FlyingRhenquest

Red miso ramen soup and with a cold red wolf beer! It makes me feel even better than home made chicken noodle soup. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I saw a picture of a lemur jumping the other day and it looked like the tail played a huge role in stability! I'm sure a big lemur tail would make my skydives much more interesting! Sadly I don't think some dinky battery powered thing is going to cut it. I DO have a junior genetics engineering kit on order from Amazon, and high hopes! I've also been practicing my evil scientist laugh, just in case I get it right! Muahahahaha!! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

That's the design I've been using since I was six, except that I fold the nose back in to make a flat bus-like nose. This seems to be a bit more stable than leaving it as a point like they do. I forget who showed me how to make them that way, I think it was either one of a couple of Chinese kids at my school or a Japanese kid who lived in my neighborhood. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I'd say do what makes you happy. If you don't want to answer questions, just use the whale biologist's answer, "I don't know you well enough to get into that!" He has to be pretty smart, he's a whale biologist. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I haven't seen that one at the Safeway down the road either, but they do carry both Americone Dream and Late Night Snack, both of which are pretty good. I'm lactose intolerant and have to take precautions when eating ice cream, and am trying to avoid sweets anyway, but I like those two flavors. I'd try the suggested Penny Arcade flavor "Cake and Bacon" if someone made it. Maybe I should bake up some bacon and try it myself! I've made several odd ice cream flavors, including Salmon, Chocolate Cayenne and Green Tea. My favorite of those is the Chocolate Cayenne, which I could legitimately see someone like Ben and Jerry's do commercially. The salmon, not so much... But you have to experiment to learn! The cheap Wal-Mart ice cream machine got lost in the move, but now I'm really tempted to get a decent one and try a batch of chocolate ghost pepper ice cream! Or maybe mango-habanero.... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Ok, but you think they'd really go for my moobs? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Pick an IRC network and make a #skydivers! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I'd considering owning some shares from them, as part of a well-diversified investment portfolio. I tend to favor products I know and like. Of course, I thought Apple was overvalued at half its price, so maybe you should add investing to the long list of things that getting advice from me on is a bad idea. A list that includes landing a canopy, relationships, legal and medical advice. Oh, and poker strategy, fiscal policy, quantum physics and nuclear chemistry. Among others. I'm like a renaissance man of suck... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Helmet, Jumpsuit and Altimeter. Helmet's actually the cheapest thing you can buy there. Jumpsuit could run you between 150 and... Well... depends on what you want to pay for a jumpsuit. A digital altimeter could run you $200-$300. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I just noticed that in the SIM the other day while looking for something else. It's 18 years of age, or 16 years of age with notarized parental or guardian consent. (Section 2-1 subsection D.) Ha-ha! Only DZ I know in Florida is Deland, and mostly just because everyone's always talking about them here. Dunno if you could find one closer to West Palm Beach or not. Anywhoo, look around, find someone and be sure to call ahead to make sure they'll let you jump there. Are you planning to do a tandem or training for solo? I bought my sister and niece some tunnel time and tandem tickets while they were visiting for my sister's Birthday. I kind of liked easing them into it with the wind tunnel time. So if you're heading up toward Orlando for you jump anyway, it could be fun to pick up 5 minutes or so of tunnel time or do a family thing with a bigger block, then go do a tandem that same day or the next one. I reckon that'd be fun beyond all expectation. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Ooh might be the jump jones thing. If it gets up to the 40s by the weekend I'll be there! I have some new nomex flight gloves which I don't think will be any warmer than the previous ones, but I'll just slap on some latex gloves under them and I should be fine. I think you'll like the King Air once you stop trying to get three people out the door. Climbing out of it is surprising if you're used to the Otter -- it's fast and the prop blast can catch you by surprise. Since I went solo, I just dive from the door and it's great! The first seats on the floor are downright comfortable, too! It's a lot better than trying to jam yourself on the bench somewhere in the middle. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I had an odd dream in which one of the DZ pilots was teaching me how to land the King Air. As I started my approach, he directed me to go around and try again with the landing gear down. What an oddly specific thing for my subconscious to come up with. Is this the skydiver equivalent of being in homeroom with no clothes on? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

This year I learned how to jump out of an airplane! My resolutions are to get my own rig, AAD and canopies, do at least 140 jumps this year and be ready for wingsuit training no later than spring of 2014. Also once I have my own gear I'd like to jump at least two dropzones other than my home one. I think these are reasonable goals I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Are you exaggerating this? I don't think that is NEARLY enough time to go through all the basics, the emergency procedures, practice exits, etc... It took me five hours and I wish I had more time. Does this concern anyone else? I think there's a fine balance between providing you useful information and going straight to information overload. They don't want your brain to crash on the first jump. With the sensory overload, that still happens with some percentage of AFF students. Most of those are OK on their do-over once they know what to expect from the experience. Of course, if you're ready for more, you can seek out information! The packing crew is quite helpful and approachable. They also have pretty regular packing classes, which is a great way to learn about gear. I actually wish I'd done mine while I was still in the AFF program. Ask the other skydivers what they're doing! So far no one there has yelled at me for asking questions, so jump right in! If you feel like you need more time in the cutaway harness or want to review safety procedures, talk to your instructors or the folks in manifest. It's your life, so if you don't feel safe jumping then do what you need to do so that you do feel safe jumping! You're not alone there! I think that all parts of your mind must be comfortable that you're going to be OK once you exit the aircraft, in order for the door to not be terrifying. Consciously you can accept that the gear will save your life, but until your subconscious accepts that this is true, it's going to try to keep you from going out that door. And the only way it has to do that is to flip the panic switches. At least this was my experience with it, and I was very much OK with climbing out and chilling on the outside of the aircraft on my AFF 4 jump (Which was like 6 or 7 jumps in.) I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Firefox with the noscript plugin was my browser for a long time, but on the sites where I do allow javascript (Including a couple of Hudson pages at work,) I've found that Chrome renders them much faster. Chrome also has a noscript-like addon so I can disable javascript on most sites. I find browsing the web to be much less obnoxious if you do this. The sites that demand javascript be turned on are easily blacklisted and never visited again. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

USPA SIM on Recurrency Training I haven't heard that your skydives ever "expire", but at the same time you could end up jumping more than 25 times to check everything off your A license proficiency card. For example, I did a canopy course (Which will come in handy for my B license in a while) while I was still in coaching. So I ended up doing around 33 jumps before I checked the last thing off my proficiency card. Most places I look in the USA a lift ticket is $25. In a couple this depends on altitude. I haven't looked at gear rental as widely, and suspect it probably varies more. A couple drop zones I looked at don't even offer gear rental. How much that actually costs you kind of depends on you though. It's not that hard to knock out 10 jumps in a day, once you get rolling! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

In what time zone? Keep in mind that GPS time runs 19 seconds faster than international atomic time. And don't forget to subtract leap seconds from the time if you're trying to convert to UTC! If I'm not mistaken, everyone just does it in their timezone, which is GMT plus-or-minus something. Except the Chinese. Theirs is GMT plus-or-minus February. And Jewish people, who are GMT plus around 3000 years and minus a couple of months, give or take. Anywhoo if you're just doing in your timezone, make a 19 second fuse on your fireworks and have your computer ignite it when the computer says midnight and you should just about nail it! Unless you're Jewish, in which case you'll need a 3000 year fuse. Wait, that's not right... Also technically that's still just an average, due to time running differently depending on your speed and gravity. So if you're in a skyrise in New York, time doesn't run at the same rate as if you're in a shack on the equator. It's a pretty good average though, enough that I don't have to account for relatively and can still point an antenna at a satellite and be accurate to a few meters. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Hey Congratulations! It just goes to show what you can accomplish when you put your mind to it! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

