Deuce

I'm curious what these are. If you were long enough to have to ride back in brakes, did you do a left 360, right 360, and full flare before going into brakes and heading back? Did you leave the canopy in brakes until 1500 feet? I am not capping, busting, burning or whatever the local slang is for criticising you. In the bigway world there have been several incidents where world-class skydivers came out of brakes low only to discover malfunctions too low to initiate cutaways. I fly the 384 about a third of my tandems, otherwise we have the new A2's with the collapsible sliders. With the 384's slider down, it is really hard to get a good look at the canopy. Was that giant duvet of a slider preventing you from being able to get a good look at the problem? Congratulations on your head's-up action that lead to a landing that you and your student survived without incident. Well done. Bill Booth? Could we have your thoughts about deploying the reserve under 1000 feet with a marginal canopy without cutting away the main?

I guess to get a picture of me with it I would have had to take it on a tandem Saturday. You should have to pick it up here.

Scooter, you are always welcome to my gear. So long as there is always one Wings rig with it's superior fit and comfort available to me, help yourself!

Oh, no, my man. I'm there. I have also been instructed to be prepared to jump video too. The only problem with that in the past is the lack of communication between the video and tandem/AFF wheel where I end up jumping less than I would if I just jumped one or the other. I love jumping both, but I get frustrated when I end up jumping less. See you tomorrow at about 7:30. Should be very busy and fun! JP

Yeah.. I know.. before I thought you guys just liked it when I was around.. I found out why now.. just cause you need vidiots.. ha ha.. The Sack needs to work on Clay's airconditioning unit... otherwise it will be too hot for Clay to repack our reserves.. and you don't want that to happen right? Well, Clay has saved my life once with a repack. OK.

I know we need you for video, Iwan, but why keep the sack around. The sack is available for Elsinore. Keep him away from the heweres.

I can vouch for that. I've had two children two, and you are way foxier than me.

If you really want to see it developed fast, make a neato less than lethal weapon out of it. In the meantime, the huge tax break for 6000 pound vehicles for small business owners should accellerate the price of gas fast enough to fund pretty quick development.

Fake.

You ass. My avatar's cannot be beat. "Who's DaGimp?" "A real effeminate homo with a thing for cats" "Not that there's anything wrong with that" Trade the one of you hanging on a big way at a dropzone.com boogie for the one of you with a cast on your broken arm wearing a fishnet T-shirt and a leash. Great plan. -sometimes I get frustrated with my short-bus friends. I love them, but it's difficult sometimes.

Hey, Mike. I didn't hear about your injury. I hope you are OK. Please PM me, when you have time. JP

Then you are the only modern female of my aquaintance who does not own any toys destined for the southern hemisphere. When there is not a designated player. "Now batting, for Center Fielder, Manny Mota!" Or "manual motor" As the case may be. And if not, I apoligize.

Huh. The first thing I thought of was that usually a woman covered in hot tub water will usually steam. Then I say your post and figured dead frozen chicks were involved. I rapidly clicked away. Too many narcotics in a dark room, Shannon-bannanon. Get outside. I'll be happy to get you out for a day. Let me know when. JP

I say as I stagger through your room. "Yehr young! Yehr rich, overfed, oversexed, and overWANTING!" "Bah" "Yehr cute though. That's a fact. Come give us a hug!"

LEEEEEEEsah! I've been pounded by my Spectre's too, a few times. But getting pounded by a Spectre is nothing like being pounded by a Velocity, or to a lesser extent, a Sabre II. Iwan VideoScooter is the guy who was blasted that I was talking about. He is younger and tougher than me. He was THRASHED by that opening. Way more so that the very worst opening I've had on my Spectre's. Yes, when I'm due, I'm going dacron. I'm more about free fall.

