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  1. jimjumper
    A lot of scuba divers have shark teeth (tooth) necklaces.
  2. jimjumper
    A written and studied course syllabus prior to the actual training will also make a huge difference in the amount of training time. If the student shows up already knowing hand signals, equipment nomenclature, exit type, and has a basic grasp of canopy control and flight pattern it makes teaching and review much shorter.
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    I'm a bit surprised that by now nobody has suggested contacting the dropzone that will do your instruction and getting a copy of the first jump course syllabus? I think that would be the first thing I would want to learn.
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    Both landings were just about like the video. They were both light and we delayed till we had perfect conditions. Also Jim's passenger was making her 8th tandem after jumping on her 90th birthday for the first time. She came out on her birthday every year for a tandem but one year had to cancel after falling going to the car.
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    Jim Wallace has taken a 99 year old! I took her boyfriend? (They lived in the same assisted care center) who was 83 making him my oldest passenger. You need perfect conditions for these kind of tandems and they can be a little bit of work!
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    You upgraded your main container from cones to loops. Your first jump course took 6 hours and didn't include cutaway training. If you ever have borrowed a reserve. The first piece of equipment you bought was a hockey helmet. You landed your first square jumps in half brakes because "it lands just like a round that way" Your chest mount had an altimeter and a stop watch. (This one is real old. I only had an altimeter on mine) You bought copies of "United We Fall", "The Art of Freefall Relative Work", and "Skies Call" while they were still being published.
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    Remember that to receive any USPA awards denoting jumps or freefall time you have to have "D".
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    On some rig designs the B12 is snapped onto what is essentially a hip ring on the main lift web. It is difficult to reach one handed and hard to see if its latched correctly especially for a student. Also as previously noted they will wack your leg if left unhooked.
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    I wash my suits after any weekend of jumps. Wash on gentle in cold and don't use dryer sheets. They make a mess of hook velcro. Also make sure any velcro is mated and zippers closed. It will make your students so much happier!
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    I think I'm going with Sparky on this one. I was jumping at Cal City early 90's and Jimmy was working on a carnival motorcycle jumping show using a hang glider canopy. He did a bunch of practice jumps during the day and then a couple at night with pyrotechnics. It looks like his kind of stunt and the backround looks a lot like Cal City. I heard later that he had an accident on the way to a show and the truck and trailer were wrecked but I never heard what happened to him.
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    My Harley Sportster is painted in Impact Blue. I like it!
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    Mike, the last time I saw you, weren't you jumping a bungee collapsible pilot chute?
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    The right steering line was knotted at the loop without the break setting slack released. Flying the canopy required that the left steering toggle be flown at the half brake position to keep it flying straight. I suppose I could have wrapped the excess steering line around my hand and then used the rear risers to land but I seemed to be doing Ok with what I was doing.
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    It's also possible it was a DC-3. They were making a transition to Otters. My logbook for 93/94 at Perris shows jumps from both Otters and DC-3's.
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    I had a similar thing happen 2 months ago. The excess flopped around and when I pulled out the toggle it was tied in a knot around the stow loop. Pulling on it only made the knot tighter. I had a little bit of altitude so I played with it and decided to land it. I used the input of the left toggle and the right riser to flare! I got away with it but I wouldn't recommend it for novices.
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    You might also think about your fellow TM's. Instead of a normal rotation of large and small students, they get stuck hauling the big boys while you get to take the small passengers. The job is to take students as they come. I have to work harder to take larger passengers too and it's not like I want to take every big student that walks through the door.
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    When ParaFlite was still selling canopies they used to provide a patch that said "Paraflite Makes it Right!". You had it stiched onto the right riser so you always knew the canopy wasn't hooked up backwards. Sometimes the low tech works!
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    The last time I repacked it, it didn't bite me. It's a pretty freindly reserve as long as you don't yank it's tail! I've used it and it lands about like you would expect from a 7 cell F-111 canopy. That means a single stage flare after a straight in approach. After a 1000 F-111 landings it was just the same as landing my old Cruiselite.
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    They used to be on your membership card. I checked mine and they are listed on my 2000 card and not on my 2001 card. my numbers are Falcon 698, Double Falcon 487, Eagle 308, Silver Falcon 258, and Golden Eagle 124. I must have missed sending in for the Double Eagle somwhere. Most jumpers thought it was just a way for USPA to make money.
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    I almost always do slide or sit landings even with perfect conditions. The way the harness is designed when under canopy the weight of the passenger is carried by the canopy. On the ground, the weight is born by the TI. When doing stand-up landings the weight transfers from the canopy to the back of the TI. The TI is usually standing straight up for a stand-up landing and the spine is compressed straight down. A slide or sit landing utilizes the lift of the canopy and allows a slower transition from the canopy to the TI. After a couple trips to the chiropractor I made the choice to usually slide or sit down. Of course, you also need to take the abilities of your passenger into account. Thats why its important to find out if they can lift their legs both before they make the jump and under canopy.
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    I'll take a guess at maybe a Spirit. Looks a little bigger than a Spirit but the split stabilizers are right.
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    Thats why at 200+ pounds I don't jump mini rings, mini risers,mini canopies, or come to think of it, Slinks! I'll let the test jumpers work it out and when I think its safe Maybe!!! I'll give it a try.
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    The Slinks can fail after opening. A Perris instructor was severely injured last year after his Slink failed during a front riser turn to final. The Slink failed due to excessive wear (+2000 jumps). I have never seen a rapide link that was properly installed and with a silicone slider bumper fail.
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    About 10 years ago Cox used to sell a freefly helicopter that ejected a jumper at the apex of its flight and then autorotated to the ground. It was pretty unreliable but a lot of fun when the DZ was weathered.
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    Myself! Get your riggers ticket. It's not rocket science.