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If I remember correctly, the lip of the intake is 4-5 feet off the ground, and directly below is a concrete slab, I guess to prevent sand and other debris from being drawn up off the bear ground. The baffle is higher up in the intake, maybe 10 feet, where it is narrowing down. You can just feel the draw of the tunnel a little bit at the fence.

lol Mathcad, GOOOD! CRC Handbook, GOOOD!

The main points of pre-calc are Functions, Limits(gotta understand limits) basic algabraic manipulations, and trignometric laws and identies. Oh yea, and conic sections. I used to have a really excellent pre-calc text, less than an inch thick, with an orange and blue design on the cover, with cool three color graphs. Try used a book store, or the school book store. I'm fairly sure this is a newer edition of that book: http://www.kendallhunt.com/index.cfm?PID=219&AUT=&ISB=&DIS=0&GRA=0&DES=&MTC=exact&BOOL=AND&KEY=YIZZE&PPS=25&SRT=rank&CMD=detail&SRH=simple&PRD=197 I need to get another copy of this book too. Somebody burned mine, along with every thing else I had in a tent some years back.

In Orlando, the intake area is fenced off, and within the intake is a baffle that would stop anything bigger than a few inches. It might be possible to throw some thing through or over the fence, but that would be in plain view of the tunnel staff and customers. I presume such an act would be dealt with promptly.

John Digweed!!! Nick Warren!! Paul Oakenfold! Are DJs that spin some of the best dance music. I tend to like Trance, particularly Goa Trance. I made my aquantance with this music several years ago, and liked it so much I named my dog, Bean If you have high speed internet access you can get all you can listen to on internet radio. Live365 stations are good, and there is a lot more.

I can get a mil spec throat mike, probably very similar to the one Rare Dynamics tested, for $350 each, just less than 3x the consumer version for $125. If you look on their site the mil spec mike tested very close to theirs. Rather than the components being that expensive, I think it's so expensive because it's a new product with a relatively small production run. Cheers

Rare dynamics are way expensive. I'd like to do this with a motorola 2way radio $50-60 each, a throat mike $125, and a helmut speaker in an audible pocket.

I am catching air with a slight angle out, it's just with only a few inches of vertical movement though. My upper legs are a little less than 90 degrees. I been told to try moving them closer when turning. Whoops, forgot to try that last time Rather than actually raising one leg, I'm using those muscles in one leg to help push the other one down. It's easier that way, than trying to push one knee lower using just the muscles in that one leg. All in all, my leg turns are working. Although I'm trying to develop the deep powerful legs turns that I see the tunnel instructors, Airspeed and other good coaches using. I guess the answer is just more practice

I have been working in Mantis for a while now. I have been trying to develop stronger leg input. I have been working in a tunnel, and for the last 30 mins or so, turned with just my legs to strenghen them. I just started using my arms with my legs again. Et viola, my legs automaticly go back to bearly moving. What I am trying to accomplish is a 45 degree angle input like you see accomplished RW jumpers do. I'm pushing one leg up and the other down, but all I seem to get is at most 4-5 inches of difference between my knee level. If I really try hard, I tend to get unstable, then have to steady myself. I've tried sissors drills, and still get less than satisfactory amount of flex/input, and tend to get unstable when pushing my limits. Suggestions anyone?

I like to get 20mins in Orlando on 1/20 or 1/21 before 5pm. Anybody else want to go in on an hour?

I was thinking about putting a speaker in a audible pocket.

Use athletic tape.

The perfect death, hmm... I'd be 90+ years old with long white hair, retire to my bed at the end of the day, and durning the night pass on from my body to what's next, fully aware of the course of the event. I have come to this vision through many years of reflection of upon the topic.

I've learned alot just by watching the Airspeed camps etc and the few really good freelance coaches. It all comes down to a little information and alot of practice, however you learn it. I am so glad I live by a tunnel and have the opportunity to spend hours and hours watching. And to think, I was ready to leave Orlando before I got involved with this

In Orlando tunnel time will run you about $10-$15 a minute depending on how you book it. Basic coaching from the instructors is included. I had offers from freelance coaches starting at $50 and up per session.

So, you want to be a Dredlok, huh? I had dreds for years. I just let my hair dread up. I had ugly honest homegrown dreds, rather then the picture perfect salon dreds. When you grow them the way I did, you have to shred them apart, because they tend to all clump together. The only thing I did to them, aside from shreding them to a reasonable size, was to twist 'em up. Also, I washed them with water only, just rinsed 'em off, and squeezed 'em dry.

I was Canadian once Since then, I have cut back on my drinking almost completely. However, when ever I get the itch it's usually 2-3 24oz bottles of Corona, Heineken, Becks, Fosters or good ole pint of Jack Daniels. Cheers

The transcript said that they did have supplemental oxygen. So, what happened? Visual references useless. All they had to depend on were altimeters, and is seems that they ignored them until the last moment. Loss of altitude awareness. Good post.

I think it must be the lattitude, aye.

The 'Downsize Check List' and 'Canopy Survival Skills" articles were great. Rather than to insult anybody or put them down for their choises, I whole heartedly support the right to make ones own mistakes, God knows I've made enough of them, the point I was trying to make is that there is two type of risk, perhaps better said levels of risk, in skydiving: Inherent risk, that is risk that is for the most part beyond your control to reduce, such as airplane crashes, wind gusts etc..., and voluntary risk, that is additional risk, to what is inherent in the sport, that you have a choise of expose yourself to, such as getting in to a plane when your are already three sheets to the wind on the ground(altitude magnifies your high), attempting things beyond your ability, and believing that landing at terminal velocity will cure your problems. People who voluntarily take on extreme risk of disaster and fair the worse for it, make the inherent risk appear greater than it is. As I said before, it has taken my sustained attention for the better part of a year to realize that, and to be able to tell the difference between inherent risk and voluntary risk. I am implying, that to newbies and wuffos, all the risks taken appear to be inherent to the sport, and thus make the sport appear more dangerous than it need be. The sport is high risk, but there is also quite alot you can do to minimize the risk you expose yourself to: Be well trained, be well equiped, be sober, and be attentive. Blue Skies

Um, I meant all the skydivers who recklessly attempt things beyond their ability, rather than all people who unintentionally turn low. Stuff like trying to swoop a Velocity 90, wearing 20lbs of lead, with only 300 jumps worth of experience. The guy, that just bounce off the parking lot of Skydive Atlanta, is another perfect example. He was on the "Watch out for this guy, he's gonna hurt himself, it's just a matter of time" list. Having done reckless things myself, in my younger years, and gotten away with them more or less well, I recognize reckless acts for what they are. You know what I mean, your one of the 'Elders' here. I realize that this may sound harsh, and that those people have families and friends. But to us newbies, the consequences of these jumpers 'poor judement' is horrifying, until you learn that doing such things, is willfully inviting catastrophy. It has taken me a year, of reading the incidents form, just to get a handle on what reckless behavior is in regards to skydiving.

All of the tunnel employed instructors are good, some are very good

You just made me realize that I am, 'shiny thing less.' LOL If I had to pick something to be my favorite shiny thing, it would be my electric/acoustic guitar. It's shiny when I polish it. But, I think of it in terms of being cool and smooth to my touch, and awesome to my ears

40, as I have gotten older wearing anthing at all bothers the hell out of me. Rarely, if its real cold, I might wear socks and or a big tee shirt, but I rather just pile on the blankets Cheers