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    I'm a sophomore in college, and since i've decided to pledge a fraternity this semester I won't be able to jump regularly again until November (just kill me). My dropzone is in SC, and apparently they jump all winter as long as enough people come out and the weather is decent. I was just wondering, do most of you jump regularly during the winter? Obviously dropzones in Florida and AZ do, but on a forty degree day, do the temps at altitude take the fun out of jumping? I've skied in 5 below zero, but i would imagine that 10 or 20 above at 120 mph would be fucking COLD.
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    How many fatalities in the US so far this year?
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    I am SO tired of the Manta I am STILL on. Two hundred eighty something square feet? I MIGHT weigh 185 fully suited up. Feels like flying a bus.
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    What an idiot. What is there to investigate if someone witnessed their canopies become entangled? The carnival ride analogy is a fucking joke too.
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    Are you jumping solo every time now? I guess if you're not paying for an instructor it doesn't make a whole lot of difference, but getting my A-license meant 25 bucks off every one of my jumps, because i was jumping mostly with an instructor up to jump 27. Obviously its up to you, and you may have your own reasons for holding off on it, but why not just go ahead and get it? You'll undoubtably learn things by crossing off various requirements on your A-card, and the sense of accomplishment is a plus as well; I was stoked when that thing showed up in the mail. Also, even if you're not planning on traveling, the time may soon come when you hear about an awesome boogie within driving distance of where you live, and I'm betting on that day you'll wish you had that A-card.
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    Evo, the difference that he's talking about is that base rigs pop open like a freaking magic trick and ours just kind of snivel out relatively slowly. I know nothing about BASE but i have often wondered how BASE rig openings don't come close to knocking those guys out from terminal.
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    My license just came in the mail today! A-56241!
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    I love it too. And I started right on time! Still nineteen and thirty two jumps! There is absolutely nothing like the feeling of freefall. Today i followed a Tandem out of the Cessna; I was the last one out and gave them time to get out of my way. I was sitting in the door thinking: I think i'll jump out of this airplane...now. GOD I LOVE THIS SPORT. Clark Kent during the week and superman during the weekend.
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    I'm a static line kid too, the first time I WASN'T alone was weirder for me; when my instructor dove out after me I started flipping cause I tensed up thinking she was going to run into me. That was my first 25 second delay, i but i had been outside the door with no static line four times before that. With S/L progression you don't really get the whole "someone will save me if i mess up" idea in your head, i felt solely responsible for my own fate from jump one till graduation.
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    Whats the whole story on this skyride thing? They sell people gift certificates to jump and don't go through with it? I checked out their website it seems like they're not connected to any dropzones. How is it supposed to work? And are they ripping tons of people off?
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    What are your reasons for doing multiple tandems? If you tried one and liked it why not start learning to go solo on your next jump?
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    Just curious...why the long break?
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    I was scared shitless the when the door came open on the first jump, on later jumps the door opening was sort of an anxiety release from nerves built up in the airplane, like now its go time. Now there's little or no anxiety in the airplane or when the door opens.
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    Now, I'm not saying i think its a good idea, or that i would actually want it to happen, because it would stop being cool the instant a kid got hurt, but think about how good kids would be by the time they were twenty if tons of kids were getting into the sport at thirteen or fourteen. Imagine if teenagers could go to freefall summer camp. Talk about being a ninth grade badass. Don't yell at me, I am well aware that the coolness factor isn't worth even one kid getting hurt.
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    Cocheese, I don't think there is an asshole generation theory, but if there was you'd fit the profile. Am I not free to ask why something costs what it does before i consider purchasing it?
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    I would buy used if i could, I'm not shopping for new gear, just wondering about the cost. I can't afford to buy any rig, new or used, at this point.
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    I hadn't thought about the R&D part. More money now means better gear in the future.
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    Thanks, I'm not usually a whiner but I'm freaking in love with this sport already and paying for it is tough.
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    Thanks man, thats a legit answer and it makes sense.
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    Give me a break cocheese i wanted someone to explain why the price is what it is and GaryRay did just that. I couldn't see it and now i can. I think i'll make it in this sport just fine and apparently my instructors do too because they just passed me for my A license.
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    Haha Ok
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    I understand that parachutes and an entire gear package are precision devices that have to save your life on a daily basis, but 5000 dollars? I can buy a really nice small fishing boat with a four stroke motor for that. I mean my scuba gear keeps me alive in a foreign environment; its probably more technologically advanced than skydiving equipment, but i don't think all of my dive gear added up(and i have everything) is more than 2500 or 3 grand. I feel like companies might be ripping us off because we have to pay it, and there's not a big enough market to create price erosion. Opinions?
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    Also, why is the annual membership for USPA sixty bucks? What exactly am i getting for my money? I would have thought it would be like twenty or something. Sixty for a membership, thirty for a license, forty five per jump because of rental fees, I'm a poor college kid this is killing me.
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    3.5 weeks? A month? I just graduated yesterday and am sending my A card in tomorrow. I think those turn around times are a little ridiculous its 2009. I guessed it would take a week or so at the longest. I mean are they like cutting down trees and making the paper to print the card on themselves? The excitement of getting the A card makes the wait so much worse, I've graduated but now i want to hold that thing in my hand.
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    So on one of these "cross county" full altitudes hop & pops, how far off the airport do you usually spot the airplane? Also, if you weren't trying to do the cross country thing, and got out over the dropzone, wouldn't a high altitude hop and pop get really long and uncomfortable? I mean thats got to be close to fifteen minutes of canopy flight unless you're doing tons of spirals.