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Someone bring a RAFT!!! Lessee... raft jumps hybrid jumps big ways ff jumps zoo jumps naked jumps (not me, but I'm sure fun to watch) DC-3 skyvan What else am I missing ? Sounds like it's going to be a blast!!! We need more people!!! 20 is good...but 30 would be better!! C'mon you dz-commers... let's blow the roof off this party!! Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

EXCELLENT!! Thanks for the links and the tips. That is exactly what I was looking for. Matt Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

Ok, I have looked in the past archives and searched for a while and could not find specific B license study tips. I think the search engine has a problem with the single letter "b" since it pulled up license several times but "b license" or +b +license does not seem to work either. anyhow.. I am planning on taking my B license test this weekend, and wanted to know what specifically do I need to know in the SIM ? I have read it cover to cover over the past few months, but I still want to be prepared. I already have my water training done, 60+ jumps, 10+ accuracy jumps, and freefall time. Any specific sections I should pay attention to? The new SIM does not have the specific wording of what to study...instead it has Categories... bah.... Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

This is one reason why I would not want to do a tandem anymore. I thought they were cool until I started to think about it... yeah, yeah, I know the mind is good at fooling us into thinking bad thoughts. So anyway, I wondered that same question too. I would feel awkward riding up to hookup altitude without anthing connected to the TM. That just scares me. I think if the upper connections were connected from takeoff, then I would have more confidence. then again, now I'm hearing that it takes forever for a reserve deployment at sub-term speeds. Nope, no way, no how... no tandems for me, thank you very much. Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

?? Umm... I didn't see that on the schedule, but I'm a willing observer for the female jumps. I'm all down for the bigways (

I like 'cause its fun postwhore I will all day long now try and stop me Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

As I read Haikus I realize that I need cash Please give me a job Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

Shit, if someone started singing STYX or REO on the way to altitude, I would gladly chime in and sing my part. I often find myself singing under canopy. (do'h, did I just say that out loud ?? ) I thought that they were angels, but to my surprise They climbed aboard their starship and headed for the skies Singing come sail away, come sail away Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

Oh boy oh boy oh boy!!! I just told Lummy to count me in on the trip. Looks like I'll be camping out at the dz in my tent and air matress. Hey I just had a thought.... Hey Bytch, any chance we can try to break the California record ? Looks like there will be a lot of us there... Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

hey... How did you find out I was going ?!?! J/K ... I want to go, but won't know for sure until next week. Sounds like it will be a blast!!! HYBRID!!!! WOOOHOOO!!! I LOVE THOSE!!! Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

Me too me too... I also want to learn to skysurf...one of these days or years... Before I attempt to launch myself out of a plane with a board on my feet, I will want to try this in a tunnel first. That way, I can get the basic maneuvers down before passing out or other scary shit while in actual freefall. Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

Do they server dinner there too? My gal and I are out on the town tonite, and we might swing by. - L8 Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

Sorry to have to do this to you Clay, but this is just too funny and I immediately thought of you when I saw this... Work Safe, but turn down your speaker volume. http://download.consumptionjunction.com/multimedia/cj_11119.wmv Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