Wasn't Philly the place where the cops dropped a freaking BOMB on a crackhouse from a helicopter? Madness. Being a cop was the wierdest job. Especially when you got into interjurisdictional stuff where you didn't know procedures of the other agency. Like beanbag shotguns. You know, when you chase a bad guy into another jurisdiction, and you have him surrounded at gunpoint, when the other guys shoot him, you figure you should shoot too, you know? They should tell you ahead of time that they are just shooting beanbags. Shooting a guy with bullets after he's been shot with a beanbag round is just harsh.

Derek is funny. The story I half-assed told earlier was a jumper that just pummelled in with that wet-dirt, vertical high-velocity "WHUMP!" that only a toggle-death creates. I run over and me, Derek and LouDiamond take the appropriate positions. Each of us is very grateful that there's two other calm, experienced first responders there. There's pulse and breathing so we move on to looking for stuff sticking out. Derek has immobilized the guy's head and me and Loudiamond are trying to figure out what's busted. "You feel this deformation?" Lou asks. "Uh" I say. Amy vonNovak walks up behind Derek and asks "Need my help?" (Amy is an MD with a background in Orthopedics) Derek, thinking it's a well meaning spectator, tersely replies "NO!", then, glancing up and seeing it's Amy, says "Yes! Please!". At about that moment I grabbed ahold of the deformation that Lou had identified and it hurt the guy like hell and he started thrashing around in a manner that convinced us all that Duderon did not have any spinal cord fracture. "Don't need me here" says Dr. Amy. "Can we get this guy out of the landing area" says the indefatigable Mr. Burke. "Sure" we all say. And we heave his very lucky ass into a golf cart and subsequently off to the hospital. And then we went skydiving in Arizona, where it's red and fun and Betsy is there.

In the US, they had to give the firefighters something to do. Most of the buildings in this entire country are "up to code" versus the issues you all have over there retrofitting historical buildings with fire safety in mind. If most of US firefighters had to earn their living actually fighting fires, they'd die of boredom. It's all about rescue and EMS, at least in most of California. The firefighters in the older cities work harder, but we define "older city" as being around in 1900, not 1400. Cops, now. That hasn't changed much in any major city since Mesopotamia.

I knew you'd get to this point eventualy..... Oh, that's funny! Is this the moment? Is this the Monster's "Read The F*cking Book!!!" moment?

The thing to do is make your hand firm in the other's grasp without crushing their hand. Like a Kung-Fu grip kinda hand the other person gets to grip as firm or as soft as they like. If your hand is soft the other dickhead can start working your knuckles against each other by crushing them. I try to always be ready to give as good as I get. I love shaking hands. You can learn a lot about people right away from that contact.

I have two highly loaded Spectres. Originally got them because they have a reputation for good openings, and lots of famoso camera fliers have them. I have NEVER been hit as hard as my friends who have been just clobbered by their almost-always docile Sabre II's. Every time I start to get curious about the latest and greatest, that parachute will open so hard on a friend that I quickly get over it. A very good friend of mine got hit by an opening so hard, with stills, flash, and video aboard by his Sabre II, that it nearly knocked him unconscious. If your health depends on not getting cracked (if you're brittle) then a Spectre might be a better choice.

So when the firefighters ran up and asked him if they could help, did he shout "No!" and then look at them and say "Yes! Please." Like he did that time at Eloy? (Substitute Amy for the firefighters, but you had to be there.)

STFU Duce.... I dont need no freaking mitre saw.. and I dont need no freaking fancy tools either! I'm drywalling our bathroom these days using my teeth to cut the gyprock and a Blockbuster Video membership card to spread the mud... So long as you keep your bride convinced that she never needs to see any Television about "curb appeal" or anything like that, you are good. Dry is good. Plenty of caulk and tarpaper should keep you dry. Just steal electricity from your neighbor's trailer by hiding the cord under the abandoned cars, and you should be able to keep it up indefinitely. You rock, Remster!

Only because of your hydrogen bomblike smile.

You are looking fit and fearsome after your nice longhaired post-retirement hiatus! Extremely hellacoolio. Work them while you can, Chuckster. Take the Military Industrial Complex to the bank! You earned it. Your Monkey, JP