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I love my glove from riggerrob (contact via PM's) and a PC 105. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

You should be beaten. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

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Most places about $600 ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

Hire me as a house boy/gardner? ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

I felt like I had too much money. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

For me it was Taco Bell. They did their jobs. After walking into a StarShmucks and having 4, that's right 4 employees behind the counter make eye contact with me, but say nothing nor even smile, I was finaly served. Won't be making the visit to StarShmucks again. Anywhere. Same thing happened at Carl's Jr., more than once in the last couple weeks, so yesterday I walked out. I'm not putting up with service like this anymore. I don't ask for anything other than what I am paying for. Fed up with businesse treating me like they don't need me there. Anyone else? ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

When are we going? ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

I don't care who you are, that's funny right there......Git-er-dun! ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

exerpts of a conversation i'm having: I respect Brian's knowledge, but... they need to separate, 4 landing areas, Military should NEVER be close to the rest, then regular 90 and straight in, then students, and a hi-po landing area. Elsinore is pretty good like that. Elsinore has the room... so does SAZ... not sure why they haven't done that already. The military is a real pain in the ass the should be more segregated, not much training... no attention to obstacles and bad landing patterns or non-existant landing patterns and huge f%^&*g canopies that just hang there like anti-aircraft blimps. The students need to be safe, and the regulars need to know, that if they go into the hi-po area, they might catch a cold! Careful, don't fuck with the military dollars. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

I believe it's 11ft by 9 ft, and the power is expected to be more than sufficient to handle higher airspeeds. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

It's been suggested I clarify this.... IMO if you're willing to train for and accept a rating and the responsibilities of it, you should probably carry out those duties without complaint for ANY customer. If decide that the duties are too "hard" then you should think about quitting, or giving up the rating, however that may make you less valuable (therefore less employable) to your employer. Note that the "you" in this post is entirely hypothetical, and reflects my views of no particular individual. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

Looked at the Infinity Bill? ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

Wouldn't happen if you bought a Wings No it would have just showed up without stainless and in the wrong colors. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

The isgma is the only Tandem container to use the "disc" system, where the main container closing system and drogue release system are one in the same. All other Tandems systems on the market are 3 ring systems with seperate closing systems for the main container. Several of them have the drogue three ring between the main can reserve containers, with a few having them at the bottom of the main container. IMO the Sigma container cannot be beat for saftey, as it eliminates 1/3rd of possible malfunctions. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

It is my personal oppinion (as I haven't seen any data to suggest otherwise) that a SkyHook will make a canopy transfer more dangerous. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

No, and high perfomance landings in traffic at big events is definately not the time. Was anyone kicking people off the DZ durring this time for said behavior? Or in AZ? ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

I say we ban jumpers who cause freefall collisions. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

I think you know that our thoughts are alike on this subject.

So you're saying Dublin wasn't a boogie, but was a demo. Interesting. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

Wasn't this suppose to be a thread about what instructors should earn or what they do earn? Focus people. Good instructors should earn alot. Bad ones should earn nothing. That suit you better? ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

Absolutely.

Disagree with you here bill - It is stupid canopy pilots - swooper and non swooper alike that is the problem. Unfortunately you can't institute rules to make people smarter, more aware, etc. As for skydive AZ - their toys, their rules - like it or lump it. You can stop graduating them or kicking them off your DZ IF your concern for safety out weighs your concern for money. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

And is just one of the continually smaller boxes we put ourselves into just before the incident occurs. And you will notice that I do use the word incident. We put ourselves into smaller airspace, we put ourselves with more people, we put ourselves with faster canopies... When you investigates an incident how often is there just one issue that lead to the pain at the end. We both know that it is usually more than one thing and that they usually compound themselves. Well I just listed a few above and how about lower experience levels in the same air, multiple aircraft in the same air, and the box gets smaller and soon there is no more room in the box and then comes the pain. We do need to enforce rules but we also as individuals need to think about what environment we are going to be putting ourselves in and make the right decision for ourselves, that being said, I have always known that my life is more in the hands of those around me than in my own up there, and I accept that. I think that as I get older in this sport, I get more scared by that and it's why my skydiving changes to follow suit. It's why I pass on the sometimes zoo loads, and don't attend the boogies. It's why people wonder why I do so many hop and pops, or high altitude deployments. I love skydiving with people, but no one wants to think about the dangerous aspects of it. "Everyone else is out to kill you" is what an instructor told me once. Now I've been chastised by an employer for being too "Sport Death" in what I tell students. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

And exactly how many boogies/events have you attended? When is the last time you saw how chaotic the pattern and landings can be on a 100+ way where all the people are on the same dive/plan? Now try to think what it's like when it's all separate groups. Massive boogies even with briefings (which many of them gloss over) are zoos. Banning them is of course silly, but educating jumpers about the safety aspects of them is not. People are using the last 7 fatalities to crucify high performance canopy flight. I agree that there is a time and a place for it, and it's not at a boogie. But expecting 300+ possibly uncurrent skydivers to a boogie, putting 70+ of them in the air at the same time and giving them the option of two football field sized landing areas is the start of an incident report. edit: spelling. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.