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Hm... two of mine stand out, both at Eloy: First jump at Eloy was my 6th jump on my new canopy, which was a 70sqft downsize from an f111 7er to a semi-elliptical zp 9er. I had never, ever landed in no-wind conditions under any canopy, and the 5 jumps on my canopy were all in about 15mph winds. When I was on final, I was scared. I was thinking "OH SHIT this is the part where I break my legs!!!" Stood it up, barely. Wasn't pretty! One of my last jumps at Eloy was the only day with any wind of note, about 8-9mph out of the north. Nothing major. I was going to land crosswind in the main landing area, and was the lowest, so I was setting the pattern from the east, with people lining up behind me. I noticed a little green snotrocket spiraling down on the other side of the main field and realised we were going to be on a collision course on final, so I decided to abort so I wouldn't be the guy technically landing against the pattern. I considered my options: Upwind into the desert, shrubs, and dust. Downwind into the grass. DOWNWIND TIME BABY! I set myself up on final, flared, and came rocketing in like a batjew out of hell. Stood it up and just started laughing at how fun that it was. Of course, everyone who was planning on landing upwind in the alternate pattern was a little annoyed, but monkycndo was high enough to reset the pattern, so no harm done in the end. He admitted he expected to see a pretty impressive crash landing. I was happy to disappoint! cavete terrae.

I haven't really had one yet, unless you count Eloy, but I don't. That whole place is one big landing area. cavete terrae.

I can't speak for the other groups... I was in the Mac Business Unit, and will be again if I get this job. Always has been sort of a rogue group cavete terrae.

I smacked my alti on the step of one of our planes doing a toe hang exit. Knocked it off by about 1500 feet. I did an altitude check, looked at the ground, back at my hand, and said "Somehow, I doubt it" Landed and the alti showed 1500 cavete terrae.

Your post excited me so much I imitated stitch. http://spiceweasel.net/grue-imitates-stitch.wav cavete terrae.

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That was a good time I don't know how long it'll be until I hear if I suck at phone interviews or not, but you guys will be the first to know if I'm flying out there for a 2nd round of interviews cavete terrae.

If I passed the phone interview I just had at Microsoft and get to come out for an in-person interview, y'all better be ready to hang out cavete terrae.

I love that book, I've read it about a dozen times. I actually worked at MSFT about 4 years ago, enjoyed it a lot. I suppose I'll find out which way it went soon cavete terrae.

Uh that unfortuneatly is very easy to do.... Indeed. That's why I'm hoping I didn't! cavete terrae.

I was thinking we should do a cross country right before it hits cavete terrae.

That was kinda scary, I didn't expect a call this fast, I only sent in my resume a week ago today I hope I didn't completely bugger it up cavete terrae.

I know a lot you don't know So what's your answer? cavete terrae.

Everyone on the surface is 100% sure to die. Everyone in the shelter has a roughly 1/100,000 chance of living. If you do live, the rest of your life will be spent underground, with all the creature comforts you ahve now, except the internet obviously. Every TV show and movie ever made is archived and can be watched on command, same with video games. However, the food sucks, and all the women (or men if you're going for them) are ugly and stupid. The shelter is nowhere near spacious enough to BASE jump anything. Do you stay on the surface and watch the end of the world, or do you take your chance in the shelter? cavete terrae.

Are you prepared for an eternity of having me as a boss? cavete terrae.

Definitely the exception, not the rule. cavete terrae.

ZOMFGHI2U! cavete terrae.

So who is this fellow, and why is this happening? cavete terrae.

You should use big seals, then, you can be the Big-T1Tted rigger. cavete terrae.

3000 pull, 1800 hard deck. On my cutaway, I had spinning line twists that I worked with until I saw the alti go past 2,000, then I took a deep breath and did the deed. I was comfortable with how it went, and I am comfortable keeping it that way. cavete terrae.

If it makes you feel any better, I had some guy try to convince me that he had "about ten skyjumps", the first of which was a tandem into a stadium.... when asked what the parachute looked like, he said it was "all black, and round. The guy I jumped with used it in the Special Forces" cavete terrae.

Just wait for SNAKES ON A PLANE cavete terrae.

That's 'cuz you're an AFF baby cavete terrae.

I'm trying to make the new tradition at my dropzone doing a non-belly jump, since that's even crazier than jumping naked, as far as most of them are concerned.... cavete terrae.

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