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  2. http://www.startskydiving.com/Latest-News/THE-ULTIMATE-GIFT.html

    I thought the folks in the Southern Ohio, Eastern Indiana, Northern Kentucky, Western Virginia, Western West Virginia:S and Tennessee area or any one in the Ohio Valley, would want to know about this.

    Dan B.C. will be at www.startskydiving.com in Lebanon Ohio speaking as part of the DZ's Safety Day.

    I know I will be headed up Saturday.

    Matt
    An Instructors first concern is student safety.
    So, start being safe, first!!!

  3. The Fusion and Safire II are good as well as looking at the PD Silhouette or the Flight Concepts Sentry (you can get a very good Mil Discount and trade in policy).

    Matt
    An Instructors first concern is student safety.
    So, start being safe, first!!!

  9. During OIF 1 I think we had 2 crash on unimproved or damged runways. The AF crews usually take every thing off that needs little to now repair for salvage, if the situation allows.

    Matt
    An Instructors first concern is student safety.
    So, start being safe, first!!!

  11. AH YES, the Marlboro Wind Meter .5!

    MY rule of thumb, when the old guys sit down, get the truck warmed up to go get the "young, dumb and full of..." ones.

    Matt
    An Instructors first concern is student safety.
    So, start being safe, first!!!

  12. // Stepping into stirred pot//

    Best I can tell and remember, Strong and UPT really only had the "Hand Picking" as a difference. My undertsanding after talking to M.P. and T.N. a while back is they now are more closely aligned and are encouraging/using "hand picking". For UPT you still had to have letters of recomend and experience, maybe the rigs them selves help to encourage so many to be UPT T-I's and I/E's?

    I agree that as far as USPA is concerned the I/E standards will probably go up due to attrition. If I/E's aren't staying busy then they won't be able to be validated and then will end up having thier I/E rating expire.

    Matt
    An Instructors first concern is student safety.
    So, start being safe, first!!!

  18. Quote

    Happy to oblige, and it remains a pleasure to see you on your rare (slumming) visits to the DZ.

    But PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK.:P

    HW



    Maybe she thinks she needs to speak up for you?:)

    Running now bye!:P

    Matt
    An Instructors first concern is student safety.
    So, start being safe, first!!!

  19. OK OK you win! Sheesh.:P

    I had to actually go over the viewing room as I though some one had put a cat in a blender.

    Matt

    An Instructors first concern is student safety.
    So, start being safe, first!!!

  22. In the US once certified it is as JP stated.
    Only one rig manufacturer gets involved in Helmets and only really for the certification course. All manufacturers recomend a helmet for both Instructor and Student, a hard shell for the Instructor and Frap Hat type for the Student.


    Matt
    An Instructors first concern is student safety.
    So, start being safe, first!!!

  24. You think growing up is safer?

    No Shit there I was, using the weekend to do a little house work.

    So I snatched up the laundry basket and turned to head over the the washer. HOLY SHIT! Who shot me in the sholder!?!?! With my momentum I stumble in to the now dropped laundry basket and trip, as I pitch toward the floor I realize I still have the basket in my right hand and it is blocking both my legs from moving, thus blocking any cool Ninja like recovery. Well hell I'll just brace with my left hand, oh wait the left shoulder was where I just got shot, so I am now going to get a serious rug burn. Well no rug burns if I dropped the basket from my right hand and brace that way, oh wait better yet roll with it and ala Jerry Lewis I am back on my feet!

    Well that didn't go right. I dropped the basket and attempted to roll only to get my feet, yes feet not foot, tangled in the damn thing and down I go! BAM! I'm down like a WWE wrester and the basket is headed UP like it is coming off the top turnbuckle. Now I am kind of on my right side, pinning my right arm adnd any chance of defense I have to the floor. Seeing the basket reach its apogy and start down toward my head, I think, "Oh Fucking lovely".

    As it decends it disgorges all its contents, socks, under wear, t-shirts, jeans and towels. SO I resign myself to my fate, I am to be knocked out by the Laundry Basket, OK fine, just don't let my my "knocked out cold" face be covered by my under wear, I just think the EMT's would post pics on flicker and then argue over who had to see if I was alive!

    There is a God and he gave me a miracle! The basket lands next to me and falls away from me! Whoo hoo I am saved! Now to quickly get up and reload the basket and finish the trip to the washer before any one ses this! All one "armed".

    SO in pain I get the fiorst load in the wash, head over to the mini drug store we commonly refer to as the "Top of the Fridge" and load up on the pain and anti inflamatory pills. As I down the pills my 13 years old daughter walks by carrying a bra, shacking her head and not saying a word (I wonder where she got that attitude from?:)), goes to the washer checks it is the right colors and tosses it in, as she walks back out of the kitchen headed back down the hall way where the scene of my near demise took place she says: "Found that hanging on the lamp there Emmit Smith, that was funny".

    Shit She saw me crash and burn[:/]

    So you see growing up can be just as dangerous!

    Hope your feeling better!
    Matt

    An Instructors first concern is student safety.
    So, start being safe, first!!!