VectorBoy

Hey Chivo, On a jump a while back it was decided I had to fly a camera, so a guy with one and I swapped boneheads.....on the ride up! I had reservations about keeping everything in the shot with never having flown one and having the chance to develop the muscle memory coordination. It turned out ok and one of the coolest things is that I've got a vid of my canopy opening. It did feel weird and a little confining and it is something that takes getting used to along with being a safe enough jumper to handle the situation. I don't know how the guys can handle the bigger rigs for several jumps a day. Anyway I had around 200 jumps then, But it will be a few more before I get my own camera. Glen

Clay thats just the start of middle class not the sugar daddy class. Glen

"Penguins are native to..." You've been standing next to BillVon in the moderators tank, haven't you? Move back next to the happy gas vent, please. What does the the moderators tank coolaid taste like I wonder?

Change your oil often. Turbos spin at 20,000 and the turbine side heats up something fierce, cooking your oil. Some detonation can be cured with bigger injectors if they are running out of capacity durring high RPMs. KEEP the boost low and have fun. Glen

I purchased a cobalt 120 from a guy with three times as many jumps as me. He would fall into everyones catagory of jump #s as just about ready to handle that canopy based only on jump numbers. It was new with less than fifty jumps on it in his custom colors so I asked why he was getting rid of it. Fact was he wasn't comfortable jumping it so he bought a sabre2 one size bigger. After watching him jump the sabre2 for a week I understood why he felt he was over his head on the cobalt . Before he sold it to me he asked if was comfortable on the cobalt, I said I'd had many demos and loved that canopy and yes I was comfortable on it. I take advise when people approve or disapprove of something they have seen done in person, but jump numbers alone haven't proven anything. Some incidents have been reported as a partial result of early downsizing, when in fact we are talking about one size down on a docile design and the results were simple judgement. loaded at 1.2 or 1.3 isn't the issue if a persons awareness isn't along for the ride. Glen

Plus its the morons that get to grow up and run the world.

20 miles in 15 minutes. Mostly highway. Elsinore another 15 minutes

Yeah ban em like hard core drugs. That cured that problem. Then I can start my mobile machine works right next to my mobile meth lab and make a killer profit from two banned products. Duh! Glen.

Actually after spending a goodly amout of bucks on skydiving I have to ask, " who has got money for new shoes"? Don't you see all those starving skydivers barefoot in free fall? I'm surviving on two pairs of treadworn, 20 dollar, two year old big five specials.Thats 20 dollars for both pair. You can't take me to a party out side of the DZ, Glen.

I was coming in for a landing on my cobalt a few weeks back, I thought I had cleared the area of traffic pretty good,when out of the corner of my eye I catch Mike Stevens Flying in on Luigis 46, just screamin right by me. I wanted to watch his flare and run out but I was low enough I couldn't fixate on anything other than my flare and runout. Dang I missed it! Mike is a little guy and that wing was still screamin. Glen

Yeah I got one in 357 mag .Got it from a friends brother suffering a divorce sale, and was going to put it up for resale. At first I thought it was a gimmicky gun just too big. After plinking cans at fairly long range I was really impressed with its accuracy and decided to keep it. After the girls get freaked out shooting some friends of mines Anaconda or super redhawk they usually say no way to the eagle," its to big". Then I insist and they find out how sweet it is I'm usually out a box of ammo or two. There is less recoil ( due to gas operated locking bolt and the slides shear mass) than any other auto I own ( .40 9mm )except .22cal in larger framed pistols. It ends up being really manageable even at high rates of fire. Although I have seen impressive shooting by a select few "revolver-smiths" on cable TV, I can't do or personally know anybody who can shoot massive magnum rounds out of a revolver as easily as that desert eagle. Glen.

I do both, I like both, but skydiving kicks ass over it. They are both social, they are both spacial and require a degree of discipline and training. The dangers in diving stand out in that the gear is very, very heavy, worse so when wet. You may have to traverse rocks and steep climbs to get to good dive spots unless you're boat launching.So you have to be in better than average physical shape. Many people only dive on vacation when in the warm tropic waters, once a year or less and therefore not very current . And Yes I know cold water sucks. Thats where dives can be deeper and more dangerous. Visability is much better and deaper doesn't seam that far down there when you can easily see a new coin 200 feet away. As far as shark attacks surfers get it more than divers so don't act like a seal meal. Glen.

Learned at a young age to use and respect them. Didn't own any for several years after getting out of the service where we delt with them everyday cleaning and maintaining, etc . Now own several pistols and shoot for fun on ocasion. Have a few rifles and try to go hunting but thats rare. Have many shotguns and a few years back was heavy into skeet and 5 stand, about three times a week, and still shoot clays when I can. Some people would call this an arsenal but anybody who knows any thing knows better.All locked in an expensive hidden safe to keep kids and thieves out. Interesting side note ten years ago at work we were a group of 75% gun enthusiasts 25% anti gun ownership types. After the riots in LA, some of the action getting pretty close to our facility, that twenty five percent changed their tune. A couple of those guys turning into certified "gun nuts".Now they have arsenals. Amazing things happen when the police have more important things to do than to come and protect little o'l you. Glen.

