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Talked to my buddy and he said pretty much the same thing. Those wheels were stock from 92-99 so "how many million sdid they produce" was his opening question... Apparently he buys off-takes from dealerships for $85 each and then at least doubles that on sale to insurance companies. His parting words... 'you can pick em up at Garage sales for $25 a rim...'. I gotta figure if the busiest wheel repair shop in central Canada - in the middle of the farmer belt - has got stacks, you might almost be better taking your nice rims off and selling them. Otherwise, get some tempered glass and some 2nd hand tires, buiild stands and make coffee tables out of them!! Sorry forthe bad news Dave - I've got absolutely no reason to doubt Gord on this one (like I know about wheels?). Good luck. -other Dave PS: nice pix of Aggieland. Is that YOUR plane or was that an AOT boogie loaner? Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

...with our without stock rubber, Dave? I have a freind in the wheel repair business here in Canada and there MIGHT be a market for them. I'm not sure of what they're worth to Gord but I'm fairly sure he's not into the rubber. PM me with any interest. Or, find your local wheel repair shop and find out what they'd pay you for them. If they're PREFECT then they can be resold to insurance comapnies and I'm sure that would make them worth at least the $400 to a local. If they're not perfect then they'd need to be refinished and that makes them worth a lot less to the repair market and you' d be better off selling them on Craigs list or buy and sell (or whatever you have in the area). Sometimes the laws of supply and demand suck! Dave PS never done ebay myself either Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

100. On the nose In a seaosonal dropzone!! Started September 1, 2001 with an FJC. Sept 11 didn't actually affect my jumper numbers that year, but the plane needing a bottom end min-October did. 15 before the plane died, then a 6 month layoff due to snow. Open season April 20, 2002. Beer cutaway April 21 2002 (first of the season for the DZ). Jump #100, August 31, pie. Jump #121 finished the season on October 20. First calendar year = 100. First full seaon = 107. This year...blew chunks. Sure, they were all 'quality' jumps but there weren't nearly enough of them . Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

All that velcro, Rob? when I bought my BEER rig in '02 I hd the choice between a racer SST and a Warp 3. One was beige with light beige and the other weas brown with light beige. Both date to 1982! I bought the racer because it had a modern square reserve. The Warp had a round and a Jonathan 170 (good combination for a lowtimer, eh?). Both contriners are still in service. Mine's had all the velcro done.. I think there's more on the Racer!! -Hey, some people get all misty-eyed talking about belly reserves and paracommanders, we're just a generation late Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

ding ding ding ding ding! Roy-boy hijacked the Friday Haiku, amongst other threads, on that very subject. I just happened to run across that site and, well as they say - timing is everything. Hope you're having fun. Did you listen to the lyric? At the risk of actually getting an answer, DO you like it upside down and WILL he play wheel-barrrrrrrow? Smile, Dammit! Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Charge him a jump worth of extra rent for his ass-hattedness. That's what? 4, maybe 5 drinks at the bar? Better yet, give him the option of paying you a month in advance At least YOU have 30 days to sort him out the "next time" it happens. If he doesn't like it...?... DOOR! I know what it's like to be grounded for $'s and it's bad enough when it's your OWN cash flow that sucks. Being grounded for someone else's bar binge? Not on, bro. Good luck. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Celestron C-90 ... Canon AE-1 and adaptor ... Vivitar doubler ...I'm there! This nice thing about THIS eclipse is that it's dark ouside by 5 PM here so I get the whole thing. Massive park just a few minutes drive away with great open fields ... pity is' frickin freezing outside. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Check THIS site out. Cutaways would be a bitch, though. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

...I am the Egg man ... they are the egg men ...I fly a Walrus! bwaaahahahahaha - I love it. Not even a legal "S" yet but I feel it calling me. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Cheers, bro! We gettin' an eclipse of the full moon tomorrow night - I'll snap some shots with 2000 mm of lens for ya...hope for no clouds and red mist in the sky. Saw your shot - tre cool but that galucoma must be gettin' to ya - the shot was all blurry and bloodshot Peace b with you. Go challenge Gravity tomorrow - winter or not. And remember 8 hours from bottle to, um throttle, nah that's not it... Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Equaly good for fans of the Kama Sutra and the Muppets ...don't ask Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

(electric) mushroom MUSHROOM !! Where's the Rave gonna be? F. F ing F that is so cool. Who's the Evil Scientist that started this madness? And for those intersted in this thread, try THIS site. Many many cool .. albeit smaller scale... things involving electricity, destruction, and general mayhem Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

