jerm

couple of things to try that don't involve BASE gear: a smaller slider.. ease down on this because it can have a dramatic effect. try a bigger pilot chute. it's amazing what a difference this can make. i've tamed slammer canopies by descreasing the PC diameter/fabric type. try the next size up. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

given you're used to landing lightnings most of the time, i 'm not particularly reassured about your PD150's landing characteristics. "it lands better than my lightnings" doesn't say much Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

looks like at that point he was transitioning from rears to toggles. the control range for rears is much shorter than that for toggles (especially on something that big.. looong toggle stroke), so when letting off the rears he has to get to the equivalent spot in the toggles' control range just to maintain his flare (especially since he's toward the end of the swoop... lower airspeed,lift, etc..). hence the large, abrupt input. take a close look at sonic, OP, me, johnk, shatalov, etc... sometime. we do the same thing, but since the canopies are smaller, the control ranges are (generally) shorter, hence the movement is smaller. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

the name indicates a job, a task which requires a certain set of criteria to be met. if all of the required criteria are not completed, the job is not done. So in such a case: You got PART of a blowjob. She STARTED a blowjob But indicating that you got "A blowjob" implies that the job was completed in its entirety. If you only did some of the job, then you didn't do the job. back to the car references: if i take the brakes off you car, but never put them back on, did you get a break job? if i hire you to repaint my car, and you strip off the old paint,, prime it and give it back, did i get a paint job? if i hire you to break a skater's knees and you just bruise her.. DID YOU DO THE JOB? i thought not. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

zhills chistmas boogie 05 & 06 photos by Laszlo (Laci) Andacs Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

sweet! but where's the video of peter flipping you around? Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

bonus points if you can spare us the close-up of his ass. peter: free tunnel time for more shots of hers ;) Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

who are you trying to convince.. us, or yourself? Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

it makes sense if you start from the right place. think of it in terms of wooly scientific notation: 1000 * 1000^n n=1 milliion (some otomatopedic relationsip to mono..1) n=2 billion bi=2 n=3 trillion tri=3 n=4 quadrillion quad=4, etc.. it's the number of addition sets of zeros after an ititial thousand. now.. everywhere else, cent=100... so why is centillion what it is? cause googol was taken? now.. where the hell they came up with the idea i have no clue. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

copy over your whole darn firefox folder from application data most everything should be there Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

if you're planning on doing anything other than belly work, head to NH. Both have great instructors/coaches available , but NH has a LOT more wind available and doesn't suffer from weather related ailments.. it can be hot/cold/raining sideways in NH and it's all the same. on orlando, you'll be hot/cold/wet. jerm Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

i was using 8% and a basic mortgage calculator. the tunnels are so geographically separate that it may take quite a while for that to happen. bottom line is that whuffos are where the money is, and if whuffos keep coming to the tunnels and paying top dollar, there's no reason for the operators to bring prices down for skydivers/tunnelrats unless they're just really cool folk. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

At 20 years, interest becomes a VERY significant factor... the monthly paymenton 5million would still be ~$42,000 / 30 / 8 = $175/hr. still a significant amount. ooh.. anotherthing i forgot to add in there is insurance... very non-trivial. the point stands that running a tunnel is not as cheap as you wish it would be. a busy tunnel will profit, but they have lots of costs to recoup that will temper that. Now, will they drop the price once the loans are paid off? If the tunnel was filling up and attracting more business wasn't a concern, would you? Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

that's what i was saying. whuffos generate more money per unit time. However, the overall revenue per customer is lower so you need more of them in order to make it work. it's just like skydiving. your funjumpers will keep the plane flying, but you make money off the tandems... Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

riiight.. the airflow.. i forgot how much bigger that tunnel is. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

yup if you've ever looked that what whuffos pay for tunnel time, it's ongodly silly ~20-25/min. the margins are much higher but it requires more bodies through the goor since they probably only buy 2 min each. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

couple of millions here and there is small potatoes? maybe for big business, but break down the numbers say you borrow $5,000,000 to build a tunnel. on a 10 year loan that's ~$61,000 per month just in loan payment.... if the land was included in that. that means that if you run the tunnel for 8 paid hours/day, every day of the month, just your loan costs you $300/hr of tunnel time. (on a 5 yr loan it's $421/hr) now add $100/hr for power now add payroll now add supplies now add overead for maintenance now add $100 for epower for any non-paid tunneltime... training/staff time/comp time/etc.. now consider that 8 solid hours of operation per day is a dream when a tunnel first starts up. more than 6 decent tunnels spread around the country and mroe opening up in other countries, skydivers won't be flocking in to fill it like used to happen when skyventure orlando was the only game in town... er.. the world. how many jumpers are you going to get on a warn, calm, sunny saturday? this means that you need lots of whuffo traffic.. and that takes time to build... it also takes an advertising budget. now... why the UK bodyflight place is so expensive (~2x US tunnel time), when they advertise lower overhead due to no build costs, baffles me. is electricity really 10x more expensive in the uk? Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

that wasn't hypothetical Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

probably not a bad idea... we're sure to get bought out by XMS. peter, you in? Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

that's just the point, tho... if your provider starts inserting commercials, you can switch. regardless of price, what happens when there is nobody to switch to? if you're relying on the benevolence of your corporate masters to convince them that since they have all the business they don't need to squeeze you any more with addition ad revenue, think again. remember, in the publicly traded world, it's not about how much money you make, it about how much MORE you make. profit $1billion 3 years in a row and your stock will go down because you didn't grow, nevermind you have $3billion extra in your pockets. so sure, they may not raise the price, but they have to keep raising profits somehow. Money says that if they merge they find some way of justifying more commercials for the same price, or offer an upgraded "premium" commercial-free service for $5 more/month Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

so that's you in the cage? wow.. that looks really uncomfortable. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

how does 2 companies offerting competing products equate to no options? same price? sure. same product? .. that i can't answer, but how is it better for the consumer to not even have the guise of competition by there being mroe than 1 player in a market? right now there are double as many options as what they're proposing. please explain. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

so.. the only 2 players in the market merge to leave only 1 player in the market... leaving the remaining entity with complete domination of said market and 0 choice for the consumer.... how is that not anit-trust? Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

just how can that get past anti-trust regulations? oh wait i forgot that public officials are for sale.... silly jerm Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

I can't.. i no longer have the ability to edit the post. besides,... it's not really a spoiler.. did you not read the thread? Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time