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So much that I went to great lengths to give one of my AFF instructors my cherry. No, really! Eule It wasn't my first jump, but he had just got his instructor rating and I was his first paying customer. (I didn't know this until after the jump.) I had to drive ~30 minutes into town to find a real grocery store where I could buy a jar of cherries and a card. I went back to the DZ, the head instructor and I signed the card, and I presented my instructor with the jar of cherries. (edit: reworked to remove unclear antecedent for pronoun) PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Does anybody know the NSN for a case of beer? Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

The National Weather Service office in Melbourne, FL has a page about the storms. Apparently there were three tornadoes: one that was on the ground for a very short distance in Leesburg (Lake County), one that was on the ground just northwest of the airport in DeLand (Volusia County), and one that was on the ground in Daytona Beach (Volusia County). It looks like most of the damaged airplanes were at Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach. TMPattersonJr's map of the track in DeLand agrees pretty well with the NWS one. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

This might fit in with the dropzone listings. Even though the university club (probably) isn't a dropzone, the dropzone listings seem to have the required functionality - basic contact information and a geographic search. It would need to be clearly labeled in the name ("Wossamotta University Skydiving Club") and in the description so people wouldn't get confused. You'd probably want to put in the lat/lon of the campus so the geographic search would work right. As always, keeping these updated is probably the hard part. Once the club has a listing, this fact should be written down somewhere and given to the new members/officers - "don't forget to update our listing at dropzone.com if something changes." Something else that might help is to have a "role" email address like [email protected] , instead of a particular person like [email protected] . The "role" address can forward to whoever is answering the email this semester. Same thing with the website - having something like www.skydiveclub.example.edu will be easier to maintain than personal.example.edu/~joe.smith/skydive.html . Having an email address or a web site on the university's domain (example.edu) requires cooperation from the university IT people; these days most of them don't mind helping you with this, but some don't like to do it. In this case, a Gmail (or similar) e-mail address could be useful; free Web hosts are a bit more problematic. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

In general I think that's a good idea. Some thoughts on the specifics... Some of the information over

Said by someone in another forum: ***Honest-to-$DEITY heard in the Personal Equipment room of the 507th TFW, as an F-105 driver picked up a new 'chute: "If it doesn't work, bring it back and you'll get a full refund." Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

I don't what "the" answer is. This thread may be of interest, though. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Congratulations! That's easy. 1. Remove old nappy 2. Give old nappy to HAZMAT crew for proper disposal 3. Walk out onto net, holding baby around the chest (butt down) 4. Switch on 5. Baby is cleaned by a gentle 120 mph breeze 6. Switch off 7. Leave flight chamber 8. Install fresh nappy Eule EDIT: I forgot Bedford is a recirculating tunnel. The above is therefore a crap idea. PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

For the bold, a ski mask, a pistol, and several banks. For the more clever, a brand new €100 note, a stack of old €5 notes, a bottle of bleach, and a color copier. :) That's fairly normal. I have talked to several people at the dropzone who came out to do tandems and originally planned to come with several friends. As the weekend approached, their friends would call them with various excuses. Many of them ended up coming alone, but still had a good time. From what I read on here, it's relatively common for people in the UK (which I know doesn't include the Republic of Ireland) to visit Spain or the US to get their licenses. Apparently, doing this is both cheaper and faster - there are more days with good jumpable weather in Spain or the southern US than there are in the UK. Some of these "foreign" dropzones have instructors that are certified by the British Parachuting Association (BPA), so you can get the same license that you would get by jumping in the UK. It appears that if you trained in Ireland, you'd get a license from the Parachute Association of Ireland. It might be worth seeing if a "foreign" dropzone allows you to get a PAI license, or if PAI would accept a BPA or USPA license. I hope this helps! Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Yes, it does. Thanks! Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

I think the change control and quality control _at the time of manufacture_ was probably just fine. OK, they were built by an Evil Empire[tm] of Godless Communists[R] but they probably didn't like the idea of dying in a plane crash any more than Red-Blooded Americans[tm] did. This leads to a certain level of careful attention during design and manufacture. Now, I would agree that with a 50-year-old aircraft, all kinds of "interesting" repairs and modifications could have been made over its lifetime, and these might not be documented as well as one would like. A really careful inspection (visual, NDT, etc) would probably find most of these, but the cost of such an inspection might be prohibitive. The link I posted earlier has a different conspiracy theory - that a US manufacturer felt that imported AN-2s would hurt the sales of one of its aircraft, so that manufacturer leaned on the FAA to be in no hurry to certify AN-2s. [tinfoil]I think what's really going on is that at about the same time the UFO crashed at Roswell, another UFO crashed near St. Peters^W^WLeningrad. The Russians took the alien technology from that crash and applied it to the AN-2, and the US government doesn't want us to find out about it.[/tinfoil] Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

