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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!psgrain!neon!triage!dan
- From: dan@triage.UUCP (Mr. Dive OuttaDa Skyy)
- Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
- Subject: Re: New Comer!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.220507.13461@triage.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 22:05:07 GMT
- References: <C15rD3.AAF@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Organization: Triage Corp
- Lines: 20
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- In article <C15rD3.AAF@dcs.ed.ac.uk> rxb@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Ray Barry) writes:
- >Well, I thought I would just have a browse through the many millions of newsgroups,
- >just on the offchance that there is one related to skydiving. Yes! and here it is.
- >I can now use this newsgroup to ask all those silly, embarassing questions that I
- >dare not ask at my local drop zone for fear of looking like a complete fud. I've
- >read the past 46 or so articles, and still have no clue what a LORAN spot is.
- >
- >Anyway, I jump over here in the UK, where things are a lot different (we still jump
- >rounds with DM boots), for about 50 jumps before we can graduate to squares, or less
- >jumps if you go through some sort of AFF course, which is what I did, and have just
- >recently made my first couple of jumps on squares.
- >
- >Ray Barry
- >A 100059 - this is if course my BPA number, not a USPA number.
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- LORAN is actually an old VooDoo custom, whereby the spotter calls upon
- the great sky God NAROL for guidance to the ground. It is said that if
- the spotter is pure of heart and never pulls low, the spotter will
- be blessed with a reasonable spot, else ..... :-)
-