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  1. faulknerwn
    When I learned to skydive, the main packer was 12 :-) He's now a rigger at Jumpshack!
  2. faulknerwn
    Absolutely. You can pitch a tent in a field, or you can crash on one of the couches in the packing hut. We have showers and bathrooms, and a beer fridge (which you will owe for your first jump here :-) Look forward to meeting you! Wendy
  3. faulknerwn
    Post a picture of the pictures. Might can recognize some of them.
  4. faulknerwn
    Seen it done for over 20 years here in Texas...
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    I got Georgia too!
  6. faulknerwn
    Why did you make it in flash? That's very limiting.
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    I'm not sure about proposals but I know there have been a few crw marriages under canopy!
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    I have a $3000 deductible because I don't care about insurance covering basic visits but want great coverage in case I femur or something. I have 100 percent coverage above the 3 grand up to 1.5 million I believe. I pay $150 a month. And I'm a middle aged female. Young people pay even less. My insurance costs went down for this year, and I got a refund check because BCBS spent more than 20 percent of their fees went to bureaucracy and not health are. I haven't checked the Govt website but from what newspapers have reported I will pay the same or less. The company I used to work had 20 percent or more increase in health care costs every year and that was when Bush was president. How many people on here who don't have insurance can afford to skydive and then will beg their fellow jumpers for money when they femur or just declare bankruptcy and leave the hospital and fellow taxpayers to pay their bills because they could afford to skydive but not to get insurance ?
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    Done. He's at #6 now! When do we get to taste his beer?
  10. faulknerwn
    Definitely not Texas. We have crazy allergies here. Perhaps the desert in Southern California? Or Nevada?
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    I completely agree. I'm amazed at how sensical he is. And impressed that he lives cheap and forgoes so much of the fancy stuff other popes had...
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    I think its more like 55-60.
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    Every time I've had tension knots there has always been one line at the top of the riser that was slack - not pulled tight. I've always just been able to reach up and pull on the slack line and fix it. Admittedly I've always done this on 7 cell relatively docile canopies - they weren't spinning out of control or anything. It should work similarly on a reserve.
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    It also depends on how many tandems and video you have. We aren't a huge drop zone and use 3 Macs for editing and they work excellent. It's very easy to make customized videos for everyone and quickly. But we aren't a huge tandem mill turning out 200 tandems a day either For small drop zones macs work quite well. We would love to find manifest software which worked on macs so that we could get rid of our last windows box. The one windows box takes up 98% of the IT tech support calls on the dropzone( and tech support is me so I would love to see it gone.
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    We have solo 270s and 230s and they open beautifully. Often have end cell closure they are opening so soft. This is on AFF jumps. Have you checked the line sets? Perhaps they are out of trim? I've put a fair number of jumps on our Solo 230s for demos and I have to work hard to get them to open!! Pump risers cuz especially with my light weight and subterminal they open ridiculously slow..
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    I believe jay stokes did 700? On his 40th birthday. Keep up his pace and you could have the 5000 knocked out in a week and could play the rest of the year :)
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    I tried a tongue switch once and its tough! Way more challenging than a bite switch and I couldn't hack it :-) (And yes I know I am setting myself up for all sorts of dirty jokes) I much prefer the bite switch even if they do wear out more often. I generally shoot in TV mode, 1/640 iso auto and I usually use the landscape color setting just cuz I like how it makes the shots stand out. I usually use auto white balance but will sometimes change it to cloudy or sunny depending on the day. This is on my T4i.
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    Buy an external drive for cheap and store your pictures and stuff on there. Memory is trivial to add yourself - check out crucial.com - they have a memory app that tells you jus what you need
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    The Blind Skydiver World record is a 2-way - described here! http://crwdog.servebeer.com/CRWdog/Dan_Rossi_Stories/Entries/2006/2/18_The_Blind_World_Record_Skydive.html
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    laugh, the 100 way was probably an 85 way pops record :-) Just had a few young punks squeezing their way in there!
  21. faulknerwn
    Cypres'es started becoming available in the early 90's, but well into the late 90's early 2000's I was still seeing FXCs and Sentinals on student gear. I really think that FXCs started fading out about the same time that round reserves mostly went away.
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    I love my Contour and the one switch on of it.. Though I must say one of our other jumpers just got the new Sony camera with a one-button on setup and it looks pretty similar to the contours and takes excellent footage. Its definitely better than the GoPros thats for sure..
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    That's odd - I've always heard the opposite! My experiences with Triathlons is them opening nice and soft. I've never jumped a Pulse - but have heard they open hard and that you need to pack them to open soft. So you might start with your current pack job and see how it works.. If you do need to roll the nose or push it in, I always do it right before rolling the tail at the very end of the pack job..
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    I believe it was 2 years ago when USPA sent out a mass email about the subject because they had 19 ish cases at the time where the AAD fired but the reserve did not come out in time..
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    But how many people going in pulled at 2k? I know that most of the reports I've read of people going in with partial reserves had people pulling much higher than that but just taking too long on procedures. I don't think this will do much because young jumpers all seem to be terrified below 3k, and the old farts are going to do whatever anyway. It very well may stop demos from occurring however. The real problem is that these modern tiny tight containers aren't getting a reserve out in 300 feet like they are supposed to. To me this is the real problem and the bumping up of AAD firing altitudes is trying to get around that many of the modern tight systems wouldn't pass a TSO test. I mean - how many years ago did many of these manufacturers do the TSO testing on their rigs? I bet most are anywhere from 20-30 years ago ( or more!) when rigs were very different.