accept: to receive or agree with except: exclusion, "other than" advice: suggestions given to someone advise: to give a suggestion affect: to influence effect: result brake: to stop or slow break: to fracture brakes: toggles, as in "brake lines" could've: could have, not could of should've: should have, not should of would've: would have, not would of cord: as in "pullup cord", or "pull your cord" (ripcord) chord: a canopy measurement compliment: flattery or praise complement: to make complete cypres: model of AAD cypress: type of tree drogue: stabilization parachute drouge: no such word flair: style flare: to pull down on toggles (or pull back on yoke) farther: refers to actual distance further: refers to an extension of time or degree hanger: object for suspending clothes hangar: place to store airplanes its: possessive, belonging to "it" it's: contraction, "it is" lone: "single" loan: give to be borrowed lose: to experience loss loose: not tight mistake: error misteak: no such word parachute (chute): canopy parashute (shute): no such word peace: calmness piece: part plain: simple plane: airplane principle: rule or standard principal: person or to show importance rogue: transient, vagrant, as in "rogue opening" rouge: cosmetic, from French for "red" stare: look at intently stair: thing with steps static line: as in static line jump static: fixed static: a type of noise steer: maneuver steer: male bovine animal stear: no such word their: possessive form of "they" there: opposite of "here" they're: "they are" to: preposition too: adverb, "also" two: number "2" weather: condition of the atmosphere whether: introduces alternatives, "if"
This one is a true story, said by a radio personality who made his first static line jump while on the air, with a tramsmitter to the radio station.
After his canopy opened: "OK, the slipper is down far enough, let's do a controllability check... Right throttle, left throttle, flange."
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