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Are cypress batteries, 0507 and 0607, unused still in plastic, garbage?

Hey dude, its Al. im gonna do my water training this weekend for sure so i can finally get my B. Might have to drill a hole though, 20 degreees sat. But 40ish on sunday and partly cloudy both days, its gonna be great. And i'll have to buy lots of beer. cant wait

i always wondered how he was going to fund his landing strip. Go for 30, settle for 2

speaking of being under canopy with skis on, check this out http://www.break.com/index/ski-base-jumper-accident.html

yeah, i passed cause of the wind, lookin to next weekend. ive talked to a lot of people that have been there and know alot about what you are talking about. Except for the purple whir?

i got a halloween party at my local DZ tonite fri and sat looks pretty crappy weather wise, but sunday looks amazing. How early do you guys start jumping?

I have 45 jumps and i jump at a smaller DZ where fun jumps are rare and you have to wait for tandems or students and fill slots in a 182. As things slow down so does my jumping, when i keep wanting to go more and more. I want to start making the extra trek to the ranch every now and then so i can jump more. And no at my dz has the time/money/balls to go down. I was wondering if i paid for a slot or 2 and or beer (i can think of several firsts), if someone would show me the place, and give me the ins and outs. Ive been there a couple of times (to watch the swoop contest, and to get some rigging done) but never jumped. I could go this sunday or next weekend looks good, or whenever. peace

i love the fear, it makes me do gear checks and practice pulls over and over. But yeah too much fear can be bad too. I got over the too much by jumping with other people almost every jump. Concentrating on not f'ing up other peoples jump made that bad fear go away. Dirt divin, going over the jump in your head on the way up, getting out the door, getting a grip, the count, the exit, altitude checks, the dive, breaking off, turn and track, wave off pull, collision avoidance. For me it went from thinking "what the hell am i doing?" to "this is what I will be doing." Setting goals also worked for me to. Like doing some fips on an exit, getting more horizontal seperation when tracking or my personal favorite, having a target and trying to land on it. Out of 10 tries i hit it once, when it was dark out. I want to be able to stomp that mother f'er every time and every time i miss i want to go right back up and try again.

NBC is free, get a ghetto tv and a antenna, watch it at the DZ. Quit a little early and drink beer and watch. Its a 2 hour show, 5 segements. Triathlon/dualathlon, skydiving, then 3 skiing snowboarding. http://www.worldofadventuresports.com/schedule_view.cfm?schedule_id=41

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Yeah fixed that, and the student speed for activation is 45mph not 78

Does the neptune come with string, zipties, and ghetto mounts?

Ive jumped mine, back of hand, 10 times and im suprised i still have it. Really cheaped out on the mounts. I used the string that they included cause the zipties they gave me didnt fit.

Yeah, i get how the condition could be created, but i thought that the vigil would monitor the climb to altitude as a check to know that it was going on a real skydive. Like with my VISO. I can have it on in the car and it gets all different readings but it never logs any of it as a jump. Vigil activates at 150ft but doesnt start its magic till you jump out. It recalcullates every eigth of a second, i think, so its altitude/speed at that single moment. So when it was in my car, it was activated, and for an 8th of the second, the conditions were created where it thought i was at an altitude 78?. I wouldnt matter if it's previous reading, an eigth of a second before, was 8,000ft at 20 mph. I would love to see my graph though. So i can tell what "altitude" i got out at and how fast i was going and how close to 1040 it fired.

This is an email from vigil: I just read your email regarding your Vigil that fired while riding in the car. I am sorry to hear this happened to you, however as you know , the Vigil reacts much quicker to pressure changes than any other A.A.D. on the market. It only measures a pressure change, such as opening a window , or slamming a trunk. This would cause the unit to exceed the firing parameters. The unit becomes operational once you exceed 150 feet above or below takeoff level. A moving vehicle can exceed this pressure variation, even while traveling on level ground. Also, unless you are in a pressurized aircraft, they are not as airtight as a car. This is why the manual instructs you to turn the unit off before traveling in a car. The reason the Vigil reacts so quickly, is to save lives in the event of a low cutaway, which has happened in the past. The downside to this, is that you must remember to turn the unit off before traveling in a closed vehicle-car, bus, train, due to the possible air pressure variation.