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We've been using motion sickness bands for about 2 years now with great results. Check at your local drugstore for them. Also don't spin under canopy even if your passenger asks you to.

When we teach the FJC the student is given a written 2 page quiz at the end of the classroom. If I teach the FJC I give them the quiz and walk away. When they are done I deliberately make sure they are reviewed by another instructor. We all have different teaching techniques and sometimes the student isn't able to assimilate the information the way the instructor is presenting it. Getting another instructor presenting in a different way usually gets the information to the student. I would rather the student knows the information than quibble over whether I or another instructor has a better or more precise teaching method. This follows thru to further levels and more information for the student.

I jump at a big DZ and I still like to travel to boogies. One thing that I look for is the fun jumping. I look for an organizer that is less concerned about challenging the jumpers on the load and more concerned about having fun on the dive. I've done tube and raft dives, horny goriilas, and hang loads that were way more fun than hardcore RW. If I want to do drill dives I'll stay home. I'd much rather do fun jumps that don't complete than 'work" on serious jumps. One of the most fun jumps I did at at Quincy was an early morning jump were I asked if I could just lurk a novice 2-way. After sitting about 10 feet out for 10 seconds they waved me over to dock and we did 360's to redock till breakoff. I didn't see them after we landed but I hope they had fun too!

When Elsinore was The Cy Perkins Parachute Club I was given the membership #666. I used to sign my tickets "The Beast" and they knew who it was.

Once you get the grip, don't let go--No matter what happens!! The most important rule. Don't scare the instructor!! If you can't see the spot make a correction in each direction and call the Cut. Don't bother to cutaway anything better than a baglock. (230 lbs on a 24' T-10)

And these are the same people some want to turn over USPA regulations and ratings to? I hope we are done evolving as a sport and are willing to live with things as they are now.

I get to lay claim to Dick Spates first AFF (Unofficial) instructional jump. I was having problems getting stable on 10 sec delays. We were reading in Parachutist about AFF and Joey D. and Dick decided to take me AFF style from 10.5. That was really high since we usually only went to 7.5 for RW. It was also my first jump on my new (used) Russian PC. Hey, What could possibly go wrong! The freefall went great and i only missed the landing area by a little bit! Still didn't learn anything about stable exits though! I only took 32 jumps to get off student status.

That would be Joey D'Afflisio (sp?). We must have been around Lakewood about the same time. Theresa was at the last PIA convention and still recognized me. She put me out the first time I spotted myself and when I thought the spot was good turned and asked her opinion. She said "How would I know? I can't see anything with you in the door!!" I stepped out and left. The spot was fine.

I have an 8x10 of me on the step over Lakewood courtsey of Paul Bick. He had the photo concession then. I stopped by the airport about 10 years ago and the rigging loft and office were still intact. There was even a Lakewood bumper sticker on the trash can at the entrance. The dropzone was usually empty the weekend of the Herd Boogie.

No, but 230lbs. under a T-10 it was to be expected.

I remember the '84 boogie pretty well. I arrived on Thurs and on Friday morning as I walked to breakfast there was a gentlemen lying passed out in the middle of the road to the camping area. Cars were driving around him honking but he was out. I thought it was a good sign of things to come. I also remember Dan Doyle grasbbing the landing gear of a twin otter and being dragged back to loading area while naked. They had 2 Arava's that year plus 2 Otters and the DC-3 "The Bird Machine". I was lucky enough to win a prize in the raffle too! A new Mirage h/c. Bright Orange, I sold it to pay for the container I already had on order. Nice car burning and general evening mayhem. I had a hell of good time!!

I draw Lew as video once in while. She always does great work. She works hard for what she gets and its nice to see a cover shot and the recognition that goes with it. Nice Job!!

