Jockeyshifter63

UK Gerry and the Pacemakers - "I Like it". USA The Essex - "Easier said than done"

Hell, where I live I would just assume it was a mixture of the locals favorite. Weed and meth topped off with a little ketamine.

If you are in the area of a tunnel and can be there every week then check into a "league". Several of us block out an hour a week with a coach. We each get about 6 minutes in 1-1/2 min increments during that hour. That way you can rest, watch yourself on video delay and then make adjustments on your next flight. Helps keep it a bit more affordable and in some cases you get the same coach every week if that is what you want. I know it doesn't sound like much but you will be surprised how quickly you will improve with consistant coaching. We even have a competitive 4-way team during our hour and they combine their time to do all kinds of drills during their slot. Fun to watch.

I agree the tunnel is a humbling experience. I am a noob skydiver but always thot of myself as a pretty good athelete. Belly flying had it's challenges as a noobie but I have gotten pretty comfortable in the air and the tunnel. Now back flying........that shit'll humble anybody. I feel like a rabid pinball thats been greased. Thanks for my VERY patient tunnel instructors here in Denver. Still very humbling...................Good luck Squeak.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Reply To -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Not to be confused with playing with myself under canopy) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You say that like you are the only one that has ever thought of it. ________________________________________________ Gee Pops, you mean there others out there like me?

I really like the canopy work. Short term I want to be much more consistant on my canopy work, patterns and landings. Mid term goal is to try some CReW work but long term I want to get my PRO. That really sounds like a hoot!

Chicken feed stuff. _________________________________________________ A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon we're talkin' about real money. (Quote attributed to Sen. Dirksen. He spoke often and passionately about the debt ceiling, federal spending, and the growth of government.)

She actually has a problem with much more than just that statement. Here is her open letter to Penn. http://wmal.com/goout.asp?u=http://newsbusters.org/blogs/maria-conchita-alonso/2010/03/25/open-letter-sean-penn

http://wmal.com/Article.asp?id=2357687 Maria Conchita Alonso - You Go Girl!!!!!! I hope you run into Danny Glover next.

As I said, I don't care what the engineer does with his trucker mothed, chain smoking, non educated, non working, kid popping, poorly dressed, butch hair cutted, pigeon toed pigmy wife at home.....with her pushing him around telling what he can and can't do with his hard earned money. _________________________________________________ Ya know Shah, we get it. You have issues with Engineers. I just hope you never spout that shit above in the vicinity of my wife. Don't think I would even get the chance to deal with you, due to the fact that my wife would whip your mf ass. If there was any ounce of mouth left on you I would then have some good old Redneck Oilfield Engineering fun. Take it down a notch junior.

Well, there's a lot of irrelevant misogyny and macho posturing in this thread. And you forgot to ask if any women had skydived without their husbands knowing about it _________________________________________________ My wife and I talk several times a day on the phone. Even after 25 years I still love to hear her voice. But, when I call her cell and she doesn't answer, I can bet dollars to donuts she's out jumpin'. But that's OK. Since she started jumpin' outta airplanes she is the happiest I have ever seen her. I only get pissed cause I'm not there too!

Oh ya....the wife gives me Boobs every year and I have never gotten tired of that present going on 25 years.

My wife and I have only done Christmas stockings for each other for years. Just knick knacks that are fun and simple. Most of the money went to our kids but now they are teens we "adopt" a local serviceman who is deployed and the money is spent sending gift bags to his/her unit. Really has taught the kids about the gift of giving.

I am going to try that. Love the idea of a simple experiment. With all the operations and a very small colon right now I actually am very careful what I eat the day before and just dont eat the day I jump til after the planes are down. The value of burping the bag line is funny. Ya just gotta laugh at this shit or you will die crying. I have a couple of funny stories 'bout the burping. I was going to make up a bumper sticker that said......"Get offa my ass or I'll throw my colostomy bag on your windshield". My wife stopped me but I still think it would be funny!

