rygon 0 #276 July 22, 2007 My friend wanted to know if you could see the rain going upwards once you was above the clouds Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #277 July 22, 2007 Had a guy tell me he was an expert on: 'them matress shaped perryshoots' ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gary73 10 #278 July 23, 2007 First look at the attached photo of Atlanta International Airport, which is the busiest airport in the entire world. I used this photo as wallpaper on my office PC for a while since my office was at about the 2:30 position in the photo, I've always liked aviation, and I worked for an airline-related company. A co-worker, knowing that I was a skydiver, once asked: "Oh, is that the airport where you skydive?" "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumppilot01 0 #279 July 23, 2007 I had a Whuffo moment at my DZ, when I was complaining about the cost of a new rig (which I am in the market for).. One of the packers said, quite calmly, "Well, you can get into basket ball for $30." Nuff said! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maxx 1 #280 July 23, 2007 Whuffo: Where do you usually go skydiving? Me: At airports which have a skydiving business near me. Whuffo: And where do the planes land in the mountain? I mean you have to go the to top of the mountain first, isn't it so? Me: No, we jump from the planes. Whuffo: And then you land on top of the mountains? Cool dude, I totally have to try that! Me: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Baksteen 84 #281 July 24, 2007 Co-worker: You skydive? Wow! and I thought my weekend was exciting, cause I have been playing Warhammer all weekend! Girl after talking about tandems and asking questions about them for nearly a full hour: What! Just because I want to make only a single jump, I have to pay WAY more than you regular jumpers!? That is SO unfair!"That formation-stuff in freefall is just fun and games but with an open parachute it's starting to sound like, you know, an extreme sport." ~mom Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebeziere 0 #282 July 24, 2007 I have read until page 8 of the posts and i don't think anyone saw someone say that to them: I was at school talking to a guy who was talking about suicides (dunno why, he's quite weird i gotta say) and he INSISTED that as a human if you decide to jump off a building you instantly die because of the freefall. He said you'd have a heart attack before you even touched the ground. I didn't even bother saying I have jumped out of a plane and survived. I just went "hmmm i don't think that's true, just my opinion though i'm not sure" and had a good inside laugh :P Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
northcave 0 #283 July 24, 2007 Quote if you decide to jump off a building you instantly die because of the freefall. I recon that if you hadn't whitnessed freefall and that you fell off a building,,, accidently,,,, (and didn't want to commit suicide),,,, then you may well have a heart murmer or two. If however you were a skydiver and accidently fell off a large building,,, i think you'd put on a hard arch. Maybe get a couple of flips in just for the hell of it. Probably go for a bit of freefly just before impact into the plf. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jumpah 0 #284 July 24, 2007 Quote If however you were a skydiver and accidently fell off a large building,,, i think you'd put on a hard arch. Maybe get a couple of flips in just for the hell of it. Probably go for a bit of freefly just before impact into the plf. And your estate would buy the beer you'd owe... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NewGuy2005 53 #285 July 25, 2007 Quote And your estate would buy the beer you'd owe... Now, THAT is funny!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
virgin-burner 1 #286 July 25, 2007 Quote Quote If however you were a skydiver and accidently fell off a large building,,, i think you'd put on a hard arch. Maybe get a couple of flips in just for the hell of it. Probably go for a bit of freefly just before impact into the plf. And your estate would buy the beer you'd owe... i'm never buying no beer if i cant drink any of it.. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
speedy 0 #287 July 25, 2007 One I get often is when I show the tandem students a demo video. When the drogue is thrown the students says "He's opened the parachute already!" Then it's gets worse as the TM explains without the drogue they would fall to fast for the vidiot. Like, we don't bother with the drogue when they don't have video Dave Fallschirmsport Marl Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jheadley 0 #288 July 25, 2007 Quote Then it's gets worse as the TM explains without the drogue they would fall to fast for the vidiot. Like, we don't bother with the drogue when they don't have video But doesn't everything in freefall fall at the same speed? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RB_Hammer 0 #289 July 25, 2007 Quote Quote Then it's gets worse as the TM explains without the drogue they would fall to fast for the vidiot. Like, we don't bother with the drogue when they don't have video But doesn't everything in freefall fall at the same speed? In a vacuum. . ."I'm not lost. I don't know where I'm going, but there's no sense in being late." Mathew Quigley Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VTmotoMike08 0 #290 July 25, 2007 No shit, I once had a whuffo ask me if my parachute came out of the grippers on my jumpsuit. And this was while I was wearing a rig Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jheadley 0 #291 July 25, 2007 I once told a whuffo that the grippers are to help the paramedics pick us up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildcard451 0 #292 July 25, 2007 Quote I once told a whuffo that the grippers are to help the paramedics pick us up. That's not what they are for? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyTory 0 #293 July 25, 2007 Now, I work in Manifest and get a lot of phone calls every day. The BEST one by far was someone who called wanting to know the price of the "webcamera on their head". I asked, "you mean the price if the video"? "Nono, the webcams. I've seen it on your webpage. The ones that we can wear in freefall so we can see the ground". Then INSISTED that she's seen it on our webpage! It was advertised there! It took a lot of explaining to get her to understand that no, we don't jump with webcams and that what she saw were experienced fun jumpers with cameras on their heads, that webcams are not used in freefall :) and that the internet wouldn't work from 13k. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #294 July 26, 2007 Quote I once told a whuffo that the grippers are to help the paramedics pick us up. firs time I saw grippers (was also my 1st time at a DZ for my 1st tandem), I thought they were kind of aerodynamic appendixes to have kind of a more stable freefall scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Baksteen 84 #295 July 26, 2007 I had a botched landing, after which i found myself at the Doctor's. She diagnosed a partially torn ankle ligament, and told me that I would probably be allright with two weeks of tape, and taking it easy for a while. I carefully brought up the matter of jumping again. Her answer: "Since you do not need your ankle while in the air, I do not see a problem with you continuing to jump, provided that you can make sure that you can make sure that you do not have to dampen the shock of touching down yourself." I could only stare at her, while having a mental picture of the fire department running after me with one of those catching whatchamacallits.."That formation-stuff in freefall is just fun and games but with an open parachute it's starting to sound like, you know, an extreme sport." ~mom Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jurgencamps 0 #296 July 26, 2007 Quote ... provided that you can make sure that you do not have to dampen the shock of touching down yourself." Or just flare your canopy a little bit better. I think that she knew exactly what she was talking about Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
2fat2fly 0 #297 July 26, 2007 At least I wasn't the only one, then I am not the man. But the man knows my name...and he's worried Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Baksteen 84 #298 July 26, 2007 No, 'cause when i stared at her, she turned away all embarrassed and said: "Well, I am not familiar with those techniques.." Nice try though "That formation-stuff in freefall is just fun and games but with an open parachute it's starting to sound like, you know, an extreme sport." ~mom Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FallingDuck 0 #299 July 26, 2007 I've been asked more times than I can count "how do you find your landing area." I tell them "we have radio beacons in our helmets of course. " Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bmore_chrissy 0 #300 July 27, 2007 I know it's been mentioned in this thread, but... I have 2 tandems and 6 AFF jumps (one more level to go!). No less than three of my friends have asked if i can tandem jump with them when i'm done AFF. When i say I'll need a few more thousand jumps, they say "But I'd feel so much safer jumping with you!" Are you RETARDED??!?!?! Safer with me than with a certified TM with 500-6000 jumps under his belt? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