On my first real freefall After finishing static line training in Belgium, all on rounds. I was real glad I only ran into power lines the other student was absolutely covered in cow shit from helmet to toe, and he owned his own gear. Could have been worse if it had been a bulls pen. Glen

I don't have to tell them anything they tell me about stuff before I know about it. There is a friend ( wuffo) that lives in perris, who also has a relative in law enforcement, and news travels fast. If I wasn't there then they tell me. I also get gruff over night jumps that I so dearly love. In reality all my friends who ride motorbikes on street or dirt have way more metal in their bodies than all my skydiving friends. I see a death often commuting the freeways but don't think for a second that they will let me quit work because of it. And fast food kills more people than all of our countries homicides. I'm not worried about a spinning mal on a highly loaded elliptical, I'm worried about my colestoral. After watching my father pass away too soon after giving up on his dreams, I swore to never go out that way. Except for my brother, who has done a tandem and remembers my fathers aguish, they all think I'm crazy. I can live with that. Glen.

[ And I also agree with you, the lack of casings found would indicate he uses his vehicle as a platform, because he simply does not have the time to retrieve the brass ejected. Brass deflectors, used to keep the shells from flying into blades when shooting from helos, would put the empty at your elbow if shooting in the prone position. Some people have brass catchers made of a net type thing that you guessed it! Or he could be useing a bolt action. But if I was him I would be useing either an REM xp(100?) not sure or TC contender . Two long barreled hand guns that can be custom chambered in any manageable round, hidden under a jacket and are no longer than the large size MAG lite. I do have a difficult time calling him a sniper, but there really isn't anything else coined and commonly understood to call him, you know? He's not a spree killer, and not a serial killer, according to the FBI's definitions. He is far out of bounds with what we normally understand as a murderer. What he is doing is sniping, as distasteful as that is to those who understand what it is snipers do...so, what shall we call him? I haven't ruled out that its a team of low budget terrorist snipers working in two person, driver shooter and more than one pair, al queda types. Ciels- Michele

There is nothing in the manual about landing with an arrester hook.

Some really whacked out looser who isn't or has never gotten laid. All he needs is a chick in a thong preferably on a harley. Even one of those pasty, slightly portly easyrider types should do the trick.

Sorry his shooting skills border on average for that type of round and range, no special training required. most anybody can do this in less than an afternoon of practice with "out of the box" components. This guys skills are picking a position to ambush an unaware victim and get away without any clues. Oh and its this Americans(mexican-canadian decent) Fascination with, among many other things, firearms that allows me to know this stuff without having to swallow what the media force feeds us. This country has a many people with many different fascinations for many things. After we create something the rest of the world is dying to jump and get a piece of it, unless your particular dictator says NO. I'm done ranting and I'm going to go back to fascinating on Hot, thong wearing chicks riding harleys and jet skis in the sun near my DZ. You can go back to griping about americas gun love, at least until you think someone has to do some third world famine or tyrant intervention and believe its the U.S. s moral obligation because we have too much wheat or corn or harleys.

You are so right. glen

It depends with roofies or without. Actualy I'd be way better at it and many other things if I just smiled and kept my big mouth shut. Glen

First I bought Jose's arsenal, then I robbed several local banks.......Even have some ammo left over. NOT!!!! how I pay for everything Fun OVERTIME . Glen. the overtime whore.

Due to having my Voodoo out on a reserve repack, I used my old 89' vector two for weekend of wing suit flite. The big difference between the two rigs, as far as wing suit deployments are concerned is that my old V-2 has a much wider yolk and if I don't have the chest strap really tight the main lift web tries to slide down off your shoulder at deployment. Ever have the sensation of flying straight out of your rig? It will give you glorious goober pucker! Another thing I do is pack with the gromet facing the closing loop. After getting the advice of many-many experienced jumpers , riggers and manufacturers I felt perfectly at ease freeflying this rig. I wasn't alone in this situation and I don't believe anybody gave us any dirty stares. We have all seen skysurfers perform many incredible maneuvers with similar rigs in the past. That being said this old Vector can't compare with my new Voodoo or probably any newer rig in fit, comfort and safety. And thats in any discipline of skydiving. If you are going to be around jumping for a while you are going to want to get better gear and that impulse will come from within. Even used newer gear could be had pretty reasonably if you are keeping your eyes open for it. Wing suits aren't cheap either. You will have to be currant to be able to fly them , again more money. Be safe and good luck. Glen.

The hanger at perris valley blows his set up away. Complete wood shop, metal shop. sheet metal shop, welding gear. Mills, lathes, etc Two hot rod projects, sopwith camel project, a completed fokker tri-plane project that was out buzzing the swoop pond at the end of the swoop comp.and enough extra space to park a few otters in. Now thats what I want when I grow up! Glen.