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Yes, you jump at Perris I believe. I am sure there is full service rigging available there and likely other master riggers around. Pretty much any rig can be converted for a reasonable cost. Don't go shopping for a left hand rig.

It's not an expensive job to turn round a BOC. I'd do it for about $30-$40. The bridle protection, however, will be an easier job on some rigs than others.

The easiest thing you can do is simply to get something that fits, and have a rigger/master rigger put a new pilot chute pouch on. It's something they normally do anyway, because they wear out. It's not that expensive, and you get a new pilot chute pouch as part of the deal... Wendy P.

Since we had the "China Virus" are we now getting the "England Virus"? Actually I like "Brexit Virus" - has a nice catchy sound to it.

If the borders are open, why would they have to sneak?

Yes, the belief is a common one amongst schizoprenics. But as a mental health professional you knew that, right?

One of the nicest ways in which the world is growing is that people's opinions about themselves are more and more often mattering more than the opinions of others. Wendy P.

it's also not much of a decision if it saves you $1k. hell, that's what my entire rig cost, including shipping.

So Operation Warp Speed had a cool Star Trek name. But what did it accomplish? Did it produce a vaccine in October, as Trump said it would? Nope. Did the money get a vaccine faster than pharmas could otherwise? Nope. The first vaccine approved took no money from Warp Speed. Did it "deliver a few hundred million doses of vaccine by the end of 2020" as Warp Speed's director promised in May? Nope. Did it "have 100 million doses of vaccine available before the end of the year and maybe much sooner than that" as Trump promised in July? Nope. Did it produce "at least 100 million vaccine doses before the end of the year, and likely much more than that" as Trump promised in October? Nope. Did they "have enough vaccine doses available for use in the U.S. population to immunize about 20 million individuals in the month of December" as the director promised in November? Nope. Did they get to 20 million vaccinations before the end of the year as Trump promised just after the election? Nope. In fact, it looks like we hit about 2.7 million vaccinations in all of 2020. If that rate keeps up, we will get everyone vaccinated in . . just over six years. But we'll be getting as much vaccine as we can to improve that, right? Nope. Trump turned down an offer of 200 million doses (enough to vaccinate about 30% of America) from Pfizer this summer. Now, nothing about this pandemic, or the timeline for vaccine development, or time for vaccine rollout, is 100% controllable. And Warp Speed was a good idea in theory, and it did do _some_ good - it may well have improved the schedule for the second vaccine approved. But I will still breathe a huge sigh of relief when we get someone competent in charge in three weeks.

It actually started much earlier. Bill was born to a very poor circumstance and, to be sure, he's made the most of it. As a kid he'd take any job available just to buy food and the mismatched sneakers he's always seen wearing even today. Early on he started trading used baseball gloves which gave him the idea of going to MIT. One day, whilst walking along a street looking for returnables, he noticed one of those Duck Crossing signs you see here and there and had an epiphany. The very next day, after sourcing an appropriate uniform from discards in nearby vacant lots, he stationed himself at one with a cardboard Duck Crossing sign. The genius bit was he charged 5 cents per car. It didn't take long before he was known as the Duck Kid and folks would go out of their way to give him a nickel. He's a real American story and a true inspiration.

I'm going to throw out something different to consider. Which dz is most likely to become your home dz, the one you will jump most at? For most jumpers that's the one closest to where you live. Doing your student training at that dz has several advantages. The obvious one is travel time and cost savings. The less obvious is the social side of skydiving. By the time you have an A license, people will know you and it will be a bit easier to find folks to jump with than if you show up as an unknown with a fresh A license. You'll also have a chance to get to know the local riggers before you have to decide who is going to pack your reserve. Regardless, don't forget to bring beer (or an equally yummy non alcoholic equivalent) and hang out getting to know people after your jumps. And have fun!

She opened her main and then managed to do up the b-12 and land safely. She was very lucky and very determined. This rig belonged to my wife who put about 2000 jumps on it before selling it. I have b-12s myself. B-12s have a long track record of being used safely. This incident is proof that one in a million events can happen. About the 218 in the J-4. The question is, what 218 do you have? I have put a Raven 2 which is 218 into one with no problem. PD makes a reserve in a 218 size that packs larger and would be a problem.