bmason81

Does mirage still offer the discount for people deployed to iraq or afghanistan? I just got back and heard that they stopped the dicount but I haven't called mirage yet to find out for sure. pull low, fly fast, PLF!

hey brothers it is my second day back in hawaii and i went to jump yesterday. i was not nervous at all and as soon as I was out the door it all came back I did some freeflying today and my headdown is better than when I left. weird huh? Well I guess now it is time to order a new mirage and canopy. pull low, fly fast, PLF!

dillingham airfield skydive hawaii, there is a lot of traffic as there are two companies at the airfield plus glider rides and a biplane ride, but it was at the end of the day all the other companies were shut down, it seems the people I talked to just had this thought set in stone with no room for a different point of view. pull low, fly fast, PLF!

I was recalling a freefly jump that I did with 2 friends a while back and due to getting out too far before the dz and the winds being a steady twenty plus no one on the load made it back to the landing area. We all landed at the beach park near the dz except for my friend who for some reason did not follow us to the park. He ended up landing in the wooded area wear it took him over and hour and a half to make it back through the woods. The woods are so dense that even from the plane we would have not been able to locate him for a long time if at all. So if he got hurt and we had to do a foot search it would have taken a very long time to find him. When he finally made it back to the dz I asked him why didnt he think to land next to the runway. I know that we are not supposed to because of traffic but our load was the last load of the day so the plane was already at the hangar before we landed. I talked to some people at the dz and they disagreed with me saying that you should never land next to the runway, but I think that given the chances of getting hurt landing in the woods and not being able to get help right away I would land next to the runway, any thoughts? care to put in your 2 cents? pull low, fly fast, PLF!

tommorrow I will be on a plane back home to the blue skies of hawaii, never again will I be away from jumping for this long.

Thanks guys as of now I will be haeding home in two weeks and I hear the caravan is running hard. My old aff instructor jim cargille is back he was in petoria jumping for the winter, he is the one of the best instructors I know. pull low, fly fast, PLF!

I was wondering how long it took to get back in the game after a layoff? I have the chance to jump year round and did 225 jumps in ten months before I was deployed to the desert and now and almost ready to come home, and am a little apprehensive about my skill after six months off. I guess the jumpers in cold weather clilmates could give me the best advise. pull low, fly fast, PLF!