PorkyPorcellus

What drop zones require an AAD? No AAD, no jump. Let's make a list. You wouldn't want to make a long drive to get there, only to find out you're not welcome in their sky. 1. Skydive San Marcos 2. Skydive South Texas Oddly, you can't find this rule on their web sites. How are you supposed to know?

An uninformed vote can be worse than no vote. If you don 't want to do the research to be comfortable with your vote, that's find, and feel free to abstain. Let others who are informed make the choices for you. Then you just have to hope that their choices are the right ones that you would have made...

Or you can come back as a praying mantis. Guaranteed sex. But only once, and then the witch will bite your head off.

A one-of-a-kind aeronaut shaving mug sold to a collector for $45,000! Link: http://shavingmugs.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html?_sm_au_=iMVkrGFPRRJMG5G6

Yeah, I'd be happy to loan him my rig on day 179 of the reserve repack cycle.

A new Ford Service TV commercial features Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, heading up a team of mechanics about to fix a Ford truck. After all the truck's ailments are specified, Dwayne says; "Wheels up, flaps down." The pronouncement seems to be the equivalent of "Let's get to it", to make all the mechanics jump into action. The ad: http://www.ispot.tv/ad/A7Ig/ford-service-the-specialists-featuring-dwayne-johnson But isn't this "wheels up, flaps down" airplane analogy contradictory? You have the wheels and flaps down for take-off, but once airborne, when you pull the wheels up, you also pull the flaps up. You wouldn't put the flaps back down again to produce more drag. Don't you pull these two items in or out together, not opposite each other? Shouldn't it be "wheels up, flaps up" for takeoff, and "wheels down, flaps down" for landing? Does that phrase sound goofy to anyone else? Is this just something that sounds cool to TV audiences who don't know one darned thing about airplanes?

I asked earlier but got no reply. Whose money are you spending? Yours? Hers? Money for other things? If it's your money why is she annoyed? You addressed the money component, but not the time component. A whuffo spouse/girlfriend wants you to spend some weekend time with THEM, not at the drop zone.

My ex-wife just spent equal ridiculous amounts of money on her own pursuits. Then we were cool. Broke, but cool.

Since "the moment" may change soon and the picture disappear, I'll add it to this thread so everyone will know what is being talked about. [inline tiger_girl.jpg]