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by Oliadar
June 10, 2008, 10:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What the hell was he thinking?...
Replies: 25
Views: 4459

Re: What the hell was he thinking?...

He was riding along as an observer, which is fairly common in skydiving. He had a seatbelt on and the camera guy checked to make sure he was belted in before they opened the door. It was a small plane that held 4 jumpers, so everyone was close together. He took his seatbelt off sometime between this...
by Oliadar
June 10, 2008, 8:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What the hell was he thinking?...
Replies: 25
Views: 4459

Re: What the hell was he thinking?...

It was a suicide. The camera guy saw the observer jump out immediately after him and the tandem pair and basically went into shock.

I feel really bad for the camera guy. He's a real nice guy and he's got some major emotional damage from this.
by Oliadar
June 9, 2008, 11:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: West Virginia
Replies: 19
Views: 4142

Re: West Virginia

the New River Gorge Bridge! I've got somewhere around 60 base jumps off it. I've been to Bridge Day every year for the past 3 years as a jumper and was one of the base jumping safety coordinators last year. There's also some insane 75mph+ street luge runs out there. In the winter we're out there at ...
by Oliadar
December 28, 2006, 7:00 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Get the pliers and a blowtorch...
Replies: 28
Views: 3741

Merchants can make tons of money if they only buy out other merchants. Also, if you park a merchant on a resource they should hit double the initial amount per turn in a few turns, since it will increase their skill.
by Oliadar
April 3, 2006, 12:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Interesting job
Replies: 27
Views: 2777

Toronto... and this was over 10 years ago... back when they didn't have 24h security on building construction sites. You say that like it makes jumping impossible... Anyhow, it's cool knowing that someone else here is somehow related to BASE. VV is probably the last place I expected to find anything.
by Oliadar
April 2, 2006, 2:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Interesting job
Replies: 27
Views: 2777

What area, Miir? I probably know them somehow.
by Oliadar
April 1, 2006, 5:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Interesting job
Replies: 27
Views: 2777

damn that is sweet. I bet Xouqoa and Truant feel like a couple of pussies now Why? It's not like the technicalities of BASE jumping are common knowledge. Even most skydivers don't fully understand how we assess objects and go about planning things. Truant is actually pretty accurate with cars. Cars...
by Oliadar
April 1, 2006, 5:22 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Interesting job
Replies: 27
Views: 2777

Climbing a 1500' tower without any gear but a parachute (10lbs) takes about 1 hour 15min. The jump down is about a 10 sec freefall with 5-15 seconds under canopy. People jump towers all the time, of my 110 BASE jumps, towers make up nearly half. As for the failed parachute comment, BASE canopies alm...
by Oliadar
January 3, 2005, 7:34 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: Anybody Skydive/BASE?
Replies: 1
Views: 481

Anybody Skydive/BASE?

Currently have 117 skydives, and preparing for BASE jumping later this spring. Curious if anybody else is into it.
by Oliadar
December 27, 2004, 10:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Codecs make Baby J cry
Replies: 7
Views: 853

If it's an avi file then Gspot can tell you almost everything about the file.

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

Don't think there's an equivalent out there for mpg/ogm/etc
by Oliadar
May 25, 2004, 9:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Effective EQ leadership in a nutshell
Replies: 63
Views: 6439

I'm confused, so who's playing Oliadar nowadays?
by Oliadar
May 25, 2004, 8:30 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Compulsive breeders give birth to 15th child
Replies: 24
Views: 2541

Kguku wrote:To be different I think they should have named their latest kid "[you]".
Only hic state good enough for me is Kentucky!
by Oliadar
March 8, 2004, 1:39 am
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Mad Mad House?
Replies: 5
Views: 653

http://www.torrentsearcher.com/suprnova ... fn.torrent

http://www.suprnova.org

They'll probably have it up the next day it airs. That's my experience with most tv shows that the submitters follow.
by Oliadar
December 2, 2003, 3:51 am
Forum: Sports
Topic: Ouch
Replies: 3
Views: 768

Rams, shoot me an email. Tornolf@hotmail.com

Would of PMed you but it's not working for me atm.
by Oliadar
September 6, 2003, 10:29 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Bit Torrent info
Replies: 82
Views: 26028

Suprnova is the best one I have found. Since they run purely off of mirrors there's several links, if 1 is down just try another. http://www.suprnova.org http://www.suprnova.tk <-- one I use the most, seems to be up most of the time http://mbnet.fi/suprn0va/list_news.html http://suprnova.web.siol.co...