Titanman2789

I'm a packer. Unfortunately, the 1099 does come (at least at my DZ) and it sucks to pay taxes on money you made the year before packing DZ owned gear. But at my DZ I can write off just about everything from gear I buy here on DZ.com or through the DZ itself - helmets etc., staff shirts, food, miles driven on my car, and whatever else you can think of that relates to skydiving. Though depending on how busy your dz is, you may not get to jump if you are working weekends. As a packer you will probably only get first and last load at a busy dropzone on the weekends. These days I keep my ass on the ground on the weekends and jump during the week. Not as many people to jump with, but I still made almost $200 on thursday and made 7 jumps. Not bad

Did I see this show wrong? or were all their jumps with base rigs? Watch it closely. One of the canopies you can clearly see that it's a FOX base canopy. And the openings were extremely low!...maybe not for base jumps but from exiting an aircraft?

seen that on other icons with the freefly handle as well.

March 18 was the date my Mirage G4 was expected to ship I'm still waiting for it...and getting more and more anxious every day!

i've got one with a 15 way formation that says teamwork

took me a good month before it actually clicked and i could do every part of packing myself. then a month or maybe more before i could build up some speed and start packing faster. but now im a packer at the DZ. start off with the basics. dont start trying all these new tips and different ways of packing. once you finally get it down, then try the new tips you get. then you'll really be able to understand how much easier it can be

Already ordered a new Mirage G4. Should be here mid-march

well for a high altitude training trip i travelled to mexico. of course its already obvious where this is headed. well when i finally got montezuma's revenge, wow was it intense. went to bed one night feeling fine, and woke up at about 3 in the morning. now the food there was giving everyone there horrible gas, so i thought that maybe the pain in my stomach was just that. so i lay in bed for about 5-10 minutes waiting for the pain to maybe go away, but it wont. i get up and head to the bathroom and within a second of sitting down and relaxing, i was done, not shitting you. this was the worst runs i ever had and when i got up to look, it looked like mount everest in there. i mean the toilet was completely filled from the bottom of it up past the water line to a point. it literally looked like a mountain. needless to say, even after filling every square inch of more than half the ceramic bowl, i didnt even feel much better. i had the runs for 3 weeks after, but none as big as the first one pepto and immodium does nothing for montezuma's revenge

dont ask dont tell policy dont lie if they ask, but unless they do ask, not something to share.

my heart rate has been over 240 working out before

544 mph

I have since looked at a couple of web sites explaining the supply-demand theory. The curves denoted by D1 or D2 are constant demand lines. They are contour plots of demand. That means, in mathematical terms, that at any point on D1 or D2 the demand is the same. Likewise, for the supply lines. So your comment of "It will simply decrease along the original demand line", with 'It' refering to demand, makes no sense to me. If 'It' refers to supply, then prices would go up when the supply of riggers decreases. That will probably happen, but not right when the rule gets changed. . There are different ways for the graphs to change. The point on the demand line can move along the line as in the first attachment or the entire line can shift (second graph). On both graphs the price increases. Now yes, if the demand line has a decreasing shift where the entire line moves, prices will decrease. A change to a 180 day repack cycle will not cause a shift though, only a decrease along the line from point 1 to point 2 (in the first graph)

On a graph of supply and demand though, the price increases if there is a shift in the demand curve (increasing shift ). It decreases if there is a decreasing shift (see third attachment). If the demand only decreases along the original line, then the price will increase, and there will be more supply available and the graph will be out of equilibrium (see first attachment). A change to repack every 180 days will only make the demand decrease, not shift i think. The demand will decrease along the original line, so there will be more riggers (supply) available for work. Then for the graph to reach equilibrium with the new 180 day repack rule, the supply of riggers would have to have to shift back so that there would not be a surplus of riggers waiting for work. I think that is what i have learned from economics I know nothing about economic theory, but I do know how to read graphs. So are you two saying that since the supply of riggers will be the same (at first anyway) and the demand will be lower when we go to 180 day repack cycles that we shall be be going from point 1 to point 2 on the attached graph? IOW, LOWER repack costs? . I dont think with the change to 180 repack cycle the demand line will shift from point 1 to point 2 on your graph. It will simply decrease along the original demand line, causing an increase in price and a surplus of riggers available for work

On a graph of supply and demand though, the price increases if there is a shift in the demand curve (increasing shift ). It decreases if there is a decreasing shift (see third attachment). If the demand only decreases along the original line, then the price will increase, and there will be more supply available and the graph will be out of equilibrium (see first attachment). A change to repack every 180 days will only make the demand decrease, not shift i think. The demand will decrease along the original line, so there will be more riggers (supply) available for work. Then for the graph to reach equilibrium with the new 180 day repack rule, the supply of riggers would have to have to shift back so that there would not be a surplus of riggers waiting for work. I think that is what i have learned from economics

thats what I was wondering

this could be something for mythbusters to try out. with dummies of course, not real people

i only use it when stopped by police. i wont anymore though. the yes sir, no sir thing didnt get me off a ticket last time

welllll....if i hadnt gotten freakin pneumonia i would be able to jump. This is my 3rd week out from jumping, and sadly i will be out from it another week after this. So bye bye month of december.

Good Stuff?

I sure dont know. Its just saying you're out of shape. Push through the pain and it goes away

from what i've heard, psycho packing produces consistently good openings. why would they suggest not to psycho?

I hear Santa's sleigh will get you to 15,000 ft in 5 minutes!

no i know you are hanging from the wing, it just doesnt look like you are very far out on the wing. I'm just wondering what kind of yaw would be produced from hanging on the wing. Its gotta be a lot.

Very cool! In that picture it looks like you are by the wing strut. I saw on a video where on a 182 exit the guy gets out on the step, reaches around and hangs off the leading edge by his hands (his back facing the wind) then he shimmies out to the very end of the wing. I'm just curious to how much yaw would be produced by a person hanging off the leading edge of the wing and the end of the wing.

I dreamed I had a malfunction. I did my emergency procedures right and everything worked out fine, landed safely.