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Yeah, that was frustrating as all hell. The worst was probably the first challenge. The Saints receiver clearly lost control of the ball as he hit the ground. Both of the TV commentators (and the expert that was advising them) thought so. But the ref didn't. You could see how pissed McCarthy was. At one point (I think it was the blown fumble call) you could clearly see him say "Bullshit". He should have been able to challenge that, but the bad review cost him his extra challenge. Although, I have to admit that the regular refs did a far, far better job keeping the game going than the replacements did. Over all the games. No more nearly 4 hour marathons that had 3 or 4 minute pauses while the refs tried to figure out what to do. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

My Sabre2 170 has them too. I don't know why. It does make it a lot easier to lay it on it's side for a line check. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Well thank you very much for those pics. They are wonderful. Congrats on the 100th. I like your socks too.

Yeah, but God knows you don't believe in him, so he didn't listen And just for the record: I'm joking "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

In order to provide details they'd actually need to HAVE those details. And nobody knows how they are going to do what they propose. Mainly because it's impossible. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

SQUIDS. Stupidly Quick, Underdressed, Imminently Dead. The motorcycle eqivalent of Dead Guy In Training (DGIT). Joke: What do you call a guy on a large crotch rocket wearing only shorts, shades and sandals? An optimist. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

USPA has no requirements, just recommendations. Those are 200 and C license, but not every DZ enforces it. Based on his responses, he won't listen. Not to advice, not to the "Small Format Camera Incidents Thread", not to anything. He has Madd Skilz. You can see it in his responses. He's got tunnel time so he's ahead of the learning curve. He's got high speed motorcycle experience so skydiving isn't that big of a deal. I just hope his lesson is gentle enough that he survives without permanent damage. Unlike some of the others that have come and gone. Sangi in particular. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Some DZs establish landing direction prior to takeoff. That isn't changable no matter what the winds do (this is at DZs where a radical windshift is not a normal occurrence). There are several other WDIs. The "Wind Tee" (aka the "little airplane") and the "Tetrahedron" are the two most common. There's also the "Really, really big windsock." I've seen them 15ft +. Those are not hard to see from pattern entry altitude. I've heard of , but not seen, a large arrow, that is movable and lockable. It won't necessarily move with the wind, but can be put into place and locked there to indicate pattern direction (again, some places don't want the pattern to change even if the wind does). Good luck. I have a funny feeling you are trying to reinvent the wheel, but that doesn't mean you can't or won't come up with a good idea. Edit to add pic of sock, tee and tetra. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://avstop.com/ac/fig6-11.jpg&imgrefurl=http://avstop.com/ac/6-5.html&h=202&w=491&sz=13&tbnid=ECbL1qT09liIXM:&tbnh=49&tbnw=120&zoom=1&usg=__S8Wy_3o0CF7D12t4QtORQLZU4wI=&docid=wmvyo6o2X_jEBM&sa=X&ei=Nf5pUKL8HqTw0gHa9YGoBg&ved=0CCsQ9QEwAw&dur=171 "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

There's not really enough info to say for sure, but it certainly could be. I don't recognize that particular hangar, but I won't claim to know each and every building there. The trees look "right" for the area. The shadows are about right, and there's lots and lots of planes behind. And FWIW, it's Oshkosh. One word. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Why not? They have a right to their opinions, and this is a place to voice them. The ones in here (SC) tend to be a bit liberal. I understand that they gave the power to a conservative to try to balance it out, but he's not too active of late. But I haven't seen them use the power to silence those who disagree. And I've seen them let attacks against them slide that would have been sanctioned if it was against a "normal" poster. A few of the more hardcore right-wingers occasionally accuse them of bias and abusing their authority, but those are often the more "trollish" ones. The ones who launch into borderline PAs (or batant ones) against those who have cogent arguments against their point of view. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I think a lot of people are going to stay home this time. I may well be one of them. Maybe having a watery tart hurl a sword at someone and having them be the leader would be a better idea (see the "repubs vs royalists" thread that Dreamdancer started to understand) "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

From your link: Do you really think they are going to vote for Romney? And I loved the comments on the YouTube videos. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Half Yorkie, Half Toy Fox Terrier. With a smattering of Obnoxious Little Toad and a bit of Pig I had to put him down two weeks ago. It sucked. I made a thread about it in Bonfire. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Both have on jumpsuits and are taking off helmets. Kid has a tandem harness on and Mom has the whole rig. The risers and lines are visible coming off her shoulders. Cute, yes. Funny, yes. Accurate... About normal for Hollywood. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Yeah. The whole commercial is "Don't tell Mom" until the canopy lands. And it seems that Mom is a TI taking an underage passenger. And "Don't tell Dad" "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

