VTmotoMike08

What does NB stand for?

>>christian apologetics I took a detailed course in it once at a private school. The result was me going from cultural christian to atheist. Perhaps if you give a more specific topic I could try and recall what I was taught and state why I disagree. I think that the whole approach is wrong. Instead of starting with the result and working backwards to distort and misrepresent the evidence to fit your inflexible conclusion based on an ancient book, why not just follow the physical evidence and be skeptical of everything?

I once lost a canopy in a cutaway and then came home to find my house broken into. That day sucked. I guess I could view that as two bad things, or I could view it as at least my gear wasn't there for them to take (they were only interested in my electronics, but you never know)

>>As of Friday, obtaining the drug from the European Union will become much more difficult. Good. I bet an American company starts making it now and brings a few more jobs back with them

What did (s)he screw up?

I would have taken a canopy course earlier. I didn't take one until I had 500+ jumps, and it really humbled me. I should have taken it at 50 jumps.

Get ready to owe beer. I tore a muscle in my shoulder flaring a tandem with a fat pax, and required a relatively minor shoulder arthroscope to reattach some torn tendons. I didn't even take a chopper or ambulance, just went to the doc the next week. The value of my total surgery and physical therapy was a scant $20,000- you can't get much cheaper than that for anything that puts you under anesthesia. It was paid for by my insurance- Anthem BC/BS. I have a pretty good policy and paid less than a grand out of pocket. Also, the passenger was fine. About two months later I got the subrogation letter in the mail asking who they could sue to recover the cost of my care. I was pretty vague in my description, just replied with once sentence that I tore a muscle landing my parachute and they seemed satisfied with that and didn't pursue anyone. I've seen my share of injuries and chopper rides too and I have to say that I have heard of several health insurance companies trying to recoup. You would be surprised how little they have to spend to want to recover it. Edit to add that the only reason I even mentioned to the ambulance chaser that a parachute was involved was because I was honest with my doc in describing the flaring motion that resulted in the dislocation/ tear. They could have audited my records if they wanted to. You can bet that if you get carted off the DZ on a stretcher, there will be a note about how you got hurt in the docs notes. Lying to the insurance company is not a good bet.

I paid $250 for the one I just put in my mirage but it needed maintenance first. Talked to another seller who couldnt find anymore to pay the $400 he wanted for his. So thats about what the used market looks like now.

Not that I know of, and I wouldn't want it even if it was available. If they know you have insurance, they are more likely to sue since they know you (your insurance) have the ability to pay. I know several people who have turned in their rating or choose not to get it because of personal liability.

Holy shit. Almost looks like he had about a two second bag lock on the reserve around 0:33. I've had 4 reserve rides and not a single one took that long to deploy, including two tandem reserve rides. It looked like it hesitated to clear the bag, which caused it to "dance" once it was at line stretch, which created most of the line twists. Either way, his reserve PC was in the frame for over two seconds- something is not right there.

Interesing. I've got an HTC Evo 4G running on sprint's 3G network here in Virginia Beach. I don't know how to screen shot on it but it got: Ping: 235 ms Download: 0.94 Mbps Upload: 0.64 Mbps

I currently have an HTC Evo (android) and have previously owned two iPhones, but never a blackberry. I prefer android, hands down! The app manufacturers just have more freedom to develop as they want on the android, and I think that has shown. I like that I can put widgets like a weather icon or email right on the home screen of my phone and see it without opening an app, and you can't do widgets on iPhone OS. I didn't like the lock screen and having to slide the bar to open the iPhone, but there's nothing you can do unless you want to root (hack) your phone. Apple doesn't like it, so they figured nobody should have it. On android, you can easily download an app called "no lock" and get rid of the lock screen if it suits you. Overall, I just feel that you have more freedom to make an android phone just the way you want it than apple would allow you to have. Also, when I hold my friends iPhones, the screen looks tiny compared to the Evo screen, even if there is only an inch or so of difference. Bigger is better!

My understanding is that it keeps the properly adjusted leg straps from sliding towards your knees where you would be more likely to fall thru. Of course it is not a weight bearing piece, it just keeps everything in the right position.