HAH! My sister lives 25 miles down the 101 from the Golden Gate Bridge in Belmont. I spent 10 days wandering the SF area and I think I know whwere you're coming from. Among the touristy things I did with Karin and Mike were the Golden Gate Park - the 'seedy' end of the Haight districy, so they say. And then on my own one day I decided to play on the trolley cars and came across the intesection of Market and Haight... ... ... ... sure can't be far to walk to H/A ... must be over that hill because these are really pretty, well restored houses. Then I see a sign in front of one of them "...Drug free zone..." etc. As I cross the top of the hill the pretty victorians turn into what's best described as Project Row houing. Nope, this is DEFINITELY not tour bus material here... Ambiling along in the mid afternoon I suddenly notice I'm the only white person around. Across the street there's a Big Black Mama whippin' her kids home (maybe 9 - 11 years old) with a belt 'cuz they didn't come STRAIGHT home from school ... Then the other dudes in the area start lookin' at ME [butterflied stomach] and I take a detour down the hill and come to what looks like a prison [butterflies + 10]. False alarm, the guard at the gate informs me this is the US Mint. Phew [/butterflies]. Ambling back down the hill I find myself on the edge of The Castro. That's as far as I got (time and nerves ran out) and I prmptly retreated to the 'relative' safety of the F line trolley. Extreme tourist? I wouldn't have it any other way. As me about getting lost off of West Jefferson near the Cadillac plant in Detroit on a detour ? Right outta the movies... Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

As others have said, a 'hard pull' suggests the pilot chute has not left the BOC. Bacause the pin doesn't move until the bridle pull on it, a pouched p/c leaves a 99.999999 percent chance you'l have no main deployment. Go silver and save the possibility of losing your cutaway handle and accept that 0.000001 percent chance your main could deploy. ...or... Do a normal cutaway. Know that you are now ACTUALLY PERFORMING your practised routine. You might lose a handle but the main will still not deploy. Remember, the pin is in? If (and only if) by some freaky chance you knock the main pin loose while under reserve the bag and risers will fall out as a lump and pose much less danger to you ... but' you'll have to go chase them. *** IMHO, making a "new" decision while you're at terminal and passing through your hard deck is not a smart thing to do. I had a hard pull once (my hands were frozen and I missed the grip on the 1st try). After try #2 I IMMEDIATELY went for both handles knowing full well that if I did not get IMMEDIATE action out of the main I was in for a reserve ride. Adding even a second of decision time would have been bad. [By the way, this is also a great argument for not pulling right at your minimum deployment altitude. Seconds at pull time ae very, very valuable] Good Question. Chat this over with your instructors and fellow jumpers until the throught process you WILL use is second nature. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Azure cloudless sky Wisps of wood smoke rise straight up It's minus eighteen It's cyber-jumping season on dropzone dot com Thank you Sangiro Cruel Mother Nature thinks average means too hot June Too cold November Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Dunno if it has the certification for open DOOR! flight but I'll quote from the 22-28 august 1990 flight international issue: Sure sounds like it would be stable at jumprun speeds

The 225 was here in the early 90's to airlift Combine Harvesters to someplace else. Those damn wings nearly touched the ground when parked, IIRC! I watched an A&E special and I thought they said there was only 1 of them and it had just been re-comissioned - must have been an old show. I actually went to the airport to take some shots of the 124 - maybe good enough for www.airliners.net - It was frickin -15 celcius (give or take 5f on the ground) with a wind and I nearly froze getting the shots. Truthfully, the 124-100 really isn't as big as all that as far as big goes... pretty much a 747 or a C-5 with really, REALLY big and droopy wings. Still, those wings and that landing gear ... ... ... wow! It surprised me how quiet it was on final (I'm under the flight path into our central airport) and how slow it was on takeoff. The only plane I've seen flying that slowly without falling out of the sky is the C-46 Commando that 's based out of Gimli - our DZ! I wish I'd gotten some shots of the C-17 Globemaster that flew in once this summer - now THAT was big! Dave PS: your wife has a very cool job! Think she could get us a 300 way out of one bird? Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Heya TK! I'll quote from the CSPA insurance card thatcomes with membership: (bold added by me) On our CoP cards there is a list of 'permitted' activities and ratings that would go along with the above statement. Notable comments: - B and higher license holders pull at a min of 2200 - not 2500 - some form of helmet is mandatory unless a D CoP AND waived by DZO. - Once a B is achieved, there is no restriction on any daytime in-air activity (ie size of formation or style of jump) . Night and water jumps require an endorsement - typically the endorsement is nothing more than an approved signature in a logbook somewhere. Essentially, a B has the same priveledge and standards as your present D holder except for night, water, and demo jumps of any kind. Demo ratings (called an EJR) requires a C license, a separete rating card, and 400 jumps. Effectively, unless they are busting a lot of rules, "a single Canadian" has more coverage than all the USPA members at a DZ combined. Please, PLEASE don't take that as an invite to claim against us - we're "nice", we're generally "safe" and the reason we can maintain this coverage is because we don't really ever use it!! Dave PS: official particulars can be obtained from enquiry to www.cspa.ca in either English or French. Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

MY HOUSE !! At about 500 ft.!! I haven't seen that many wheels on landing gear since the C-5 flew over this spring (That was noisy, the AN was so quiet and slow I didn't hear it until it was directly overhead) This is just fully weird. A few evenings ago I ws trolling through my magazine shelf and found an old flying mag I bought (circa 90) with a full flight review on the Antonov AN-124. I had a very strange dream that night involving it configured for about 1,000 (skydiver)passengers - and us bouncing on and off the runway trying to lift off. And now the damn plane gives me a fly - by? Tell me I'm not losing it, please... please? Dave PS: I live about 5 minutes from Winipeg International. time to grab the long lenses and pay a visit I think! Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Comfortable. If it wan't more comfortable I'd submit to looking like a sky-dork. BFD to that. Do what works for you Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

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I-Vaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnn! [international call for the repost police) Sorry. We've done the badgers already but here's an oldie ... http://ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/snowbowling.htm Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Hey Lisa, here's an '80's one for ya: SNFU! Sausages Never Fry Unevenly Why yes, I hid my punk influence ... Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Very well thought out. May I add someting pertaining for foreign jumpers? Until very recently, what constituted an "A-D" license in USPA was very different from that of Canada - and indeed most of the countries who followed the FAI minimums. The USPA doctrine did not recognize the differing licensing requirements of other countries. This seemingly minor point could hurt a lot of Canadians travelling Stateside in the cold winter months if that same attitude applied to a wingload restriction based on "licenses" (reference the "grandfathered" 200 jump D license wonders out there. Maybe give everybody a 24 month phase in period to bring their jump numbers inline?) In order to get a CSPA C license, for example, you need the bare minimum 200 jumps as well as advanced demonstratd skills in 2 areas. Accuracy is one but to qualify you need to be scored electronically - something that happens only at the National competition. Otherwise you are stuck with demonstrating 4 way, a fast style set (13 sec corrected) , corrected freefly series in 16 (from a C-182 at 9 grand?) or CReW (again, only a handful of places to do this). But for those who aspire to demo or advanced coach ratings, most people stop at a B in Canada. At 1.1:1 you're gonna chop a lot of us all from your manifest but 1.25:1 would likely cover all the "reasonable people". Actually getting the USPA to acknowledge foreign credentials and ratings without question would be the other way to settle the issue. We have no hard and fast "currency table" as USPA does because most of us are on winter layoff for 5-6 months. I got caught up in this on my first trip stateside - though it would have been so easy to pencil whip a winter jump or 2. Why play games with weather-challenged visitors? That said, do I personally think that anybody needs to be under a sub-150 class at less than 500 jumps no matter what their exit weight is? Not likely unless they're very light and then maybe a 135 is a reasonable limit. Do I agree with wavering based on canopy courses? Absolutely. Do I think as a foreigner jumping at a USPA DZ that I should be "forced" to go someplace to take a course other than where I'm otherwise planning to travel? Well let's say no for now until EVERYONE has a reasonably priced, standardized course available. In fact, an advanced canopy control class is high on my list of desired classes ... it's just a small matter of a several-thousand-dollar "vacation" If you take the either/or criteria from your table, those with 200-500 jumps at 1.3 is quite inline with "the norm" in most places in Canada. Perhaps stemming from our 6 month season we are generally more conservative. I won't say that we don't also have our share of aggressive pilots, but I've never even SEEN a sub-100 sq. ft canopy never mind a swoop pond. I'm guessing if you looked at the standard deviation of canopy choice (the survey you figure USPA will not sanction) you'll find that it's the 10% of pilots at the high end of the wingload scale that are involved in the crashes. Of that 10%, I'll bet that 80% of the incidents come from those who have less than 500 jumps or 3-5 years in the sport. We're back to the 2-3% of the sport who make things bad for us all. Yours is the best proposal yet. Something that's been said to me by several Canadian veterans of the spot I jump with (and who helped write our current doctrine) is that "the rules evolved because people died when the rules were either non-existant or restrictive enough that nobody followed them anyway". I think you're well on the way to a 'reasonable' rule, Derek. Don't quit on this one yet. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

Please elaborate, Randy. That sounds from your description like an ABnormal deployment ... aka malfunction-in-progress. Do you still do a '5 count' after you toss and then check canopy and alti? Was it indeed a strange deployment ... were you considering a chop at any time? Did you pull your rear risers in attempt to help speed inflation?What main do you fly? 'breaking low' and 'abnomal sniveling' are two links in the Chain of Events ... good thing there wasn't a #3 like a very bad spot with no outs. I've been low on a low breakoff myself and my only path back to the main LZ was over nasty stuff and I was low enough to be a bit concerned. Thanks for the reminder - we all need that sometimes. Glad it worked out. Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)