A list of short stories for Cal City regulars: The swimming pool made from Rapter and Greg Senger's pick-ups parked back to back and lined with tarps? Danny Binge spotting a night load and instead of using the airport beacon as reference used the radio antenna out on Cal City boulevard? The meteor shower boogie and party! Terry Domini borrowing my second rig and having a malfunction, cutaway and malfunctioned the reserve. She landed under a line-overed 26' LoPo and strained her back. Strong offered to give me a discount if I wanted to replace it because it had large line burns all over it. I replaced with a 28' Phantom that ended up being recalled for acid mesh. Sleeping in the Otter to make sure I didn't miss the early bird load. Leigh Webb. Thanks! Enough said!! I'll post more later. I would love to be there this weekend but I have a litter of puppies that would get really hungry while I was gone!

Seems like a good time to pick on Rapter. Ask him about the time he spotted a cross country load that was little off, like about 5-6 miles. Van Pray watched us land and actually managed to find an open patch to land the 206 in. We all loaded up but we didn't see Cary anywhere so we took off and flew back to the airport. We went out looking for him but he finally wandered in on his own about 2 hours later. I recall drinking a few beers that day!

Sorry, I was being cranky that day! I personally work for a smaller school so we are able to be much more one on one than usual. We guide them all the way through their "A" license and then introduce them to load organizers that help further their skills. We also have available specialized canopy coaches and also an on-site wind tunnel. We find that most of our students progress fairly quickly compared to the training of 20 years ago.

Who are you?!!! If you don't fill out a profile then it's a little tough give your whining any credence.

There are also 2 other notices. The original single stow diaper was changed to a double stow and it may also need to be tested for acid mesh.

My old Paragear catalog shows a 26 LoPo as having a pack volume of 482 cu. in. A Phantom 24 is listed at 315 cu. in. Thats a huge difference. There is a Kevlar modification to the lower lateral band that should be done prior to jumping it though, and it will add some bulk to the canopy. I doubt it will add enough to make up the difference.

Actually, thats me behind you in the yellow helmet. I had an old Paralert on it that was set to go off it was dropped. I never was able to hear it anyway. The red helmet might? be Dave Leclerq.

A lot of people have forgotten the Beech-18 we had between the 206 and the Otter. The heating ducts had been pulled out and the person sitting third from the front got the full blast on his/her butt the whole ride up. I thought my harness was going to get hot enough to melt sometimes. It was a pre-serial number Beech so it was also really old. Greg Senger put a little piece of velcro on one of the nav lights just behind the door and was actually able to rear float with one foot on it. Exits were tough because the door wasn't modified and still had the original oval shape so the floaters all got their feet squeezed together at the bottom. After Van bought the Otter it wasn't jumped much and I heard it was eventually sold to a guy from Washington state. Anybody got a picture?

It's easy to find AFF I's who want to jump. It's difficult to find those that want to teach. Ask one to teach the days FJC and they all run for the hills. I teach the FJC all the time because I like to teach almost as much as like to jump.

We tried to do a night 20-way once. The dive was a total zoo and I lost altitude awareness. I tracked off into the blackness and started to get ground rush from the runway numbers. I pulled and had about a 45 second canopy ride. Not wanting to get in trouble, I grabbed up my canopy and started running towards the target circle. As soon as I saw someone else starting to gather up their canopy I waited a little bit and then walked up behind them and said "Damn did you see that guy that went low!!! I wonder who the hell that was!". Since the only way we saw each other at all was the chem-lights I got away with it. I'll let some other people post and then I'll tell the story of almost bouncing in front of the town council.

Try Perris. The weather doesn't matter when you have a tunnel!

Man, that sucks!! I remember a late afternoon (I.E. Night!!) jump trying to do a 20 way round on a tandem. The tandem was Bill Estes and the manifest girl whose name I have forgotten. I also remember the first night jump out the Otter. I got stuck spotting and even wrapped in a blanket by the open door I was barely coherent by the time we got to altitude! I wonder what will happen to that workhorse 206 they have. That plane has more time than any aircraft I know.

Make sure you know what your looking at and specifically what may be wrong. I once had 2 people try to keep me from climbing out because they thought my cutaway handle was missing/pulled. I was jumping an SOS system at the time. If you don't know what an SOS system is or what to look for then you'll get the point .