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If you think you are losing something by jumping with a neophyte, and should be paid for your sacrifice, by all means go an do what you would rather be doing. I'll happily jump with the tyro - and pay for my own slot. Blue skies, Winsor

There is no option for multiple answers. I'm a High School dropout. I also have a BS in Chemical and Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Electrical Engineering. I kind of like qualifying for both "Some High School" and "Post University Degree (masters, doctors etc.)." Blue skies, Winsor

I am too. That is why I use a checklist. Blue skies, Winsor

Dennis Buteau's Surefire Hangover Cure: 1 pot coffee 1 qt. OJ 1 Bloody Mary 1 B-100 vitamin 1 5-mg. Dexedrine 2 aspirin 1 joint 1 5-mg. Valium IIRC, it works pretty well. Keeping all that around was enough fuss that I simply gave up drinking. In 1987. Blue skies, Winsor

The current incarnation of my treatment on the subject follows. ----------------------------------------------------- Flight Planning for Safety by Winsor Naugler III Preflight · Familiarize yourself with aerial views of the DZ and surrounding area, if they are available. Note locations of obstacles and pick likely outs for bad spots in various directions · Turn on your AAD, if so equipped. Make sure your hook knives are accessible. · Find out who on the formation has audible or visible altimeters, AADs and RSLs; make sure they are all operational and properly initialized. · Check your and your partners’ gear. · Make sure you are in agreement on breakoff and opening procedures and altitudes. · Face into the wind and see where the sun is. Its position should be the same when you are on final and there is no wind indicator available. Exit · Know what groups are around you, what they are doing and what delay is planned between groups (ask around before and after boarding). The Skydive Arizona policy of large to small slow-faller groups, followed by large to small fast-faller groups, followed by students, followed by tandems is the best all-around approach in the business. · The more of a delay between groups you can arrange, the better. DO NOT assume that any reasonable delay is reason not to pay attention to other groups in the air - LOOK AROUND! Freefall · Dock gently, from the level of the formation. DO NOT swoop into a formation, but make the final approach smooth and deliberate. · DO NOT EVER get above or below a formation. Inadvertent deployment can become fatal fast if people are above each other. · If low, stay near and to the side of the formation until breakoff. Do NOT begin tracking before breakoff altitude, and DO NOT do anything to increase vertical separation.. · Track flat at a common level. DO NOT drop out of a formation vertically. If you have an inadvertent deployment when you are below the formation, the likelihood of someone getting killed is significant. The greatest likelihood of an inadvertent deployment is right after exposing the pilot chute pouch to direct air stream – like when dropping out of a formation in a stand-up. · Track to a clear sector while watching the people on either side. While flat tracking, it is easy to split the difference between the people to either side by looking under your arms. Canopy Flight · Open at an appropriate altitude. Between two and three thousand feet is reasonable for a high traffic event; any higher opening (for CRW or whatever) should be arranged with the pilot. · Do NOT spiral down through a high traffic area. If spiraling to lose altitude, get well off the wind line to stay clear of the spot for other groups, and LOOK AROUND. In a turn, the direction of most likely collision is at the leading edge of the canopy in the direction of the turn, and there is a blind spot where a collision may occur between jumpers whose canopies blocked their view of each other until right before the collision. I reiterate - SPIRALING IN HIGH TRAFFIC IS DANGEROUS! · The safest flight path when opening above the landing area is to fly the canopy away from the landing area, perpendicular to jumprun, until far enough out to allow a long, shallow approach to the landing area (leave enough room for obstacle clearance). · LOOK AROUND NEAR THE GROUND! Don’t fixate on your landing, but pay attention to who is in the area. Keep your head on a swivel, and periodically scan for potential traffic. · Do not execute unplanned turns near the ground. If you are cut off on final, executing an avoidance turn must not be a possible response. Landing · The safest landing areas are the least popular ones with the most outs. Landing in congested areas or where ground traffic is allowed (e.g., the camping area) can be an invitation to disaster. · If you must turn for traffic or obstacle avoidance while setting up to land, use a FLAT TURN. If you don’t know how to do so, find out from someone experienced in the maneuver and practice at altitude until you have the procedure wired. · Keep your head on a swivel after touchdown. Even if you land under complete control, you might want to dodge someone who is swooping where they should not. =>If landing out is inevitable, or if safely making it to a designated landing area is in doubt: · Pick an open area in which to land by 1,000 feet (300 metres). Corn can be over 12’ (4m) tall (a cornfield is NOT like an unmown lawn), so landing between rows and preparing for a PLF will reduce the likelihood or extent of injury. · Any changes of color on the ground probably have barbed wire along the boundary. Land parallel to any area changes. · Locate any telephone poles or other wire supports by 500 feet (150 metres), and set up to avoid the wires that are sure to go between them. · Identify the lay of the land by 500 feet (150 metres), and set up to land alongside any hills. Do NOT land uphill or downhill, REGARDLESS of what the wind is doing. · If there is any doubt about the landing surface, or if you are sure to have excess speed on touchdown (like when stuck with a downwind landing) execute a PLF and roll out the landing. Keeping feet and knees together, and not using hands or elbows to break the fall can greatly help avoiding injury.

