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The Optimum and all PD reserve has all the needed data on the panel sewn to the the center top skin of the canopy. Traditionally the data card belongs to the canopy. However when you buy a new canopy it does not come with one, only the container does. Personally I consider the "card follows the canopy" rule to be obsolete. There is no regulation that covers this.

Air pressure, in the test the stairs did not hit the fuselage,, came within 8" of closing.

It comes from the Campbell crew interviews - Hancock, Flo, Mucklow, Rat, Anderson, etc ... I can cite the passages again but that takes time/work... those are the docs published by Gray, given to Shutter ... core testimony in the Cooper case. Hancock eg. : During her final minutes on board and after the parachutes had been brought aboard, Hancock noticed that one of the parachutes had been unpacked and she asked the hijacker if he had taken the parachute apart and he replied “yes”. Hancock says the hijacker began unpacking one chute and cutting cords almost as soon as the chutes were brought on board.

Yep. You reckon there is a scintilla of possibility that any of the righties here will have even a single iota of understanding that their self serving R votes, no matter where they live, have contributed to this horrendous, hypocritical insanity, that is rending to shreds our vaunted constitution? Republicans, if you truly care about America, recall this saying: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Do what is right and step back from relatively petty interests and vote to restore democracy in November.

not to mention that at places like mine, we all spiral down all the time, but there are only four of us in the air at a time maximum. like last time when i was on a 2 way and we ended up landing toward each other because the wind changed. it wasn't a problem because the tandem was still in the air and he was on the ground by the time i turned on final. we talked about it and the spectacular plf i did in front of everyone. the spectators were all like "are you ok?" and thinking i was hurt, so i jumped up and just said, "no i'm fine, just need to hang this stupid thing now. it doesn't hurt when you do a proper plf". and it doesn't really, but then again it was only about a 2 mph wind, but i did manage to bang my elbow so i guess i need to work on form.

Where does this come from exactly? I can't find it any of the 302's that have been released so far. Thanks!

Tina saw Cooper put on the back chute after passengers deplaned but before the two stews left.

The tone of that whole diatribe reads a lot like, "I jump a highly loaded canopy, therefore I have more madd skillzz than everyone else, therefore everyone else should stay the hell out of my way!" Hmmm... carry on...

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Horizontal separation is irrelevant if vertical separation is maintained. Skydivers who are never at the same altitude at the same time will never collide.

Spiralling should be heavily discouraged everywhere with more than 2 canopies in the air, except if you are the lowest one and with a fall rate in full flight comparable to the ones above you. It develops 0 skills, it is an unsafe practice for the one doing it (can collide with other canopies that he/she didn't see) and for others (don't know where to go because the one spiralling is not flying predictably) and it gets boring rather quickly, so it is not even fun compared with other things you can do under canopy if you have the skills for it. To minimize conflict under canopy, you want to maximize both horizontal and vertical separation, and "pipeline" the canopies landing. A typical situation in medium size dropzones is having 18 canopies in the air at the same time. If you are in the middle of the bunch and have a canopy loaded at, let's say, 1.5, the safer way for everyone is if the heavily loaded canopies after you overtake you up high, and the vertical separation between these 2 groups is not reduced after that. That way there are no conflicts close to the landing pattern. If you start spiralling they can't overtake you at a safe altitude, since you artificially accelerated your fall rate, just to stop to your normal rate as soon as you stop spiralling. If you start-stop and then start and stop again, that makes it even worse. Like a car in the highway driving on the left lane and slamming on the brakes just to swerve to the right, accelerate, move again to the left lane and slam the brakes again. So the ones behind with highly loaded canopies need to do either of these: - Overtake you in the pattern. Take into account that the *last* turn for many canopies starts at 1000 feet. So your pattern starts when theirs finishes. Nobody wants to overtake or be overtaken at this point, every one should be focused on the ground and landing safely, not on canopy slalom. - Land out. Not always an option, depends on the DZ. - Hold on to breaks as much as possible, forcing everyone behind to do the same. This is not always possible, as even in brakes some canopies that are heavily loaded fall faster than other lightly loaded canopies in full flight. All these options are bad. This situation is quite common, as belly flyers typically fly lightly-to-medium loaded canopies and exit first due to free fall drift, and freeflyers have a higher tendency to fly medium-to-highly loaded canopies and exit after the belly groups. The exit order helps to keep horizontal separation between groups, but minimizes vertical separation as both groups open at a similar time and altitude. To fix that heavily loaded canopies should land first for everyone's sake, but can't do that if the lightly and medium loaded canopies are spiralling. Some would blame the small canopy and say they have the right to spiral down. Others would blame the spiralling pilot for lack of canopy etiquette and being equally skill-less and a dick.

Many drop zones discourage spirals and some even prohibit them as a way to reduce collision risks. I'm ok with spirals above pattern altitude as long as the jumper has cleared the air around and below. From pattern altitude to the ground I discourage any turns not required for reasonable accuracy.

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