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I never have, and won't unless it's to help somebody get current or to get a Tandem rating (can't imagine that right now) Is this that unusual?

April 1, 2000 was a bad day for me. So on April 1, 2001 I changed my karma by attending AFF groundschool. Too windy to jump that day, but April 7, 2001 I did my level 1. Went our every weekend and jumped when it wasn't too windy, got my A license in September. My life is great now. GREAT. It may just be coincidence, but I think the skydiving did it. Still got my family and most of my stuff too.

No. Don't put anything between the poor animals teeth. No he can't swallow his tongue. The seizure should pass quickly, and then he may just wonder where he is for a while. (It's quite cool, actually)

How come you can't use infinity? Where do you set it? What kind of camera are you using it on. I just had a coach use one during a session, and I didn't think to ask him about settings. Thanks.

I've got a Kenko .5 on my PC110. It's good for outside RW and 4 way. You can cheat-zoom it if you need to get a little closer. It's not wide enough to shoot inside RW or anything linked. If you're outside looking in, it's OK. For anything inside or linked I want that new Diamond .3

My C wing camera suit will be here Thursday. I'll post a review this weekend after I've flown it. I suggest ordering directly from them, not an intermediary. I ordered through Paragear cause they told me I could get stainless shackles from them, but not through Tony. They're gonna be brass anyway. Just order straight from Tony. I just got hired by a 4 way team last weekend and I did it flying in my freefly suit. Work it! I hope the camera suit gives me more speed range, but I do know how to get small to speed up and how to hump the beachball to get back above. I did get good, judgeable video without the suit, so I'm hoping it can only get better. I did order the c wing, so I'll let you know. JP

220/448 days .49 per day.

I love it. I'll take a sense of humor over ideology any day. Remember when Reagan joked "the missiles have been launched"? Anybody in a life-or-death business, pilots, cops, firefighters, nurses, paramedics, soldiers, marines, and airmen all have great institutional senses of humor. If the CIC was a humorless robot like, hmmm, THEN there'd be something to worry about.

I've got almost 200 jumps on my 170 at 1.26:1, sea level. I got it new. Never been spanked, never been spun (in the Spectre). I did get riser slapped once. I keep waiting for the same person who is trying to talk me into an elliptical to go a month without also talking about getting spanked or spun. As soon as I seriously start to consider a Sabre2 or a Cobalt, the person jumping one will get spanked, and I'm more and more convinced I'll never jump anything else.

Yep. Listen to Lisa. That's why I posted that I saw something rather than I know what something was. Also use a private doc to get fixed. A chiropractor might be the cheapest way to get x-rays. But if something's cracked you might want to see an MD. Love may last a lifetime, but back injuries are forever.

Oh, yeah. I've got kids at the DZ pictures all over my hideous Partridge-Family-Bus colored office. Yes. I must get another rig for the children.

:6:1 All six jumps were my first gig as a camera flyer for a 4 way team. That's the first. Good group, serious, good communication, didn't hit 'em on exit. Damn! When a linked four-way exits and you peel off the camera step of the Otter, it's like jumping off a hovering helicopter! No air! My freakin camera suit should be here before the next team practice, so that should let me get close enough to really clobber them.

Monkey, no intention to cause flaming, but the nickname I've heard for that canopy is tri-bash-alon. I've seen two that have opened hard enough to break lines. I've also talked to folks who have hundreds of jumps on them and love them. Good luck. 800 mg motrins, ice, wine and whine.

Congrats on the McNacMac! Since I've got twins, does that mean I need a second rig? "Uh, honey, it's not fair for the girls to not EACH have one of my own rigs to pack, now is it?" I've finally got an "It's for the children" argument I'm all for!

There's that bar that the strap used to hook to in there. I didn't do anything to mine, but it's in a D-box. I don't use any gaffers tape on my camera, but that would be a great excuse to. I know guys who tape the lens, battery, zoom switch, like just about everything. If you can't fix it, duc' it!

