katzurki
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Hi, Here I am, on a really crappy internet connection (and I am not at all picky, but this one is crappy even by my standards). What better time to turn to the community for a little bit of help? Can anyone point me to a picture that shows close-up the way a body is seated in the harness after the canopy has been deployed and the chest strap loosened? I'm sure I've seen it countless times in all the swooping pictures (this is more of a profile angle, as opposed to up-front), but I really can't find anything on this damned connection. Thanks!
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Hi man, First of all, great choice! :) The most important question is, do you speak Russian? I presume you are in Moscow. (A profile would help :) ), though. Depending on whether you do, I will give you some relevant phone numbers. Alternatively, you can freely PM me with any questions regarding this particular dropzone -- from who's the best instructor for what to how to get there. This week forth, the dropzone is operational every week from Friday 4 PM to Sunday 9:40 PM.
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Allow me to be a little more explicit with the template, since your cam, for all its greatness, failed to convey the picture adequately
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He is not a skydiver, but wields a wicked pencil (or a Wacom Intuos as the case may be).
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I don't get it. Care to explain the gist of the joke? :)
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Ah, yes indeed! Silly me - should have looked at the manual. "The date of manufacture on the data label is also the serial number of the system. The first two digits of the this number denote the week of manufacture. The third digit denotes the year. The last two digits denote the sequence." Thanks!
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Where do you look for a container's serial number (specifically, the latest Racer) on the container itself? It's not on the backpad pin cover as far as I can see...
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Mine has red AND yellow on it. :) The one time I thought I was having a mal and got ready to cutaway, I located the handle and the silver no problem without looking (it was a pilot chute that got into a big burble, so it eventually cleared).
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How I love your casual replies full of precious information... :) Is any one process necessarily better than the other?
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I remember that weird, weird fatality in... Italy? The jumper went to cutaway and somehow tore the harness, falling out of it... memory's failing me, lemme see if I can find the thread. Here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=512835
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Ouch, why Kazakhstan, of all countries? They seem to have at least one dropzone there, in Almaty whereabouts. Ever jump from an AN-2? http://www.dropzone.ru/almaty.shtml -- edit: obviously in Russian
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Russia. Although I've seen some guys sneak some jumps in without one.
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Personally, I love and cherish it very much But I rented it out in order not to pay the rent for a couple months, on weekends, so I guess most of the abuse came from then.
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Is it normal for the label on my canopy (Hornet) to be completely unreadable at about 200 jumps? I can't say it's been always packed neatly -- I rented it out for a hundred jumps or so -- and I am sure about the number of jumps it has... How do I retrieve its S/N if the label is all but unreadable?
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Ah, that's about perfect. Thanks :)
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(I've searched. A few posts mention it, but none in detail, at least not obviously so. So let's have an easy to spot thread on this.
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$9 / jump; $35-45 a day.
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Watch and learn!
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I translate stuff for a jumping. Used to think, "okay, another three pages, and I got me one of the nine cells of a canopy covered! Now, one chapter more, and that should be enough for a whole leg-strap!" Oh, yeah, that qualifies as PT job while in school. :)
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how long were you jumping before your first reserve ride?
katzurki replied to jtval's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
What were the mals? -
I am trying to scare myself out of the wonders of BASE. It's pretty much assumed that "you will get hurt." Can you, from your own experience and in a few words (or run long-winded, by all means), tell me what jump(s), how badly, and why you got hurt? If not at all, how many jumps you've got? (here, a piece of wood for you to knock on while you're replying to this one
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That's a funny story. At some point it becomes too descriptive and you lose all the queasiness as it just stops being real. A nitpick note, in all my 20 years of living in Russia I've never ever heard the teeth in asshole reference, so this is at best a very rare (possibly very local) idiom.
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So what are you going to do tomorrow?
katzurki replied to Fab's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Do refrigerator boxes now come equipped with wings?? :) -
Isn't dry red wine known to be useful (in reasonable quantities!) specifically for recuperating purposes?
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