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>Why not write it in Swedish so you're poor neighbouring contries could read it too Därför att ingen vill göra nånting. We are having a constant problem with getting _anything_ done at my club. The most hard-working person seems to a guy called "Someoneelse" who hasn't been seen in a while... I honestly don't know who is going to update the club-pages in the future... The guy who has been providing the content on the pages announced today that he's going to be too busy with his work from now on, and I(I've been responsible for the technical aspect of the pages) am going to move out of the country in the beginning of next year... I guess they'll find someone. Erno

>we're all usually bored at work, so get naked... that's interesting Damn, there's an idea... I work at "The provincial state office of southern Finland", a government bureau. The people here are... let's just say "conservative". I can't imagine what they'd say or do if they found me naked sitting at my desk. My contract does expire at the end of the month...(so I actually could try it) but there's a good chance that my contract gets extended(and I'm really not sure if that's a good or a bad thing) Erno

I'm bored at work. A dozen people online and no one has anything to say? Just to amuse myself, here is the website of my homeDZ.

> nothing in skydiving is maintenance-free Good point! But to rephrase my question: Is it more or less likely for an unmaintained soft link to fail than it is for an unmaintained french-link to become un-threaded and bent like the one shown in the pic? Erno

>Frap hats do several things for you: > In addition to those, they keep your ears from freezing off if you jump during the winter! Erno

Ha! Reminded me of my first contact with skydivers... After having worked a night shift, I decided to drive directly to the DZ for my FJC. This was around 5am. The plan was to sleep a couple of hours in my car outside the airport fence(I imagined the gates would be locked at night.) When I got to the DZ however, there were no fences nor gates around the airfield, so I just drove inside looking for the skydiving club. I then noticed this one guy just standing around, smoking a cigarette. I rolled down my window and asked -"Hey, do you know where to find the skydiving-club?" -"Yeah, it's right here, this building here!" The dude was drunk as hell

Whoa. Glad you're ok! A couple of things popped in my mind: 1) The next link to the right seems to be loose too. Were these properly installed in the first place? By a rigger? 2) There are no plastic/rubber/silicone covers on the connectors. This will cause premature wear on the slider grommets, which in turn will wear out your lines. I recommend that you have slider bumpers installed. 3) A question to the riggers out there: Could something like this happen with soft-links(provided of course that they are properly installed in the first place)? I understand that the tightness of the nuts on the connector links should be checked periodically. Is there something similar with softlinks, or are they basically maintenance-free? Erno

The lyric sheet's so hard to find What are the words? Oh, nevermind

My first comment on the ground after my first S/L-jump was simply "More of this!" with a stupid grin on my face.

Yeah what she said, your legs heal much better than your spine...

...and England...

>Keiko turned up in a norwegian fjord, seeking human attention. Probably the >poor animal is going to starve to death during the winter. That right STARVE! Says the one scientist. It hasn't starved so far now has it? It's survived for two months on its own now. >We do not kill bulls in an arena for entertainment and fun. Capture and keep >poor animals like Keiko in a small pool, tourturing him for years. Well Keiko doesn't seem to be holding a grudge against humans. And maybe if people left it alone it might get back out to the sea... Erno

>Not bad considering it was written by a whuffo... err, someone who's >only done one tandem. C'mon, no need to be bytching about a perfectly good article on skydiving... You can't expect them to get all the facts straight. This is exactly the kind of information there should be available for the whuffos to read. I liked the "Straight dope"-article on "GERONIMO!"(There was a link to that somewhere in the middle

>But what exactly is a "rapid inspection" sounds kind of lik Whatever it is, the point was that the US is now leaning towards a UN-regulated operation with international support, as opposed to attacking Iraq with no support or acceptance from the international community. Which is very good. Erno

I don't think a tight closing loop should be classified as a problem. The problems would be a worn out pilot chute and/or nicked pin. Seriously, you are not suggesting a loose closing loop to prevent a PC in tow? Erno

Could you post a photo?

>but the weight of the drugs puts his wing loading to high and he goes is? How much exactly were you planning on strapping on the poor fellow? "No officer, it's all just for personal use"...

Ok, (semi-)serious attempt now. There's this town and this airfield and at the airfield the DZ. And then some evil rich guy wants to build the airfield full of houses/a shopping mall/whatever. And then the skydivers go and collect money with demojumps and try to win the Big Competition so they can have enough money to save the DZ.... and throw in a cheesy romance in there somewhere.. yeah between the main skydiver-character and the daughter of the evil rich guy! And there has to be the nobody-loves-him-asshole-skydiver there who sells out the other jumpers somehow and gets paid his 30 silver and then with that he buys a brand new sub-100sqft pocket-rocket and he hooks himself in (serves him right). And the evil rich guy doesn't like the jumpers one bit cause they are always BASE-jumping off his skyscrapers and other property... And in the end the evil rich guy gets stranded and injured on a mountain or something and the only way to save him is with the skydivers and he is saved and he sees the error of his ways and does a tandem... Can we please have some drug-smuggling thrown in there somewhere? Erno

Ok, there are like these drug-smugglers, and they're trying to figure out a new way of smuggling drugs in to the country because the customs are too tight at the borders and airports, and so they jump out of the plane with the drugs!

>... how they could use the same canopies for freefall, base and lugging a >bunch of drugs. seemed very versatile! But not versatile enough it seems, as they had to use two main canopies during one jump...

>"The damage to his head was done when he hit the back of the plane, not the >ground. You should see his helmet," his wife said. I just saw a helmet that had also taken a serious hit after a hook done too low(Moi Vesa!). If the damage had been taken by his head he'd probably have a good sized bald spot on the top of his head now. It was a Z1 fullface, so whatever is said about the general quality of them, they obviously are good for something... Erno

Yeah! Proper protective gear, a clear and pull from 4000m and you're set to go! Breakoff at 1000m or so. The whuffos on the ground might not like the raining paintballs so this shouldn't be done over populated areas. And you probably don't want to take your brand new rig up there to be smeared with paint... Erno

Touche....

...but I'm willing to bet that the student wasn't actually in the chair during the jump...

Nahh, he's just "living on the edge"