Skydiving and Risk perception (an Article)

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Intertesting article, nothing startlingly new but interesting none the less
Skydiving as a Model for Risk perception

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which plane requires a window exit?

cavete terrae.

[mnskydiver688 0]

I guess you could jump from a J-3 Cub out the window, but it might take a while to get to 12,000 feet.

Sky Canyon Wingsuiters

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That's a good article!!!

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Well, since only the first page of six comes up, I can't comment on the entire article, but the writer's opinion, on the first page, that the Cyperes made skydiving safer, but jumpers found a new way to make it dangerous is erroneous.
It seems to me, that the writer is concluding that the Cyperes made skydiving so boring to jumpers that it created swooping and hook turn incidents, when clearly it is advances in canopy aerodynamics that has lead to the increased number of landing fatalities and injuries. The writer's logic is flawed.
Isn't there a thread or two around here where the swoopers and hook turners don't use an automatic opener because it increases the chance of an accidental deployment at a highly undesireable time?

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[IanHarrop 42]

ahhh its old news....

repost police http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2707512#2707512

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Well, since only the first page of six comes up, I can't comment on the entire article, but the writer's opinion, on the first page, that the Cyperes made skydiving safer, but jumpers found a new way to make it dangerous is erroneous.
It seems to me, that the writer is concluding that the Cyperes made skydiving so boring to jumpers that it created swooping and hook turn incidents, when clearly it is advances in canopy aerodynamics that has lead to the increased number of landing fatalities and injuries. The writer's logic is flawed.
Isn't there a thread or two around here where the swoopers and hook turners don't use an automatic opener because it increases the chance of an accidental deployment at a highly undesireable time?

I know exactly what you mean by that. There was a similar presentation on General Skydiving and me and my friends talk about that (CYPRES introduction) beeing a debatable example.


But ... (there's always a but ) the article talk about skydiving only in the 1st page
I still think it's a good article but that's only my oppinion

edit: spelling

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I still think it's a good article but that's only my oppinion

edit: spelling

And mine.
For those who care to read the entire article, you too may find it interesting.Or perhaps that's a risk you are not prepared to take

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

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which plane requires a window exit?

thats what I was wondering

[mikempb 0]

That was a pretty good article. Made some sense. In fact now that writing over the internet has become much safer i find myself having to wrestle alligators as I type!!! I think they're on to something