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Yes Ted Wagner is awesome. As far as raw power with guitar playing and speed that will make your head spin-- John Petrucci--Not just speed for speed sake, but when its fits. Anytime you can see Dream Theater I highly suggest it. -Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

Hey, this one is me! A shot of me-doesn't happen too often :)-Tony http://www.proton.org/~dragon2/gap1-9/pages/IMG_8679.htm My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

Here are some photos from Gap, France. The mountains make for a nice background. Thanks-Tony http://www.tonyhathaway.com/fotoserv/preview.php4?event=140Events/150World_meet_2003 My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

Here are some photos from Gap, France. The mountains make for a nice background. Thanks-Tony http://www.tonyhathaway.com/fotoserv/preview.php4?event=140Events/150World_meet_2003 My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

Its a bag of dirt (on the front). Something to keep the canopy loaded close to a tandem weight without having to take another person. I took the photo-Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

I need one under canopy a couple of weeks ago. I have carried 2 for as long as I can remember-one on each side-I figure if you need a knife, its quite possible you don't have both hands free. This was the case. I GUARANTEE anyone who needs one but doesn't have one, will be kicking themselves in the ass for not having it. I needed it 100th of 1 percent of all of my jumps. I can say that since they are free with some gear manufactures, its so easy to get one and there is no reason not to have one. -Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

The eclipse fluid from photosol works fine. Thats what I have used many times. -Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

I just had the strangest thing happen. On opening I had a bit of a side-to-side opending and it went into linetwist. My right hand was stuck and couldn't figure out why. My head was tilted down and to the right and then I figured out my swoop cord was stuck on something. I kicked out of line twist with one hand, then got my hook knife out from my left leg pouch (I've always had one on each side in case I can't get to one-this is why) and cut my swoop cord. Then everything was normal. What had happened is I have very small bolts sticking out of my platform for other cameras. They are there for when a plate slides under then bolts into place. Well, the bolt went through the swoop cord in the middle of the bad opening. You can see on the photo. That is the top right of my plate. It didn't snag going from the side and up, or with tension one way that needs loosened before it can be freed. It poked a hole in the swoop cord, and all of the threads grabbed and wouldn't come free. The spectre not spinning up with line twist was the biggest help of all. I finally see why I've use them for the last 5000 jumps!!!! This shows ANY scenario is possible and lines don't only grab ringsights, many other things can happen. -Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

I see dream theater every chance I get. Just a few weeks ago in Orlando, and couple of days later in Clearwater. UNBELIEVABLE every time I go. Queensryche is good, but so was John Denver. Each one in Dream Theater is amazing.-Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

I have posted the shots from my weekend in Indiana. www.tonyhathaway.com "Find your Photos" on the front page and in 2003, July folder you'll find them. Thanks-Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

those were with a tokina 17mm-Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

Does anyone know where to get a ringsight holder that bends in the middle? There is a sliding piece that goes over the bend to hold it in place, then you slide the part up and move the sight from in front of your eye. Could someone tell me if there a place to order one of these, or if the one I saw was just built by the guy I saw with it? Please let me know where I can get one if you know. Thanks a lot-Tony www.tonyhathaway.com My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

Canon D60-Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

The 4-way scrambles from this weekend are posted at www.tonyhathaway.com or a direct link is http://www.tonyhathaway.com/fotoserv/preview.php4?event=140Events/1404-way_Scrambles_7-6-03 Thanks-Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

I would say yes. First of all, I am on the fence about some sort of regulation. As far as formal regulation from USPA, being in the BSR and such, that would help when one tells another that a certain parachute isn't right for them. Many times when someone is told a parachute isn't right for them or that they are going to hurt themselves on a parachute they take it as a blow to their ego and figure whoever is telling them that doesn't know what they are talking about. The one being told figures the one telling doesn't really know the skill of them. One could use that paperwork to show here is the BSR and tell them why that rule was written. What that rule would be is another whole debate. Rules only go so far. People without an a license can leave their AAD off, disconnect their RSL in the plane. They would have a harder time getting a canopy that they shouldn't necessarily be on, but they still could. I don't pull above 2000' because its a rule, I do because its a good idea. If I need to go below 2000' I do, even though I'm breaking the rules. I think gun control would be something to look at here. When used properly, a gun can be used for great fun, it can also be used to kill people. I'm all for people having guns, I just want people that have them to use them properly, and not hurt anyone in the process. I'm all for people having fast parachutes as long as they use them properly. The people who take canopy control classes seem to me to be the ones who don't necessarily need it. They are ones who acnowlege that they need some tips. The ones who don't take it, or especially don't listen to more experienced pilots on the DZ seem to be the ones who do. They think they either have it figured out, or don't need any help figuring it out. So to me, that becomes the issue. Generally the ones who need help don't listen. The ones that listen need some help also, but at least they take the constructive ctiticism and learn from it. I don't think you can change the mindset from the ones who won't listen. That being said, the only way to stop those is to keep them from jumping something. Again, this is why I'm on the fence. How would you enforce any rules? This seems to be to be going down the "you can have my parachute when you pry it from my cold dead hand" road like guns. I do think there is a problem, has been for a long time. I don't know the overall answer, but I would be that if most of the ones now dead from maybe being in over their head too quick would have listened from the beginning to ones telling them, they might not be dead. The last 3 or 4 to leave Z-Hills in a helicopter were warned, talked to, not in a confrontational way (not all anyway) but the wouldn't listen. What do you do about that? I think they all had over 500 jumps. People take it as gospel when a good 4-way person tells them how to do a knee turn. Why don't people take the word of a good canopy pilot??? Man why do I babble on so much? -Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

As far as a canopy control class goes, I'm sure it would make anyone better. Information doesn't only trickle down, it goes up also. (this using the theory that people's version of "down" is higher jump numbers to lower) A perfect example of this is I have more jumps than any of the guys from the full-time PD swoop team, but I can learn WAY more from them than they could from me. Thats where #'s don't matter. Bigger parachutes may not be as fun as something small, but good landings no matter how boring are still more fun than bad landings that were exciting right before it went bad. By not downsizing too quickly you will learn more and that helps when going to other things. I think one definite advantage to having many jumps is not only skill that comes with it, but knowing the skill you don't have, and knowing that you may not be able to do everything you see someone else do. Knowing that if I started jumping that little 96 cross-braced canopy that I just might not be able to swoop like someone else who has jumped that parachute for the last 1000 jumps--even if they only have a fraction of the total jumps I have. If some people learned that earlier, they might not be ready to go to something else. --the last bit here is what I added with my edit-- Another example I know about is someone bought a vengeance because it is a swooping canopy and sold their spectre because it is not. Thats complete crap. If you can't swoop a spectre, you probably are not ready to swoop anything. (or whatever type you think you can't swoop so you need to get something else that you think you can-this case just happened to be the same as what I use)-Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

All of this talk about the low jump numbered people and regulating canopy sizes, MANY people who are over the 500 jumps shouldn't be on what they are jumping anyway. My parachute is a Spectre 7-cell 120 and I load it at a maximum of 1.5. (with any weight and or full camera setup) This, now-days is considered slow, big, conservative, whatever you want to call it. The reality is this parachute will allow me to do things that could kill me or anyone who may be under it if they are not landing it very close to the way, and direction it should be. This size,shape, and wing-loading, again, is considered light ESPECIALLY for my number of jumps. I have also noticed that I can't find anyone posting here that seems to think THEY need any sort of regulation. It's always someone else. Some have done canopy class, but few would ever admit they might not be as good at canopy control as they should be (I think these people are mostly flying faster parachutes) In the last 4.5 years, I have done over 5000 jumps on the SAME canopy make and model, I am still surprised every once in a while when I'm flying this parachute that I do something not quite right and have to flare a little quicker than normal, can't do a front riser turn because my set up isn't right, have to land farther out than I want, some of this comes from trying new things with it and I learn something more about the canopy-and I have A LOT of time under this particular model. Yes- I still try new things with it and learn new thing with that many jumps on it. Most people seem to have certain criteria to help them justify a size they want- for example: Can I land it in someones backyard? Most say yes but most would be screwed if they had to. I know I would if I ended up in the wrong backyard. Do you ever practice getting into a tight area? how low can you turn and how quick can you stop? I know sometimes it's uncool not to swoop but once you figure out you can be a good pilot and NOT swoop this may be a step toward everyone being better at flying around in a busy sky and a stable-unmoving ground. Take a good look at your ability, forget the ego, and in my opinion, many people are not willing to admit that they could screw up bad enough to kill themselves or someone else. --My faster canopy experience is about 600 jumps on a sabre 97, 1000 on a stiletto 97, then 2500 jumps on a stiletto 120, and the last 5000 on my spectre 120's. Am I way off here? -Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

I actually got to play and record a guitar track in a studio to a song with Marty Balin who is the founder of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. It's very rough now, and needs some re-doing, but not bad for my first time playing in a studio. He is in the Rock and Roll hall of fame and doing that was one of the coolest things I've ever done!!!-Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

Hello everyone. I have completely redone my website. There are over 1000 photos from the last 8 years. Go here http://www.tonyhathaway.com to view photos. I think it is now very easy to browse images here. Hope you like some of the pictures. Thank you very much.-Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

Hello all. I have completely redone my website. There are over 1000 photos from the last 8 years. Go here http://www.tonyhathaway.com to view photos. I think it is now very easy to browse images here. If you've jumped in Z-Hills in the last 8 years chances are photos of you could be here. Thank you very much.-Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

If you mount the flash to a hot shoe on top of the helmet, make sure you support the top of the flash. I broke my SB28 at the hotshoe after MANY jumps with it like that as the top was only supported with shock cord. That is my favorite way to mount it, that way you can still get to all of the buttons at anytime. I now have to mount on the side and the buttons are not as easy to get to. Any flash I have ever seen, the hot shoe mount is all plastic and not very strong. Think of it only as the base for the whole thing, the actual strength should come from somewhere else. Just trying to save you the hassle of breaking a flash. My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

Photos from the 120-way in Z-Hills are now on my site. All of these were shot by me. I will have shots from the other photographers after they get their photos to me. The link below should get you there. Enjoy. Thanks-Tony http://www.tonyhathaway.com/120-web%20folder%20ready/index.htm My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

The 2 photos are on my site. Go to this link. http://www.tonyhathaway.com/photooftheweek.htm -Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

The 2 photos are on my site. Go to this link. http://www.tonyhathaway.com/photooftheweek.htm -Tony My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

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