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  6. Just wanted to share my story about my ringsight getting friendly with my toggle.

    Shooting 8-way during one of our training weeks out at Raeford.... During my deployment I get glance of my right riser getting out in front of me, which I never see. Promptly, my head is pinned looking up at line twists and a yellow toggle wrapped around something on my helmet and hitting me in the face. After a few revolutions, which is speeding up rapidly since I'm jumping a velocity, I figure out my toggle is hooked to my ringsight. At this point the load is huge and I can't reach up to try and clear it and my next thought is to chop it since I have broken nylon screws on my ringsight easily before. I chop it, the canopy breaks free, and so does my ringsight but is dangling by my cameye which I had a small piece of tape holding it to the ring.

    My helmet has a cutaway handle but I chose to possibly just lose my ringisght instead of my entire helmet. Had I not had a clue what was snagged, I would have went for the helmet cutaway for sure.

    So please, use nylon screws. Look over everyones camera helmet and make sure they are using them too. If you see anyone with metal screws, do whatever it takes to make sure they don't jump that helmet. Make sure the ringsight is free standing, don't tape cameye lights to them. ALWAYS stow excess brake line.

    Ok, enough preaching for me today. Be safe!

    Matt

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    The facility is nice. Being an I.T. guy for about 15 years I was surprised as hell when we left the tunnel and went to debrief and our video was right there on file waiting for us with a large LCD screen. I know how hard it is to consistently make something like that work and do it well.



    Thanks! :-)

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    The only thing I could possibly think they could improve on is the DVD recording process. I'm sure they will get that down and streamlined soon though.



    True, we have some plans to make that better soon.

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    I'm thinking about bringing an external hard drive next time I'm at the tunnel and copying our videos over to the drive.



    Feel free to do that, get with me and I can show you how next time you are here. Plugging directly into the video server will be a little faster than pulling it over the network.

    Matt

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    Have you ever been trained in CQC?



    CQC/CQB tactics will get you a long way...but it also depends on the fact if you are well trained or trained at all. Just because you know that if someone grabs your muzzle you pivot your body to realign the sights with your target...that doesn't mean you will react that way in an actual confrontation.

    But let's say all gun owner's get CQC/CQB training for argument's sake...the other thing is your proficiency in those tactics. Special Forces are constantly training in CQC/CQB, they don't just take a once a year refresher to be dead on accurate. So what makes you think that you or anyone else will react that same way without constant training? It's just like any martial art...you can be shown a waza, but without practice you'll never be good or even great at it.

    Your average gun owner would focus on the weapon in a face to face struggle over it...but someone with any martial arts or CQC/CQB training will know that all it takes is a little slight of hand. Get your opponent to focus on your hand that's on the weapon and finish things with your open hand...it only takes a split second. That's also why operators carry a secondary firearm like a pistol. That way rather than fighting over the primary weapon that the assailant is trying to acquire you give him a couple of love taps from your secondary weapon, gain control of your primary weapon, and move on. But your regular citizen isn't going to have a secondary weapon, body armor, and a team to back him or her up.

    Training is good, train all you want......and as a firearm owner one should. But if there's no weapon to begin with, then there's nothing else to lose focus on or fight to keep control of.



    So you have or have not been trained in CQC?

    Matt

  13. first flight was made today! Tim (the owner) was first in, then Kirk, John, and myself. We only had a few minutes but we were glad it was cut short, it was 120 degrees in the chamber! The louvers will be working by friday to cool it down. Video posted in the morning!

    Matt

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    At a grand a pop I think my hopes of trying one out would be dashed. I'm just trying to figure out how it works as there isn't anything like that published on the site.



    We have 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 minute blocks. They range somewhere around $27 on up.

    Hope this eases your concerns.

    Matt

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    So I'm reading up on this whole tunnel thing... Unfortunately the website for this tunnel doesn't seem very complete. For who knows how many million were spent on construction the website seems to come in a little short...

    So it's somewhere around a grand to get into the tunnel? Am I reading that right?

    -Michael



    We are "1 month plus" (I'm guessing) from opening. More information will be put up as we have it - which means the information on our site will start growing a lot here soon.

    I don't know where you pulled that figure from but we currently have a 1 hour block for advanced skydivers for $750. Pricing information will be released soon. I hope that helps.

    Matt

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    We are running a special right now to buy Flexi Pass hours for 750 USD. Hope to see you here.



    Quick note: I will have these $750 1 hour blocks for sale online in a week or two. If you are signed up for our newsletter you will know the very second they are available via our online booking system.

    Matt

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    Trust me.. The more sophisticated of a user you are, the less you will like Vista.



    If you are a sophisticated user you will know how to turn this stuff off....

    what's the point of investing in "the Stuff" if you are going to need to turn it off?



    Since Vista will be on 95% of all machines in the world eventually, it is left on for the less computer savvy people so they don't double click on virus.exe.

    Other OSs require a password to be entered everytime where as vista only would like you to confirm. Which would be more annoying?

    If you think you are a safe user, turn it off. It isn't rocket science.

    Matt