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    Here's Tee!

    Hi Frank The fire you are referring to is the Chisholm fire 200kms NW of Edmonton,way north of us but I have been busy firefighting, got home from the DZ Sunday, got called out 6pm got to bed 4am Mon, then 9am Mon and three fires later to bed 4am Tues. Yesterday it rained a little and today it SNOWED thankfully. by the way there is one of you in the Kamloops pics also myself and Favaks. andrew
  2. I'm sure Brian would agree your a$$ is just FINE theDOOR was the problem. thanks for the sunblock, fps now stands for "fried peeling sunburn" without the block it would have been much worse!! If we try again at Lost Prairie we'll go from the skyvan no door problems there. I know I float a bit but it's 174fps not 172. Andrew
  3. DIY means Do it Yourself.....now before all those Old Hands get excited it has to do with home renovations. 174fps
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    Huey,Huey,Huey

    To add to Iflyme's post,(Cargo plane) in addition to the Fokker. Favaks and myself got to jump from a Huey Chopper from 12000' what a blast.
  5. If you want to get competetive then specialize. For anyone else, skydiving is FUN Do it all... Last weekend I did... 3 4way RW. and we actually held the exit on a couple of them 2 2way SiT the second one we stayed relative all the way till pull time. 1 2way RW 16points from 9.5 OK the other guy had 1000jumps 1 CReW my first.... BEER I dont think anybody under 500jumps should worry about which area of skydiving to get in to...do it all... Have a blast
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    Lift Price

    Frank lives and jumps in BC In Alberta we say that means "Bring Cash" Edmonton skydive charges C$23 to 9.5 if you have your own gear. Eden North C$25 to 9.5 both use C-182 exchange is approx US$1=C$1.5 Kamloops is charging C$28 for the May Meet (Otter,King Air) See you there Frank, Tee, Favaks. Andrew
  7. For a least three years befor I jumped I would say to myself "you are going to do a jump this yr" then there would be a skydiving fatality on the news and I would back off. Then my niece went and jumped at Strathallan, my sister showed me pictures of her with that big grin on her face. So May 99 I went and did my first.
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    Spectre

    I've got 50 jumps on my spectre 170 and I just love it.
  9. Hi Joolee I live (and jump) in Canada, though I am originally from Aberdeen. Last September I was over visiting relatives and decided to go to Strathallan for a jump. Went there and they checked my logs and licence and gave me a student rig to jump. Five and a half hours later there was finally a hole in the clouds big enough for us to go to altitude. 9 of us got in the Islander. Man o man is that a noisy airplane. 4 two ways then yours truly.. I exit get stable after the prop wash hits and look down..no hole nothing but clouds..see my shadow on the cloud watch it coming up at me all the way till pull time.. cool!! blow through the cloud as I pull. See the river.. where is the airport. Couple of 360 turns finally see the other canopies and head in the right direction...didnt make it landed in a sheep pasture. Went to Eloy for Xmas, jumped there and at Coolidge had a blast....and a swim in the pool...did my 100th there. 174fps
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    Kamloops

    C'mon Tee this was Jan 21 inALBERTA them piles were pretty solid. I'm realy glad they were cos If I had got any fresh stuff on my new canopy I would have been so... pi##ed off. Just to make all those jumpers jealous who have been waiting for spring I already have 46 jumps in 2001, 42 of them in the frozen north ie CANADA. Been nice and mild all winter. 174fps
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    Kamloops

    Hey!!! I go for ONE day to see what Eden is like.. That makes 5 different DZ,s I've jumped at, Kamloops will be 6, Lost Prairie seven.
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    Kamloops

    The very same, you will be glad to hear our spotting has improved. Most of the time we land back at the airport not in our alternate (cow pasture)north of the highway!!! 174fps or faster Edited by 174fps on 5/1/01 01:32 PM.
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    Kamloops

    Bunch of us from Edmonton are coming. Need to get some of our Washington state neighbours to come up as its the Kapowsin Twin Otter as well as the Pit Meadows King Air will be the main jump planes.