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I'm not talking about skyventure. I'm talking about the L1. Two different animals.

I had an awesome time. I'll definitly be back as soon as I get back in town. I wish I could have stayed tonight

Flyaway Pigeon and Las Vegas Skyventure Perris and Orlando L1 Tunnel Here in NC

That is actually my concern due to the way the air is controlled at the tunnel. If it was a small girl that was way arched then suddenly popped up a problem could arise. I could see someone breaking their neck if they fall out of the column head first. In skyventure i've seen small girls suddenly dearch, pop up 10 ft, and then slam into the wall.

When hell freezes over :) I'm just starting in Chemical Engineering for grad school, I have to do well in the core classes first. I haven't jumped in over two months. I have put everything into real world stuff as of late. When I'm making bling bling in about 4 years I'll consider it :)

Yeah, when Joe walked by there was a table of like 10 girls all over him. I was like dude, go with that :)

Don't worry, I won't be doing any BASE, but I've emailed the Parkton crew my entire catalog of all your favorite shit.

Thanks man. Glad you are there for me!

Last time I tried to do a 450 degree turn I was 360 degrees around and realized i would die if I completed the turn, so I stopped and flat turned into landing. Big turns are scary!

Sweet, I probably need to be on radio so I don't do my 270 too low. Any volunteers?

Ok... It has been decreed. I am going to try and make it up there on Friday. I have to work Friday night so I'll have to get there early, but I can't take this not jumping with this weather stuff. See you guys soon. Anyone else going to be there? PS I may need someone to do an AFF recurrancy with me. I haven't jumped in over a month. I've NEVER gone that long without jumping.

I'd say 2 months max. It just goes back to the login page after i've entered my username/password.

DZ.com worked on my PDA for about 6 months complete with logging in and everything. Recently it hasn't allowed me to login. What changed?

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Some of the forcasts are 10 to 15 mph from the west. Chance of rain is only 30%, cross your fingers.

You also have to realize you are there and face legal rammifications. You also need to handle shit if things hit the fan. Learning some first aid would be very beneficial.

I spent a good bit of time playing with my Troll in various rear riser configurations a weekend ago. I noticed that if you do the stall method then turn you get a really, really slow turn. The just grab and turn method turned lightning fast with and without brakes stowed. I was just wondering what method you guys were using on the Troll for object avoidance.

In a nut shell, he opened lower than the wire he hit. Had he opened below the 1st he'd have still hit it. The glide ratio of the canopy exceeded the descent rate of the wire.

Bryan was open below the 2nd wire, and with the wind later reencountered it (the glide ratio was greater than the descent of the wire). Though the safest method of putting a first timer off an A it's certainly not a good idea.

I'm mainly referring to lack of winds.

I disagree due to possibility of overload and too low or no deployment. I think if it's an antenna there should be no guide wires and static line or pca setup. Tall ones also run the risk of pulling @ 2 seconds and resulting in object strike.

I was unclear that bridges where the best objects to do a first jump. I was also unaware that people never make mistakes or errors in judgement that cost them lives, or lots of other grief. This is a revelation in BASE jumping. The jumper in the CNN thread has been around BASE and ground crewed off and on for over 2 years. He knew the only way to get into BASE safely was to go to a bridge. He also realized in that time that he didn't actually want to get into BASE. He was looking for an amusement park ride and unfortunatly the situation arose at the wrong time for him.

It's ok, he did a few lines in the car before he started his climb. I'm convinced that if he didn't have the lines his rotation wouldn't have been fast enough on the gainer.

He picked Wired Beef. Wouldn't that be sufficient?

It was a dark and stormy night, Bryan decided he was going to do his first BASE jump alone in the pouring rain and thunder. I decided that if this was the case I would go supervise in case something happened. We proceeded to the tower with a driver when Bryan remarked on how scared he was. I told the driver to pull over and get a case of beer, so Bryan could calm his nerves. After Bryan swilled down 10 or 12 beers I noticed the winds were probably not going to be cooperating. It seemed from their current trajectory that Bryan would be facing a 45 mph crosswind into the wire. This wouldn't do well for a large BASE canopy, so luckily we had a 65 SQ FT VX to pack carefully into his BASE container. After arriving at the tower with a thoroughly intoxicated Bryan and fixing the canopy situation, I told him to gear up and start climbing, since he was going to freefall solo, he didn't need any help. I told him his exit was roughly at the first light, and when he was ready to radio down. As he was approaching the light with winds howling and lightning striking, he radioed back and said he was terrified. I responded back that since he was being such a girl about the whole ordeal he was going to have to do a gainer to make up for it, otherwise his mates were going to make fun of him. He agreed. He did his climb out and radioed back down that he was ready. 3, 2, 1 CYA! I saw him complete the gainer flawlessly and open in 4 line twists. He climbed above the twists on the VX 65 like he was instructed, getting the canopy to fly straight, he was lining up to do a hook turn when he lost sight of the wire and blamo!!! He wrapped 6 times around, which was luckily tight enough to keep him there for the terrifying and heroic 10 hour rescue! In retrospect it was lucky we had the 65 VX and not a larger 103 Velocity, perhaps then it wouldn't have wrapped tight enough and he would have fallen to his doom! In a serious nutshell, BASE jumping is dangerous and jumping guyed antennas poses additional risks if you fail to avoid guyed wires. Additional risks include shitting yourself, partial to full canopy collapse, and severe body damage if your body, not the canopy, impacts the wire. It was merely a bad spatial awareness of the situation. Due to the current legal situation that is all the information that can be known. In the end if you don't want to entangle a wire, check the sticky topic in the forum, or DON'T JUMP GUYED ANTENNAS. PS If you couldn't tell the whole situation outlined was highly dramatized, and is hardly factual at all.