Calvin19

I am flying into milwakee or someplace around there on wednesday, be in Fon Du Lac, and greenbay until Xmas Eve morn, and i want to do some jumping to get away from the Aunts and family for a few hours. Any locals? PM me or i will figure the A's out on my own, I know Madison/millwakee has a few Bs, so lets not let me burn anything down. ...

"bottom skin inlets..." whats wrong with calling them Vents? Politicaly correct, non-brand offensive? Did you get those risers back?

Tailgate rubber bands? to bad those are out of style! all the cool kids use masking tape now. You wish you could fly a canopy as small as mine! Your huge parachute is like the short yellow bus! just cause it has a better glide ratio you think your so cool. Oh yeah, and next time you pull my pins and trash my packjob or put snow in my sleeping bag, im going to whip an orange at your head. And you better hit that jump switch next time, or i will have to show you up again. you wish you could rope jump like us, you skibase punk, you screamed like a girl when you jumped it!

Neither can you deadmanwalking, and i KNOW for a fact you cant pack. Cant even get your skis on! SketchBall turn my ass!

not a lot, just rough estimates to be sure we are well within limits. we do most of the measuring on sight to learn more. we use a dynafor Load cell, and a few creative measuring teqniques

"are we truly the lucky ones, or what?" never a doubt

Yeah, thats what it is. A rappelling accident. forgive the hype. Yet another case where the media destroyes the truth an a perfectly simple case. Rest.

Dude, you are a nerd. I get my new base gear in a month, buy my old rig and we are set, the boys will be unleashed on the world. how bout it? -SPACE-

From what i have looked at so far, this may be a simple rappelling accident, made complicated by a moving crane. again will kee updated

Trust me, it was that windy. had some fun with an 8' round at the airport.

Our 1st system we set up when we were in 9th grade, out of tree hanging on the edge of a cliff we called "Flight Simulator" we thought it was the coolest thing in the world. only 60 feet of freefall, but it was way fun. we spent a whole summer at that sight, changing stuff around. Our systems changed a lot after that (it was a sketchy system, but we still rig it up for just us every now and then, to see if we still have it) But then, 2 years ago, we started designing a new system, and after we started testing it we realised it had a lot in common with the old Flight simulator, just much more elaborate. Alex and I are pilots by trade, and when we were in training we used a really high budget version of Microsoft Flight Simulator, an actual flight simulator. The company that made them was Called FRASCA, thus, the name. All our sytems have names, so we can keep them organised, and they all come from different parts of our lives. IE- Flight Simulator Tree" Flight Simulator CIA" (Conifer International Airport) Flight Simulator Moab. Jump Program"-a really cool constant tension freefall system, the jump line has no slack, the system keeps it tight for the 100' freefall (name from the matrix...) BlueShift I, II, III Sidereal I,II RedShift I,II (all astronomy terms) Wee1Top, Wee1top I,II (Biological Chemistry) FRACA I, II.1, II.2, II.3 The system at Walshmens Walk was all FRASCA II.2/II.3 yeah, we are weird.

not yet, if we put up FRASCA again, then of course. but it will take us awhile to get confident on anew system. especialy a tyrolean rig in moab. Frasca was 2 years old, with about a thousand jumps on it.

Usualy 3 times a year. we are planning for early/mid April. but a new system is in the works and bigger (double) is the goal. i

I agree, i was being dramatic I pack the actual canopy 3 seperate ways, then is bridal routing, priming, PC size, deployment method, etc, forgive the generalization, just trying to make a point. What i was getting at is generaly, every new sight does not need a completely new, invented on the spot packjob.

"If Dan Osmond is your Carl Boenish then soon there will be rope jumping glory hounds, site burners and back stabbing politics. " With the number of fatalities and the actual number of rope jumps made, and considering the difficulty and frailty and precision it takes to make a worthwhile rig, i am going to assume and hope that this never becomes a sport or a hobby. What time, money and mental strain my freinds and i have invested in doing this the way we feel is safe is probably not worth it. Nick, I have my own list, informal, and for me alone. but its longer than it should be already. There is a magic to BASE jumping, we have discussed it here before, that there seems to be a trend for it to work out,(not all the time, by any measure) as if our gear and skills surprise us. I believe Whole Heartedly that this magic is entirely missing from Rope Jumping.

haha, thanks steve, "if we cant laugh at everything, life is going to last a whole lot longer than we want it to." i have gotten literaly 17 calls from freinds making sure it was not me, you never know how many freinds you have until they think your dead. I go to the service for Heather tommorow, and i have yet to figure out who this was. I will keep updated, thanks to anybody who has called though... Edited to add---18 calls ---I have recently discovered the hard way how impossible it is to eat a pop-tart with a fork.

I was not there, but my hat goes off to you. that was beautiful. i wish to join you guys soon.

"but they have to just trust my rigging on the other end, or not jump. " So true. I would not have it any other way

I agree. IT WAS FREAKING WINDY HERE LAST NIGHT. our airport lost a plane or two, pulled the tiedown rings right out of the spar. But i dont think the crane moved, i went to check it out this morning, and it looked as if the crane was locked in place by its main hoist. (the part that actualy lifts stuff) About showing people how to set up a rig and jump it, i dont think i would actually teach somebody "the ropes" from start to finish, but i would help somebody if they were already into it and had figured out things on their own, i would answer questions, and ask my own. Rope jumping has an insane amount of variables, especialy tyrolean jumps. It would be hard to keep people from photographing our system, all the rigging and such. but i think it is a good idea to not give as much info about it in the future. When i was letting people jump our rig, the only info I gave was a crash course in jumping and retrevial technique, i answered specific questions about the system, but we are not writing a book. The problem with rope jumping is it is entirely inventive and sight specific, Base jumping we have rougfhly 2 packjobs for everything. rigging a rope jump presents new problems with every sight, in fact, the only system i have ever used more than once is the simple bridge swing. like i said, Rope jumping is no game. not something to do on friday night with your drunk freinds and your weekend warrior $99 REI special climbing rope. be careful. in fact. dont do it.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/5474132/detail.html So, I have no idea who this was, or the experience they had... but please be careful people... seriously. this is not Fucking Around. I actualy have no idea what happened, other than what i saw on the crane an hour ago and what i read on this article. whoever it was, blue skies. i dont know where else to post this.

hey buddy... Glad your OK, You are the crazy unpacked mofo. It was fun jumping the potato with you, and hanging out in moab. Be well, stay crazy

"0 tolerance"? I am confused, I thought it was only a matter of arial delivery. so as long as i dont USE my parachute/paraglider/aircraft to leave the ground, or return to it, then its ok. I have heard stories of guys kiting paragliders getting busted, So i cant even pack in the valley?

I was just thinking about how impressive a 25 degree angle track is. seriously, a human body was not designed for that. The amazing thing is, its working, and it makes sense. The human bodies position and shape can be changed instantly in flight. In all reality, we have the most advanced, fastest developing aerodynamic platform of any aircraft out there, Take sailplanes for example, the ones i fly have a glide ratio of around 50 to 1, and a sink rate of sometimes less than 35 meters per minute. Now, imagine if we could take the rigid carbon airfoil of a Nimbus, and in flight change it to the perfect shape, instantly, for any flying condition, or speed. Imagine what could happen to that number if a wing could sense and feel and correct as fast as a human body can in flight. we are going to live forever. innovate or die.

900' A, sliderup, sunrise. that one was for Heather. Funny how that makes it feel better. now, i take an ambien, and go back to sleep.

yeah, so we need to outnumber them 3-1. at least. zooloads and all