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Proof-positive that you don't re-read your posts out loud.

You are WAY off base with that comment. USPA encourages skydivers to chase their passion, and promotes best practices regardless of the discipline. Is canopy piloting safe? Nope. Not even close. CP is dangerous - damn dangerous - but that doesn't mean USPA should discourage it. Is freeflying safe? Nope. How about CRW? FS? And then there's speed skydiving. Consider a premature deployment at 300 mph. Nothing we do is safe. The CP culture is the most peer-policed discipline in skydiving. Go to a CP comp sometime and observe. You will see the best pilots on the planet coaching, mentoring, and critiquing - all with the goal of keeping one another safe. CP has come a long, long way since the days of toggle hooks and ditch digging. Today's pilots have a deep understanding of the science behind the discipline and continuously hone their skills and education to stay as safe as possible. They are also acutely aware of the risks. From an organizational perspective, the ISC (International Skydiving Commission) and national-level organizations like USPA have and do modify competitions rules and practices to make safety a top priority. One great example is the change in distance rules that now require pilots to stay below a certain height for a portion of the run before climbing their canopies. This was done specifically because folks were getting injured by climbing so high that landings were becoming sketchy. I have been following the competition CP community for over a decade. My son is one of the top pilots in the world. Do I worry about him? Every single day. Would I ever dream of discouraging him from doing what he loves? Never. USPA does not "endorse canopy piloting competitions that encourage skydivers to land in very unsafe ways". USPA encourages skydivers of all disciplines to conduct their activities as safely as possible. Some disciplines are more dangerous than others, but none of them are safe. Canopy piloting is not safe. Neither is any skydive you have ever made or ever will.

Why are people engaging with an obvious troll?

Uncle Moe is incorrect. AFF has proven to be the best training method skydiving has ever had and on the whole produces the safest skydivers when taught properly.

Reference post # 1603. Few nations publish accurate casualty lists during wartime. They prefer to leave bad guys guessing as to casualties. As for accusing the Azov Battalion of being nazis ... yes, the battalion was founded by hard-right politicians back around 2014, but since then, the Azov Battalion has been absorbed by the generic Ukrainian Army and its most fanatical leaders have moved on to elected positions in the Ukrainian Parliament. As for the Azov Battalion using Nordic Runes an swastikas and other nazi regalia ... May we remind you that Nordic Runes were a popular alphabet when Norsemen took over ruling Kievian-Russ more than a thousand years ago? Both Russia and Ukraine claim Kievian-Russ as the foundation of both their countries. Various swastikas were fashionable in the Baltic, Bhuddist and Sioux cultures hundreds or thousands of years before Adolf Hitler perverted them for his own dastardly ambitions. Finally, dear Slim Jim, most of us are tired of you parroting Mr. Poutine's propaganda. I tend to read 6 or 8 different news sources (Al Jazeera, CBC, BBC, Epoch Times, Globe and Mail, Paris Match, PBS, National Post, Manchester Guardian, der Spiegel, Vancouver Province, etc.) every week and most of them disagree with Mr. Poutine's line.

Very true. I was specifically replying about competition CP where there is a lot of safety enforcement and monitoring. The vast majority of CP incidents happen outside competitions by non-competitors. Those are the folks who are too cool for school.

Maybe, but the real game changer will be robot TI's and packers.

False dichotomy.

Andriy Melnyk was Ukraine ambassador to Germany unitl recently.

I don't think you get it. Elon has money, therefore he's smart (money being the universal determinant of human value). But if you're a liberal and you have money, it's because you're a lying, cheating moron who inherited it or stole it somehow. You just have to understand the hierarchy: Perceived belief set Money Social group everything else Note that these are all malleable in the right hands, so that the definitions can be adjusted as need be for modern events. Lewis Carroll, meet George Orwell. Wendy P.

