gravitysucks

Hell yeah! Those guys and gals are great. No luck though, Would love to jump in my home state but I think Its going to be a while before a DZ opens up there.

Drizzunk!

I'm there!!!!!

I'm in the same process right now. You have to pay capital gains tax on any money you make from selling your house, unless it was your primary residence for 2 years or longer. There are some other exemptions, such as if you are forced to move greater than 50 miles for work, etc... I would check with my accountant if I was you. Good luck with the sale. X

Life sucks. Gravitysucks. Keep on truckin' X

Qdoba seems to just be better. I've had some crappy burritos at Chipotle. Of course, if you overcome your fears of getting stabbed and drive to a shady neighborhood, you can get a batter burrito for half the price, that is if you don't mind the fact that it was prepared, cooked, and sold to you from a van. X

Well, I'm 50% gay. It says I'm a "well-adjusted hetero male." Whatever. Just because I like silk neckties from New York and Italy doesn't mean I can't get freaky with the ladies. Sutpid testes..... oh I mean stupid tests.....

Shelly I think you and I are each other's good luck charm. Lets make a triumphant return tonight! X

Damn, she likes Hixx's ass and was videotaped making out with Marc. How sure can I be that she didn't actually move to Winterset instead of Colorado? Shelly I'm thinking of starting my own support group

Pure lies. Lets compose a list of total winnings in dollar amount. We'll keep a running leaderboard and then in a few weeks/months, we can have a high stakes "TOURNAMNET OF CHAMPIONS" for the top 18 or so players on the money list. Now thats high rollin.

Also used to market the prescription headache medication Dolgic.

Thanks for posting that link. I've spent the last half hour searching every pilot I can think of, from my grandpa to Jimmy Buffett!

Guinness Fat Tire Boulevard Wheat Anchor Steam Heineken Local Microbrews... dark and bitter and for cryin out f-ing loud don't put any fruit in my beer or on the glass

I disagree wholeheartedly. You would have been better off saving your money to go to Eloy when you had enough experience to really enjoy it (not that you didn't). The student who does three jumps a day over a period of several weeks is still staying current. When you span your training over a period of time you are less likely to neglect the mental aspect, from emergency procedures to your own personal philosophy which drives you to want to skydive. Plus, studies have shown that simulated training, even imagining the steps of an action such as a skydive, are the same or better than actually doing the act. I would even go so far as to say your type, or the type that wants to do as many jumps in a day or get their "A" in two weeks, are less likely to stay in the sport. You get the "been there, done that" attitude and a complacency thinking that you can jump all you want, problem free. There are exceptions of course, but I just used your case as an example. Good luck on getting you "B" license, or should I just say "good luck next weekend"?

Grande no water chai works on Derek (hooknswoop), I'm sure it would be enough to get him to hook you up with some nitrox. (higher O2 content than normal air) I don't know if thats a good idea.... I've seen the effects of nitrox on Jenn and she's goofy enough without it

I agree. The public already has their preconceived notions. Any press is good press, just ask Howard Stern, Kanye West, Paris Hilton, etc...

I've been lucky enough to jump the Otter, Supper Otter, King Air (including Mullins'), and the Caravan in my brief career, and must say that the Caravan is by far my favorite turbine. Nothing beats a creative 4-way exit off the Cessna though, dino!

My bet is that PHX sees them all the time, although I did get sidetracked in the Tampa airport for half an hour. Expect delays, bring all your documentation and if you have a cypres use the resources they have (the card), and it helps if you have that TSA bulletin. DO your homework on it so you know your rights. The jackball TSA moron at Tampa wanted to take my rig, until his supervisor got there and said "Don't you remember training on these? Its a sport parachute. Let him go"

Congrats, now you can worry about staying current through the winter! ETA: Or not, seeing as how you're down under and winter is up here right now. I can vouch for that fact.

Hvae it, but it has specific exclusions for "parachuting, hang-gliding, and bungee-jumping" So my friends at the DZ have specific instructions to remove my gear and position me at the bottom of a ladder. just kidding kinda

I'm sitting in the sub 30 range right now, sorry to say. But ask me in a year, when I'll be raking in the Benjis like they're rainin down from the sky! WOOHOO!

