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quote from www.mostjumps.com ______________________ 4.30 am We have problems with one of the Porters... Jay was on the ground for 15 minutes before we got the other Porter up in the air. So now he only has one plane. And it is still raining.. Jay has now done 456 jumps and he has 3.5 hours to go. Not the best conditions but he is going strong!! ______________________ from www.mostjumps.com edited to clarify.
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999th boobie post ( . ) ( . )
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When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do.........
JeffD replied to bluegremlin's topic in The Bonfire
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Well I talked to another member and got some clarification. Situation: Hard pull becomes an impossible pull or your too low. If you deploy your reserve there is a chance that the main might come out after/during reserve deployment. If you cutaway first then there is a chance the cutaway main could snag the reserve. Or if you dont cutaway the main could deploy and give you a two out, or just sit in the container. But as someone else stated, talk to your instructors.
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NO there is no way to recover the helium. As soon as you released, the balloons would go up until they explode and then just the remains of the ballons would fall back to earth.
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"bis später, baby"
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Alright well I'm 250lbs and my terminal is ~ 135-140mph. My openings on the student pd280's, pd300's are a little rough. They go something like Pitch, one thousand , two thousand, Three Grraaahaha , 3-4 more seconds and its open. Is this really short? My body doesn't like me very much the next day (feels like I played football without pads). Is there anything I can do, and since I dont pack them I can't pack differently. Thanks. P.S. Thanks Paul M. for wearing 26lbs to keep up with me.
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Interesting. I'll have to try that some time. Actually I had thought about how to do this myself but the energy required is immense, to make the nucleus accept more protons/neutrons. Like I was thinking taking an element within a mixture of Hydrogen (1n,1p,1e) and heating it up, hitting it with electricity or something to get them to fuse together (aha Fusion!) hehe.
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Hey... Go jump out of an airplane. :-) Its not your fault. Some people in this world only jump from person to person, in the end they lose. Just relax and enjoy life, if you find someone else, good, if someone else finds you, good. Its hard but just look forward to waking up tommorow and have fun!
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Found a better quote. $90 for 7,362L so thats 12 Tanks == $1100 for enough He to get you up there.
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Those are pretty freakin cool. now do one in Free Fall. :-)
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Did you get the PC out of the BOC pouch? Yes: It will probably deploy. No: dont need to but coulden't hurt.
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Work Hmm...I've been doing work since I got to work this morning after I ate breakfast, checked all 5 e-mail addresses, looked at the stock report from yesterday, Checked dropzone.com, checked a motorcycle message board, conversed with another employee, did a little research on DC power supplies, and now looking again at DZ.com. Man work is tough.
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I was actually researching this. http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/uham/lift.html for helium Diameter=18 feet volume = 86474 Liters lift = 195.66 lbs Thats alot of helium.
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Should I invest in any gear for my AFF training?>
JeffD replied to hawkflight's topic in Gear and Rigging
Man it was chilly at altitude here at z-hills yesterday (nov-6) There was a storm front a ways away, but my hands were freezing. But As for gear I went and bought a pair of Flex-z's, and find them much more comfortable than the ones I was borrowing. But make sure that they are clear/ish because the instructors need to see your eyes in FF. -
"Make it an even race..." as he chucks off the "top speed recorders" P.S. if anyone doesn't know, Turbo is from a movie.
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well I would guess its somewhere around 80-90 decibels.
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Broken fingers at Perris - look for the green light!
JeffD replied to nissin's topic in Safety and Training
Thats what my DZ uses. A quick beep of the horn and wait for the go around. Its as simple as zip tying an airhorn to the side of the pilot seat or something. And yes on my aff3 my JM had me sit by the door and watch the spot (head outside). -
Ahhh. I did the same thing. I did a tandem 2.5yrs ago then back in may of this year I got reinterested in skydiving because of a friend. So I watched everything I could and of course like you I found the Incidents forum, and the mals at skydivingmovies.com and I thought to myself NO way, thats too scary/dangerous. But then I realised how much damn fun it was, and what most of the accidents were caused by (low turns) so that got me pumped again. Now granted there are freak accidents that no ammount of prep work could have prevented but those are like you having a vein burst in your brain and kill you, no one could have known. I still get nervous in the door (Im at 5 jumps now) but I was practicing spotting on my Aff3 and I got really comfortable just being in the door without jumping and just enjoying this wonderful sport we have, Until jumprun that is.
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Sorry I only read newbie. hehe. But think about this. 1) are you in a downplane at 50' If this were it I'd say you would have seen this coming and cutway with enough time to plane out. or 2) is the downplane just starting at 50' You would be able to tell the Downplane is starting and cutaway immediatly. without too much alti lost from the Downplane.
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My favorite was the student doing AFF 1. "Now this is this guys first jump, but he was scared so he asked two people to go up with him the first time to help him out." This was the one with the black guy who cutaway at ~ 100' over trees (he survived).
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Florida weather can be nasty too. I had to sit from 10am to 5pm before I could get in an aff jump last week because of wind. Now yesterday winds were 15-20mph and While a load was on jump run there were sprinkles of rain coming down on manifest. But I hope the weather gets better for students here.
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Shouldent have happend in the first place. Two out => talk to your instructor what you should do and look for before you cutaway your main. and then just ride your reserve. Many very skilled pilots can't land a two out safely.
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Alright well I am curious what you guys think about my flyer for the first club meeting. This is the first meeting, so I am basically just trying to get other students interested and jumping. Thanks.
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