I haven't seen it myself, but some ideas: I have sometimes seen browsers load the first couple of images on a page, then duplicate those images in other places on the page until the correct images for those places load. This happens more often on a slow (dialup) connection or when the computer is heavily loaded. Usually the "bad" images eventually disappear once everything is loaded. Clearning your browser cache and trying again almost never hurts. Are you seeing this from more than one PC (with different Internet connections) or just one? If it's just one PC, or only from PCs that share an Internet connection, it could be a problem in a proxy server. You might have to ask whoever's running the proxy server to check it. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

This article was written in 1996, but at least at that time, you could only land an AN-2 back at your chosen base airport, and you couldn't jump from one on purpose. (See the section near the bottom, "There's Only One Problem: the FAA Doesn't Like An-2s".) This may have changed since then; I don't know. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Caution: I don't have many jumps and am not an instructor. Always ask your instructors if you are unclear about anything. This article gives a brief description of an AFF jump. Some people "overload" during their first few seconds out of the door - I know I did. I had a list of things to do but all I could think of was "OH SH-T I JUMPED OUT OF A PLANE." :) If this happens, your instructors will eventually get your attention. My AFF 1 jump was the first jump I ever did - I think you said you've done a tandem already, so it may be less likely that you'll "overload" since you've experienced it before. They will cover everything you need to know to skydive twice. The way one of my instructors put it was something like "We're going to spend about 30 minutes talking about what happens when everything goes right and about four hours talking about what to do if something goes wrong." Again, ask your instructors if there is anything you're not clear on. Beer, at least once you're safely on the ground from that first jump. If you like book learnin', you might take a look at the SIM if you haven't already. Note that it talks about "Category A-H" dives; your dropzone may use those same names, or call them "AFF 1-7", or various other things. Get a good night's sleep and eat breakfast, even if you're nervous. This probably isn't the time to go for the full bacon, eggs, hash browns, waffle, and toast breakfast, but it needs to be more than just a glass of orange juice. There will probably be a break for lunch and you should eat something then, too. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Have you got an English translation of the words of that song? I recognize the "Pa-ra-chu-tist-a" part of it but I'm lost on the rest. Thanks! Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Maybe it's a wind drift indicator? I think a WDI looks more like a streamer and usually gets dropped earlier in the dive sequence, but I could be wrong. The relevant frames are attached. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

And you would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids that EXIF header! $ file evidence.JPG evidence.JPG: JPEG image data, EXIF standard $ jhead evidence.JPG File name : evidence.JPG File size : 79525 bytes File date : 2006:12:17 21:09:39 Camera make : CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD. Camera model : EX-Z120 Date/Time : 2006:11:22 09:17:34 Resolution : 418 x 495 Flash used : No Focal length : 7.9mm (35mm equivalent: 38mm) Exposure time: 0.067 s (1/15) Aperture : f/2.8 Whitebalance : Auto Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : program (auto) Of course, the picture could have been taken many days after the actual jump. On the other hand, the METARs for YYZ on the morning of 22 Nov do say things like FEW018, BKN009, FEW030, etc. [tinfoil]On the third hand, maybe you are just planting clues to lead us astray.[/tinfoil] Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

