aubsmell

I've rented a condo 30 steps off St. Cathrine 4 blocks from Cressent. I'm down in it.... "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

I'm up in Montreal this weekend with a group of friends for the F1 race... Any of you guys from Montreal? What should we not miss... Most of the group are Skydivers, but none of us plan on jumping... Is there a place where the skydivers hand out in the city, a specific bar or something? Thanks "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

I just can't believe it.. I've known Lee for about 7 years now... I stay at his house for all the home FSU games, wether he is there or not.... He was a messy fucker, but a damn good guy... I hope they skin the bastard who did this alive. Lee I'll miss you buddy. You tubby monkey. A "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

I'll be giving a super sweet seminar on ISO 9001 And AS 9100 in the Skydiving Industry... I promise it won't be boring... quality, quality, quality, the cornerstone of parachute manufacturing!!!! Aubrey "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

I'll be there... with bells on... can I borrow some bells? "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

Gravity Girl is the bestest ever... "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

http://performancedesigns.com/silhouette.asp I like the silhouette, it is a very forgiving canopy, that opens nice and flies very well. It is of hybrid construction and therefore packs a little easier, and it that size will pack up a little smaller than all ZP. Also the price is a little better than most all ZP canopies. I is a great canopy for what you are looking for. A "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

Yo... I have been jumping in Native - Gatorz - Oakley's - IronMan sunglasses with Crokies and with a variety of other brand straps, I've flown my birdman suit, done tandems, belly flown all with and without a helmet and I have never lost a pair, or even lost a contact lense... This has been about the last 4 years. On the other hand I have lost goggles and I have lost contact lenses with goggles on... I'm totally converted... however, make sure you have a pair of glasses with clear or yellow lenses for those sunset jumps, cause trying to land in sunglasses after the sun has gone down, is not the safest thing in the world... Later... "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

Hey, I no longer work for Aerodyne, so if you could take me off there please, it would be cool. Thanks, Aubrey "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

Jerry.. That is just batch difference, we get it from the exact same place, the exact same product.. I have a new Icon that has Grey Spacer Foam and it is much softer than any of the black I have ever felt... Take it light... "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

The shizzel is the bomb... both of my rigs have it now... I would not buy another rig without it.... It is not mind blowing or anything, but it is a little bit more comfortable, and a little bit cooler (because the air circulates) As for longevity... that is a good qustion for rigs, my computer bag has it, and I wear that a lot more than my rig with a heaver load in it and it is 5 years old and hasn't shown any wear.. Aerodyne's sponsored team Arcteryx has it on their rigs, and the get jumped ALOT and they have had no problem with it... I have Icons they Aerodyne offers it as an option as well, it is the same stuff that Sunpath uses... Later.. "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

I spoke to a guy from Chile the other day, who called about some gear, and he couldn't say enough good stuff about this DZ... so I felt motivated and put an air ticket on hold to go down there from Christmas day - the end of the first week in January. I want to go down, and I've emailed all three of the hotels listed on the site, but I havent goten prices back from any of them... My questions: 1. Has anyoone been? Is it cool? 2. Should I bring my surf board, anyone know of any good breaks near by? 3. What would lodging cost for 15 days, where is a good place to stay? 4. I know the U.S. and Venezuela political situation isn't too good right now, should that be a concern for a massive gringo like myself who speaks spanish like a first grader who was kicked by a mule? any further insite would be great!!! "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

This is my fav too, it's called an "upper decker" it usually takes days for them to figure it out... "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

Aerodyne now has all sizes set up as mains to demo, looks like you are jumping a 106, they have the 99 and 110, set up as well... Flyem and post what you think... email s.kimball@aerodyne-int.com to get one... A "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

