chuckakers

Do we wave at each other on the highway? Nope. We use center lines, brakes lights, and turn signals instead. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

I have used a "leg wave" for years and it works quite well in communicating your knowledge of other pilot's positions. I've also wondered why it isn't considered the norm sport-wide. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Uh, try not using Kingston sticks. Duh. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

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Worse yet, he's that guy. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Droid please! Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

My droid can use cell towers, but also has sat for accuracy, and it is damned accurate, too. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

El Paso, and the town is a pit. Would be nice to see more middle-of-nowhere skydiving, though. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeew Hoooooooooooo!!! That's a riot! A guy (or girl) we know only as "Kenny" is calling out an anonymous poster!! Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Oh yeah, I forgot one... He's the guy who oversells his denials of being that guy, refuting each mention of him being that guy as if the examples of his that guy-ism were literal accusations of that guy-like behavior on his part. But I gotta admit, Johnny Utah does a fine job of painting himself as a humble sort. Hmmmm - what's gotten into him? Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Man, this guy just doesn't stop. Please someone find out who PiLFy is and call his DZO. He's gonna need protection. Look, there's nothing new here, folks. Even before the internet and public forums, guys like PiLFy were around. You know the guy... He's the guy hangs around the DZ a lot but makes very few jumps (like say, 60 in 2 years), preferring instead to spend most of his time on the ground pointing out everything everyone is doing wrong - according to him - to everyone within earshot. He's the guy that instructors warn their students not to listen to and he knows that, but he continues to tell students what's best for them anyway. He's the guy who takes out the formation and then claims someone flew under him...even though everyone else was in the formation waiting on him. He's the guy who shows up at the invite-only parties at the coolest skydiver's homes sans invite, guzzles as much free beer and shovels down as much free food as he can, all while sharing his skydiving wisdom with unsuspecting whuffo ladies who listen quietly with strained looks on their faces, and whom and would gladly walk to the punch bowl and slam their faces in it if it would get them out of spending another agonizing moment in his uber-annoying presence. I only know PiLFy from his posts here, but from what I can tell so far he's that guy. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

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Actually chucky you haven't called anything although if you believe that well I guess it might be good for ya ego so go ahead... I've answered all that chucky boy if you don't get it then well I guess your just an idiot, sorry dude but I don't respect dickheads Well now that's professional. Hey Mods, ya wanna take of this personal attack? And calling me a liar isn't a personal attack Nope. Calling you a liar is an accusation on your behavior, not an attack on your person. Really chuck, if a organisation has no mention of student radios in it's training manual how can it advocate there use?? your really not the sharpest tool in the shed are you? Changing the language won't change the facts any more than your previous efforts to steer the conversation away from those facts did. You initially said your federation advocates NOT using radios, then later balked and said they simply don't address the issue. I'm a sharp enough tool to comprehend the difference. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Actually chucky you haven't called anything although if you believe that well I guess it might be good for ya ego so go ahead... I've answered all that chucky boy if you don't get it then well I guess your just an idiot, sorry dude but I don't respect dickheads Well now that's professional. Hey Mods, ya wanna take of this personal attack? Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Nor should you as long as you wear that expert attitude on your newbie ass. Fall is coming folks. Probably won't be long till Albert Nooberstein gets his ass kicked around the bonfire. I never said I was an expert @skydiving. Stick to the facts. Fact: Probably won't be long till Albert Nooberstein gets his ass kicked around the bonfire. This is too easy, but I could do it all night. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Nor should you as long as you wear that expert attitude on your newbie ass. Fall is coming folks. Probably won't be long till Albert Nooberstein gets his ass kicked around the bonfire. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

You sound like a public service announcement, Noob. Bet you're a riot around the keg, though. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Nice try again but still not gonna say where I am. You can call me a liar, Heck chuck you can call me susan if you want, I'm just not posting it. If you really want to know then you will just have to wait. It's not about being secret, it's about respecting the people I work with and the Federation that has given me the opportunity to work over here with the many student we have. I am very Fortunate to have found this place and it means alot to me. The Figures I quote are correct we have not only a solid program but great follow up awesome retention and a sports jumping scene that is just out of this world, so again you were right it really is something special. On the other hand mate... sorry but I have nothing to prove to you really. You have shown me very little respect chucky. You can think what you like, I know what I say is the truth. What you think about that matters little to me more than ever. But the more you talk shit about me then the more will rebound on you because student radios aren't part of the handbook. You might have been round for a long time but how much time have you spent out of the states?? Oh and just so you don't have to ask me again about it there is one small problem with me cutting and pasting from the hand book. For starters it does not exist in PDF. I could scan it but that would mean I would have to scan the whole section on training student canopy flight to prove that they don't mention the radio. But the biggest problem for you is you wouldn't be able to read it anyway because it doesn't exist in english. Which means as soon as I post it you would know where I am!!! But thats not what this is about and this tangent has gone on long enough.. When the reports are finished with the Federation then I hope someone will publish the whole report as well. But It's not up to me. . As I said this for me is about discussing AUDIBLES and DIGITAL ALTIMETERS, It's NOT ABOUT RADIO's, been here for 4 years I know we can operate with out them provided we educate our students in the right way. So anyone? anyone?

