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screw that. yeah sure ask your instructor. But this is something that is easily answered. If you didnt even pull your pilot chute their is absolutly no reason to waste time and altitude cutting away. Im sure im going to get slammed for answering this but oh well. The way i see it some questions can be answered here. Like, if i jump should i open my parachute. How much knowledge does that take to answer. The latter question may not be as simple but pretty close to it. I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

that is definatly part of my gear check on every jump. I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Those two statements have no place together. If you think you're GK material, dial yourself in, and make then all within one meter. Better yet, dead center at least half of them. It just takes practice. You might be surprised how well you can do if you focus, plan ahead, and apply yourself. Hopefully i'll be able to pull that off if i make it to tryouts. I think i might be at spaceland on the 15th when the knights are supposed to be there. Im hoping i can get some info from them. Like, do you know if they let you jump your own gear during tryouts? It would be nice to use a familiar canopie. If not, hopefully i can figure out a new canopie quick. Of course this is if i even make it to tryouts. I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Ok so iv been in the sport of skydiving now for about 5 years. I finally make it to spaceland. Well it was only my 4th jump at this dz so i didnt know the terrain too well. Open at 3 look down i see the landing area so i spin down to about 1. Only then do i realize NO! this isnt the landing area and its way to late for me to make it back. Need to figure something out kinda quick. I see a road in a residential area that looks good. Only problem is can only see power lines on one side of road...not sure if they are on both. I finally realize they arent but then another problem...hmmm....what way is the wind blowing....no wind sock anywhere to be found or anything eles to tell me what directionthe wind was going. Took a guess. A wrong one. By the time i knew it was wrong it was to late to turn into the wind. Lets just say my landing was less than graceful and i now need new pt pants as the left side is all torn up. I also need new pride too. That got all torn up by the kids that had been playing in a yard right next to where i was landing. Seriously, if you were a kid and saw someone fall out of the sky and tumble down the road landing downwind would you laugh? just a brief story of my first off landing. Intresting experience. I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

yes and no. Sure it is tight. But that boat looks longer than 6 ft. for sure. According to uspa if the target was towards the front of the boat he would have landed to far away for the jump to count towards a C license. I am keeping my standards high and will not cheat on any logged accuracy jumps. Only 2 so far and one was to far away from target. Hopefully I can do this soon. I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

well out of my 240 jumps I have so far basically all of them have been "stand up" landings. Probably because I have stuck with a very conservative canopie. I weigh about 160 and am jumping a 165. Been thinking about down sizing lately though. And well, before I joined the army my goals in skydiving were to have fun. So, I never really tried for any logged accuracy jumps. I just landed pretty much in the general area I wanted to land in. I have never had much of a problem doing that. Now that im in the army and have the goal of becoming a knight I actually have to start taking this a little more serious than I have in the past. It's still loads of fun though. Love every second of it. Hopefully i'll be able to pull this off in 35 jumps or less. I believe applications for the knights have to be in by the end of july. Im just a pfc and don't make all that much money so it's hard to get the cash together to jump as much as I did before I joined. I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Im working on getting my C license (hopefully in time to try out for the golden knights if i dont deploy) One of the requirments is 25 jumps within 2 meters of a target. I mean, that seems pretty tight. The first accuracy jump i logged was just about dead on. Less than a foot away from the cone that was set up for me. The second was more like 10 ft away. It still seemed pretty close but according to uspa not good enough. I would think 5 meters would be fair. But 2? Come on im not trying to get a pro rating just yet. I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

i'll post the link as a bulletin on my myspace. Not many friends on my friends list but maby some of them will repost. Good luck man. I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

yes you really should. I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

the 3rd and the 24th OH YEAH! I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

I think I just might have to start wearing my helmet when I post here. This place can be brutal but hey, it amused me. Then again just about anything does.

good stuff. I need to quit too. Im not smoking nearly as much as I used to but...still any is to much i guess. I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

ok well, i got that off of someone eles. I just cut and pasted. I didnt feel like doing the math to figure out if it would really ever happen again. I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That will never happen again. You may now return to your normal stuff... I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

at perris the person working manifest (dont rember who it was that day) tried to give me one of those royal crown bag things FULL of cash and a pro-track. It was so freakin tempting. I looked down at it and my eyes light up (im VERY poor). I had to argure with my self for a while but eventually the honest side of me won. It really was a battle of epic proportions I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

the worst accident I have ever witnessed was on my way home from perris. From what I remember a small car...possibly a geo hit the center divider on the 91 F. It rolled over and did a 360 upsidedown. The 150 clipped it as it was trying to swerve out of the way. It did a full barrel roll RIGHT in front of me. I must have missed it by inches. I did not stop though because this being california and all people probably traveld from miles around just to stop by. I figured I would just be getting in the way. Good thing I hadent left perris 2 or 3 seconds later...I probably would have been part of that accident. I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

well i think im about to sell my old shcool nintendo so i can jump more next weekend. I already have 2 jump tix but i want more

you going to be at nome next weekend? We gotta do a jump. Like I said, i'll do an rw jump just for you

great job tracking I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

What a day what a day...Skydivermom aka kath good stuff today! Isin't it sweet finally getting off student status. Then on top of that 2 of my friends did their first jumps. One (kevin aka kevy aka happy) has definatly got the bug. The other im not sure about but its looking like he will go for it too. Then I have 3 sweet jumps. Land almost right on top of the cone i was shooting for the first time then only about 10 ft away the second time. Just one of those days that reassueres my love for this sport/hobbie/life. hmm....maby this should be in the "general skydiving discussions" fourm...oh well. I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

dont forget those 45 degree corners! Ah hell, i just throw a damn blanket over mine. My squad leader dosent even check my room anyway I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

this is no joke. At least for some. I honestly ate cup o noodles for about 3 months while going through aff then saving up to get my rig. I did manage to fork out a little for soda though

good stuff! Spaceland is great. Hopefully i'll be jumping there saturday or sunday if the weather is kind to us. Oh yeah and when I did my first tandem I wasn't expecting this either. I went with the attitude of ok, gotta try this once. I knew from the second I left that plane that it was on.

that girl from total recall! I mean seriously, 3? Thats what im talkin bout. I may not agree with what you have to say but i'll defend to the death your right to say it.

seriously, we are no longer in grade school. If you can't take a pa than lock yourself in doors and close your shades. Personally, i have only met one, wait no.....2 people from this site. If any of them want to take a shot at me go for it