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If your eyes/mind are used to seeing motion in that sector of the windshield, they might not notice movement outside the car that needs to be noticed. Stuff like a car running a stop sign, or a child running out into the street. Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

Here is a demo version of my logbook-spreadsheet. I am NOT an Excel proficient person. Everything I do is by cutting and pasting and figuring stuff out. I cobbled this together and make no apologies for not taking the simplest or most efficient method of getting from point A to point B. It works for me! Nor is it artistic, I don't need "pretty", I need information. This is a stripped down version, my personal spreadsheet has a bunch of nekked-specific columns and sheets. To operate this version, just fill in the basic information (columns A through I). Then do a "fill down" on J through M (K and L are hidden). All of the other pages are automatically populated. The spreadsheet is based on the standard, traditional 120 mph chart. If you want to enter an amount of freefall time other than that, just enter the amount of freefall time under "Delay", the spreadsheet will then use that figure rather than the one off the 120 mph chart. Entering new dropzones, aircraft, canopies, or new years into the Summary sheet is NOT an automatic process. If you have a basic knowledge of Excel and can figure out what is going on, it should be no big deal. Enjoy. Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

More importantly, the Competition Committee had discussed and decided against establishing any nude state records !! According to the Chair, "I don't think we are ready for it yet." Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

Thanks, both of you! I used the basic structure of flyhi's formula. I'm in the process of reworking my whole SuperMegaLogPlus (pat. pend.). One of the changes I'm after is to reduce columns whenever possible. Plus I can wrap my head around just what is happening. And for the record, I also asked in an Excel Help Forum. I got one answer that really didn't help. Thanks again !! Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

I thought I saw this asked before but I haven't been able to find the answer. I have a list of dates in a range (dates I made jumps). I would like to know how many of those dates are in each calendar months .... How many jumps in June, etc. The attached file kinda shows what I need. Thanks! Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

Mine figures out the percentage of my jumps made nekked. (Currently 13.86%) Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

OK, I did the calculations for an upcoming demo. These were my results: By hand, using a sectional 23° 20 NMI Google Earth using the ruler tool (and adding the magnetic variation) 25.3° 19 NMI Excel spreadsheet (and adding the magnetic variation) 25.3° 19 NMI So, I was pretty close doing it by hand, just off by a couple degrees. But I like the precision of the other 2 methods. Playing around with Google Earth, it looks like the difference between my hand calculation and GE or Excel was about 1.3 miles. Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

The phrase, "Track like your life depends on it!" keeps rolling around in my head. Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

I fashioned a pouch for my digital camera out of the fanny pack that Cypres gives (gave?) away with their unit. I specifically removed the zipper so as not to put any scratches in the camera. I had the great idea to put the pouch on my chest strap. The first time I jumped with the camera, the pouch opened and the camera popped out during deployment. I believe the not-inexpensive camera is at the bottom of Army Lake. Also, I once lost a ProTec in freefall. It fell in front of jumper under canopy who followed it to the ground. He recovered it and spoiled my excuse to get a new helmet. Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

That is pretty much how I had been doing it. The biggest problem with that is locating the exact landing area on the sectional. I don't know how much you've worked with sectionals but landmarks can be scarce. So my method was to find the exact location on a web page, zooming out until I could find landmarks that I could recognize on the sectional and then guess at the exact location of the landing area. Not very precise. It reminded me of the old army adage, "Plan it on a computer, measure it with a micrometer, mark it with a piece of chalk and then cut it with an axe." Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

I found that in my initial search. Alas, it is a PC program. I'm on a Mac. Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

Sometimes when I'm under canopy I'll look down at the boats on the lakes below and think, "Those people think they're having fun." Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

We belong to the UNITED STATES Parachute Assn. IMHO, The magazine (and the calendar) should be limited to stuff about the States or in the States. A boogie in Lichtenstein shouldn't be featured in the magazine because a couple Americans happened to attend. Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

Spherical trigonometry. Thanks for dumbing it down for me!

Thanks! I'll give that try as well. Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

Thanks ! Just a tad more complicated that what I had imagined but it does do the job. How about a quick block of instruction on how to figure out this conversion? Does this have to do with the red dashed lines that run diagonally through the sectional? The point I'm looking at lies directly between one that reads "3°W" and "4°W" if that helps. Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

Is there a website that will calculate the distance and radial to the nearest VOR? When preparing the 7711-2 for demo jumps I'm using a sectional and a protractor. This is the year 2011. There has to be a better method. I did a quick search but didn't find what I was looking for. Thanks ! Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

Wisconsin, about 10 miles from Milwaukee. Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

No shit there I was. Thought someone was gonna die ......... On my way home from the dropzone this evening I'm driving through a village when I see two guys with long ropes attached to the top of a great big dead tree. OK, I'm not in a hurry so I thought that I had to see this. I pull up and ask if I can watch. There was a joke about charging admission, but they were cool with it. Let me set the scene as it was when I got there. Dad (mid-forties) is sitting in a chair looking up at the tree, requisite beer in hand. Son (early twenties) is hanging on to one rope .... Well, part of it was rope, the other half was an electrical extension cord. That line was looped over a dead branch and attached to an even bigger dead branch about 8 inches in diameter. A friend (also early twenties) was hanging onto a similarly rigged (?) rope/extension cord. One of his legs was in a cast. His wheelchair was near by. Beer cans littered the nice lawn of the nice two story house. There was a step ladder propped up against the tree. No climbing or safety gear was to be seen. I just KNEW this wasn't going to end well. They were on a break. The 8 inch branch had been partially sawed through. The plan was that Dad was going back up in the tree, attach a come-along to the 8 inch branch and then break it off. The two friends would then lower it to the ground. Oh yeah, this branch was about 10 feet directly above the roof of the nice house. At this point I KNEW I was in for a rare treat. You see videos of this type of thing all the time. Here I was, about to see a train wreck, close up. I wasn't going to be able to affect the outcome, but I was going to witness it. I am not an arborist, nor am I a mechanical engineer but it sure didn't take my high-school physics long to figure out that there was no way for this to be successful. Dad climbed back up the tree and hooked up the come-along. He started tightening it until he and everyone else thought the cable was going to break. The branch didn't give so Dad grabbed his hand saw and sawed until the branch went CRACK. He scampered down the tree as well as someone in shorts and tennis shoes could. The limb held fast. Then Dad grabbed one of the lines from the friend and yanked on it, putting some weight into it. CRACK!!! and this time it let go. instead of pulling the limb away from the house, the come-along had the opposite effect, pivoting the branch more directly over the house. The weight of the now freed limb was too much for the two line holders and the whole thing crashed down on top of the house. The limb broke in half and just missed hitting the front picture window and the van which hadn't been even moved out of the driveway. Dad looked up the side of the house and said, "Looks like I have a dent in the gutter.". He sat back in his chair and opened another can of beer. From his angle though, he couldn't see what I could. A two inch branch had punctured his roof! Fortunately, no one was hurt. Unfortunately, I hadn't the gall to get the camera out of my car to document the whole thing. I excused myself and hopped back in my car. I laughed all the way home. I did a demo at an air show today. Went great. Seeing this whole "Funniest Videos" moment live was even better. Truly worthy of awe. Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

My personal best is 15,000'. Somebody (not me) should step up and start keeping the nekked reccords. State nekked records, highest nekked, coldest nekked, etc. The only one I know of is NakedWorldRecords.com. but I was thinking of a skydiving only org. Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

A yellow bird with a yellow bill.... Was sitting on my window sill. I lured him in with a crust of bread. And then I smashed his FUCKIN' HEAD. Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

Has it been jumped nekked yet? Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

See, I maintain that this particular gentleman is inappropriately endowed for nekked jumping. I, on the other hand .... Never mind, TMI, I'm sure. Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

Try it nekked !! Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

Any broken plates? Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving