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Yeah, there's an infrared thingie. The pictures from the 120 blow the shit out of the pictures from a 9. I don't know if the 101 is that much different. I sold some video out of my 120 yesterday. The crispness and depth of color were very noticeably better out of my 120 than my fellow rookie's 9. It might have been tape, might have been the converters. but I'm really, really happy with my 120 today.

Don't do it Mountainman. I went pro yesterday! Yeah! Sold two videos and I'm in the rotation. OK, the guy who went pro with me had (HAD) a .43. It's just too far for tandem, RW work. I guess you could zoom it, but all the way out you have to be about 3 feet from touching the customer to get a good tight facial shot. When you zoom a converter you lose sharpness. He sold his .43 and bought a .5 and now his video is saleable. (sellable?) I have a .5 for outside work, and I just got a .3 for inside work. Flew it yesterday inside RW and inside a wicked 10 way hybrid. I also got paid to fly video on a 4-stack and the .5 with a little zoom was perfect. I"ll post about the best day skydiving yet for me, Yesterday, tomorrow. I'm a rookie camera flyer, but my heartfelt advice is to get a .5 and go wider when you get, way, better. A 28mm SLR lens is a good match for that. If you have the .43, a 24mm lens is a better match, and those cost more. I defer to all the more experienced camera flyers, but my rookie advice is that the .5 will make your live easier, and you'll get better video

I'm curious about this too. Is there a concensus of opinion on wingloading of reserves? Is it the same thinking as mains? The skills list you (Billvon) put out a while back was very informative regarding downsizing mains, would you apply the same skills list to landing a particualr sized reserve?

[reply....having a foreign national as a girlfriend or wife could complicate some of my future employment prospects. Uh-oh. Spook material. You gotta be carefull, and only date black sheep from now on, that white wool will really show on your "men in black" suit.

[reply Well, you could remove the door from his room (does he pay extra for privacy?) Lisa, you know mine are just 6, but the remove the door thing worked great for a friend of mine. You just take it off and put it in your closet or something. Home should really be kind of uncomfortable for kids to motivate them to move out. When I got back from OCS my mom had moved my stuff out and moved my sister and two kids into my room. I proposed to my girlfriend, moved in with her and never looked back. Have him join the reserves. It'll pay for college, and at least one weekend a month while he's in college you'll have the house to yourself. My prayers are with you. I dread the teenage years. JP

Tony makes a dynamite "Big man" suit that you probably could use for both. Ask Lisa what it's really called, but it's got grippers on the forearms and really works.

Hey now. Dave gives great hugs. You don't know what you're missing. You know what you need? A good bar-stool back cracking! Right Nathan? Two beers, a shot, and a back-cracking. Sounds like you gotta put your head and feet back and pull the yellow handle. EJECTEJECTEJECT! Sorry to hear it. Good vibes your way.

OK. I got money to see both of these. 1) B-squared shirtless 2) Nathaniel the Giant trying to put that shirt on There is more money for #1.

You silly girl. I want volunteer tandems to let me shoot really small videos of them at BYRON where I'll be posting your Cessna boogie poster. I had a friend up a couple of weeks ago at Davis, from Perris, who had never jumped out of a non-turbine. We go off the strut of the 182 (it's a 182, right Lummy?) She falls like a stone, because she's never been in such low relative wind. We snuck some video of her asking "How do you do relative work our of one of these? How would you do a linked exit?" Oh, it was precious. Cessna strut exits are the bomb-diggity-shiznit!

Good call, Bytch. A PICTURE is worth a thousand words.

Oh, that's a freaky mind-picture. Driving down the road, stopped at the light, you can hear it comin up on the passenger side. Boomp....BOOOMP-BOOMP.boomp....BOOMP!-BOOMP! When's this light gonna turn, God I hate listening to other people's cars music.. Turn to the right and there's ole AggieDave doing the Mack in a pickup, lower lip full of chew, baseball bat in the gunrack, listening to Ludacris. It's the end of the world.

Printed. I'll post it tomorrow at Byron. Bring a friend out for a tandem. I shoot a lousy video cheap!

Frickin meatwagon

I'm not talking about the picture, I'm talking about the pose! You are fast as a sun-baked rattler, and if you chose not to be there you'da squirted right outta there like a watermelon seed! It's been a week. Missing all of yall. 19 hours and change.

Yeah, my camera suit is a Tony too. Super high quality.

Dude, I humbly step away with my hat in my hand. If you could talk B-squared into that, you can talk the Mama into sharing a bowl of chowdah without assistance.

About this? Absolutely. Right after this: You ever travel on a bus tour somewhere? Or on a cruise? There's people that are fun to spend lots of time with, that don't grate on your nerves, that you look forward to running in to at meals and stuff for days on end. Nate's one of those people. Lordy! 20 hours to load one! Giddyup!

Got a Pit special. Love it, don't recommend the second grips on the arms, haven't had cause to use them. Get the big honkin grippers, cordura knees, booties and seat, extra pocket. There's some pictures of mine that Quade and Viking took at Perris last weekend on their posts about that. The quality is really good, haven't seen any better.

Oh, I thought this was a thread about sex with stupid people. Seriously, the carbon fibers conduct electricity and they are hellaciously small. So if they get into the electronics they can FUBAR your camera. Remove your camera from the Dbox, helmet, and remove the camera from the area you are going to drill the helmet. Run a vacuum next to your drill, if you can, and wear a paper mask, like Cornholio uses to pack a parachute. Once that stuff is delaminated it's way bigger, and it gets everywhere. So, when you're drilling or cutting move electronics to another room, and run a vacuum next to the drill or cut. My wife got me a Diamond .3 for my birthday, and I've got to cut the box down so it doesn't show in frame. I will do everything I've advised you to do other than I won't wear a mask. But I should. Measure twice, cut once.

Attaboy! Now close it! (Yeah, I'll shut up)

"This is not my beautiful house, this is not my beautiful wife....."

Nope. It was a straight question, I was genuinely interested in your opinion of today's real world best society. We have not identified each other's position. I don't know that the US is the ideal, and I don't know what country you think comes closest. Notice I haven't quoted you to try and paint you into a corner, if you don't want to volunteer your opinion specifically, fine. 21 hours to load one. That's all I care about right now. Have a great weekend, fly well.

GOOD EFFORT! Now get all dreamy eyed and GET BACK IN THERE with a frequent flyer ticket and a room in your hotel! Move it! Move it!

How the hell did this happen?

I was in ROTC at Cal in the early 80's. Admiral Nimitz was a Cal grad, and had left a ton of really neat stuff from the Japanese surrender ceremony for his little library there. The diverse and liberal community burned the ROTC building and all it's contents to the ground. Tolerance. They couldn't tolerate the presence of a building and it was detroyed in an act of violence.