In response to numerous email forwards/chain letters I have received recently, I present you with this... THE WORLD'S MOST POINTLESS CHAIN LETTER s someone who receives this email and anyone who has ever met someone who receives this email. Have fun and enjoy less-cluttered, more revelant email readings in the future! NOTE: If you didn't pick up on what I was saying, let me clue you in. I know this doesn't apply to everyone, but I'm sure you have all gotten at least ONE chain letter through email at one time. It might have been something like the Parachuting Cow that you had to send on to someone else so you wouldn't get bad luck, or something like a truly sad story about a cancer patient that promises a donation for every person who forwards the email. Most chain letters are fine. Some are funny and interesting. Some even provide recepies! But there are a lot of ones that I know that I receive that are stupid and worthless, and people forward them to me for apparently no reason. For example, take these "Virus Alert" forwards. They basically say... "Beware of the ________ virus. It will delete everything from your computer if you read it. If you see an email with the subject _______ or an attached file called ______, DON'T OPEN THEM! DELETE THEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!" First, if there was a chain letter for every virus on the internet, the servers across the country would be so clogged nothing would funciton. There are TONS of viruses out there. This is nothing new. Don't read this email and say, "Oh no! A virus? On the internet? But the Internet is supposed to be perfect and good for everyone!" Second, if you ever DO get an email with a strange subject line, wierd file attachement, or just from someone you do not know, well, you should be suspicious. Sometimes an email from a strange email address will be nothing more than a generic form letter trying to get you to buy somethine (in my book, these kinds are almost as bad). Whether just by reading an email a virus can download itself on to your computer and delete files, I don't know. The bottom line? If you get a virus alert, delete it. Don't forward it to anyone. Viruses are nothing special. By sending it to them, this implies that they don't realize the points I just detailed, so maybe you should send THIS to them, and not those virus alerts. Another example: the Cancer fundraising email. Bottom line - it's not true. I have never heard of a company or any organization donating money to a charity based on how many people read a particular email, and if I ever DO, I will certainly inform you. Think about it - you get this email and send it to all your friends. How does the company/organization know how many people got the email? Have you ever actually gone to the web site of whoever is sponsoring this? In the American Cancer Society's case, they provided an AOL email address in the email. If you had done a little background check, you would find that the email address was a false address - there was noone with that account name on AOL, nor had there ever been! And if you went to see the American Cancer Society's homepage, they had a very large and visible link to a page where they said how this and other similar emails are absolutely NOT TRUE! What's my point? Well, we all get a lot of email. Some we forward to others, because we think they would enjoy it, find it informative or interesting. And then there's some that we forward without even thinking WHY we're sending it other than the fact that "the email says I have to send it to 10 people who need luck in love within the next 2 days or else I'll be the victim of a horrible Jello accident" (okay, that's a stretch, but you get the idea). I'm not telling you to send forwards or chain letters. You can do wahatever you want, it's your life, your email. But I ask you to think about WHY you're sending it and WHAT it is that you're really sending. And if you want to keep sending this stuff around, that's fine - just don't send it to me, okay? I hope this was informative and useful. I don't mean to sound like I'm preaching or condescending; I'm trying to give everyone tips on how to better manage their lives, or at least their email life. If you want some more information, check out these web sites: Email chain letters and how to defeat them: http://kith.org/logos/things/chain.html Chain Letters (general info, links, and some common Internet chain letters: lots of good stuff) - http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/chain-letters.html Forwarding hysteria -http://kith.org/logos/things/noforward.html - About chain letters and other pesky forwards you get in your in box - Very good to read or to tell others about Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

My first canopy was a PD-210 and I was loading it at 1.1:1. Almost every landing ended with a butt slide. I tried wrapping toggles, low wind, no wind, high wind, and they were all the same - butt slides. I stood up I think 3 or 4 landings out of 30 that I put on it. Two of those landings were downwind, so I am pretty sure that increasing speed would help your landings. The Verdict: I was overloading it. F-111 Canopies should not be loaded past 1.0:1. I asked a couple riggers at my dz what the problem was, and they told me I was too heavy for the canopy. The previous owner loaded it at .9:1 and had no problems in landing it. This thing only had 200 jumps on it, with me being the second owner. I now have a Spectre 190 that flares like a dream. The only problem now is I have to "re-learn" my flaring techniques from flaring higher with F-111, to stage flaring with the ZP. I'm about 50/50 now ( and getting better) with landing on my feet - much better than the PD210. My advice - have an experience canopy pilot with your wing loading or less fly it and see if they have the same problems. That should tell you if the canopy is too worn, or maybe - you just too BIG and it's time to get ZP!! Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

