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Yes "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

I'll be driving thru tomorrow, just curious how the dz is looking so I can plan a stop or not...? Im here in Houston, jumped at Spaceland (swampland would be a better name lately) a few times, and got WET... not to mention the SCR beering I got Sunday night. Hows the ground looking? Slip and slide, or somewhat dry? "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

Try http://www.dukesofwindsoar.com/dukes.cgi?do=html&htmlfile=html/ppg_info/parachute_landing_fall.html instead, those videos arent going to help you much. They were made to remember the pain of hitting your head or not rotating enough, years later. ETA: This one too http://www.sportparagliding.com/?p=education&ed=PLF "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

Actually, I think ZHills has the best combo of account/tickets I've seen. Each ticket is individually printed with the jumper's name and a bar code. Once it gets used, it's no longer valid. If it doesn't get used, it's still valid. So if I lose tickets, I just ask to have them reprinted. For load organizers who are turning a lot of groups, it's got to be a lot easier to collect a bunch of tickets than to write down names, hope you've spelled 'em right, and get money taken off of all those accounts correctly. There's definitely benefits and drawbacks to both systems - I like the fact that ZHills has combined the best of both worlds. Start Skydiving in Ohio has a RFID card for jumpers to manifest themselves. The organizer just takes the cards, swipes them all and manifests them all on screen for them to see. It has a balance restriction that kind of annoys me, but hey, thats not too uncommon. "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

thank you i think I will use that from now on. i'm not too happy with norton utilities nor anti virus just not what it use to be. fyi running the anti virus right now this new version of it is a bitch! You will have to download the file on a clean comptuer, if the comptuer is infected it will nto accept the down load, burn it on to a CD with an fake name such as go.exe then run it from the cd then go in and change the run name to sa go.exe and then the program works. worst 4 hours of my freaking year. thank god the year is over in a few days If its that fucked up, you're going to want to re-install anyways... it sounds like the registry has been jacked with. You COULD try a system restore, but thats iffy at best. If it werent for hackers, technology probably wouldnt have gotten so far already, and security wouldnt be used, so one person, who figures the system out, could take down anything and everything (s)he wanted. "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

Wooo free skyvan jump with video!! Thanks man! But seriously, sorry about all this crap, if you have an extra computer with a cd burner and internet, you can download a live distro of Linux and do all of your data recovery, then wipe the computer, install AVG free, THEN connect the hard drive with your backups, scan the entire thing, then copy your stuff back over. "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

NOPE! It barely works but it's still going (for those who dont know I have the original 2G version, that has been dropped from various heights, once took a nap in the snow, been repaired twice, replaced twice, and basically the little guy hates me, but Im keeping him til he doesnt turn on anymore!) And when I got it, 8 was as big as they came Its not the size, its what you do with it! Atleast TWSS You would know First off, it was COLD that morning... Second, I thought you said you werent peeking at me in the shower! I feel violated "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

NOPE! It barely works but it's still going (for those who dont know I have the original 2G version, that has been dropped from various heights, once took a nap in the snow, been repaired twice, replaced twice, and basically the little guy hates me, but Im keeping him til he doesnt turn on anymore!) And when I got it, 8 was as big as they came Its not the size, its what you do with it! Atleast TWSS "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

That damn thing isnt dead yet?? I want a 32, because I can put all of my music and a couple movies on it. This 8gb really filled up fast! "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

How exactly do you hold your risers/toggles while you're doing this? Ill stick with the tried and true method, that is too complicated for that split second that you have to do it in a corn field, under a small reserve, in bad weather, with a cracked visor on the helmet. "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

Im with most of the people here.. your link is going up via satellite to germany where your gateway is. Different providers have different gateways, I think on my first deployment we were shooting thru Russia, second was Australia, 3rd was Germany, 4th was somewhere else in Europe. Ill tell you what the 5th one is when I get there again "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

