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Sure they just like to teach people a quick lesson. By means of chargeing high court cost, the highest fines allowed by law, and then you still have to pay your lawyer, which is no doubt also from New Orleans and knows the drill and how to charge the hell out of you as well. Orleans parish has always had a reputaion for such things. Two of my employees go to their doctor there, then to the drug store to fill some scripts and a patrol officer watches them get back in the car and open the bag. Arests them, and one of their wives, for intent to dirtribute. None of them had any drugs of any kind that they did not have scripts for and after several rescheduled court dates they were apologized to and told not to worry about it, but all this came some $10,000 later. That includes the bail bonds man but what were they to do, they could not afford the $50,000 ea in bail and I had to loan them the money for the bail bondsman. New Orleans is a big tourest city, and the court thinks it should make its money off the tourest too. And yes, they do have a strick no fight policy but if you have ever been there for Mardi Gra you could understand why

We were scheduled to jump the sunday of Katrina and are just waiting for the reopen so let us know if anything changes, otherwise we will be there. As for the wind blade, you can never go wrong be helping those in need. "Keep you friends closer, keep your enemies even closer" It will always pay off in the long run. Once again, we can't wait to get back in the air with you guys. Joe, Red, Sue and the gang

Life insurance, whats that. Am I supossed to have one of them?????????????

Sorry to take the other side on this one, but we were thinking of includeing a personality test with all applications a couple years ago. We used our current staff at that time as test subjects and had them all take the test. The results were staggering. If the test said he moved around to much, then so did his personel file. If the test do not hire this person, then his personel file already read something like "consider termination at next evaluation" I can not express how accurate the results were. Since then we have had all new applicants take the test and I can say that it has really paid off. Something else you may not know. There is no right or wrong answers for these things and therefore no way to grade them on site. They are sent to a testing company for evaluation which cost the hiring company aprox $200 a pop. So if you made it to the test, then they were very interested and probably upset that you didn't make it. Good luck and hope you find something better than they were offering anyway.

Take these two things, multiply how important you 'think' they are by 100 and try to forget most everything else.

Outer all the way. oh wait, I have never jumped out of anything else. oh well

I am way too new to be giving any kind of advice, expecially on this as I have never had the chance to float. I did get the WTF half way to the door on my first jump and maybe even worse on my second but when the third rolled around i didn't get it at all, go figure. As for hanging outside the plane, the first time I saw a videographer climb out I thought that was the grandest thing and I can not wait for the chance. But ofcourse I am also the one that owns a construction company and from time to time still put my tools on with the boys and that is normally when we have a job that is way up, involves hanging off the side of a half completed structure on little or no scalfold and they get butterflys. I love to remind them that I can still out climb anyone on the payroll at anytime. I love the thrill of the climb. Cant wait to be outside the plane. but thats just me and then again who knows what I will think about it afterwards.

nowhere even remotely close, I have thought of making the drive anyway, but it would take some planning. Vacation type trip and after Katrina my work load is way to much to even consider such a thing.

Ha, it seems that I am having some of the same problems as many others, but one that I missed out on is this sensory overload I keep hearing so much about. I have been in constuction for over 15 years and I have fallen before, (several times) My first jump was just the first time for me to fall with a parachute. To be honest, it was the least sensory overloading fall that I have ever had. Sliding down the roof of a two story house with a 10:12 roof pitch (40 degrees) watching the eve get closer and closer, then you gone, off the edge, nothing between you and ground but air, back to earth and no chute, nor time to deploy it if you did, now thats sensory overload.

Thanks for all the great view points. To answer a couple of your questions; the uspa guidlines do not require a release on level 5 to pass to level 6 (turns). That is one point that my instructor, nor I, agree with, but my DZ practices the "by the book" technique and therefore passed me on to level 6. Once again the uspa says that a ATP student on his first jump only requires one instructor, and again a point that my instructor disagrees with. In my opionon, at least one of these points should be changed. You should either have to have two instructors or (my choice) for sure be able to hold a heading before continueing to turns. W

No way I am stoping now. It is great. Flat spin and all, haha. Box is not the problem though, it is my leg awareness. Seems to be a common problem with ATP. My TM could see my hands and corrected my box position. Now I have very littel trouble with my hands compared to my feet, which the TM has no way of seeing and can only guess at where they are. My wife just finished her lever 3 ATP which she also passed. I was on the next load sitting next to her TM with him braging and wooing about how great she did, completed two 360's on the nose (even if she was using the videographer for a heading marker). Then we go home and watch the video and her feet are all over the place. Its almost like the TM looks down and sees the box dip right and knows that it looks good so he helps the turn to the right, and then the same to the left. He never realizes that her feet may be the reason that he has to help. Then again, I am no expert on advanced flying and maybe he was not helping at all, just keeping stable and her box turn worked under his stablity. But I do know that her feet were everywhere. No way I am letting her get out solo unless she has two instructors with her.

