wildblue

This is funny either way you read it. Either Texans only suck premium cock (meaning maybe they have to leave Texas to find the best cock) or all Texans are really good at sucking cock... the males included. Drill Instructor: How tall are you private? Cowboy: Sir! Five foot nine, sir! Drill Instructor: Five foot nine? I didn't know they stacked shit that high! You tryin' to squeeze an inch in on me somewhere, huh? Cowboy: Sir! No Sir! Drill Instructor: Bullshit. It looks to me like the best part of you ran down the crack of your momma's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress! I think you been cheated! Where in the hell are you from anyway, private? Cowboy: Sir! Texas, Sir! Drill Instructor: Holy dog shit! Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy. And you don't look much like a steer to me so that kinda narrows it down. Do you suck dicks? Cowboy: Sir! No Sir! Drill Instructor: Are you a peter puffer? Cowboy: Sir! No Sir! Drill Instructor: I'll bet you're the kinda guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you. ----------- ok.. enough Texas bashing.... there does seem to be an over abundance of fine looking women in Texas. I don't know what they feed them, but damn! To keep the movie quotes going: Phreezone, even you could get laid in a place like this.

That would have been my non-smart ass response... along with flare all the way, don't stare down at the ground (look more at the horizon), and don't always assume you're going to screw it up (one of those mental things, if you think you're going to land hard, you probably will) Pammi - have you ever stalled your canopy up high?

not trying to be a huge smartass (ok.. maybe I am) flare higher

That's what I was leaning towards.. I'd probably screw it up pretty good if I tried to replace the plug. Oh, and it's a PC110 I'm using this with, which means I'll also have to remove the cover (covers USB, 1394, lanc, power ports) or put a hole in that too.

Nah... Generations sucked compared to these guys (and girls) Found it: Scheme (Although I thought they spelled it differently)

Who went? What did ya think? Pretty good time. Not too many people, but a decent amount... I'd guess they had 6 or 700 register. Jumped the heli and and the DC3. Demo'd a Sabre2, drank some beers and caught a pretty good band (I forget the name... where's the SDC regulars? The band Bernie's in, what's the name?) Manifest was a little dis-organized, moving loads around a lot "Otter load 212 you're now otter load 402" "Otter load 402 you're now Otter load 213" ... but, I think the big way was screwing them up a little (the 40/60 way) and I think the 4th otter had problems which slowed them down a little. I think the longest I had to wait for a load for 30 mins though. Not bad for their first crack at it. I'm sure they'll work out the bugs and do better next year. Everyone stayed pretty safe. There were a few botched landings, a couple broken bones, but nothing major that I saw. All in all, that place really sucks

you crazy kids....

Altitron. Stay away from those. They sound cool, all the extra little stuff it can do (record exit and open alti, flash at a set altitidue or if you're under 1500ft and exceeding 100 ft/sec) but they're just not that good. On cross-country jumps they have this habit of turning off. They're not that easy to read, and ask Phreezone about finding batteries for the friggin things (of course he did find a nice little replacement that cost a lot less) Alti III are good. I use a digitude which I really like. And they are back-lit, almost like an indiglo watch kinda thing. I don't think they're as sturdy as an alti III. My LCD screen was cracked by some idiot's helmet (just kidding rogue, it was really your hard head) and I think something else would have taken the blow a little better. On the upside, it only cost $40 to replace, and they were really good about fixing it and sending it right back to me.

Anyone ever try to replace the plug on the cam eye with a flatter one? The plug that comes on it just barely doesn't fit inside the dbox with the camera.

cool.. found it thanks! http://www.brookfieldstore.com/dropzonephotos/CloseEncounter/close.htm

Anyone have that picture that was taken in the mid-80s I think, of a formation that looks like it's falling right past an airliner? It looks scary as hell, but if I remember right I heard they used a telephoto lense or something to compress the depth of view (or whatever they call it) Like in Good Stuff, where it looks like people are going through 200 feet when they're still at 8,000.

