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That is essentially a visual exercise to gauge proximity. If you are halfway to the ground (from your opening altitude) and not at least halfway back to the landing area (horizontally from your deployment point) the suggestion is to head that way (stated "steer downwind") and look for an alternate landing area in case you don't make it.

any explaination or source to study about is highly appreciated .

Trudeau is keeping his head down because he has no power to deal with the situation. He does not control the OPP or the Ottawa police. What needs to happen is impounding the vehicles. Once that starts to happen the other owners will remove theirs from danger and the protest will become just like any other protest. It is the allowing of heavy trucks to be used as campers and street blockers that is a new thing that they haven't had to deal with before. Someone who understands trucks and especially towing them needs to consulted. First a show of force and arrests as needed followed by disabling the vehicles and then removing them.

The truckers would have several days advance notice. Peacekeeping/training forces from overseas would have to come home first. Because as everyone knows there are no armed forces in country right now. Two hundred are in Ukraine and the other 500 in Latvia.

Stop making up lies. I never said what you want to assign to me. I never said that the parties had the same or similar problems. Well except that they both have folks that are dishonest and self-serving.

Unfortunately the US healthcare "system", run along capitalist lines, has MUCH poorer outcomes than the socialist systems found in every other developed nation. We rank even below some second world nations in things like infant mortality, maternal mortality, and life expectancy. But you know that and choose to ignore it.

This is really basic stuff that should be covered in any FJC. A simple method to avoid getting too low before picking an alternate landing area in case of a bad spot. Example; pattern entry is at 1000’ and every student should know approximately where the planned pattern entry point is. Under canopy at 4000’, look down and figure out your position, look at pattern entry point and pick a spot about 1/2 way between. 4000-1000=3000/2=1500’. So, at 2500’, if not at or well past the 1/2 point, pick out an alternate landing.

Ignorance is 100% curable.

Actually I believe that it was indeed the rig paperwork. In France they have 4 different documents Harness, reserve, main and AAD. Plus the eventual works report, AAD service paper, insurance, license. Often the jumpers keep the paperwork in a plastic envelope. On the video, it looks like the whole booklet.

Have you ever heard the term "mixed economy"? Show me a pure capitalist economy that works.

So I actually read that study. (Sorry.) First off its conclusion is that shutdowns aren't worth it because they cause economic damage. This is not surprising as it is written by economists and political scientists: Jonas Herby, special advisor at Center for Political Studies, Lars Jonung, professor emeritus in economics and Steve H. Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics. Good people to evaluate economic fallout; terrible people to evaluate effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions. Second this is not a study. It is a "meta-study" which means it uses many other studies as its input. How did it select those studies? By looking at all the studies that looked at lockdown effectiveness then rejecting almost all of them. There were 117 studies in their pool and they rejected 83 of them for reasons like "used modeling" or "used time series approach." They even reject any study that looked at the effect of "well-timed shutdowns." By excluding all the studies showing well timed shutdowns, they are left with the studies of poorly or randomly timed shutdowns. They were left with 34. I looked at the first study they listed of the ones they looked at. Their summary of that study was "that shelter-in-place orders are - for the average duration - associated with 1% (insignificant) fewer deaths per capita." I looked up the study, and the study actually concluded that "a longer duration of a shelter-in-place order is associated with lower cases and deaths per capita from COVID-19." Keep in mind that this is from a study they did NOT reject, even though it looked at well-timed shutdowns. So sorry, not going to take this economic study seriously when it comes to medical results. It cherrypicked results, and then was not honest about the remaining studies they looked at.

They are “self canceling” in an attempt to get Joe Rogan canceled for real.

Sorry, I was being a bit elliptical. The qualifier of: "for other than the obvious reasons" was supposed to convey my true feelings. I guess I should have posted a cartoon instead.

No one here hates Trump, or consider him unfit for office, for other than the obvious reasons. No Biden supporters here believe he's the absolute finest choice. Again, and again, we've stated he's not Trump and that means we all win. How have you missed that?

The truth is that the Biden administration has yet to create a single job. Until the number of employed exceeds pre-pandemic level, any newly employed can only be characterized as jobs recovered NOT jobs created.

True. But I think the scales tipped after Monica. It was politically expedient to overlook certain things.

Race only matters to racists. The rest of us care about character.