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It says "Total Fatalities since January 1, 2004" at the top for a reason. I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

They let me *touch* his canopy!!! Woohoo!!! I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

If you have the most recent Adaware update and you're still having issues, then you're SOL. Time to reformat and tell the wife to never ever ever click on pop-ups. Or just download firefox (Mozilla) so she can never get pop-ups again! I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

A cypres is good for 12 years. A new cypres just means you get the full 12 years as opposed to whatever life is left on a used one. Personally, I just bought a new vigil and am selling off my cypres. If you are planning to buy new, go for a vigil. They worked out all the bugs, don't require maintenance, and the cutters are free if you have a fire! I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

Make your own. You can make a computer on-spec with Alienware for about half the cost. IMHO, buy a dell. They have sales once a month where their PCs are almost exactly what you would pay for the components separately, mainly because they can get the OS for about 1/10 the price you pay. I have a 2.8GHz, 1 GB RAM, and a 9800 video card and my computer can fold in the background without a bit of trouble. Doom 3 specs are only a problem for people with 2 year old computers. Anything over 2GHz will be fine as long as you have a nice video card. I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

I jumped it saturday (first one) with about 6-7 people and I was watching him climb at 2000 fpm, 1500 by the time we leveled. My jump out of it tuesday was not so lucky. It was filled to the brim (they said it could hold 18, we had 15 and were CRAMPED), and the climb rate was no better than that of a caravan, i.e. 5-700 fpm above 8000'. My only complaint is the door is short. Tried to launch a two-way train from it and we really had to lean over to stand *in* the doorway. Outside or inside is fine, but standing in the actual door is a pain. I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

Then call it a tapered main. There are explicit differences between elliptical (and semi-elliptical for that matter) and tapered canopies; they say two different things. I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

It was....after witnessing him and his Bill during the RWS/PD auction, it's quite obvious that they don't even have one brain between the two of them. I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

Chest straps are not load bearing straps. More often that not, someone would stay in their rig perfectly fine, because most openings stand you up before final inflation, hence the weight of you body is on your leg straps even before you are "in the saddle". Then again, a hard opening or even a normal one that doesn't stand you up can cause you to put your weight onto your chest strap, which is when you could fall out without it. None-the-less, good eyes payback! I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

Saw a post about it a week ago, but can't find it. Anyone know when it is/was? I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

No shit, there I was...up at 5:30 am to be over at the balloon by 6. My group was in the second group (of three) to jump. So we follow the balloon while he launched the first group. The first bad sign was when the pilot said over the radio: "Wow, we just hit 46 knots." We were flying down county roads in their van at 70+ and hardly managing to catch up. We finally got in the basket and away we went. The jump was quite fun and my four way managed to find a nice little grassy triangular area to land it. So we hoped in the chase van to follow the third group and help load the balloon after the third group. We are still watching the balloon climb for that third load when we hit the Indiana border. We started seeing the jumpers released, but they are smack dab in the middle of big fields and trees, and we are already full, so I guess they are stuck hitch hiking back. We spend 45 mins trying to find a road to get us to the landed balloon. All we know is that he landed by a river. Unfortunately he was right next to a power plant, so we couldn't take the roads to get us there. We finally give up trying about 10. At that point we were 20 miles east of the border. Only an hour 20 mins to get back to Rantoul. $90, 5.5 hours, and a 10 second freefall....hot damn! I can't imagine the poor jumpers in the third group asking for a ride to Rantoul...talk about a bad spot! I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

It was especially beautiful when he did a faceplant on the dog . Glad both are okay. Had the FAA Liaison lady stop by and ask if they made it down okay as we were walking back from watching it. I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

As I said in your other request: Bluebird I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

I train students (the few I have trained) that they need to be into the inflation stage at their designated "pull altitude," so if this means they need 5 seconds to wave, reach, pull, then I tell them to start waveoff at 4000' for a 3000' opening. I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

There is a bus service from O'hare to Rantoul: Bluebird I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

I made my first jump the last weekend of march and got 151 as of today. Good to see other relative noobs out there spending as much money as I am. I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

How about the fact that this was a campaign stop/rally. He wasn't speaking as the current vice-president, he was speaking as a vice-president nominee for the 2004 election...there actually is a difference. If Kerry did the same, I wouldn't hold it against him, just because he is a US Senator. I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

Democrate groups were planning to go in and disrupt the speech. Maybe they thought everyone attending was named Herb and had a nickname of Herby. I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

Iraq I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

I second what Rem said. My rides used to be painful if I opened anywhere above 3000-3500'. I heard from someone to sit in my leg straps and that helped tons. Just physicially slide your legstraps down a few inches and sit. It allows for greater harness control and you easily slide back in once it comes time to stand-up flair. I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

You crazy airborners! I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

Of the three DZs I've jumped at, all had two handle SOS systems. I certainly wouldn't recommend a canopy transfer as it isn't possible. Fortunately we don't have dust devils or anything like that to colapse a canopy at 500' in the midwest, so I'm not sure what I would recommend to a student. And Dave, even if I was at a DZ that didn't have an SOS system and could potentially have something like this happen, I would NEVER train a student to pop a reserve before a cutaway. FJC should always train look red-grab red-look silver-pull red-grab silver-pull silver. EPs should go no other way. I can imagine a student at 1000' under a spinning main trying to remember which handle is supposed to be pulled when. If I was working on coach jumps with someone that had 15+ jumps and was on top of things and obviously knew what they were doing, then I might think about bringing up the concept of a canopy transfer, but probably not. I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

They have a caravan there at Greensburg. Nice group of people! I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

I can get you some cheese from the fridge... I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

QuoteRemember you are talking about a pressurized device, taking it to high altitude is'nt the healthist thing to do. The bottle is likely to turn into shrapnel due to all the pressure changes and forces exerted on the bottle after a lot of jumps I'd think. Quote I highly doubt this. Scuba tanks are made of high strength aluminum that are made to withstand high pressures. This mini tank is probably rated to 2000-3000 psi, where as the atmosphere at sea level is only 14.7 psi. The pressure difference at 14K' is hardly anything comparibly. The only thing that could cause potential problems is fatigue, but we are talking about millions of cycles for that. None the less, I agree that just following your water training is your best bet. Either this thing would be hard to get to and take longer than just swimming out, or it would be readily accessible and be problematic during freefall. I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF