skyboyblue

that's a nice looking rig for just a pilot emergency rig.....

sounds like fun. I need to come visit my kelly again before she moves back up here. There's another guy up here that's thinking about his tandem rating so I might talk him into getting ahold of mitch and travel with him. I'll be back sooner or later.

what's up jeremy? how are you guys doing down there lately? check this thread out

black and white? There was a show called "ripcord"

that's not a mash helicopter! that's the bat-copter in the old original movie! hehehe

duuuude.....sweeetttt

dunno about the engineer, all I got was "he was a vietnam kid" but he already was asking about buying gear(which I will glaaaaadly refer him to you) but I'm with you on the possibility of making a few if not many jumps.

Not much to chapter two except I arrived early and he musta had his nosed pressed to the window, because as soon as I got in the door...albeit on the other side of the friggen building....he was right there... I gave him a what's up man? and he replied just ready to learn skydiving from my elders. which I am about half his age. alrighty then, lets do it. One highlight of the class was out of the blue. "So do you publicize when you get hurt?" (we were talking about soft landings at the time) my (jokingly)reply was "do you publicize that you break your ankle when you go skiing, biking or whatever?" He insisted twice there was bad press when somebody gets hurt. I questioned is it REAL TV that you are talking about? seriously, I did. I don't think he gave an answer, but I did see the rest of the class with their jaws open, giving a WTF look. what a character. Later he said he was really motivated to skydive that, to which I applauded, so to speak. what a character. worth a laugh or two.

I thought about posting it to talkbalk, but I chose not to. shoot me for it if you must. I didn't intend to "bitch" about any student, although my intonation while typing can be subject to interpretation. damned if you damned, if you don't. In a real life, I'm willing to bet instructors, and maybe even yours, talk about you or other students somewhere in order to prepare the next instructor who might take you up. Its a way of handing off students so the next instructor is -more- prepared for your personality, work ethic, abilities and talent to give you the best possible instruction and skydive. for instance, hey this guy has bad knees, so make him comofortable in the plane, etc etc) I thought it was funny, and its only half the story as there will be another chapter tonite, but I'll think twice before trying to make anyone giggle a little about it by posting here.

Do you ever just have "one" of those students? I'm teaching mini course at a community college for skydiving and one guy shows up. He's about 5'5" shoulder length brown curly hair, thick glasses and a good sized strap to hold em on. He walks in the door and anounces his name and I kindly ask him to have a seat and join the class. after a short session, we break and I BS a little with them. He's doesn't think he'll like freefall so static line is all he wants to do. OK fine, but you progress onto freefall. He asks how many local people we get. Um like 100% right? that's including some out of towners, but who's couting. well, he's got friends in loveland, CO that want to jump. um, there are dz's down there...why travel hours to do the same thing from a smaller plane? onto main canopy section. I unpack a rig to show components, he decides he needs to get up and feel the entire damn thing like one side is differnert than the other? AND he wants to take it home to "get the feel of it" More or less I said "got 5 G's?" I said unfortunately no (with visions of a naked man rolling around in this canopy) after class, I took the tv vcr back to the media room and he was giving a lady his phone number on a sticky note as I was coming toward him. She took it and whispered to me and showed it to me. I said "WHY?!" and rolled my eyes. well I guess I made a big mistake too, I gave the class my info so they could contact me....well, He did, just to say, he'd see me again tonite. gee thanks... OY, I can't wait for tonite. my sister (jillr) said it reminds her of the stapler guy on office space, and that's about right on the spot any strange students like that out there?

a skydiver giving up a liver? what are you nuts?

Tandems are prohibited into stadiums if you look in the bsr's under extraordinary skydives. If you buy insurance thru the typical USPA way, both the tandem master and passenger must have a D(depending on what level demo you have) or the insurance won't cover it. see demo insurance and procedures.

alright, who voted for wearing "Depends" instead of using the toilet like a normal human being??

LOL, well he does pack my reserve

hehe sorry bout that, true story though. in my young jumping career, not knowing how sarcastic my rigger could be, his wife called up and said they got a call from the UPS man and said the package they were s'posed to receive was burnt in a wreck. and that package would be my new container. DOH! fool me once....shame on me. fool me twice....

You mean you didn't hear about the UPS truck that crashed and caught fire the other day on its way to somewhere around atlanta?? It was like, all over the news!

packed very very carefully that cyamlume would be ok. but a night jump would not be a good time for a monkey fist due to a stuck cyalume in the BOC. I think hixx has a better option tying it to the riser if I wanted to toss one on my main.

that's peculiar how the light on the one with the trail has a path and stops at the front of the car

wonder if anyone will have the resources to burn a dvd on site now. imagine shooting a video, real time editing with special effect or whatever and burning a dvd right then and there. sounds pretty cool. expensive but cool.

ooh, damn. I chopped my then diablo when I had a toggle entagled with my slider. I had full range in my left toggle but I could only use my back risers for a couple of meeger inches. fortunately though it was shortly after opening that I determined I didn't want to land it.

Huh? you actually PAY to skydive?

oh... well, then I guess that makes it all better

wow, you're admitting that? bravo!

yeah, I'll second that one.

hey wait a minute.....liar liar pants on fire.