So you want your friends and family to live with the question "Should we have done more?" or "Could we have saved him if we had tried to?" I knew full well that I was probably wasting my time and energy doing CPR on my friend. I knew that it was probably hopeless. But I wasn't going to stand there and do nothing but watch him die. I wasn't going to live with those questions. And that was a help in dealing with my grief. I knew that I had done all that I could have done. Not to minimize your pain in losing your comrades, but we aren't risking our lives in trying to save a gravely injured jumper. There's a big difference there. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOOTKA0aGI0 You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. I dunno, it certainly has advantages over the dog and pony show we're being subjected to right now. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

It's not "impossibly hard." It's just difficult. Most of these folks don't drive (no license, no ID). So they have to walk, beg a ride or take public transportation (if it's available). It's already been noted (in one of these threads, not sure which one) that the average distance is 17 miles (I think anyway, any correction is welcome). So they have to spend a while getting there, and a significant amount of time in line to get the ID. And they are already registered to vote. Some of them voted for FDR (or his opponent). The difficulty of getting an ID may be enough of a problem that some of these types would decide it's not worth the effort to get it and they won't vote. And these people tend to vote more for the Dems than the Repubs. I don't know the numbers, but I'm going to make a guess that there's more than 200 of them in Florida. I see it as the cure for the "problem" is going to disenfranchise more legit voters than it will stop fraudulent voters. And it's being pushed hardest by those who would benefit most from the legit voters not voting. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Because it's easier to whip up the hype about "voter fraud" as opposed to "errors". And it's pretty well documented that the ID requirement will affect more voters in the demographics that tend to vote Democrat. Which is why you see more Republicans getting all worked up over this. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Why do you say it "looks easier"? Pro-packing is simpler, faster and less effort (easier). Depending on your personal technique, it can be as simple as count the nose out, give it a good, solid shake and then wrap the tail (yes, I know people who do this). Personally I flake all three "gaps", but I know people who only do the first two and leave the C-D untouched. It's a lot less work than crawling around on the floor. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

This. I've done CPR on a friend (not skydiving related). It didn't work and he's dead. I seem to remember from class that CPR doesn't make any difference in the vast majority of cases, somewhere in the single digit percentages survive whatever the accident was. I'm still going to do whatever I can to give someone any increased chance of surviving. I'm not just going to stand there and say "He's dead, there's no point in trying." I want to be able to tell any friends or family that I did everything I could and that I didn't give up. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Course not! Then what was the point of mentioning that so visibly in the title? Maybe so those responding will know that some entertainment options aren't going to happen? "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

There's a phenomenom called an "Aviator's Halo" that is a circular rainnow around the shadow of an airplane on a cloud (the shadow is on the cloud, not the airplane). It's pretty cool to see. I know someone who saw their own shadow on the top of a cloud while in freefall. He was amazed to see the rainbow around it. And was a little bummed when I explained that it wasn't that unusual. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

So . . . how do you come up with this stuff? Just sayin' Straight out of "Almost Famous." "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

DISCLAIMER: This is my personal experience. This is in no way, shape or form medical advice. Doing what I did, after being told not to is idiotic. I've had the "slightly runny nose in the plane" before. Usually after several jumps in the same day. I've just had a bit of a drip, that caused no problems on the way down. My ears equallized just fine under canopy and on the ground. I had one that turned out to be a bloody nose, not just a runny nose. It blew all over my face and neck in freefall (oddly enough it didn't get on my goggles) and was asked by rather shocked spectators "what happened" when I got on the ground. My only guess was that the dry air, changes in pressure and everything else that we do on a normal jump simply abused the inside of my nose to the point that it bled. I sat down after that (it was fairly late on a Sunday so I didn't miss more than one jump) and was fine. I mad the very foolish mistake of jumping while at the end of a headcold. My nose was running just a little and I only felt a little bit congested. Big mistake. I felt the pressure building in freefall, but though my helmet was pushing my goggles onto my face and didn't worry about it. By the time I opened, I realized what was going on, mainly because I was reaching up. trying to pull the icepick that had been stabbed between my eyes. Major pain. My eyes were watering badly enough that I had trouble seeing to land. It took a long time to get my ears to equalize (and yes, the 120psi sound was there at times) and I feel lucky that I didn't have any real damage. No affect to hearing or to how my ears equallize now. I have the beginnings of a cold today, and even though my nose is dripping just a little and I'm only a little bit congested, I'm sitting on the ground. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo