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Brent has proven time and time again that he doesn’t understand how single data points relate to statistical sets. He barely reads more than a single paragraph into any article before reposting it in order to get people riled up. This is not a rational person you can convince via discourse and reasoned argument. Brent has absolutely no interest in expanding his understanding on ANY subject or changing his opinion. Surely you all have better things to do with your time.

The idea of a reserve not deploying in time after an AAD firing is totally unacceptable and defeats the reason for having an AAD in the first place, and it is worst when we speak about reserve Pilot Chute failing to clear the side flaps when manually pulled by its handle. in 2008, all the major rig manufacturers using a retractable reserve pin cover (Parachutes de France, MIRAGE, PARATEC) accepted , as a precautionary measure, the change in the cutter position. On Vector rig the reserve pin cover flap uses a tuck tab which is a folding tongue underneath instead of sliding into a slot at the top of the midflap ( which I call retractable), it is a safer design. Since 2008, AERODYNE has not worked on a device to retract the cutter body in the top of the reserve P/C contrary to the others manufacturers using a retractable reserve pin cover. As a consequence of which, collateral damage inherent to this cutter location such as deformation of the closing flap above the cutter and markings on the grommets are only observed is on NEXGEN generation rigs. The ICON rigs before the NEXGEN generation of rigs do, in fact, have a tolerance to accept the cutter location above the reserve P/C without damage, and therefore a shortened cut of the closing loop which is a guarantee of perfect operation in the event of an AAD firing due to a total malfunction. Otherwise a cutter located below the flaps, makes the container have to open from the inside out, and that takes more energy and results in a delay in container opening. I have to isolate Icon rig from other rigs with 4 flaps above reserve PC : Aerodyne uses a stiffer plastic than other manufacturers 1.5mm plastic instead of 1.0 mm makes a difference enough to re-enforce a wrong way and makes the Icon a very steamlined rig (not sure of the exact term in English and that's not a compliment). When we proceed to reserve manual test on Icon rigs, we found out the main issue is the double (10 cmX 8,5 cm) stiffener of the central flap #5 ; since it is not flexible enough it does not bend and does not help the reserve pin cover flap to lift outside while the pin is extracted. Also on last Icon rigs, the reserve pin cover flap is excessively long, recently Aerodyne made them longer, probably because the flaps kept coming loose during free fall and this change participate to keep the container locked when open from the out side in : by manually pulling the reserve ripcord specially on ballistic Icon rigs. In this situation, reserve flap #6 is caught by pinching in between reserve flap #5 and reserve pin cover flap. Keep in mind what when the main is still in his container, the flap #5 clearance is limited because it is largely encompassed by the main side flaps which does not help. Now Aerodyne could make necessary corrective actions to change all of these defects but then, the rig …will be named differently !

Troll is feeding well today.

OMFG — an innocent person was accused of being a racist! That certainly demolishes the possibility that there is still racism out there. There must be absolutely no false accusations before one can believe any of them. Kind of like sexual harassment. Those women and minorities have to be punished for false accusations against fine upstanding people! If a few guilty ones get by, that’s all in the interests of protecting them! False accusations of racism/sexual aggression are far worse than actual racism or sexual aggression, I guess. Ya can’t get them all right. But if only one “side” has to be protected at all costs, the issue is institutionalized Wendy P.

Wait...Who is "Brent"?

The books made him do it. Northland school book ban advocate now facing child molestation charge

At least when he had a TI job at US Government Subsidized Skydive Happy Valley before they folded (f'n how?) he had another audience. Now it's just us and his never ending song.

There's a bunch of memes going around on FB about this. Most of them are saying 'if they want to ban a book, go find it and read it because what they want to hide is what you need to know'. One is a fairly well known Stephen King quote.

Being the world's policeman didn't work out too well for Britain in the 19th** and early 20th Centuries, and hasn't been so great for the US in the 20th and 21st (so far). ** Interestingly Crimea in the 1850s and Afghanistan in the 1870s both proved costly to Britain. History repeats?

You can tell you’re getting older… 1. When you can sit on the toilet and flush to wash your testicles and realize that's the most action you'll get that day. It's like having a pair of socks with quarters in 'em. 2. You go to Starbucks with a guy half your age and he orders something from the Barista and you have to ask him, "What language is that?" 3. I forgot what number 3 was.