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You could always come out the bottom and find yourself way out over a big ass lake, like the b-25 load did. And yes they all drowned. As for base jumps through clouds, skypunk, comes to mind...RIP ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

though a few old farts stubbornly clung to old terminology. (quote) And still have and use ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

can't it at least be a modern round reserve? (quote) Well I don't know about everyone else, but most of mine are young (read modern) from the 80's. Only a few are from the 70's and those are 78's and up, and the ones from the 60's have been put out to pasture. However soon I will have 1980 sweethog H/D with a round main and safety flyer reserve, so got the modern reserve covered, LOL..... Have a good weekend! ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Nothing better then freak flying in retro gear! ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

You are VERY opinionated (quote) well sometimes, but mostly I think it's funny how so many people bash rounds, I see all the time at the dz all kinds of young and old jumpers who have never seen one open and flying or even jumped one but yet they "know all about them" and how dangerous and unsafe they are. And they are if you don't know what the hell your doing just like any other skydiving rig. seem to be stuck in the 60's (quote) Not really but those were the days I grew around the dz and that is all there was to jump, remember when a PC was a "hotrod". One of these days I really hope to run into you. (quote) Me too and the first cold one is on me. We may have met when I was a kid and you were running around with "Shorty J." and LSPC gang throwing elmo out but I'm not sure, after all it was a long time ago. Have a great weekend.... ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Hey Jerry, I'll be send out a check to you for the "Eddie brown" rig next week. Thanks for going the extra mile on that deal. You were right it's very clean. With that canopy, now we do a 8-way all round red white and blue load on the 4th o july. again thanks....

suddenly start oscillating and pound you into the ground. (quote) Rarely they do, unlike a flat circ. or unmod. The reserves from the good old bad old days really suck compared to what is available now (quote) No shit really, LOL. still don't make them unsafe, and sure beats nothing. If rounds (main or reserves) are so fucking unsafe and a bad canopies, then why do you find so many of them in bail out rigs and jet jockey seats still today, maybe because there proven to work quite well and have saved many a life when needed. If you don't jump one anymore or have a round reserve, fine thats your right not to, but to talk shit about them to people and tell them there unsafe and no good is just plain fucked up and not the real truth. ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Most of the old round gear is in excess of that age now. It isn't safe to jump canopies that old. Period. (quote) Oh really, I know a few master riggers who would tell you, your full of shit. And I would agree that your full of shit! for 5 mph forward speed and no flare? (quote) REALLY< again you don't seem to know what the hell your talking about, I get a great flare out of my MK-1 and my jumbo and my 27 ft. russian and stand them up regularly. And they all fly faster then 5mph. A f**king round broke my back on my first jump. (quote) The canopy didn't break your back! Sounds to me like you just fucked your landing and didn't plf worth a shit. Out of the 52 rounds jumped at my dz last season NONE of them blew up and no one got busted up, but Scotty Carbone did strained his lower back on landing, but then again his is a PHAT ass! In the last ten years of the all round loads at the richmond boogie NOT ONE canopy has blown up or ripped like kleenex when pull tested, almost all of these canopies are probably older then you are, I been jumping my 1965 MK-1 for the last 24 years at least 3 to 4 or more times a year, funny it never has blown up and still gives me great stand up landings. Sorry but I don't think you know what the hell your talking about! ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

You are correct sir, the PC is a great canopy and almost 95% of those bashing them or other rounds have never jumped them or only rode a reserve once or twice. My good friend Roger "ottis" Humphrey who turned 70 last year has been on every all round load at the richmond boogie for the last 8 yrs. He will laugh in the face of any young or old punkass who mouths off about how bad rounds are while he put's on his retro rig, last year he did 4 PC jumps. I jumped a T-10 last sunday, why? Just for the fun of it, a 1964 switlik with one jump on it. Most jumpers today couldn't even spot one let alone land the damm thing on the DZ. In short most just don't know what the hell their talking about and have never and would never jump a round today because they believe all the crap they hear about how bad rounds are by people who have no experience to talk in the first place. That type of flying and spotting is a lost art in todays sport. If anyone want to jump one, they should, just make sure to get trained and use safe gear, just because it old DON"T make it unsafe, just different! How's that saying go? oh yea, SHUT UP AND JUMP! ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

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

Yes I know you are correct, so besides you, Who here really has the balls to tell the truth and "NARC" to the feds when the feds need to be called? You again would be correct by saying, " you will get zero support from your fellow jumpers,they do not want to take a stand." Sad but that is the way it is. ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

If what was described here did happen it would or should be criminal. That is willful disregard for someone’s life. (quote) It did happen and has happend before along with other stuff just as "willful and knowingly" and criminal by this dzo. So do you speek up or shut up? Who here really has the balls to tell the truth and "NARC" to the feds. ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

This post says it all, but let me ask everyone here this. Would you all still feel the same way if the person who did this was a "legendary" dzo and a master rigger with many years in the sport and would know better then to do so, but did so anyway with no regard as to other peoples life's. What if it was your wife who was going to jump that rig then how would feel? How would you feel if you found this after she just landed? Do you keep your mouth shut or do you speek up to the fed's, after all if someone would do this twice or more time's what makes those of you who say "talk to the dzo first" think for a minute that this kind of whack-o give's a shit what you think or would change things because you say something. They have shown already that they have no regard for human life and would blatantly endanger and or attempt to kill two people knowingly and willfully by swapping out the canpoies in the first place. So those of you who say nothing to the fed's and only the fed's, are just being part of the problem. By not doing the right thing and speeking up your condoning the actions and putting others at risk as well as putting the sport at risk. To many people have turnned a blind eye for years to this kind of stuff, and yet they would take family and friends to these kind of dz's to spend money there and keep these kind of crooks up and running, while knowing the whole time this kind of crap is going on. How do you people sleep at night, Oh that's right "it won't happen to your friend/family" ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

landscape. If I want to the L bracket can be rotated in FF if i put a cam on it. ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I have the same lens (10d) and a trv both mounted side by side on a ftp. This leaves room up front for a flash or a 2nd still. ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

WHAT, a skydiver at home without a pull up cord? Dude that's unskydiver like, shows your not at the dz enough better get there and have your friend take the packing class while your in the 101 uses for a pull up cord class!

got one too, with the same brand tape in the same place.

Thanks , Jerry I think you know what I would be looking for.... Any word on the eddie brown? ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

If you keep going east on I-70 to st.louis cross that muddy river and go 60 miles to archway in vandalia ill. a kickass dz and good folks to stop in to visit! ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Go try out a mac for yourself and see the ease of editing, FUCK WINDOWS! ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Check with Al MacDonald (quote) Where? ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Go see Tom Dolphins place MSRV just out side KCMO. Or the KSUSPC in Wamego KS. The others around that area (along I-70) are cypres nazis. ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

What would some of you tell "Zeb"? (quote) Before or after he get's punched in the mouth? No really he would get a fuck off. But it is fun to sit back and watch the newbies run out a buy a bunch of new toys for their head without doing their homework and or not asking any of the video folks who have been doing video/stills for YEARS about what to get and how to set it up the right way, so when their toys show up it don't fit right or is the wrong stuff in the first place and then they get on here to ask about what to do, without yet again asking an expert at their home dz. What's so hard about shooting video/still anyway you strap some shit on your head and then it's just another skydive for crying out loud.... ~ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

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