Banned / Revoked USPA-CSPA License

[jfields 0]

There was a little blurb in this month's Parachutist about some guy having his USPA & CSPA licenses revoked and being banned. Although small, the bit was fairly prominently placed.

Anyone know the story behind that, or why they decided to make it so public?

[kevin922 0]

Where was that in the magazine?

[jfields 0]

I forget what page, but it was in a little box on the right-hand page, sandwiched in between two pictures or something. I think it was fairly close to the beginning. I would give more details, but the magazine is at home. That is also why I didn't post the name.

[seedy 0]

Page 21

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[jfields 0]

Any chance you could throw the text up here?

[PhreeZone 20]

In the BoD meeting article for next month it will explain this in detail from what I've heard....

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[jfields 0]

That is bizarre. Why would they put it out like that, with no explanation?

[seedy 0]

"Membership and Ratings Revoked"
"By action of the USPA Board of Directors, the USPA membership and ratings of Benjamin Rayner USPA member # 96779, have been revoked for life. Rayner is a citizen of the United Kingdom. By reciprocal agreement with the Canadian Sport Parachuting Association, USPA's decision will be upheld by that organization."
from Parachutist magazine, Sept. 2002

I intend to live forever -- so far, so good.

[PhreeZone 20]

At one point one of the Team Extreme guys had all his stuff yanked for swooping the London Bridge...

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[jtval 0]

wow thats the Beer time I saw that!

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[Sinkster 0]

Could this be the issue?

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Quote from above link: "As stated in the Order Assessing Civil Penalty, on April 30, 1994, while skydiving, Mr. Rayner jumped out of a DeHavilland DHC-6 aircraft in the vicinity of St. Mary’s Airpark, Leonardtown, Maryland. It was stated further in the Order that Mr. Rayner parachuted into or through clouds over the Airpark, at a time when there were aircraft in the traffic pattern."

[lummy 4]

I would hope not......

I would like to think that there is more to the story than the fact that he jumped thru clouds while there was traffic in the pattern. Stupid and extremely dangerous, yes... but it seems there are quite a few industrial haze stories, should they have their licenses pulled too?

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[Luminous 0]

There is more to it....

"He got caught".

'In an insane society a sane person seems insane.' Mr. Spock

[wildblue 7]

7 years later?
There has to be something else.

And is this the same Ben Rayner that is/was Campus director for Skydive U at Blue Sky Ranch?

it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality

[weid14 0]

well, laslo is running the campus there, but I wonder if it's the same guy who used to coach in DeLand a few years ago. He wrote a book too, I think.

[christoofar 0]

It has to be big if USPA went out of its way to communicate to CSPA and convince them to take the same action (terms of recip. agreement)...

Sounds pretty bizarre!

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[billvon 3,116]

>At one point one of the Team Extreme guys had all his stuff >yanked for swooping the London Bridge...

And to think I got paid $500 to do that . . .