Aerodyne uses the “Bottom Skin” Method. The PIA use the Span of the Top Skin We use the Span of the Bottom Skin The PIA measures the Span of the Top Skin 6” back from the This is not the Max Span or the Min Span. Using the Bottom skin Span measurement represents an exact value, In Aerodynes case this is the Maximum Span. The PIA method does not take the new designs of canopy into account. BTW this is the way I understand it from our Tech Dirctor, I won't comment on other methods or techniques, everyone has an opinion as to what is best and why. You have to understand that also, some companies with some models use numbers like names in marketing as well. To be a bit generic what I mean is this: A company may have a canopy: the "X Warrior 300" may and it may actually only measure out to 293 or it may be 317 but they decide on the name 300 because of it's marketing value. So when you are busting out your calculator to get your wing loading down to the ninth decimal point, you may have no idea what you are talking about. I have to admit that I didn't read all the above posts, I just clicked in from your PM and posted. Regards. Aubrey "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

Just as pollster says, it may very well go, there are a ton of factors in what makes a canopy's pack volume and that number floats even on like sizes in like designs. The batches of fabric, tape, and line can fluctuate as much as 10%. That is why manufacturers are a little dodgey when it comes to swearing the exact size of an X 150 or 135, because that number can change with every canopy built. You could get it in there, but I would never sell you one. But if you can get hold of the canopy you may be buying, I'd say give it a try, you never know... with that shoe horn it may fit... but make sure it is safe if you end up doing major cramming, you have a farily low jump number, get a few second guesses in there, and remember this may give you more than just the odd pilot chute in tow... it could give you ugly-lumpy-rig-itus... Which can only be cured by buing the proper size rig for your canopy combo... A- "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

not without a shoehorn and some vasiline.. Actually even with those handy helpers I don't think it would work. "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

Super sweet.. Thanks, I think this thread can help all kinds of people out for future generations of of drunken college students all over America - nay - all over the world. Also, if you have a college boogie let me know, As one of the Managers here at Aerodyne they have given me great powers over the distribution of pull up cords and boogie goodies. I can hook you up. Also because of the soft spot in my heart (and my head), I give fat deals to college clubs for gear owned and shared by the club. So if you guys ever need anything let me know. Keep the communication open on this and the good ideas coming...!!!! Aubrey "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

Yea but I can't seem to pull it up on my etch-a-sketch all the time though... "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

Demos from Aerodyne: When we are at boogies we don't charge for the use of our demos. At very busy boogies, we may ask you to kick in for the pack job, or have it packed on the last pack job by a specific packer, and that can run you $5 or $6. Usually though if it slow we cover the pack job, or do it ourselves. For our mail order demos it is $40 bucks for one weekend but this includes shiping to you, there is a lable in the box, you just stuff it back in the box when you are done, stick that lable on and call which ever carrier we used to ship it to you, your $40 bucks paid for round trip shipping, with no hassel on your end. Then there are distributor demos and dz demos that we sell our distributors at a special price to encourage them to have our products on hand to demo. With these is is up to the discression of the DZ / individual distributor to set the price. Sometimes they are free, some times if you have a deal to buy your gear from them they don't charge, sometimes they treat it just like a rental, it really just depends on them and the sitch. We have all of our canopy sizes and models available for mail order demo, if you go to our website you can see what demos may be in your area from one of our dropzone partners, and our distributor partners. The reps on the road usually have a pretty good assortment, depending on the boogie location, if they are doing more than one event in different locations on the same weekened, that sort of thing. (they also usually have a small assortment of Icons) for a mail order demo email: s.kimball@aerodyne-int.com If you want Aerodyne to visit your DZ email: d.guzman@aeroyne-int.com or me a.easterlin@aeroyne-int.com or if you are in Europe a.collentuteur@aerodynt-int.com If you are talking about what price would you buy a demo for; in the case of Aerodyne, we sell our demo's when they get about 100 to 200 jumps on and usually sell them for around $1200 or just slightly more or less depending on the condition of the canopy. Word up G, later. "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

