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If you're living in an older place get it checked for mold spores. They are multi-symptomatic and difficult to diagnose, but the cause of a huge number of symptoms/illnesses.

Just pulled a Vertical RW suit out of the wash. Cold water, gentle cycle, and I used Era detergent. It's clean, no running of the colors, stitches all look good as does the leather, and it looks cleaner and smells better. Thanks for the advice everyone.

Does anyone have detergent recommendations? I've heard Woolite from some folks and other people don't seem to think it matters. Suit is a Vertical RW suit with Taslan, spandex, ripstop, cordura, and leather booties. They don't have any detergent recommendations on the website and too late to get an email response.

I demoed a Fusion 175, Sabre2 170, and Safire2 169. Front riser pressure was lowest with the Fusion, but almost identical among the three. The Fusion had the most flare also, but honestly there was very little difference between the three. I ended up with a Safire because I sold my old main and had less than a week to get into a new one and a Safire was all I could find available immediately. They're a little different, but I think all three are awesome canopies with very similar performance. The Fusion gives you the most bang for the buck but come resale they don't hold as much value.

I went to Eloy right after finishing my A and while the Brazilian 150 way attempts were going on. Its an awesome dropzone with three landing areas and a boatload of outs. If you can fly a pattern you'll be fine, they do an incredible job of separation and organizing.

My credit card charged a conversion fee when I ordered a jumpsuit from Canada. My brothers family lived out of the country while he was here and he used www.xoom.com to send them his paychecks for about 5USD per transaction.

No, I was the pilot. I always intend to jump, but a 24' flat ride and explaining where the Cessna went makes it not worth it.

I've ridden the plane down hundreds of times. It scares me to death every time and every time I find myself wishing I was under canopy.

I thought they were building the world's most badass swoop pond last weekend, but it's just taxiway excavation.

It's not Jeffco anymore, it's Metro. Apparently the airport is fancy but not gay. Arapahoe is also Centennial and Stapleton is no more. On the original topic, having made more jumps at Mile Hi than my home dropzone I really hope nothing happens with noise bullshit. It's really a wonderful dropzone with great people.

Brianne Thompson in Eloy has competed at a national level and coached a ton of teams for 4-way relative work. I worked with her in April and she was also coaching several teams of brand new RW folks. None of them could say enough good things about her, and my experience was that her attitude and ability are awesome. Her partner Nik did some jumps and tunnel coaching, he was equally awesome and they were both down to earth and humble. http://www.axisflightschool.com/

You should probably just pay for her Poli-Sci degree, since that's what they're apparently all doing.

I doubt they care about logging, but getting paid block or better makes a difference.

Gate Hold, Expect Departure Clearance Time, and other airport delay programs are issued by air traffic control or relayed by ATC from airport authorities and not the airlines. Often times weather delays at a hub airport cause a backlog of departures at another as multiple late flights have to go into another hub in sequence. It stinks, but it's better than having dozens of aircraft holding with minimum fuel waiting for their turn at the runway.

Follow up questions: For those of you swooping in Crocs, do you grease them up and if so with what?, and is anyone using boatloads of heavy rhinestones instead of a weight belt? I feel like my canopy loading is as low as my Bedazzler is underused.

Both. At least Felix respected Kittinger enough to enjoy his mentoring and the whole team got some of the credit they deserve.

Kittinger is clearly a much classier act than Yaeger, as is Baumgartner. Yaeger lets another pilot break the sound barrier with him sitting in the back (could have been replaced with a dummy and the exact same outcome) and then blows off the Stratos team like that's been done before and its easy. At the risk of becoming the anti-Shah, I'll put this out there: Yaeger needs to get off his high horse and acknowledge the fact that the scientists, engineers, fabricators, and other people who did all the real work are the people entitled to the overwhelming majority of the credit.

In a Twin Otter the Fire Extinguishers are connected to the respective L & R DC Busses, which means that aircraft power had to of been turn on. Who ever did this knew Twin Otters and knew how to turn the power on. You need to flip two switches in order to turn power on and both swicthes are the "Pull and Select" type and both are not in a conspicuous location. They're above the pilot's windshield. As far as expensive, YES, $2k to $5k per bottle,depending on where you get them from. Plus the Yellow Blow Out Diskes need to be replaced. As for replacing them, NO, it takes about 15 minutes per bottle. And clean up is nothing, the bottles are filled with Halon. I can't believe they aren't hot wired. It must not have been required during their certification, but I have yet to fly an airplane that doesn't have ECS/Bleeds, fuel shutoff valves, and fire extinguishers hot wired or even better yet isolatable mechanically. Do Twin Otters keep the battery in the wing also?

Is that CO2 gas, or that powder stuff? And what's involved in cleaning up the mess - do you have to take the engine apart? It varies from installation to installation. I believe when had halogenated hydrocarbon in our King Air, but I'm not absolutely sure. Pulling the fire bottles without the engine turning will introduce chemicals in the intake in most Pratt installations (intake is at the back of the engine, inside the cowling) but not with most Garretts as they intake in the front. Either way, the inspection/cleanup process along with replacing squibs and recharging or replacing bottles is a nightmare. It's almost as bad as when a hangar fire suppresion system lets go for no reason.

It had to have been someone who knew a thing or two about airplanes, though. Your average whuffo isn't going to know what a fire bottle is, or that pulling them will create a mess. Unless some asshat decided the play around and pull all the levers/switches. Fire bottles are usually wired directly to the battery in some way, meaning that the squibs can be electrified with no other aircraft power turned on. I hope they catch the responsible party, why anyone would mess with an aircraft is beyond me.

I speak four: American English, UK English, Australian, and Spanish.

It's not really a fair comparison, the Lexus has product support.

Some hilarious reading www.419eater.com

I too was the recipient of a pay-it-forward rig, although the gentleman who gave it to me found out that I had previously helped him out with a work related deal. It was very nice, we were discussing fair market value, he recognized me and gave me the rig with the stipulation that I do the same when I was done with it.

I knew I read it before but for some reason couldn't find the reference. I've considered and briefed it on group jumps, just find it odd that while various dropzones require a briefing from manifest on where to land and in what direction that I have yet to hear this mentioned.