Well, clearly more people want small rings, so I would think that having the small rings would increase the resale value and ease of resale on your rig for when that time comes.

nCould be a rotator cuff, or worse- labrum tear. lay on your back and roll over onto your bad shoulder. Does this hurt? Pinching? Any catching feeling during over hand motion? If the answer to any of this is yes, it could be a SLAP tear (google it). Bad news is that a labrum tear can never heal on its on due to low blood supply in the shoulder and how fast it sets down scar tissue. anyone who tells you otherwise didnt really have a slap tear or had only a small one and just built up the surrounding muscles to compensate. Slap tear surgery recovery is 4 to 6 weeks in a sling, 3 months to decent strength, 6 months until very good strength and a full year to full recovery. Expect about 10 degress in loss of range, even with a great surgeon and excellent pt. Worse if you dont do the pt. Im not a doctor, just a TI in month 4 of slap tear surgery recovery. pm me for more info. The reason I suspect the slap is that I also got mine from flaring tandems, athough mine was acute injury with one fat pax, and yours seems to be progressive over time. Good luck, and I hope im wrong.

Might be a better one out there somewhere but here is one shot http://lmgtfy.com/?q=picture+of+franken+otter

Really, do they think the average reader is so dumb that they have to explain what 125% means?. ....nevermind, I don't want to know

How do you know your MLW size is 21? How tall are you and is it all in the torso? I'm 6'2" and my first rig was a C-18 saved javelin. It was snug but comfortable enough. 21 is a pretty big harness.

Broken bones is not all you have to worry about, there is also muscle tears. I tore my labrum on jump 785 while flaring a tandem with a heavy set passenger. SLAP Tear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAP_tear I had arthroscopic shoulder surgery to put my shoulder back together and fix the dislocation. Doc put 5 suture anchors in my shoulder, which is an especially large tear. The good news is that they are biodegradable and will dissolve in a couple years. It has been almost exactly 3 months from the surgery and I am still working on gaining full range of motion and strength in my shoulder. The doctor has told me that some permanent loss of range is likely in a tear as big as mine and that it would not be unusual for it to be over a year before I have full strength. Total cost of about $25,000 so far. The lesson here is that if you feel tired, you need to stop. Don't keep pushing it when you feel like you have been doing pull ups all day from flaring so many tandems. Sometimes I also have the passenger help flare, but she was fat and weak and she needed to pick up her legs with her arms because she could not lift them for landing. Also, I was lucky. The dislocation/ tear happened at about the 3/4 brake position and about 5 feet off the ground, so we just took a little tumble to the opposite side, which was in full brakes. If it had happened any higher, there could have easily been broken bones.

There's a whole lot of people in this thread priding themselves on not caring what other people think. It is certainly a healthy thing to not get hung up on others opinions, but the reality for most people is that life is better with other people in it. If most everyone you meet doesn't like you... you are probably an asshole and should change your shitty personality. Statistically speaking, if you are disliked by the vast majority of people, it is a lot more likely that the problem is with you. If one guy (or a couple of people you meet in passing) doesn't like you, then it is probably a draw. A certain amount of getting along with people just makes life easier. I just try to treat everyone I meet with respect. If they give me reason to treat them otherwise, it is generally easier to ignore them than bother treating them badly. That's why there are a few people on these boards I never bother replying to even if they address me directly

I'll sell ya my SV650S. Great beginner bike, never dropped, 2007, Red, 11K miles, great condition, in Virginia Beach. Skydiver discount PM if interested.

Nope, highly experienced with thousands of packs and many saves. Like I said, he's a pretty picky guy and I think thats a good thing but I don't really think I need to drop $80 on a new one, the chop was already expensive enough with the loss of my main

Thanks for the generous offer but it is a Mirage cable. Does jumpshack make most of the pins out there? And can you open another manufacturers pillow reserve handle and modify it?

That's what I was thinking also but my rigger disagreed and refused to pack it. I respect his opinion and I know he does good work (already saved me once) but I'm thinking he is a little too conservative here. Those things are like $80 and it looks fine to me.

Is this reserve ripcord cable that was activated by an RSL too bent/ kinked to use or not? If you are a rigger, would you pack it? I would say only riggers can vote, but this is the internet...