Well, I read through the whole damn thread up to this point, and I'm going to throw in my two lucky pennies. First off, this thread is bouncing around like a four year old on speed in a video arcade with a pocket full of quarters. 2. Smoking is a risk factor for breast cancer. It is a proven cause for lung cancer. There is a difference. Smoking has never added a day to anybody's life or caused happiness to anybody to anybody other than the person inhaling the drug and the tobacco companies who profit from the smokers. Why smokers a. defend their addiction at every turn and b. don't see why they are an annoyance to non-smokers is way beyond me. But they are more than an annoyance, they are a burden to our health care system, as determined by the courts. Which leads me to... 3. The uninsured. They are a burden on a society whose success has been a result of the capitalist philosophy. Which is great and has its place, but it doesn't belong in health care. Unfortunately, that is the way we run things in the US. Administrators and HMOs place limitations on physicians, set quotas, and are always after the bottom line. So the rich do get richer, etc... But those who can pay DO foot the bill for those who can't; albeit indirectly. Somebody has to cover the costs of Medicaid, the uninsured who are constantly showing up in ERs for routine care, and the people who rack up huge medical bills and never pay them. (As an aside, debt owed on medical expenses is the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the US.) All of this so a few people can make a few more bucks. And the poor get poorer. When will we realize that health care is a right, not a privelege? Speaking of rights and priveleges (as skydiving is indeed a privelege and let us never forget that), that leads me to..... 4. The actual incident in question, hence the appropriate topic for the forum. I'm glad somebody pointed out the things which Shanna said which may point to some of the underlying problems which she herself may not be aware of. I have no doubt that she had the greatest confidence in her instruction, as all students have. But her attitude is puzzling to say the least. Why would you not expect to use your reserve, and why when you do are you surprised that it doesn't work? Regardless, lets not be so quick to flame Shayna for her actions. She had the presence of mind to cutaway, which was her decision and hers alone, correct or not. I hope this incident does not influence somebody to try to ride one in sometime because they would rather land a partial mal than "pull a Shayna." Nobody should be afraid to pull that red handle if they think they need to. She did that much right, at least. And who among us knows how we would really react ourselves under that spinning reserve on our 10th jump. I'd like to say that I would have reacted, and I rememeber going through the training for such a mal, but c'mon... it could have happened to any of us. As for her canopy choice, aggressive yes but not totally unreasonable at less than 1:1. As for her mention of her freefall skills, big deal. I get real sick off AFF students who think that how well they perform in freefall defines the success of the dive. Aside from stability at pull time, the most important thing you can learn as a student (and at any time, to be sure) is canopy skills. Which were possibly and by her own admission, a problem for this student (she did admit to panicking and not knowing what to do). But the REAL problem we're discussing is how she conducted herself following the jump. I admire her courage. I wish her a speedy recovery, and luck with her baby. I disagree with her statement about getting money for teeth. I disagree with her decision to take this story to the media. Which leads to topic... #5. The media. Ok, maybe she had good intentions at first, but lets be honest. Nobody is jealous of the attention she is getting. If thats what it takes to get it, I'll remain obscure, thank you kindly. Who is honestly surprised that the whuffo media has shown the story in this light? In my opinion they have actually been fairly good, inasmuch as they are all a bunch of whuffos with bad hair. Thats right, I said you have bad hair. Whew, I think I hit everything. Its a little long (thats what she said )

Thanks for the reality check Wonko

I knew a cop who would ticket people for littering if they didn't go back and find their butt. It didn't matter if it was actually theirs, it was just amusing watching them look all over on the road for a cigarette butt. Which isn't hard to do, any intersection with a stoplight is peppered with them. No big surprise.... if it doesn't bother you to trash your lungs then you probably don't care too much about the environment either. But that doesn't mean we can't be friends!

Stopped by a while back for a jump. Beautiful view and a very nice facility. The staff was helpful and friendly but the other jumpers were not. Very cliquish, definately felt like an outsider.