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Quick.....everybody get your ass to France. Take advantate of the confusion to BASE jump the Eiffel tower.......get moving while there is still time. *Disclaimer* The views expressed in the above post may or may not be the result of drunkeness or temporary insanity and should only rarely be construed as the views of the poster himself

Agreed...... *Disclaimer* The views expressed in the above post may or may not be the result of drunkeness or temporary insanity and should only rarely be construed as the views of the poster himself

oooh another springs to mind. I was not JM on that load but I was on it. Despite having been briefed on sitting in the exit position for a c206, our hero, being used to a c182, proceeded to climb out and stand on the wheel. No mean feat when you are wearing a student rig with static line and all. Luckily our pilot was awake and stepped on the brake so the wheel didnt roll. Upon reaching the wheel he looked back to wait for the go signal, to see a frantically waving and swearing JM a meter or so behind him. The guy then did a perfect exit, a camera flier was filming the exits anyway and we watched that tape to death in the bar later. The Jm on that load had eyes as big as saucers. *Disclaimer* The views expressed in the above post may or may not be the result of drunkeness or temporary insanity and should only rarely be construed as the views of the poster himself

I would like to include......preferably not resulting in a fatality. I am not thaaat bloodthirtsty. *Disclaimer* The views expressed in the above post may or may not be the result of drunkeness or temporary insanity and should only rarely be construed as the views of the poster himself

Question for the Jm/Instructors out there. What is the scariest thing(for you) that you ever saw a student you where responsible for do? Not dissing students out there, but sometimes I look at my collection of grey hairs and wonder how many are skydiving related. My story goes like this: It was back in the days before AAD's became standard issue for students and I was dispatching a first free fall student. He went out the door perfectly, good arch and eye contact with me, he looked, reached..... and pulled his cutaway handle. At this point he looked back up at with a plaintive expression on his face, kinda like...oh shit, what now ...Help!.... Before going unstable and falling over back to earth. Luckily training took over and he arched and pulled silver, having extended his hop and pop into a 10 second delay, the longest 10 seconds of my life for sure. He also then had to suffer through a terminal round reserve opening, speaking from experience, that is not a pleasant thing. I have also of course seen the usual quota of bad exits resulting in people falling through their risers, but that guy lives in my memories, I was already wondering how I was going to report the incident, lucky for both of us he remembered what to do. Anybody else with a hair raising anecdote regarding their victims, er students? Please share. *Disclaimer* The views expressed in the above post may or may not be the result of drunkeness or temporary insanity and should only rarely be construed as the views of the poster himself

My single worst experience of how political the sport can get came when I was serving as a conscript in the SA airforce, back in 1992. To cut a long rant short, I managed to get a slot on a junior 4-way team(3 paratroopers and me), competing in the Army national championships that year. Traditionalyy the winners of the senior and junior events would be sent to the "Real" civilian nationals. We managed to win the junior event. It was also the first time that a team from my area of the country had won the event, beating the favorites from up north and all sorts of recon brigades. Unfortunatly that was when politics reared its ugly head, the powers that were felt that it was not "representational"(sic) that a mixed services team be sent to nationals and so only the seniors went that year. This was quite a frigging let-down, to say the least. This is a skydivng related story, but the politics in this case were inter service. We were also entitled to jackets with military "colours" for this achievement , but we never got them either. I felt really bad for my teammates, they were professional soldiers and I was just a conscript, it was totally my fault that they missed out on going to the champs and also their "colours"( in yank terms it would be a Letter jacket for sports) It was a bit of a wake up call for me as to how things work in the real world. I have also seen waaay to much DZ politics in my long and checkered career, I never ever get involved if I can help it. And anyone who has ever attended a general meeting of the sports governing body will tell you that things can get really ugly at a National level too. Check your ego's at the beer line boys. *Disclaimer* The views expressed in the above post may or may not be the result of drunkeness or temporary insanity and should only rarely be construed as the views of the poster himself

Well, frankly yes! If you look at the sellers online "shop" you see he has all sorts of things for sale, from black leather bitch boots to a laptop, by way of pipe wrenches...... You cant say for sure, but it looks dodgy to me. *Disclaimer* The views expressed in the above post may or may not be the result of drunkeness or temporary insanity and should only rarely be construed as the views of the poster himself

Please Mr Jack, donate it to meee! I know plenty of needy skydivers who will benifit from your loving genirositicide. Sky 1:1-12: .....and thou shalt bum, mooch, beg and plead. And yea to him who pleads the hardest the manifest shalt open..... *Disclaimer* The views expressed in the above post may or may not be the result of drunkeness or temporary insanity and should only rarely be construed as the views of the poster himself

AAW///my condolences. I have been in a similar boat myself. Years back, a friend borrowed my rig to go to a boogie. While he was there the car was broken into and both our rigs were taken. Anger and frustration still boil to the surface when I think of that *Disclaimer* The views expressed in the above post may or may not be the result of drunkeness or temporary insanity and should only rarely be construed as the views of the poster himself