You never know what you're capable of, unless you try! Anywhoo, on the one hand, I haven't even been skydiving that long and I already have heard several versions of the "Boy meets girl, boy dates girl, girl says 'We need to talk about how much time and money you spend skydiving,' boy dumps girl." story. On the other hand, if you're a skydiver and date a skydiver, you'd best make sure your combined income can afford two people skydiving. I have the problem that most of the women at the dropzone are 20 years younger than me, and it actually makes me feel like a pervy old man if I think of hitting on them. For some reason I have a problem with this. I'm probably just not quite old enough yet to enjoy being a pervy old man. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Pretty much the first thing I remember coming out of our ground school instructor's mouth was "This is a sport that involves a lot of waiting." It DOES get a lot easier once you get out of your early AFF jumps -- once you move down to one instructor it's a lot easier to get a jump in. Especially if your DZ only has a small plane and limited seating. While your dropzone treated you pretty shabbily considering you took the day off, ultimately every dropzone is a business and needs to make money to pay for the shiny toys we get to play with and the salaries of the staff. Also keep in mind that you're not dealing with an inflexible machine here either! I wouldn't be surprised if you explained your situation to the manager rationally and calmly, you might be able to negotiate a little something for your wasted effort. A free jump ticket or two or a discounted AFF jump is a small price to pay to avoid having a customer walk away totally pissed off, and most businesses should understand that. You don't have to have time spent at the dropzone be wasted either. Get a rigger to show you how to pack. Practice putting on and getting out of a student rig and other gear under the supervision of a more experienced skydiver. Talk to other skydivers, pilots and staff. Practice your exits if they have a mock-up rig. Learn as much as you can on the ground. You never know when some little tidbit you pick up "by osmosis" might save you some time, trouble or money! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I'm not sure what you mean by "get there from here" but the world record is 511 kph (averaged from ~8800ft to ~5500ft). I fell at 170 mph for my AFF jumps and much of my coaching. I can't imagine managing to do nearly twice that. Some instructors had a hard enough time keeping up with me, even when they were in a full head-down dive. I'm actually not even sure I could get back to 170 now -- I lost about 30 pounds since then, and fall around 140 mph now. I'm really glad I never had to experience a reserve opening when I was falling at 170. I have a feeling it'd still be teeth-rattling at 140. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Don't give up! Keep your eye on the goal! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

IIRC they actually want you to do some turning and start trying to find a heading in the 2. They also tell you to relax again, and it still seems like an unreasonable request. I actually failed my first AFF2 jump out of the King Air. The log brings it all back; I had trouble getting out the door, didn't arch on exit, flailed around trying to get stable, fumbled for the hacky and finally found it at 4500. That was as close as I ever got to having the instructor pull for me. I also very specifically remember Pat, coming in at a steep dive, looking at me like "What the hell are you doing?" He was wearing wrap around sunglasses instead of goggles and in that moment he looked to me like the coolest person on the planet. My second one out of the otter went much better, but one of the instructors specifically writes on there that I need to relax more for AFF3. I was pretty amped up on those early jumps. Now I look back on all that and I'm like, "heh." Even if you have to repeat them starting from level 1, your previous experience might make getting started a little easier. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Not for a couple of weeks. I did 15 minutes a couple of weeks ago for back flying. I'm planning on going again soon (Maybe in early January) to work on fall speed again. I have halfway decent control in the tunnel but always find it to be much harder in the sky. I'm guessing because there are less references to tell how fast I'm falling. Even when I do, I'll dive down to catch a group and end up blowing past them at 140 miles an hour. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I have occasionally in the past. It's a mix of nostalgia for a time when there was more wonder associated with the season and not being with family. This year it's been so warm it really hasn't felt like "The season" at all. It was a beautiful weekend for skydiving, only a little on the cold side. At the moment I have a Christmas headache, which probably means some snow's coming, since I didn't really hit the Christmas tequila that hard last night. So maybe it'll feel more like Christmas in a little while. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?