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Zen & Art of Motorcycle maintenance Illusions - Richard Bach - very interesting book Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

sorry about that mate Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Studio 7 is pretty good. If you're after 3D fx you can upgrade the bundled FX editor for a few £'s to FX PRO which allows you to create your own FX. Better than Studio DV. Just be wary of Studio Delux (very new). Studio 7 worked fine on our m/c but delux is fussy as hell and still not working 100% Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

jeez that was funny

this sounds pretty funny. http://www.sundayriver.com/summer2002/wifecarry.html Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I've never been to the states so can't comment. But it seems to me that the apparant number of people carrying guns over there can not be a good thing. I support licensing of weapons (don't know if there is licensing in USA or not) - I grew up in Africa only been in UK for 4yrs and guns can be fun. The argument of guns for protection can often be disputed as often the victim is surprised and the presence of their own dangerous weapon only agrivates the situation (i.e your state deputy). BTW I come from Zimbabwe the new official state of Anarchy. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Sorry Nick I am also in the UK. We may only here of shooting occasionally but recently there have been circa 1 report every week or two. Not necessarily shootings but ppl shot by police cause of waving shotgun around etc. I'm in Wycombe & about 2/3 deaths last year due to shooting, Aylesbury down th e road cops shot a guy with shotgun last week. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

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I have never thought of time of exposure... I guess I am still satisfied that the risk/reward ratio is positive in terms of skydiving on my personal skydiving whereas the risk/reward on base jumping in negative in my personal scale (I have never looked at base stats though). So it probably boils down more to individual perceived risks than statistics can ever provide. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

My wife is worried about the same thing - danger and a recent web search for stats brought up very little concrete evidence. But (I will try and find the link) I did find that skydiving is probably one of the most dangerous aerial sports with circa 40/100 000 jumps. Further investigation on the likes of skydivingfatalities.com which break down by accident type rather than a lump figure it drops down to about 4/100 000 accidents that were totally unavoidable on the part of the jumper. This does seem to mean getting out of student status ASAP, not jumping HP canopies, and generally being conservative Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

the wierdest 2 out situation I have heard of. A friend was a PJI in the military and a student had 2 out LR288 and identical looking reserve. The student stuffed the main (he thought) between his legs and cutaway. Needless to say he had the reserve stuffed between his legs. Luckily the reserve re-inflated fine and he landed safely. In a similar vein would it be possible on smaller canapies to do a similar thing (but not cutaway) Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Ok I cocked up. My maths assummed that gravel was 1gram/cubic cm. This comes out at about a 1/3 of a tank of gravel (circa). Assumming gravel weighs 2x what I assummed it aint far out the rule of thumb enjoy - you can always breed the fish for jump money Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

man - work out the maths - thats gonna fill your tank with stones! Those fish are gonna be mighty cramped. Sorry it just seems so funny - I know zilch about fish but worked out dimensions etc etc. Besides stick to skydiving its safer those piranhas might get yah Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

ok - I didn't realise that the US allowed so much higher licence free output powers. I also assummed that a DZ would not be using (commercial/business/licenced radios). If they are yes I think definate caution as it is the same in Europe 1 to 5W output powers. It is a bit concerning that the Cypres guys have not mastered immunity to interference at pcb/design level - considering that this is a safety/life critical device (by life critical I mean that you cannot afford it to go off ad-hoc). Along these lines - why do people not get mis-fires from the aircraft radio - the antenna is usually external so the body of the plane should shield - but what about an RW exit where people (float? - not sure on terminology) Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

usually licence free walkie talkies (I assume that is what was used) are about 10dBm output power (10mW) this is a fraction of a phone normally. Frequencies - 49Mhz is ligitimate in Europe (I know nothing about USA 49Mhz) but pretty much outdated. Most cheap walkie talkies operate around 400Mhz - 450Mhz these days. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

soz mate - I know we just "dumped" a couple of months 50% of staff (high tech in Reading) - and we are re-hiring sorry guys your skill set is not quite right

In order to raise interest (I'm not going), a friend goes to Estonia for the strip joints (apparantly they are the best and cheap) thats all I've ever heard of it

I am no longer a current diver (am hoping to start again soon), but when I started jumping on T-tens (africa) and no AAD's and doing F-Fall delays from 4K etc I did it and enjoyed the sport (stoped because of marriage...) However even upto a 100 jumps I was scared, I have had a mal and dealt with it, but when I start jumping again I will definetly have an AAD as I would prefer to have every safety device available to me. For me safety devices RSL/AAD/larger canopies add to the enjoyment because for me to overcome fear of heights is the rush. Just my 0.02 worth

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Maybe not famous for (thats the sheep isn't it?) But saint Davids day our welsh dude here pitched in a green kilt outfit with dragons and daffodils? Wierd but suppossedly welsh.

I'm an (il)legal immigrant so find the welsh/scott/english argument funny. "Kilts sexy" is that why the welsh bloke here pulls so many birds - I'll let him know - he thinks its him

thats cause the english are wooses - thats what the dudes in skirts told me at work anyhow.

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I thought it was Malawi Gold??