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as of 10:55 pm and last radio interview with search personal, one known dead the rest are unknown. CSA #699 Muff #3804

JD- Glad to see ya posting and that you were not on the plane. I don't have your number anymore so I couldn't call. CSA #699 Muff #3804

The weather has been good today I do hope search & rescue have luck in funding the plane. With rain and new snow in the mountains this last week it's cold up there at night. I will continue to pray for them all. CSA #699 Muff #3804

My canopy has an all black top skin with silver target panels on center and end cells and red center and end cells on bottom skin. If it weren't for the silver target panels I wouldn't have a clue where the center cell was without looking at attachment points first. It's dark and hard to see from the top like Raul's canopy. CSA #699 Muff #3804

Here is an email I received the other day. I'm glad I stopped banking with them before getting this. - STATE OF AFFAIRS A conversation between a Customer and Bank of America Bank: "This is the Bank of America, can I help you?" Customer: "Yes, I want to cancel my account. I don't want to do business with you any longer." Bank: "Why?" Customer: "You're giving credit to illegal immigrants and I don't think it's right. I'm taking my business elsewhere." Bank: "Well, Mr. Customer, we don't want to see you do that, but we can't stop you. I'll help you close the account. What is your account number?" Customer: (gives account number) Bank: "For security purposes and for your protection, can you please give me the last four digits of your social security number?" Customer: "No." Bank: "Mr. Customer, I need to verify your information, but in order to help you, I'll need verification of who you are." Customer: "Why should I give you my social security number? The reason I'm closing my account is that your bank is issuing credit cards to illegal immigrants who don't have social security numbers. You are targeting that audience and want their business. Let's say I'm an illegal immigrant and you've given me a credit card. I have a question about it and call for assistance. You wouldn't be asking me for a Social Security number, would you?" Bank: "No sir, I wouldn't." Customer: "Why not?" Bank: "Because you would have pressed '2' to speak in Spanish. We don't ask for that information when calling in on the Spanish line." CSA #699 Muff #3804

I have done a few GL and from the video some of those guys are going to hurt themselves with the way they launch and fly their canopies. When starting out I believe the steeper the hill to launch the better than you can progress to a hill with a slope similar to your canopies glide path. The hill I mainly launch from now is only a 1,000 vertical feet and gives me an average of about 1min 45sec of canopy time. Do a search in the "swooping & canopy control" forum. There has been a great many discussions on GL. You will find an answer to all your questions there. CSA #699 Muff #3804

WOW! Am I the only CRW dog who has absolutely no clue what you just said? (Takes another gulp of wine) I wish I had seen this months Parachutist but for some reason USPA never sends me a Sept. issue. Quick hijack- How is Bob Lyons doing since his accident? I'd call him but his number got deleted from my phone. CSA #699 Muff #3804

