ZYNE
9/29/2007 5:25:31 PM
Sorry to hear about your friend burning in :( It's never easy to deal with, especially if you witness it :/
End cell closure is not really a mal, it's a packing error :-) The canopy opens too softly and the end cells will not inflate as a result. A couple of good pumps with the stearing toggles or a couple of S-turns resolves that quickly! Line twists CAN be a dangerous situation. Not so much on the larger and slower canopies you jump as students. Once you start getting in to heavily loaded elipticals such as what I used to jump it can easily become a life/death situation. A heavily loaded stiletto with a toggle fire during opening can and will spin you up so fast and hard it will pin your head between the risers. Then since it's a stiletto it will of course initiate one of it's infamous line twist/front riser dives and basically cork screw you in to the ground around 60 mph ... Student canopies will do it as well but at much slower speeds.
ZYNE
9/29/2007 5:29:04 PM
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ORIGINAL: HummBob
That SUKS!!!
I was pretty much putting my gear on the shelf anyways but at least I felt like I had the option to jump if I wanted to ... knowing I can't makes it suck though :/ I'm too fukkin' young for this sh!t lol
HummBob
9/30/2007 1:05:04 AM
quote:
ORIGINAL: ZYNE
quote:
ORIGINAL: HummBob
That SUKS!!!
I was pretty much putting my gear on the shelf anyways but at least I felt like I had the option to jump if I wanted to ... knowing I can't makes it suck though :/ I'm too fukkin' young for this sh!t lol
I hear ya....Would have been nice if it was TOTALLY YOUR CHOICE!!!!!
Muddydawg75
9/30/2007 6:14:28 AM
You still have dangerous activities you can enjoy, Sparky.... take a road trip to Cleveland.... Party with OSU football players.... put a new stereo in your 2......
ZYNE
9/30/2007 9:55:04 AM
quote:
ORIGINAL: HummBob
quote:
ORIGINAL: ZYNE
quote:
ORIGINAL: HummBob
That SUKS!!!
I was pretty much putting my gear on the shelf anyways but at least I felt like I had the option to jump if I wanted to ... knowing I can't makes it suck though :/ I'm too fukkin' young for this sh!t lol
I hear ya....Would have been nice if it was TOTALLY YOUR CHOICE!!!!!
Preferably for other reasons too LOL! Can't bungee jump anymore either .. what the hell am I gonna do for kicks now, all the fun stuff is off limits for crying out loud LOL! Needle point and knittin' here I come lol! Anyone want a nice pair of mittens for christmas? LOL!
ZYNE
9/30/2007 10:02:16 AM
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ORIGINAL: Muddydawg75
You still have dangerous activities you can enjoy, Sparky.... take a road trip to Cleveland.... Party with OSU football players.... put a new stereo in your 2......
LOL!!!!! smartazz!!! I have no witty come back on this ... so I'll just admit defeat hehehee
Muddydawg75
9/30/2007 10:35:01 AM
Well... thanks....
but on a serious note.... you really don't have to quit cold turkey. You can still spend time around it... You can still teach the ground schools.... you can go get your pilots license and take students up.... you have options... it is not the end of your favorite pasttime.... don't give up.....
hell.... you could always try out for American Idol....
ZYNE
9/30/2007 3:27:27 PM
If it was only that simple lol .. I'm done with it all together .. My ratings have expired and I have to jump to get them back. I have to maintain currency in order to be able to work with students ... which I can't since umm .. well, that whole jumping bit .. lol .. and yeah, unfortunately it is the end to it .. I enjoyed jumping for myself, not risk my life for $15 bucks/student .. that's not a skydive, that's a fall lol. The little student work I did was to help pay for my own jumps and help pay for the gear and so on .. yeah .. lol .. wish I could say there was a greater cause behind it but I can't lol!
As far as flying those jump ships .. no fricken way lol .. you couldn't pay me enough to get in one of those coffins without a parachute on my back LOL!
Classic example .. a few years back there was an issue with one of the Twin Otter's .. the indicator for the nosewheel was a bit .. "off" lol ... stated nose wheel was centered when in fact it was approx 70 degrees OFF CENTER .. pilot came in for landing and proceeded to literally cartwheel the Otter .. plane was totalled but he survived .. 1.2 million dollar whoooooooopsie ... Supposedly this had been fixed during the routine maintenance that took place about a month before. I've seen turbine's eat themselves on take off, I've bailed out of broken planes ... only way I get my azz in one of those things again it will be with the intent of leaving it as soon as humanly possible LOL!
Muddydawg75
10/1/2007 11:09:44 AM
well.... since we know being an electrician is out..... I guess you have an appointment with Simon....
ZYNE
10/2/2007 1:27:17 PM
LMAO! And who the fuk is Simon? I'm at a loss here but it could be the sleep deprivation lmao! Besides, I don't need another job .. in fact, I'm trying to get rid of the one I already have LOL!! Any takers? lol
Muddydawg75
10/2/2007 2:45:06 PM
read back to my AMerican Idol post.....
