My Funeral

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

Hey...thought I'd Drop a Line To say hi, sorry i wasnt at the party yesterday, had severe pains in my stomach and spent most of the day asleep.

Well most of you are wondering by now why the tital of this thread is what it is. well its cos On saturday at 9.50 I will be doing My SPONCERED ABSEIL in bradford.

Now why a funeral you might add..well im very very very very very afraid of heights so i might freek a lil, and end up fainting when i reach teh bottom.

pthah...weakling you might say...he he not when you see the building..

well ill try to see you all after teh weekend and my visit to ECTS and hope you all have a nice time.

Phoe.
xxx

[[HLnC]ßomßinaTriX]

Aww... ;(

Good luck. :)

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

Thanks Love. xxx

I'm gonna need it.

anyone in bradofrd your welcome to come i might be drunk afterwards.

[-Maniax-]

We want to see pictures!!!

Good luck btw :)

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

Well i dunno if anyof the GP staff are gonna take pictures, if there are any ill post them, if not if you ask around th gp staff they will tell you if i chickend or not.

[[TJC]Boba Fett ASF]

Originally posted by PhoeChiMalkieGal

Now why a funeral you might add..well im very very very very very afraid of heights so i might freek a lil, and end up fainting when i reach the bottom.

pthah...weakling you might say...he he not when you see the building..


Awwwwwwww, nice one, hope it all goes well for you.

I salute people like you.

Boba Fett:fett:

Heights..who isn't scared of 'em.

[DizMatt]

I've done this when I was about 16 in Leeds off of the HIlton near the station.
Did it in 3 or 4 jumps.
great fun
Phoe, it'll be fine. The guys helping you out are normally soldiers and do this ALL the time.
You have a safety rope and even if you faint half way down, they'll lower you down nice and gently.
I'm really tempted to come and watch actually but I'm busy this weekend.
have fun Phoe, it's not that bad, really it isn't.

[[HLnC]ßomßinaTriX]

I'm not scared of heights...

Gimme a really high tree to climb and I'm amused for the whole day :)

[Squirrel]

:eek: you are very brave Phoe - I get the jitters when I am at the top of a pair or stepladders :)

[-reaper-]

I'm jealous! I haven't abseiled for ages.

Jumping out of a plane at 12,000ft - now that's fun!

[Roast?]

Pfff 12,000 feet, that all :)

Phoe, abseiling really is a peice of cake, the guys that will show you the ropes, if your excuse the pun will be very well qualified, and do it all the time :)

Well its either them, or i'll do it for you :P

Anyway the worst part is going over the edge, once you've done that, its a peice of cake.

Trust me, getting to the bottom, breaking that mental barrier is all the reward your need, although a drink or too may not be such a bad idea :)

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

well if mother isnt wanting to get back too leeds after it ill be hiding in one of the pubs near by celebrating if i do it, comiserating if i dont, so if you come anyof you im sure you will recognise me ill be the one preverbially making the feces come early.

there are two other girls doing it emily and claire so it will be ok.

[Roast?]

Your be fine :)

Half way down your start to enjoy yourself...

Honestly its a great experiance...

Once you have that mastered, next trick parachuting :)

[-reaper-]

Originally posted by Roast?
Pfff 12,000 feet, that all :)

Trust me, if £160 could get me higher, I'd be all for it!

[Roast?]

hehe oh yeah, you smucks pay for your parachuting :)

We get 'em free when our plane plumets to the sea...

No, hightest me donw without oxygen was about 22,000 out of a 757 AWACS.

Me done lots of fast roping out of sea kings though :)

[-Maniax-]

Originally posted by -reaper-
Trust me, if £160 could get me higher, I'd be all for it! [/B]

:smokin:

You are talking about that sort of high aren't you?

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

Parachu...*faint*

[Kali]

Kewl! Abseiling....it's kewl fun! I'm terrified of heights too, but abseiling is still kewl....thing is, I guess it's b/c you're looking up the whole time, rather than down. Still - superb - you'll have a blast.

Kali.

[Roast?]

Pfffff

:cheese:

[Kali]

You are talking about that sort of high aren't you?
HEHEHEHEHEEHEH!
Dammit - £160.....mmmmmm....I know what I'd buy!

