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""The rarest of the rare: AB negative"" Me too.. Steve My Site

FYI, Tom Goodrick has designed a great freefall skydiver for FS-2004 flight sim. (see attachment) This is available on Avsim.com and on Flightsim.com. Search for skydiver.zip and parafoil.zip Be carefull not to over control Can be used for BASE also. Just use the slew control to go to your favorite structure. Steve My Site

"I'd say the recovery arc is about 1500f at least. Also it should be possible to flare more smoothly, with the additional weight it pops right back up when you apply the flaps. " Erlend, Make sure you have "autorudder" enabled on the realism menu. This increases the turnrate. Try Half flaps instead of full flaps for the flare. Rather than increase the weight of the pilot there should be a way to reduce canopy area. You might ask Tom. Steve My Site

The (.air) file can be modified if you know what you are doing to make adjustments in the flight dynamics. Tom is trying to model just the pilot without the Airfoil for realistic freefall, but because FS-2004 won't allow 2 models in 1 aircraft folder, it will be up to the user to switch to the parafoil before . (No Automatic deploy at 700' ) Steve My Site

FYI, Tom Goodrick has modeled a nice 280 sq ft Parafoil with a 200# pilot for Flight Sim 2004. The flight dynamics seem very good. Stick controls only Toggle Left/Toggle Right and flaps for flare Get it Here. File is parafoil.zip Be sure to read the "Read me" file Smoke is available with the "I" key. Steve

Fyi, I Get this message on the Links page. Error: Can't load included file: '/home/dropzone/dropzone.com/cgi-bin/links/admin/templates/default/include_column_one.html'. Reason: No such file or directory

Hmmm, 11,480 feet, not seen on radar? Looks like a night 6-way formation starting.

Close the door by pushing on the Window Its an insulator and will not discharge. Works great. Steve

Where did STATE go as a search option? Just noticed it's missing. Must have been removed recently? Thanks, Steve PhreeZone is right. If you go to the Skydivers page there's a quick search option on the username, region and US state. The Power Search option will enable you to search on whatever you want to. I will add a few additional Quick Search options in the future.

Thanks Dave/Matt, Its a fantastic site! Appreciate your hard work. Steve

Bummer, Interesting location of shop Among the businesses destroyed were the book store, a skydive parachute shop, a pawn and loan shop and a currency exchange. Here

Chris, Like Dave said, "Those are just screenshots from microsoft flight sim! I've done that flight a hundred times... ", but here is a virtual one at 4500'. What altitude were you flying? http://www.uvm.edu/~swarley/Virtualmeigs.jpg Steve My Site

Saw Kerry on TV say: "If you liked 8 years of Bill Clinton, You will Love my first 4 years" Hmmm

" Anyone know how to get info on clubs and instructors?" Here is a Web site with all the Illinois Clubs. Most require AMA membership / Insurance. ~$50 http://www.csam.iit.edu/~amadist6/email/il_clubs.htm Have fun and enjoy great hobby. Steve

Just think, We had to put up with this guy for 8 Years here in Vermont. We are very tolerant Go GB