froggie

skymama, you do realize what this means right? youve posted your jump back into skydiving so now we expect to hear all about the jumps that you make in the future. Youre a part of our *family* now, so ya better start getting loud, causing a rutcus, and posting any updates :) froggie

whats a matter fruce? cant handle two women at once? :)

sex in the wind tunnel... isnt that like Paying for sex? lol fruce,, you dont have to pay for it, just ask baby. fruceinateme! ROFLMAO

slotperfect, i cant help you, but you would probably find some better help in the Gear and Rigging forum. The moderator is good too, he puts his .02 cents in when its called on. good luck froggie

sis ive been following this thread since you started it. DO you have a locker at the dz? did you ask manifest if theyve seen it? do you remember when you might have lost it? just want to try and trigger your memory. everytime i see a new post to this thread i think "sis found it!" and you havent :( sorry. good luck. im praying for ya :) kelly

pammi, lol! that reminds me... we use to have this cat named princess. SHould have known when i named her. She would run down this narrow hallway and use the wall to gain speed. She found a way to open the closet doors, then would go inside and turn the lights on. Freaked me out. thought our old farmhouse was haunted. lol but the worse thing she ever did was kill our fish. we went out of town and when we came home we found the fish tank water piping hot, with over cooked fish floating on the top. turns out she had jumped on top of the tank and had played w/ the temp knob until she had it as hot as it would go.

carrie, my skydiving weekend was um.. a learning lesson. you can read about it. Threads called "the snow ball effect" glad that your BF's dad is out of the hospital. hope all is well kel

Fruceinateme, are we going on a trip to this said wind tunnel? aw, youre the greatest! :) froggie

you forgot the fact that it is officially spring. hey, their calling for snow flurries here tonight

fruce et all. youre right. today was benificial. Im one of those people who believe strongly that every situation we face gives us a few lessons learned. I needed to experience these things today, cause it will only lead me to become a better skydiver. I dont have a head cold, just a cold. I cant imagine having jumped wiht sinus' bothering me on top of the runny nose and all. I want desperately to jump tomorrow, but doing that would just be ignoring what i learned today. So instead im gonna head out to the dz, go over Mals more, maybe hop in the harness and practice cutting away and pulling my reserve. Also want to watch more landing patterns. when the cold goes away ill be okay to jump again. prolly be by wensday, latest friday id imagine. Even if i cant jump, doesnt mean that i shouldnt be out at the dz. still got so much to learn, and i have so many things that i learned that i still have to get SOLID on. lessons learned = a good day. kel

well, it happened today. NOt a malfuction, but a loss of eagerness. The ride to altitude was good exept that i couldnt get my helmet tightened enough, my nose was running cause of this nasty cold that i have, and i just couldnt consintrate on running thru my jump. We reached altitude. in the 20 seconds before it was time to jump i started gagging cause the chin strap was too tight and the whole cold issue.(no tissues= suck the snot back in :( and my goggles fogged up. So i freaked. Didnt want to jump. I needed a few seconds to defog myself and spit or somehow clear out my throat. didnt have those few seconds. so my JM had to get us out the door. I seriously was not ready to jump. Got into position in the doorway and the wind almost overtook me. didnt like that. But she did "in out,and before i knew it we were in freefall. I had no option but to try and get stable. got stable. did COA. did alti check again while waiting for her to come in front of me. didnt happen. My heading wasnt right so when she let go i got unstable. We did some Unintentional turns. FInally i just locked on to my altimater and thought to myself "screw the turns, its not happening." locked on at 6 grand. waved off right under 5,200. Pulled at 5,000 on the dot. Under canopy was okay. did my check ((square, steerable, slider down) , located the dz, and headed that way. Got into my holding area and played around there for a little bit. Started my downwind leg a little too early, had to compensate for that. went crosswind, then headed upwind, had to turn (luckily light to no winds then) and landed crosswind. But it was a stand up landing so im glad. flared completely this time. Moral of the story: i learned that its not smart to jump when youre congested/have a cold. learned the importance of having all the equipment ready to be jumped (no fumbing wiht the damn chin strap, it takes away from the mental preperation) . Learned how vital it is that i allow myself the time during the ride to alti to review the whole jump sequence. learned that i have a door deamon, it just came out for the first time though. Im sure it will be back again, but now im better prepared to handle it. I learned alot. Now the only thing left to do is get back there when im feeling better and manifest for the first available load. Time to go and jump this one right! Dont worry, im not done wiht the skys just yet. Give me about 30 more years :) then maybe ill be ready to stop. ah, i love the skys, hate the colds froggie