If you're not in a hurry, I think a thumbscrew would work. You'd want to glue in a washer or something to spread the load when you torqued it down. My conceptus tongue switch fits behind the ear pad on the flat side of the helmet, I leave it attached. The audibles go behind the other ear pad. You're not going to get lower profile quick release than the stroboframe. I've got mine mounted longwise on the top and it works fine. It also aligns the camera each time, you'd have to come up with something to align the thumbswitch version, and I bet you'd spend less time and money just hooking up a stroboframe. Some folks like the Velbon, too.

I put my gear together over almost a year and from about 100 jumps to 200. Get a D-box for you PC100, and an cameye II. That button for your still camera should be activated by your mouth (bite, blow, or tongue) I know there's a radio controlled one out there, but I've heard mixed reviews about it. I've got a conceptus tongue switch I like, and the pros I know like that one too. The simplest solution is an SLR with a 2.5mm jack for the remote shutter release. Check the other end of the switch you're talking about. Some cameras accept that conceptus jack without modification. If you aren't already brand loyal (I'm a Nikon guy) do that, it'll make your life easier. Pier media has a good site and Marcus Antebi there has always helpfully answered my newbie questions. Get an SLR with that accepts the stock conceptus jack, get a good lens, get 'em on EBAY and you should be good to go in about 130 jumps. "Learn to do RW first, then freefly, then camera"-someone way smarter than me with thousands of jumps (leaping behind asbestos wall)

Picture a shipping container full of them. A good thing for the first couple of hours. How much to ship a shipping container full of nude photos of an Australian skydiver diva from Korea to New York? Oh, you didn't say nude. OUCH! Just became a bad thing. But good for all the guys left on the base! I will send you a SASE to lighten your load. I care.

No. At the point good whiskey is overindulged, it's really not that good anymore, you're just drinking to get drunker, and that's not all that good a thing. Good relations don't ever REALLY hurt, so when they get to that point, it's not a good thing. Work is good, but when it consumes the rest of your life, family, love, it's no longer a good thing. Even love, if obsessive is bad. ( I hate boiled rabbit ) So is it true that moderation is the key? What is something that can be had in grotesque quantity that is still good?

Cool. I'll give it a go. I have yet to pull low (two audibles, digitude, fear) but it will be nice to know I can make that canopy OPEN NOW DAMMIT! Thanks for the feedback. JP

I almost always pack for myself, and I get a 7 to 8 hundred foot opening. Track from 4500 to 3000, throw, big and square, clear airspace, altimeter reads 2200. I routinely find myself thinking "Yeah! Plenty of time to cutaway if that had FUBARed" when I get a good canopy. I do a couple of hop & pops a month, from about 3200-3500. I'm going on main above 2000 feet. If I grab and pull down on the risers at snatch, will I be asking for trouble? I intend to try this tomorrow to see if it will speed up inflation. I'm talking about an "OH SHIT!" yank down on both rears, like avoiding a collision kind of thing.

You're killing me. The word "nooner" comes to mind, but since it's just an elevator ride there must be some term like "breaker" that must apply as well.

I just saw in another post the opinion that you can accellerate opening of your canopy by pumping the risers. I have a Spectre loaded at about 1.26 and I absolutely love the long sniveley openings. I recently had a packer roll the nose, which I don't do, and the opening took almost a grand. Once it snatched me vertical, I saw that all the lines were straight, the cells were inflating, I was on heading, but it took and long time, and I enjoyed it. If I make an emergency bail at 2 grand does this mean the prudent thing to do is go on reserve? If I bail on my main, should I start pumping the risers to speed up the opening. I'm thinking that pumping the risers while the cells are inflating might initiate a spin if the pack job wasn't perfect. I had just never heard that riser pumping will speed up an opening, I have done it on sluggish end cells, but not to try to cut an 800 foot snivel to a 400 foot snivel. Does that work?

Antioch to Martinez, 22 miles, AM, 1 hour five minutes. Martinez to Antioch, PM, 55 minutes. Antioch to Byron DZ, 20 minutes.

You went outside naked to get the paper and locked yourself out. The key was in your motorcycle, so you were riding it over a couple of blocks to you mom's house to get a change of clothes? The cop was laughing so hard he gave you a citation for riding without a helmet, a paper jumpsuit from his squad, and let you go? Yes, that story is too wierd to be fiction.