The Convention is likely the best place you can be with that experience level. At Tent 3 our focus is low-pressure skydives. Our goals are to keep it safe and have a great time - everything else is details. The people who jump with us range from students just off AFF (doing coached jumps for the cost of another jump ticket) up to veterans with thousands of jumps who are there to have fun. Each of the Organizers brings a different skill set to Tent 3, so there is a lot one can learn from jumping with different groups throughout the Convention. We are on the same page as far as safety practices go, and we tend to be injury-free. What has impressed me over the years is how fast the people who jump with us improve. Some of the people who show up on the first day can't even funnel an exit properly, but they are in the groove in short order. Once, toward the end of the Convention we were pretty busy, and some guys decided to put something together on their own instead of waiting until an Organizer was free. When the five of them came back after the jump, I asked "how did it go?" The answer was "we took the wrong grips on the seventh point, but otherwise it was okay." A week before they were impressed if they could get a four way together at any time during the skydive, and that now they took success as a given - with them doing the organizing! The Convention can seem intimidating to someone without a lot of experience, but it may be one of the best ways to get a lot of experience rapidly. It's also a hell of a good time. Blue skies, Winsor

Not me, I wear a white straw Resistol. I need to keep from getting my neck burned to a crisp, so I stash the LO hat and put on one with an all-around brim. A sun worshipper I am not. Blue skies, Winsor

This is a rather unfocused line of enquiry, so I'd like to debunk some of the supposed benefits to being overhung. For one thing, most women aren't designed to accommodate anything past a givn length. Anyone with whom John Holmes could achieve full penetration would have been an anatomical anomaly. It doesn't take much more than avarage to exceed what many women can handle without pain. As far as girth goes, heroic dimensions are anathema to felatio. If a woman's jaw is sore for a day afterwards, it is not too likely she will be interested in a repeat performance. For prolonged sex, friction becomes a greater issue as size increases. For a quickie being larger than average may be fine, but a normal size is much better suited to marathon sex. As far as such things as prophylactics go, they aren't designed to accommodate much more than average. If anything, they are designed to build the egos of those at the middle of the spectrum by being snug. Since erection is accomplished by dint of blood pressure, having to fight an elastomer makes it tough to stay erect for someone overly endowed - if the size is dictated by the apparatus it results in a flaccid condition. I believe Masters and Johnson listed 5.5" as average erect length for their sample group, and I have never heard the average cited as more than 6" from a reputable study (you get all sorts of trivia from the New York Times). According to Bonnie Raitt it ain't the meat, it's the motion - but I've also heard it said that this argument is cited only by guys with "itty, bitty dicks." Much though we make a big deal about big dicks and big tits, the people with the best sex lives are likely to be in the normal category. Blue skies, Winsor

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I've had my eye on a small 22 cal. stainless revolver made by Taurus. I think it is nine shot. Anyone have in opinions on it? I would rather have a kit gun made by S&W, but these are no longer made and are expensive, when you do find a used one. Thanks,....Steve1 I have a blued Model 94 Taurus (their stainless models work just as well) with a 4" bbl, and I like it a lot. I am very impressed with the strides Taurus has made in the quality department since they came on the scene, and this is just one example. Blue skies, Winsor

Humans have more rights than dogs. With that we believe that sometimes it's okay to take a life, and sometimes it happens without intent and the person is not held to the same level of punishment. Don´t think of it as punishment so much as "death therapy" and you won´t have so much trouble with the concept. Blue skies, Winsor

I won´t go so far as to say that it was a good film, but I did enjoy the hell out of it. In all fairness, there is no greater a percentage of bullshit than in most other Hollywood offerings but it is subject to a fatal flaw - the people who don´t skydive don´t generally find it a compelling subject, and the people who do can´t get past all the groaners. There is a warped kind of accuracy to it, despite all the bullshit. Blue skies, Winsor

I think this has been around on the GA aircraft for about 10 years now. BillVon? Quade? Anyone else know for sure when they started putting these on? I know this isn't new to this year. That's for sure. The first patent for such a system (not rocket, though) dates to about 1935. The predictions that everyone would have one within 10 years accompanied the news release back then. Blue skies, Winsor

The guy I got it from is the DZO and the Serbian equivalent of a Master Rigger. I probably have as many Para Commander class canopy jumps as any of them, and it is not a lack of experience on anyone´s part per se. The problems are that there is no apparent provision for stowing the lines and that there is no mechanism to keep the canopy in the sleeve until after line stretch. Given some of the Russian skydiving hardware I have seen, such as the drogue-delay system for high-speed exits, I am not assured that anything similar to conventional line-stows with sleeve-locking are part of the deal. I will probably pack it D-bagged in my biggest Wonderhog or whatever, since I´ve had great luck with that approach and the UT-15 has had nothing but rave reviews from everyone I know who has jumped one. It is mostly a matter of curiosity that I ask how it packed in the rig in which it now sits, since it is anything but obvious. Blue skies, Winsor

