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    Have you tried the various save options in imoviehd? I would definitely try saving it to the mov quicktime format since that is a default mac format.
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    Landed off last weekend in a farmer's field. The farmer let me use his cell phone, and then gave me a ride back to the gate on his tractor so that I didn't have to climb a fence :-)
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    A whole website of Gary Cobb stuff http://crwdog.servebeer.com/CRWdog/Backwards.html
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    I do every day. Have since I was a kid. Heck, when I was a kid we subscribed to both the morning AND the afternoon papers! I also read news online a lot.. W
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    Yeah - but to me trying to save a friends life is a million times more important than risking the liability. Its like showing up to the scene of a car accident - I'm not gonna let someone get hurt worse or killed (say the car catching on fire) for fear of liability. If it happens it happens, but liability is the last thing on my mind.
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    The funniest part is - I don't even have the faintest clue how I was originally taught - far too long ago. I think my propensity to hanging onto handles is as much to being a bad student and having to hang onto a ripcord for far too many of em!
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    I've also seen stories/videos where student ripcords (as well as tandem ripcords) got thrown and caused malfunctions of the main as it was deploying. Throwing handles is about as likely to cause issues as keeping them. You're taking your chances either way.
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    I put a lip slider on my PD 150 and it opens beautifully. Tis funny - its my canopy of choice on no-wind days because its so much easier to land well! Its harder to get my smaller, faster canopies to stop but I love my PD 150 cuz its so easy to get a great landing out of...
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    I spent many years as a Unix sysadmin (before I quit to become a skydiving bum :-) and while I do like Linux/Unix, there are always more problems trying to get programs to work/compile/install on Linux than there ever is on a Mac. For years I used Linux/Solaris at work and Macs at home. I use the "Unix" side of my Mac daily - you can do all the power-user geek stuff on a Mac, while its simple enough and works well enough that my parents set up their own wireless network without any help from me (amazing!) And you can do your own work on the Mac if you know what you're doing - it can be difficult depending on the Mac, but I've swapped out DVD drives and memory and stuff on my Mac before. I do always wait till its out of warrenty tho :-) What I've found about Macs is that they're not much more expensive than a SIMILARLY-EQUIPPED Windows box - add in the nice video, CPUs, memory and other items to a Windows box, and the price goes way up from the standard $300 Walmart special.
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    Smooth gentle docks.. If you dock rough, all you've done is hosed the person behind you (I hate docking when someone has caused the formation to move around the sky) and possibly caused issues with the formation... Don't listen to some of those rotations competitors - smooth docks only :-)
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    We bring one in periodically on weekends to have some fun.. The Dallas Caravan arrived this afternoon so we'll be jumping it all weekend..
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    It was a fresh keg but there has been a lot of drinking tonight! Hope its not tapped by tomorrow!
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    I've had the Cypres stickers on my pouches for years and its amazing how many people that fools!
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    Watched one pack this week into an Infinity sized for a PD 113. Looking at the size of the freebag, I would NEVER have guessed you coulda squashed a 143 in there...
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    I agree with Billy - stealthily turn it off :-) If you can't go anywhere else, I'd definitely go with the Cypres. Its tried and true and isn't still having "rookie" problems.
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    The problem is that its F111 - all Lightnings used in CRW camps and World Records and the like are all Zero-P. That's the biggest reason it wouldn't be selling. W
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    Only a few of you out there will know Eric, but he was an awesome skydiver for only 19 jumps and will be dearly missed. He and 2 buddies started jumping at my dz about 3 weeks ago and I think I was on every AFF jump with Eric. He always had a huge grin on his face and loved life. He and his buddies were at the dropzone practically every day after their first jump. They all were quickly addicts. He had bought a rig just last week, and packed it himself and jumped it for the first 4 times on Friday. His pack jobs all opened beautifully, and I had the honor of being on his final skydive on Friday, We all went to dinner, and then later that night he was killed in a tragic motorcycle accident. Even though I only knew him for a very short time, he will be sorely missed. And for all those CRWdogs out there, Eric and all of his buddies did become official Toadsuckers one night, (you guess which way!) but I never had a chance to get him an official card. BSBD, Wendy
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    I agree with you. Not donating organs has to be one of the most selfish things a person can do. You're dead - it doesn't matter to you - but you could let someone else live. Take everything they can from me - it won't do me any good but I'd feel far better that I might be saving half a dozen lives rather than being selfish and letting them die. I might be a letting a little child live a full life by donating my organs. Burying them with me and letting them rot in the ground does no one any good.
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    It took me 48 jumps to get off student status - read my logbook here: http://crwdog.servebeer.com/CRWdog/HowCRW.html I pulled upside down a lot :-) Now somehow or another, I've managed to become an AFF Instructor as well as a world-record holder in CRW. I somehow doubt my instructors would ever have thunk it!
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    Not to me. Definitely 90's are no problem. But 270's confuse the shit out of me. They're usually on the other side of the field from everyone else, and I know they're going somewhere but I don't have a clue where. 180's are obvious and easy for me to see what's going to happen, but the 270's completely confuse me. I just hit brakes and try and stay above them.
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    Any sort of elliptical is going to behave much more radically in line twists. I've personally witnessed someone getting their Sabre2 into line twists accidently and having to cut it away because it started spinning radically and losing altitude quickly. I regularly jump Triathlon 99's - a 7 cell square. Even though its highly loaded, I've had line twists on multiple occasions, and its just a yawner. Kick out.
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    Maybe its because I've got smaller ears or something, but even though I always wear them in the airplane, I NEVER wear them in freefall. A couple of times I forgot to take them out and I was screaming in pain in freefall because my ears couldn't adjust to the sudden pressure changes with the earplugs in.. Quite often, even in the airplane on the ride up, I'll have to take the earplugs out briefly to let my ears adjust and then put them back in. That seems to be more of an issue on fast-climbing planes than slow ones however.
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    I'm not sure about other schools, but we teach that in our FJC. When showing them the parachute, I point out how the toggles are stowed, and point out during the malfunction section that a turn could be an unstowed brakes, and that they should unstow both brakes and flare and see if it fixes it.. To me it happens often enough it should be mentioned with the slow speed mals in the FJC....
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    Absolute. The original poster is a good skydiver, and one of the most humble people I know. I don't think I would have ever have had the guts to post his question on here - purely because of posters who have never ever screwed up a skydive attacking him. If he posted the question wanting to learn, how many other people out there have had something similar happen to them but didn't tell anyone out of fear? I've videoed multiple skydives with this guy, and he's my all-time favorite AFF partner, and I would never hesitate to send any friend up on a tandem jump with him. Remember - when you graduated student status, you gained a license to continue learning. The ones who last a long time in this sport never stop learning. Wendy
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    I wouldn't think the plane ending up upside-down would qualify as minor...