for 6 years fearing that my lack of fear might kill me. What the HELL am I doing now ???!!??? Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

2:3:2 2 (times I tested my guardian Angel), 3 jumps on the only decent day of our first Statutory long weekend of the summer, a case (mostly drank by myself) each for first novelty dive and for horseshoeing myself on a hop n pop Sounds like Hollister was da shit his weekend but I had some fun myself. First jump of the weekend was my first "novelty dive". Vicky (ask me someday about how "I broke her collarbone") wanted me to do a wagonwheel dive with her (well duh, of course I'll do that... now how do we do that?) I dropped a grip and we corkscrewed for 3,000 ft until we just couldn't hold on any longer - I've never gone that fast or been that disoriented in the air

Hi Mark: You ask about horseshoes? I've got a very vivid description of the 'body entanglement' type from this weekend. I'll skip the background of the jump for now except to say that it was a hop n pop from a Cessna, following a FJC student with a jumpmaster still resident on the wing (I scared him too!) I left slightly unstable (not square to the relative wind) and it turned into a slow frontloop that took about 5 seconds. The FL caught me by surprise (thought I had legs in enough) but I thought I'd stabilized enough to toss after the first revolution. I must have either still been frontlooping or headlow on the slide because a nanosecond after I tossed something threw me onto my right side and pulled me further headdown Yup... p/c trailing from my left leg, wrapped around my shoe!! IMMEDIATE reaction was a ccw kick - almost like the frogkick I vaguely remember from the breast-stroke swimming and then BAM!! I was legs high, folded in 2 under line twists at 2k... hands on my handles. Kicked out of the twists easily, checked my airspace to find the student well above me and upwind, did my control checks, and flew home VERY quietly. The cute skydiver-ette landed short on final (the winds were a bit stronger than anticipated) and I ran to help her collapse her canopy. "How did you beat me down" she asked - I answered "I fly a smaller faster canopy and I fly it like I stole it" because telling the truth would have NOT been a good PR move ("uh, I fucked up bad and ....") In 138 jumps I can't remember EVER deploying unstable ... until now. I've dumped fast, in a track, low (once) after a missed handle in freezing weather, chopped a stuck slider/snivel (student, jump #20) but never unstable. Case o beer ... and after THAT experience I drank a fair part of it myself Pull! Pull Stable! Pull at altitude! Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

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Blue skies look black at night We were fortunate enough to have clear ones for the eclipse here in Winnipeg. Besides the meeting I was in as an excuse, it was to light to take anything decent until after the total eclipse had actually happened. The attachments are self-descriptive (if you speak camera). Basicly, I sat out on my front lawn with a beer in hand and enjoyed the splendour of nature. The view through the lens was AMAZING - you could see the shadows of the lunar oceans - but the laster shots I took wer over-exposed and the detail was lost. I mean, it's still cool to see a full moon take up the entire frame but the real fun was the progression ... Actually a lot of the fun was due to the fact this was my first attempt at celestial photography (bought the beer, drank it already) - and I can count on one hand the number of times I've taken night shots (though I've thrown another one in from a bonfire) For the camera geeks, this was shot with an 'antique' Canon AE-1 with a Celestron C-90 (catadioptric) 1000 mm f/11 telescope attached to a Vivitar 2x range doubler giving a focal length of 2,000 mmm f/22. I have a feeling this hobby could become addictive ... and the big lens can get freefallers too !! Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

HAH! I literally landed ON the blue flag my first jump there. Nothing quite like taking a downwind jumprun from 18k, pulling at 4, flying the wrong way until you realize you just flew downwind over the "ravine with sharp pointy teeth" and realizing it's time to turn base Yes, I saw the maps. Yes, I was paying attention (sort of) No, I didn't swoop a cow (they were AWOL that day). And DAMN!! I'm pissed I missed the tequila bar - when was THAT set up??? Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

And Geroge jumps rounds too ...

