bigbearfng

Sounds like a plan. Anymore I wouldn't recommend anyone looking at LE to apply in Ca.....just too much crap! Always wear a tape recorder and use it....saved my butt from accusations before! Are ya'll anywhere near Marshall? I was there not too long ago on an extradition. Nice little town, and the inmate said, "I won't give ya any trouble, just please take me back to a Ca. jail." I really laughed hard at that one, too bad we couldn't have just left him there!

PD.....yea, first thought was perf. designs.....cool.....then public defender.....Aggie? Naw! PD=police dept......OK, now that fits! Good luck with the app process. BTW, how long is the app for new app there? In Ca. the apps are running about a year.

But I didn't see her "dizzy cat" in there....told Christy she should copyright a few 2-way names.:)

But the suspect is usually the husband/boyfriend....I wish more victims would fight back!

I've also succumbed to the presure of "GO"; and after opening too close for comfort from a jumper from the previous 4-way I will err on the side of "rather give it plus 2 or 3 seconds than minus 2 or 3 seconds! Also as Bill said-I take more than just a cursory look for other aircraft now-after opening and one of my partners found a Cessna aprox. 500ft below him.....so go ahead and yell....I'll respectively step aside and let them go first!

After flying armed (legally, extraditions!) I won't even go into all the "gaps" I've seen....

Sparky; if I remember correctly you live in the high desert? So driving home may well make it go "active"? Since I live in Big Bear, it sounds like a good idea to turn it off....I have to hit "I'm at DZ" on my neptune after I get home as otherwise it'll stay on and say "slow climb".

Hopefully with the cooler weather, it won't sink into the pavement to the hubs if it sits for ten minutes in one place on the blacktop runway!!! That wasn't a pretty sight...

Last I heard, PD would send you the appropiate adjusted slider size if you asked while holding your credit card, although if I remember correctly it wasn't as simple as the next sized up slider, it had different demensions. As Aggiedave says above-I contacted PD, and they sent me a new slightly larger slider (in one dimension only)-night and day diff!

Today on our last load-first out a 3way, then me and a partner on a 2way, then FF's. Yes really looked out the door-no other air traffic visible. Everyone exited. My partner and I tracked off, pulled at 3000ft. After opening there's a small plane-Cessna (est. by my partner-I saw it later) about 100ft. passing under him. Our pilot and other folk on the ground saw him flying near open canopies too. Yup, yelled at, new pilot, all shook up then and blew his approach.... I'm just looking/hoping for ideas to use to help spot these things...short of assigning someone on the jump to look out for aircraft approaching while in freefall. I've read the statements about seeing an airplane while spotting on jumprun; however those statements seem to apply to a nice clear day; which it wasn't today-Scattered clouds at about 6000ft, and the plane was just toolin' along below them.... Thoughts?

I've noticed that some jumps my neptune will show some odd numbers... Exit alt=12500; mph at 12000=0???? Other jumps it'll show mph at 12000=60 or so. I just recently bought it and it does have the most current software. Have other folk noticed this?

I know this has been mentioned before... I've been rolling the crap out of the nose, then I would get pretty bad hunting and off heading openings-but the opening force was consistently decent. Packing it to eliminate the off heading hunting-then it would open "brisk" and once in awhile give a "little" smack. I talked to PD, and they sent out a new slider. I've had a chance to put a few jumps on it now and it's night and day. I'm just stuffing the nose in a bit, and you'd 'bout think it was a Spectre opening; with minimal hunting/off heading. (And yes, I'd tried a lot of advice on flying the opening , feet together, etc. to counter the off headings.) Mine is a 190 DOM97, that originally had a 23X31; the new slider is 26X31. Anyway-figured I'd post this for anyone doing a search on the subject to find-just talk to PD and spend the $ for their recommendation on a new slider size!!!!

I take it this will be at Elsinore? What day?!!

Most everyone is referring to him as a dumbass due to his own comments. As someone previously said-if it wasn't for his actions and words afterwards-it would just be a student that kinda blew it, and no big deal against the guy. But this guy ranted about his instructors not knowing what they were doing and just made up incredible BS to try to make himself look good! And then tried to sue! As I understood it, he tried to not only sue the dz, but also the power co. for putting those power lines there in his way! BTW-I had to repeat level 4 twice, it seems like most folk get hung up on level 4....so no big deal...

A badspot driver is hired by a DZ (usually at minimum wage!). The driver watches loads for openings, if a cutaway, checks that the jumper has a good reserve, if it looks like anyone has a hard landing renders first aid and notifies manifest to call 911, follows down the free bag and reserve and recovers it after a chop, and drives out to pick up jumpers that land out. Along with etc. etc. After working as a volunteer at nationals I have a lot more respect and appreciation for Badspots and Manifest!!!!!!!

If you know someone is impaired, and is on the next load, you can make the decision to inform the pilot or dzo and if nothing else, you can always stay on the ground. -- It's the pilot's license-so you bet I'm talking to the pilot. If the pilot loses his license, then I can't jump!

I figure that if I have to chop and the main goes drifting away; the badspot driver is saving me quite a bit of money to follow and recover it! So personally I'd heavily tip. But I've recently seen that this doesn't seem to be the trend. (Even when the badspot spent more than an hour and used an ultralight to find it after it really blew in high winds.) Thoughts?

It's my therapy...

Jose, Gemini; my only perspective in this instance was as a volunteer working grunt. And the topper was when the swoop pond folk took the extension cord off the already setup and inflated accuracy tuffet to try and setup a PA without asking or mentioning it to anyone. Just really glad that the folk that were going to be using the tuffet looked at it first! Freeflyers-I've always found them to be one of the funnest groups! And again, up till now I've never run into the "tude" in skydiving(sounding like lucky and/or havn't been around enough yet); and dissapointed because I'm just naive about skydiving being one big happy family, and/or just still too new to the sport....so I'm taking all the above input to heart and won't make any blanket assumptions; just take it on an individual basis.

I didn't mean for my post to be derogatory towards swooping or swoopers in general. What they do is completely amazing. I guess that this is just the first time that I've actually run into anyone that could fit into the "derogatory" definition of skygod and it was at the swoop pond circus. I was beginning to think that the "derogatory skygod" didn't really exist and disappointingly this just really kinda popped my bubble of that expectation.

Just an observation from a newbie nobody.... I've heard of the "skygod"; and yes competition RW folk are intense-but I've found that they are "real" people. (Flame suit on) Now to me at least; the swoop pond is where the "skygod" mentality is at. Maybe it's just to an old ski-patroller, the whole swoop pond thing is like the first snow board parks- full of attitude. And no, not all-but seems like the majority. One of the RW competitors put it this way to me-take a kid and give him the equivalent of a Ferarri in a canopy and what do you expect? OK, end of rant-just curious if it's just me that's seeing this or not.

Welcome to Perris Valley Skydiving. Aty least you wern't one of the TMs that had to jump with them....reports were they were all pretty swishy....(The models, not the TMs!!)

Hey, I saw ya on the 210 fwy a few weeks ago! I saw your vette with the personalized plates (I'm a white C4 vette). I was trying to figure out a way to wave, and make it look like a wave off and pull-but figured I'd just look like a complete idiot.....then again I've been called worse things!

Thanks!

www.skydivecostarica.org It's south of Jaco, in Esterillos. Let me know if this is the one and only.....if so, then their website is realllll optimistic lookin....