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Was checking out www.nzone.biz (Queenstown) d.z. and wondering about their aircraft: Cresco turbine? and Fletcher? Never heard of them- How many jumpers do they seat? Are they good skydive jumpships? What is their history? Attached some pics- Is the one with shark teeth painted on the Cresco or Fletcher? thanx- smiles.

Kapowsin is awesome, my last trip there from Vancouver the otter pilot invited me upfront and what scenery!! Mt. Rainier- Mnt. Hood & Mnt. Baker on climb to altitude-- I was so in awe, had to scramble on jumprun and remember our dive!! The jumpers are so friendly, makes you feel right at home. Smiles. eustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.

Yesterday my son found out what his tattoo said (he was very drunk in Mexico when he got it done and had no clue what the Japanese symbols meant) He sketched them out on paper and I took to the d.z. where a japanese woman read to me..... "Do not forget." Smiles.

Hey, wingnut- sounds like a long project but depending on what you like---just design a stick man and design a dive using pattern. Sample attached- if you want some skydive graphics- check out my website: http://members.shaw.ca/idgraphics/sdiveimages.html Smiles.

Hey- just checking out this graphic off Sigur Ros/and luv it. I decided to get it printed on a t-shirt, attached pic off. Does anyone know the name of the Icelandic bands tune written for an 800 yr. old icelandic poem?? Or- what the fetus with wings represents in their music?? Thanx, Smiles.

Well, I have over 1,000 jumps. I am certified in custom graphic & website design. Animation, graphic design, advert banners & skydive illustration is what I cutaway to do many years ago. Skilled in digital video, camera and editing. Have purchased all of my skydive gear working for Canadian AeroSports Inc., designing all parachute and rig instruction manuals. Could this position in your office (California), not be filled from my business office here in Canada??? My Business: id-graphics website: www.id-graphics.com -Skydive Pages- Smiles.

Kayla would get along with my miniature horse for sure!! Sootie just won at the annual fair: 2 1st ribbons, 3rd. and overall champ!! Smiles. eustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.

What I look like?...swooping? Smiles. eustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.

Hey, ya forgot the #1 step of The Canuck conspiracy= B.C. Bud. Of course you have to smoke a players after smoking our Bud, you loose the buzz if you smoke U.S. dried camel shit, or drink their beer, eh. Smiles. eustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.

Could anyone give me tips? Riding the bull from pilatus porter, launch was great- but then ff funelled, I let go of both leg straps and got in burble above diver I was riding out. Got out of the way as quick as possible receiving a "kick" in the face. thanx, Smiles. eustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.

My Freefly page to date. Anyone have ideas or links I can add?? http://members.shaw.ca/k.cox348/ Smiles. eustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.

Care to ask "How was Lost Prairie Boogie??" This fellow sure knows how to respond!!! http://www.ualberta.ca/~ebilling/lp.html Smiles. eustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.

Was just going through old videos of boogies over the years and 1993 was the last flying formations with C206/182/180 at my home d.z. Vancouver B.C. Canada. Whee hee, that was a riot! The porter is getting it's 7 year check and was not flying for my 1,000 jump. Got to fly up in the C206 and was a beauty flight bringing back hords of special memories! Pics: http://members.shaw.ca/k.cox348/1000th.html (nice to log it online!- resolution of pics is poor but talk about Cessna nostalgia..!!!!!!!!!! Smiles. Karen eustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.

I've been jumpin for 15 years- This last year have been too unhealthy to make a skydive.......but it has kept my spirits alive. Waiting in severe pain- Dr. offices, emergency, hospitals, through every kind of "test".....even laying on the MRI table...my thoughts replay of jumps I've made. I carried my log book around with me and read my dives, visualized dive after dive... dirt dived dives.... Surgery was out of the question- too many chronic illness's- then 2 months ago found out our government (Canada) has allowed a new treatment called Remicade to be perscribed- my specialist applied and the cost is $4,000. a treatment and I need 4 treatments. In the last month our medical has agreed to actually "cover it." I've had my 1st. treatment........................and made my first skydive!! Only out of a 206- just a dive out- but I got pics and cannot express in words how "alive" I feel................. http://members.shaw.ca/idgraphics/karen.html What makes a skydiver?? One who never forgets how awesome they feel on each and every skydive!! Smiles. eustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.

