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"Breakaway" is pretty good, covers all the common mals and high-speed ones as well. Good video work clearly illustrates the problems invovled in each type. I bought the "Skydiving Survival series" which includes "breakaway", and also "Fly like a pro" and "Pack like a pro" to boot.

Definatly. Printer manufacturers make their money now on the consumables. Cartridges that cost nearly as much as a whole new printer are common. Also HP the whole power supply dealey. I buy ink seperatly. For black you get, well black. And for the colour you get magenta, yellow and cyan. Then drill a small hole in the top of the cartridge and use a syringe to inject the ink back in. The only ones that this wont work for is the Epson chipped carts. You can get over 6 refils per kit, which costs less than a quarter of what a new cart would. Very messy the first time though.

What's blue and fucks old people? The flu. How do you make your girlfriend cry during sex? Call her up. What is the definition of blu-tak? Smurf shit!! It's two o'clock in the morning and a husband and wife are asleep, when suddenly the phone rings. The husband picks up the phone and says, "Hello? ... How the hell do I know? What am I, the weather man?" and promptly slams the phone down. His wife rolls over and asks, "Who was that?" The husband replies, "I don't know. Some guy who wanted to know if the coast was clear."

Uh, yes it is. and It's actually a P3. This is the clock speed, not the FSB. True. But Video editing does require a bit of muscle in the Cpu and memory dept. You will still get the job done, but the time required will decrease rapidly with more speed, especially when authoring DVDs. For this type of video work I would recommend a minimum of 2Ghz for the CPU and ,if possible, 1GB of ram - definitly over 512mb though. Get the largest harddisk that you can get (150 - 200Gigs) and serial ATA if possible - SCSI is just too expensive. A DVD +rw/-rw for creating discs is essential. The quality of the video card is not critical but a good capture card is essential for importing video if you still use an analoge camcorder. If you use a digital one then you only need a firewire port to copy the stuff to the harddisk. Basically, I would recommend that you simply buy a new PC. It will save you heartache in the long run.

What did the deaf, dumb and blind kid get for christmas? Cancer. A lesbian goes for a smear test and the gynocologist has a look and says, "That's the cleanest vagina I've ever seen". "Thanks", replies the lesbian, "I have a woman in twice a week" Old mother hubbard went to the cupboard To fetch her poor doggy a bone. But when she bent over Rover took over and gave her a bone of his own.

You can also ask the rigger at your dropzone when the next reserve repack cycle is for the club student gear, and ask them if you can do a live fire (on the ground of course). Basically you just put on the rig and run through your drill. The reserve is due for a repack anyway and most instructors would appreciate their students experiencing this.

A cat hijacks a plane, sticks a gun to the pilots head and screams "Take me to the Canaries!" Why do women like a man who is circumcised? Because they can't resist something with 10% off. A man is lying in bed in hospital and says to the nurse, "Give us a kiss". "No" she replies. "Ahh go on" he says, "please". "No way, f**k off" the nurse replies, "I shouldn't even be giving you this hand job" A jump lead walks into a bar and ask for a beer. The barman looks at it and says, "I'll serve you, but don't start anything" A guy goes into the doctor with a steering wheel down the front of his trousers and says, "can you please remove this, it's driving me nuts" 3 men are sitting in a restaraunt masturbating furiously. The waitress, seeing them, rushes over and cries out, "What the f**k do you think you're doing?" One of the men points with his free hand to a sign by the door which reads "First Come, First Served" Two terrorist mothers are sitting together showing each other family pictures. "That's my eldest son", the first mother says, "he's a martyr". "And that's my youngest, he's also a martyr". She sighs. "Ahh, they blow up so fast"

I can't really comment on those canopies that you have listed due to unfamiliarity with them. However I would like to suggest the PD Spectre 210. It's a nice intermediate level, zero P, 7 cell canopy. Also you might want to consider an intermediate wing area for students, like a Navigator 240. Downsizing from a 280 to a 210 in one go is a major step. The student gear at my DZ has Nav 280s for first time jumpers and then uses smaller sizes (260, 240 and 220) so that the students can downsize in small steps quite safely. Ideally they will be jumping at a loading of around 1.1:1 by the time they finish student progression and go buying their own gear.

First I would remind you to pay more attetion to what your instructors are telling you than anyone else. Having said that I will say that from my experience, trying to be conscious of your body position is rather hard to do with any accuracy. At this stage your mental image of what your body position is and the reality of the situation can be quite different. On longer delays you might find yourself with an involuntary turn for a few jumps because of this. If you don't believe me, ask the jumpmaster to video your exit - you might be surprised. If you are doing a dangling exit from the strut, try (as others have mentioned) clicking your heels and pointing your toes before the release. Also keep watching the aircraft, either look at rivets on the wing or maintain eye contact with your jumpmaster for as long as possible. Muscle memory is the key to a good body position so that you wont have to think about it, it will just come naturally. Practicing the arch from a freefall psoition is good. Most students practice the arch while standing staight and throwing the arms and head back. When I was starting 5 second delays I practiced the arch by standing about 2 feet from a wall and falling forward into it while arching. If done correctly your hips and pelvis will hit the wall first and stop you almost immeadiatly. Expect to smack into it the first time though and it will take a few goes before you overcome the impulse to reach out to protect yourself. I found that this exercise has two main benifits, firstly that you overcome the reaching out impulse which is instinctive and may cause instability, and secondly that in this position your legs are working to keep you upright in a way that will build muscle memory. The legs will naturally try to resist the air pressure and your toes will be pointed. Try it out and you will see what I am attempting to describe. Again mention this exercise with your instructors and get their opinion. However this worked wonders for me and a good few of my friends.

Please do consider trying to jump again. You have no idea what you are missing. The feeling of elation that you get after your first solo is worth every bit of fear you endured just to get out of the plane.

A new discipline, spot accuracy!

I don't think that that is right, maybe it just applies to that DZ. I've seen many first jumpers that refuse to go when the door is opened. You cannot make someone jump if they don't want to (the exeception is where they have already climbed out and it would be more dangerous to try and get back in). The majority go on the second attempt and quite a few have stayed on in the sport. Insurance has very little to do with it as you have signed a waiver and you only have 3rd party cover (ie. damage to other peoples property) IIRC. I find it strange that any DZ would refuse to let you try again just for that, although you may have to pay for another ticket. If it is a case that you did something that the instructors thought was very dangerous, they might be reluctant to let you jump.

Lol Yeah, tell him that you would like to re-instate his account but unfortunately your government is holding DZ.com usernames in political limbo. But for a small some[sic] of money, deposited in your account, he can help you smuggle the usernames out of the country and he will get a generous share once they are safely in Nigeria.

Yeah, my vote is going to the urban legend. Looks like birdstrike or FOD. The straps are more likely cargo straps than seatbelts, used for securing the engine to that pallet it's on for transport and to stop that mangled fan from rotating. The engine as shown is not attached to the wing. It's most likely that these were taken as it was about to be shipped off for overhaul.

I dunno, it's hard to call just by the pics. Seems to me though that the only way that a complete set of get like this would end up in one lot is if: (a). The pawn shop guy just assembled them from different sales in to one auction (a frap cap and a full face helmet, maybe) (b). Someone is quitting the sport for some reason and sold off all their gear (the visor on the helmet is damaged, maybe accident) (c). Stolen gear bag or angry ex However, how many people carry around manuals for the main, reserve and container in a gear bag. Just my 2 cents. As others have said, the only way to be sure is to ask the seller for the serial # and check it out before bidding. Edit to add: FWIW the exterior of the rig looks in decent condition (few stains and 3-ring assemble looks clean), and I notice that the reserve handle looks to be wrapped in a hazzard tape motif. Someone was proud of this rig.

Also there is a possibility for risers that are severely twisted behind your head to press the 3-ring assembly into the helmet and prevent them from releasing. With a bit of pressence of mind, simply turning or tilting the head would give the neccessary clearance.

Are you making sure to get as much air as possible out of the canopy before you make the S-folds. With new zero P the only way for the air to escape is through the stitching, so it take a bit more patients than with older canopies. I lay down on the canopy after making it into that cigar shape prior to S-folding. By laying on it and tucking the excess at the sides underneath you can get a very neat, tight pack. Have the the bag ready before you take your weight off and then be quick about making the S-folds because Zero-p (especially when new) will tend to reinflate. The more air in the pack job the harder it will be to get into the bag.

Er, yes, it appears that I was. So my understanding from this thread is that air-locking is a system of valves in the nose of each cell, designed to keep the cells pressurised in turbulent air. Is that accurate?

I think that I understand the benifits of air locked canopies, but are you aware of any possible negitive aspects. Also is it possible to get air locking without cross-bracing. I imagined the system as a series of one-way valve type flaps on the adjoining cell walls, arranged such that positive flow is possible from the centre cell outwards.

Damn. I hate being wrong. And I was so sure, until I went and tested my theory. Sorry for BS advice. Anyway,after reading the thread (always usefull) it seems that the problems is with the client. The file isprobably ok, and named properly judging by your screen grab, it's just that the clients pc is set up to associate *.AIF files with some media player. Your client is most likely just double-clicking the file in the mail application and Windows does the rest. There is nothing that you can change on your machine to stop this, just tell your client to save the file instead of running it and then use File, open or import in Quickbooks to open it.

No, above that in the white box - what does it say there? EDIT: adding attachment. How do I do a screen grab like this? The PrintScrn key (top right of the keyboard) copies the screen to clipboard. Then paste into an image editor. You can use the CTRL or SHIFT or Alt (can't remember which) to copy just the active window.

Yes. When I am in QuickBooks and make an export file with the .AIF extension, it ends up being an audio file with an .AIFF extension. Sorry to everyone if I didn't explain the problem very well. Ok...first of all, it's not making an audio file. It's making a quick books file. It just happens to have a file extension that is also used by audio files. I can save a text file with .aiff at the end, it won't be an audio file, it will still be a text file. If Quick Books is saving the file with the extension .aiff, then that's what it is supposed to do. This is not a problem. It will still open in quickbooks, you just have to set it so that quick books will open it. The problems is with Windows and Macs having some different filetypes. *.AIFF is an Apple sound file and is associated with whatever app opens when you double-click your files. The reason that Windows thinks that your QuickBooks files are sound files is that Windows only reads the first 3 letters after the last "." to determine the filetype and associated app and icon eg. *.AIFF is considered the same as *.AIF, or *.HTML is the same as *.HTM. So in order to fix it you will need to change the setting in whatever application that runs when you double-click the file. Post the name and someone will tell you how to change the setting and re-associate the *.AIF filetype with QuickBooks. Edit: Mixed up my filetypes. Aiff for aif

When I started jumping I was told the 3 highest priorities for any skydive: 1. Pull 2. Pull with altitude 3. Pull with altitude and stability in that order. To which I will append 2.5 Pull with altitude and in clear airspace AAD fires due to loss of altitude awareness are a very serious thing. How someone can laugh off an incident where, but for the grace of Airtek, they would be dead is beyond me. I was told from day one that should I have an Cypres fire for going low, that I would be banned for life at that DZ (read every european DZ). I think that 30 days of personal reflection would be a minimum and in fact I'm slightly surprised that this was not already the case.

See pic. It's his actual name.

Maybe you've seen this already, but I laughed my ass off solidly for 2 minutes when I got it yesterday. See attachment.