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I bet someone we know was the last guest of that room... ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Must have - for no reason whatsoever - a floor jack in his car and be nearby when your trailer loses a wheel on the freeway. Must be willing to bring a pickup truck load of ice and beer when your power has been off for two weeks. Must be willing to help you replace the ceiling in your bathroom when the storm wrecks your roof. Tough one to replace. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Wow. This is really sad. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

It has been a long time, but I had occasion to think about Holly today, and I thought I'd post here. ROWYCO. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Explosions are fun to watch. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Wow, Beezy. It was cool to know you. BSBD. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

> WTF? What in the hell does 9/11 have to do with this? People are stupid. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I quit after 20 years on Feb 12, 2006. I still have days when I really want one. Just hang in there, and take it a day at a time. Just don't smoke today. Repeat tomorrow. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

That clip is very realistic. It is a two way with video. Here is how the bottom end goes: 1. She points at her altimeter, letting Steve Austin know they are low. 2. They fly together for one more point rather than tracking off. 3. They pull without tracking and hose the camera guy. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Hang in there, Beezy! Get well soon. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>Yes, they (and you) are completely out of line by saying that.

This is really sad. I hope you have found the peace you sought, JP. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

What a weak invasion. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>people are the problem

In the Help area, there is a repair profile button. I have lost all my friends before, but that brought them back. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

In all seriousness, having more people like Bill in the world would, on balance, make it a better place. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

One thing - the wind feels the same to you under canopy whether you are flying crosswind, downwind or upwind. You can generally tell which way the wind is blowing by watching your ground track. You will obviously drift downwind. Unless you are flying straight upwind or downwind, you will generally be able to see yourself crabbing over the ground, the result of the wind pushing you. If your groundtrack and the canopy's heading are the same, take mental note of your speed across the ground and then do a 180. If you are going faster once your canopy recovers than you were before, you are heading downwind. If you are going slower, you are flying into the wind. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>I am proud to have Michael Mullins and his family as close friends, and I feel sorry for anyone who denies themselves the privelege of jumping his plane or associating with his family based upon pure speculation.

I fell in the Nantahala River, which is barely even a rapid, while dorking around during a very early spring canoe trip. The guide later estimated the water temp at 40F. When I hit the water, my diaphragm almost immediately contracted such that I could barely breathe. My life vest kept my head out of the water. I was thrown a rope and pulled to a canoe, but within just the couple of minutes that took I was too weak to help the two people in that canoe pull me in. They had to tow me to shore, where they built a fire to dry me out and warm me up as I was showing signs of hypothermia. I was wearing a shorty wetsuit that was dry when I went in with a wool sweater and jeans over it. Really cold water does really bad things really fast. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Remember that old 60 Minutes or whatever show it was video where the chick scratched her hooch enthusiastically insider her pants then went back to making food? I always thought that was an awesome piece of film. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Derek - Just to make things even more difficult, I suppose you are aware that there is what appears to be legitimate debate in the motorcycling community as to whether a helmet that meets the SNELL tests actually makes you less safe than one that only meets the DOT standard, because the SNELL test requires much harder interior padding to survive the two big hits in the test, while DOT helmets generally have softer padding that provides better protection from somewhat softer impacts - the kind some argue that motorcyclists face most often. The point of all this is that if you tell a helmet designer what kind of impact you will have, he'll probably be able to design a helmet to protect you from it. Whether it will also be suitable for some other type of impact or acceptable in terms of weight or appearance are other matters entirely. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I just sold one through the Classifieds. The buildarig.com guy considered buying it, so I know he buys them for resale. You might check to see if he has any. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

On my Wings the cutter is beneath the whole packjob - it is not on a flap at all. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I'll be the one everyone flames and make recommendations: For a first container, get Type 8 risers and large rings. You can get mini rings later if you decide to choose your gear based on fashion, but for now get the bigger, less fashionable option. The big three ring system just plain works better than the small system, and you won't be going so fast through the air that the parasitic drag of your risers will ruin your swoops, anyway. I started out with big risers, and I liked them a lot. However, everyone else had the smaller ones, so I got smaller ones, too. The smaller ones looked like everyone else's, which was cool, but I kept getting my thumbnails bent back by the slider as it came down the lines over my mini risers. Ouch. But I looked good, and the reduced drag made a quarter inch of difference in what I thought was a swoop. I could also pull my collapsed slider behind my head like the cool people. That was good for another quarter inch, at least. Riser length is more complicated. It determines how far away from the large ring the toggles and slider are when the parachute is open. However, too short risers have been implicated in some opening problems where lines from the main risers snag under the reserve container. So you want to make sure that whatever length of risers you choose make it to the bottom of the reserve container, which the mfg. should take care of for you. Note that within minutes, at least one person will reply to this post to tell you that no one has ever proved that short risers were the cause of any malfunction. To choose your riser length without considering compatibility with the container, base it on your sleeve length. Tall fokker with 37 inch sleeves like me? Get the longest ones. Normal height? The ones in the middle. Short? Get shorter ones. But the people who are selling you gear will be in a much better position to guide you through the process. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I carry a Glock for PD and shoot a Glock in competition. I am not a fan of the C models. First, I really do not think it makes that much difference in muzzle rise at all. So for what I see as limited benefit, you get: 1. A really loud gun that 2. Blinds you in low light much more than a regular barrel and that 3. blackens any white or FO front sight you might want and that 4. blows the toxic crap from the firing process up into your face instead of down range Use the extra $ for ammo and range time instead. More practice will make you a better shooter than a barrel with holes in it. Since most folks refuse to practice and insist on buying equipment, ifyou must spend the $ on stuff get either a better holster or a few extra mags. Oh, and your Glock, whichever one you get, will come from the factory with all the hop-up parts it needs. I have bought different triggers and all kind of different stuff over the years in an effort to improve my Glock. At times, I have achieved a lighter trigger pull that I could feel. Lock time might have been better, too, at least that's what the ads said. And my barrel may have been capable of better accuracy. But when I really noticed the $500 of aftermarket sh!t in the gun was when it broke and I got DNFs on stages. The stock stuff may not cost as much, but it does work. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com