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You mean as opposed to getting one that is not portable? take care, space

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Borgy is spot on. L/D ratio stays the same. Take care, space

I second this question. Take care, space

They ship pets in the cargo hold if I am not mistaken. Take care, space

What is up with this statement? "Airlines often load bags on top of one another in the cargo hold of your flight," warns the Transportation Security Administration on its Web site. "Your baggage may be loaded with hundreds of other bags, with possibly several on top of yours. Hundreds of pounds of pressure in conjunction with high altitude and the resulting low temperatures" while the plane is in flight "create an ideal environment for damaged laptops," according to the site. "These conditions crack cases and damage screens among other things. For these reasons, we recommend that you keep your laptop in your carry-on bag when traveling." http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/screening/travel_tip_laptop.shtm Have the airlines started flying with unpressurized cargo holds or what?, Take care, space

Moderate. 36hrs. In back of the head. Take care, space

I knew that vitamins were bad for ya! Take care, space

Please give us some links to back it up please. take care, space

Ummm why? Why not another nationality? Do Mexicans have a monopoly on this type of behavior? take care, space

I guess this is one step above or maybe a half step above of "Check this out" Not worthy of a click unless the poster gives more info IMHO. take care, space

I am getting a lot of spam from "ecard" crap. "Your neighbor has sent you an Ecard", Your schoolmate has sent you an ecard, click on the link or paste the address in your browser..... WTF is this crap? How does it work? anyone know? Take care, space

Maybe if you explain a bit what it is about....... I would click on it. Otherwise I would vote that your post is the most nondescriptive of the day. take care, space

Ok, I got 3rd place. But I was up against some big dogs. And of course, NO BEANS! take care, space

How shall I respond to this? You ask a question, I (we) gave you answers. And then you ask if "will a 46" really distort my flying canopy? Or change my flare?" Thanks for wasting my time. Ask the manufacturer and good luck. Take care, space

It will also deform your canopy during flight making it much more prone to collaspe especially with any front riser inputs. You will also reach the stall point with a shorter control stroke than normal. If you plan on landing in the water, shouldn't be a prob (assuming you can swim). Hope this helps. Take care, space

IMHO, One must assess the morality of the poster's posts before playing god and judging the individual. Take care, space

Do something Mick or take it down please. I feel as if my very first girlfriend went into the gutter when I view the site. Love space.

This (jumper deceleration discussion) would be applicable to non modified rounds. A flying ramair canopy has velocity (speed and direction). Though both (non modified round/ramair canopy) open the same in their own deceleration mode due to the wind speed, Proximity to the ground becomes much more prominent if one does not have canopy recovery time for a flying canopy as opposed to a drag only canopy. All parachutes open at the same angle to the relative wind. take care, space

Not at you Calvin19 nor anybody directly. Headwind and tailwind openings affect the time it takes to get the canopy into an acceptable landing config on low jumps. On a low alt exit/opening, the canopy will be in a dive if one has a tailwind, penduluming out of the dive on a tailwind will burn a lot of alt. With a headwind opening one doesn't have this effect. With short FFs or PCA/Staticlines, Winds have a major effect on everything to do with heading and landability. Hope this helps. take care, space

Though I have around 60 A jumps. What the hell is a "45 degree floater to the opposite wire???"? Is not a floater where one backs off? 45 degrees to what? There is no opposite wire unless one is jumping a square guyed tower. Then it is one on the opposite side of the tower. Or what? Maybe I have been living in Yurp too long take care, space

QuoteThe population of Norway is HALF of just Los Angeles County in California, USA. Trying to unite all the jumpers in the USA is much more difficult. There's too many politics surrounding most anybody that tries to put in the effort. An association to fight for access is great, but not at the expense of creating another USPA./reply] It is not necessary to unite all the jumpers. No national assns have done this anyway. Not even the USPA. take care, space

As a BASE instructor I wish to tell you of a few incidences. I encountered one German sociopathic liar who had duped a major rig manufacturer. I was able to contact most of the contacts given by the Mentor and tell the real deal about this nonjumpers history to the contacts given. The guy was a quite agile liar. Quite intelligent. He could lie faster than most can think. Why the hell he would do this I still have not a clue. The guy was talking shit the whole time (lying about experience). I don't ever want to play god and decide if what a person wants to do is good or bad. I just don't want anybody to do stupid crap and die in front of me on my fav sites. It gets hard to eat when one has observed exploding bodies and your food turns into that piece of flesh that you saw richocheting off the wall of the best cliff that you've been perfecting you track off of. Maybe Mr. Sociopathic liar could have been a great BASEr. But I am not going to give him that chance and I am going to rat him out to all that I know so that they know his background. If that is his life dream to to bullshit people and that makes him happy and content, I will not say that it is wrong. I will just say that I disagree and and will not cooperate. I think that one should do whatever floats one's boat. But also there is a responsibility to be responsible for the boat that one floats. I am finished with example number 1. Example number 2: Skydivers lying about their experience level in BASE or skydiving. I've witnessed and ground crewed for almost 10,000 jumps. The jumpers who lie about their experience leve put themselves in a position that they don't ask for advice from anyone because they may figure out that they are not experienced. So they are committed to doing bad exits for lots of jumps. I knew they lied after seeing their exit and said that we had a free course for problem exits and they were welcome to partake. The amount of money they wanted to save by not taking a FJC equaled to 4 pizzas IIRC. Example number 3. I did a background check after a jumper died. It helped nothing. He had lied about his jumping history. I knew he was fucked when I saw his exit. My mind was screaming "get it out!!". After that, I don't eat mashed potatoes any more but his background check showed that he had no BASE experience unlike what he had put on his data sheet. Did I save example 1 by doing a background check? Did I kill Example 3 by not doing one before he turned into mashed potatoes with ketchup? I think that in the end it is meaningless. You have to give them the benefit of the doubt. Some will take advantage of this and your eating habits will change as you see them pay the ultimate price for living and dying their dream. But who are you or I to stop some one from living or dying their dream? Just do the best you can for a new jumper. Try to discourage them. If you can't then you must mentor them no matter how challenging they may be. take care, space

Hi Johan420, The major advice I can give you is that if you do not have power in your legs, don't jump. It is ok if your legs are shaking but one must have power in the legs. There is a door that one has to open to jump sanely. It is called the "Fuck-it-because-it-is-worth-it" door. The door is always locked. One must only find the key. The key is in you. You must only find it. If you can't find it (key), then it is a no go. You must search for the key. You must be agreeable to die as a result of your decision and that will give you the key to the door to jump again. If you don't want to risk your life, the door will remain forever closed. I abide by this philosphy on every jump. I can't help you more other than to say that a BASE jump starts when the alarm clock wakes you up for the hike. That is when you need the key. take care space

I totally agree! take care, space