I wrote this letter to a friend of mine the other day, and thought it would be good to post in up here in order to help some of you who are in college out. There is a ton more to having a college skydiving club than what is in this letter, but this is a good start. 1) Organize a weekly meeting at a bar/restaurant popular with students: a. Get with the owner / manager and get drink / food specials for a certain time period on a slower night of the week for him. They are down with stuff like this, if you consistantly bring in 10 - 30 people every week, he'll give you dollar domestics or $5 pitchers and some cheep menu items to keep your weekly return business, Shop around for the best deal at the coolest place, as this will help you attract members to the club meetings. a1. Advertise this night and discount pricing to the student body. b. See if you can get it at a sports bar that has a big TV, a projector screen will be best, have skydiving videos playing (cool ones not your own) only play this shit for like 2 hours, otherwise people will get board. c. Have people sign up for club membership at these meetings, give them something like a membership card, and a T-shirt, make the cost low, like $20 and have a treasurer take the cost of the T-shirt out of that, and the rest of the money goes for your once per semester party, on campus, not at the DZ (recruiting fresh blood with parties works) 2) Get a booth at the weekly student bazaar / flea market. All grungy hippy universities have one, where do you think everybody buys that greatful dead black light poster. These are usually held at a high traffic area. a. Organize with your schools audio video department to supply your space with a TV / DVD combo, and play skydiving videos on it. b. Print up flyers advertising your clubs meeting night and the drink / food specials that the place your having it offers club members. c. Oh, this should have been first, you usually have to reserve a spot in this with student services, usually they will wave the fee if there is one because you are an official school club. d. Print Cool ASS club T-shirts, not lame ass club t-shirts, I repeat, NOT LAME ASS CLUB T-SHIRTS. e. Sell these T-shirts to Wuffo's at your psudo hippy stand. Give them to club members. f. Have little discount vouchers that you can pass out (post cards work best), I can help you get these printed if you like $150 for 5000. (try to get the DZO) to pay for this. Have one side promoting the university skydiving club, and the other side promoting your dropzone and the tandem / aff discount they will get with the card, and only with the card. f1. Have your DZO give you or your club credit for every single one of these cards that gets turned in for the discount. My DZO gave me $10, I'd push for a jump ticket for every tandem or AFF you bring. g. Have a sign up sheet for the students to sign and harvest their email addresses. Sign everyone up EVERYONE!!!! g1. use these addresses for a email news group, like yahoo groups, and add every email address you get to this. Get some nerdier member of the club to do a weekly update with any info, like names of students who did tandems, or AFFs or got their A, B, C, D licenses, add a couple of ripped off pictures from a good boogie somewhere, maybe one that one of the clubbers went to. Either way, send this out every week to all list members, do it about 2 days before the club meeting, the primary goal is to get people to show up to that. 3) Bars and Nightclubs: These are keys to getting tandem participation, and a great way you can earn money for yourself or your club, and promote club membership. Once again organize a deal with your DZO so that you get some type of credit / cash for each tandem referral that you bring the DZ. The best way would be some sort of discount card that they must present at the time of their tandem / aff. Just getting drunk people to make a pact to go to the DZ and do a tandem is a pretty easy operation, to get them to follow through is a little tougher. But if you always have a few of the discount cards in your back pocket, and you give out 5 per night , and you can get a few members of your club to do the same, soon you will have given out tons of these mother fers. a.Approach club managers about cross promotion deals. Most college bars are usually 18 and up, and the 21 year olds usually get an one of those little sticky arm bands. A good avenue of promotion is to talk to the bar managers of the good bars on specific nights, like if some place has a good nickel beer tuesday, say that you'll supply the bar with bands for that night that offers their customers a discount on a skydive, and promotes something for them. These bands are usually about $100-$150 for 1000. Also offer the bar owner 1 free tandem for to give his employee of the month or whatever for this. In my experience they will always go for this. Of course you have to work this out with your DZO as well, they will usually go for this too, you can usually even get them to suck up the cost of the bands. Don't do this with every club, but the MOST popular ones, and just on their best nights. (this also gives you access to bands for their most popular night, that you can jack from the box before giving it to the bar manager, so you can get all of your under 21 club members banded, once they get in) b. Depending on how many free tandems you can get your DZO to comp, you can do all sorts of cross promotion with bars, and night clubs, like if they have a bikini contest, you can give a tandem for the winner (tandem masters will love you for that), You can organize a really deep discount for the entire staff (like 1/2 price tandems) if they will put a banner up for the DZ or a framed add in the bathroom. 4) Fraternity and Sororities: a. Once per semester you should get some members of your club who are members of greek organizations to go from house to house at the dinner hour, and make a pitch for the club, and for a Fraternity / Sorority discount for a group of X or more. Play on the team building and bonding thing. Also get them to let you put up an advertisement on their bulletin board, and while you are speaking about your pitch, pass around a email sign up sheet to harvest more addresses for your news group, just pitch it as, "wright down your email if you are interested in more information on skydiving, and the skydiving club" b. If you do get a big group of some campus organization to come and do a jump, make sure you get pictures and write a little something for your school paper, school news papers are always starving for any kind of story, and they'll most likely print whatever pictures you give them, always give them one of one of the students in freefall, and then one of the group on the ground. 5) Campus Radio stations, and local radio stations: a. We both know that no one listens to the college radio station, and those goth mongers usually have nothing to say anyway. Usually they let University clubs advertise for free, so use it if you can, if it's not free, bribe them, give their staffers cheep tandems, or free, I usually wouldn't go free with these guys, because you don't get much mileage out of them. But you can always weasel yourself into the box there, and there may be some stoner in his dorm room somewhere listening. b. Real radio stations, the DJ's at radio stations don't get paid squat. They live of perks. No pay, but tons of perks, and if you can work a deal to give away a couple of skydives for some lame contests they can come up with, you'll get lots of mileage out of it. It's good for once a year or so. If you can get the DJ's to jump, you may get a ton of free publicity out of it, because just like you and me, when they do their first skydive they will be talking about it for at least a week or so. Especially if they try to do something cool, like surprise one of their ilk with it. 6) Football games / Basket ball (what ever your school is good at. Set up a your hippy exchange table before the games too. Tailgate with your skydiving club members. Sell your cool assed t-shirts, and harvest email addresses. 7) General Advertisement: a. Paper the dorms with flyers / discount vouchers b. The gym c. The mail boxes at all the college apt complexes d. all the campus bulletin boards. e. Get to all of your classes a little early on club meeting days, and write the meeting time and place and organized discount on the chalk / dry erase board prior to class. The teacher will almost always erase it when he or she starts to use the board, but they will just bring all eyes to the advertisment, do it EVERY week, in EVERY class, and enlist other club members to do the same. Give me a call if you have any more questions, but if you do all of these things, and lead your fellow skydiving students to embrace the same principals of marketing your club, within just the span of a semester or two you will be the biggest club on campus. This assuming that you already have a club, if not step one would be registering your organization with the studend clubs council, or what ever your university has that is like an SCC. feel free to hit me with any questions, or add to this for postarity. Aubrey "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

Here is a little video clip of Arcteryx, it is mostly a promo of the team in flight, but there are some good shots of them swooping the Mamba.. it is only about a minute long.... tic toc, tic toc.... almost here http://www.arcteryx.no/...aerodynepromopal.asf "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

I just want to reply to this one before a myth is created... I usually try to stay out of opinion issues like this. I'll just explain this difference between the two systems. The Mirage has Cordura secondary riser covers, The Icon has Para-pack secondary riser covers. There is a specific reason for this. Cordura that is used on most containers is of the 1000 denier weight (a thick balistic nylon that is tough as nails) Mirage chooses to use this for their secondary riser covers. The Icon uses 240 denier para-pack or pack cloth, which is a much thinner fabric. However, it is reinforced with a thin layer of balistic plastic. As the secondary riser covers, by nature, are enclosed by the thicker Cordura used in the construction of the outside of the rig, it will never be worn by falls, sliding or spills, or by the normal wear your rig takes when it is packed, so there is no need for the bulker cordura for these flaps. It will jsut make your rig heavier and more bulky at the sides. I have never in all my years skydiving heard of anyone wearing out a secondary riser cover. either way, I'm not trying to bash your opinion or defend our design, just giving the reason behind the design. Regards, A- "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

Ross.... That's a sharp looking rig man...!!!! Cheers... "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"

Hey, howzit, I PM'd you about 4 seconds after you posted this in the contact the manufacturer page, check your PM's or add an email address to your account. you also may want to fill out the information about yourself to give me a better idea of your skydiving background, not that I'm nosie, it just helps me know where your coming from, and that sort of thing...also then I'd have your email address. I also invite you to call me +1 813 891 6300, or email me at my work email address a.easterlin@aerodyne-int.com Peace out- Aubrey "Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it"