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Thanks everyone.... Looks like its about the same as before. --------------------------------------------- Randy

I haven’t traveled with my rig as carry on baggage in a while. I just checked with the TSA website and the game looks the same even though they don’t have that nice pdf that you can print out to take with you. Is the TSA handling rig the same as they did a couple of years ago? Assuming of course that there are a few bad apples out there. --------------------------------------------- Randy

Well, look at the Icon that goes with my profile.... Hell ya!!!!! --------------------------------------------- Randy

Very nice.... welcome to the club... biketoberfest is only a few months away. --------------------------------------------- Randy

Both are great DZ's. From Orlando Sebsatian is about 90 minutes. Lake Wales and Z-Hills are about an hour away. Both Lake Wales and Sebastian got beaten up from the Hurriances but not too bad to impact operations. Of the three I think z-hills has the most open landing area. Regardless you should have a good time at all three. --------------------------------------------- Randy

Add me to the list... --------------------------------------------- Randy

---- You want to put something fun in that. See if you can find a RX7 engine. The same guys that made the conversion plate for my 2.8l v6 made one of those. --------------------------------------------- Randy

Where did you get that????? --------------------------------------------- Randy

gotta like it

Nope that was a 2.8L V6 out of a Chevy S10 truck. --------------------------------------------- Randy

"...Growing older, but not up... " -- Jimmy Buffett --------------------------------------------- Randy

The V6 helped with that. Pulling a trailer up the Cajon pass in So Cal fully loaded was great. --------------------------------------------- Randy

Water cooled. Whats wrong with water cooled. I had a 74 VW bus with a Chevy V6 in the back. Now that made a great VW. Water cooled

Water cooled. Whats wrong with water cooled. I had a 74 VW bus with a Chevy V6 in the back. Now that made a great VW. --------------------------------------------- Randy

I have been in aircraft in all of those configurations. My first thought is for benches with side by side seating. Couple of reasons for this: - Sitting on the floor facing aft is ok if the plane isn't full. I'm 6'4" and the way we pack people into planes I dont get much space and it damm uncomfortable. I feel really sorry for the small girl that I end up sitting in front of with my J5 in her lap. The other thing I dont like about this configuration is the tradition of getting everyone up off the floor, four or five grand before jump run. With the bench configuration I dont have get up until right before having to move to the door. - Side by side you do get "you own space" even though your packed in. I do agree with the person that posted about the last couple seats getting real small. The other thing no one has mentioned here yet is cycle time. I have heard, but havent seen the data, that it is faster to load an aircraft in a bench configuration than with floor seating. DZO's chime in here. Its comfort thing for me --------------------------------------------- Randy