Your best excuse as to why you screwed the pooch on that swoop...

[diablopilot 2]

Inspired by every incident and a conversation between a friend who doesn't post here.....

The best excuses you've come up with, or heard:

I'll start:

1) "The Sun was in my eyes"
2) "I got burbled."
3) "Side Gust."
4) "I forgot my competition goggles."
5) "I had an extra helping of weak-sauce last night."
6) "Diablopilot cut me off."

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You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

[Rdutch 0]

The shore was twenty feet to far away for these wind conditions.

Ray
Small and fast what every girl dreams of!

[grimmie 179]

"Leg cramp"

[AggieDave 6]

"I hit a thermal coming off the pond"

Or me from this previous weekend, and stolen from Swoop2:

"Some days you just suck!"

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[cocheese 0]

I was waiting for Sporto to go first.... then i was too low.

[JohnMitchell 16]

"I don't swoop. That's why I suck."

[jdfreefly 1]

The spot was 10 feet too low

Methane Freefly - got stink?

[jceman 1]

I was keeping my ears warm.

Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money.

Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

[dqpacker 7]

Some French guy was doing S-turns in front of me!

[djmarvin 2]

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Some French guy was doing S-turns in front of me!

A pirate cut me off

DJ Marvin
AFF I/E, Coach/E, USPA/UPT Tandem I/E
http://www.theratingscenter.com

[sinjin 0]

Diablopilot spilled whine on my canopy and it wasnt flying right !!!

dont let life pass you by

[DrewEckhardt 0]

Rarefied air molecules

(by tandem instructor Lance "Swoop" Kerwin)

[Halfpastniner 0]

"I caught a thermal coming over that bean field"

BASE 1384

[AggieDave 6]

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Rarefied air molecules

(by tandem instructor Lance "Swoop" Kerwin)

I originally heard that from the oft references Scott Miller. Not for his canopy piloting, but what others blamed for their actions.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[tombuch 0]

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Rarefied air molecules

(by tandem instructor Lance "Swoop" Kerwin)

I originally heard that from the oft references Scott Miller. Not for his canopy piloting, but what others blamed for their actions.

I think Lance "Swoop" Kerwin gets the original credit for uttering the phrase at the Ranch just after an amazing tandem surf 'back in the day. It was caught on tape and then quickly shared the world over.

Tom Buchanan
Instructor Emeritus
Comm Pilot MSEL,G
Author: JUMP! Skydiving Made Fun and Easy

[AggieDave 6]

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Rarefied air molecules

(by tandem instructor Lance "Swoop" Kerwin)

I originally heard that from the oft references Scott Miller. Not for his canopy piloting, but what others blamed for their actions.

I think Lance "Swoop" Kerwin gets the original credit for uttering the phrase at the Ranch just after an amazing tandem surf 'back in the day. It was caught on tape and then quickly shared the world over.

Well, you would be the one to know!

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[piisfish 136]

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The spot was 10 feet too low

I'll keep that one

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[jimmytavino 16]

"the ground,,, was 10 feet too HIGH!!!'



jt

[diablopilot 2]

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I hit a thermal coming off the pondtaxiway

Used it this weekend. I felt bad. I scared one of the prettiest packers on the DZ.

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[AggieDave 6]

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I hit a thermal coming off the pondtaxiway

Used it this weekend. I felt bad. I scared one of the prettiest packers on the DZ.

I'm sure you can make it up to Rob later...

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[BillyVance 34]

I didn't hear the guy on the ground screaming "FLARE!!!"

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[BETO74 0]

My legstrap caught/pinched my balls when I started my 270

http://web.mac.com/ac057a/iWeb/AC057A/H0M3.html

[thomas_crowe 0]

Being a pilot and a skydiver I particularly appreciate the one I just read in the incidents forum;

"It was a little hotter today and I didn't calculate the proper density altitude"

Thomas Crowe, NRP
Nationally Registered Paramedic
Red Hat Linux Geek

[wmw999 2,289]

Got new contacts and didn't take them into account.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[JohnMitchell 16]

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I didn't hear the guy on the ground screaming "FLARE!!!"

You Funny Bastard.