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Hi Wendy, Re: 'Let's discuss the article.' You've already told him not to violate the rules of the forum. I call for a 30-day ban. Jerry Baumchen

According to Fox News, it looks like the residents of Michigan's Upper Peninsula now qualify for socialized healthcare!

When even Tucker Carlson is saying your conspiracy theory has no evidence, I think you failed: Just watch the first 4:20.

This. Brent,markharju and Ron are like the other 80% of GOP voters that believe the conspiracy b.s.

Well, since you advocated that homeless people should be put into camps, given whatever drugs they want and turned into mulch when they die, I don't really think you should complain so much when other people advocate that people that are too stupid to understand that Covid is real, Q is a fraud and Trump is a con man should be 'put into camps, given whatever drugs they want and turned into mulch when they die'. Given that many of these morons are anti-mask, anti-vax, and are pretending that the whole pandemic is a hoax, it may well become self correcting. The whole Darwin thing, ya know.

Welcome to the community -- both skydiving and dz.com. There's nothing like being in a little airplane with three of your closest (at least for the jump) friends, and then jumping out with abandon. Wendy P.

His hairscaper and face paint artist should be prosecuted too.

Well, "him" is actually a "her", but

Ideally he would be charged, convicted - and pardoned. Make sure that his guilt is proven in case he tries to pull some "I really didn't lose the election" nonsense in two years, then pardon him so his supporters don't decide that he's their martyr.

All of them.

That is equivalent to saying if you dont want to get killed by a drunk driver, never drive a car. Clearly you havent figured this out yet, but we are all in this together. This is a GLOBAL pandemic. As in, it affects everyone. When you and your homes to out to the bar and end up getting infected, you risk other's lives when you start walking around in public as a virus factory. Maybe you walk by an old lady at the grocery store and then she gets infected from you and dies. How exactly do you think COVID is transmitted? By a bunch of super sick people who are out in public sneezing everywhere? It's transmitted by people who dont know they are infected and they are moving around in public unknowingly spreading it to everyone. With regards to being scared, the virus doesn't care if you're scared of it or not. The ICU and morgue are full of people who weren't scared of the virus.

I always jump with gloves, too. Same reasons as Councilman, with the addition that I had a friend whose ring finger was degloved when she caught it on a floating exit on a Twin Beech (or maybe a DC3). This was before the days of float bars on airplanes, but it still brought home the fact that in a finger-vs-anything fight, the finger loses, so why not protect it. I always wore them when motorcyling, too, for the same reason. Wendy P.

I PLF more than most people. In fact, my default landing is PLF, with a standup being a last-minute decision if everything looks perfect. And it's a fairly honest PLF, generally done only when it's a no-wind or downwind landing, so there is some speed. I just don't run out landings any more. Frankly, my depth perception isn't great, never has been, which makes using my backbone/ass instead of my legs be the first point of contact (i.e. sliding) a really bad idea, too. What has this bought me? A dirtier rig than most, and an injury-free jumping career so far. That includes about 500 round jumps (although most of those were standups). I taught PLF's back when I was an instructor, so I do know how to do them, and it's pretty automatic. I highly recommend the skill, and enough practice for it to be fairly automatic. Unfortunately, the most realistic PLF nowadays would be to jump off a moving truck or something, but frankly the injury rate would be too high. And since generally the forward speed is higher than the downward speed, it'd be jumping off a lower platform than the 3-4 feet that we used to use for PLF practice. The practice should't injure you (though I did have a student discover once that she had osteoporosis after breaking her ankle jumping off the PLF platform). Wendy P.

Why do “we” not want the FAA to increase oversight of jump operations? Derek V