I have only been out on the highway once on a motorcycle and that was on the back of your bike Wendy. I enjoyed it but with you wearing all your leather and helmet and me in a ball cap, tank top, shorts and sandals I didn't feel all that worm and fuzzy about the road buzzing by at 50 mph only a foot below my bare toes. My wife is a bike rider (cruisers) and wants me to start riding but I just don't feel safe about not having any protection between me and all the hard objects around me. All leather will do is protect me from an even worse case of road rash and a helmet will only keep my cute little brain from splattering about. Seeing these pics as grose as they are, make me even more leery about learning to ride. I know it was probably the bikers fault but for me I just don't trust other drivers and I'm afraid that some numb nut on a call phone is going to run me over not paying attention. Now relating motorcycle riding to skydiving, you have your cruisers and your crotch rockets and in skydiving you have your straight in lenders and your swoopers. Of the vast majority of motorcycle accidents, it is the young and carefree crotch rocket riders that are killing themselves trying to go fast (alone or in traffic). As the cruisers are trying to play it safe and just enjoy the world around them riding for the love of the ride. Is it not the same for skydiving? It is the young and carefree swoopers killing themselves and others on there pocket rocket canopies going fast (alone or in traffic), as the rest of us try to cruse it straight in enjoying the world around us. Either way it is those who think they are bullet proof (most of the time) that end up getting hurt or killed while those still living in the sport have to take the flack for others actions. It’s just my two cents but I feel its pics like this and more gruesome ones mentioned, are great teaching aides and wake up call for others. In drivers training years ago I was shown accident pics of drunk drivers as a warning of what can happen when you drink and drive. The same should go for motorcycle training courses and any other extreme sport training course to include skydiving. There are too many of us (me included at one time) who can read about it till we are blue in the face and still never have it sink in till you actually see what has happened to someone else doing the same reckless thing. My eyes are open now! Is it not the purpose of the Incidents Forum here to learn from others mistakes? I have lost friends in this sport along with most or you. As much as I don’t want to relive there accident by seeing a picture of them it just might help open the eyes of someone who feels bullet proof or is being careless. I’m sure we all know someone who has been warned countless times about there careless behavior only have our words fall on deaf ears and they hurt or kill themselves doing the very thing they were warned about. It’s just my two cents. I do recall the postings but not the specifics of at least two fellow skydivers in as many months that have been killed as a result of running into the back of another vehicle while riding their bikes. CSA #699 Muff #3804

Congratulations! That first CRW jump is like your first jump all over again Just keep doing it and the feelings will keep coming. For me there is nothing better than being in a large formation and looking up, down and to both sides to see nothing but canopies all around. Welcome to the dark side

I think I jumped with him last year at the PR Boogie but I can't put a face with the name. Does anyone have a pic of him or know what his canopy looks like? CSA #699 Muff #3804

Demoed a Saber 2 (170) but never did like the end cell closure that resulted in turning off heading openings. Liked the Safire 2 (149) openings and slow flight but hated the lack of flair. I was impressed with the Nitro (150) and plan on getting a Cobalt (149) to demo in the near future. Enjoy the new canopy CSA #699 Muff #3804

Um, Dave you know I'm no TM but shouldn't he have his arms crossed and head back. Looks like your along for the ride not the student. Would like to see you try to get him out of the 206. CSA #699 Muff #3804

Dave- They do have vibrating eggs that are inserted, can stay in all day and activated by a cell phone. CSA #699 Muff #3804

WOW, you all really gear up for your GL's. I personally only wear my full face along with pants and hiking boots. After my last (after sunset) launch I had a less than desirable landing (tried landing on rear risers touched a grass clump and looked like a swooper hitting the pond and fliping) I now know I will never launch without pants again. I almost didn't wear my helmet that day and now know I will always wear it, but as for the knee and elbow pads I dont see the need. With the exception of my last launch I have always launched successfully my first attempt and crashed 2 landings. Call me lucky. CSA #699 Muff #3804

rhys- Since my computer is acting up again and I can't pull up your profile I'm going to assume your not from the US. I have yet to hear anyone in the US refer to it as "speedflying" only those from Europe have been. In time who knows. I will agree with everyone in do your homework and read about it. Seek help from an experienced canopy pilot who has GL experience. You could start kiting your canopy for practice and that you can do at home in your yard. Practice using toggles as well as both F & R risers. If you have paragliders in your are go watch them launch to give you a basic idea of how it is done. A no wind day it much harder to launch than a breezy day. Again, seek guidance before you ever attempt a launch on your own. If you can't launch correctly you can cause some quick damage to your gear and the same is for landing only instead of the gear it is you that will be getting busted up. Just like jumping don't go flying without your brain bucket. It saved my face last week from a nasty down draft that slammed me on landing last week. CSA #699 Muff #3804

So how many participants were there? So what’s up with Andy F. I haven't seen his name in any swoop comps in some time. Is he still competitively swooping anymore? It has been a couple years since I last jumped on the West side. CSA #699 Muff #3804

