You've been a skydiver for a while if...

[billeisele 130]

- you jumped with a blast handle and thought they looked cool
- accuracy was done downwind
- CRW was done with rounds, and rounds and squares, and paradactyls (sp?) and whatever
- CRW - it was too "scary" to slide down the lines cause you could get tangled but climbing inside the center cell of the canopy you docked on was OK
- your piggyback rig had a frap strap instead of a bag
- "Masters of the Sky" was a current movie, on 16 mm film
- the boogie of the year was the Z-Hills Turkey Boogie
- you could run to the Loadstar while it was on the taxi way, carrying your rig, jump in and sit with your legs hanging out the door on take-off
- "low pull" Charlie Case was still around

Give one city to the thugs so they can all live together. I vote for Chicago where they have strict gun laws.

[BUBLHED 0]

Zero Porosity WHO?


Elliptical WHAT?


those skinny little lines are How strong?

ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

[bozo 0]

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Ya never know Jimbo.....shes as old as "we" are hahaha

Hey!! since I've still got a year and a half to go to to be eligibel for SOS, I'm hoping I've got a few years of jumping coming my way.

Stay safe, keep your head on a swivel , you'll be fine.

bozo
Pain is fleeting. Glory lasts forever. Chicks dig scars.

[airtwardo 7]

"He's Herd" had nuthin' to do with listening skills...



~Ya could tell them apart because, "Roger" was the quiet one, "Carl" was the one that could fly!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[grannyinthesky 0]

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Stay safe, keep your head on a swivel , you'll be fine.

I do that. And I land in nice big student areas generally away from where others are landing if I can. I figure the exercise from walking in is good for me and I want to be able to say that I "have been a skydiver for quite a while" one of these days.

"safety first... and What the hell.....
safety second, Too!!! " ~~jmy

POPS #10490

[debussyschild 0]

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. . . you put a load of students out first on rounds because you were out of WDI's.

Now that's just fuckin funny as shit. HAHAHAHAHAHA

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

[Graybird 0]

If Ya know what a t-bow is.
If ya jumped a delta 2
If ya know what a tricon is and jumped one for a main and a reserve.
If ya recognize what rings and ropes are.
If ya modified you're own 28 footer
If you're aware there was a mark 1 and a mark 2 pc
Youve been a skydiver for a while!

[AggieDave 6]

You've been a skydiver for a while if...


Your farts smell like Geritol?

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

[airtwardo 7]

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You've been a skydiver for a while if...


Your farts smell like Geritol?

Sorry 'bout that!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[jimmytavino 16]

blast handle reserve ripcord

brand X "swing wing jumpsuit" with slots at the hip for your legstraps to be "hidden"

french papillon main.
R 3 releases

"square" hand deploy Pilot chute.
jimmy circa 1977 attachment 1


when " jumping the jet"... meant a Boeing 727
attachment 2

you can recall when "patches and awards" were still a big deal. attachment 3

your child,,,, who was born AFTER you already had made 1200 jumps,,,, goes skydiving HERself,, for the first time...
attachments 4, 5 , and 6 .
jmy in rochester

[airtwardo 7]

brand Z "swing wing jumpsuit" with slots at the hip for your legstraps to be "hidden"

Brand "X".... and don't forget the 'dual' clip attachments for either 1/2 or full wing.



Edited to add: 2nd pic... who shootin' the bird off camera?

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[jimmytavino 16]

got me twardo.....!!!

i just caught that myself... and edited the original post..
( must be "Old Age " i guess...) and YES Dual purpose wing clips,,, front or back..
DAMN i wish i STILL HAD that suit.... made the mistake of selling it to a pal who somehow lost track of it...
I think it was 65 bucks or something... Brand New , Custom Colors!!!!



as for the bird thrower, who lurked our picture... somebody told me it was some dude named Jim Twar----- something or other!!! geeze that 727 was the best...

jmy

[pilotdave 0]

I'm not sure if it's a compliment or not, but you haven't changed a bit! I opened the first attachment before I even looked at who posted them and recognized you instantly.

Dave

[jimmytavino 16]

hahaha thanks man...


i DID get a haircut...and some of them ,are now grey..... but that's how it goes!!!!
time marches ON !!!

jt

[airtwardo 7]

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got me twardo.....!!!

i just caught that myself... and edited the original post..
( must be "Old Age " i guess...) and YES Dual purpose wing clips,,, front or back..
DAMN i wish i STILL HAD that suit.... made the mistake of selling it to a pal who somehow lost track of it...
I think it was 65 bucks or something... Brand New , Custom Colors!!!!



as for the bird thrower, who lurked our picture... somebody told me it was some dude named Jim Twar----- something or other!!! geeze that 727 was the best...

jmy

I still have mine...a 'stock' black one with rainbow stripes, ...DAMN those things were hot....heavy duty canvas, built to last!


We don't need no stinkin' BA~LOON SUIT!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[flyhi 24]

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When you have made streamers (wind drift indicators) on the kitchen table with copper rods, crepe paper and Elmer's glue.

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Went to paper drinking straws filled with sand because the copper rods tended to gum up farmer McNasty's combine

We used wire hangers. We figured eventually they'd be biodegradable.

Last-Hope-Rope

Shit happens. And it usually happens because of physics.

[tbrown 26]

If you remember stowing your crown lines. And you know what center lines are.

Shaking your head and muttering "Sweet Jesus, you've got to be kidding me", the first time you saw a "hand deployed pilot chute".

And while we're on the subject, you know what a "Jesus string" is.

Wondering what that small bit of fabric was on top of somebody's risers (square canopies only). It takes the place of ropes & rings ? And it's called a "slider" ?

Trying to figure out where you stuck your thumbs the first time you ever saw a 3-ring (I'm not making this up).

Getting chewed out for pulling high, at 3 grand.

Looking at ads for $220 Mini Systems, $360 PC's, $595 Clouds, $260 reserves, and thinking, "I'll NEVER be able to afford this sport..."

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

[jimmytavino 16]

if you can swear that you saw, live and in person...
a dzo
dispatching 2 static line students,
seated in the door,
AT a TIME,
same pass
wearing 'direct bag T - 10 rigs',,
that the dzo made Himself,,
one pass after another,
without a wind streamer
from a DeHavilland Beaver,
with the radial engine chugging,
while said DZO is IN the pilot seat...
with a load of 10 static lines
and One JM...
who had Maybe 95 jumps, himself,
while the ceiling was down to 2,600 feet, and dropping ,
and an 8 way "attempt"
was dirt diving in the boarding area....
and the windsock, was whippin'....
then...
.
.
. you know you've been around a while..

cheers tbrown...experienced that...!!!!
PS"mini-money meet, on the next load,,, who's IN."???

jmy T

[shropshire 0]

Cut away a square and looked up to check that your reserve id fully round.

Thought that a Light Weight Cloud was high performant but couldn't wait to get on the Pegasus.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[JerryBaumchen 1,436]

Hi jimmy,

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PS"mini-money meet, on the next load,,, who's IN."???

Oh, H*** yes. Ours were always a buck each in the pot and 'one tie all tie' which meant another buck in the pot and another round if two or more guys got the disc.

It was all part of the jump life in you lived in the PacNW with our low ceilings.

JerryBaumchen

PS) Tbrown: I loved that one about where to put your thumb in the 3-ring.

PRICELESS

[mccurley 1]

I just about pissed myself reading through this threadAnd then realized I must be getting old cause I've seen or been through most of this

One to add is knowing the difference in packing a Sled with ropes and rings for sub terminal vs terminal

Watch my video Fat Women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRWkEky8GoI

[carolf 0]

"uncover - thumbs in rings- snap-cover-pull -punch" to release the capewells and get out an unmodified, surplus reserve with 4 line release from a belly wart

-piggybacks

-upgrading to a mini-system with PC and flatpack reserve

-5 cell Strato Stars were hot

-Freak Brothers Conventions!

-Balloon suits

-switching from belly bands, and making sure they weren't twisted, to pilot chutes on leg straps

[brokenwing 2]

jumping an Irvin Eagle???????

[brokenwing 2]

i liked my swing wing


especially when i was 145lb @ 6'

[airtwardo 7]

...ya see a guy walking to the plane in 'Tracking Pants' and think he must of lost the top 1/2 of his 'Silly Suit'


Kinda funny how some things go full circle...

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~