jsaxton

Skydiving helmets are just a place to hold your dytter.

Because I can't think of anything better to do.

He needs to untwist his brake lines too. ;)

While I know a few people that can effectively track away from a formation on their back, they are among the best freeflyers in the world. At the OPs experience level I would not recommend this.

The meat goes in the middle, that's how RW works, It's a fact of life. We had 1 bad stall and 1 where the driver shook the jumpers off in the last couple of days in PACs. They are very DZO friendly but not the best RW ship.

Toasting him now with a glass of Chateau Dobleman Zinfandel 2005.

I didn't know you well, I don't even know your last name but you were always cool.

They got 'em now

Lodi $5->3K $15->13K $13(in blocks of 50)->13K

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go get 1 20lb block of dry ice. put it in a cardboard box and place the laptop on top of it. Do something cpu intensive (like watch a dvd) that would normally make the laptop turn off. See if this helps, if it does, you have a heat problem.

Several years (wow, that long?) ago I lost my job so I went to Lost Prarie for two weeks!

Skip the rest, buy the best. Z1

Remember, 1.17 times the square root of your altitude = Distance to the horizon in nautical miles. If you are at 10000 feet how far is the horizon? I doubt if you will be able to discern such a small percentage ;) Later you will be able to watch your "ground track" while you are tracking and be able to see your progress that way.

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HAHAHAHA!

How long ago was it that I told you to get a slow suit? ;=P

One of my AFF instructors just hit 10000 at the P3 100way camp. So I got to do a 100way with him for his 10000th, that was pretty cool!

Fine, but you'd get cut from any BigWay for that attitude. Talk to me again when you have a few hundred jumps Meh. I'll hang in brakes while you hurt yourself.

In the context of the landing pattern the best way to "cover your own ass" is to FOLLOW THE PLAN. If the plan is to follow the first man down, that's what you do.

We can count on Dan to do the right thing, at least _most_ of the time Once you have enough experience to do BigWays you'll probably get to know him. BTW: Chasing the windsock is a horrible idea. I don't know DanBC, but do what the 1st guy does isn't really the smartest thing. I watched the first 15 jumpers bust their asses on downwind landings because no one wanted to change the approach. The only two people to stand up their landings were the fun jumper who waited in brakes and the student who pulled high. I say, check the wind sock(s), and if you have to change the plan, hang in brakes until things clear up.

FYI The BigWays were instructed: "If you are landing in the state of California, you will land in the same direction as the first man down (usually Dan BC) if you do not, you may be sat down AND banned from ALL future events".

I always thought the official version was: "Please God, don't let me fuck this up...FIRST!"

Now THAT's an understatement

The Boxter is a dog, the Boxter-S is a little better but really they are screaming "I can't afforsd a 911"!