Fred, Yup, what it sounds like. Lots of fun if done well. Has the potential to be painful and/or expensive if not done well (I had my altimeter broken by a helmet on a raft dive once) Example of a good raft dive: http://www.wildbluesky.com/movies/raft.avi

the fact the it didn't fly straight without help wouldn't bother me, the fact that the slider is half-way up the lines would.

Glad you learned from it. It is good you did something and didn't just have a brain lock and spin yourself into the ground!

Not to get picky, but that might not have been the correct action. If it was just a toggle coming unstowed, unstow the other one - problem fixed without going to your last chance or costing $40. Now if you're at 1800ft and no time to figure out what's going on, or if it came unstowed and tangled around something else, then I'll agree it was the correct action.

Ok, so let me get this straight: A girl who skydives, is a rigger, works in a gear store, packs, and is rich? Sounds like a pretty tall order! Know where I could get me one of those? I'd even be willing to drop the "rich" requirement if she was cute and liked to go to Dave and Busters!

mouth - new rig was on the month before that's bill. Of course, that one doesn't look so bad because I had the cash for it, so there's a huge charge and a huge payment on the same month jfields - I've sorta done that before. But it's kinda like finding money in the couch (except it's jump tickets in the wallet/logbook) you think "woohoo! I'm jumping for free this weekend!" but then you remember you actually paid for them before

Here is my last credit card statement... see any pattern? 07/04/2001 Sale SKYDIVE GREENE COUNTY $64.00 07/06/2001 Sale DAVE & BUSTERS #011 $40.00 07/07/2001 Sale BENNIGAN'S #3636 $31.78 07/07/2001 Sale LEWISBURG SVC 47 $295.95 (car broke, probably from driving to dz and back all the time) 07/08/2001 Sale SKYDIVE GREENE COUNTY $128.00 07/11/2001 Sale SKYDIVE GREENE COUNTY $48.00 07/15/2001 Sale SKYDIVE GREENE COUNTY $160.00 07/22/2001 Sale SKYDIVE GREENE COUNTY $200.00 07/23/2001 Payment PAYMENT - THANK YOU $200.00 07/29/2001 Sale SKY DIVE CHICAGO $103.00 08/01/2001 Sale FLITE SUIT COMPANY $318.20 The previous month is even worse, a quick summary for that one: $848 to Skydive Greene County $20 to USPA $110 to Norman Kent Productions $32 to Ground Rush Com $13.40 to Nick's Restaurant (dinner after a hard day of jumpin) out of 15 entries, 1 was not skydiving related. This month hasn't started out well either, already $150 to Skydive Chicago. And none of this counts the cash used for gas, lunch/dinner, drinks. etc etc. But you know my (and half the other skydivers in the northern US) theory: Hey, no problem, I can pay it all back when winter comes and I'm not jumping as much!

Cessna 182 and 195 (195 is cool!) Twin Otter, Super Otter, Casa, Beech 18, Westwind Beech (Beech 18 with turbins) DC-3, Bell 222, King Air. Just did the DC-3 and Bell this past weekend!

That's ok, I have friends that will follow it for free! (well, maybe for a beer later that night)

try this http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forums/showthreaded.pl?Board=forumgear&Number=30296

now if we can just get you to relax a little and stop that chipping, you'll be all set!

And remember that thing above your head that you're trying to land with is also a wing that will suffer from less dense air.

Haha! I know what you mean - we launched a RW jump with the realization that it was going to funnel, and when it did, we were just going to see how long we could hold a nice stable funnel (is there such a thing?!) that was so much fun "We're going to launch a what? A meeker? What's a meeker?!" That was way too much fun! Matt - I'll be up there this Thursday, work on that camera exit and we'll try the sit train again! :)

was the slider down all the way? were the lines on the right twisted or just crossed? Just from what you said it sounds like a step-through or maybe tension knots. Anyway, you did the right thing: when in doubt, whip it out! :)