FlyingRhenquest

Ooh sorry, just assumed you were in the USA, where student debt is pretty much like herpes. They're still hounding several of my relatives who are years out of college. I decided I wanted to do this after watching a wingsuit video back in 2012. The plan that crystallized almost instantly was to become proficient flying a wingsuit, upgrade to a larger wingsuit and spend a week flying over Hawaii. My larger wingsuit should arrive in the next couple of weeks. That sort of thing seems to happen in this sport. If you start jumping and really like it, you can probably find a way to make it happen. Most people start and don't really like it. There were 13 people in my AFF class. One other guy from that class just showed up on the dropzone recently and told me he'd just got his A license. I don't think any of the rest of them even made it through AFF before quitting. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I think there's going to be another airshow down in Broomfield in early October. I need to see if I can persuade the pilots of those fighter jets to come visit us at Vance Brand. When I was a boy, I lived right on the flight line at an air force base, back when those guys didn't have any problem dropping a sonic boom over the continental USA two or three times a week. I think we need a reminder of what those days were like. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I was in pretty bad shape when I started. I'm in... somewhat less bad shape now. It IS freaking expensive doing this. Don't take a student loan to pay for it -- that shit's like herpes. I'd suggest seeing if you can find a packing job and start building up your bank account to get you to your A license -- figure about $2000-$2500 for AFF and then gear rentals, jump tickets and coaching to get you to 25 jumps. For your gear, find some decent used gear and see if you can take out a low-interest credit card to pay for it. Budget to pay off the card as quickly as you can and then close the account. It'll do wonders for your credit. As long as you're making your debt work for you, it's not a bad way of doing things. Student debt is about the worst of the bad debt, though, and should be avoided like the plague. If you decide you don't like it after 1 or 2 AFF jumps, you can always use your war chest to buy a Honda. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Congratulations, but I'm pretty sure there have been comments here who took years to do their AFF jumps. Hurry up and get your A, so you can go to Eloy this winter! Well... they probably actually have guys who can help you finish it out, if you haven't by when winter rolls around. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

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I know a guy who swears by Sabre 1s. I was telling him the other day he should just contact PD and see if they'd make him a new one. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Who is Jeb Corliss? He's just this guy, you know? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

When they were doing the wingsuit formation here a couple years ago, they seemed to be using little wingsuit paper dolls with suction cups on the back. If you have a magnetic surface, you could probably order a bunch of the small rare earth magnets they sell on The United Nuclear web site and use a dab of glue to glue them to a paper doll. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Is that as insane as it sounds? Does anyone do them? Vance Brand has a fair bit of air traffic and I definitely wouldn't want to do one here, but I'd really like to enjoy the view from 12,000 for longer than I can while spotting or in freefall. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

That's $400 a month! And we can still grow our own pot here! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

They need salesmen? I'd have thought they pretty much sell themselves. You guys should just sell them on amazon.com. I was just looking for a helicopter on there the other day, and they came up empty! I was all like "Once again, the internet has failed me!" Bet I could get a helicopter on alibaba *mutter* That's a lot more than you find on amazon! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

If they're secured with a password, you might need to re-enter the password. Usually, going to the wifi network list and selecting the network you want to join will give you some information. Your devices should remember the password but if it ever changes, you'll need to re-enter it. If it's not secured with a password, you might still have to explicitly tell your device to join the network. That might be all you need to do there. Once it knows you like to join that network, it'll usually remember to rejoin it when you're in range. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

