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Using jump numbers instead of demonstrable skills as an indicator of readiness is a flawed metric. Minimum flights as well as Successfully demonstrating a specific set of skills as outlined by @billvon is the only way to know.

With your 149 can you: Flat turn 90 degrees on short final and still land well? Flare turn at least 45 degrees and still land well? Land crosswind and in no wind? Land reliably within a 10-meter circle? Initiate a high-performance landing with double front risers and front riser turns to landing? Land on slight uphills and downhills? Land with rear risers? If the answer to all of those is "yes" then you are probably ready. If you can't do those things on your current canopy then 1) you're not getting all the performance out of it yet and 2) you should seriously consider learning them before downsizing. Many of those are survival skills that you will be too scared to try on your new canopy because it's small and you promised people you'd "be really careful."

So much winning: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/05/31/sussmann-not-guilty-lying-fbi-hillary-clinton/ Sussmann, who worked for Clinton, acquitted of lying to FBI in 2016 “Politics were not a factor,” the jury forewoman said after a courtroom defeat for special counsel John Durham, appointed three years ago by then-Attorney General William Barr.

A woman asks a man, “Do you drink beer?” Man: Yeah. Woman: How many beers a day? Man: Usually about 3. Woman: How much do you pay per beer? Man: $5.00, including the tip. Woman: And how long have you been drinking? Man: About 20 years, I suppose. Woman: So a beer costs $5 and you have 3 beers a day which puts your spending each month at $450. In one year, it would be approximately $5400, correct? Man: Correct. Woman: If in 1 year you spend $5400, not accounting for inflation, the past 20 years puts your spending at $108,000, correct? Man: Yeah, that's probably about right. Woman: Do you know that if you didn’t drink so much beer, that money could have been put in a step-up interest savings account and after accounting for compound interest for the past 20 years, you could have now bought a Ferrari? Man: Do you drink beer? Woman: No. Man: What color is your Ferrari?

The silence from the BOD on this is deafening... At a minimum there should have at least been some kind of press release saying that we're looking into it, etc., ,etc. I understand the reasons for confidentiality of investigations and they are valid. We all have a right to protection from slander and due process. But in a high profile incident involving a board member there is also a fiduciary duty to the general membership that must be addressed. As an organization, we do not have adequate transparency on this. Someone needs to be a leader here.

Somehow school dress codes and uniforms don't interfere with learning elsewhere. It's a guess but I'd guess where all kids are dressed the same at school there is less social bullying.

I've got a boat too It has better fuel economy than all of your boats and planes put together.

This, a thousand times this. Every piece of data is an opportunity to test your assumptions, thoughts, beliefs, and convictions. There's not always time, but it's a good exercise regularly. Incident reports had me putting my RSL back on, and things here have had me rethink positions as well. That doesn't make me weak, it makes me smart enough to understand situations can change, and that I can be wrong. Wendy P.

Well, I've no intention of being "nice" about Billy Vance. He's a murderer. Period. And he, and others with the attitudes he had expressed who've posted in this thread, are the enablers of murderers of little children in their classrooms. I find them sickening in the way they rationalize their love of killing machines.

Hi airdvr, From the very bottom of my heart: THANK YOU Jerry Baumchen

Welcome aboard. I, for one, am willing to register all of my guns, pay a fee for any new or used guns I buy, give up guns that I never use and will likely never use again and and submit to a psychological exam (provided it wasn't administered by woodpeckers or grey digger squirrels) if by joining in it kept just one parent from learning that their nine year old was murdered by a bullied, mentally tortured, maniac at school that day. Maybe it would be pointless, maybe it would be wrong. But it's time to do something, to give up something, even if it's wrong.