Device dependence (was: Cypres report)

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This is true, but unless you now saying that having no AAD could reduce someone's panic I don't see how that supports your earlier contention.

I am saying that regardless of what someone says they will or wont' do, when they do when they are actually in the situation may be different from what they said they would do.

I've done a lot of things I said I would never do.

Derek

I agree, me too.

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t's an indisputable fact that an AAD increases your odds of accomplishing item one.

I think you miss the point of what I said. There are two things you need to do. That is you all by yourself, not your nanny.

If you choose to jump with an AAD that is your decision. But you should have learned from the recent incident if you want to play the odds game, go to Vegas.

Sparky

My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

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t's an indisputable fact that an AAD increases your odds of accomplishing item one.

I think you miss the point of what I said. There are two things you need to do. That is you all by yourself, not your nanny.

If you choose to jump with an AAD that is your decision. But you should have learned from the recent incident if you want to play the odds game, go to Vegas.

Sparky

My decision to jump with an AAD is not a reliance on it. Jumping without an AAD is betting against the house with your life when you don't need to. It makes no sense to suggest the jumper with the AAD is the gambler unless they rely on it, in fact the analogy turns logic on it's head.

"nanny", ho ho very droll.

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My decision to jump with an AAD is not a reliance on it. Jumping without an AAD is betting against the house with your life when you don't need to.

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This is true, but unless you now saying that having no AAD could reduce someone's panic I don't see how that supports your earlier contention.

I am saying that regardless of what someone says they will or wont' do, when they do when they are actually in the situation may be different from what they said they would do.

I've done a lot of things I said I would never do.

Derek

It appears from the fatality reports over the years that a lot of people didn't do things they said they would always do. Like pulling on time. No/low pull was the single biggest killer of skydivers in pre-AAD days.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.