Krip

Hi Chris

Upstate NY
The first thing I think of is, Attica or Sing Sing.

20 minutes from The Ranch, your a lucky man. The skydivers information manual is available online from the USPA websight for free. I suggest you start reading it ASAP.

Enjoy the journey, don't drink the Kool aid.

R.I.P.
Da Bronx 1947 to 1966.

airtwardo

We've done the 'inside passage' cruise a few years back. It was relaxing as the ship was only 1/2 full.

IF you choose to do that get a rear balcony..it's worth the extra cost as you get to see things like mooses

Any specific questions let me know~

Hi Mr T

Since you volunteered.
What time of year did you do the inside passage?
.
Did it sail from seattle?

Was cruise round trip? Vs cruise one way and return by train

What was the cruise line.? We can find out most of the info ourselves if we find out what cruise line you used and time of year.

Was the food adequate? Great, or Marvelous

Did they allow dogs?

Any limit on dog size.?

Any limit on the number of dogs?

R.

JohnnyMarko

***Damn... Why are you being such an ass?

Agreed...this is in Bonfire, not S&T...

Since you all asked Muff brother . I have a official ass hole card.

Glad to see I have a fan club.

I'll pm the OP, to avoid the negative vibes and you all can figure it out for your selves.
I broke my ankle in 1970 jumping.

Have a nice day both of you

Hi

You really need to fill out your profile as completely as possible before some of us can discuss this with you.

Surgery to repair on your ankle, doesn't sound good.
What's your experience level, blaming your injury on turbulence and uneven ground sound like a excuse. So come clean how many jumps do you have. Are you ready to land a down winder.
Wing loading
Can you jump during the winter (location)
Desk job
Etc etc

I hesitate to give you any advice. Except what's the hurry, if you jump before your ready, you may be unknowingly favoring your injured leg on landing and you will be putting more weight on you good leg.

Bummer to break your good leg or injure your bad leg because you tried to get back in the saddle to soon. If your shopping for a answer that you want to hear, I'm sure you'll get plenty of responses and find some that you agree with.

Based on your incomplete profile any answer you get will be a WAG.

Have a happyR.

Hi accumack

hope you don't mind, I did the click thing to your link.

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001212X19084&key=1

It's easy to do, see the bottom of this box url in front of the link then /url in the rear. Try it you might like it.

JohnMitchell

***Congratulations! My first freefall is still one of my most memorable jumps.

Same here. Congrats.
+1 and that was in 68.

Enjoy the adrenaline
Remember never say first at the dz.

jcd11235

***Get as much under insured motorist coverage as the auto insurance company offers. The incremental cost between basic and the max is chicken feed.

Great advice. It's also important to note that un- and under- insured motorist insurance are not the same thing. Make sure your policy includes both. In many places, they are sold together.

In Wa state under insured is/was defined as zero to under-insured. The kid that rear ended us was uninsured. The damage to our auto was minimal. The physical damage to my wife ended her career.

But she's still alive

jumpwally

You need to make a bikini out of that stuff...lol

+1 except use dental floss and few of those skull beads located in strategic locations..

Hi Joe

Don't worry be happy, the folks are going to buy whatever they want to anyway, regardless of what anyone tells them.

I've heard rumors that since digital watches came out some of the young ones can't even read a analog watch. Digital is all they know.

Resume with the debate. To bad DB COOPER has a head start.

R.I.P.

JerryBaumchen

Hi ryoder,

I did not see any airbag.

I had really not thought of it until your post.

BTW the SUV was crashed, I would have thought the airbag would have deployed. It may have deflated ( but I doubt it ) by the time I looked.

Jerry Baumchen

The airbags only inflate if their attached to the car. They cost about $500 ea to replace. I'm not even sure you can tell their missing until you need them and they don't deploy.

The X and I were rear-ended 7 times, front ended once, in in our first 10 yrs in the PNW, And that was before cell phones were small enough to carry or affordable.

Just a bunch of folks in tailgating, in a hurry, not paying attention, DWO, and now of course texting or even using a hands free cell phone.

listen up. It can happen to anyone. Get as much under insured motorist coverage as the auto insurance company offers. The incremental cost between basic and the max is chicken feed. I think even a umbrella policy will kick in after the auto insurance is maxed out.

