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Well that helps..... I cant complain, when I was in HS yes in Tx i got 32 speeding tickets, 32 dismissed, so I guess I have messed with Tx enough and got away with it.

Yup about $120 bucks and it gone, been there and done that a few times as I passed thru Tx. Except I just got one in Dallas and they want me to come back for the court date, I cant mail anything in and get it, freakn nuts........... Houston or any other county you just mail it in with the fee. Anyone know how to get around that?

Hmmm Im my mothers second child. My sister is 4 years older, but Im the first born of the two she had with my dad, thus making me the middle child...Oh and Im a libra... so where do I fit?? please let me know...I want to be found and maybe I will stop killing threads so much?

Especially if you fart on the way to altitude. That would be DOORRRRR!

I have no idea where to respond to your story but that was INCREDIBLE. I'm glad you did. So, move on . . . we're ready for the mummy episode. Start typing! In any event, I assume there's no question about what you told your insurance on that one. That had to cost a fortune. Ok here ya go, how is it you are getting me to do this?? Ive been on here for a few years now, and have never shared these...?? not as long http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=270299;page=36;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25; Go get your mummy

Ok another. Mummyfied Had about 100 jumps in a 10 year time period Mistake No1. Well that will always be mistake no 1. After this jump I realized that I was treated like new girls to the DZ, you know the ones that get put on jumps they should not have been on. I believe that was because of my last name and parents history, folks would assume I knew it all or had the experience. We are to do a 4 way meat missile out the 182, basically all take harness grips and roll it off the step. Thinking it would somewhat go head down all from 10,500 (my newly acquired POPS number BTW LOL). 2 of the jumper were more experienced locals, one had no grippers on his military double zip suit. The fourth guy (our premie) had an old Tellesis (sp?) His wife made him wait to get back in the sport till after the newborn arrived, and she came to watch, guess it had been 10 years for him. They elected to have me spot, I was ok with that, it had been a while but I lied and said NP. Im spotting and they yell "go go!", I say "no no", I wait then we go. We get in the door the premie took the V position and I was to his left. We leave the AC and I immediately see these god awful 550 gutted lines (big fat lines for those) all around him. I shook him trying to get him to let go, waved, I even did the cut throat thing, still no luck he had a death grip on me. Im waiving nothing is working, the other two are gone and by this time his bag comes up between his legs and smacks him in the face! Im thinking well that should get his FR$%&*%g attention! But now my arms are wrapped in these lines as he lets go of me. When we separate he falls directly below me. My arms still in his lines, the bag is about 1' below me and Im on the edge of his burble and I cant get out of it. I havent started to fall on him but at this point my elbows are tucked to my side, Im waving my hands from the elbows up slapping the bag, saying, praying "go away, go away", "please dont open..." (Shoot now that I think of it that is the second time I have waived 550 lines away from me asking something to go away, when I took the ole cheapo and paper bagged it and tossed it out the door). I finally get my arms out of his lines and just at that time I fell off the side of his burble. Passing the bag and lines I am at his side, I reach out to just barely push off of him to give us both some space. I cant describe the cold feeling my body felt as my fingers let go of him, I knew I had just let go of a dead man. He is wrapped from head to toe, it was awful. So Im in free fall about 15yrds from him just watching, I almost flew back to him to try and help but decided I just got out of that crap Im not going back!!. I felt helpless and sad for him, I was going to see another fatality and his newborn and wife were there watching. So I gave him more space and watched, not wanting to distract him. He flips on his back, bag above him, lines around feet and arms, he is kicking and kicking, nothing working, suddenly i see the risers release and go above him. Im hootin and hollering "yea, go buddy go!" Then within just a few seconds the drag from the risers (remember it was an old system so there was alot of drag) cleared his arms just leaving his legs wrapped!! Yeah I "yell, yes keep going!" The bag is only a foot above his feet the risers are now a few feet up from there. Once again its about three kicks and he was free!!! I was ecstatic! Yes! I get to see my first cutaway in freefall!! I continue to watch as he rolls over and opens his beautiful big ass reserve, which was open by 7K. I track, pull and we all land, Under canopy I wasnt sure if that was a tear running down my face or sweat! I was wearing a protek so I guess it was a tear cause I really thought he was dead, then i was excited. We all landed and waited for him to land, he stood it up so we were all happy. As we are all standing there I look up to see the main...., I look over and asked "who was yelling at me to go when I said no"? (forget his name, he says "me"). I said well arent you glad I didnt, as the main lands 50' from the peas!! He taps me on the shoulder and says good job. I go to my car and break out a beer at 2pm, I was done. Oh and so was premie, his wife chewed his ass right there, and he was white as a ghost as well, so I dont think he minded. Many lessons learned there too! The guy with the double zip military grip, showed me his jump suit, it tore where my grip was and he had four finger tip bruises on his arm, guess I never got his harness. That was only about 40 jumps after my hangar landing...

Cutaway low: spot for your free bag If your not "safe", your dangerous...... Toast: Red eyes, Blue skies and sore thighs!! If we're not jumping were jumping each other!

Yes. And you would be the guy in the "Infinity" bus? Mark Hmm I might have lost ya on that one, had the 34' rv with my Murano behind it?

So, "Most like a slinky" award? Well, he could qualify for the "Wiley E. Coyote Splat Award" His post to the Scary Stories thread in the history forum is a good one! thats funny, I do seem to have a problem with sudden stops... I always tell people it wasnt the first landing, it was the second one that hurt. The roof was soft and gentle to me, the asphalt sucked..

So, "Most like a slinky" award? Well, like we say, its not the fall its the sudden stop!!

Add a ton of nutmeg and see what that gets ya...

