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Roger, 2 Words... Honda Civic. 88-91 Civic Si kicks ass, nevermind the 'gotta have new' set. Half the Winnipeg sports Car Club drive them as their dailies since they're cheap, they've got GREAT suspension and brakes, get FANTASTIC fuel economy, cheap to insure, very easy to Rice up (if you're so inclined). Don't let the "Alberta Gun Rack" club sway you into a truck unless you do a lot of gravel or winter travel ... Set of Michelin Arctic Alpins and rims is about 6 hun and will get you through almost anything. Takes only 200 watts of front stage and sub to blow your ears out at highway speed. Lots of $'s left for jump tix. VERY easy to fix and swap drivetrains. PM for more... I've got sportscar club contacts throughout Western Canada Dave race? who me? Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Woohoo! First Monkey to chime in! And, according to the monthly horriscope.. ...I dream of my next jump into the unknown... Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Miisssster Anderson... (cool movie, but I think they TOTALLY missed the idea of a BASE jump in those rooftop scenes) Daaamn I gotta learn photoshop. Very cool idea. Someday I'll even get Stateside and meet some o'these folk. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Blues, Alexander! Your 'beer' jumps on ZP will be fun and the Greenies have already warned you of the '2 stage stereotypes'. Allow me to share my experiences from about jump #60 during Jr. RW skills camp. If you're used to F-111 (mine was a 7 cell to boot) you'll find the sabre will glide toward the planet in a more shallow angle. You will likely be going faster (or think you are) and you MAY have a tendency to 'jerk' the toggles to begin with. Too much toggle at high speed and you will 'pop up' off the ground and then be forced to take 'corrective' actions. I did that ...ONCE. Be SMOOTH. Practice up high and notice how little movement it takes to get you to 'rock forward' . THAT is what Mssrs Quade and Von are talking about as the 'plane out'. You will still be moving faster than you are used to, but relatively level with the ground. "Finishing the flare" is just adding toggle from that point until you come to rest on your tippy toes! If you plane at 6 feet and stall the canopy in the flare ... you will fall 6 feet. If you plane at 6 INCHES ...well you could eventually be on your way to the 'swoop tour'. Flare 6 inches too late... well, read the incidents forum. I found ZP to be much more predictable and have enjoyed every landing I've made on one since. I'm still saving for my own, though. Congrats on yours, you'll love it Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Vogon poetry? *** I'm on the verge of reading you poetry until you die*** quite possible the most boring (and lethal) substance in the known universe Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

enrique: I live in Canada and mine did not (has not?) arrive as promised either. Sooo, I contacted Bruce @ the tunnel (see their website, ue the email that is listed) and rec'd a prompt reply. Whatever the "problems" were (apparently it was returned by USPS) he's promised me he personally would UPS it. That was but a few days ago. I thought that was a GREAT bit of customer service ... all for a "free" T shirt. You might want to do the same, especially if you're in the state. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Erno: your diagram also reminds me of a 'very' old Canadian design, the bullitt (sp?). It wouldn't surprise me a bit if there reason these modern side flaps have been tapered is for "style and fit" with smaller and smaller mains dictating a general pattern change. Who knows, I'm not a rig designer. Interesting points of a contrasting bridle colour - my racer is beige (ya, stylish I know, but at least it's old too ) and my bridle is black. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

...no, seriously... I've been doing research in my old Popular Mechanics/Science mags dating to the mid 30's and have come up with a 'record INDOOR' jump under a round of 90 feet!! That, among others, to be posted to my website later tonight. www.members.shaw.ca/dterrick follow 'antique parachuting' links and please don't 'chute me (pun intended) for my fine web design as it is the Beer effort. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

I did... make that 6. University of Manitoba. ...Steak tartare is not on my list of favorite foods. Dave Practice safe bar-b-quing ... use condiments Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

PLEASE tell me you're kidding! Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Phree, I'm pretty sure that's a ParaFoil accutacy canopy .. and it would be as big or bigger than a Manta 288 - our DZO has an old one that I've seen flown once. WE also have military cadet glider ops on DZ and yes, that sure looks like what's happening. The scary part is tha those rope tows move at a pretty fast pace - the one used here is powered by a big block chev with a muncie 4 speed ... and apparentlythey use the higher gears! and are towed to about a grand Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Looks like I'll be visiting my sis and her husband in the bay area at the beginning of March. Neither Karin nor Mike care to be more than 'very sympatheric whuffos' while I'm their guest but a compromise has been agreed to - we're going skiing for a weekend at Tahoe. Mike will need lessons and Karin's not skiied for 10 years. I was hardcore once upon a time but a car accident in '95 put an end to that and I've not been on the boards since (well, once). Any suggestions on which resort given our limited time? I'm more into GS than moguls and would like to share some gentle slope time with the family. Finances permitting, I may even get a jump or 2 in. (sorry to get my priorities mixed up) Help or comments? Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

(...best "Astro Jetson" voice)... Raelieans Rorge! http://www.rael.org/ Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

BEER webpage! So I've been siting on this webspace and finally decided to tryand post something. I started out with the cover of the 1938 Pop Sci as well as a little texty blurb (for the whuffos, of course) that can be found at http://www.members.shaw.ca/dterrick/ It's the only page there so don't look any deeper (there's nothing there). ...Soon the article Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Call me paranoid, but is this NOT part of the gear check you perform before you strap yourself to the container? I'd suggest it should be because if the Silver cable does nothing ... well ... The check of 3's before jumprun makes sure nothing happened to my gear on the ride up. "Pincheck" by a fellow jumper ensures I put the gear on correctly and nothing happened to the major systems when I put it on (you can't check the reserve pin or Cypres on an old Racer while wearing it) the "FULL" inspection before I put the gear on gives me confidence that a pincheck will show no problems. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Very lucky indeed. Can you imagine a passing vehicle's bumper snagging your reserve's lines, and you are unable to cut it away? *** Yet another good arguement for why we should carry a hook knife even if we're not JM's or CReW dogz. It seems more and more to me that it's not the things that we plan for, it 's the things we do NOT plan for tht get us into trouble. We have no freeways upon which to land at Gimli, MB, but if I don't THINK about the need, what happens when I visit a strange DZ and HAVE the need? Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

I'm not a Seinfeld fan, generally, but the WHOLE Soup Nazi episolde just kills me! Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

NO SOUP FOR YOU! ONE YEAR!! Seriously, dem frikkin' fast food outlets (Mc BK Taco Wendy's) will kill us all, but 'quickly' During RSP season (401K to you 'mericans) I can and have gotten into the fast food culture. This year I have not and will not. I KNOW we have some nutritionists luking out there and I'm SURE they will agree it is as much the FAT content of larger portions that kills us as the extra portion. That "extra $0.29" could be an extra pound a month - or more. I LOVE to cook and have learned to enjoy the time it tekes to create "cuisine", not just "food" . You could not PAY me to use tinned chicken stock or eat processed ANYTHING. Foodtv is my friend. It 's a great thing to waste a cold Manitoba winter evening cooking up a gallon or 2 of chicken stock (no salt, no fat, many vegetables) to keep you for a month of sauces and soups... or a gallon of beef goulash that freezes into "Stouffers size" Ziplocks just by leaving it outside. Make your own fast food! Drive past the drive-through! Dave (PS: Next week, the benefits of home brewing ) Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Amateur sports car racing. On the same property as my DZ. I'm a downhill skiier too and I love mountian biking the river trails. I mention auto racing because it involves similar speeds to freefall but in 2-D and over 1G. The reaction time and depth perception you need to pilot a GT2-240Z at 120 mph into a decreasing radius corner while either wheel-to-wheel with another competitor (RW) or alone on a hot lap (style) is similar to hi-po canopy piloting. What's radically different is the reult if you get it wrong 'in the corner' and so far I've taken the slow and safe route per Billvon's canopy 'rules'. Demo's at 1.25 under Stiletto class elipticals, however, brought an INSTANT paralell to driving the GT car after my "Street stock" daily flier. Oversteer/countersteer/ head on a swivel/ SMOOTH but DECISIVE control inputs. It's also underlined how much performance can be eeked from a "lo-po" canopy - and indeed how difficult it is to get "that last 10 percent" and why it is valuable to know and learn. Oddly enough, it was the equivalent of being in a 'not-my-fault low level canopy collison' on the race track (killed my $10k vintage racing Triumph but not me

