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Wow this is too funny. These are the same arguments I heard 40 years ago when I put on Addida's instead of Frenchies. Better watch out, I hears them folks up in the big city r jumpin' square parechutees and no helmets. Dang fools! U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

How about sitting in a closet everday. But you'll need someone to fart in there first, so you have that jump plane atmosphere. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

I use to use a kid leash. Worked great. I tied one end to my upper arm or belt and gave him the other end. Told him to hang on or I'd get lost. He still keeps track of me 29 years later. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

I've had wuffos with scissors think they can take a souvenir on demos. They think you throw canopies away after every jump and you "GO UP on opening. "THEY"RE WOOOOOOFFOS!" U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

Here's a thought. Back when we jumped rounds the bridle was a piece of tubular. Then the Wonder Hog cam out and used a piece of flat binding tape as the bridle because it had no pin. The closing loop was a piece of elastic and you folded the bridle length wise to make it narrow, then back on itself to make the "pin" you stuck in the elastic. And the first throw outs were belly mounted and then leg mounted. So velcro was sewn on the tape. When they went to a pin and BOC maybe no one thought to change it. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

Back when we had two aircraft. A Cessna 195 and a 182. Instead of teaching the students two different exits for static line we taught them one. The 195 has no strut or landing gear near the door. So the student would sit in the door, legs hanging out. Right arm on the outside of the fuselage. Left hand on the door sill. On go all they did was arch. Off they'd go. So we did the same with the 182. No problem. And that was the days of wart gear. 55+ pounds of crap that hung past your ass and a belly reserve big as a foot ball. I think the leg braces will be a pain in the plane and crawling out, better start early. Sit with your back to the dash and scoot out the door. Shouldn't be hard to dirt dive this and figure out any problems. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

If you did a backward somersault out of a Skyvan, could you get stable on your own? U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

Should have told her to grab a pizza, jump on the bus and come on over. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

I saw him wandering around Deland weekend before last. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

Long ago and far away I heard about the first wind tunnel. I drove over to see it. It was about a 4 foot tube perched on top of a flat bed semi. The engine and prop were mounted under the truck. The tube had no top. As I got out of my car this guy appears out the top of the tube. Balanceing on the column of air. I watched him flair for a few seconds, then he fell off the column of air and onto the ground. He made this loud thud and then for some reason started screaming. I walked over to observe his one femur bent at a rather odd angle. I thought to myself "hmm". Got back in my car and left. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

For the one's that say they can do it. Tell them to give you $20 and you'll make their reservation in the next class. I made a lot of money off drunks with that one. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

Long ago a friend of mine was jumping off El Cap. He stood on the edge and stared until he was so scared he could barely move. Then he back up ran like hell and jumped. When I asked him why he said he wanted to be as scared as possible. Why else do it? So I started to tell my students to enjoy the fear. Before that I had done the same as everyone else and try to convince people not to be afraid, because the gear was great, emergency procedures, blah, blah, blah. When I started telling them to be as afraid as possible and enjoy it, because they would never get that feeling again. The second jump is less scary than the first, etc. People spend a fortune on scary movies and roller coasters to get scared, so enjoy it. People seemed to jumped better. The other thing I learned from a guy named George Mc Cormick is to be angry at your stuff if it doesn't work. Swearing and cusing at your canopy if it mals on you, puts you in a better mind set than fear. The things I have called a canopy, have not been nice! U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

There use to be a place on the EAA site for ride alongs. People that are flying to Oshkosh and will take someone with them. Split gas money. Get hold of Oshkosh to camp out at the airport. Go to Walmart on the drive from Chicago to Oshkosh and pick up sleeping bags and tent. $200. Throw them away when you leave. There is food ( brats and beer) and showers at EAA. Camping there has a lot on advantages. I stayed there a whole week one year. I also recommend going the last friday and saturday of the show. The most planes are there and the better air shows. If you would drive from NY, you could go to Niagara Falls, the wine country of Michigan and take one of the ferries across Lake Michigan. They have a high and low speed ferry. You can get a sleeper on the slow one. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

Pay him like my brother and I do. I bet him years ago and have given him 10 cents a month since. He sends me a penny a week for a bet he lost. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

something like this? U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

I've not seen that exact one, but have seen something close in the Navy. It held the can upright to compression pack it. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

Lawyers are going to love this. Did they ask him if he wanted to be rescued? Did they inform him of the cost, in an itemized statement? Then he can sue the DZ for not informing him of the cost of tree, water. wire, off airport landing. Not to mention the cost of a bucket to carry his sorry ass off in if he went in. He could sue the guy that put that tree there and didn't properly make it as a skydiving hazard. Just think of the new warning labels on gear. A list of what it will cost to save your butt if you land somewhere that's not the designated area. All in four or five languages. "with circles and arrows and a discription on the back" U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

My Dad. Drove a tank in Patton's army. Fought everywhere. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

When you were taught to jump you were given the reasons to use your reserve. Practice your emergency procedures endlessly, until they bore you. Practice them physically to build muscle memory. Practice them mentally to get use to the idea. Practice before every jump. Practice in the plane. Practice under canopy, carefully. Practice until you get to the point the check out clerk at the grocery store tell you your "total" for groceries and you reach for your reserve. Practice until you hear of a car "spinning" and you go for your cut away handle. Practice until you wipe your butt and the toilet paper fails and you reach for your handles. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

We borrowed the Jump Shacks once, It was a crash test dummie from one of the car companies. I was takeing it back. Had it sitting in the passenger seat of my International Travelall. Going from Milwaukee to Michigan. Went by a bunch of bikers. All of a sudden they come roaring up around me all looking in the windows. Big smiles when they saw what it really was, So I put a hat and sun glasses on it. So it would be a little less conspicuous. I get stopped by the Chicago cops for speeding. I get out of the truck and the cop says tell the passenger to get out too. Turns into a Marx brothers movie, with me telling them "its a dummy" and them screaming things like, they don't care get out of the car. Went on for 10 minutes before they understood. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

Use to be a thing called a Hot Dogger. It strapped on your exhaust with a couple clamps. I had one on the snowmobile. Cooked all kind of stuff with it. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

This poll is discriminatory. I don't wear skivvies. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

It isn't legal. So don't tell anyone. Don't tell the FAA, the forest service, yo mama, nobody. U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

I thought it looked like Marana. And is that Lowell Bachman in the tight shorts? U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316

Did any one get this right? What's the historic signifigance? U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316