stratostar

um, yea, in NYC airspace, right after another controller was talking about a "pussy" and the heli and plane had a mid air just months ago. While I understand a dad wanting to show the child how he dose his job and maybe even asked permission of the supervisor and it was a slow day, yadda, yadda yadda. The FAA dose not see humor nor the educational experience of a child as a safe thing to do in one of the most busy sections of airspace at one of the biggest and busiest airports in the world. This dose call in to question the thinking of the grown ups considering the midair just months ago, you would have to be a total moron to not know that if the FAA got wind of this it would turn into a shit storm. Might have gotten away with it had this been in po dunk Iowa or some other fly over state's small GA airport, but not going to be over looked @ JFK. Really how fucking stupid to do you have to be, think people! you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Breaking into the rigging loft and tampering with a rig (cutting a reserve risers) would not likely be a federal offense. However breaking into an aircraft parked on the airport and cutting the reserve risers or any other tampering with, would be a federal offense and if they find out who did it you can expect a visit by the FBI or even the special agent branch of the USDOT. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Where is the link to the video interview with dzo. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

We call that your elbow to side flap method, it's an old school trick. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Yea my two year old already has 12 jumps and been in a 8 way. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

You maybe thinking about the case in 96-97 (from mem) of a sleeve being machined that fit over the pin shaft, so when the ripcord was pulled the sleeve would stay in place. I was thinking Germany, but it was for sure in that part of the planet. Skydiving mag did a story on it and had photos, this was pretty slick and would have been missed on a gear check by most people, the sleeved looked just like the shaft of a pin, only hollow and open on one end. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Hey kid, see that row of trailers and that row of yellow airplanes over there, they's need washen,. where yers done wif that the shitters need cleaned and mow the grass. Don't forget to empty the trash too. Danm, sounds like TK can take a afternoon few hours off. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

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

My comments are across the board for all ratings when I talk about "flash in the pans" there people who think because they can bust out 500 or more jumps in a season and get a few ratings they fucking know it all and disregard solid advice from seasoned skydivers rated and non rated, who have more time in the sport then FNG's have spent on the planet. The end result is people get killed, maybe you should go look the tandem master death in Indiana about 5 years ago and read that report. One of those people involved was part of a crew who all thought they knew it all and just the type I'm talking about, and good number of jumpers with twice the time in the sport as me, along with myself and a number of others kept calling out the shit we were seeing and got blown off. The person killed (the TM) and myself sat in the parking lot about two weeks before this happened and we were talking about all the shit and he said, yea if the shit don't change soon someone is going to die, little did he know it would be him and not those he was speaking of, just two week later. It's more about attitude then anything, I've been jumping for 27 years, I spent 12+ more years before my first jump living and working on a number of DZ's, I started packing parachutes in 4th grade along with a number of other things clear up until my first jump. I learned about catching cutways in 1978 live and in person watching someone go in from doing that, it was the trend back then for a short time, till we got wise that was not a real smart idea, yea I saw a lot of people get away with it too. There is whole host of things i learned about in my early years involved in this sport, such as an beech 18 (Hawaii 1981 85-hotel) out of CG and flown by a lowtime pilot can kill a whole load of very good friends or like at my second home dz once I started to jump was skies west, in loveland co, maybe you can look up and read about the commuter plane that rear ended (mid air) our 206 and killed a couple people. I learned that doing crew with mis matched canopies on demo will kill you, see the wheatridge co demo reports from 1984 or 85. I could just keep on going on with a number of things over the years and friends I've known who went west, there is just somethings you can only learn in this sport by putting in your time and not by signing your check book for a rating or reading it in a fucking sims manual. So yea I find it funny as hell when people say and think time in this sport is meaningless, come back in 20 years if your still around and we'll see if your tune is changed. I also find it funny as hell that we have so many retards who discount the good advice of people like Sparky, Nick DG, Al Frisby (RIP) and a whole host of other folks across the country, because they are "oldtimers" those people have forgot more about this sport then you can learn in 20 years. And no I'am not surprised there are a number of people posting here who don't understand what the fuck I'm talking about. (as a side note, no I don't know it all, I do know one thing though, and that is you will never know it all in this sport and the day you stop learning something new in this sport is the day you should walk away!) you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Oh no they were not, they were trained by by the new breed who have the same attitude they display. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