I too had something similar happen, but it was on the ground during my FJC. I was in the training simulator and going through practice for the first dive when my instructor stopped me for about 20 seconds to correct something I was doing wrong, then we started over again....or so I thought we had started over. So during the next 20 seconds or so, I am going through my COA a couple times and then I feel my instructor slap me on the back and say "YOU'RE DEAD!!" I was like, 'huh?? WTF ?? " It turns out that when he stopped me during my simulation ( for that 20 seconds or so to correct me) , he never stopped the practice altiimeter, so during my COA - I was not really looking at the NEEDLE on my alti, I was just looking at the face. Unbeknownst to me, the needle had made its way to 0 without me even noticing. That sure made me alti-aware ever since then. Look at the needle and pay attention, just don't go through the motions. - Matt Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

Wow, that is almost what mine looks like. Nice colors and pattern !!! Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

Well sheeeiiit... Count me in on the fun... I'm in the same area!! - Corn Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

I look a lot!! Not sure exactly - but I would say 4-6 times during freefall and a couple times before starting my landing pattern and one time before my final approach. I have been ridiculed, actually, by looking at my alti during a hybird jump a few weeks ago. All during the video, I looked probably 5 times at my alti... and people were commenting on that. Know what? F'Em!! I might look a lot, but I'd rather be looking a lot, than not looking at all and pulling low. I try not to look right off the hill, but sometimes I just want to know what alti the formation gets stable at, or how much alti I have left to do tricks, sit, etc.... Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

UNA MAS!!! I have been planning this road trip for over a month now, and it looked pretty grim until one of my friends said she would go with me and help me foot the cost of gas and lodging/camping ( I have no job at the moment ), so.... LOST PRAIRIE - HERE I COME TOO!! I'll be taking the scenic route and coming up through California, Bend, Portland, Seattle, Spokane, Worley (Idaho), and then on to Lost Prarie. I expect to arrive sometime in the afternoon on Saturday and then be taking off in the early afternoon on Sunday. LP isn't the only reason for this trip... I am doing a big circle in the western states and visiting lots of friends and places along the way. I don't know what I'll be wearing other than my new jumpsuit, but you can see pics of me on my home page so you can recognize me... www.almgren.net Also I got a gray Eclipse rig, with a brand spanking new jumpsuit with royal blue and light gray colors. Hopefully see you some of you there!! - Matt Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

Is this related to the other fire-fighting plane whose wings fell off a few weeks ago ? Are they the same plane ? Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

What?? You want some coffee with that ?? I had a kidney infection once. My friend in 5th grade threw his skateboard at me and it hit my kidney. I was pissing blood for weeks. It hurt like a mother!@#%$# too. Best wishes and speedy recovery!! Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

What's wrong with Law and Order ?? Actually, that IS my roommates favorite show -no kidding. Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

Well it's about time.... I've been wireless for the last 9 months. All day long (since I'm jobless) I sit here in my laZyboy surfing the net, watching Satellite TV, and send out resumes in between movies and web sites. We (roomate and I) actually have two APs - one SMC AP, and a Netgear Wireless Router connected to a 100Mb network as well. Here's our current network hardware.... (see attached pic) Let's see from left to right and top to bottom we have a SB3100 cable modem, SNAP File Server, SMC AP, BayStack 350 switch, SMC ABR router, Cisco DSL router (currently not used) , Omni 8 station KVM swtich, couple of DVD drives, Internet PC (acting as our backup router), PC2, PC3 - Win2K Adv Server, PC4 Dell Poweredge Linux Server... AND that's just one wall!! Netgear wireless router is in Living room, along with 3 other PCs in the house, and 3 laptops. (yes, that is a 19" rack mounted in my spare bedroom) >One of these days I'll write an app to remotely >control my MP3 queue so I can change and add a playlist Our Linux server has that ability...with over 25 Gigs of MP3's... anyone want an FTP account ?? hehe Yeah, I would consider myself a GEEK too!! - Corn Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

We are talking about replacing a MAIN closing loop, correct ? Not sure about your A-license training, but it was part of mine: " know how to inspect and adjust a main closing loop" Replacing it is the same as adjusting it - you still have to untie the knot and retie it. Basically, I thought you needed to know this before getting your A ?? Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump