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Ritz Camera also sells it for either that same price or pretty close. I have no idea how well the 10d or 20d flys...but I shoot a 10D for terrestial photography and its a great camera. Its heavier than the 20d (3.6 oz heavier) and slightly larger, but the MP isn't much less. The camera body of a 10d is metal and quite solid. A Google search will bring up a couple comparisons between the two types. Only reason I post here is that you may find a 10d cheap relative to the 20d if you want to get into digital but cost is a factor. As far as I know, lenses bought for the 10d work on the 20d. (If they don't someone let me know..."L" lens cost a hair more than the 10d body )

I actually have kept a note in my wallet at times that starts "Well, THIS sucks!!". Talking with the family and friends and making your wishes clear is a great backup to legal documentation. I was involved in making a final decision about someone in a persistent vegitative state, and it was a relief that everyone was in complete agreement...we just looked at one another and nodded in agreement.

I've done what you are trying to do in the past. It works well in general, but keep your SP's and hotfixes in sync on each system. I had one 80GB HD with two partitions. Part 1 was C:, 2 was D:. C: had three diff OSs on it (something like \Windows, \WinWork, \WinGame). D: had all the progs that were shared. If you've got the system already built, you should be able to change drive letters in each of your installations to be the same so long as you aren't modifying the system volume or boot partition. Just go into Manage, Drive Management to make them consistent. Edit: No, defrag won't hurt anything (in general...backup just in case ). And my work laptop runs two copies of XP and SUSE 9 on one disk. The order of installation in a multiboot could be important...I have always gone in order of the oldest to newest windows OS, with linux or other on last. SUSE lilo works nice with XP. Ensure you left linux some unpartitioned space. - long live linux.

On my first AFF jump I was pretty nervous and maybe a bit scared. On the flight up my instructor had me going through my dive flow over and over again. I had done a tandem before, but this was the first time with a rig on my back. I checked my alti (student loaner) and it was stuck on 1.5. I tapped it but it didn't move. Without thinking about what I was seeing first, I leaned back to my instrutor and said "Hey, this thing's stuck on 1,500!" You probably guessed it...she looked at me strangly, then pointed in succession to the "11", the "0", and the "1" on my alti while saying "11,000, 12,000.....13,500". Later on she told me it was one of the funnier things she's heard a student say, but at the time she was thinking "oh s*&^, what am I getting into?"

Heard back from the manufacturer, and was told it probably just needs to be recalibrated. Was provided with an address to send it. She also responded to whether I should reset the alti while up in the air, which I'll post here as someone else may wonder the same thing some day...

Yes. The weekend before I was in FL using it. When I arrived at SNE that morning it was reading -350 or so, so I zero'd it right before getting on the plane. Noticed it right from the start. I was planning on dumping at 5,500 anyway to do some canopy practice so there was room for error.

Thanks...sent them a note.

Hey everyone, I was jumping this weekend at SNE and noticed that my altimeter was reading 500 feet less than the guy next to me. I checked with the gal in front of me and confirmed mine was wrong. I have made 5 jumps with it prior, and it was new when I bought it. I was in FL two weeks ago and it worked fine. It has not been dropped or received any damage that I know of. As the plane gained altitude it moved up steady but was always behind everyone else by the same amount, around 500 feet. I gave it a few good taps and it didn't change. Is this a common issue? Should I have re-calibrated it to the mean of the other alti's while we were in flight? I only got one jump in due to a plane problem later in the day, so I couldn't try it again. I was planning on bringing a second alti with me for that jump, btw. Appreciate any advice. New to the sport ps...an audible backup alti is on order.