skytash

clicky: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SqQBnT2jHPo Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

but when you are on a train in India - always go for the squat toilet. It's just a hole in the bottom of the carriage and everything drains down it. The western toilet ends up getting blocked and without a hole in the floor - the floor is covered in whatever was supposed to be flushed down! tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

I've just bought their ruby wedding present from all their daughters (the sisters are chipping in, I just got to go to the shops

Go Roger - explains why the pilots from Belgium are so well behaved - they have a good example! tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

I bought a number of books and just had a very vigorous study schedule. The key to the GMAT is repetition. Make sure that you get yourself the books that come with CDs, like Kaplan and just keep doing them over and over again. There is an absolute limit that everyone reaches no matter how hard they study as a lot of it is about mental agility, how quickly can you re-focus on a verbal from a geometric problem etc. To really work on mental agility and improve it all you can do is train it and train it. In the end I also got a higher GMAT score than I ever got when practicing at home and put that down to additional adrenaline focussing me more - a bit like that funny feeling as you climb out of the plane. I'm sure all skydivers are people who perform better under pressure considering we choose to put the pressure of being-dead-if-we-don't-act on ourselves by choice. tash edited to add: I should have considered that whole beach bum idea - why didn't I think of that??? Oh yes, British beaches are cold

now that you know how that feels, will you look girls in the face when you talk to them? tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

mine was for charity and from memory my parents were the highest single sponsors.

In the UK the jumpmaster is the second in command to the pilot on any plane. It's part of the B-licence requirements, so you can be a jumpmaster at 50 jumps. Normally it's the most experienced jumper on the plane. Responsibilities include determining exit point for the first group to exit (everyone should spot for themselves anyway shouldn't they!) and in the event of an aircraft emergency make sure that the other jumpers follow the instructions of the pilot. They are also responsible for checking that everyone has had a kit check which is signed for, making sure helmets and seatbelts are on before the plane takes off and generally be the designated 'adult'. They usually get to sit in the cold spot by the door, which can be good or bad depending on the time of year! tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

got it on a T-shirt I bought years ago at Elsinore, just the other way 'round about Girl meeting boy and telling him to get lost when he tries to stop her skydiving. Just the thing to wear on a whuffo singles night tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

[replyPLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters. The tool most often used by all women. mmh - I made a cold frame this week-end from the 2x4 that held up the stud wall in the garage that I ripped out, the cladding off a neighbour's ceiling and the secondary double glazing that isn't needed now that I have proper double glazing. Don't even own any pliers (although I admit I shouldn't try to make a living as a carpenter either). tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

what do you think its real max altitude is? personal jumpship? And can you just imagine how sick it would make you feel if you tried flying it after the beer light was on... tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

Sunpath use 3Ms scotchguard on the rigs before they are stitched together - had the same question and went to see them when in Z-hills and they showed me the can! tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

don't believe you were surprised at getting a front float slot - it is your speciality! And getting the tall people out of the plane first gives the others more space to wedge into the back of th plane tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

saw it on the news today, v sad - why is it always the good ones that go young? tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

as above, I used to really trash pack my Spectre as it was a 135 being forced into a container built for a 120 - as long as the slider was evenly distributed forward/back/left/right I always had soft openings. tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

on the first one you're right - what he's going to do with the money I have no idea! tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

I picked my new (to me) Lightning up from DHL today and am really excited

that may be why the USPA cover for Yanks isn't deemed acceptable to the requirements the CAA sets. tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

I think it's not just Germans its people who have insurance written in a EU country. It just so happens that it was a BPA dropzone on UK military land in Germany who instigated this change. I think one of the reasons why insurance of others isn't valid has nothing to do with the BPA, but with reciprocity agreements between different insurance jurisdictions. If you tried to claim on say USPA insurance for an accident in the UK, I don't think they'd pay out. And the CAA requires everyone in the UK to have insurance, it may just be that the FAA in the US doesn't. I don't know all the ins and outs, but I know that at last year's AGM there was a forum run by the insurance committee of the BPA which satisfied me that the insurance cover we have is as good as it's going to be unless we convince other air-sports to join in with us. The BPA's broker also represents some of them and they have exactly the same problems as we do. Some have higher premiums, so we we joined up with them we'd pay even more. Others have lower premiums and they are not in the slightest interested in increasing their premiums to help bring ours down. If you want a lesson on how insurance works, I'll try to put something together and perhaps post it as an article. I'm not an actuary, but work in insurance so can hopefully explain how insurance works in lay-mens terms. tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

Someone closer may be able to help with finding somewhere to jump, but I'll try to explain why you are running into problems! Unfortunately your physical fitness won't make much difference at your weight. The problem you are encountering is around equipment limits. When the parachute canopy opens, it decelerates the weight suspended underneath it. That puts forces onto all parts of the equipment, the harness you are wearing, the lines up to the canopy and the canopy itself. Equipment is manufactured to withstand the force up to a certain weight suspended under it and it seems that no-one has equipment that is manufactured to the required weight limit. I don't even know whether there is equipment out there that could take your weight plus that of a tandem master for a tandem, or if you wanted to do an AFF whether there is student gear manufactured to that weight limit. Like I said at the beginning, there may be kit out there for you - keep looking! tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

so as I'm averaging around 48 mpg on my Honda Jazz, I'm actually saving the planet more by driving a smaller car more economically than if I had a hybrid civc ? tash edited to add: and when the mpg dropped recently I checked my tyre pressure, filled them back up and now use less fuel again I'm waiting for a hybrid diesel that I can run on its own electricity and vegetable oil! Saab are developing one and nice Saab 93 that runs carbon neutral sounds good to me (I know it's not carbon neutral to build in the first place!) Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

what is the BPA to do - it is approached by airkix for an idea, I believe speaks tobedford and asks if they are interested to which bedford said they weren't (and I'm happy to be corrected on this one) and then gets stick for not having 'picked' bedford? Before saying something is wrong, it is useful to know all the facts. I'm sending Paul a link to this post so that if I am wrong, he can correct me. tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

you gonna get baking then?? tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

me too tash Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion. Avril Sloe

Biscuit just used to get 'trodden' on or 'kicked' if he got under my feet in the dark. He now uses his superior night vision to get out of my way. Clearly he didn't do that with the neighbourhood ferral cat called Cazanova who inflicted the injury in this picture. Not that Biscuit ever minded, I think he's just glad to know that despite his colour pattern he will now NEVER have to go to a cat show again. I could have told him that after I picked him up from the breeder, he just wanted to make sure...