Of course I know some of you, or non of you will listen. But we've met people that got slammed, and told us in hindsight they should have listened I really could care less.

Of course check with your instructor me bad your insurance agent first.

Don't worry be happyR.I.P.

Thanks John

As I was driving home I remembered I forgot the url....../url thing me bad. Its been a while

You guys crack me up, was the sausage team photo considered NSFW.

Getting back to the original subject.

Thanks guys for the other side of the story

R.

Warning Probably NSFW

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/weird/2014/09/16/women-flesh-colored-uniforms/15721213/

normiss

So you didn't watch the video, ok.

Got it

My X wifes dad, uncles etc served in WW2 the big one. Her dad had a classic nose art tattoo on his forearm Betty Grable or some babe sitting on the edge of a champagne glass, butt naked except for the high heel shoes.

When we went to the Boogie in Hawaii we took some time off, visited the Arizona war memorial. She was when she saw the tourist info posted in Japanese first.

It is what it is.

normiss

Monkey face or slant eye?

Is a monkey face the same as a round eye

rifleman

Found this site a while back - it has some interesting projects.

http://www.paracord-projects.info/

Now you did it

I've got to buy some of those skull beads.

thanks for the link

JohnMitchell

***
Failure modes on digital devices are not that predictable, so careful with your assumptions.

I had a Neptune reset to zero while doing a go around at 13K one day.

Hi John

I still have my original altimeter 2 that we bought around 1969. It still works the last time I checked. 2010

The X wife bought me the newer more compact model for a gift around 1987 ish one time a kapow east she dropped it from about 4 ft onto,the concrete floor in the hanger. It made a very distinct sound. Everyone that heard it knew exactly what happened.

The whole hanger went silent, and gave her "the look".

The X simply told them she bought it and could drop it if she wanted to

That was probably around 1988, never had a problem with it. It was still working in 2010.

I really don't care what kind of a altimeter someone buys. Digital or analog different strokes for different folks.

BTW there is a review of the two different types of altimeters on the home page with pictures and everything in case anyone want to take a look.

I made a belt out of salvaged 550 cord OD colored back in the early 70's.

I'm sure you know the risks of wearing a bracelet, rings etc on a work site.

Be careful out there.

Doug_Davis

***What happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Still alive and well.
But in this case the accused has had two accusations against him, both in public, from two different families, both with multiple witnesses. And I didnt "out" him, all I did was post a publicly available news article.

And he himself admitted in a text message with another member of the skydiving community, that has since been made public, that its okay because their havent been any accusations form within the skydiving community. So great, he's smart enough not to shit where he eats, that doesnt make it okay though.

I bring my two and a half year old daughter to the DZ with me. As I know there is no cure for pedophilia, I would want to know if this guy was there.

I applaud you for spending quality time with you daughter.

The fun jumpers , bucket list tandems out number the staff by at least 2 to 1, 5 to 1, 10 to 1. Pick a number. Are you going to do a background check on everyone at your dz.

Who is the responsible adult that looks after your priceless daughter when your doing your thing at the dz. Have you tried to get a responsible adult at the dz to watch after your daughter while your occupied enjoying yourself.

The dz is not a free daycare center. I've found little kids playing In the middle of the pea gravel pit, while a stack of accuracy jumpers was in the air.

A dude I knew Popped his cork when he found a unsupervised child messing with his expensive camera equipment, that he neatly put away in his camera bag, and found it scattered all over our packing mat. Lens caps removed etc etc.

The dude went after the kid.
Yikes I went into overdrive started yelling at the dude got between him and the kid. Told him to go to the Dzo and let them sort it out, but don't touch the kid or even yell at the child.

I'm sure your aware that dz is not kiddie safe.

Heaven forbid if your child gets injured at the dz because she was left unsupervised. After the Er visit, the Dr's may notify CPS, if they investigate how your child got
injured, and why, besides the trauma to your child you could be in trouble.

