ZigZagMarquis

See you on the other side, my friend.  Thanks.

Does he drive a black TransAm named KITT?  

N@ is 40!??!

I feel really old now.

Nah!  Push it over the edge and let God's gravity take care of it.  Pick up the pieces at the bottom of the hill and bill the dumbass owner!  

 

"Back in the day" we used to refer to a phenomena that would sometimes happen to folks in this sport, it was called SIDS... Skydiving Induced Divorce Syndrome.   

Nonsense fun type exits:

9-Way Tube.

That's 2 interlocking 4-Way Tubes with a little girl stuffed in the middle.

 

 

Lisa, although you and I didn't always get along... Blue Skies.

 

On 3/22/2019 at 1:20 AM, Westerly said:

Often I see people say things like pitching in a track is the worst thing you can do and it's going to slam the crap out of you, ect. 

It can hurt, but not as much as smacking the ground without a parachute out.  ;-)

Was about to agree that Skydiving has saved a lot of folks I've known too, but, Wow, this thread went sideways real fast.

Put your fist in your mouth and try to hit elbow first! 

Pen? It's called a pencil pack for a reason!

WAG... gust lock still in place?

jumpwally

What did the City end up doing with it ? For some reason I thought I heard Tom Cruise bought it....crazy shit...

http://www.normhillaviation.com/

Now let the blame and finger pointing and who's going to pay for the rescue effort flail-x begin!

... if it hasn't already.

** Bump **

I wonder if or how many weed-wackers went in filming that commercial?

Someone around Perris should know.

Also, was the cockpit interior shot a Twin Otter and then the interior / exterior exit shots from a Sky Van?

Placcypaddy

Hi I have done a couple of tandems so far but can’t get it out of my head & am seriously considering doing aff course this spring/summer so here’s the question, am I being selfish to take up a high risk sport like skydiving with a young Family ?

Beware of SIDS... Skydiving Induced Divorce Syndrome!

Do you have a serious vampire problem at your college or what??

Not counting things we intentionally left the aircraft with... spaceballs, cantaloupes, oranges, pumpkins, rafts and other inflatables ... or acts of mother nature... rain and ice...

... I've ran into bugs and come close to other aircraft while in freefall, once the plane we had exited and another time an interloper. Also, had a cameraman fall on the 4-way formation I was in once and take me out. Opened right next to a hawk once and followed him for a few seconds, him looking at me, me looking at him just a few yards away until he decided to split. Was diving on a formation when someone's pilot chute came out, quickly followed by bag, lines, body going right past me. Got hit too by ashes leaking from the ash bag while diving on the base during an ash dive.

Another jumper I knew almost got hit by a skyboard in freefall that a skysurfer (remember them) had cut away shortly after exiting in front of them.

When reading the thread title, I thought of this guy filming jumps...

auvskydiving

Do any of you guys have, or know where I can find AFF training material in Korean?

Contact Yong at Skydive Elsinore. She runs the school there.

JerryBaumchen

Hi Kevin,

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viewable online

Mike once said that the early issues were actually pasted together on his girlfriend's kitchen table.

I would guess they would not be unless someone took the time to scan them and upload them.

Jerry Baumchen

Sounds like one could do that in Councilman's basement!

Could help pass the time between "... puts the lotion on the skin, else it gets the hose again".

N50JJ has been a hard-luck aircraft. She visited Cal City once. Didn't go well.

jimjumper

Hey, someody has got to remember some of the craziness of Cal City! Now if we could just get Carrie to transfer the Halloween Pumpkin First Jump Course and fatality video to digital format!

Yeah, that was a hoot... right up until the cops showed up.

Anyway, I doubt Cary still has the tape. If not that, many things that went on at Cal City are best left to the ages... before everyone was running around with digital cameras cell phones capable of capturing digital video that to could blasted straight to Facebook and/or the Interwebs. ;)

jimjumper

I resisted joining this conversation till now. Years ago, at Cal City, Dar Robinson did some filming for a Japanese commercial that included a free-falling dog. Not knowing how things would work out, they got a dog from the pound and rigged it up in a harness with a round reserve. They then dragged it out AFF style for some filming. The first time went great with the dog trying to swim and the canopy opened fine. The second time, they had to muzzle the dog because he wasn't having any of it! They exited the same way but on deployment the canopy line-overed. The dog managed to escape the harness on landing and ran away! Dar was killed 2 weeks later in a freak motorcycle accident while working on another stunt. The rumor was that it was the dogs revenge! Be careful with your karma out there...

So would this be an example of one's dogma running over their karma!??

Anyway, a photo of that jump hung in the office at Cal City unit the day the place closed. I suppose maybe Junior & Emiko have it now.