Yup, as printed in Popular Science in that month. Our family has a collection of Pop Sci and Pop Mech. magazines dating from the 30's to the 60's and something I saw in the history forum made me go look (No I don't have the 1934 issue). Believe me I'll be combing these issues for more cool stuff. What I've found so far is this article describing the planned antics of one J.J. Dunkel and it is eerily similar to Michael Fournier's plans. Printed on a cool sepia toned paper that can only be replicated by 65 years of aging, I've scanned the article in TIFF format and extracted the text. I'd love to share it with the forum but I seem unable to convert TIFF format and each page is far too large (nearly 3 MB) for attachments. I've attached the text in MS word format. Perhaps a greenie or a techie can direct me to a suitable place to display this rare glimpse into our history? Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney) Twenty one mile parachute leap - Aug 1938 PS.doc

There are really "2" spots... the exit spot and the opening spot. The opening spot seems to be the key until you start doing funky weird things with formations or high openings. On our C-182 dropzone the opening spot is calculated after throwing a wind Drift Indicator (WDI) If you're unfamilliar with its construction or use, go back to the SIM's and read the theory. Simply put, a WDI tossed at opening altitude will drift with the prevailing wind until it lands. This yields the lower winds' direction and strength. Since you drop the WDI right over the intended target, you then attempt to be at opening altitude and equal distance ON THE OTHER SIDE (180 deg) of the target. you are then fairly sure of making it home even under a round reserve. By the way, generally the pilot will fly into the wind at 2200 and you can normally assume the upper winds are of the same direction. Differences will often be declared by the pilot and your jumprun will be in a differnt direction than the one in which you threw the WDI. Exit point relates to how you will continue to travel in the direction of flight right after exit and then be puched back toward the dropzone along with the "column of air" you are flying. So long as ther uppers are not much differnt from the ground winds, taking the exit spot and moving again that far down jumprun before exit will getyou home 90% ofthe time. the other 10% you will have - - much higher uppers (eg) and you will be blown backwards much farther - so youtake the spot farther. you will also notice your apparent groundspeed to be VERY slow in a Cessna - uppers of a different direction. Then jumprun will still be into the wind but on a different heading. As you fall back into the lowers, your vertical flightpath will take a bananna shaped curve. Bad spots DO exist even on a Cessna DZ but the procedure as described is more than adequate. those who usedto jump rounds will have learned to spot much more accurately. "Turbine Babies" may only know to go on green. Freeflyers and bigway participants also have their own spotting issues because of speed differntials. Not doing AFF I got a fair chance to be on several low level jumpruns and I ALWAYS asked about "the spot". In Canada you need to be able to throw a WDI and calculate a proper sopt for your A license. you need to be able to calculate and execute a 4 way spot for your B. I could scan the relevant pages from our PIM's if you like but I'm sure its also in the USAP SIM's Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Congrats! Brings back memories for me ... there seems to be so few that talk about that "ol' fashion" way to skydive s/l progression. My first 10 sec delay was jump #13 (I think). Once you've learned to get stable doing a "paper pull" from a C-182 you've also learned a very disciplined body position - use it and enjoy freaking out "turbine bebies" with low altitude hop n pops. I bet canopy flight "feels" like second nature already, too. Very soon the porpoising at terminal will go away - you'll find it when you get "relaxed" and THAT will be in a jump or 2 one you get used to the sound and the feel of the wind. ...neat to think of the wind like a "solid" all of a sudden, isn' it? Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Maybe. I DO have a 1937 popular science about the first "high altitude" jumps but I left it at my parents place. The cover is a dude jumping from what looks similar to an Apollo capsule (bomb bay style doors on the bottom). I didn't read the article but I will retrieve it tomorrow and scan it. I may even be able to find the pop sci article in question. Where can I post "big" files (1200 dpi colour scan)? FTP skydivingmovies? Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

A WAG, but could it have been Time Bandits? I believe John Cleese was involved as well as some "short dudes". Now you've got me thiking, becaue it certainly wasn't Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure ("Take them to the Iron Maiden"... "All right DUDE") Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)