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Well, that automatically excludes Trump then. Fucking hell you are a case study in cognitive dissonance

Thankyou for following up! I'm now super curious how I arrived at this belief, from memory we laid some of the demo canopies from PD over each other, and on the ol' anecdata butt dyno a velo *definitely* doesn't look as oval as that diagram staring at it from below. I appreciate the correction though, cheers.

Hi Nigel, Hmmm, you just be onto something there. Let me think about it some more. Hey, Coreece, what do you think? :) Jerry Baumchen

I'd hold off a couple weeks before buying. You will probably get a better deal from his widow.

Yep.

Well, the QCumbers are going to have more to bitch about, but a harder time doing so. FB shut down one of the more popular (and populous) Q pages. https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-53692545?fbclid=IwAR3BEFP3HHqqnm9GPQHprFe-R-pkk3Oj-mo_1HCepPAFTJzzkT5tgdP70Ps#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From %1%24s

Pretty sure its a function of what license they hold. So a coach with a B needs it after 90 days. A TI with a D needs it after 180 days. That's just for jumping, though. There are other currency rules for different instructors, and them acting as an instructor (or a coach, which is a type of instructor). I believe that's in the IRM, not the SIM.

Well....remember that part about the reward and if it is worth the cost? For most people, especially starting out, a large part of the reward is the adrenaline rush. You can't really get that without some fear. It's part of the reward system in your brain.

In all seriousness, I don't actually much give a shit about Trump's mispronunciation - it's not the first time (by him or other presidents/candidates), it's probably not even the worst he's done, and it's pretty easily explainable by his demonstrated issues with reading in general. My horror/bemusement was with his sycophants - actual, professional, adult type people - boldly claiming over and over that this was the real way to say it and that everyone who's been saying Tie-land were just uncultured plebs. I think it might be the most cultish behaviour I've seen yet.

Because they WANT IT TO BE TRUE. They want to believe that all the 'liberals' are going to be taken to Gitmo and put in cells. Starting with Hilary. Their hatred is so strong, they ignore reality. When the first real Q claim was that there were children being molested in the basement of a restaurant that doesn't have a basement, it should have been done. If the QCumbers had ANY sense at all, any critical thinking ability, they'd see that all the claims are groundless. Nobody's been arrested, no one is going to 'save them' from the "Deep State". Which would be a bit difficult, seeing as the 'Deep State' is as real as Trump's business acumen. That gulliblity is one reason Trump came to power. He conned a bunch of people who wanted to believe in his crap so badly, so desperately, that they actually believed him. Many still do.

I strongly disagree with westerly .... but I made 1,000 tandem jumps before modern wing-suits were invented (circa 2000). UPY wrote those guidelines to discourage recreational jumpers from chasing tandems after a few collisions killed TIs. Most of the recreational skydivers who ask permission to chase tandems do not understand the extra risks involved. For example, the last time I gave a wing-suiter permission to fly past us under canopy, he passed at a safe and predictable distance. When I pointed out the wing-suit, the student did not seem to care. Shortly after that, the DZO banned wing-suits from "buzzing" tandems. Basic tandems are complicated enough without junior jumpers cluttering up their airspace. I would much rather double my TI work-load by strapping a camera to my hand than trust some unknown skydiver to freefall close to me. This comes from the first hand-cam TI in Canada. I taught myself how to do hand-cam after reading one article in SKYDIVING Magazine. The article described how Australians invented hand-cam. I even sewed my own hand-mount months before I ever saw a hand-mount.

I think Westerly's been drinking again. Usually his comments are very safety minded and conservative, and oft i agree with them. The two things that make a tandem lurk inherently more dangerous than a four way rw is the long drogue bridle and the possible actions of a panicky passenger. That being said, I don't think it's terribly dangerous if the ti trusts the skill of the lurker and the lurker has plenty of belly experience with group jumps. If I did convince a ti to let me lurk a friend, I'd definitely flip them a 20 for the extra work. They now have one more thing to be aware of and take into account.

But that is not relevant to the subject here. The question is about a new lower time jumper lurking a tandem. Several things can and have gone bad in that situation. A normal tandem is not complicated. The decision tree and potential for things to go wrong make the possible EPs on a tandem jump extremely complicated.