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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: StSanta on November 24, 2005, 11:46:53 AM
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From dropzone.com:
I am a Christian and Proud Of It (http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=1803496;page=1;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25;)
26209 views, 2221 posts. Half of it silliness, half of it serious.
I thought this board was chatty, political and sometimes rude. Then I found DZ.coms Speaker's Corner (http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?forum=35;). That place and the ongoing battle between gun/anti gun, religious/anti religious, pro-life/pro-choice, republican vs democrats make this board appear as a rather well behaved intellectually advanced meeting of friends.
It is at times highly amusing and I check it every day. I have in my mind put AH names to DZ.com figures. Hangtime is Billvon, Lazs is JohnRich and so on.
There really is an amazing amount of common ground between the forums (which are the only two I frequently visit).
It's worth a visit if you're bored at work for certain.
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HOLEY CRAP! 89 pages. I think we just found one thing that Skuzzy is thankful for this year. :aok
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I would have thought almost all skydivers would be religious.
The first (and only) time I jumped I remember thinking "OH MY GOD. I'm jumping out of a plane! Dear Lord, please let my chute open."
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Did it open?
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Originally posted by Curval
I would have thought almost all skydivers would be religious.
The first (and only) time I jumped I remember thinking "OH MY GOD. I'm jumping out of a plane! Dear Lord, please let my chute open."
Funny that's exactly what I thought when I made a parachute jump and 'What have I done?'
Then the chute opened and I thought 'Fantastic, I want to do it again'.
But I never did.
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I see no point in jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.
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So long as it still has wings, its perfectly good. :) I'd rather glide in for a attempt at landing than jump. Even a deadstick airplane allows for some amount of skill in whether or not you survive. A parachute is dumb luck.
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Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
So long as it still has wings, its perfectly good. :) I'd rather glide in for a attempt at landing than jump. Even a deadstick airplane allows for some amount of skill in whether or not you survive. A parachute is dumb luck.
Under a big 320 square feet Z-111 Manta, you cannot influence the opening that much - meaning you can f*ck up your body position at opening, opening head low/high, in a yaw/pitch/roll without much happening.
Dip a shoulder just an inch or two on a 97 square feet zero porosity Katana and remain impassive and I assure you that your "dumb luck" statement is going to feel a little off the mark.
That's for the opening. Now you have to land it.
An inexperienced jumper is gonna hammer it in, hard. It's easy to get a more than 45 degree turn (on the roll axis) going just by shifting body weight on a sub 100 square feet canopy.
And that's on a 9 cell elliptical. Up it up to a cross braced speed machine and you're in even bigger do-do. The opening is gonna be even more funky, any input more radical and both vertical and horisontal speed in level flight and turns are gonna increase.
Then there are malfunctions. A simple line twist is not a malfunction on a big student canopy. Same number of twists on a high performance canopy is likely to throw you into a high G turn. Even after ya kick out of the line twists, it may have gained so much momentum that you will be unable to correct it. I accidentally packed one of these for my sister and she got a reserve ride out of it
There are lots of stochastic variables, sure. There is however far much more to flying HP canopies than pure luck.
Sorta like flying planes, right? Pure dumb luck if it breaks down in mid air or not. Landing an ME-109 is probably just a tad harder than a C-172.
Me I'd rather jump from a malfunctioning plane (altitude permitting) than landing with it. Landing in planes is pretty scary, with cross wind and stuff It's scary enough under power. I imagine it'd be much worse without.
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what happened to the good ol im right ,you're wrong ****n dweeb
days. Without those I would never have grown into manhood. :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by FuBaR
what happened to the good ol im right ,you're wrong ****n dweeb
days. Without those I would never have grown into manhood. :rolleyes:
Heh, I hear ya. It's ego masturbation nowadays; we like to hear ourselves talk. The wussification of the new generations. :aok
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Pffft... I jumped for 8 1/2 Years in the Army...
Loved it. Paying for it now. Ankles, knees, hips and lower back is screwed.
But when yer 17 you are 10 foot tall and bulletproof.
Regrets?
None... through the pain I expierience now reminds me of the younger days when I was free and lived within the "Ultimate High!".
Try to explain jumpin to a "Leg" is like teaching Heller Keller the color "Blue".
Ain't gonna happen.
Mac
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cant believe you guys missed this lil jewel
I accidentally packed one of these for my sister and she got a reserve ride out of it
Suprised she didnt change you from a rooster to a hen with one swift slice:O
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dang no where close
http://www.flyaceshigh.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=123551&perpage=50&highlight=voss&pagenumber=1
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Maybe I'll go hunt up stripperweb again.
That thread got locked before it's time.:mad:
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without Voss I wouldnt be the man I am today. Thank you Voss :aok
Oh and Hi skull, long time no see (616766)