dudeman17

A couple questions... If the money ended up in the river and was deposited on the beach by the tides, wouldn't it originally be on the surface, before it was buried a bit by subsequent tides? Well, wasn't that area frequently visited by people/fishermen? Wouldn't somebody likely find the money before it got buried? Also, didn't I read somewhere that the Ingrams tried to wash the money (physically wash, not launder) before calling the authorities? What would that do to the diatoms, how would that affect Kaye's research?

Imagine the endorsement deal he could have gotten.

I did. It was interesting enough, but at the end when he was getting on the helicopter, I was thinking, 'Hey, asshole, go back and get your rig!'

You should go. You've obviously put a lot of thought into it. If you don't go, you'll always wonder...

"How many jumps do you have?" 'One less than enough.' "But that's what you said last week/month/year." 'And it's as true now as it was then.'

I usually agree with most of what you have to say, but... Huh? We're not that big of an industry, and wrongful death lawsuits can result in huge judgements, on top of what it costs to defend and appeal them. I think they did, and what they came up with was an age-of-majority age limit.

You made AFF jumps. Your instructor(s) logged them. That's how you know. They count, not sure what would be confusing about that. Some instructors sign 'AFFI-XX'. Some use the current year, showing their rating is current, others use the year they first got their rating.

No I didn't miss that part. That's precisely the part that prompted me to respond. But once again you totally missed the point. That's not your decision to make. It's theirs. Attached to a movie contract, I don't think most writers would mind that at all. That's hard to believe against... ...and the dozens of multi-paragraph posts you've made railing about just that. ------ I'm not trying to antagonize you, Robert. I'm trying to help you. Instead of pestering the producers to agree to your terms, you should be hitting them up to Taft-Hartley you into the WGA and introduce you to a good agent.

Actually, that should be firmly ingrained before level 1.

Hmmm... While I obviously disagreed with the way you handled the Sky Sports guy issue, I would actually urge you to reconsider that position you're taking with the movie people. You signed their contracts, agreed to their terms, and cashed their checks. So why would you renege on that now? The time it takes to puzzle a movie together, especially when it's fuckered up by this Covid crap, that's their business, not yours. I'd suggest you just keep their terms and wait it out. Why should you care what people you don't like on sites you're not welcome at have to say? I'm going to disagree with something you said a while back. For a writer to option his work for a movie deal is not 'selling out'. It's a reasonable business goal for a writer, and you're fortunate to have gotten the offer. You know that old saying, 'nothing succeeds like success'? It's blatantly true in the movie biz. The people who make decisions in Hollywood, well I'll again quote Goldman: "Nobody knows anything." The decision-makers largely are not artists, they're business people who wouldn't know talent or an original idea if it slapped them in the face. They depend a lot on resumes. People trying to get into 'the biz' have a hard time getting their first break because the decision-makers think that if someone hasn't worked yet, they must suck. But if someone does, by whatever serendipity, get a break, then those idiots now want to know what they're missing out on. So you're about to semi-retire and move to So Cal? Gee, would you like your next career to be a potentially lucrative one in Hollywood? Well the fact that you've got a book currently being produced would make it a whole lot easier for you to get a literary agent and pursue that. You got anything else that might make a good movie? Maybe that 'Pilot Down' story? Do you think Hollywood ever produces movies based on science-fiction stories? Why, Robert, why would you want to risk screwing that up now by getting a reputation for being 'difficult'? If I was you, I'd cash their check, keep my mouth shut, let the movie people do what they do, and secretly thumb my nose at 'Cooper folk' who give you a hard time. Just a thought...

Some of us can't/don't check the site every couple of hours. If we can't/don't see it till later in the afternoon or evening, did we do something rude to where we don't deserve to see announcements?

Do the FBI agencies not share their information with each other? Well... I think Robert's right about that. Word would get around the jump community. But... Was it or wasn't it, and known by whom? If it's not known outside the jump community until the FOIA comes out, then how does Gunther know about it? So my question boils down to, if Gunther only knows about it from the caller, who's supposedly speaking for Cooper, then might that tie Cooper and/or the caller to the jump community? How else would the caller know?

That raises a question. How would Gunther know about the Elsinore investigation? You say maybe he talked to Cossey, and Cossey might know about that, but if Cossey does know and is willing to talk about it, how come nobody else knows about it until the FOIA comes out? If 'Cooper' knows about it, might that tie him to the jump community?

It's kind of odd that this girl made these posts, then doesn't appear to have been back since.

That's not because it isn't regulated, it's because people ignore the regulations. If it's a registered aircraft, it requires TSO'd gear.

"Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor, not a Social Justice Warrior!"

http://aerialfocus.com/commercials/sony/index.html This one?

Jimi was no whuffo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX6vhRKKpmU ("...excuse me while I kiss the sky...") Wanna bet?

I your profile is correct and you're in the 40 jump range, don't even consider trying to jump with them (you won't be allowed to). Even if you wouldn't blatantly threaten their safety, the TI would have to keep track of you, and would be less able to give your friend a quality first jump experience. Be on the load with them, have fun with your friend on the ride up (but defer to the TI when he needs his student's attention), give them a good geek before you exit, then be ready to congratulate them after they land. That works just fine.

"If you ain't scared, you don't fully understand the situation." "We don't do this 'cause we're fearless, we LIKE being scared." "Blue Skies, Black Death!" This sport is supposed to be scary, that's part of why it's so much fun. Eat that shit up. The girl that draws those duck cartoons that Joe referenced above, I was one of her instructors. I think it was her level 6 or 7, we got to the loading area and she asked me, 'When does the fear go away?' I kind of chuckled, then called for everyone's attention. 'Ask them what you just asked me.' She did, and everyone immediately started laughing out loud. Not AT her, WITH her. Have yourself a laugh with all of us, and enjoy. That said, don't ever get complacent. This is a sport of attention to detail. Every detail, every time. Be alert, be attentive, be deliberate, be wise. Some day, you'll knowingly pass this on to someone else.

That would be about the worst thing that she could do. I might be wrong, but I think Teresa is related to an old skydiver from back in the day, and her information probably comes from that angle. While Robert is extremely knowledgable about the case, her info would not support his suspect, so he would discount it. Meanwhile, he would try to hoard the info for himself, and lock it up so that no one else could consider it. She would be better off referencing people like 377, haggarknew, or myself.

Jimmy Tyler also did another chuteless jump where they rigged up some sort of weighted baker's pot and a drogue on which they mounted a container containing a round reserve. They threw that out of one plane, he exited from another plane, caught up to the pot and attached his harness to the container. Ballsy dude, Jimmy Tyler. Died on a jump from Half Dome in the early 80's and what they discovered after that about him, his job as an IRS agent, and the Grandma Mafia is a story worthy of a James Bond type novel.

There used to be a distinction between an Instructor rating and a lower Jumpmaster rating, but the JM rating was phased out quite some time ago. Perhaps that now applies to a Coach rating.

Tandems became what the customers wanted them to be.

A factor that I haven't seen discussed, and I don't know how accurate it is (I'm guessing some of you do), is this: Cooper's jet is flying at 10.000ft., but that is MSL (above sea level). On that 'Case Closed' doc, it said that the ground elevation was was something like 4500ft. So even with an immediate pull, that puts Cooper under canopy at 5 or 5.5 AGL, (above ground level). That would reduce the possible distance of his drift. Also, the forward throw of the airplane doesn't last that long (wind resistance), so even with a no-pull, it wouldn't account for a whole lot of distance.