Kali (wizardess of Oz)

[Roast?]

/me gives Phoe mouth to mouth to err 'make her better'

No seriously parachuting is amazing fun.. your see, doing HALO's are abit dodgy though :)

[Dusk]

Roast. Behave.

[-Maniax-]

Originally posted by Roast?
No seriously parachuting is amazing fun.. your see, doing HALO's are abit dodgy though :) [/B]

Oooo HALO's , me want a go...into water like they do in that Point Break film

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

Thanks....*breaths*

your all actually making me feel better i think i will be able to do it, now i know i have the support there, even if not in person

[Roast?]

Me was! the girl had fainted Auntie Dusky... had to revive her...

Me was being a good boy (for once)

BTW where did you spring from?!

HALOS Are amazing fun, high altitude, low opening jump into water... tell you more about them if ya want

[Roast?]

your all actually making me feel better i think i will be able to do it

If i can do it, you can do it, there is nothing hard about it, its just a walk in the park, nothing can and will go wrong.

PMA :)

[Dusk]

Roast you know quite well that fainting does not require mouth to mouth!
Bad boy! :E

Where did I spring from, I'm at work....I always reasd the forums while I am at work as the access is about 4x quicker! :)

[-reaper-]

Since Bond done one, we all know what a HALO jump is all about. :E

22,000ft? When I done my jump, the first half took 30 seconds falling with style and the second half took just under 5 mins on a chute. How long does 22,000ft take? Me wants a go!

[-Maniax-]

Yeah yeah yeah Roasty, tell us everything.



"What is this big round thing coming towards me is...I wonder if it'll be my friend" Said the Whale

(Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for anyone who doesn't know :) )

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

the access here is like 7 million times beter than at home, i acan go make myself a cup of tea in the time it takes a page to load at home......

yeah..i WILL do it.....*G*

[-Maniax-]

Hey Phoe, ask the dudes oragnising the abseiling of you can do it the other way, you know so that you are facing the ground :E

[Roast?]

ROFL you evil b@stard!

Thats evil, don't do it Phoe :)

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

or i can do it the quick way and jump.

[DizMatt]

well I'd like to go parachuting one day...getting my nerve up for it...tandom jump or something I think.
Is it that expensive!

Anyway a HALO jump would scare the crap out of me.
Is it true Roast that you have to freefall for most of it otherwise you'll freeze to death? and dump your chute at about 20 feet so you don't get tangled up and drown?

[Roast?]

Ok the jist of a HALO is this :)

1: Drop out of a plane in a wet suit, with oxygen tanks and equipment. BTW plane is high.. very high. Miles high!

2: Free fall for ages, you go very fast, upwards of 200mph!

3: Pop your shoot about 10 seconds before impact with the water, let go of your shoot about 2 seconds. If you go into the water with your shoot attached, you are in life threatening situation.

4: Try not to smack your head on your oxygen tank when you hit the water, the force of it would fracture your head. And try not to break any bones when hitting the water, you want to be a stream lined as poss.

5: Switch to your other oxygen suply, because the oxygen/nitrogen mix for falling with would suffocate you under water.

6: Swim around, and enjoy.

BTW if you do any of these wrong, like the realease of your shoot too late... then you would go into the water too quickly, you would go too deep, and your lungs would explode.

Scary sh1t isn't it :) Honestly it sounds worse then it is, but it is dangerous.

You would use a HALO jump mainly in the entrance of special forces, ie having the plane above radar sweeps, and free falling and poping the shoot lowever then the radar.

There are also other reasons why you would want to do this :)

[[QWS] Baby Bear]

There are also other reasons why you would want to do this

ermm like teasing death for instance...

[-Maniax-]

Originally posted by Roast?
There are also other reasons why you would want to do this :)

Like, just for the hell of it? :)

[Roast?]

:)

Something to put on your wall :)


For some reason, this was an optional exercise

[DizMatt]

thanks for the info as always roast but I thought that the nitrox mix is used underwater...
just that you need a different type of breathing apparatus is all. I'm sure they use nitrogen/oxygen underwater.
ALso helium/oxygen for saturation diving.

