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[divejunky 0]

What's the alt. of that pic? Any guess?

[ChromeBoy 0]

Hard to tell because pictures are not anything like being physically there. Don't know the actual size square miles of the airport.
- It's just a couple of broken vertebrea. Have some pain killers.

[PalmettoTiger 1]

Here's the link to the picture, there's a scale along the bottom. If you're just trying to get an idea and don't need the actual scale, it looks to me like runway R-3 is 9/10ths of a mile from tip to tip and R-1 is 1.5 miles from tip to tip. (Can't tell you how many inches on your monitor = 1 mile because of different monitor sizes and resolutions, sorry.)
PTiger
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way

[PhreeZone 20]

Uh... R2 and R4 are taxiways...
Cause I don't wanna come back down from this cloud... ~ Bush

[PalmettoTiger 1]

hehehe... d'OH! Um, just ignore those labels then and pretend I knew what was going on. Shows you how much I know about airports... the only ones I visit on a regular basis have ONE runway. PTiger
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way

[PhreeZone 20]

Here is the Info in the runways...
Runway Information
Runway 9/27
Dimensions: 5000 x 75 ft. / 1524 x 23 m
Surface: asphalt, in good condition
Runway edge lights: medium intensity
RUNWAY 9 RUNWAY 27
Traffic pattern: right left
Markings: nonprecision instrument nonprecision instrument
Markings condition: good good
Runway end identifier lights: yes yes
Displaced threshold: no no
Touchdown point: no no
Obstructions: POLE
Runway 18/36
Dimensions: 4895 x 75 ft. / 1492 x 23 m
Surface: asphalt, in good condition
Runway edge lights: medium intensity
RUNWAY 18 RUNWAY 36
Traffic pattern: left right
Markings: numbers only numbers only
Markings condition: good good
Displaced threshold: no no
Touchdown point: no no
Both are about 5000 feet..... under a mile each
Cause I don't wanna come back down from this cloud... ~ Bush

[freeflir29 0]

I think I used to go to class in Hangar #2. Not positive though...That was in 1991. The altitude of that pic is a couple hundred miles. Terraserver uses sattellite photos some down to 1 meter. I was screwing around on there at work a couple years ago and thought it strange that you couldn't get pics of Pope AFB but you can get 1 meter photos (Good enough to see what kind of cars are in the parking lot) of the "Building that doesn't exist" on Ft. Bragg. *shrug*
"I only have a C license, so I don't know shit..right?"-Clay

[PalmettoTiger 1]

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Both are about 5000 feet..... under a mile each

I dunno where the actual "runway" begins, but if people are looking for a sense of scale, my measurements were of the pavement from end to end.
PTiger
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way

[Dutchboy 0]

So, are you going to fly up to the WFFC this year? Of course, you'd have to finish that pilot license first.
The Dutchboy
Phil's Flying Enterprises, Inc.

[freeflir29 0]

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Of course, you'd have to finish that pilot license first.

Hey...I'm workin on it! Uncle Sugar has me tasked out lately. Taking up my free time dammitt. I did get my CD-ROM test prep though and that is helping. I'm not all that worried about finishing the flying portion until I get the damn test out of the way. I hate buying maps and directories that I only use 1 or 2 times before they expire. LOL
"I only have a C license, so I don't know shit..right?"-Clay

[divejunky 0]

I have my privat, now I need to build tim for my instrument and commercial license.

[Dutchboy 0]

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I have my privat, now I need to build tim for my instrument and commercial license.

I know a great place in Georgia where you can get accelerated instrument training at a great price. They're even skydiver friendly - so much so that they took Clay as a student.
The Dutchboy
Phil's Flying Enterprises, Inc.

[Snowwhite 0]

Just a quick note to let you all know that the World Free Fall Convention webpage is up and running ( at least parts of it are)
www. freefall.com Michael has been working on getting the thing going, and after all of us playing around with all of the new possibilities for message boards, we decided we liked the old one best.
As all of the latest and greatest is added to the Convention, it will be added to the website.

[kevin922 0]

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Just a quick note to let you all know that the World Free Fall Convention webpage is up and running ( at least parts of it are)
www. freefall.com Michael has been working on getting the thing going, and after all of us playing around with all of the new possibilities for message boards, we decided we liked the old one best.
As all of the latest and greatest is added to the Convention, it will be added to the website.

So the only thing that isn't under construction is a message board from last year?
When does the aircraft information get updated?
Kevin

[apoil 0]

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Roy... did you get all the facts on the Jet? Its sure don't sound like you have the whole story, just the one that most jumpers believe. ie rec.'s version... The '99 jet was close, just fell though late.

The problem with '99 was that the Jet was advertised, and tickets were sold.
If it was only "close" why was the announcement that it wouldn't be there made at sunset the night before?
The answer to that is simple, because management (Don) firmly believed the deal would be closed - but also because letting people know that there was any doubt might mean some folks wouldn't show or would leave early. Some folks come from all over the world specifically to jump the jet. They got hosed.
Never mind the Jet. Sometimes bad luck happens.
I had a hard-on to jump the Super Connie.
In '98 it was advertised. Come wednesday (the scheduled day) I asked manifest when it would be there - "oh they couldn't make it... something about insurance"
ok bummer.
In '99 it was advertised. Hey great, I'll get to jump it this year, last year must have been a weird fluke. No show. No announcement.
In '00 it was still advertised. Now I'm thinking they are just too lazy to accurately update their website. But then solicitations went out over rec. asking who is interested in jumping the connie so they can schedule the appropriate number of days. I'm thinking yes, this is the year I can finally do it, so I sent my email to theconnie@freefall.com explaining how badly I want to jump this historic aircraft and how I'd gladly make several jumps from it.
Come the convention, guess what? No connie, and not even a courtesy email to the people who expressed interest saying "sorry it couldn't make it this year"
And from what I hear, the Save A Connie foundation never had any intention of providing this aircraft to the convention in any of those years.
Now the convention has been moved to a new location and there's barely enough time to get the facilities together. Is there any commitment in this new location to have the cops lay off? Will it be a fun and free environment? I don't know, and I'm not going to go there to find out.

[apoil 0]

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So the only thing that isn't under construction is a message board from last year?

"under construction" icons are probably on the top ten lists of awful webdesign.
Put anything there but that. All you do is advertise that you don't have your shit together.
and of course number one on the list is popups, which makes most people want to strangle you. GET RID OF THEM.
There's nothing on that web page that requires fancy javascript, other than an overzealous page designer. And if the info can't be browsed (as in prior years) without java/javascript then you are excluding people.

[PhreeZone 20]

I'm seeing the autodate function using Javascript. I did'nt get any popup windows, what ones did you get?
I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend... ~3EB