skysparky

I love sitting down for the training and saying 'ok, I've been jumping for about 4 months, I've got 14 jumps, and they say I get to take you today!'. I had a mother look at her daughter on her 18th birthday and say 'is he serious??' asking her like I wasn't even sitting there. I like the 'lump in your throat' one, that always gets a howl with a bunch of macho guys jumping together. Or saying, '-TM- is the best gay tandem instructor we have!' (stole that one from the guys at emerald coast, thanks guys!) We also have a TM that says 'put your dick in the wind, or I'm going to put my dick into you!'... worked good until one guy jumped up from the back and said 'I wanna jump with him!!' We're all here to have safe fun.

I've only been jumping the set-400 and an aerodyne and I know they sometimes get flaky in turbulence. Does anyone know what canopy folded up on the pair last year and caused the fatality? What is the general impression of the different tandem canopies?

guess I was asking for that one!

I just read the beginning and the end of this thread so I'm not sure if this has been said before. The owners of this un-ethical business is operating a dz? If they are getting there money from tandems... who are the instructors? If we are sticking together (which I agree and will talk to my dzo, he has been accepting the certs) then if we don't do their tandems or jump at their dz how will their dz's remain afloat? Just a thought, get them at the source, so to speak.

It's fun to pack with my other buddies right after a jump. and then laugh at them as I close my container and throw in my PC way before them At least most of them, huh kiy. Scott

Loosening up the side straps after opening saying 'time to get rid of the dead weight'... damn near sent my brother right up the risers on our first jump together.