eddytheeagle

I have a 12" powerbook g4, so I am glad they (finally) included spaces, which works nicely for me. I don't use the stacks either. Got my copy on friday as well, only had to wait 5 minutes

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You aren't doing anything wrong. The answer of the book has constant coefficient -12, instead of 12, and on top of that, it has only one real zero... so like you said, the answer in the book is wrong...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hGtvNoOR4Y&eurl=

Hi Theresa,

Well, I have a Talon FS, and I love it. It is very comfortable, packs easy, and looks good. I second the remark that the RI customer service is top notch. I needed a replacement leg strap, which they fixed quickly, and they matched colours with an old batch of fabric!

I attached some pics of my rig. The colour-scheme might be a little uninspired, but I just like those dutch colours
eddy

Stiletto 150 at 1.4:1.

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so bill von
im guessing your 1 of the people who are to good for a cypress ?

Basically, billvon is just saying that
1: A lot of people state they have a cypres because of the (rather small) chance they are knocked unconcious

2: Most people how are saved by their cypres were fully concious, and probably screwed up in one way or the other

3: There are other things, skills, etc can save your skin, and it's these you're more likely to use at some point of your skydiving career.

I totally argree with these points, but I'm also a strong `believer' in aad's, just because people do screw-up sometimes. That's the reason I have one.

Oh, btw, I would jump without one if I have to send in mine for some reason...

Hi Marc,

The first time I leave archway early, do I miss all the action . Guess I should 've stayed... Glad you're ok!

Oh, I kept all my handles when I went for silver, and that includes the dummy ripcord (for a practice pull)

Empty vote... why on earth did you do that?

Cause I think that the forums we have now surve the purpose well

Well, I tried to give blood in the states, but I wasn't allowed to do so, cause I'm from the Netherlands. I don't really understand the problem with that...

I've been jumping my oxygen for quite some time now, and I like it a lot, even after a very shacky start. My first jump was in winter time in the mid-west, so pretty cold and humid as well. I was told to breath out through the mouth, but didn't do that well enough... Result was that after 10 seconds or so, I had about a quarter of a square inch to see through, not quite what you want if you're in the sky for a hoop dive with 10 others. The problem was that the visor started to fog up, and froze because of the cold. Since then, I concentrate on breathing out via my mouth, through the hole, as soon as I put on my helmet (becomes 2nd nature very quickly).
I also close my visor after the door is opened. This solved the problem, even in wintertime, while it was freezing (quite a bit).

Another problem I encountered was that the visor started to loosen after say 10 jumps (I didn't do anything with the closing mechanism). A couple of jumps later, the visor opened while I was tracking away form a formation. Luckily, it didn't break. Afterwards, I opened the closing mechanism, and reinstalled it (properly!), and I didn't have this problem again.

Now that the above problems are solved, I'm very happy with my Oxygen A3, it fits perfectly! The reason I bought it in the first place is that no other full face helmet I tried fitted properly over my glasses.

Hopefully, this info is helpfull, and doens't scare you off to much.

Last weekend, I made the first jump on my new Talon FS container (w/ new pd reserve and cypres 2), and I'm very pleased .

I'd love to join you girls/guys. My biggest (succesfull) jump is a 2-point 16-way, but i'd love to go bigger. I'll be there all the time

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First number is my D-license, which I got last week.
Just one day of jumping, but they were awesome jumps. My first hybrid jump, which went perfect, a real blast. Last jump of the day was a 5-point 8-way with the 4 golden knights of the accuracy team, who came to archway for the Lew Sandborn meet, a blast again

579 and counting. Started in august '98

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By the way...what kind of planes are you flying there? Jonathan & Jenni

A Cessna Grand Caravan and a C-182. See'ya!

Roger, I only met you two weeks ago, but you were inspiring from the first moment! Blue skies forever, you will be missed so much. My thoughts go out to Missy, Rook and the SDC community.

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I checked with my health insurer. AS long as I'm not participating in a riot, or other act of civil disobedience, I'm covered. I even specifically mentioned Skydiving, just to be sure..

Which health insurer do you have, if I may ask?

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Who would be interested in a tube exit out of that plane? ... So, who's in??

I love tubes (though I only did two 2-way tubes so far), so I'm in! And if we land out, it might be in my 'back yard' in Urbana

When I jumped in the Netherlands, I got a gear check before every jump. Almost everybody did, we just checked each other, regardless of jump numbers. I'm sorry to say that I lost this habit within one day when I came to the states, just because there wasn't a routine of checking each other. Personally, I check my pins every time before I put my rig on (it's a habit, it only takes a couple of seconds), and check the chest/leg straps. Of course, I could forget, and in those cases, a pin-check by someone else can save a lot of trouble. Personally, once I checked a jumper, his cut-away pillow was folded underneith his main lift (just one example to show the usefullness of pin-checks). I've seen other horror stories, like an rsl attached to the main ring .

An counter argument I've heard a lot is that people don't like others (low timers, for instance) to 'fiddle around' with their reserve/main closing flaps. I see their point, but in the end, I think pin-checks will prevent way more trouble than they cause.

These are good 'rules of thumb'! Maybe it's good to notice that adrenaline will make people count quicker most of the time; using your fingers might help to slow you down, if nessecary!

I haven't been able to read the article yet (can't read word documents on my linux machine Kallend's skydve page.

This new look for the classifieds is great, well done HH!

Edit: removed suggestion (should have looked at higher resolution in the first place )

I think this is pretty common. Quite a lot of skydivers are perfectionalists, and put pressure on themselves. Having some pressure is a good thing imo, it makes you perform better. Of course, too much pressure won't do any good.

One way to deal with pressure is preparation. Especially for the challenging dives (on every level, one can have challeging dives!), a good dirt dive is essential. Make sure you know what to do, and go over this in the plane. Just a couple of times, and think about something else during the rest of the time. Knowing what to do makes people more relaxed. Also, have faith in yourself, positive thinking helps!

Back to the too much pressure situation. If somebody is on a multi-point 16 way, with only 60 jumps, and jumping a suit with booties for the first time (oeps, i'm getting a little unrealistic here), pressure can build up, to such an amount that it gets dangerous. What I'm getting to is, if you think the dive is way over your head, don't do it. Push your limits a little every time, and don't change to much things (preferably only one) at the time.

I think it isn't a good idea to do challenging dives all the time, cause you find yourself 'walking on your toes' continuously. Then, if things don't go according plan, frustration easily kicks in. And remember, not every dive can be perfect, if that would be the case, skydiving would become boring very quickly.

So, push your limits slowly (to fast can be dangerous!), don't be to harsh for yourself if you don't succeed the first time (though this might be hard for a perfectionalist), and don't forget why we jump out airplaines in the first place: have fun!

Just some thoughts....

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Tie some jingle bells to a string and hang it off your foot. When you hear the bells hit the ground...flare.

With the quality of my eyes, I do everything to avoid jumping without my glasses. But with those bells, who knows, I might give it a try . Driving without them would be kinnof suicide