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Skydive Crete in Nebraska has a very nice system. Their website is www.skydivecrete.com and ask for Joe.

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Our state is letting us enter four skydiving events in the state games this year. One of the events will be 2-way VRW. The proposed rules currently state that it will be an individual event and that competitiors will be drawn into two person teams the day of the event. They will again be drawn for the second round and may compete with someone else. Everyones team scores will be added insdividually and then individual medals will e awarded. Camera fliers will be provided to get video for judging. I see problems here; has anyone else been to a competition like this and can explain how well it works? Or, does anyone have any 2-way VRW rules that can be reviewed? Thanks.

I had the same thing with my ProTrack. It was a button gone bad; I sent it in and they sent me a new one.

Thanks again John!! It was very nice meeting you and talking with you Saturday night. Eric Nebraska

Adam, you will lose - yes, you will go down. You better plan to bring it!

Flights are booked; only 47 days til Adam gets a "BEAT DOWN!"

Book DEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZ!

Where is my written letter lil stinky?

I could probably guess what themes Adam would want ;-)

Adam, Rudy is planning to go to Sturgis from LP; see what he is planning.

Bet your ass!!

People that use the automatic handicap doors when they are physically able to open the doors!

450 miles to Sumerfest; 1700 miles to Lost Prairie. I will be in the mountains drinking some Lang!!!

Sorry about the defensive response guys. Thank you everyone for the comments on this. It is hard when you have issues at a place you hold close to you; skydivers know this more than anyone. I had just been struggling with how to handle this and who I might talk to. Bottom line is I am in a better place and wish them all the best; I will miss some of them. Thanks again all.

You don't even hang out there anymore; you work and you leave. I see you listened to all the third hand information from your bosses; the kegorator was talked about many times the day that I took it and a deal was made. The only "drama" when we are around seems to come from the only childish martyr there; and then that gets the old guys goin. We actually wanted to be there and show that we still care and miss the place. At least we know the work we did do was noticed; we filled quite a bit of space on the year end video.

That's exactly what I have been thinking; it was about an hour long so they spent some time.

I will try to keep this short. I jumped at my Home dropzone for 20 years; was glad to call it home. Spent time on staff, dropzone manager and board of directors. Was pulling back from the responsibilities because I was getting tired of the politics of a few. I then moved further away for a job; this was actually closer to our neighboring dropzone by far. I continued to travel to my home dropzone because of friends and familiarity. When the board decided to raise ticket prices by $5 a jump I decided to make the neighboring dropzone my main dropzone for cost reasons and the fact I didn’t agree with the price increase. I had a couple friends that lived in between the two dz's that started spending more time at the other because of similar reasons. I went back for an annual kickoff party this weekend and WOW, you would think I dishonored the entire sport and skydiving community. The dz even made a year end video that spent most the video ragiing on those of us who left. Calling us the “Cool Kids” and saying even though they left the skydiving continues. The tone of the video had those that spent time at the other dz feeling somewhat betrayed. I approached one of the staff and asked what was going on and I wanted to come back more often before the video, he says, “you have to do what you have to do” and that was it. I am just wondering if anyone has encountered this before and how they handled it. I have a number of friends over there; and a couple I couldn’t care less about. Should I even be worried about it? Needless to say the new dropzone, which is a club, has never even asked why I started jumping there or what was going on at the other dz; it seems the only tension is at my original dz. Any thoughts would be helpful; this is kind of driving me crazy.

I have about 300 jumps on a sabre and 400 on a sabre2. Roll the nose like stated above and pull the quartered slider forward until the back of the slider is even with the lines; has more authority when grabbing air out of the bag.

I always think about having to get it off in a hurry. What would be the scenario? I dunno for sure, but I wouldn,t want to hit the release and have it hang up when I was trying to get out. Just a thought.

I jumped at this dropzone for a long time. I left for personal reasons, including relocation for work. I returned to make some jumps with a long time friend and was treated like crap. They were only focused on tandems; didn't have a pilot until the clouds cleared; there were only three non-student jumpers; and it took all day to get two jumps in. When we were down to three people, they sent the pilot home. From experience, they are a very safe operation. They have a great training program and very nice equipment. THe plane is small and nothing to look at, but normal for a small 182 dz. Overall, as a licensed jumper, be prepared to sit around a lot and be bored. Went back in January to see old friends; we were all treated terribly. I will never return to this dropzone again and will not recommend to anyone if asked.

You all are about to get some very good news very soon.

I can't wait for this boogie - finally some cheap jumps ;-)

I complete a controlability check before loosening the chest strap; i use harness turns if necessary with my right hand out of the toggle.