[Roast?]

True, but you need a different mix (i.e different percentage) think its 21% oxygen, not sure though...

[dnx]

Hey Phoe you'll be coolies....

I'm well scared of heights but a few years ago did an abseil and twas greeeeeat fun....go for it :)

[-Maniax-]

Normal (recreational) scuba diving just uses normal air taken straight from the atmosphere which iirc is

~78% Nitrogen
~19% Oxygen
The Rest = Trace amounts of other gases

It's all compressed into the cylinder at 230 * normal atmospheric presure.

Roast, It's interesting that you say navy divers use a higher O2 %, any ideas why?

[Roast?]

Cause we go deeper, i think if you go down more then 30m, you need a different ratio, but to be honest i really don't know alot about all that stuff.

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

kay guys I DID IT!!!!!!

i actually did it!!!!!

[Squirrel]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssss

You brave :laugh:

[Snell The Goose]

YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!

?me does crazy dance with phoe.

I am a complete complete chicken with hights. On holiday i had to climb a 20 metre observation tower. I needed two people to hold both my hands to get meh up.....lol

/me gives you cheesy sticker saying "i'm a brave gurl"

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

i freeked at first, i asked him to pull me back up and he said no he said just walks back wards, i went a few steps then jumped all teh way down it fealt so GUUUUUUUUUUUDe

then i went for mocha's so im hyper

[WarHawk]

Originally posted by -Maniax-
navy divers use a higher O2 %, any ideas why?

when you go below a certain depth, oxygen becomes completely toxic, so if you're going really deep you breath in a mixture of compressed helium and oxygen (called heliox, btw) to stop you from dying through oxygen poisoning. true.

[[TSQN] Fu11]

where do i sign up then? :E

[[TSQN] Fu11]

oooooooh and WTG!

don't even know you but i'm proud of you! :laugh:

:)

[-Maniax-]

Originally posted by PhoeChiMalkieGal
kay guys I DID IT!!!!!!

i actually did it!!!!!

Congrats Phoe

Now that you've mastered that, why not try this

http://www.flybywire.co.nz/

Hmmm... is this where I get called an evil b@stard again? :E

[Roast?]

Nice one Phoe :)

See told, you no problem once you get over the side is it :)

Err that one, i may have reservations about, but err i'll give it a go :)

Can someone hold my hand plz...

[Roast?]

BTW thanks War, i knew there was a good reason for it, just couldn't think of it :)

[Snell The Goose]

Again....well done!!! Now all you gotta do is swin with sharks, have a spider crawl up you arm and get a tattoo :P

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

the fly by wire thing - that can go RIGHT out the window

sharks - yes please
spider - *shudder* no thanx
tat - thinking about one

[dnx]

Nice one Phoe...

Did u enjoy it??

[Roast?]

Of course she did... when she got to the bottom, bet she didn't like much going over the edge :)

Once again nice one Phoe :kiss:

[Izzeh]

/Me pops into the forum

Well done Phoe! *huggles* :D

Me sadly looks at my phone bill and walks away..... ;(

[Dusk]

I did wonder about the sudden disappearance Izzie! : (

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

I was scared leaning back, and i had a strange harness on, the guy said that iff i slipped id end up upside down, so they put this other harness round my chest, made it feel a lil safer, but it was raining and windy and the scaffold was shaking and the wind was making weird noises.

I got over the lip at the top and was stood horizontal thinking god this feels strange and the guy said...move to the right, i did and i could see round the building up the street all the busses and cars coming towards me and the actual hight...i screamed and closed my eyes, walking backards then it got really weird, all teh noise just dissapeared, all i could hear was the guys voice coaxing me down.

we were told not to touch the window at the bottom as the place didnt want foot prints on it so we had to jump then and slide down.

My hands got rope burns, they dont hurt just look funny and i couldnt stop shaking till 3pm (did the abseil at 10am) i wanted to go to the pub, but mom wanted to get home, so we went for a meal instead, and i was downing tia maria and Mochachinos like nothing.

I gather i could do it again, and i signed up for a parachuting fundraiser.

Phoe.
xx

[[HLnC]ßomßinaTriX]

Jesus Jumped up Christ!