Yeah, its why I posted it. I can laugh now.....I tell ya though as I was falling, it was ahh shit this is gonna hurt bap! ugghhh! ahh man that sucked...got crutches under me and out the door I went. from that day forward it was: sit down and slide my happy ass to the bottom step then stand. you should try wiping your ass with two casts, and not being left handed......there laugh at that one you sick puppy. Its amazing what we take for granted as I am sure you know.

Of course he is. Lisa knows me well enough..maybe I am not up to date on the names of it..uhumm them....he he But I like a cookie....he he

No the one she had for the last few days, I think she changed it just today. yummy!!

Are you dropping the trailers too? Glad I dont have to pack that mother any more lol. Good luck. And folks if you have never seen it, go do it. Its a hell of a sight!

As much as I like the one she has now, make her bring the other one back. It was NICE too!!! Ok maybe Im just an ole.......

Your very welcome, glad you are a detailed rigger, we need more of those. Javelins are a comfy rig I must say... Hard to believe they are still the number 1 selling rigs in the world, even with their delivery times being a mess at times, but I guess thats part of the price when your the best eh? Be well and safe rigging.

I'm not that wobbly! I've only fell down the stairs 3 times!! Come on, someone shorten one crutch One of Brian's crutch actually got stuck collapsed once and it was pretty funny It can be funny and it can hurt like hell. When I broke my right ankle and right wrist at the same time it was hell. I had an L bar attached to the crutch so I strapped my right arm to it so I could use them, this was a design from the mfr of crutches. My house had an entry way that you could go straight up the 4 steps as you entered or go left down 4 steps to the downsatirs. Im strapped in going down from upstairs to go outside. Well I leaned too far forward at the second step, right hand straped to the crutch left holding left crutch, had nothing to catch my fall. I turned my face and planted it and my body straight into the door. I felt like the Wild Coyote from the Road Runner, hit the wall and just slid down... so helpless, it really sucked, went out and got drunk so i felt much better.

See J doing the happy dance up n down, lol... not sure why cause Im watching everyone leave the thread as I kill it??? And Tanya might be mad at me now too... Oh and how come I have to be ontop of the whore??

Nope. wrong corner of the country...I live up here in Americas version of crappy English weather.... where the weather guy makes a big deal because we had over 60 days in a row where the temperature is over 70 degrees... That is one reason I pick and choose very carefully where I travel to for events.... I get enough shitty weather up here.... BUT we do get really good at canopy control...... Hop and Pops.... aaarrrrggghhh.. So when I do travel I want some full altitude so I can rip up the sky....and get a few speed jumps in.....I like chasing that demon that lives out there beyond 300 MPH That is hard to do at most boogies... but heck I try to get a few in early in the morning when people are still hung over. oh and... if you can keep a secret.. in summer..... there is some AWSUM blue skies...and the air is kinda wierd... you have to have faith that it exists... since you cant see it like most places nowadays Oh yes I knew that, Im getting old I tell ya. Hmmmm maybe we could do a speed comp during the event for you, I might have some pull with the organizer to make that happen. Oh and we will be giving away free skydives...ooops did I say that outloud.....I should have dates and local. released very soon.

And they're well-armed too! Come on, someone shorten one crutch

Yes I am the hangar boy! Yes Lex. I was there in 93 and 94, it was during the BBQ bailout too. Never got to eat my BBQ! It smelled good as i was leaving.

I'm still not quite getting it. When I put a big main in the container I lengthen the main closing loop. My rig has the long closing loop attached to a tab at the bottom of the reserve container. When I lengthen the loop, the biggest change is the position of the bottom flap. The fit of the top, sides and closing flap stays about the same, all mostly controlled by the location of the grommet in the top flap. So even if there is a bit of a bulge, the top flap and the cover flap still fit about the same as with a smaller main. I try to keep the bulge to a minimum by keeping the bulk of the larger canopy in the longer space created by the longer closing loop, as opposed to letting the bulk build up a bulge in the middle. I will say that you have to be able to adjust your main pack job to make this happen. I've seen many newbie packers who don't fill the d-bag properly to the corners resulting in a pack where all the bulk is in the middle, causing a big bulge as you describe. This isn't, of course, limited to Javelins, but is a general packing problem that I see. When I see this, I usually try to show them how properly filling the d-bag will make things better. Either way, this rig has never stayed closed for freeflying. Additionally, if I am front float on the King Air and the pilot doesn't pull back the left engine enough, I have also occasionally had the reserve cover flap open. With the way you are packing you probably dont get the buldge like you say, most folks wont do it right. There is a basic rule, (doesnt always apply especially with the samller rigs) but one up or one down for main size from what it was built for. Anything after that tends to affect riser covers and main cover. No tollerance on the reserve. And again the early 90's javs did have some issues, but it seems to be a "hit and miss" type situation. Again, I dont work for them anymore so this is not coming from the MFR. Just my experinece and things I have seen over the years. On the reserve flap, sometimes they were just too short to reach the tuck point, no matter what you did to the reserve. Like many other MFRS in the industry, they go thru times where "sh%$ happnes" and it takes time to discover and redesign. I still think it is the most comfortable out there, other than the racer, but.....

Nope, I didn't take it that way -- I just couldn't resist pointing out that juxtaposition. And that would be me screwing up. I did a lot of walking after landing rags. Cheers, Mark Ahhh gotcha! Is this the mark I met this year or oops 07 when I was there for sunpath? Watched the rain and cold for a week? J Schrimsher here.. good to hear from ya. I loved growing up at that DZ then, would not trade it for anything in the world, best times of my life. hope you are well

That would be a chore, its on VHS....I wonder if Jaime Paul coud dig it up off his 8mm, he doesnt jump anymore and I dont have any contact for him. hmmmmm might have to work on that.