Like the smog. It looks like your flying into nothing. CSA #699 Muff #3804

If anyone is interested here is the myspace site and web page for my ex Sonya (was also my first kiss in the 7th grade). She was the only person I ever dumped and called " a no good two timing just wanna score whore." Oh, the boobs are fake. www.myspace.com/cierasage www.cierasagexxx.com CSA #699 Muff #3804

I don't have any pics of my own, YET! But I'd like so see what some of you crazy Dogs have done. I know Wendy has a few from her Crazy CRW get togethers. I have read some stories of dogs hanging upside down and grabbing some nylon as well as seen one pic of someone who hooked their canopy up backwards and then climed into the center cell of another jumper (think that one was in Parachutist or Skydiving). CSA #699 Muff #3804

Is the video of reserve deployment slowed down or is it just me? It just looked like a slow deployment and inflation to me. CSA #699 Muff #3804

Hasn't there been some talk in the past about collecting recipes from DZ.comers and putting out a cook book? CSA #699 Muff #3804

I created a SL profile but it has never allowed me to log in. Even emailed support but they never did get back with me. I gave up and haven't tried to log in for 3 weeks now. CSA #699 Muff #3804

Roy you have always been one to jump with lowtimers. I know this because we have jumped countless times together. My first night RW jump was with you and is one I shall not soon forget. Let me know when you get your CRW canopy so you can teach me more. I have a similar story myself only it wasn't just some weekend jumping. I belong to a Cancer Survivors Skydiving Group and a few years back we all assembled in Texas to try for a CSWR attempt. I believe I was the low man with about 155 jumps having never jumper more than an 8-way to jumpers with more than 8K that could dock a 100-way blindfolded. There were jumpers from around the US, Canada and Europe attending. We were all Cancer Survivors so the camaraderie was great and we all got along great. Because jumpers had come from as far as Europe we wanted to set a WR. It was set the first year as well as the second with more attending. However, there were some skygods in the group and all they cared about was adding another WR to their résumé and having another photo to put on a business card. Because of this, low timers ended up getting cut from some of the loads as we weren’t meeting their standard and kept screwing up the dives pissing them off. If I had funneled the base one more time I probably would have been cut myself. There was a good jumper who had come from Europe the first two years of the event and got cut both years. It started as a 26-way the second year that end with an 18-way WR. That’s 8 jumpers on the bench some for the second year and nobody was taking the time to help them with there weaknesses. Sad to say it never lasted more than three years as lowtimers didn't want to spend the money to attend only to get benched and the select few Skygods didn't want to spend the money to jump formations they could do blindfolded at their home DZ and not have it funneled bye a lowtimer. However, there was one accomplished jumper who has stayed close to me as she knew and cared about the struggles of lowtimers like myself and took the time to teach. She made me realize just how little I knew (in a good way). She explained what my body should be doing in relation to the formation from exit to docking and as well as how to keep flying once docked. How a formation falls as it is building to include formation speed and what to do if I go low. I learned more from her in three days than I had from everyone at my home DZ where I started jumping. It is jumpers like her that make this sport great bye giving back through teaching. Its jumpers like her that I most enjoy reading about in Parachutist “Profile” section. So here’s my Vote to see you Profiled Mary (flyangel2) and Thank You for taking the time to teach a lowtimer. I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks the same of you. CSA #699 Muff #3804

Repost Repost Repost Do a search and read the thread of how his Illusions are all done. From walking on water to levitation. I do have to admit he is good but he could find better actors for some of his stunts. CSA #699 Muff #3804

Thanks Are you talking about Roy Springer? I miss that ugly mug of his. I would love to get up your way and grab some nylon but my SO has this thing about sitting on the sidelines (she has to participate in everything together). She has made 2 jumps but is more scared of jumping now than before and is even more fearful of me jumping. As a result I have done little jumping and the fact that everyone from the Tri-Cities has quit jumping here to jump in Davenport. I would be surprised if the DZ doors were still open come the end of the summer. It has been up for sale for 2 years now. CSA #699 Muff #3804