Some skydive graphics, clip-art...... http://members.shaw.ca/idgraphics/sdiveimages.html Smiles. eustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.

Skydiver OK after storm yanks him 1,000m up Patti Edgar Edmonton Journal Tuesday, June 25, 2002 A skydiver who was sucked into a thundercloud and landed unscathed has picked up the nickname "Little Miracle." Montreal student Mathieu Gagnon walked out of the Ottawa Hospital Monday morning, laughing at jokes and promising to leap out of an airplane again soon. Except for sore muscles, the 21-year-old was unharmed from a bizarre accident Sunday. "This is something that we will be talking about in the skydiving world for the rest of our lives," said Martin Audit, president of Paramax, a Gatineau, Que., skydiving company. "He was in the black cloud with the lightning and everything," said Julie Desjardins, a Paramax employee who tracked the near-disaster from the ground. "He's a very lucky guy." But Gagnon, a skydiver with 20 other jumps under his belt, has refused to talk about the accident for fear it will give people the wrong impression of his sport. On Sunday afternoon, he was one of five experienced parachutists on board Paramax's Cessna 182 as it climbed above the Gatineau Airport. Each had signed a waiver and paid $32 for the jump. Thunderstorm warnings had been issued for the region but local conditions seemed safe, Desjardins said. "We do not let them jump if there's a storm coming in. The tower will say: 'No, stop. Land with the plane.' The pilot will say the same also." The go-ahead came because southerly winds were moving torrential rains and high winds in the opposite direction, Desjardins said. "The storm was about four kilometres away. It just suddenly turned, and it was amazing. I had never seen that in my life. Ever." Just before 5 p.m., the five men leapt out of the small plane about 2,000 metres above the ground. Within a minute, the winds had shifted, sending dark clouds hurtling toward the jumpers. The skydivers knew they were in trouble. But Gagnon, who had been the first to open his parachute, was a few hundred metres above the others. He was the only one sucked into a black cloud. From the ground, Audit watched in panic as Gagnon disappeared. For five minutes, Gagnon was missing. He later told Audit that he was trapped in a black fog, hurtling upwards. Gagnon checked his altimeter -- he had climbed 1,000 metres. He cut away his main parachute and tumbled toward the ground until he was out of the clouds. Then Gagnon opened his reserve parachute and drifted helplessly. About 15 minutes later, he landed on the south side of the Ottawa River, in Orleans, Ont., about 25 kilometres south of the airfield where he was supposed to touch down. He ended up on a road a few kilometres from the river, and was jarred when his chute snagged on a parked car, Desjardins said. Area resident Ronald Wright heard a crash and found Gagnon in his driveway, alert but unable to talk. Back in Quebec, the four other parachuters had already landed -- all but one a few kilometres away from the landing spot near the airport. One man broke both his legs. "It was the worst experience of their lives," Audit said. "When the big wind catches you, you don't know if you are going to survive. They were crying when they landed on the ground -- they were that happy to be alive." © Copyright 2002 Edmonton Journal Smiles. eustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.

At home in B.C. Canada (Skydive Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Pitt Meadows) we have beautiful view of Mt. Baker, Vancouver, and Vancouver Island. Also travel to Kapowsin and view there is incredible(Mt. Rainier) Mount Baker (3,285 meters; 10,778 feet) is an ice-clad volcano in the North Cascades of Washington State about 50 kilometers (31 miles) due east of the city of Bellingham. After Mount Rainier, it is the most heavily glaciated of the Cascade volcanoes: the volume of snow and ice on Mount Baker (about 1.8 cubic kilometers; 0.43 cubic miles) is greater than that of all the other Cascades volcanoes (except Rainier) combined. Smiles. eustress. : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.

more jumps = less fear? Every jump I make there is fear- I would not be comfortable skydiving if I didn't feel that fear. I started skydiving in 87, (army boots/round main&reserve) with slow static line progression from cessnas. After getting signed off for 15 sec. delays, headed for Coolidge Boogie with more experienced jumpers. Was offered there to jump one-on-one from large aircraft (14,500 ft.) with instructor.... opportunity to really get some freefall- instructor would have grips on me throughout, I could practise my body position and he would let go of upper grip so I could practise some turns. I didn't feel comfortable, everything in my body was screaming.."FEAR"- - -don't go for this....I made a choice to go anyway. My instructor lost me on exit, I started flat spinning - kicked him in the head afew times when he tried to dock- I spent whole dive trying to get out of my flat spins (unaware one knee down, my training for turns was to adjust upper body- and that didn't work) Got stable at 2,000 ft.- because I was stable and stopped my spins, altimeter awareness was next !!! My hand was coming in to pull when my reserve fired. (AAD set for 1600ft.) Landed my reserve out with those cacti- and then decided to quit skydiving because I had not listened to myself, I was not ready to be where I had been and should not of been there. It took me 6 months to decide to start jumping again- but never regretted my experience. Smiles.

The greatest sex comes after skydiving--- absolutely cannot give up skydiving.... So I would give up sex, .....and that's why. Smiles.

Hey, most important is that it is going on your beauty body, and it has to be what you want.....it is your idea, your tattoo, ....take your time. Attached is line drawing for Kevin.....steel your face. Smiles.

I personally do not like the USPA symbol- An elliptical canopy morphed with "steel your face"---kewl!! My tat is now 20 yrs. old- originally was an Aries sign- then got it covered with butterfly which didn't mean much until I started skydiving 15 yrs. ago. I do plan to get more tattoo's this summer and know for sure they will not be "off the wall", I will custom design my own design. My skydiving pages have images, clip-art, graphics, B.A.S.E.-Canopies, Freefly, Skymonkies, T-shirt designs, website images/ advert & boogie banners..... I custom design skydive tattoos also. http://members.shaw.ca/idgraphics/start3.html Smiles

2nd edition "Freefalling Together" 1 has 2 way to 20 way (Editions Para-Graphe 1992) I have found it very useful over the years. I miss RW formations--big time--but I keep dreaming! Play alot in Flash, so working on graphic animation of some dives and canopy flight. http://members.shaw.ca/idgraphics/pinwheel.html If you link to this page- (52-way pinwheel in production...) scroll down abit- and wait to watch dive from begining- It is a puzzel to me yet and I will complete it eventually with flight path of divers docking- including break off and tracking. Freefly page has some basic animation of graphics also. Smiles

I am impressed with those hounds from Canada!! Are the banners designed in Flash?? If so, should not be resource hogs........... Congrats- everything is faster here now for me!! (cable modem) Smiles. www.id-graphics.com Skydive Pages

Fatality reports are an excellent learning tool. A top rigger's comments on the where, how, why, and lesson to be learned are equally important and extremely necessary. Recently tragedy struck a female jumper I respected for many years (Sylvie Durand) The "second hand" details regarding the accident were provided to the skydiving community by people close to her.... "At about 800 ft. she performed a few sashays with her Typhoon canopy. During one of these the canopy spun her into line twists with a brake toggle lowered/ turning violently with attempt to clear the lines/ unfortunately not enough time to clear the line twists and the canopy spun into the ground at high rate of descent." The info provided was too brief- not enough explanation for this fatality re: how, what, why?? With 4,000+ jumps experience and world record skydiver, it is so extremely difficult to accept that she died due to pilot error. One constantly wants to hear that the whole skydiving community will pilot their canopies with more respect. "Flare before Impact" post came from the heart... "woman hook-turned herself into the morgue" "the main canopy was fine, but it was not over her head when she hit the planet" was mentioned along with hook turns involving no flare resulting in injury. Reading this, I could relate to how the rigger felt, and the seriousness of wanting to convey important message to jumpers... We are so fortunate for articles written and posted with life saving information. Unfortunately "Flare before Impact" did not relate to how one should deal with emergency procedures when spinning with line twists/one brake toggle lowered, below 500 ft. At the same time best senario is "do not get your ass in that situation." Smiles.