skymama, congratulations on your jump back into skydiving and WELCOME BACK! Glad to see that you are happy now that youre back up there with the birds. froggie

propblast, check your email. im sending you those links. kelly

chris, glad to see that you are gonna take this idea as far as possible. You got me thinking, and i realized that tree landings arent the only mishaps on the dz. Im going to talk to john, the dzo, tomorrow. I think that we should drill on stabilization out in the field, maybe do a roof rescue, work on the time/efficency. I want to have it down as much as possible. Figure we could put a student rig on somebody and have them lay out in the field. We approach, communicate with the PT., find out any 'injuries' (predeterminded). Maybe even throw in a mass casualty drill. Place skydivers all around the dz, and use priority tags, set up a triage station. Hope to get this plan in action soon, while we still get so many non jumpable days. Looks like we both have projects to work on. Ill let you know how mine goes too. Just gotta remember to talk to john about it (im not very 'with it' in the am.) kelly

fruce and stac thanks for the tips guys. Ill find mary tomorrow. kel

now would we be saying that or sort of moaning that? ROFLMAO. lol. hey! we would do anything for you, not just a new rig. hey, maybe we can do a little tiki bar entertainment for ya this summer... would that get us each a new rig? :) k. i think that i know who youre talkign about. And i believe that shes still with jacko. Stacy would know more about how shes been. Stac, step in, give em an update about his fav hawiaa girl. geeze, how do you spell that? ive butchered it every way possible. im bound to eventually get it right. :)

albatross, thats a really good idea. and i can say from personal experience, having a dzo and a local EMS squad working together can be a really good thing. My chief, stewy is always asking questions that begin wiht "is john..does john... can you ask john..." Its cool being the middle man. I love the dz and i want it to be as safe as it can possibly be, so i do whatever i can to have the ems and dz working hand in hand. Today was funny, my chief kept asking me stuff like "see if we can have lunch in the hanger. see if......" I musta drove across the field about 8 times,, back and forth. I knew that everything we did was cool. but stew wanted me to ask anyway so i did to appease him. But anyway, it is really cool that you want the two to work well together. I think that the monthy update is a great thing. thats a good idea. kelly

craig, thanks for the links. going to check them out now. kelly

geeze stac, cant you "feel the love" for Frucinateme? lol. i guess thats what my big daddy wants to be called. Ah well, gotta make him happy. I really need that rig :) Hey, ill just *add* onto my copy of fruces statement to buy me a rig, throw your name up there too . THen you find a way to deleate the email to john before he has a chance to see it....yeah, thats what well do lol :) hows the visit going stac? doing your project? kel

geeze stac, cant you "feel the love" for Frucinateme? lol. i guess thats what my big daddy wants to be called. Ah well, gotta make him happy. I really need that rig :) Hey, ill just *add* onto my copy of fruces statement to buy me a rig, throw your name up there too . THen you find a way to deleate the email to john before he has a chance to see it....yeah, thats what well do lol :) hows the visit going stac? doing your project? kel

frucinateme, damn! i knew that it was too good to be true! lol. ah man, ill just have to try again.... hehe you asked about melody in the other forum~ lots a red hair? works in square3? if thats her then shes doing good. And i will tell her that you miss her and the thing about hawaiia not being the same. But im not sure if were thinking about the same person. TTLY kel

oh man, are you in some deep... i hope you know that i already cut and pasted the above to a word document. i will be presenting it to john tomorrow, as backup evidence :) roflmao ah. dont have much faith in the whole "big daddy fruce" idea? thats not good. lol. where did you ever think up frucinateme? lol. I feel the love. now write john that email :) lol ~ frucinateme's main frog

big daddy fruce, i know that you read my post in the other forum.. now, can ya figure what i desire? lol oh, by the way, thats you new nickname~big daddy fruce :) ya like it? lol froggie

thanks fruce. ill be out there tomorrow so ill swing into square3 and talk to the girls.Ill prolly end up doing the same thing that im doing now, putting whatever money i have into an account out there. That really helps becuse then the moneys already where it needs to be~out of my hands. thanks again, ill talk to lisa tomorrow. kelly

....say you will! but i love you still! i need you! i need you! more than anyone babbbbbbyyyy.... AH! so you know it! great, stacy just learned it the other day. 2 down, and entire dz to go :) everybodys gonna know how to sing it perfectly when im done with em! lol whatcha got for me big daddy? :)