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I just redid the math, and in Winter I'm about 1.7 with my cold weather clothes and the heaviest camera setup I wear. All my experience is Spectre, so I can't compare. But I don't have problems with the canopy at that high loading, and I regularly jump at DZ's at differing altitudes. I recently did a bunch of Birdman jumps, and didn't get a single line twist with the Spectre and my new Wings containers with the Birdman mods.

I forget the name. The visor is integral, like a fighter pilot helmet. I've seen them around. It actually was lent to that guy by Andy Ford.

Ohh... I count! I cant make as much noise and problems as you guys! Yeah, but you're French, Remi. Historically, that really doesn't amount to much of a threat. (Stepping up for my bud Skreamer who's PC is currently down)

That's cool. The camera thing. One last suggestion? Mark the periphery of the camera range outside, and when alone or without other credible witnesses, stay within that periphery when dealing with thuglettes. Or move.

Hey, BASE? I know a little bit about the subject, having once or twice pursued criminals on foot and in police cars as a consequence of this little insignificant job I once had. While I am all about laying the habeus grabbus on criminals of every stripe, I'm only trying to be helpful regarding limiting your liability. I am not flaming you, and I'm glad you are of the type to "do something" when you see wrongdoing. A person can get sued for absolutely anything. Whether they lose or win is not as big a deal as having been caught up in that nasty process at all. Again, a little advice. When you lay the grabbus on somebody (when you detain them) you are best off if you continue the detention until the cops get there and you get to tell your story first. The 15 year old girl who got drug probably wasn't supposed to be out vandalizing, so when she gets home is there the possibility that she may tell her parents that she was walking alone when this guy walking his dog beat the shit out of her and felt her up? Your dog is not the best witness to the fact it didn't happen that way. I think you did the right thing. I'm just trying to help you to do the right thing with the least amount of complication. Cheers.

I'm uploading to my Shutterfly page right now. Like 700 images, it's taking almost 24 hours on my DSL line. You simply have to be in at least one of them...

The time between that front side (first and only time I will do that) and your first paying customer is an eyeblink. You cannot ask enough questions. If you can start a bull session with the tandem instructors which you fuel with beer you've bought, you will be investing wisely. The very best instruction I got was when I did my unstable drogueless jump and Vic Krusi talked me through flying the pattern and the flare while in the student harness. As with all learning, the key is to have a small mouth and big ears. (listen more than you talk)

Hey Klaus! Thanks again for the demo unit in Sweden. My blue one was waiting when I got home. JP

I fly the 150 at 1.6 and I flew a 170 before that, so I've got nearly 1000 jumps on Spectre's. If you crank up the front risers it swoops pretty good. Bridgette Liss (?) did swoop competition with the teeniest version, I think. Mad John Dobleman swoops the pond regularly with his. And like NacMac says, when you need to put it down in a freeway cloverleaf, the Spectre lets you do that too. Great for casual CRW, too.

If the citizen's arrest laws are like CA, you can detain adults or juveniles who you saw committing a crime until the police arrive. I can't see any problem with detaining the female juvenile. As silly as it may sound, you have some liability for confronting the kids and causing them to flee. In lawyerland, you are the reason the girl got dragged, cause if you hadn't been there, she would not have been. So, next time you put on your neato beret know the rules, bring your cell phone preloaded with the local police number and try to convince anybody who is injured in your presence to hang out to be released by either or both the cops and the emt's.

Glad to hear it. Now that she's mobile, how do you keep her from escaping your clutches? I was too jetlagged Saturday to jump, but Sunday I got 4 tandems, a really nice freefly with Vic and Aaron, and an 8 way where I ended up trying to drag a very lightweight/floaty 35 jump skydiver down to the formation. Iwan got some nice pics of that one. It was really nice to be home, where the rest of my homies are and my canopy flies just right.

Ba-doom-PAH!

Actually, yeah. Andy jumped birdman with me a bunch and as I took pictures of him he went from an "Uh" face to a "YEAH!" face. It can be learned. Notice how the sky gets all blue once you start putting some teeth out there!

Cleaning up the foam party took an ARMY of bighearted Swedish Skydiving Club volunteers. Since Eloy is a commercial operation, the cost of cleaning up that stuff would be prohibitive. Probably impossible due to liability here too. One guy stepped on a torn open beer can and cut the holy hell out of his foot. You wake up with the wierdest bruises, too. Funny, I'm standing there next to Pam (please let me have that right) who's my age or so, she asks if I'm getting in, I say "no, you?" she says "no". About a minute later she says "I'll go if you do" and in we went. No doubt the best party I've been to in years. You could never convince me to host one, though.

Chickie-mama, you don't need no stinking lion! As to the cover thing, I think there's a lot of cache put into the name of the photographer that took the shot, or the names of the folks in the shot. While I have advertising shots in the latest issues of Skydiving and Parachutist, I'm not a name. The one shot I got "published" in Parachutist (I framed the $15 dollar check rather than cash it) probably got picked cause McGowan was in it. Cause McGowan is just that cool

-this is a personal attack- Fuck you Remi.

Hey lady! The trip was great! The kids travelled really well, London and Edinburgh were great, I managed not to get deported from Sweden even though I did get a warning for doing a hook-turn, and Skreamer put me up for almost a week before I flew home on Virgin upper class. Here's a picture of me climbing one of the "Do Not Climb the Lions" in Trafalgar square. When the bobbies ask you to get down and you say "What? Or you're going to shoot me?!" the get all pissy. You're on for Holiday Boogie, right?

And the unique nature of the Dropzone.com website asserts itself. Eventually, if you are what you say, you will actually MEET these people. Pretty difficult to show up on a dropzone and pretend you have 8 thousand jumps when you don't. Good effort, though. He could have pulled it off if he hadn't gone for the wierd pictures. Trolls take note.

And most whish they didnt... You get a flight out for the Byron Boogie yet? I'll pick you guys up if you do.

Yeah, that's where DZ.com is so different. When I was in Sweden I had quite a few folks from around the world introduce themselves. When Duderon makes himself known on some DZ, he'll likely get the "Oh, you're the little guy with the hangup about overweight women..." I'm thinking a guy in the sport 15 years jumping a hyper-perfomance canopy at Perris would probably be known to a few people at least. Somebody please tell me this is all tongue in cheek.

Nah, I'll let others vouch for me. I know tons of folks at Perris. You have made all of about 13 posts, most of them inflammatory, so I suppose you are just a little man stuck alone under florescent lights somewhere stirring up a fight . So sad.

Andrea, you know better! Anybody who knows this character and skydives with him want to put a good word in for his nature? Troll.

E-bay I think. contact CHopChop, he's got a new one and the settings for freefall.

Dave, I demo'd the new hardware at the Herc boogie and it's plenty tough enough. Exits out of that thing define full-contact RW and my demo unit held up fine for the 30 jumps I did.

Yes, well, when you crap in your hand and throw it at people, they sometimes mistake that gesture of affection for arrogance and rudeness. Mind you, I find it quite endearing when you are throwing it at others.