And yet they don't annoy you enough to install Adblock. Truly, the site admins must love you. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I'm loading my main around 1.1 to 1 -- very conservative. I like how it flies and haven't felt inclined to downsize. My reserve is neighborhood of 1.15 to 1, which is still pretty conservative. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I have a mirage G4 with an Icarus Safire 2 230 and a PD Optimum 218 in it. This was not a problem at all for me the one time I've had a reserve ride on it so far. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I have a Safire 2 and have flown a Sabre 2, loading them both neighborhood of 1.1 to 1. At that loading, the Safire usually opens more softly, is not quite as "twitchy" as the Sabre, and feels like it glides farther. The Sabre 2 I jumped was pretty old though, so newer ones might fly farther. I prefer my Safire 2 to anything else I've flown so far, although the Sabre would definitely be a very close second choice for me. If anything happened to my Safire 2 at this point, I would definitely buy another one to replace it. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I hope to get some tunnel time one day. When in a students progression do you recommend tunnel? Or should I wait until after I get my A license? Fingers crossed that the rumors of getting on at King of Prussia, PA are true; that's only 1.5 hours from me! I did 6 minutes between AFF 1 and 2 and another 7 minutes between 3 and 4. It helps with the flying part. My sister said her tandem jump would have been a lot scarier if she hadn't gone to the tunnel first. People I've taken to the tunnel who've never jumped out of a plane start to look pretty comfortable on their belly within 20-30 minutes of accumulated flight time. First 10 minutes is pretty awkward, then you start getting the hang of it, then you start to relax while you're flying. A co-worker of mine has several hours in the tunnel now and is a better freeflyer than I am even though she's never jumped out of a plane. However, since she just rushed into freeflying, you can tell from watching us fly that I'm much more comfortable on my belly. She is catching up quickly, though! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

400 TSA agents arrested for theft, 0 terrorists caught. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

And also, Banksey's a freaking genius. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wruEnynr1w I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

This is just a feature of a massively parallel meatputer. It's used to getting sensory inputs in fairly random order and rearranging them to make sense. As far as I can tell, continuity is an illusion, with the system working behind the scenes to make it seem like everything seems to be happening at the same time, even though different sense data may take more or less time to process. I'm a bit surprised more people can't deal with a paragraph like this. Perhaps it has something to do with how I was trained to read. I got put in some experimental speed reading program in 7th grade that tried to get you to look at progressively larger chunks of text and parse out the meaning faster and faster. I never got really good at it, but I usually scan at the word level pretty quickly. If I slow down, it's harder to read what you have written here. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Although there's a lot to be said for getting so comfortable with operating a vehicle that you can become one with it and have it feel like an extension of your own body, getting out of the machine and having nothing between you and the sky still beats it hands down. It is the most pure way to experience flight imaginable. It's the same with my wingsuit. You'd think all that fabric would feel artificial, but when I get out of the plane with it, I'm at one with the wind in an almost incomprehensible way. If you've ever imagined or had a dream about flying, it's like that. Only... more. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yes, the door's scary. And yes, you do it anyway. That's kind of the point, isn't it? I think you need to see that you can do it and do it well. With 20 minutes in the tunnel, stability shouldn't be much of an issue. You know how to get stable, right? If the noise is the problem, maybe talk to your instructor about wearing ear plugs. They usually want to talk to you on the ride up, but perhaps you could put them in when you're coming around to jump run. If you can get past it, the door's just a door. The door in your head is a lot scarier than the door on the plane. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Hop and pops all day long. 5 minutes on the plane, get out, land. It really does help. You can also usually find someone offering a canopy course. They teach you stuff you'll use for the rest of your skydiving career, you do a bunch of hop and pops and hopefully they video your landings too. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Eeh, tunnel will probably fix what ails you. Most people I've taken more than once start to actually look like they know what their doing on their belly in about half an hour. It also requires you to fly a lot more accurately than in the sky, so it's a lot easier to tell when your body position is off. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

It's really not super-demanding. I was pretty out-of-shape when I started. I'm still not particularly athletic. Basically no endurance to speak of. Perhaps a tandem jump is more difficult, especially since you don't have the advantage of knowing what's going to happen. I never did one of those, so I can't say. Tunnel's pretty hard -- first time I did 6 minutes in the tunnel, I was sore for three days. I think you have a pretty good chance of that happening even if you're in reasonable shape, since you're not using them in the ways they expect to be, for much longer than a regular skydive. I did notice early on that I needed to build up an endurance to skydiving that unfortunately doesn't seem to translate well to anything else. You also learn to relax and not try to muscle your way through the air. A lot of my early effort was self-inflicted. Flow with the wind to achieve your goals, and it's a lot easier than trying to force the wind to do what you want. I also found flying a wingsuit to be much more of an effort than a normal skydive, but it didn't take long to get used to it. I think it's because I already knew about the flowing with the wind thing. For whatever that's worth. Hopefully at least some of that might help you in your journey. Good luck! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?