Good stuff. So simple a caveman could do it, eh? Even 1st-jump students can do it! Even I can do it! _________________________________________________ Hey Pops. How did you know my wife calls me a Caveman. Also being a newb I have started doing a solo jump, everytime I have a full day of jumping, for the sole purpose of just bellyflying looking at my alti and looking at the ground. I am trying to get a real good idea of what everything looks like at certain altitudes. Of course I am assuming that'll change at each new DZ I visit. We are lucky enough to have a tunnell here and I try to make it a habit to LOOK at the back of my wrist frequently while flying in the tunnell just to get that "habit" cemented in my thick caveman head.

Individuals can be quite knowledgeable, but people as a whole are fucking idiots. I don't actually think you need a bigger explanation. ________________________________________________ This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes; from of all places a Peanuts cartoon. I believe it was Linus sitting down and Lucy asked him "Linus, why do you hate mankind?" His answer; "I love mankind! It's people I can't stand."

Off topic a bit but interesting info I hope: "If, I may add... the swastika can be found in some Native People's art work and drawings in this country." ----------------------------------------------------------- Actually the arms on the symbol are backwards on the Native American symbol and it is called the "Rolling Waters". The town I grew up in had several buildings with that symbol in the top masonry. Caused quite a stir during WW II but after the people were educated the symbols were left alone and are still there today.

No cutaway yet but one pretty serious line twist all the way up to the slider and man was it tight. I noticed that when I placed my hands inside the risers to pull out and kick my feet, that I had a really good view of my hand mounted alti the whole time. Glad it worked out that I could deal with the mal and be checking alti at the same time.

Your right. I forgot about the irrigaton thing. Thanks.

Thanks Nitro. When I had my bypass colostomy I had to do this frequently and if I was careful with my diet the oder was not too awful bad. I have thot maybe I could get away with 5K hop and pops as a solution.

A few years ago I had a bypass colostomy that was reversed after a year. My wife and I started jumping this year and it looks like this is part of our lives now. There is a very real possibility I will end up with permanent colostomy. Does anyone know of someone who jumped with a bag frequently? If so could I get in contact with them? I will be away from the forum for a couple of days but will check in then. Thanks.

OK got that thanks. I was trying to make it more complicated. So here is my next question. In Section 5-4, B, 2b the discussion is the Ground Crew Briefing and the "jump order". In a search of the forums I found a thread from 2004 with this: "Generally speaking, the usual accepted order of exiting aircrafts is as follows: 1. Hop and pops (low exit) 2. RW big to small 3. FF big to small 4. Students(Coach then AFF) 5. Tandems 6. Wingsuits 7. CReW" In the following discussion there was the suggestion that wingsuits and crew switch order. Is this sequence still valid in 2011? We usually have a load organizer on weekends but not weekdays so I would like to have a better idea of accepted jump order. Thanks in advance.

I recently took my "B" test. I passed but was not very impressed with my score especially since I thought I had really studied the SIM. I am now re-studying the manual on those weekends the weather is too nasty to jump, and now I have a few questions. I will ask one at a time. In Section 5-3, M, 3 -Maintenance and repair of the main: The main parachute and it's container need not be maintained as "approved". Everything in the part "M" makes sense to me except this statement. Maybe I am just being dense but could anyone explain this to me?

You mention bad casings, but what I don't get is that the fluid has to get out into the rock formation. If it remained in the casing, it wouldn't do any good. So what keeps the fracking fluid from seeping into any nearby aquifer? -------------------------------------------------------- Bertt, I would love to get in depth to answer. Right now I don't have the time, but let me throw a quick couple of things out there. In a nutshell the same thing that keeps the oil and gas from naturally seeping to the aquifer is what keeps the frac fluid from doing the same. It is a natural geologic trap. Fracs are designed to stay in the target formation. Think of this - if I spend thousands of dollars (500,000 to 8 million is a pretty normal range depending on the area, depth, type of well etc.) the last thing I want to have happen is to breach the geologic trap keeping the product in place. In other words if I fractured the well to the point it pollutes an aquifer I would also loose the product I am trying to sell. The other quick point is that the formations we target are usually several thousand feet lower than any potable water sources. The regulatory agencies ie; EPA, BLM, State, Army Corps of Engr, and several other alphabet agencies, watch this very closely to make sure we are not trying to produce a potable water zone. Any water we produce with the oil and gas is typically very salty and we are heavily regulated on the proper disposal of this water. Short answer - even if I had unlimited funds to actively try to frac into a fresh water zone from a gas or oil producing zone, I am not sure I could even do it. Maybe in a special case but I have never run into an area where it would even be geologically feasable. If you really are interested I could try to get you some links that might explain it better, or when I have more time I could try to explain it better here. Mind you I am not always a very good teacher. Gotta run but I will check back when I can.

So what motives do you think the narrator had -- was it a publicity stunt? Gas drilling has been around for some time. Horizontal shale fracturing, which this documentary is about, has not been around for 40 years. How would you approach the 32 families of Dimock, PA, who lost their clean water and have to have it shipped in, and whose property values evaporated? Would you listen to them with an open mind or tell them they're full of it? ----------------------------------------------------------- The motives are the same as any evironut group. Completely shut us down so they can force you to use wind and solar. Never mind the fact that wind and solar can only make up less than 10% of our energy needs as a nation. Never mind that massive wind and solar projects are more hideous to look at than any gas well, not to mention they are permanent where a gas well is temporary. Here we have to deal with the San Juan Citizens Alliance disinformation and BS for years. Personally I like informed conservationists to environuts. Locally we had problems a few years ago with claims of methane contamination in water wells due to Coalbed Methane development. What it boiled down to were problems with 40 and 50 year old orphan wells. It was very complicated and would take more time than I want to take here to explain it. Suffice it to say the problems were not even close to what the environuts were claiming. There were a couple of instances of direct methane contamination and those were rectified by the State of CO, and the Industry but most of the claims were unfounded. I know this personally because I had to get water samples of every water well in a 1 mile radius of any new well we drilled before we ever drilled and completed it. After the well was on we took water samples and monitored the surrounding wells. After that program was implemented the BS flat stopped. Never did see any relation to bad water and drilling/completion. The Antrim Shale in Michigan and many other shales around the country have been produced and stimulated for decades. Shales have been produced all over the world for decades. Most have just not been very economic until technology caught up. The Bakken in N Dakota has been producing for decades but recently the technology became available to pinpoint and lengthen the targets and laterals with the horizontal drilling. Horizontal completions in these shales are just larger cousins of their vertical counterparts due to the amount of the target formation that is contacted by the wellbore. The mechanics of the well are the same just more technologically involved. This new technology has made all these previously marginally economic shales very productive. This is good news for our country people. We really have the ability to be energy independent again! There are currently several horizontal shale developments in the USA. The Bakken in N Dakota, the Niobrara in N Colorado & Wyoming, the Utica-Collingwood in Michigan, the Eagle Ford in S Texas, the Haynesville-Bossier in TX, the Fayetteville in Arkansas, the Barnett in TX, the Woodford in OK, the Avalon-Bone Springs in TX, the Chattanooga in KY & TN, the Lower Huron in KY & WV, the Monterey in CA, the Pearsall in TX, and the Mancos in New Mexico, etc. etc. The only place that seems to have had these issues is the Marcellus. I am not familiar with that play and the problems there, but my guess is that if there is a problem it would have more to do with poor cement jobs on the casing than Hydraulic Fracturing. That's why I say it is pretty complicated for the layman to understand and therefore easy to exploit the fears of what people don't know or understand. For example; pick a topic that you have intimate personal knowledge of and try to remember how right the "media" got it last time a news story came out on that topic. I promise the screw ups and pure disinformation are ten times worse when it comes to the oil & gas industry. Hey everyone loves to hate us; it's in vogue to detest the oil & gas industry, we make pretty easy targets - similar to the nuclear industry. If it is proven that peoples water is impacted by drilling or completion of gas or oil wells then they should be compensated fairly. My experience is that very few problems that are blamed on the oil and gas business end up being proven to be so. But, you never will see the retraction by the media, just the initial sensational headline, and unfortunately that is all anyone ever remembers. Even the EPA (who is definitely not the friend of my industry) couldn't find any correlation between hydraulic fracturing and water quality. My guess is that I will never convince you but maybe I can help some others understand a little bit more. Now I better get back to work..... I am so far behind I think I am first.