jackwallace

Still think about you little girl.

Nesbitt. Cause you could order it in a bar when you were a 5 year old kid, drinking with your dad.

I'd drive the truck, but the guy sitting outside steering the blade has the job that sucks.

there's no feeling of height, looking out of the plane, in free fall or under canopy. Things just look small.
President of my club, couldn't stand on a foot stool without becoming dizzy, jumping didn't phase him.
There's no feeling of falling in free fall. Its more like laying in water, but noisy from wind.
guy that us to be head of the USPA lost a bunch of weight just like you and for the same reason. He told me more than once, skydiving probably saved his life. Maybe someday you'll have his job.
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did you go to the hooker museum in Nova Scotia?

Get hold of John Sherman, he's on here. He had some movies from Hugh's aircraft (i think). That had slow mo stuff of openings.
Might also check Face book, Old school skydiving.

the top

you forgot a mirror. look in it every day before you jump. you'll see the most important thing to keep you safe

Rent.
Instead of spending money on gear, make more jumps. Until you're making 2-3 jumps a weekend, and you decide if you are staying in the sport.
Can you pack? Spend your money learning that.
Can you do a decent PLF?
Look at what other people your level are jumping. See how it lands, flies, opens.
Read the thread in incidents about the girl in Kansas.

BillyVance

If it hasn't already been added - Escalades, especially the black ones. Encountered one on the way home, going fast in the left lane, using the right lane to go around slower ones and riding other people's asses.

When he got stuck in traffic and I caught up to him, I knew there was no way I was going to get by him, until the highway opened from 2 to 3 lanes. He can block one lane with traffic, but he can't block two. So when he predictably took to the left lane when it opened up, I found a gap in the right and I was gone, and he's stuck behind other vehicles. Dumbass.

hmmm? what kind of car do you drive?

the most aggressive sober drivers i've ever seen (and i'm old and drove truck and cab) are soccer mom's in mini vans. They were doing so much damage to a dirt road in the national forest where i volunteered, taking there kids to the summer camp. The FS was trying to figure out how to ban them.

the real question/answer is will you mind spending the rest of your lift in a wheelchair or worse to make one skydive?
jumping is fun, doing it with the possibility of a life changeing injury probably will make it not so

Learn why you are packing. This may sound simple, but I've asked people for 40 years why they do that and most of the time they answer, cause that's the way they were taught. When you learn the why, the how will be easy.
Pack with you eyes closed. 39 years ago I made the statement I could pack in the dark. People took the bet and I got locked in a bathroom with no light and a canopy that had been cut loose from the harness and tangled. I packed it, came out wearing the rig and was the only person at the US nats that was sure it would be fine. Made some beer money too.

There is a film (no vid in those days) from the 70's of a guy flying up to the cameraman, waving with webbed gloved hands, turning around and just hammering the star, blowing it up. He left the DZ, came back a couple hours later with a T-shirt with a big funnel on the front.

Geez people its just driving. I figure if someone gets close behind me I just move over. Maybe they have to pee, diarrhea, late for a job they can't afford to loss.
Chill, there are no winners in this game.

You say it didn't make any difference, but you stopped spinning. Why do you THINK that happened?

jjoll

***Take one of your socks off. I can tell you all about it, but you will see.

why just one?

Which part of "I can tell you all about it, but you will see." don't you understand?

Take one of your socks off. I can tell you all about it, but you will see.

PAY? Lucky they let you out of the plane to pee. Pay, now that's funny.

Have you learned your canopy yet? Have you opened at 5,or6 K and played with the canopy? Do you know what it fells like just before it stalls? How it recovers from the stall? Have you put it in a 360 degree turn and seen how much altitude it loses? What about 2 or 3 turns? Until you have taken your canopy to its limits at altitude don't mess with it near the ground.
When you turn on final can you tell where you will land or are you just guessing? Pick a spot and in normal flight see where you end up. Over or under, then adjust your final start altitude or distance from your chosen landing point.

they forgot the 5th one: yeahbut

GideonY

***How strong is it? Can you run on it? Back in the day that was the measure of if you can jump or not. Can you jump off a chair? Top of a car? Do you mind losing your leg?

I can run and jump, and have absolutely no intention to lose the leg.

I had a friend I skied with that broke his leg. It healed. He broke it again. It healed. He broke it again and they had cut it off below the knee. He still skis, but on a peg leg.

How strong is it? Can you run on it? Back in the day that was the measure of if you can jump or not. Can you jump off a chair? Top of a car? Do you mind losing your leg?

That's a pure breed curb setter/seat warmer mix. It'll sit on the curb and wait for you to come home and you'll never get in the car with a cold seat if you take it along.

thunderbolt. no way i'd stick a kid with clap in there name.