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Yep been doing that for a couple years now and a template is the way to go so all you have to do is drag and drop and slide the music and fade some audio in place and your done. imove is all you really need to do a kick ass and fast job, it will take you a little bit to get fast and find what works best for you. There are some pretty cool add ons from Gee three you can get but I find it best to apply K.I.S.S. The only thing I really don't like in imove is the slo-mo looks to jerky, other then that it friken rocks for tandem production in the right hands. If you would like more info PM me. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Only on the female blow up dolls never on the loop. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Just because that works for you, don't mean you need to try to start a trend...... you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

As much as needed till they feel ready to go, we even have hanging risers to use if anyone want to use them. We have just about every type of release in the collection, shot 1/2, single shots, R-2's, R-3's, and early 3-rings, so it would depend on what rig someone is going to use as to how much training they will need, I wouldn't need to spend much time to train a person to jump my vintage 77 wonderhog that is HD and 3-ring as I would one of the mini systems and shot 1/2's with a wart. What few cutaways we have had were normal, so no real good stories, other then the look on someones face as the passed by about 25 feet away on their back as the wart was deploying, a classic WTF look. When the boys ready you should make a road trip and then you can take your pick out of the collection as to what you / he would like to jump. We have some very nice choices.

While that maybe Rob, but you know as well as I do that if it is on a TSO'ed rig and the manual says to use it, and this jumper would have gone in, the FAA would have been knocking on someones door. And that is the bottom line! you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

How about a 1964 switlik t-10 with sport mods and in a 1967 pioneer sport pack. Looks just like a B-4 but was the first "sport" container, still OD green and looks surplus to the untrained eye. That is as retro as my collection will get. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

You should also be looking for military dz's and clubs as you move round, there are many where as long as you have an active ID you can jump really cool shit for free or super cheap. Just food for thought , no one may have told you about. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Wouldn't surprise me, been on a few of those loads myself. Also seen more then plane dodge'n canopies as they open up, looked kinda like anti aircraft flack bursts and evasive action to avoids said jumpers a zig zaging thru if you will. Yea his is a smart cookie and provides a lot of good info here. "Diverdriver" is also a good person here to ask questions. www.diverdriver.com you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Cool I'll be looking for ya all in the circus parade. Glad to hear the gang is coming down. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Yea that look right. Yes you are! You had that "red dot" dude seal your rig last time I use one of those it didn't work.... you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Just look at the Op's photo, the ring around the ripcord should be between the two rings on the top flap. Get it, got , good! Oh and yes Lee, I get your point, but I was guessing the bent pin would still be pulled you would hope if it was your rig and you don't have a weak pin from the bad batch that might snap, but the tacking may not bust free and should it not and the ring not pop off the housing you are still trailing a ball o shit over head. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Well I'll be.... You and your young man's eyes. But yea if you pack many of those rigs it's kind of hard to miss the rings when you put the ripcord in the housing and it comes out at that flap. Pretty basic. I bet the RSL would have still worked, but I think there is a good chance it could/would have slid up and hooked the housing, and at that point, would it have stayed or let go??? Jack, good job catching that. Let us know if your told to fuck off or if they are nice about you contacting them. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Looks like you need to call Star Id. Sure looks like a rookie mistake, or maybe they were watching the packing video and not what they were doing. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Best of luck Tony, thanks for all your great works and I look forward to seeing you again @ the Richmond Boogie. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

