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Hi Flyinhi so you could see my crazy legs from Arizona could ya lol :)) did it look like this?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMvkSCB60j4&feature=related this was level 4 i think with my instructor uli in Ocana still unstable...bit better now lol :))

Hi Thanks taylor freefall for sticking up for me,but i know the customer isnt always right as i run my own sucessusful business where i deal with the public all day long,and let me asure you they arnt always rite :)) but thanks again anyway.I think the whole thing just got out of control. To ray,i have no problem appoligising to the cci and Margret so here goes Cci and Margret i am genuinly sorry for my attitude and outburst to you both on the day in question.I was trying my best to keep calm and explain what i thought happened,i said things i shouldnt have said,it was nothing personal just an over reaction on my behalf in the heat of the moment.I hope my appologies will be accepted,even if you decide not to let me jump at your club again. Regards Henry

Hi again Conflicting stories?? well if they are im sorry . As far as not being able to unstow my brakes due to the fact i "was bricking it" can you please explain how i was able to unstow my reserve brakes as surlely if i was "BRICKING IT"i would have been "BRICKING IT" 10 times mores when i had to do my first cutaway,therefore i definiatly wouldnt have been able to unstow the brakes on the reserve.Instead as the reserve opened i reached up pumped the brakes turned left and turned right as i was taught to do.Do you not see that i genuinely could not release my brakes?. I am far from a know it all and am more than willing to listen and learn and yes i did have a go at the manifest and also the cci,and yes i am sorry for doing so,i understand that most people would have walked away smiling but thinking to themselves assholes,but i didnt ,i had my say maybe not in a controlled way as i should have done but i was pumped up and still on a high having landed safely after a cutaway.Had the conversation took place 30 mins later i would have been a lot calmer. To anyone i offened sorry including the all at ipc.I found the club to be friendly and well run,just pity it came to this.Im sure you werent just picking on me and i didnt set out to offend you either,maybe was just two hot heads together who didnt listen to each other. Lets move on.

bricking it?? umm what are you on about?? were you there?? no the only 2 people in the plane were myself a jumper who is a member and has 300 odd jumps who seemed to try an take all controll of jump order spotting etc and whos nose was put out of joint when he heard the other jumper (a good friend of mine) had 2500 jumps under his belt. Where do you get bricking it from lol did i not manifest as soon as i landed ?? does this sound like someone who was bricking it?? some people!!! AS FOR TUMBLING uncontrollably ...i left the plane and was unstable for 1 roll over or flip so aaa about 3 seconds . Threat of violence deleted. Your one warning.

Hello and thanks for the reply.i understand that you had a problem with the plane crashing the day before ,as i said in my first post things happen it couldnt be helped no ones fault. As for attitude i have recieved numerous private emails from members who have told me the manifest womens name is margrete and she gives eveyone a hard time there,i was also told that very few members like her due to the way she speaks to them (maybe she is the skygod you speak of?) The cci was not trying to educate me if he was i would have taken on board what he said no problem ,but it was his attitude towards me and not believing a word i said,even to the extent of wanting to see my log book again having only had it checked a few hours before.The way he thumbed through the book glancing up at me and then started staring at me .I explained what happened and yet it still seems like you dont believe me!! unbealivable!! I COULD NOT UNSTOW MY BRAKES!! was it my fault? possibley ,but i pulled,i counted i looked up i tryed to release the brakes which i have done 55 times before this with no problem,and they wouldnt release.i then pulled with both hands on the left lines and i turned then on the right lines and i turned.as for one of the brakes being unstowed im sure with the force i was pulling them one of them proberly did come off. I got the hump?? im sure i did and so would most people,i was pumped up i just had my 1st cutaway what u expect?? then to have someone "not try to educate me" but instead disbelieve me was more than enough,yes i did give out and tell the manifest woman,what i thought of her ,she needed to be told,( but that was after i was told to leave the dz) all day i smiled at her when i asked a question,all day she grimished and looked fed up I do not panick never have done and if you knew anything about me you would understand that.I didnt cut away straight away, i tryed to rectify the problem and when i couldnt i cutaway then so far from panicking.A skygod me?? i have 50 odd jumps still learning so far from a skygod,i always listen to advice but not abuse, I still cant work out why the brakes didnt release i done the same as i always done and that is the truth again if i screwed it up im sorry but i should have been treated better afterwards sat down and explained what happened and let have my say.

