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Write down everything you can think of to ask on here (yes even the stupid questions) once you have your list of questions you want to ask about, go down the list using the search function in the fourms and search your list of questions first, before posting. Kind of stupid to say "you have no idea where to begin, but you know your interested in a side mount and not top mount. How do you know that, from looking a photos or because that's what the cool kids told you to get ? you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Ok, sounds like you need to pass the signal thru a power amp and maybe back to a mixer for audio level control and then to your recorder. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Yes No, by switching the signal to mono you will not get any more power or volume gain or gain in DB, without passing the signal thru a amplifier of some kind. If your using headphones or ear buds, the speakers won't handle the power at a large volume gain, hell they distort as it is without power. It would help to know more of what your trying to hear/listen to, it would seem you want to add power to the signal to add volume??? you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

You forgot, Richmond The Boogie, so I had to vote sumping else. The DZO posted this a few days ago. Richmond "THE" Boogie 2007 August 31 - September 3 Established 1972 Second only to WFFC We host some of the worlds finest organizers for Freefly & RW and ensure the perfect amount of lift capacity provided by Mike Mullins Super King Air, Skydive Chicago, Chicagoland Skydiving, and Aire Express. Join us to revisit good times, see old friends and make new! Click below to register! http://gallery.bcentral.com/...mond-THE-Boogie.aspx ** A high number of pre-registrants may increase the date range to August 29 to September 3. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I vote for "The Cornhole Boogie" or "Corn Freaks" and the dates are good. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

How about that has been taken for 20 years now, ever hear of Richmond "The" Boogie 2007, Skydive Wayne County, Richmnd Indiana. (From the DZO's post) Richmond "THE" Boogie 2007 August 31 - September 3 Established 1972 Second only to WFFC We host some of the worlds finest organizers for Freefly & RW and ensure the perfect amount of lift capacity provided by Mike Mullins Super King Air, Skydive Chicago, Chicagoland Skydiving, and Aire Express. Join us to revisit good times, see old friends and make new! Click below to register! http://gallery.bcentral.com/...mond-THE-Boogie.aspx ** A high number of pre-registrants may increase the date range to August 29 to September 3. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Every person (FOUR, 2-on first wing jump and 2 on about the 10th) I have seen personally in freefall do reach thru's had a BOC and "fit for them wing's". Each jumper had more then one training excerise, and all 4 chose to not heed good advice. Each time the wings were not worn right mixed with a sloppy pull, I'm telling you that is some UGLY shit right there! I can understand why some people might think not a big deal, because it can be. But having seen it unfold in front of my eyes in FF, I think it is a big deal for anyone it might happen too, and those just starting out are in the most danger of doing it. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

True enough, I didn't say ya did , Bill, I think, is more famous for his, then Rod these days. Are you counting just skydivers, when you say "jumpers"? Or are you meaning anyone who has left an aircraft in flight without a parachute? you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

You should stop giving bad advice to others. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Bill cole was NOT the first person to do it, he was the second. See Rod Pack http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=628300#628300 you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

poor POPS got a lick'n, but didn't keep tick'n. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Well you could always do your 420th jump on 4-20 at 4:20 and do a 420 jump with 4 20yr old friends. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

No, wrong shape and to much forward speed that is cheating.

That would mean 1. people would have to make more round jumps so they can, 1-a learn to fly them.(again) 2-a learn to spot. (again). If you say so. Nothing studly about it really, more skill then anything. (see 1-a & 2-a above) Ok, I have extra rigs if anyone needs a loner, sorry the Jumbos are spoken for already by the old fat guys, Jim you can use the red and black one...... you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Me think you right... you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

MSRV www.skydivemsrv.com you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

A friend sent these to me, even a cop can have a bad day. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

That top looks better built and if you hook it up right it hard to reach thru, but not impossible. Right tools right job, videos not cheap. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

It's not even a 90 yet, got lots of life still, you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

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

Do like we all used to do and make your own or don't be a tight ass and buy suit, I like my tony jacket and pants, can wear with shorts too. The suit in your photo looks home made and cheap. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Crazy old fuck, your not dead yet......can't believe it. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Weeping H2O rocks, maybe they can hook you with Elmo....... you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Hitting reply to you JP because I agree with your post here and in the accident threads and really I'm just a lazy ass. Where to begin, it's like what do I say to the three people who called last night, as they ask how do we deal with these events (two from Dublin one from TX). This was their first time with personal/live event death in the sport. One was seven years lucky, one is Three years in and the other just got an A. What is the point? It's about risk assessment. All three of these people I sat with and talked about the "what if's" as an instructor and each one of them made a risk assessment, based on training and making jumps, but when you see someone bounce for the first time it changes ones perspective, it is no longer information from a text book or words from a trusted instructor. It's a big reality check and mentally disturbing to those who see it in a lot of cases. In this case I really had nothing to say that would help. How do we teach how to get hit from high and behind at 200,300,400, 1000 ft.????? I see it as a trend, someone else posted he didn't think it was a trend yet. I disagree and see it as third step in progression of what started about 10 or 12 years ago as downsizing (high WL's and smaller is better and cool) to fast and hook turns. We saw a lot of people being sold canopies they shouldn't have been sold and others who thought they could handle it, even as many other asked them to cool it. Why dose everyone need to land faster then a Cessna 150 these days? I think there is more to the issue then just two LZ's and low passes for swoopers. With our numbers already in decline and the sport hurting across the country, it don't help any when we kill ourselves under working parachutes. The full page color glossy tributes in parachutist to the fallen are nice and all that, but I'm tired of seeing them, these kinds of accidents seem like such waste. The skyhook debate, well knowing what your lowest cutway hard deck is, don't sound all that bad, hell I could lower mine another 500 ft or so, unless your hit from above and behind at 200ft or less, at least you never saw it coming and have the time to know your fucked. I don't have the answers to all this but "Houston we have a problem"! you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Disclamer, this is not intended to point any fingers or show disrespect to the fallen brothers! It would seem to me we have got the word out about low hook turns (after 10 yrs or so) and the numbers of dead are coming down due to hooks, however the numbers seem to be on the rise for canopy collisions. How many friends do we need to lose to this before we get the word out? There is NOT one person in the sky who wants to take out another or be taken out, this we know. 2006 ended on a bad note and 07 is off to a bad start just one weekend after safety day. So what do we need to do to get the word out about running into each other under canopy or even tracking? With the death of well known and high profile jumpers like Roger N., Danny P. this should be a wake up call for many, if they can go that way it can happen to anyone. I have had talks with a few young hotshots who always seem to think "it won't happen to them" and they keep swooping (pulling 270's) into the main landing area with old boats and students in the air. The room for pilot mistakes low to the ground is very very small as we can see from the body count on the rise. Other canopies are not pylons for zommies to carve around and dodge in and out of, we all know this, yet I see it going on a fair amount. I have made my share of mistakes in 24 yrs, all of them would have only killed me. Yet I find more and more dangerous to be on loads with some pilots and their canopy control. I don't want to be taken out and I don't want to take anyone out! I use to pull low all the time, around 1500 ft, as I got older my deployment alti has gone up several thousand feet, now I do a lot of video work, one thing I really like about TDM vids is pulling with them around 5k. we have the sky to our selfs and the LZ is free of the hotrods by the time I get down. Wake up people we got a long 2007 season ahead of us and I don't want to get anymore distrubing phone calls like the three I got last night! Play hard but play safe out there, PLEASE! you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo