Weekend Numbers

[Viking 0]

No way you guys have a wal-mart within 50 miles?!?!

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[indyz 1]

0:0:0

My container should be in any day now. Gonna put a few jumps on it Saturday if possible.

[Lindsey 0]

1 (number of farm animals that showed up at the dz this weekend.....1 billy goat): 6: 1

So the goat just showed up....wandered in from the woods....Hmmmm.... There was also a tree frog that my kid found and a baby lizard....but I guess they don't qualify as farm animals....

Got to make 5 sit jumps....so that I now have a total of 7 (lol).....but on the last one, I was able to move about a bit and only got unstable once....AND when I did, I was able to recover without corking!!!!! Hee, hee, hee....I see progress.....lol

Peas~
Lindsey

--
A conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is just a conservative who's been to jail

[Ducky 0]

10:2:11:4:3

10: Number of friends drug to the DZ on Saturady to do tandems and eat some good BBq.

2: Number number of the above who signed up for IAF after there tandem, woohoo new jump buddies!
11: jumps all but one solo sits, yep dats right a Duck sitflyin!!!!

4: Number of loads on which i saw boobies and got da extra 1500ft in the CASA no doubt!

3: Beer>> 1 for first successful sit held from exit to b.o. + 1 for landing in da "d license only" end of the field (damnit that's where the camera was!!!!!) +1 first 2 way sitfly, can you say CORK!?!?!



KWAK

Sometimes your the bug, sometimes your the windshield. Sometimes your the hammer sometimes your the nail. Question is Hun, Do you wanna get hammered or do you wanna get nailed?????

[Jasmin 0]

5 (number of International flights I took this weekend):1(Number of times I got to sit in the cockpit for finals and landing into Kinsford Smith International in the Navigator's seat of a boeing 777-200 YEAH BABY!!!)
For the rest-
0:0:1 The case is for the first time over my DZ in a boeing (and in the cockpit of one at that) and for the first time in a plane over my DZ with my rig where I haven't jumped out....figured someone might get a little antsy if I did!!

xj

"I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

[ltdiver 3]

7 (got to actually touch skydivers this weekend (instead of just fly video):7:0

Actually a very fantasitc weekend!!
ltdiver

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon

[AndyMan 7]

516.7(miles driven):4:1

I packed up the car and drove from Chicago down to Archway for the weekend, and as usual had a great time.

Notable first was for my 1st camera jump. I attempted filming a 3-way rw jump. I think they were in frame for a grand total of about 8 seconds. D'oh! However my last jump was better, I even got the exit shot - from a caravan with no camera step. WooHoo! 24 Moosehead purchased.

Other notables include me jumping my stileto again, and standing up my landings (I'd been butt-sliding intentionally.) These MIGHT be considered "firsts", because they were both "first in 5 weeks". I'm psyched because this means I'll be in true form for Rantoul. This also means I'll need a new profile pic. Damn.


_Am

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You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

[dmddave 0]

2:1:1:1
2 jumps, 1 night jump(1st), 1 broken tibia(1st break), 1 case of beer for the night jump which I didn't get to drink due to the trip to the ER for x-rays and cast.
The night jump was mostly fun until the landing with overcast skies lightning in the distance.

[Spy38W 0]

Congrats Nathan

Hrm, lemme see... 2 (number of cutaways I saw where I WASN'T a participant) : 5 : 0

Took a vacation from the home DZ and had a great time. Now I have to decide if a 2 hour and 20 minute drive is worth leaving my home DZ (45 minute drive, 7 minute flight)...

--
Hook high, flare on time

[drenaline 0]

2:0:0

1 kewl party, my team mate got married and made and excellent party.

1 horrible hung over, drank I dunno how many bottles of red wine but were a lot. See above to know were.

HISPA 21
www.panamafreefall.com

[narcimund 0]

26 hours in the office over the two days of the weekend : 0 (explained by the time in the office : 0

Bah

First Class Citizen Twice Over

[ernokaikkonen 0]

1(number of times I cleared a mal that was ready to be cutaway):3:0

Spent most of the weekend packing reserves and doing some rigging, but had enough time to throw in a couple of attempts for a Mr Bill...

The second attempt: I was the "pilot". Right after the exit, my "passenger" decides that in addition to holding on to my harness with his hands, it might be a good idea to grip my legs with his. Not good. The momentum of him throwing his legs around mine tilted us seriously head down while I was pitching the PC. As the opening shock tore the passenger away from me, I started wondering if the world should be spinning the way it was... Then I thought:"Ahh, that line probably shouldn't be going around my leg", and promptly released the line to where it was supposed to be. Looking up, I saw my Fury in a tangled mess on the other side, the other side was fine. There might have been a line over, but if there was, it cleared when I pumped on the rear risers a bit. An uneventful canopy-ride from 1400m down from then on...

The passenger lost a shoe when he fell off me. Serves him right for causing me a mal.

Erno

[Skystorm 0]

1:3:3

My most awesome weekend ever. Beer owed for first time jumping my new gear, first time out of a caravan and first jump from 12000ft. All on my first jump for the weekend.

Gene Police: "YOU!! Out of the pool, NOW!!!"

[PhreeZone 20]

$200000(Those that were there know...):5:1

Tried for the coach rating again and failed the dive. 2 RW camera jumps, double tube jump (I was holding one), Filmed a tandem for fun. The beer.... you had to be there for it...

Yesterday is history
And tomorrow is a mystery

Parachutemanuals.com

[hisgoofyness 0]

6 (days left until I move to Chicago !!!) : 2 : 1

2 three ways yesterday, lot of fun

first time I was part of a majorly funneled exit, man was that interesting

hisgoofyness

Goudha is for Buddha, and that's good enough for me!

[SkymonkeyONE 4]

1 (student we had fly downwind into a fence):9:0

I flew in our CASA to Fort Rucker with Johnny Mulford and a few other teammates and did a demo on Thursday and Friday. I made seven jumps on Saturday back at Raeford; mostly work jumps.

They had a student in the 82nd club, a 19 year old girl, fail to turn back into the wind prior to landing(which was blowing maybe 10 mph at the time). She rocketed over the DZ, through a tree line, over a house, then through a bush and into a fence. Lucky for her, nothing was broken except possibly her tail bone. Whew!

On a brighter note, two more "my generation" skydivers had their sons advance farther down the AFF pipeline. Tim D'Annunzio, a former member of the GK 8-way team, had his 18 year old son get through two levels. His 19 year old son has just over 50 jumps now (in under two months). Poor old Tim was bitching about having to throw down another four grand for gear! He had recently bought himself all new kit the same time he bought gear for the 19 year old. BWAHAHA! He was also inquiring about getting his AFF ticket revalidated so he wouldn't have to pay for his ever-increasing skydiving clan's training.

Another former GK, Mike Sweeny (who now runs the wind tunnel on Fort Bragg) was out there watching his 18 year old do his level 5 and 6. Nice. His kid had been a tunnel hog for years, so he is a natural.

Chuck

[freeflir29 0]

0:4:0


Well...I did have a first but I don't think it's beer worthy. First time doing a zero G exit from any plane. We had 7 people hangng outside the Otter yesterday and it seems it got a little slow. Ready, Set, GOoo WTF Over...I was trying to get out while dragging Jenn on my back for a Rodeo base. It was about a 10 way Hybrid dive. Never really built because we got out low due to weather moving in. The Rodeo was kinda fun. I've never been that fast on my belly. It's strange to be belly to earth and look straight out at someone in Head Down. I got clocked a little in free fall. I didn't think anything of it at the time but damn is my neck sore today. It certainly didn't feel that hard!!! Did 3 other jumps too. One really bad ass one with Andre. We got inverted foot docks and docked transitions. Pretty cool!!! Almost did a downwind landing. Thats the last time I EVER follow down other jumpers without looking at the flags. I was reaching for my riser (about to hook) When I happened to glance at the flags. OH SHIT!!! OK....Toggle turn...OK...light riser to get cross wind.....surf it in!!!

[Deuce 1]

4 camera suit jumps, 3 with the camera helmet checking vertical range.

First CRW jump, did a rotation. Man, that's weird. Once I got my feet hooked in to the lines of the guy below me (thanks Paul) I dragged him all over. Then with him docked on top of me, not having control of the canopy was weirder.

First time out in the camera suit (thanks Quade, thanks all on the Camera forum). WOW that's fun.

[cbain 0]

2 (times I got extra altitude on sunday ):15:3

Cool weekend!

First time flashing for extra altitude.

First time docking on someone else in a sit. (Instead of being docked upon).

First tattoo!! And it is awesome! I will be posting the pic in a new thread in a little bit.

Woohoo!

Christina

[AggieDave 6]

:6:1

6 jumps, relatively uneventful, BUT I did get some CReW in...that was fun, as always.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[kingbunky 3]

a pic of the tat, or a pic of the flash?

"Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart."
MB4252 TDS699
killing threads since 2001

[f1freak 0]

0 : 3 : 1
Three great tracking jumps, and a CASE-O-BEER for my 400th...

HAVE FUN...
...JUST DONT DIE

[billo 0]

Eh here I go again, finishing up the weekend numbers set with a late tuesday night post. Just had to put out a post to say "THANKS" to the dz I wandered to!
0:3:1 (first jump at the Kingman, KS DZ!)

Don't konw if anyone has been through there but it was a good time. They had a nice souped up 182 that could always take 4 of us up, even when I figured we might be pushing weight limits!

b

[lummy 4]

I'll save ya the embaressment of finishing off the numbers thread (and it's STILL Monday here :)

0:2:1

0, the number of times I got to be on the same load with my little sister. Tandem training almost always takes at least an hour from start of the waivers to the end of the class, but NO, they turned her around in 40 minutes and was on the load takling off JUSt as I was walking back. My fault for not saying "Hey, I want to make sure to be on the load with her". And the Little wench has YET to show me her video....

2 jumps trying to show someone how to sit using a train exit. First one was going okay except we were spinning so I let him go. The second one was doomed from the start, John decided to go on READY instead of go, and well you got the idea...

the Beer is for the first paragraph...

I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. eat sushi, get smoochieTTK#1

[skycat 0]

50 grasshoppers that died cause they thought my canopy was a cool place to hang out: 20 jumps : 3 cases

cases for 1st jump from a DC3, being on the MT womens state record which invloved (1st 32 way, 1st formation load, 1st time had an all male we're not worth line bow down infront of me ), 1st time at LP.

Fly it like you stole it!