jsaxton

If you pull high it'll make it harder to find your shit

HAHAHA, One guy got cut at WFFC, showed up a couple jumps later in a different suit

Or, as Gareth says: "Keep pulling shit until your goggles fill with blood"

With 30 jumps? I re3comment talking to your instructor, I lknow nothing about you. I do have a Stiletto 135 for sale though

Make the canopy turn faster, mostly.

no, remember, the lines get shorter as you downsize also.

Your new nickname is........ TREE HUGGER!

I started 3 years ago when I was 45, I now have > 1000 jumps.

I'll be glad to transcribe it for you, at my usual rate :)

I had a sizeure while taking Zyban. Luckily I was on the ground.

shitty packing I bet :o) bozo Body position no doubt

1 potato ..... Jumped with him @ taft last year, also talked to him for a while @ WFFC this year.

Another recommendation would be that they actually have showers this year.

IMHO it's easier to handle fogging with goggles than a full face.

RECEIVED ON THE NCS EMAIL LIST ---- cut here ----- Hi all, As you've likely heard, there has been a petition for exemption of the120 day repack rule filed by Alan Silver of behalf of PIA and other interested associations. I recently visited the Parachute Industry Association (PIA) website, I learned that the FAA has responded to the petition. Unfortunately, the response, though not entirely negative, is not what we were hoping for. The entire response is available at: http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/pdf92/342065_web.pdf The meat of the response is (this is an excerpt from the complete response): Except on very rare occasions, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) does not issue exemptions to groups as large as those you have proposed in your petition. An exemption, if granted, could conceivably affect the majority of the regulated people who use approved parachutes. We find our rulemaking process, rather than the exemption process, is a more appropriate method to address issues affecting large groups of regulated people. To that end, we will initiate a rulemaking project within the next few months to develop a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). Using the NPRM, we will ask for comments from interested people on a proposal to lengthen the packing interval for approved parachutes. We believe this approach will enable us to analyze the merits of your petition and to reexamine the issue of parachute packing intervals. So, it will surely be quite a while before we see any change to the current 120 day reserve repack cycle. -paul ---- cut here ----

Well, I agree, it probably would have saved both the WFFC incidents. It's the ONLY thing that can get you an inflated reserve that deep in the beeps.

contact tallguy

spend more time on your current canopy, say..... 200-300 jumps. at 1.0-1.2 you will learn PLENTY over the next 100-500 jumps.

Uh, EVERYTHING contains chemicals.

I have a funny story, I was SERIOUS into barefoot waterskiing, I ski on the Sacramento delta out of Discovery Bay. This just happens to be just a couple of miles from the Byron dropzone. One fine Saturday I couldn't find anyone to ski with (it takes at least two people, one to drive and one to ski, three to be legal) So I packed a picnic lunch and headed out to the boat hoping to meet up with a ski buddy on the water. On the way there I saw a sign on the side of the road that said "Try Skydiving!" with the phone number of the DZ. I pulled out my cell phone on a whim and gave them a call, they said 'come on out, you can do a tendem and be in the air in half an hour' So I went to the DZ and did a tandem (scared the shit out of me). I went home and thought about it, called the DZ back and scheduled ground school for later that week. Within a year I had done 300 jumps.

FUCK YOU, jump with me. Oh, and remember, when on big ways.... "the meat goes in the middle" don't worry on big ways there's a job for everyone. :)

DGIT

Damn! I almost forgot how ugly you are!

A rocket can be propelled with a compressed gas, eliminating the problems associated with an explosive/combustable propellent. See, I _can_ be constructive

Spend the extra $$ for a PD reserve. Better yet, but used gear for your first rig.. That way when you scrub in a landing and rip the shit out of the leg strap covers you won't feel so bad