CONTAIN YOURSELF WOMAN!

I...

;(

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

What??

It was so much fun after the initial " i dont wanna die" and " mother take me home" sequence.

[[HLnC]ßomßinaTriX]

H'pologies. :E

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

hippo - logies accepted ...he he

[-Maniax-]

Ok, It's nearly a week since Phoe's decent into the abyss so where are the pictures?

[The Idiotic Genius]

Originally posted by PhoeChiMalkieGal

....I will be doing My SPONCERED ABSEIL in bradford....


abseiling absailing you wanna try parasending mate much better.. the rush as you feet leave the cliff face anf your suddenly 1.3km above the nearest ground best rush i've ever had!!!!:E

[The Idiotic Genius]

now that i've got my last comment off my chest I know what abseil;ing on a wet windy day is like. I yoused to go all the time not any more tough. once we had to climb the cliff fist there was this dirty great ledge that j00 had to geton to and the hand holds were just on the edge of my reach fell 7 time nearly KO'd 2 times nasty bruses and a few cuts. then did the absail the rock was all covered in lichens and was wet so didn't move feet just skidded down wierd felling!!
:E
sowwy Phoe shouldent have pissed on your fire:cry:

[DizMatt]

well done Phoe...*huge congratulatory hug*

I remember when I did that I jumped to the bottom in about 3-4 goes (120ft in all) and the squadie at the bottom said "I ain't touching that yet" pointing at the figure of 8 (the metal loop the rope goes through).
Anyway still on a hight I said "why?"....
BLOODY HELL it was hot...ouch.
The friction of the rope heated it up bloody fast I can tell you...
Anyway would love to do it again but it's expensive...
maybe they can host a similar event at i6????

[The Idiotic Genius]

me done that as well. Also what I did was i cat (thats where you jump out then let the rope out so you go down faster) jumped this wall in two but at the end of the second jump the rope was going through the figure 8 well fast so that got damn hot then I tried to stop-rope left burn mark on my hand which was close to needing hospital treatment, then as I had not stopped I hit the wall and the ground at the same time quite fast...ouch...anybody got a bandaid?:bigcry:

[Louhi]

Daft sod!!

Didnt u do well in science at school? Friction = heat

[WarHawk]

this friction thing should be more widely available. as a physics a-level student i went abseiling from a platform in a tree (ie- with no rock to walk down) and i didn't start to slow (from 80 ft up) till about 10 ft from the ground. OUCH! all the skin off my hand and a sprained tendon is painful.

[The Idiotic Genius]

Louhi and you called me a daft sod War everybody knows when you free absiel u wear gloves for exctly that reason. Really the reason you dont wear them on rock/wood walls(you can if you want)is so that if you slip its easier to get your feet back on the wall without those anoying gloves!!!

[PhoeChiMalkieGal]

Gloves?

well photos should be here within the week, they are on my mates digital camera im waiting for him to trans them to disk for me to put on my website.

[-Maniax-]

Originally posted by PhoeChiMalkieGal

...and i signed up for a parachuting fundraiser.


Ok, I know this thread has died down but I just came across this snippet of info and thought Phoe might want to go for the record (I think I'm going for the Evil B@stard Crown with this one :E )

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On August 16, 1960, a US Air Force balloonist named Joseph Kittinger ascended in an open-gondola balloon to a record-setting altitude of 102,800 feet (31,300 meters). Wearing a pressure suit and a parachute, he stepped out of the balloon into very thin air.

Kittinger free-fell for four minutes and 37 seconds. With almost no air resistance at that altitude, his vertical speed reached almost 1000 kilometers per hour (600 mph) -- about the same speed as a jet airliner, only going straight down.

Eight minutes after his chute opened, he landed at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, having set records for highest open-gondola balloon flight, longest free-fall, fastest free-fall, and longest parachute descent.

[-reaper-]

And unofficially, he won the prize for the "most ammount of pant filling in one day"

[Izzeh]

Damn! I thought my record would last for 30 years! ;(

[Roast?]

Hehe sounds like fun :)

Maybe when i'm 90, going to die the next day, got nothing to loose i'll try it :)

Think my false teeth will reach the ground before my body does?