Incase you wonder why it makes such a difference to compare the two courses at this point, I have two or three friends that have made a tandem fun jump and are interested in continueing but are looking to me to recommend them to which course they should take. Ofcourse I am reffering such questions to the DZ staff as they are the qualified party, not me, but I would like the input of others as well. Thanks for the post and any more to come

I have no problem with having to progress slowly, I made it very clear to my instructor, which gave me the option of repeating the one instructo jump or paying for two like he suggested, that I was up for what ever he thought, as long as it might take. Also good point on the canopy control. My first solo involved a malfunctioning radio (as the DZO put it "for some reason it won't work in the O - F - F position") I made my down wind aproach, base turn and final turn on my own before I found my radio guy waving red and yellow like wild, but I was right on track and landed within 5 ft of him.

Good Point. I think my instructors point is that 4 tandem rides does not qualify you to jump solo with only one instructor. He wants the ATP course to be rewritten with the first solo or two to require two instructors. In my case he is most definately correct, but I don't know about the average across the board. I wouldn't want the USPA to rewrite a course just because of my lack of skill, but the instructors at my DZ asure me that most Tandem students progress more slowly than AFF students. Beats me?????

ok, one of my wife's girlfriends was dieing to try skydiving and wanted someone to go with her, so I do a little research on the saftey aspects and say why not. Hence the first Tandem. We both liked it and decided to pursue it further but her husband freaked over the idea of a Solo and insisted she continue through Tandem progression. I, having no reason to think one course better than the other, joined the same course as her so we could take the same training etc. (its a 2 1/2 hour drive to the DZ so it was convenient to be in the same course). So we both pass the next three tandems with flying colors and on to the solos. Level 5 ATP, your first solo, is similiar to AFF level 3 with only one instructor. We both passed but niether was able to hold a heading well enough for release. Level 6, the instructor moves to a front dock position and then after a nod off from the student releases, the student to perform two 360's. Both of us at release spun like a top. I went into a flat spin which the intstructor attacked and knocked me out of allowing me to pull with some stablity ,as I was already begining to spin again, at about 10,000. She had a similiar ride. My instructor tells me during debriefing that he hates the ATP course because it never prepare students for solos. The Tandem master does more corrections than even he realizes and the student is left 'uneducated'. He recommended me doing an AFF level 3 with two instructors until my heading improves and then continuing my course. Ofcourse I agreed to this course of action, which I have not had a chance to do yet, but I would like some input and other opinions on which course is best. and do you think the ATP course guidline by the USPA should be rewritten, as my instructor does.

you look great, we haven't had a chance to get to clubs in awhile, but after looking over those candids, it might be time make a chance

dont waste the beer, it would be hot before it got here. Just glad I could help

OPEN DAILY, CLOSED TUESDAY AND THURSDAY. saw that one on the side of a snow ball stand years ago, can't seem to forget it.

if you are just looking for the product of the two numbers you should be able to use foil. I solved the physics problem, but unfortunately I dropped out in the middle of calculus. Had a strong B too, what a shame.

hopefully these will be a little easyer to read. I split the work in half. If you like send me an email address and I will send you the original file which you can zoom in on.

Ok, I am not the fastest but I dont know the word quit. I was on the right track with my last post and with a little more time I finished it and solved the problem. I hope you check this before class in the morning. I almost gave up, even put in a call to a physics friend of mine to take a look at it, and if your reading this Jesse, get over it, I got it with out you. HaHa

Ok, I was raised on a farm with plenty of paster land surronding the house, you can imagine the potential for rat problems. In my experience, there is only one cure, a good cat. When I asked my wife to marry me and we decided to build across the street and stay on the farm, I was horrified of the fact that she was alergic to cats. I knew the rats were going to be big trouble. Much to my delite I learned that she was not alergic to just plan ole short haired cats. I dont know the proper name for them but they are similiar to a minx cat and litteraly run wild here. You may also try the pound, there is nothing special about these cats, just mut cats if you will. She did not know she was not alergic to them because she had never been around them, most people have nice pretty fluffy house cats that shed and cause people to sneeze and that was all that she had been around. You should try this, your boys may not be alergic either. OH, and don't let the rats get to any bread, it may cause them to grow like the one in the pic

The answer S may have been the answer I would have given if I had been takeing a test with the original question on it, but if you read her repost of the real problem, you find that the professor does not give the Term S and is indeed looking for a real number

after thinking about it for awhile I got one more aproach. Same result though. 38 still checks out as the correct answer (38.02917 to be more exact) but still unable to solve for x. I got it down to a quadratic, but it does not factor, given the correct answer is not 38 evenly.