MrBounce

Happy birthday, hope its a good one

That's a lot of questions, but I think it boils down to the 3 P's Propaganda, Politics and Power George Orwell's 1984 illustrates a lot of this very well. Control the proles, allow outlets for aggression, use selected or false information and retain power. Or maybe I'm just a big ol' pessimist who can't see the good that our organised politcal state is doing for us. Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

Hi Caz, yeah I was using the post-don't look rule - ooops Gavin Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

Or when you're so broke that you'll rent out your body in exchange for jump tickets Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

I've just heard that there was a major fire at Sibson here in the UK. Apparently the police believe it was arson. Does anyone know whats going on and if everyone there is ok? Gavin Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

LOL! A quick view thru the crystal ball ... 2008 Bush: "Quick Rummy, some more of our bombs are reaching their end of shelf life, who's got a dictator that we don't like much?" Gavin Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

It never ceases to both amaze and depress me the extend of the litiginous (ooh big word - probably spelt incorrectly too

That's because now the pubs are open longer, everyone's too pissed to be able to hit which ever one of the three people they can see standing in front of them. Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

People seem to forget that these people seen rioting are not the majority of the population. Also, they are peasants, and I don't mean that in the Marie Antoinette "Ooo the peasant are revolting!" sense. I mean that in the sense that they are barely literate and rely on their priests and authority figures to tell them what is going on. Think medieval peasants burning witches or catholics because the priests told them to and you'll get my idea. I did some checking over of the story on the bbc news website and it seems that these people are being led by people who are deliberately provoking them. The original cartoons weren't sufficiently offensive, so the mullahs and imams deliberately included further pictures including ones that make mohammed look like a pig in order to get this reaction. Lastly, these riots and burnings started in Syria and Lebanon, which means that they were govt sponsored. If you want your people to stop paying attention to what you're doing, get them focussed on something else. Remember, most of these people have no recent history of self determination, thats why we can but hope that education and democracy will help them to learn to think for themselves. Gavin Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

Ah yes, what a truly fantastic man. He may be a greek, but he sounds like he stepped right out of british colonial times. Who needs reality TV with a man likie that as your ambassador. Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

I never change the alti once I get in the plane, that way madness lies However, point noted with the alti needle moving, thank you. I'll see to getting it fixed. Gavin Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

I subsequently checked the alti, it wasn't broken, it has a winder to adjust altitude, and thats what I appear to have caught. I careful monitored it on subsequent jumps with the thought that if it has problems, I'm gonna stay in the plane, and since then it has been fine. That's also why I bought the neptune, so now I have another alti. Altitude picture-wise, I'm not gonna say I can definitely recognise three thousand feet just by looking after 200 jumps. My wist alti said 2 and my audible said 4, so I pulled. Better safe than sorry. Also, I was agreeing with the previous post, being able to judge altitude visibly is a skill that is needed. I don't have that skill yet, but I'm working on it. Its also why I'm going to have canopy training for landing accuracy. My only other point was that analogue altis can be adjusted/are more susceptible to adjustment either in flight or during exit than digital. I constantly cross-reference my alti with other peoples on the plane on the way up, its something I was taught at AFF. However, once we start run-in, I'm also checking my pin, my handles and running thru my exit in my head. So my last visual cross reference is the 2 minute warning - or rather was, I now try and make a last check before door open now. I learn and I continue to learn

Is the Dr Pepper to take the taste away? And how much do you earn per BJ? Gavin Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

LOL!! Sorry, we save that for the real criminals Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

OK.... How to make a MrBounce Ingredients: 5 parts competetiveness 5 parts humour 1 part

The Beech rocks!!! Mmmmmm altitude in tiny mins

I tell people I have 5 altimeters. Two audibles, one analog, and two visual (my eyes!) Lots of experienced people are fairly device dependent, and forget that they can (or should be able to) just look at the ground and know about how high they are. To the original poster: forget the neato watch and even neptunes at this point. Go dork-style with the huge analog. All the coolest skydiving nerds wear one. I just want to add a small tale of my recent experience to this thread. I was out jumping over xmas and new years, at a DZ I knew from previous holidays in the year, but not my home DZ. I was also exiting from a plane I'd never exited before and which had a *very* fast run in. I was unprepared for the wind blast and was blown around on exit. I then stabilised and went on to carry on practicing my sit flying. At 5k my first audible alarm went and I looked at my wrist mount for a visual check as I turned belly to earth and saw, instead of a reassuring 5 thousand feet, just 3! I looked down and knew I was high, but how high? My second audible went at 4 grand so I pulled on the premise that I still had some altitude and I would have to *feel* my way down. Basically, I had knocked my wrist mounted analogue alti on the exit and it was now reading 2 thousand feet lower. I couldn't count on my wrist mount to judge when to turn and an audible won't tell you how high you are under canopy. I ended up setting up high and 'S'ing off into wind while making sure I stayed as far away as possible from other skydivers, even tho' this meant a long walk back to the hangar. Since then I've bought a neptune and I plan on wearing both until I am sure that I fully understand the neptune, then that's gonna be my fulltime alti. You'll notice from my profile that I only have 200 jumps, and I'll add that I still have a problem visually gauging my height and landing spot. Hopefully the neptune will cure that too, as the analogue one is too vague for me below 500 feet. Just shaking your wrist will make the needle swing by a couple of hundred feet. In the meantime I use the force to land my canopy Gavin Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

Newwwwwww toyyyyyyyyyssssss!!!! And while you're waiting for them to be delivered, several pints of guiness while watching rugby. Gavin Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

A word of warning, if its still blocked on weds don't jump. I jumped just after I qualified with what felt like a slight cold and was in agony for the rest of the day because I couldn't equalise the pressure. I was very lucky not to have damaged my eardrum, but it still felt like someone had rammed a knitting needle into the side of my head. You won't have much of a birthday celebration if you have to go to hospital with a ruptured eardrum or destroyed sinuses. Gavin PS happy birthday tomorrow Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

In the UK they'd be DP trousers or combat pants depending on whether you were military or not. Actually looking at the colour combo, they're probably just saying "hi, I'm weird" Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

I'd say that skydiving is the reason to be fit. Its the reson that I've started going back to gym and am trying to lose weight. I'm 6'4" and 215lbs so I fall like a brick. Oh and losing weight will make my landings a lot easier on me too

Harry!!! Who's Harry and why have you got his chest? Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

If I wear a closing pin, people ask me about it. The temptation has always been to invent a religion, but so far, I've just given a straight explanation.*** But skydiving IS a religion: Its done on weekends and holidays. It motivates when times are bad. Its only done by a select club of initiates who have their own rules. It occasionally requires the sacrifice of a piece of equipment or dumb animal (read drunk skydiver) to the skygods. See... religion. And it has none going to hell stuff either ... and more happy & friendly people Sorry, I'm getting a little off topic here. Ummm, jewelry, well I wouldn't wear one. I used to wear my packboy until I went to bed drunk once and stabbed myself in the neck. So that stays in the bag now I'd probably wear one for the same reasons as rl, if it was special. Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

I know I've only been jumping properly for two years, but I don't know anyone jumping in the UK who hasn't jumped through cloud. Its a fact of life in this country. Also, while the JM may say its good to go, in a large aircraft, by the time you're getting out at the back, you may have covered as much as a mile. Ultimately, look down... your call Gavin Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.

A beautiful girl asks you about skydiving in the bar and you spend the next half hour describing training methods and dropzones rather than trying to find out if she's single ....(true) Gavin Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't take it out and use it, its going to rust.