How about someone who say has done: 25 years in sport, 1500 jumps and spent most every weekend on the dz wearing every hat. vs 500 jump wonder with one year in the sport spending most weekends on the dz and wearing only the basic hats, packer, jumper. This topic always makes me think of people like Nate Gilbert who died doing something "we" learned a long time ago. We see the flash in the pans come and go, they show up hit it hard a few years and then their gone, some leave to other sports or life callings, some leave in body bags. In the last five years I've seen a number of flash in the pans who thought they were the hot shit on the dz, racked up jump numbers and collected ratings in a very short time, some of those retards were kept out of the tandem or aff business because they didn't meet the time requirements and that was a good thing because their actions proved they were not ready, sure they might have been able to pass the course, but that don't mean they have any business teaching or working with students. There are also a lot of people who forge logbooks to get the jump numbers they need, someone just told me the other day they were thinking about using their base jump numbers (forged into a logbook as skydives) in order to go get a tandem rating now that they have 3 years in the sport but not the jumps. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

It always cracks me up when low timers like you make this claim. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

A little late to the dance are we, this has already been covered and I posted my mistake. (see post #93) Please move along now rubbernecker. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Maybe we file legal action of our own, all we need is a couple members willing to do so as a group, bet we can get USPA to settle and pay our legal fees. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Every single BOD member and HQ staff, should answer to to the membership, nothing should be with held from the membership, travel expenses, rates of pay for their jobs, hours spent on the clock, all of it above board and in the open for all the membership to know and see. Seems that the BOD and a few at HQ forget who they work for, but what else is new this is been going on for years and most the membership refuse to 1. vote & 2. give a shit about any of it till impacts their little corner of the skydiving world, then they scream bloody murder and bitch about "how come we didn't know any of this" or "why were we not told this". you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

That is one of the biggest problems with OUR organization, is the fact that there are to many "lifers" on the meal ticket and it's way past time that we flush some and get some new blood in the ranks to lead us in to the future. We need to start by getting rid of a lot of the BOD members and a few at HQ. However as we all know, it will be a cold day in hell that we see the likes of Glenduh and company voted out and replaced with some fresh blood. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

yea the same as AFF I/E's who had out "conditional aff ratings" based on bra size and blow job ability. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Have you tried to reformat your cards to see if anything changes? you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

We're all standing there looking stupid, wondering why the doors are getting shut and the plane parked at 6 in the afternoon. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Looks like McElfish's one eyed brother sphincter. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Hey a guy's got to have something to do in the off season besides wash a 100 J-3 cubs for leasing out. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I told my mom the day I did my first jump, because she asked my if I had been drinking beer (she smelled it) I said yes I had a beer after my first jump today. (age 16) She was more pissed about the fact I had a beer then the fact I jumped out of a plane, it helps if you grow up on a dz, it's no big surprise, your expected too. Yes I got in trouble for the beer grounded for a week, not for jumping. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

yep now there is more votes then people & gofers in the county, they won't find that strange for poll results. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I see, well there are a number of things I would advise you to do in regards to using the support of the media to shine a very bright and informed light on the asshat that will not only make him look very stupid but bring to light the facts that the city will be on the hook for funding past. present and future is now all at risk. I'm sure your dzo is contacting the right people to know all this already. This is a great example of why I started the not done yet thread about "know your rights -federal funded airports" you never know when some asshole with a little bit of power gone to their head decides "we can't have them dag nabit skyjumpers here, it's "not safe" or try to enact some bullshit zoning code change that they claim trumps federal law. This should be interesting to watch, anyone have some popcorn? you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

In what ways is he trying to run off the pilots and dz? Is this airport already federal funded or is only now seeking federal funding? If it's currently a federal funded airport, and the advisory board is only reporting to the mgr and he is like most anti skydiving city mangers, he maybe digging himself a nasty hole with very slippery slopes for the side walls. Do your home work and document EVERYTHING! you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo