SkyTango

Graham Hill?

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Read: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2624965;page=unread#unread JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

Seems like some closure on this story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7707397.stm JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

Remember that this advice does not start in the plane but way before the jump. Hurrying out to the plane is a sure way of over-amping / tensing-up. Be there early, get your briefing done, do ground practice, walk out to the boarding area as soon as you are allowed, re-think the plan, relax and then just enjoy the drive & dive. JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

I agree. I only have a 100 jumps on the Sabre 170 (with a bigger/pocketed slider) but that trick slowed down the openings dramatically. JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

You actually saw the insignia?... Well Spotted… JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

Tonto was a good friend and teacher. I’ve knew him since I started jumping in February 2005, switching to AFF after 6 SL jumps. His enthusiasm for the sport was apparent and contagious. I remember the 2nd week I was out at the DZ. We were having a beer in the bush pub. I wasn’t one of his students yet. (He had no issues coming to share some thoughts with a student). We discussed EP’s and his words to me was ‘…you’ve got an advantage you did your FJC last week. You still remember the stuff' Later he taught me some other stuff like: “..The ground will not ask you how many jumps you have before it’s comes out to kill you.” “...Maintain you equipment. We die easy” “…all mushrooms are edible …. At least once” Too many to recite. Still later when I broke my ankle in an out landing, jumping from a balloon, he was there first waiting with me for my ride (photo attached) sharing stories of his own accidents. Tonto taught, learned and lived skydiving. He will be missed. JSC will not be the same. JC

Congrats!! JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

Follow the link in post #123 JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

I've got a '97 J1 with a 170 Sabre 1. The Sabre's got +- 650 jumps on and fit tightly but with no distortion or extraction hesitation. attached some pics... JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

:2:0 2 x H'nP from 11000 ft. Starting to experiment with front riser dives. whaaaw. JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

Not true. We all know the light at the end of the tunnel is a train. JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

:5:1 3 x Night jumps on Friday night. The absolute tranquility was amazing. Clean skies, full moon, almost no wind, town lights in the background… (Cost me beer) 2 x Canopy control jumps on Saturday JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

The reason you have to cock the pilot chute on the airbrake system JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

:5:1 3 x Solo Canopy control jumps 1 x fun 4 way with a pool noodle.. 1 x 5way freefly train Forgot my helmet in the packing area on jump 2. Had to radio manifest from boarding to have it driven out. Cost me beer. JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

ditto.. I fit a Sabre 1 170 (150 Tempo reserve) into the container without to much trouble however the 160 reserve will probably be a different story. JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

:2:0 JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

0:3:0 • A 3-way, • Tracking dive and • A 11000ft h&p (took 2000ft to get rid of those line twists while hanging horizontal with the canopy...) Had 2 brothers doing 7 levels on the SL progression on Saturday (8 Jumps each). Spend most the day giving briefings but it was great seeing their enthusiasm after each jump. They just never got tired. JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

:3:0 Spend all of the jumps dispatching SL's and finishing it of with some nice 2ways from alt. JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

Johannesburg Skydiving Club (JSC), South Africa +- 80Km outside Johannesburg At least it keeps ATC involvement to 'n minimum. JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

:6:0 1 x High Hop & Pop (9000ft) 1 x Solo 2 x 4ways 2 x 8ways Two was higher altitude jumps (where we jump getting 14000ft means oxygen ) JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

Bit extreme for me... JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

Nope. we give them parachutes. JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

Now let’s see if you set your preferences to display more than 25 replies to a page you should have fewer pages to read. Then their is also the fact that if you didn’t post to the thread it wouldn’t have bumped to the top again but at least now we'll be able to see if dz.com will explode with a thread gets viewed 100000 times.... JC If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.