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Dude, really? That's a reason? Yeah, we wouldn't want to offend Muslim extremists and zealots by electing a female. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Wow. Unbelievable. How could he even think of doing something like that much less actually do it. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Several of the pictures show the engines wrapped up and covered with plastic. Looks chilly. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

My personal recommendation on shoes based upon my personal experience and personal desires is the oldest pair of sneakers I own with worn away tread. That way I can slide my feet across the ground with no grip and not have to run until I've slowed down a bit. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I love that material for packing. There are still a few canopies around and the material feels like it was rubbed with wax. Easiest pack in the world. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Just have to get approval to relocate those pesky control cables. Then it's a go! Details, details... "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I'm awaiting you guys getting FAA approval on something. The level of awesome of a shore-based Tandem operation is pretty amazing. For obvious reasons, the floats extend aft of the cargo door on all float planes. If you could submit for a bomb-bay door mod you're on the right track. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Sorry, this just now caught my attention. You're not getting new business because your target audience does not listen to radio, doesn't want to carry around printed media and you're not capitalizing on the marketing required for promotions and give-aways. Those methods are considered "dated". And to continue so I don't sound like I'm just slamming you. I'd recommend that you set aside a solid chunk of time and learn how to tie into people who have an electronic device pasted to their face (Pssst, they paid hundreds of dollars for that thing, they have money). You should have a comprehensive plan for how social media works together (Website/Facebook/Instagram/etc). Also, when you do discounts or give-aways it should be because you've tied that into a larger audience. If there's a boating show in town (for example) and you have a kiosk and a give-away then you should establish a marketing relationship with the promoters of that event so that your social media is working together. You should be posting videos on their page and hosting their items on your page. This should occur both leading up to and following the event with a few drop-ins at later dates. The point is to reach an audience besides the people who already know about you. This is especially important with tandem customers because it's likely that anyone who has "liked" your page has already done a tandem and you'll likely never see them again. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Sorry, this just now caught my attention. You're not getting new business because your target audience does not listen to radio, doesn't want to carry around printed media and you're not capitalizing on the marketing required for promotions and give-aways. Those methods are considered "dated". "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Yeah, we've tried to figure out how to pursue it but in the end their tandems usually had a good time and are none the wiser. They basically hop and pop their tandems and say, "Awesome, you're a skydiver now!" "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

That's what I always think of when someone says they visited the Grand Canyon but mean they just drove near it and stopped at an overlook. The last time I went to Sedona/Flagstaff my girlfriend wanted to "visit" the Grand Canyon. I wasn't going to burn a day of vacation driving there and back just to look at it from the rim. Somehow I avoided an argument, she told everyone she was going to see it while we were out there, but hiking around the Red Rocks blew the socks off a shitty day trip. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Actually you have no idea who or what I am. Correct. All we know is the persona you have projected on this forum for a dozen years. For all we know you might really be Kim Jong-Un's sock puppet. It would explain the grammar and spelling. There seems to be more and more in common between the far right and N Korea. Pretty soon they'll be calling for a border wall with landmines and armed watch towers. The front runner is already barring any media that won't sing his praise. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Haven't seen it in general EXCEPT for when other DZs are doing groupons. Our response was to provide a lower altitude jump at a lower price. We're very clear to the customer that this is a lower altitude (9.5k) jump. What's shitty is that the competition is putting tandems out even lower but telling the customer they went to 12k. Our area did a pretty good job of getting DZOs together against Skyride and then against Groupons so we're not getting hit as bad anymore. It's hard to get a DZ to give up Groupon and usually doesn't happen until they can't fix the plane anymore. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Breathe man, breathe. Don't want anyone accusing you of being a liberal for you thinking you know who I am. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Odd that I'll basically be voting for a moderate Republican this time around. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I'd be voting for Bernie, Kasich, or Rand Paul. Now I'm just voting against Trump. You don't give a rat's ass about killing gays and suppressing women, don't try some lame attempt at moral relativism. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Don't spend as a country what you can't afford. Don't discriminate against your own species or support those groups or nations who do. Don't do things to the planet that it cannot absorb. Not exactly radical. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

That has to be the more Right Wing insult I've ever heard. To paraphrase, "Your country is so full of fags that Muslims are taking over." Love it. He never said that or implied that. Staw man on your part He was making a joke, I got the joke. Go back to sleep. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

You could probably pass on the Grand Canyon and spend the full time hiking around Flagstaff. (If you're going to GC then that should be all you do on the trip, not just make a day visit for an overpass.) I see people posting all of the good ones - great outdoors and places to eat around Flagstaff. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Talk to every DZO in your market area and make a pledge not to use Groupon. That is the ONLY way you don't lose your ass. Also, advertise THE FUCK OUT OF the fact that you go to full altitude. You have to pitch it that there's an actual value to it. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

The dude in the clouds has done a great job at making life terrible for humans with floods, or plagues, or dead first borns. I haven't seen any biblical passages where God made things great or solved problems or saved people from certain death and suffering. The explanation is that God will not intervene in the life of humans. I'd say that killing a city full of people is intervention. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

That has to be the more Right Wing insult I've ever heard. To paraphrase, "Your country is so full of fags that Muslims are taking over." Love it. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

The only reason I would have to worry about urban survival is because people like you have done such a poor job understanding the world around you that when you die you'll have left it in a worse place than how you found it. Your lack of humanity and understanding of the natural world has left you actually praying to be raptured before you have to face the consequences of your actions. The best case for the future is a fulfillment of Max Plank quote "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." My hopes and prayers are that enough of you die soon enough that those of us who are familiar with truths are able to save the world from the destruction you've created. My, my such anger. You certainly have convinced me that I have made the right decision for my wife and I. BTW, I didn't create the conditions in America. You give me too much power. I just react to it. Your generation left a stinking turd in the toilet and your only solution is to remove the flush valve. I know life was easier when you could keep the negroes and foreigners in their own neighborhoods and dump shit into the Cuyahoga River without the tree huggers crying about it but now you've run off to hide leaving everyone else to deal with it. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

The only reason I would have to worry about urban survival is because people like you have done such a poor job understanding the world around you that when you die you'll have left it in a worse place than how you found it. Your lack of humanity and understanding of the natural world has left you actually praying to be raptured before you have to face the consequences of your actions. The best case for the future is a fulfillment of Max Plank quote "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." My hopes and prayers are that enough of you die soon enough that those of us who are familiar with truths are able to save the world from the destruction you've created. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I don't think an improbable circumstance is a Hindi family moving in to your neighborhood. My progressive liberal compound is Richmond, Virginia. Before that it was Virginia Military Institute. You might say my compound has more conservatives than liberals. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher