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I've had several cutaways. Everything from them landing on the DZ to hunting in the woods for hours on end to flying around in a Cessna to spot it. One I had was on a brand new canopy with about 50 jumps. It was right when crossbraced canopies came on the market so I got an Icarus FX 99. I was shooting a tandem video and the spot was VERY long by the time we got out. Spinning line twists and I had to chop it. There was no outs anywhere near where my canopy was headed so I headed for the DZ with my main behind me where I couldn't keep an eye on it. Searched for days for it with no luck. Ended up buying a new canopy. About 18 months later the DZO called me and said she had a suprise for me. When I showed up that weekend there was my canopy in perfect condition. Turns out one of the pilots was hunting with a friend and they got to talking about skydiving for some reason. The other hunter says I've got one of the parachute things hanging up in my garage that I found near one of my hunting blinds more than a year ago. The pilot told him they were expensive and that someone would surely want it back but the guy didn't want to give it back. The pilot offered him $50 and brought the canopy out to DZ. Like I said it was in perfect condition so I packed it up and jumped it. I ended up selling it soon after because the opening on that thing were horrific.

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I had almost the same thing happen to me 2 weeks ago. I was playing 1/2 live and had about $560 in front of me. I picked up JJ on the button with about five limpers. I raise to $20 and get one caller. Flop is QQJ He stares me down and then checks. I think he hit something so I bet out $40 and he goes all in for $495 WTF. I call and flips over AQ and hits Quads on the turn. The only thing that gets me about this is if he wasn't such a bad player and make a bet 6x the pot in a deepstack game. I would have seen the turn and been able to get off the hand. But so goes the game.

We used to have "swoop" he was a chocolate lab. We had to put him to sleep last year though.

RIP Lee. My heart goes out to you Brandy. Jeff

Kitcho's is a great litte sushi place and Marie Livingstons is a steakhouse. There is also Harry's which is cajun seafood. Your question is kind of vague but these are some places I like to go. If you are looking for something more specific let me know and I can point you in the right direction.

The Nissan trucks are great. I have the 4 door Frontier. A very good friend of mine has the Titan and we both love them. The Nissan truck drive better than the Toyotas IMO. Mine is only 2 years old but I have never had any problems with it.

It depends. Some one with 5000 probably doesn't need to stay as current as some one with 50 jumps. Hence the differences in USPA currency requirements.

I'm pretty sure Mike Mullins DZ near Memphis will do it.

I would call the manufacturer of the rig you want to get rated on. They can give you info for the IEs in your area. Give a few of them a call and see if they can put you through the course.

I've won some lottery in the UK twice in 3 weeks. It's true, I have the emails they sent me to prove it. I'm going to quit my job tommorrow and then claim my prizes.

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Maybe we should put in in tha bag and stow the lines too. That would make it easier on the the person we are paying

Try Rockledge.

I'm going to try shutting off the main and testing the breaker. I have unplugged everything and turnd the switcthes to off, but it still won't reset. Thanks for the help.

The breaker to my living room just blew. I reset it at the box but it went again about 5 min later. Now it will not reset at all. The switch will not lock like it should. If I push it over it just goes back to orange. Is there anything I can do or do I need to call someone in? I need light. Extension cord got the TV going though.

Talk to your instructors and find out what you should be looking for. Also talk to someone(preferably a rigger) that is willing to help you out when you think you find something. Get the seller to send pics and any info on the gear ie...DOM, #of jumps,size, condition of gear and any repairs or mods that may have been done to the gear. Then bring this info and pics to said rigger. If you guys decide this might be what you want THEN have seller send the gear to the rigger. He inspects it and you see if you like, it fits, ect. If so you send money to seller and the rigger hold on to the gear until seller calls and says the money has been received. If the gear is not what you want then all you pay is shipping.

Mike you let 16 year olds jump! Shame on you. I'm sure you wouldn't let your own kids skydive at such a young age

As has been said you should be somewhat nervous throughout your skydiving career, It helps to keep you toes. With that being said that terrified feeling will go away, but how long just depends on the person. When I was on on the plane for my AFF level 6 I remember being so scared I said to myself "This is so stupid. Why are you doing this. When I get down from this I am never going to do this again." I had a great jump and after that I haven't been terrified like that again. Good luck

There was an ad in Parachutist/Skydiving about 10 years ago. I think the ad was for Square One. Any ways they had a cartoon guy swooping with Tevas on and his tounge hanging out of his mouth. I was wondering if anyone knew where I might find this picture or ad..

Why do we feel it is so important for skydiving to get exposure and become mainstream? It seem that in trying to grow our sport that we have convinced many of the young jumpers that skydiving is safe. It's just not so and it's even more dangerous to let them think so. This sport is not for everyone, there is small few who are able to handle and also accept the risk involved. Yet we feel it necessary to try to get everyone to come play. I'm all for growing our sport, but we can't just try to push it on anyone, most of them are not cut out for it. As far as do Tandems help or hurt membership, who cares. What you should be asking is do Tandems help or hurt the sport in general. The answer is they are a huge help. They help keep jump prices down. Would higher membership do this? Maybe, but not near as much as tandems do. They help DZs to turn a profit and therefore keep them in buisness for us to jump. Higher membership would help with this but without tandems it wouldn't matter for most DZs as they would not be able to stay afloat. Tandems let many experience the thrill, when they never would do so through another method. Tandems also help to bring many jumpers into our sport. Tandems are vital to this sport and I have been very suprised to this question being asked so much recently.

As others have said the system works fine. I really like my wings with this system. I would have to wonder about a rigger that has never seen this before (my wing like this is at least 4 years old.) Anyways if you decide you don't like it for some reason, give the factory a call. They have excellent customer service and I'm sure they will help you out.

Here is another article http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/11/ces2007_hddvd_blu_ray/

Why do you say there is no issues in case 1?(cutaway and deploy your reserve) You have the same risk of entanglement with your main PC /bridle in either senario. If you cutaway in a PC in tow your PC / bridle will be in exact place the were before you cutaway, they will not jettison from your container. Do you not understand how your gear works or am I misunderstanding you. I get the impression that you don't understand what the reasons for the debate between cutting away and just pulling the reserve during a PC in tow. The reason for the debate is mainly that a cutaway can waste valuable altitude(time) and the risk of an entanglement with the main IF the main deploys. Please talk to your instuctors about the PC in tow and all the factors and options involved. I'm not suggesting you change your EPs just hoping you that you have a good understanding of how the gear works and WHY you might choose one EP option over the other.

Many DZ's will let you take a friend for slots plus a small fee. Many DZ's may not even let a visiting TM do a tandem at their DZ period.