Aug 8, 2012, 12:50 PM
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Hullo all! I'm still a whuffo AFF student. I've looked at my calendar and planned out my last few jumps by the end of August (minus the wind tunnel practice).
I was wondering what the common practice/tradition for an AFF student after they pass their graduation jump from AFF status.
Do i buy beer for my instructor? Do i bring beer for the instructors that helped me along the way? A thank you card? What is the common practice?
All you owe is a case of beer to the fridge and to keep jumping! Remember, a case is 24 not 12. Some people forget this and congratulations!
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Don't buy crap ass beer.
Could just buy beer that you enjoy... The beer I enjoy just so happens to come in a 30 pack for $12.
I would call that crap beer. Is this what skydiving has come to?
Sparky
If he likes it, it's not crap to him. I know quite a few people that actually like to drink PBR and would love that as their case... I may not agree that it's good but I'll still drink my free beer
All you owe is a case of beer to the fridge and to keep jumping! Remember, a case is 24 not 12. Some people forget this and congratulations!
In reply to:
Don't buy crap ass beer.
Could just buy beer that you enjoy... The beer I enjoy just so happens to come in a 30 pack for $12.
I would call that crap beer. Is this what skydiving has come to?
Sparky
If he likes it, it's not crap to him. I know quite a few people that actually like to drink PBR and would love that as their case... I may not agree that it's good but I'll still drink my free beer
I thought, as a rule, free beer is always good beer. Or is it the other way around? Hmmmm.
Water and Gatorade/Powerade work as well. Not all of us drink alcohol and it is nice to have a free cold drink in the afternoon before the beer light comes on.
Ok, my AFF has taken longer than most due to a combination of age, vacation, small bad landing injury, and grandson time! I did show up one Saturday night with a cooler full of mixed beer. Heineken, Busch, Mic Ultra, and Coors. No beer left next morning ( slept at the DZ) but everyone seemed happy!! I did find out the young man who packs the student rigs did not get much for the packs so I tipped him my next trip for each of my previous jumps! In all it's just a mixed group of really good people!
I think you will find it's just not AFF graduation. The beer rule applies to skydiving first's. i.e. first cutaway, first jump with a new rig etc. Us newbs owe alot a beer when all said and done. Cheers
I hate the "green bottle" rule. It seems to be mostly lagers in green bottles. I'm not the biggest lager fan. I'll drink it of course but I'd prefer a good hefe or a red head instead. There are plenty of good beers that come in other colored bottles.
I hate the "green bottle" rule. It seems to be mostly lagers in green bottles. I'm not the biggest lager fan. I'll drink it of course but I'd prefer a good hefe or a red head instead. There are plenty of good beers that come in other colored bottles.
Did you _read_ the footnotes? Geeeze.....
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** Or other equally high-quality beer in other-colored bottles.
I hate the "green bottle" rule. It seems to be mostly lagers in green bottles. I'm not the biggest lager fan. I'll drink it of course but I'd prefer a good hefe or a red head instead. There are plenty of good beers that come in other colored bottles.
Did you _read_ the footnotes? Geeeze.....
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** Or other equally high-quality beer in other-colored bottles.
I've heard it claimed in other places too. Not just your fancy written rules besides who reads footnotes???
These are not _my_ beer rules. These are _the_ beer rules (Hi Wendy!).
Have some respect for tradition will ya!
If we followed tradition we wouldn't need beer rules. I've been told many a time "Back in my day you didn't order all these fancy craft beers. You ordered a beer and you got a beer. That was it. If you were lucky they had a choice between beer and light beer." I'll take my young-in beers thanks
Beer gets its bitterness from hops, specifically isomeric alpha-acids. Photons of certain wavelengths (specifically 200-500 nm) are energetic enough to break the bonds in these compounds, transforming them into compounds like 3-methyl-2-butene-1-thiol. This is very similar to the compound that skunks use to smell really bad.
Thus, you expose a beer to light (specifically UV and blue-green light) and it will get skunked. Beer is often drunk outside at DZ's, and green glass lets through plenty of blue and green light. Brown glass is much better; opaque glass or aluminum is ideal.
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