FlyingRhenquest

I basically ignore the Times Call as an irrelevant little rag, useful only for the police blotter they occasionally publish online.

I don't know how it is now, but Dad was stationed on Okinawa in the 70's and and was into SCUBA at the time. He took me to a couple of beaches with him and I remember tropical reefs and sea life, similar to Hawaii. I believe it's a bit off the beaten path in Japan, but it might be worth checking out.

well I don't tend to do sports, but I'll give it a go:

They should cremate a cricket bat while the band plays, for some reason, "Oh Canada!"

Do they still get to pardon people after they're out of office? About halfway through the trial he could be all like "Screw this! It's Downton Abbey time! I pardon you! Heh heh heh!"

Install adblock plus, scriptblock and ghostery. It makes the whole web-browsing experience significantly less obnoxious. Also, no commercials in Youtube videos.

The FAA told those guys not to build neighborhoods there. They heard the FAA saying "AAh! Aaah!" They saw the FAA looking at them. They did it anyway. I've been hanging out out at the Broomfield airport a lot since I started working in Broomfield, and on the flight path there's not a goddamn house to be seen for miles! One the one, you can see all the way to the mountains! What was allowed to happen in Longmont was just piss poor planning. But then, a lot of things in Longmont are. Like the traffic situation where you can often not turn left. There are times when you are literally incapable of turning left in Longmont! But you know, I just got gigabit fiber in, so I'm not going to complain too loud. I might not be able to turn left out of my house, but I have a goddamn firehose of porn to drink from on the days when I'm stuck at home! At least until the power goes out. Next on my to-do list after a wingsuit upgrade is dropping a standby generator in here.

Cool. Did you get your first magazine yet?

I would love to have my neighbor do that, and I'm only a bitch to people I don't like

Andy9o8

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Certainly they were advised by their lawyers that represented them that this was possible

Change "certainly" to "hopefully, in writing, in detail, for the lawyers' own sakes". My experience is that when people with "that kind" of personality lose a dispute, they look for somebody to blame (never themselves), and then act it out as a way of mitigating their loss. That's why lawyers carry malpractice insurance.

Well if they sue their lawyer, maybe he can file a counter suit for legal costs! I'd guess they'd end up owing people they've sued $200,000!

Oh, here we go...

http://www.timescall.com/longmont-local-news/ci_28557490/judge-airplane-noise-plaintiffs-owe-mile-hi-48k

That's why I never go outside without wearing at least ninja boots. You can stomp the hell out of anything smaller than a possum.

ryoder

Oh, yeah!

Court order yesterday: http://citizensforquietskies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20150728-Order-re-Defendants-Motion-for-Attorney-Fees.pdf

Current tally:
$67,791.05 costs from the trial.
$47,984.41 attorney fees for the frivolous claims dismissed prior to trial.
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115,775.46 = What Gibbs & lackeys owe MHS.

As I read this order, it is due 30 days from yesterday, and is not affected by the current appeal. i.e. this order would need to be appealed separately.

Can't... resist... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A

zoobrothertom

******In general, digital altimeters are not recommended to jumpers with little experience, because you actually have to read the number it shows instead of just looking at the position of the needle on an analog. This means that you need a far better awareness and it might take more time too. I would recommend you to keep using an analog altimeter till you got at least 100+ jumps, preferably more, then get a viso2, that's at least what i'm using and i love it.

I disagree. It's different for everyone. Try a viso2 out at your dz, and see if you like digital or analog. If you do then buy it. I was using mine before 38 jumps and I know of some DZs that were using them with their AFF students. Wasn't there an article in Parachutist about it sometime in the last 2 years? I'd have to check my issues.

I disagree with your disagreement!

On your next jump, note someone close to you in the dive plan who is wearing a digital altimeter and note their altitude checks. In my limited research (as in limited to about 70 seconds each time), I have watched people take as long as 2~3 seconds to check their altitude as they totally defocus from the dive and basically go blind intensely focusing on their digital altimeter.

It's even more fun to watch on a casual Saturday 10 way belly jump with a few low time jumpers wearing digitals!

Yes, some jumpers with digitals are assuredly a little quicker than others but I have yet to see someone with an analog take more than a quarter (.25) to half (.5) a second to check their altitude. This is with a wrist mount or a chest mount. The chest mount is usually the quickest, especially if anchored over your chest strap buckle on the left side to prevent "flopping" in the wind. Also, it's a rather handy position come cutaway time for your next (or first) malfunction.

The added bonus of an analog altimeter is other people can see it too. It keeps them in the dive instead wrist flipping every few seconds.

Just my 2 cents.
Oh I'll bite.

Looks like neighborhood of half a second each time. The time I check it several times within a few seconds under canopy, I thought I might be in a thermal and was keeping an eye on my descent rate.

websean

Apparently we do have a wind tunnel so I'll definitely have to investigate that. Seems like a great way to nail down the body position.

It sure is. I did a couple of sessions during AFF (6 and 7 minutes) and then at least a couple more during coaching. Within 3 months of starting, I was actually starting to look like I knew what I was doing. Be sure to get video -- it's nice to actually be able to see how you're improving from session to session.

Squeak

***For one thing they have been known to hurt people real bad on opening. I'm one of them.

there should be a ceremonial burning of ALL Sabre1 canopies. (This is from a guy who jumps a Stiletto, also 20 year old design.)

Pretty much everyone I've ever talked to who has jumped a sabre 1 has loved the canopy. At least, once they sew a pocket into the slider. After a friend of mine downsized through three of them, I suggested that he talk to PD about making him a brand new one.

Cool. We all went through the same stuff. It's surprising how fast you improve, really. Does Atlanta have a wind tunnel yet?

kdashofy

On a serious note - I will be making my next jumps on Wednesday - I have been drilling down my exit and other procedures - but I swear the nerves seem impossible once I get to the door. How many jumps until this subsides? It's more adreline than fear I'm sure...but still makes it difficult to stay focused on the tasks at hand...any good mental exercises to make this better? Instructors said I'm doing fine...minor adjustments on legs...but it's going to progress quickly from here - pressure is on and I'm a perfectionist!

Depends on you. By AFF level 4 I was already not thoroughly terrified getting out the door. I realized the worst possible thing I could imagine was somehow falling out of the plane early, and that I was wearing a parachute and was planning to do that, anyway. I was still pretty anxious for about 60 more skydives and talked myself out of going to the dropzone a few times on perfectly nice jump days because I just couldn't deal with it that day. I'd always be back a couple days later to do another jump.

I've had several instructors tell me, and am now realizing for myself, that the nerves never completely go away. It's just that their magnitude is now significantly lower than it used to be. I DID feel like an AFF student all over again on my first wingsuit jump at 200 jumps, and for several wingsuit jumps thereafter. They started being normal skydives once I started doing multiple wingsuit jumps in a day. Now that I'm comfortable with the gear, I'm as relaxed as I am on any other skydive.

uer16

***... XP ... industrial control systems ...

Well there's your problem.

I don't know which would be worse, that or the ancient in-house UNIX system I ran across at one client's site. I forget what the manufacturer name was, but it wasn't any of the major brands -- not AIX, SGI, SCO, HPUX, Solaris or Linux, nor any hardware sold by any of those guys. Wasn't DGUX, either.

It was still UNIXy, so I could get around in it pretty well, but I bet those guys didn't (or perhaps, won't) have a fun migration path whenever they decide they need to upgrade their systems off 300 MhZ processors. I suppose they could side-grade all their hardware to Raspberry PIs and be maintainable for the indefinite future.

Not really, no. I mean, you're going to get to pull altitude no matter how fit or unfit you are. And canopy work isn't a huge effort, either. You'll probably be sore from the tunnel a few times if you're really out of shape, at least until you learn to relax and stop fighting the wind.

Wingsuiting's a bit more work -- two to three times the freefall while holding the suit in a decent position. But you don't have to worry about that for a couple hundred jumps minimum.

Didn't catch where that was. I'm gonna guess... Kentucky?

MikeJD

After looking at the illustrations, I'd say the first step should be to avoid jumping from an aircraft wearing a daysack.

Put on some kind of parachute rig, preferably with a chest strap (which you're going to need for your terminal Mr Bill), and actual leg straps (unlike the... I dunno, parathong... shown in the last picture).

I'm totally looking for one of those on Paragear, now!

Shit man, just run it through the security scanner, take it off the belt and stick it on your head. Then, when you hit what looks to be 12,000 feet, yell "Door!"

Seems like we do about 100 feet every 5-6 seconds or neighborhood of 1000 feet per minute for most of the climb. It's a bit faster for the super king air and a bit slower for the slow otter. It's very, very slow going to 9K AGL in a Cessna 206b -- we're starting at 5K and going up from there, and some planes seem to struggle with it. Also depends on other traffic in the area.

I did actually measure the climb time in a hot air balloon, too, though I don't recall what it was. It was slow enough that I had to put my digital altimeter in manual mode. Its auto-zero mode didn't realize we'd taken off. Took us about 15-20 minutes to get to 4K-ish.

Sky looks like that, I'm not flying in a balloon that day. Yeesh.

Oh yeah! I'm working down by Broomfield's airport now and eat lunch there on a regular basis. They have jets and helicopters taking off constantly. When a jet lands, you can feel that noise in your bones.