CrashProne

No offense intended, just a little joke about the incomprehensible nature of the original post! I am regularly in the company of some other 4 digit D's, and if any of them start talking like that, I'll make the same joke to them, then ask for an interpreter. Maybe after I've been around a couple more years it'll start to make sense... At any rate, please excuse my irreverent sense of humor. Admittedly, it's not that uncommon for me to be the only one laughing!

Maybe lay off the green a little bit...

When John talks, I listen. Even when he's not talking to me! ;)

I had dinner with someone in that photo tonight!

Busch Light!!! Yay!!! Lol!!! Don't count on it! 😜

I have a feeling there might be some good beer showing up sometime next week. Let's see, maybe a Brown ale, or a Bock, or something else that starts with a 'b'!

My ONLY gripe about Kapowsin is the jumpers taste in beer... Can't you see we're well enough stocked with Busch and Busch Light? Would it kill you to bring in a nice IPA once in a while??????

Thanks to this thread, and some quality one on one time with John Mitchell, I figured out today that I could not toggle stall my Pilot 210, even after taking a wrap. Our local rigger took about ten minutes to shorten my brake lines by about 3" then the wind came up and I only needed maybe 3/4 full flare to tip toe my next landing. Looking forward to my next zero wind jump to see the difference!

Make clicky please... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Idkhud5hY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Idkhud5hY Ooh, ooh, I think I got it!

Kapowsin ALWAYS has a few little ones around, newborns, toddlers or just little kids. There's an outdoor play set for the kiddies, as well as a large fenced in kennel for dogs.

Febreeze? I used to was some stinky Dirtbike gear with Febreeze occasionally, it definitely helped.

Skydive Twin Cities has several Large aerial photos with the individual landing spaces clearly marked on the main wall. It's used to train students and clarify zones for the up-jumpers. So..... Yes! Same at Skydive Kapowsin, large aerial photo with landing zones and hazards marked. Students are brought to the board to review landing patterns and procedures before their jumps.

Become a coach and jump with the new solo students? I would imagine that you'll gain some good experience that way.

Long before I decided to start jumping, I flew for an outfit off the Olympia airport in Washington. There is no scheduled airline service there, and it's not really that busy of an airport. The DZ was in a field 1/2 mile off the airport and they used a van to haul jumpers to the plane. It really was a pretty easy deal, and had the potential to work just fine, but as it turns out, that DZO had a bit of a history with the local FAA office, and it wasn't a good one. He also didn't seem to get off to a good start with the tower and/or airport manager, so is felt like nobody wanted us there. When the FAA guys met me one day on landing and asked me to deliver a nasty letter to the DZO, I had to cut my losses and move on. As a brandy new commercial pilot, I couldn't afford to be in the middle of his fight with the FAA.

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Look at the A license skills card, and you'll see that before you can get your A license, you'll have to learn to pack a parachute. At my DZ, that means paying one of the riggers for a packing class, which is most likely what you witnessed happening the other day.

I was listening to Luke talk about the jump today, and the subject of the practice pulls came up. As I suspected, he said the practice pulls in freefall were a lark, meant as a joke to the skydiving savvy who were watching. However, when he felt for the hackey before leaving the door, that was the real deal, and he was a little surprised when he couldn't find it!

I've personally seen several groups of active duty military conducting training with Skydive Kapowsin in Shelton, WA. Yes, Luke Aikins is one of the trainers. I found it kind of cool that on my first few AFF jumps (a whopping month ago), I was following some pretty serious dudes out the door. (PJ's if I'm not mistaken) It's not a joke how big 'some' of their canopies are, definitely equipped to handle a serious load.

Dude, after 18,000+ jumps, you'd think it would be an automatic reflex to do practice EPs and pulls on every jump... That's the way I look at it. Personally, I think he was just playing around, like "look Ma, no chute"!