JR Prater Stratostar Jugglo Floats 18 Armour666 Bolas UpNDownshop Gearless Chris Fixed it for ya... So you bringing those "clowns" from Ft. Wyane with you again..... you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Well see you work on stuff that is performance, that means, one would like for it not to fail and an important time during it's use, there for you "get it" The shady type of crooks who do this in skydiving are counting on you to be to stupid to figure it out, or be to stupid to think you'll be ok because you have a rig on. Or they expect you to tow the "party line" and keep your mouth shut and turn a blind eye, but hurry up and get on the Plane "we have a load to fly". Yes someone did use a "JB Weld" type substance on a prop, painted over the patches and then sold the airplane to an unknowing non skydive operation. You would have to know that it was there in the first place to ask about it, or ask about it after the prop blade fails and fly's off the shaft, right? If you can't see it, it's NOT there. The FAA found the plane and found the prop as they were told they would and in the condition they were told it would be in, after taking the prop and x-raying it. The "JB weld" type substance was traced back to "Tom's FAA welding shop in Jamestown Ohio" according to the person who helped take it there and pick it up and place it back on the AC. I have no reason to not believe them or their statements, seeing how the plane was found as per their earlier statements to the FAA. So you would be right in saying "how stupid could one be" I don't know maybe you should ask the person who would order that type of work and then cover it up and sell the crap to another "unknowing person" to fly with it in that state of repair. But yes pretty fucking stupid and down right crooked, only a lowlife crook would do that! Depends on what side of the fence your standing on, those who have morals and then those who say they do, but then go along with the people who would do this type of stuff, all the while never stopping to think, what else are "they" cutting corners on or thinking what the hell, that plane didn't crash or that repair didn't hurt anything. Some people think and would /have argued here before, that just because some of this stuff was done 6 or 7 or even 10 or 20 years ago (depending what part were talking about), "they" aren't/wouldn't do it again. Even though "their" history would say other wise. It's called denial, hey after all we're family and "they" would never endanger "us". Only if you get caught and it can be proved you/they did it. Pretty sad that it takes a "event" to get some action done, kind of like were now seeing with the bridge collapse this week, now your seeing other known bridges closed. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Sounds like you'll have to outsource dude, it's only a long weekend at the end of the month. Besides that you could do TDM vids/stills and make $$$. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Is for me.... I got the tools for the job if ya really want to. Hell if you really want to do a "brown bagger" we can hook you up brother. Or if you want jump the para-plane let me know. Got 182 for H&P's. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Sweet, didn't think you were coming this year. We have Jumbos for fat asses.... But I got dips on one of um.... Floats 18 get's the T-10 (evil laugh) you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Air indy- Good bunch of guys, smaller dz wih a 182 Skydive Greensburg, midsize dz with caravan, more of a tandem mill/student op, not many fun jumpers, all the staff are super nice and a good bunch of folks, even Bob is nice in his old age! Skydive Wyane County, oldest dz in the state and the largest LZ of all, 2-182's & turbines only for events. Nice staff. Great boogie coming up soon. Skydive Fort Wyane, haven't been there, 2-182's Jerrys Flying Circus, 2 or 3 182's and a small chopper never been there, hear it's nice and friendly people too. If missed any I haven't been there. Going to be visiting or moving here? you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Well sorry you'll be MIA, but if find the money tree come on down and get your game on dude. And Armour666 right on, you got a group coming with you. Bolas in the house on the day thing yes they do but I don't know what it is. I will try to find out and get more info for everyone, DZO's is out of town. Looking forward to seeing everyone. JR Prater Stratostar Jugglo Floats 18 Armour666 Bolas you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

That or they don't want any FAA eye's seeing the other corners they are cutting, looking over the logbooks and other aircraft, pilots ect. Well yea, your right, that is what most people think who are loyal to their home dz's. They think their hero DZO couldn't / wouldn't be a crook and those who point fingers are bad mouthing becuse they jump at XYZ dz or just a disgruntled ex-employee. But wouldn't it suck, lets say, to start up a DZ some place, let's say like in Kentucky and then be sold a plane you were told was legal and had no damage history. Then to be flying along with a load of jumpers when the JB weld prop departs the shaft @ 400 ft. Or find out later that in fact the AC was sold out of annual with fake STC's and no carb heat installed and a long list of other crooked and "ghetto repairs" done to it. The funny thing is the new owners have to try to sell the flying turd they were sold to recover the loss they have had to take, to some other poor bastard DZO a few states away, so they have to do one of three things, 1. sell at a loss 2. sell it with all the shit still wrong and cover it up, or 3. spend a ton of money for over two years on a bird they already paid too much money for, thats a heap of junk. Maybe their not worried about it because they have been covering up their tracks for years by not making the required logbook entries or repairs, I mean what are they going to do make a logbook entry that says they made an illegal repair to a prop with JB weld type shit and then covered it over with paint? I don't think so. Then their is always funny things that just seem to happen once there is a crash and people die, like logbooks just happen to have been in the crash that burned up like in Hinckly 92 or it just so happend that the logbook was in the hanger and a battery just happend to get spilled on the pages or one nite a fire just happends to burn down the office were the fleet logbooks and records are. The reason you always here people say their just "deliberately misreporting to make our DZ sound bad" is because no one wants to turn in their "dope dealer" becuase their a nice guy and they would never do that kind of shit that would endanger ME, WE"RE FAMILY! or better yet, "they only did that stuff once, a long time ago, and now their legit" Oh what rose colored glasses some people wear! Let's not forget those who know all this shit is going on and don't speak up but yet keep supporting these operators for years, and when your rookie ass shows up to jump there they tell how great the place is and well maintained the planes are. The best thing each and every skydiver can do, is go take a class in A&P or learn to do a real pre-flight, it might just be money well spent and help you from getting the wool pulled over eyes. But there will always be the fools who refuse to believe it even with a mountian of proof. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I heard this one told by a woman trucker on the CB about 2 am. Q. Do you know why do women douche? Male truckers, NO why? A.They haven't trained it to go, Hock-tooie (spit sound in mic) you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

As others have said, yes they should, but there are some operators who have been known to fly with out working transponders and radios as well as dropping in VMC with those systems inop. Just in case your a pilot who has had unexpected bodys falling pass your wing tips with no radio calls of jumpers away. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo