ILUVCHUTERS

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  1. Add me to the list of Brother printer/scanner/copier. Don't remember the exact model either, sorry. But it's wireless and works great with the Ipads/phones and laptops.
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    Pets?

    They are. But that's what makes them awesome (we have three)
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    Pets?

    I read the whole thing
  4. If you don't want to jump, don't. It's as simple as that. Do what you need to do for recurrency when you come back - which may include upsizing for a bit. When I first started jumping I hated winter (Central Alberta - it's already -5c in the mornings here and supposed to snow all weekend - our year end weekend) cause I couldn't jump. Now I almost look forward to it - not because I like winter - I still hate winter and wonder why I live here - but because I get my weekends back for a bit and I get to do other stuff for a few months, including missing skydiving and getting excited about a new season again.
  5. Indeed. Here in Canada we pay $89/year and IMO, the third party liability insurance alone makes it worth it.
  6. Logging doesn't have to be "work"
  7. Also good points. I was merely pointing out what the requirements were.
  8. Good point! Canada has slightly different requirements: "CSPA Registered Participants may perform in air practice of intentional cutaways, provided they hold a CSPA A CoP or higher and have completed at least 50 jumps in the past 12 months and have completed an Emergency Procedures Review no more than 30 days prior to the intentional cutaway. A second reserve parachute, with no pilot chute installed, (a tertiary system with meshed modifications if using a ram-air reserve) must be worn on a single harness which has correctly installed D-rings on the main lift web. The procedure for manual reserve deployment must have been practiced..."
  9. We get our newbies to pull their reserve handles at repack time - on the ground. This helps them see the force/finesse needed to pull the handle. It's not exactly the same of course, but it does open some eyes. Ask your rigger if you can pull your reserve handle at repack time. You never want to get rid of a perfectly good canopy for no reason without another back up - i.e. third parachute. As someone stated above me, that would get you grounded at my DZ too probably. Remember - the reserve is not perfect either, and to get rid of a perfectly good main and end up with a malfunctioning reserve would be a bad day indeed. Your reserve won't be "that" different from your main, generally speaking. I have four reserve rides and each time I was so excited about the reserve ride I didn't notice a real difference in how the parachute flies - they are different, but you'll have other things on your mind than "huh. what an odd glide ratio this parachute has..." When you do have your first reserve ride, practice your flare (if you have time of course) and just be prepared to PLF on landing.
  10. If your profile is correct, don't stop paper logging yet. You'll need signatures if you want to get your licences and / or ratings (which ones depend on which country) also - paper logbooks are cool. It's nice looking back at the fun jumps I did
  11. Maybe not absurd, but it sure was fun... Took a bunch of inflatable sea creatures out the caravan. One of my all time favorite jumps!! None of us landed with them - most of them blew up, or got ripped out of our hands. I imagine someone sitting in their backyard on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, enjoying the day.. and all of a sudden it starts raining inflatable fish.
  12. Ok that actually made me laugh. My husband says you are trolling but I think you may be serious. Women go to the bar for the same reasons as men. To drink, to dance, to have fun. If you see something wrong with that, then I am sad for you. In any event, my post was not about the bar itself, but the fact that shared bathrooms really are no big deal. I shall continue to be befuddled by the concern over this, I guess. And I shall continue to not give a rats ass About who uses what bathroom. Hell even at the DZ if the girls bathroom is busy I'll use the boys. Nobody cares. Not here, anyway.
  13. Good point. I guess I should clarify in that I don't understand the fear of who uses what bathroom and the absolutely horrifying things that apparently happen in American bathrooms (here in Canada we just go pee/poop, wash hands, apply lipstick if necessary) and leave. Could give a rat's ass about who's in the stall next to me frankly. And the hatred. I don't understand that either.
  14. I've never weighed in on speaker's corner but I can answer that, as a wife, daughter, granddaughter. Wouldn't bother me ONE BIT. In my 20's we used to go to this gay-friendly (didn't have many of them 20 years ago) bar a lot. They had co-ed bathrooms downstairs, without even doors on the stalls *gasp* Used that one cause the ladies' room always had a huge line up. Never ONCE was I leered at, assaulted, etc. In fact, a transgender lady offered me her spare skirt one time when my pants got ruined by a jello wresting match (that's a story for another day though...). She was a nice lady. And had ZERO interest in my lady parts FFS. Seriously. People just want to take a pee and get out. I don't understand this whole bathroom thing. Not one bit. Fear makes people ugly. And America, with all due respect, has bigger issues to worry about than who is taking a pee in what room.
  15. There's a few skydiving connections - our DZ alone has about a dozen regular/occasional jumpers who live and/or work in Fort Mac. I'm sure the other Alberta DZ's have their share of Fort Mac jumpers too. We're all pretty happy they're all safe and sound.
  16. Both of the girls did very well. I was very proud
  17. We had Safety Day at our house for our DZ last weekend. Two of the jumpers hadn't pulled handles before (new jumpers) We let them pull ours. Definitely worth it! One said she was surprised by how "hard/different" it was to pull the cutaway as opposed to the training vests we use. It was informative for sure. Great idea!
  18. We have a form too, just not everyone fills them out I suspect
  19. Any experienced jumper doing S turns on final for "fun" should be grounded.
  20. They can only be recorded if they're reported :) CSPA tries to keep a record too, but I can guarantee not everyone who's ever had a cutaway has reported it.
  21. Until they are all doing the same thing and you all end up with simultaneous AAD fires. Cause THAT'S never happened...
  22. This is a really important post. I am going to add this to my list of things to talk about when discussing EP's and two out scenarios. I have also had a two out - luckily for me it was a biplane, but I wonder if things would have been different if I'd found myself in the situation you just described. I'm sorry for the loss of your friend.
  23. That is super cool! (just got my scuba cert. at Christmas. I'd love to dive something like this!)
  24. I put mine in my little ziploc bag of liquids just to be sure. Or in my carry on. No issues.
  25. Very nicely said. I've only been around for seven years, but it's a pretty common theme (to me, anyway) that when people start they're all like OMG skydiving is the shit and I'm gonna do it every day every day for the rest of my life and then they just find other stuff to do and burn out. Life is about balance, whatever that means to you