Hi yes i did do all the checks and could not steer the canopy,and when it started to spirial to the ground i decided it was time to cut awayAgain all i done was what i was taught in my aff ,that if i didnt feel safe and couldnt rectify the problem then cut.I really think the bloke at the ipc who questioned and didnt beleieve a word i said thought i done it on purpose,which i didnt.All i wanted him to do and thought he was going to do was explain to me any mistakes i had made and tell me what to do in the future.Like i said i am a easy going man who doesnt lose it to offen but when someone who i think should help me starts to basically call me a lier (especially after i have only had my 1st cutaway and the addrenalin is still pumping)then i have every rite to stand up for myself . I am sure he must have read this and yet still no reply...i wonder why that might be?? maybe he finds it hard to say sorry or he was wrong,if i was wrong fine im sorry and he has my apologies but at least tell me what if anything i did that was so wrong..after all i landed safely isnt that the main thing?? The next time if there is one i will open high up and practice flaring with the risers,but surely that is something you should have to do the same as the aff?maybe it is a course which should follow aff?it seems that as soon as aff is finished no one offers you any more courses in regard to safty.

Hi no i have lived here for 12 years,and completed my aff in Ocana Spain last october.The difference there was eveyone was so happy and relaxed,there were 3 cutaways when i was there and no one got talked down to or was made to feel like a fool.Most of the peopel at the ipc were fine i had no problem with them just the director whose name i think is cooley or coley because of his attitude,maybe he was having a bad day etc i dont know,but there was no reason for him to take his frustration out on me.All i wanted to do was jump enjoy my day and get home safe.Again if there was a problem with my actions then he should have explain it to me instead of pretty much calling me a lier!

Hi.I used my friends log on details by mistake so i deleted the original and reposted under my own name.Sorry for any confusion

I had the same problem in the irish parachute club on monday last.We turned up at 9 am only to find out that the porter had crashed the day before and that the only plane being used was a cessna which could hold 4 persons.That was fine problems occure etc so we waited around until 5 when we were told that we would have a free 4000ft hop and pop ok so thats great something free.The problem was that all day we were made to feel like like pieces of s@%t by the woman who was in manifest ,she showed no interest and it was as if we were annoying her .Now we originally thought maybe it was just us but during the day most of the club members (who were rightly complaining about being pushed aside by the tandems) also said she was a moody miserable cow,there words not mine.Everyone else there was helpful and friendly.I asked the woman in manifest most of the day if i could hire a rig but was told that i would get one 10 mins before i jumped,i would have prefered to have had it longer so to get a look at it,and check out any differences.Mick gave me a rig (he was another decent bloke smiling and happy) when the women in manifest told him to (10 mins before jump). Now when we got to jump it was 745 up we went .I was told to jump 1st so out i got ,when i was stable i pulled.Canopy opened out came the chute all was good or so i thought.I tryed to turn left couldnt,tried to turn right couldnt,problem was i couldnt release the brakes.I pulled and pulled still no good so i put both hands up to the left lines and i turned both hands up to the right lines and i turned but still could not release the brakes.Now i have done only 50 jumps not many and i was always told if you have a problem you cannot rectify then cut away.So i cut ,this was my first cutaway.The reserve opened i turned left turned right and was happy. LANDED SAFELY which i thought was the main thing.When i went over to the hanger i was greeted by a short fat man with a moustache (not sure of his name but i think he is a director etc) he wanted to check my logbook again.Ok so i showed him.He sat on his desk with me in front of him as he thumbed my logbook humming and harring.This went on for 2 mins or so.He then asked me what happened i told him i could not unstow my braked and that i thought i also had a line over.He told me that i didnt have a line over as everyoner on th eground could see me turn left and right.I explained what i had done but he didnt believe me,he said someone witth my number of jumps (50) shouldnt have done what i done!!!! what did i do?? i was in trouble i cut away as i was told in my aff etc. i listened to him question and not believe a word i said for about 2 or 3 minutes i then asked if there was a problem with me jumping there to which he said he didnt like my attitude...my attitude after we had all been treated like crap from the woman in manifest and he had told me he didnt believe me.I told him to stick his skydiving club where the sun dont shine and off i went.All i wanted was to be told what i had done wrong and what i should have done.At only 50 jumps i wouldnt be trying anything like cutting away unless i had to etc. i am still learing so constuctive critisim is surly the order of the day,not to be told im lieing and to have someone treat me like a school boy ( i am 39 years old). The staff in the canteen were all very nice and the instuctors and memebers all seemed like a good bunch but he was just an ignorant man who has the im god mentallity(so used to people licking upto him)