...I do! If you;ve ever lived with a Raven or a Sabre as a main, a non-neck-snapper now and again would be nice. ...Of course, after a season of that none of my shirt collars would fit anymore, since I went from a 15 1/2 to 16 1/2 neck since I started jumping. Hop n pops might start to freak me out for a change - right now I can take a legal 8 second delay from 3,000 and STILL have plenty of time above my chop-deck of 1,500. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

How many years Seb? I got 19.5 and 7,000 in fines ...and I should stay away from Minnesota Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

le ciel bleue m'appelle a cause de mon parachute je suis un aigle [for those monolinguists: the blue sky calls me, because of my parachute, I am an eagle...] THAT one works in BOTH Canada's official languages. Anyone else care to challenge? Spanish? Norwegian? Klingon? Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

...and birds "just do it"... I must admit that I have become mesmerized by the swooping skills of all our winged friends as they flare to a perfect standup - on a telephone wire ... Maybe it's only the "arrogant" ones that shit on us. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

...so can we call you "George" the now Do you know any dudes with a yellow hat? I must admit that there was some, um, beautiful scenery to be seen at Hollister - and in NoCal in general. anyone got a spare Green card? Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

From Monty Python http://www.stone-dead.asn.au/main.html go to TV series, series 1, episode 1, "The funniest joke in the world" Wenn ist das Nunstrück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput! [and later...] Der ver zwei peanuts, valking down der strasse, and von vas... assaulted! peanut. Ho-ho-ho-ho. and, my fav. from Pulp Fiction (Uma's joke) 3 tomatoes were walking doen the road... papa tomato, mama tomato, and baby tomato. Baby kept falling behind mama and papa and finally papa got mad, turned around and SMASed baby tomato into the sidewalk and said "ketchup" Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Me KNOWS he was speaking of that Jethro Tull ... I guess my subtlty was lost. I mean, how can someONE be a 'the'. A freind got me onto the game Rock Trivia once upon a time and I had absolutely NO idea whaththell a "jethro tull" was ... hence the smartass tag. I WAS serious about being thrown out of a plane for the "history lesson" though Dave Bonus points will be given for the origin of "Steely Dan" (for the ladies) Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Jethro Tull was English Jethro Tull (1674-1741) Born: 1674 at Basilson, Berkshire Agriculturalist Died: 1741 at Hungerford, Berkshire Jethro Tull (1674-1741), born in Basildon in 1674, was a major pioneer in the modernisation of agriculture. The son of a Berkshire farmer, he trained for a legal career, but financial problems compelled him to opt instead for farming. Determined to improve agricultural methods and increase yields, Tull experimented at Howberry farm, Crowmarsh, near Wallingford with a seed-drill which could sew three rows of seeds simultaneously. Later, he devised a horse-drawn hoe to clear away weeds. In 1731, Tull published his ideas about farming and plant nutrition in The New Horse Houghing Husbandry: or, an Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation'. Despite initial resistance to Tull's revolutionary ideas, they were eventually adopted by large landowners, and in time formed the basis of modern agriculture. Tull died at Prosperous Farm, near Hungerford on 21 February 1741. *** History leson over. Now about your conjugation Seb... (please throw me out of the plane for being a smartass) Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Our problem is exactly the opposite - the door latches just fine on the ground and during a wdi/toad load. At alti and speed it "will" stay up but it buffets an inch or 2 - to get it to latch you need to "SLAM" it which is kinda hard until you;re under the wind - and by then I don;t really care. We've adjusted it a few times over the last year - maybethe latch is simply wearing out - this plane has been a jumpship for a very long time ... and is a 182 "A" ... well older then me and most of the jumpers on the DZ Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

somehow a narrow-assed 182 without a flip up door banging me in the head (ours works fine at low alti but at the top the damn thig just does NOT like to stay lateched open) would be just too weird. That said, I will watch this thread in case anyone can find a reasaonably cheap source becasue I'm sure our DZO would be interested. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

No, but beer and a deluxe pizza DOES contain all the basic food groups... Ask me how I know Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Vibbbbes, Age.. Why not get out your "Hymm" book? Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Hey monkey! Eclipse will be in the early night here nad I have a nasty Celestron telescope that just happens to attach to the Canon AE-1 giving me 2,000 mm. of moon-catching lens. Forecast is supposed to be clear so I'll be 'shooting' - hope to capture some shorts worthy of posting. Dave PS: when the spot is right I also find it useful to spy on the jumpship (when I'm not in it of course) Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

well, not quite at work, but... Had my car busted into very recently. Making the police report I passed a comment about 'glad I at least took my rig out of the car' .. turns out the officer was a jumper in the olden days of rounds!! Maybe it's something about cops and me but, also, several years ago I totaled a Triumph TR-6 (no fault of mine). The cop taking the accident report told me he'd always wanted one ... long story short he's now the President of the Triuph club I founded years before. Strange but true. Now all i need is to find an RCMP oficer ('sherrif?) who's into BASE .... dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)