The stories Bill tells in Skydive Radio show #35 are a pretty good promotion for jumping at the North Pole, I think. I especially like the toilet seat story. :) Standard disclaimer: I don't get money or other consideration from anyone who is organizing or has organized a North Pole jump. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Some Googling is finding all kinds of lists of record high and low barometric pressures, but I haven't found much on records of how fast the pressure has changed. Some sites do archive METARs (aviation weather observations) and if you can give a date, time, and location, the actual pressure change at a nearby location can be looked up. Maybe a pressure change corresponding to 1500 feet just flat doesn't happen outside of a tornado, but it's still fairly easy to find out how much the pressure actually did change at your location. If the manufacturer says that low batteries can cause a wrong reading, it might be interesting to check the open circuit and under load voltage of the present set of batteries. If these are a lot lower than the voltages from the same tests on a fresh set of batteries, then the batteries are probably the problem. The other approach is simply to put in new batteries and see if the problem goes away, but if it's an infrequent problem in the first place, you have to run a lot of tests to be sure the problem is gone. What would really be interesting is to hook up a variable power supply in place of the batteries, stick the audible in a pressure chamber with a calibrated gauge, and take it for some rides up and down at various supply voltages to see what happens. Variable power supplies are pretty easy to get but pressure chambers with calibrated gauges are a little bit harder to find. :) The altimeter manufacturers have them for sure but it can be educational to do the experiment for yourself. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

The site has been updated. There are 122 dropzones listed. I finally added all the "Skydive Pink" entries from divinglog's list, and I also added aardvarkeater's entry for Skydive The Farm. I spent a little time roaming Europe and I think I got all of the Pink entries in the right countries, but let me know if I made a mistake. I added a little shark repellent to the site as well. Nobody has said anything to me to make me think I need it; I just thought it might be a good idea. It's probably pretty clear, but I want to reiterate that all I'm doing is compiling the entries that everyone has posted. I've personally written only two of the entries; the other 120 have been written by others. If you find an entry unsatisfactory, write a better one. :) Thanks! Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

It sounds plausible. Adjust an analog wrist altimeter so it says 0 on the ground and put it on the table. Look at it tomorrow and it probably won't be pointing at 0 anymore. Pilots don't usually set their altimeters to 0 on the ground (maybe a floatplane pilot on the ocean would), but they do dial in the current barometric pressure on the ground so their altimeter will read right. I think some digital/audible altimeters and AADs will adjust themselves for reasonable variations in pressure on the ground. Other digital/audible altimeters might only measure the ground-level pressure when you first turn them on, so if the weather changes on the ground, you might have to power-cycle the altimeter to get it to indicate correctly. Read the manual for your altimeter - it should say. When and where was this? I ran the numbers for AerOhio last weekend and the altimeter setting hit a low on Friday morning and then climbed fairly stedaily until noon Saturday, then it more or less leveled off. Rising pressure would make a barometric altimeter think it was at a lower altitude than it actually is, which is consistent with what you saw. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

The site has been updated. There are 94 dropzones listed. I added the new entries and updates from Orlando, brianfry713, and Chrisky (who provided the entry for Asia). I also split the list into two columns as it was getting a bit long - let me know if you like the old way better. I'm still working on the ones from the "Pink" folder in divinglog's list. I'm kind of waiting to put all of those in at once, which is why they haven't shown up yet. Thanks! Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Fair enough... next question... what's the mission? From what I've read so far, it (broadly) is to explain the observed increase in A-license numbers without a corresponding increase in higher license numbers. The next step is presumably to use this explanation to identify ways to reverse this trend and to get all license numbers to increase. More specifically, several possible explanations have been floated in this thread (and probably elsewhere). Is the idea to look at all of them and see where it ends up? Or is the idea to build support for one or two of the explanations? Or something else? Please understand that I don't necessarily think that any of these goals (look at all, support one, other) are the wrong answer or a bad thing. It just helps if the goal is defined. Related to "what's the mission" is: who's the audience? The people who post here? The USPA BoD? DZOs? Instructors? Students? Up-jumpers? Sure. For onesy-twosy things I often use this calculator, but if you have a lot of stuff in a spreadsheet it'd be easier to use a table like the one you linked to and do them all at once. I only have the last 1.5 years or so of _Parachutist_, so if you want me to convert the price of a Paradactyl, you'll have to supply the data. :) Let me know. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

I know that Perris' jet was at WFFC this summer. I think I read here that it was dropping jumpers there on a double secret probation waiver that had to be signed in triplicate by Jesus, Budda, and Mohammed. Have they been able to work it out so they can run it at Perris? Their Web site is advertising the jet for the holiday boogie, but I can't (quickly) find anything else about it on their site. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

I think it's a pretty good story. The reporter appears to be confused about CRW vs. RW, but other than that I liked it. If you're listening to the whole show online, the story starts at about 19:30 and runs to about 26:12. Alternatively, I downloaded the show and made an mp3 (128 kbit, 44.1 KHz) of just that story here. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.