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I just picked up a 1979 UT-15, which is the Russian variant on the Para Commander theme. Though I expect to jump it after putting it in some kind of modern configuration rig (BOC Wonderhog or whatever), I'm somewhat baffled by the apparent lack of line stows in the rig in which it came. The deployment sleeve is nylon, going against the conventional wisdom that nylon vs. nylon leads to burns. At the bottom of the sleeve there is not the usual flap with grommets, but merely elastic around the hem. In any event, I would appreciate input from anyone who knows how this system worked when set up. It sure isn't obvious to me.

If you're low, the plane is on fire and the pilot says "get out," pull silver as you clear the tail. You can survive a LOW exit (~200 ft.) if you get nylon out at the first possible moment; this may not be the case if you put any priority ahead of survival. Blue skies, Winsor

Like with a variety of companies, the vintage of the product has a lot to do with what you can expect of its quality. Some companies once turned out a beautiful product but have fallen on hard times and now make junk, others started out making cheap products and have graduated to the manufacture of world-class high-end products. Rossi is now, to the best of my knowledge, owned by Taurus. Taurus is one of the companies that started out making cheap S&W copies, and has discovered the benefits of high-quality manufacturing, so an old Taurus is not on a par with the current offerings. I have a couple of Model 92 Rossis (Winchester clones) that I like very much, but none of their revolvers. If the Taurus management has mandated any of their quality initiatives, I expect that Rossi pistols should be a good value. FWIW, the semantic distinction between "revolver" and "pistol" is singularly pretentious. It's like that Basic Training tripe that seeks to distinguish between a "weapon" and a "gun;" so why didn't they call an M-60 a "machine weapon?" A Louisville Slugger makes a fine weapon, and an M-16 falls nicely into the gun category. A revolver is a pistol, but a pistol is not necessarily a pistol. Handgun, sidearm, pistol, etc. - a rose by any other name.... Blue skies, Winsor

What's your point Bill? You mean they steal them from the military that doesn't have any? They were all destroyed - right? Hell, no! We still have humploads!

Am I alone when I think that chopping a canopy with your finger caught in the steering-line could be a painful exercise (taking the term 'chopping' a bit literally) I assure you, it is. On a camera jump about 10 years ago, I had a lineover due to a partially corrected botched pack job. Waffling forward in a slow turn, I decided to try to clear it by burying the toggles and letting them up briskly. Bad idea - it turns out that leaving the toggles stowed and hauling down on the risers on the affected side is the hot tip. When I let the toggles up briskly, the left (affected side) steering line did not retract immediately, leaving a loop. When the line did snap taut, it threw a half-hitch around my left hand above my altimeter, going between the base of my thumb and my ring finger. I had lost my Zak knife in an orange blur on the previous dive, and thus had no way to cut the 1000# microline lashed around my hand, and was now spinning wildly on my back. Sometime in the third rotation I quit trying to clear the line and cut it away. In order to avoid having fingers snipped off by the steering line I effected a gunslinger cutaway, pulling both handles at once. The footage shows the freebag barely clearing the trash as the two spun past each other. After kicking out of four line twists my goal was simply to stay alive, so I left the steering line attached to my hand with my trashed main trailing behind. Because I couldn't flare properly with all that drag, I arrived very solidly indeed. The nerve damage sustained by my left ring finger has mostly recovered, and I can feel with that fingertip again. I try to have two hook knives on my person on every skydive these days. It's like a gun - it's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it, since if you do need it you need it badly, and if you don't have it you may never need it again. Blue skies, Winsor

Try to follow me quade. Some people hate guns in all their forms and uses. They want guns gone forever (we'll ignore how impossible that is for now). However, since they can't attain their goal immediately, they are going after everything one piece at a time: CCW, AWB, .50 cal bans, certain hunting seasons, etc. They are also going after shooting ranges because of some half-assed junk science threat of lead (they also went after lead shot in shotgun shells with no evidnece of harm done by the shot). So, if you want to trust the government to go after people, should you not tell them what they CAN do to avoid lawsuits? Why not have the state version of the EPA tell them what they can do to avoid harm, and as long as they do it, tell them they won't be sued? Does this principle apply across the board? If, say, an airport follows all FAA regulations and recommendations, should it be exempt from lawsuits by local residents complaining about noise? Hell yes!

Your score in the FHM Purity Test is: 171 125-174 Well done, you are above average. You’re a mild pervert with a sexual history that puts most of your friends to shame. That said, if it’s entry into the outer limits of sexual depravity that you want, then you’d better keep trying. Buy more rubber products for a start.

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I have a Jason refractor and some kind of Jason reflector. I'm unclear on the nomenclature, so I voted for the first (and likely cheapest) reflector category. Starry skies, Winsor