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  1. I think what you're referring to is pilots tensing all but primarily their abdominal muscles keep blood up in the brain during high G forces. I think this won't work that way because the blood flows more easily into the legs and the leg straps trap it there. Unless someone develops a G suit for skydivers so we can play with our malfunctions longer.
  2. Isn't a judge supposed to be impartial? Just kidding. We need more like him. Or just fewer bystanders in general. A few years ago selling cars, at my desk heard a screech, looked out the huge dealer window I'm next to. 20 feet from me in the street a car hit a guy. Flips up and over the car. I'm the first person there. The victim is trying to get up. He looks bad, bleeding from the ears. All I do is put one hand on his chest and one on his forehead to keep him from moving. I talk to him to help calm him and tell him moving might do more damage and that help will be right here. Which they were in minutes, Cops, Paramedics took over. Made my statement and went back inside. As I was walking to the men's room to wash a little blood off my hands, The dealer owner says to me "why would you ever get involved like that?" I felt like saying that it's called being human you asshole, but I didn't. He wouldn't know what that was anyway. Didn't work there very long.
  3. You do have animal attraction!
  4. but sometimes it's fun http://by126w.bay126.mail.live.com/default.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
  5. You mean you still have non skydiving friends???
  6. Not a perfect system, but better then (German accent) I was just following Orders, They would shoot me if I didn't obey.
  7. Baseball bats don't kill people, Husbands that come home early kill people.
  8. In the military we were taught to follow lawful orders. Meaning we should refuse if it was wrong i.e being ordered to shoot unarmed civilians.
  9. I'm in. Just read google report on them. Assholes, I'm in for a hit.
  10. vanair

    girls..

    Mans best friend. Take your lady and your dog, lock them in your car trunk for an hour. Guess which one is happy to see you when you open it?
  11. vanair

    Angry sluts?

    made me think of a stupid old limerick. She offered her honor. And he honored her offer. And all night long it was off her and on her. Sorry I had to get that out of my head.
  12. no no no, KY is too water soluble. Must use vaseline or it will wash off in the clouds.
  13. I wear ear plugs for freefall, then take them out so I can hear my tandem student. I quickly peel back the velcro on my wrist altimiter and revelcro over them.I can tell I'm starting to lose my hearing. Don't know if it's age(53) or airplanes, Learned to fly in a C-150 no headphones. Or time on the firing range in the service. Or freefall, I wonder how many decibels that is. After all when I or the tandem student scream at the top of our lungs and can barley be hear each other, must be damaging.
  14. Please don't tell me that was a for real narration.
  15. Real old timer here, went to the first one in Canada 28 years ago. Pretty cool, met Mike Farrell there he was there with his kids, nice guy, big star at the time, B.J. Hunnicut on MASH. There was one at Action Park NJ Years ago. Now Mt. Creek but I think they closed it. There is one going to open in Meadowlands NJ as part of the new complex I think it's called Skylands. Google should turn it up. They will also have an indoor ski slope.
  16. I was using that as an example, car no, but I damn sure sure wouldn't want my home furnace to only make 1.8 degree F. increments.
  17. The only thing I can add is, get out of the left lane even if your going the limit. Had that lecture from a state trooper. It's HIS lane. Plus I speed, not autobon crazy, but 10-15 over, don't want me on your tail, then move over. I am more polite in heavy traffic when they have no real choice.
  18. I am one of the biggest wind wimps going. Unless there is a new TM, I am the first one to stand down. I defend that with my history. 36 yrs ago, jumping in winds too high for my T-10, did a backward PLF. Got knocked out, despite hard helmet. My brother ran and jumped on me like a roped steer, rode me while I was getting dragged till he was able to cutaway my main. 12 or 13 yrs ago at the Ranch NY. I was on a mission(one of my pet jokes, I don't say load. I say mission.) We had a dust devil hit us at I think 500-1,000'. I looked down and was trying to figure out what I was looking at. The cameraman had landed but was picked up and spun around. I think he cutaway just off the ground to stay on the ground. He was beat up that's all. one TI got spun around but got reinflated and landed at the other end of the DZ from where it hit him. The other TI got slammed into the parking lot, 3 broken ankles. He also said at one point in the turbulence they actually hit the canopy. I was high man getting rocked, this was I think my 5th real tandem. I looked down at the trees and said please God let me hit the trees so this will stop. I knew a tree landing would be better, canopy snagging branches etc. I said to my student, brace yourself for a hard landing. all of a sudden we got spit out, reinfated, turned 90 right, swooped the gate, thank God or we would have crashed into(thru) the fence. Easy landing, as I was going thru my post landing talk. Every one came running up with concern. Oren was first and was saying, Are you OK? I'm behind the student making motions to shut up, like everything is ok and normal. Student loved it. Had no clue. Later I got the complement of my life when Oren was retelling the story, and says, Here they almost get killed and Van is calmly talking to the student like nothing happened, and said "Man I'm never going to play poker with that guy" Another one, about 10 yrs ago very windy, finishing gentle left turn to flare. Hit with a side gust, left side of canopy collapsed, Hit HARD, did PLF beside and around student to protect her. I felt like I got beat up with a baseball bat, but nothing broken, She got a broken back, but OK, healed no paralysis. But Murphy was there. The worst person to have that landing with was the one I did. She lied on the waiver, she had spinal bifida. A weak spine. So yes I am a proud wind wimp.
  19. F is also more finite, 1 degree C= 1.8 F. To large a variation. That's why my cars climate control in C mode makes half degree increments.
  20. also it skews the figure that AOPA and the FAA use to try to determine the # of active pilots and new student pilots.