IMO if there are chomoes working at the dz. That's the least of your problems.
Your trying to be a good dad, but your not superman, and can't be every where at the same time. Think about it, be proactive just, like your trying to do with the kiddie fiddlers.

You do have other options besides the dz. You may not like them, but that's on you.

I'm not going to debate this with you. I done.

Have a happy,

turtlespeed

***100 gallons of beer or wine is the legal limit. I'm not sure if it 100 of each or 100 combined. I don't usually get anywhere close, so I don't worry to much about it.

Home distilling isn't exactly forbidden :) you just have to have a license. Anybody can get one if you are willing to pay for it! The smallest license in SC is $5,200 for a micro distillery, this allows you to produce 125,000 cases. Assuming a case is 12 bottles and each bottle is 750 ML, that is 1,125,000 liters of alcohol.

I think if you are making ethanol for fuel, you can get a cheaper license.

I'm just distilling water.
They even sell home distillers that do just that. They are just too expensive.

Turtlespeed

First time shame on you.

Second time shame on me.

Third time

Hi turtlespeed

Are you talking about beer, wine, moonshine, or all three.?

We knew a guy at work that liked his beer, a lot. He liked it so much he couldn't afford the store bought stuff. So he started making his own beer, collecting the bottles bottle capper etc.

By the time we met him he never had to buy beer to quench his taste. He had multiple X gals container in different stages of the process. I never tried his home brew, but he was happy with his results and that's really all that counted.

We finally tried to make our own. Everything appeared to be going fine. We got our first batch bottled and stored in the basement. One day we started to hear explosions from the basement.

Somehow We knew better than to rush down to see what was going on, and calmly waited until the explosions stoped , waited some more for a safety factor then went down to the basement to investigate what happen.

We must have sealed the bottle caps to tight, and the explosions we heard were the necks of the bottles separating from the bottles. We never tried that again. I'm guessing due to,the extreme temperatures in the basement, the process hit a critical mass, like a runaway nuclear reactor.

The good news is you all have u tube these days. If people can learn to jump by watching u tube. You should be a able find a video to learn how to distill your own.
To produce a quality product.

Think about having a friend come over, jumping into a barrel of grapes barefoot. To squeeze out the liquid. Then you could help them clean the juice off their feet.

You can't use that line with beer or moonshine.

I'm almost afraid to ask you 5 batches of what?

R.I.P.

Hi GB

Of course there are two sides to every story.

Thank you for your professional response.

Hope you don't need it but good luck

Checked your profile your #1 also

I'm older but not as old as twardo.

Analog is the way to go. The old ones had a replaceable face, check the paragear catalog to see if their still available.

I always made a habit of checking my altimeter against the person sitting on top of or next to me to verify we were at least close, if not tap. Ask instructor for more info.

Enjoy

DougH

Sounds like a shady fucking operation. We do a tandem progression, some students get motion sick on tandems. I don't send them to an aviation doctor. I better tailor the canopy ride, try to getting them sitting more comfortable in the harness, and offer encouragement that it normally doesn't carry on to solo jumps.

Why the hell is an instructor on a tandem with a aff student spiraling anyway? Stop fucking around like a jackass and teach the student some canopy flight!

WAG a tourist trap set up by some expats. Why mess around with some dude, when there are some nice tourist babe's waiting in line.

Give the dude a ride he won't forget And move on to a sweet young thing from the continent.

I've pondered what I would do, then remembered how the the people got their money back from a sly ride operator here in the USA. They called the local cops from the dz and got their money back before they left.

From my personnel experience in Thailand. The local authorities and the Thai's are honorable people and try and run a clean ship. To many complaints from disgruntled tourist's the dz may lose their business license.

Hi turtlespeed

We had something planned

You'll have to remind me.

Via PM, we need to be discrete
R.I.P.

bbrodes

So I just took the winsuit first flight course and I'm hooked. Putting the rig trough the suit I had to detach my bungee...which I'm realizing is gonna be a bitch when I'm coming down from a freefly and going up to wingsuit. Has anyone thought of some kind of quick detach system? Thanks!

Hi

Have you considered getting a second rig, only $3 to $6k , think of all the time you would save, and all the extra loads you could get on.