This sounds like an offshoot of the Elsinore incident, based on the fact that it was military related, and that nobody from the DZ is talking about the incident. The difference between that incident and your example is that if you're just driving by, you have no relation to the military base, it's operators, or their financial bottom line. Skydive Elsinore is a private enterprise, and holding a military training contract represents additional income. If that military entity asked the DZ to not comment on the incident, then out of respect for their customer, they would most likely comply (to include the employees also keeping quiet). As for the fun jumpers, we all know that fun jumpers often times have loyalties to their home DZ, and in almost every case, a jumper will have loyalties to any DZ over the press. They'll be more likely to 'serve' the DZ by keeping quiet then 'serve' the press by granting an interview. In terms of the actual incdident, it appears that it was a canopy collision, and as such represents value in the area of training or prevention. We all know that canopy collisions are bad and need to be avoided. Not commenting on the details 'most likely' is not putting the community at-large at any additional risk. If the incident was caused by a flaw being revealed in a popular pice of gear or method of jumping, I would expect the DZ to step up and reveal the details in an effort to stop a repeat incident, but that is not the case here. It was a canopy collision, and those are already a prominent topic of conversation these days, and simply adding the details of another is not going to change that. Police report. Public document. Should have all the "facts" anyone needs. Although details of exactly how it happened could be useful. Identifying the errors is the only way to use incidents - especially canopy collisions - as learning tools. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

I suspect that the plane rides have done more damage to your hearing than the freefalls. I do too, but I still have no measurable hearing loss. The genius that got us on the hearing topic was saying the 130db wind noise will hurt hearing. He thinks his skydiving friends are losing their hearing, but they just aren't listening to him. Have I said "Screw you, Chuck", yet? Oh yeah, I already did. Never mind. OSHA, & all the entire medical establishment are all wrong. All they had to do was ask some schmuck named Chuck... That's brilliant, Einstein. Nooberville goes panty-wad, guys and gals. I must be the first guy in skydiving to jerk his RSL. Hey wait a minute, he called me a schmuck! Hey Mods, Dooderanimous is PA'ing me! Seriously, staying on topic - sort of - more or less, so the mods won't delete this stellar entertainment, I'm sure loud crap hurts hearing. Yeah, I get it. We all get it. Some loud crap probably hurts hearing worse than other loud crap, depending on a buttload of loud crap variables. But that doesn't matter. What does matter is whether or not any hearing loss from un-earplugged skydiving is worth the diminished hearing ability skydiving with earplugs presents. Now I ain't no scientist. Hell I ain't even an assistant scientist, but in all my years of skyhoppin' I've known very few skyhoppers with hearing problems and a big fat NONE who were long-term staffer types - you know - folks with copious quantities of freefalls, wind noise and all - and damn near every one of them jumped without hearing protection. Staying alive when hurling one's body at a perpendicular angle toward a big planet at a high rate of speed sometimes - ok, pretty danged often if you think about it - comes down to a razor's edge of events. People saddle within seconds of impact. A corking freeflyer or badly-burbled approaching FS diver passes inches from a might-have-been unconscious friend. Shit happens, and it happens in this sport a lot more often than any loyal skydiver would ever admit to whoever they keep the behind-the-scenes skydiving shit from in their life. The difference in a close call for any of us may someday be whether or not we can hear something. Since I have seen no established pattern of ear-plugless veteran skydivers that can't hear the convenience store clerk say how much the case of beer costs, let's take the earplugs out before exit. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

That was a whole lot of typing for very little answer. So you can't produce the name of the federation or a copy of the text advocating not using radios. Just trying to keep us all honest here. Exactly... I couldn't have said it better but I'm being totally honest, I'm just not gonna bite on that one. I'll make it a little shorter this time for ya. Where I am and which Federation I work under is not the Topic, the use of Audibles and Digital Altimeters for students is The rest for me is irrelevant, and as you say I've typed enough about why. Bite on what? An honest question about a statement you made and then defended without citing the source? You lied. That's ok. Just be honest and admit it. People who make up sh*t up to try to win a debate are part of the problem with the sport. It's called misinformation and it can be deadly. But I know that doesn't matter to you anyway. No misinformation Chuck, nothing made up, I'm just not going to tell you the Federation I work under it's pretty simple really. I'm here to discuss instructor issues and training methods not politics!! Believe what ya like but there's Nothin Deadly about that!! And your right that doesn't really matter to me, politics that is not the truth The truth is always important

That was a whole lot of typing for very little answer. So you can't produce the name of the federation or a copy of the text advocating not using radios. Just trying to keep us all honest here. Exactly... I couldn't have said it better but I'm being totally honest, I'm just not gonna bite on that one. I'll make it a little shorter this time for ya. Where I am and which Federation I work under is not the Topic, the use of Audibles and Digital Altimeters for students is The rest for me is irrelevant, and as you say I've typed enough about why. Bite on what? An honest question about a statement you made and then defended without citing the source? You lied. That's ok. Just be honest and admit it. People who make up sh*t up to try to win a debate are part of the problem with the sport. It's called misinformation and it can be deadly. But I know that doesn't matter to you anyway. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Your right Chuck you never asked where I was but others have commented It's interesting whats happening down under, I just put that in so people aren't assuming that. Thats why I wrote "people" not "you" or "chuck". Sorry If you felt that was directed at you.

I suspect that the plane rides have done more damage to your hearing than the freefalls. I do too, but I still have no measurable hearing loss. The genius that got us on the hearing topic was saying the 130db wind noise will hurt hearing. He thinks his skydiving friends are losing their hearing, but they just aren't listening to him. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Davinci explained it to you very nicely and aptly but *sigh* You missed the point entirely. But, to answer your misdirection... Hmmmmm....deaf....dead....deaf....dead.... Hey! I'll take deaf for $100 Alex! Maybe we should do a little survey of all the old-timers here. You know, just for the education of the newbies. How many of you skydivers who have been jumping for greater than 20 years can't hear any more? How many hear just fine? How many actually listen to skydivers who have been around a lot longer than you? 26 years in the sport, 5,000+ really loud freefalls. No measurable hearing loss. But maybe I'm really just that damn good! Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX