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Shay.. Hash anyone sheen my denturesh by any shanshe?

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BTW - is that a flying brick or do I need new glasses?

Yes indeed it is


Caption: Well? You DID ask me to show my better half!

I have had several after my first reserve aka close call.
It didn't happen every night, but occasionally I would find myself back up in the air and pulling a few seconds later, or pulling to no effect.
I'd wake up before hitting the ground, though.

These dreams lasted about a month - the time I needed to recover from a hurt ankle.

A guy walks into a bar - "Ouch!"

Two weeks ago my housemate sent me a text message at 4 am saying that he saw that the modem I had ordered for the house had arrived, and if it was ok if he tried to get it up and running.

Like, doesn't he have anything better to do at 4 am?

Don't be too hard on yourself, dude!

The winds were treacherous that day.
Stick 1: experienced jumper spotting for another student (sabre 210) and myself (navigator 240) as well as the rest of the load.
Only the two students reached the field, the 210 because he opened somewhat higher, and myself because the Nav doesn't really lose any altitude in any kind of hurry. Even so, I barely made it back to the DZ, and was forced to land quite close to the runway, though not dangerously so.

At the time you aare referring to, the winds were so slight that insofar as forward speed is concerned it didn't matter which way you landed - the steering briefing I got right before takeoff actually assumed the T was facing the other direction.

Remember though, we are students - if you get a call but haven't had a briefing/pin check yet, the plane can (and will) wait.


However.....
Upon opening I was well and thoroughly confused; Stick to the plan, or to the T?
I kept hesitating until I was quite low, and then decided to stick to the plan, seeing that my RW-instructor did so too.
However by now I was in such a bad position that I landed out, going over the barbed wire at the end of the DZ during the last stages of my final. I actually flat-turned 180 at 250 feet to get the right heading back, thus potentially endangering anybody who might have been behind me.

Lesson learned: in these specific conditions, (meaning no wind, and an unclear landing situation as well as few people up there) it does not matter wether you land this way or that, as long as you decide at 1500 feet what you are going to do, and STICK to that plan. Land out if necessary, if you think it'll be safer for you or the others.

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1. Are you happy?
Single
Married
Player
Kids
No Kids
Money
No Money

1) Everything in moderation
a) Shaggy - Wasn't me
b) No
c) Flute
d) None that I know about
e) But two weeks of summercamp will last me the rest of the year nae problemo
f) Yes please
g) I'm a skydiver...what do YOU think?

In sport 99 years.

You must be at least 115 years old then, assuming that the minimum age to get into skydiving back then was 16 yrs (with parental consent).
A few years more or less are extremely unlikely to influence things.
A careful application of a combination of some careful calculation, extrapolation and statistical probability reveal that the best course of action would probably be to forget about the camera, sneakily slip some acid in her champagne and to surreptititiously take a Viagra yourself.

It's not Saturday, but rather a very slow day at work.
So.

A friend of mine recently purchased a dog from the pound, and invited me to tag along when he was going to walk the mutt in the park for the very first time.

So we went walking along, when my friend decedid to find out if the dog was taught to fetch by his previous owner.
He picked up a stick, and threw it away.
The stick landed in the pond. The dog went "woof", as dogs are known to do, and went bounding after the stick.
He jumped onto the water, ran to the stick, picked it up and ran back.

I look at my friend, my friend looks at me.
"Probably very shallow at the edges," says my friend.
He throws the stick again, and it lands in the middle of the pond.
And off the dog goes again, onto the water, picking up the stick and running back.

I look at my friend, my friend looks at me.
"This is nuts. I'm bringing in the vet," says my friend.

When the vet arrives he listens to his story, and asks us if we'd care to pull the other one, on account of it having bells on.
We assure him we didn't smoke anything, and to prove it my friend throws the stick again.
Same thing. The dog runs off over the water, picks up the stick, and drops it at the vets feet.

The vet stares.
I look at my friend, my friend looks at me.
We look at the vet.
"well? Do you know what is up with that dog or not?" says my friend.
Slowly the vet nods, and turns around to face us.
"Yes, I think I know exactly what is wrong with that dog," says the vet,"I think he just can't swim."

Congratulations on being suck... accepted into this important function

Maybe his wife got runover by a car?

Please do not take this personally, as we are talking hypothetical situations here, and because I don't know what you would do when confronted with this extreme situation in real life.

I think you shouldn't ask what kind of a friend he is for aksing people to take him home, but rather what kind of person would refuse to take him because jumping is more important than an emergency.

Congratulations on your first jump, dude!
I'm glad you had fun.
Good luck with the rest of the SL-progression.

Yes, the Bene Gesserit rock

Apart from the local Secret Handshake-thingy I do not really have a ritual. I just think about what exercises I want to do on the jump, or simply enjoy the view.

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b. until you find the right woman, you have a happy and satisfying life.

How'd it go?

select cell B2 by clicking it with your cursor.
Now go to window/freeze panes.
This way both the names AND the column headings will stay visible.

To have only the "column headings" stationary, select the entire row UNDER the onbe you wish to become the titles.

I learned to jump during the winter months as well.

What worked for me is simply wearing my skiing coat under my loose student jumpsuit.
I look like the Michelin Man on all winter pics, but fuggit, at least I was warm.

B*tch about the weather, and hope the clouds will break later in the day?

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I know I have seen and heard of people performing cutaways either out of necessity or just to do it.

Folks cutting away their main for "fun" and then using their reserve. Sure, it happens, but you gotta ask yourself how smart that is... i.e. trade a "good" parachute for, yes, a carefully packed reserve, but as yet not a good, inflated, flying, parachute... but that's a whole other subject.


While I agree with you in general, there are some valid reasons to cut away a perfectly good main.
I'm too lazy to look them all up, but for instance I'm sure that you cannot become an instructor (in the Netherlands) unless you have had at least one cutaway - whether intentional or not.

What everyone else said.

To me, a H&P or C&P is simply deploying after exit, with about three seconds of "freefall".

Mainly though, a hop and pop is a lot of fun, or an opportunity to train canopy skills or work on my landing pattern.

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past some ambulances for some jumpers who didn't land as safe as I did.

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I witnessed a double malfunction. Luckily, the guy landed safely

amusing? You're being sarcastic, right? Please?

Having not that many jumps myself, I choose to believe that anyone ragging maliciously on you for declining to jump in what you perceive to be dubious conditions is a skygod, and therefore not worth listening to anyway.
Listening to skygods gets you killed.


However, I fully agree with Tash:

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I wasn't there and in my view the above comments can be taken two ways - one the negative 'you're a wuss' way or a positive 'it would have been great if you were with us 'cos it was fun, shame you weren't'.

OK, I have only 80 jumps, but I think I'll try to answer this as best I can anyway.

First of all, only YOU and not anyone else can decide if you should try skydiving. Also, only YOU can decide which of the advice that will be given to you in this thread is useful to you.

If I was you:
If you are not sure whether you'd dare to exit the plane, maybe it's best to first do a tandem skydive.

Yes, that means relying on somebody else for the most part of the skydive, but that particular someone had to have 1000 regular skydives before they were even allowed to begin the tandemmaster course.
So trust me; they know what they are doing.

It may also be worth it to purchase a video of your tandem.
Then you could watch the video, again and again, and think back about how you felt during the freefall, and the canopy ride.

Maybe that will help you decide whether a full course is worth the money or not.

Our printer CAN hold the entire ream - if you want it to jam immediately afterwards. People know this, and one person in particular still manages the following:


1) Turn off printer.
2) Open up printer.
3) Observe that, yes, the paper is indeed stuck.
4) Curse
5) Partially tear off paper.
6) Curse
7) Remove cartridge.
8) rip out rest of offending sheet.
9) Replace cartridge, smearing ink over oneself.
10) Curse (optional)
11) Close printer
12) Turn on printer
13) Forget to remove excess paper from tray
14) Repeat.
13) And again.

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Cause i am at work with nothing to do, like usual

Add me to that list

Ciao.

Vale

Me three.
I have a split personality but neither half has enough work to get them through the day.