They teach these cool things now, front and rear PLFs... scary shit, but they work (except on that last jump... me thinks it was a bit too windy for us to be jumping) but all of them still go thru the 5 points of contact, rolling it along your side and across your back, you just have to really force the shift and rotate more than the side plfs. I dont think I had any real left or right ones on my jumps, they always ended up front or backwards And actually, its front left and right, rear left and right. It didnt make much sense to me, but they sure as hell work. "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

Elbows apart, hands low on the face, knees and feet apart, failure to shit and rotate, bending forward at the waist. Ending on the face... not much fun getting drug on your face. I dont even think my bad ones looked that bad... That landing will probably hurt alot! "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

I agree with everything here so far... my ideal for any military schools: be the grey man! I JUST graduated airborne school last friday, and I assure you, of the 465 graduates, MAYBE 15 would even reconize me. Listen to your NCOs, they've been doing the military thing longer than you, they know what to do and how to get it done, just point them in the direction you want them to go and let them get it done. DONT be the guy who never goes out... Being if you dont go out with your co-workers (same rank and such) you will eventually be the odd man out. Being buddies with someone WILL help you down the road, eventually you will end up tied up in politics, it isnt suppossed to be that way, but thats how it is. Dont CRASH, thats 20 million of our tax dollars, keep it in one piece and in the air! "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

Atleast the Army isnt full of a bunch of seamen Punk "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

2 hollywoods down, one more plus 2 combat rigged and Im done. It's been so long since I've had line twists. Damn riggers need to pack better. Weather permitting, we will be done wednesday afternoon! And on those two jumps, I managed to avoid Lake Fryar. Some weren't so lucky. "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

Congrats on making it this far in Jump school. It still amazes me that the drop out numbers are so high these days seeing how jump school has actually gotten easier over the years. Let us know when you stop being a dirty stinking leg. We had 2 quit on the second day, jump refusals on the 34' towers. I guess Im just wired differently. I had a blast on the towers. Not so much on the LDA or the SLT. We had a couple that were failure to qualify on the LDA and PLFs and the a bunch of dumb privates being stupid got the boot or recycled. Not to mention all the pt test failures. They say on average we will have a few jump refusals Monday too. Don't see why you would beet yourself up this much then quit at the fun part. "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

So, I get 5 free jumps next week! It only took two weeks of beating the crap out of me on midevil devices designed to cause pain to the poor soul locked inside its grips, namely the Swing Landing Trainer. Once I complete all 5, I get a nice $150/month as long as I do it a few times a year. Not to mention a purty badge! For those of you who dont know, I managed to get my foot in the door of a WAY oversized class at Airborne school, we've had roughly 100 people fall out so far in 2 weeks of training. Its been rough, mentally and physically for me, letting your mind get the best of you really doesnt help here. Ive made it all the way through the training (lots... and LOTS of PLFs) now, I just have to exit the plane 5 times and make satisfactory jumps, and presto-paratrooper! Got some pretty awesome bruises too, gotta love canopy release assemblies with no padding! "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

I bought mine when I was sitting at Talil AB, I talked to Bonnie at Gravity Gear, she had a rig that fit me pretty damn well, I paid for it via paypal and she shipped it to a friends house. How much longer are you going to be in baghdad? Ill be heading over there pretty soon "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

BAM!! "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

Oh, I know. I had 37 jumps before I bought my gear, good thing I waited and asked around, or I might be on a canopy I didnt like. Focus more on the AFF than the shopping for gear. "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

It looked that way, I replayed it a few times... What it looks like is someone before and lower than him pulling "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

+1 You REALLY shouldnt be looking at gear yet, you dont know what you want. Once you start progressing and get either really close to or have your license, ask your instructors... "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

I did a 6 way, turned 2 points, then turned 2 3-ways then back to a 6 way... repeat. "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message

I dont get much CReW around here, maybe next month when Im on leave and at Spaceland, I can find someone to show me the ropes. "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message