That was always the joke at Skydive East. You'd jump too if you knew what kind of shape our planes were in...
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That was always the joke at Skydive East. You'd jump too if you knew what kind of shape our planes were in...
Who started this silly cone stuff anyway?It's silicone
I still like mine nekked
Bike. I seem to remember you coining the "sillycone" phrase! Edited to add: Looks like several others beat me to the punch.
He will keep denying it until we find the original post...
Edited to add: Looks like several others beat me to the punch.
You could be right. I think I replied to a post from you suggestin I buy one or it could be my bad memory...
Edited to add: Looks like several others beat me to the punch.
Anyway, I don't need one, don't care for sillycone skins. But I do have a Shark Skin on my Vapor Shark...
Speaking of skydiving, for those of you who purchased my book Learning to Skydive in One Fell Swoop, please make the following correction:
Change step 47 from "state zip code" to "pull rip cord".
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Change step 47 from "state zip code" to "pull rip cord".
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Ha! rocketman strapped to your back, in free fall, asking for your zip code? What's not to like?
WARNING I guess I'm an old man when it comes to skydiving. As a student (1987) I jumped static line T-10. After 15 static lines, I moved to a seven-cell ram-air. AFF had just started and we waited until there were "official guidelines" written before implementing. By the time I started as an in-air instructor, we were doing nothing but AFF for new jumpers and had ditched the T-10s. I had my first rig at that time but still scored one of the T-10 rigs for posterity. All first time jumpers (many are one-offs fulfilling a bucket list item) had to jump tandem. If a student really wanted to learn how to skydive, she/he went AFF. 70% of the time, I was strapped to someone's back. My favorite part was running RW (relative work) or CRW (canopy relative work, aka, CReW) with fellow instructors...
For those of you not familiar with skydiving: 1st photo is tandem, 2nd is AFF, 3rd is RW, 4th & 5th are CRW. Can you tell I miss it?
I have a picture like the first and the second ones. Somewhere...that was many many moons and jumps ago. 999 I think! I did 4 tandems and then started AFF. I think my first 10 jumps were with 2 coaches, last 15 with one maybe. Alden are you a C or D license?
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_8mdH20qTQ[/URL]
And alden, where I used to work, we made T-10's. Complete systems.
Transitioning from 2 to 1 coach is typical for AFF... The DZ I worked at was not USPA affiliated. Many weren't back then because it almost doubled the cost of doing business. I left the DZ in '94. Today, USPA membership for both the DZ and jumper are almost a necessity. By the time I reached 24 or 25 and finished grad school, I realized that skydiving wasn't a career (at least not for me). It was a great "summer job" when I was a kid. It's also not a hobby. It's a lifestyle. You know how many divorces I saw because one spouse would spend every weekend and holiday at the DZ, even when they weren't jumping? When I jumped a coupla weeks ago, I hadn't in three years. But I developed a career that is also a lifestyle and not just a job. I do miss it though.
Do you still jump?
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_8mdH20qTQ[/URL]
I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. Thanks! Of course, it would not have been funny if the kitty had jumped...
Nice... All our T-10s were military surplus and sporterized in house. This was a mom & pop operation to the nth degree.
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