They want peace and for Ukraine to be Ukraine. Arguing that you either submit to being invaded and annexed by Russia and agree to give up future means of self defence against another hostile invasion or you’re a pro war profiteering criminal is the stupidest thing I’ve read today. I mean, I’ve honestly only just woken up, but I have already seen the Herschel Walker story.

So: Slim King: Just look at two pictures taken some time apart! They will show no sea level rise. Me: Here are two pictures taken 60 years apart that show sea level rise. Slim King: Pictures mean NOTHING! There could be tides! Other things! Pictures are meaningless! Slim King 10 posts later: Here are more pictures that show no sea level rise! That's PROOF! You're like a parody of a troll.

Here’s an article & video about a company looking to automate regional cargo transport with Cessna Caravans as drones. Would be interesting if skydiving operations were automated/remotely piloted.

Covid causation aside, the raw numbers don't tell the story. Fatalities per total jumps is a more accurate reflection of our safety. Additionally, it's very hard to point at anything a year at a time because the sampling is so small that it only takes a minor shift in the annual total to make a significant move as a percentage. USPA uses 5-year and 10-year averages (by decade) to provide a meaningful look at trends. That said, I truly hope I see any 12-month period with no fatalities in my lifetime.

Hi folks, This survey is looking good for here: Oregon voters appear poised to support new gun control regulations: The Oregonian/OregonLive poll - oregonlive.com However, IMO it is merely the first step in a long journey. Jerry Baumchen PS) From the article: Among voters with a college degree or higher, pollsters found 63% of respondents planned to vote yes compared with 40% of respondents with a high school diploma or less. Trump did say something about this, I think.

It is equally likely that this is a normal occurrence in an effectively random distribution of deaths per year.

Hi 615, I agree. I think the French Federation does it. Jerry Baumchen

What I find most disturbing is the tandem fatalities this year. If that were to keep up, it would not be good for the sport. Yes every skydive has risk, but at least experienced jumpers have a chance to mitigate those risks.

My dude, KK5-1 is a random mugshot of some long dead criminal from yesteryear, it's not a sketch. It comes from this:

When a person's opinions and beliefs are formed by what people with money tell them. Murdock, trump, and Musk tell them what to think.

Since jump planes usually don't go very far from drop zone it's actually an easier prospect. Would need some updates on regulations though, I wonder how they would handle airfield diverts?Autonomous with remotely piloted backup, or remotely piloted with autonomous backup? Either way this could reduce lift ticket costs, or increase dropzone profits, or both.

We could eat as much chilli as we liked, that's for sure

What date, time, tide level? Again...do you think that NASA has a room full of scientists who just compare two pictures all day to measure the sea level?

Old Herschel seems to be having a problem with getting the family on board for his campaign.

As I said in a different post, if a republican comes out strongly against something, it's pretty much guaranteed that they are doing it.

They didn't, the image is in the 302's.. if it was destroyed then why is it posted in this forum.. they tossed a 50 year old catalog that was not evidence. The hair was lost, the butts were destroyed after lab analysis..

I did, they tossed a 50 year old FBI facial recognition catalog.. wow, what a shocker.. they still have the image as it is in the 302 and posted.. That image was the foundation for sketch B which was released.. You always just get it wrong.. Reca was not Cooper, you don't even need the FBI files to know that,, all you need is Carl and Reca's words and claims..

Just awhile ago you said something else was the stupidest thing you ever heard (not just today, I assume). Now this is the stupidest thing you’ve heard all day. You could go find some forum where people give you the slack-jawed respect and awe you’re hoping for Wendy P.

An amicus brief was just filed in this case by....The Onion. And it is just what you would expect if an attorney and a comedy writer collaborated. BRIEF OF THE ONION AS AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONER Background on the case: Institute for Justice: Novak v. Parma

The majority of the Azov regiment including most of its commanders were stationed in Mariupol during the invasion and ended up in the Azovstal steelworks where they were either killed, or captured after the eventual surrender. Scores more died in Russian prisons, a few hundred (I think mostly wounded) were swapped for Russian POWs and many remain captive. The idea that this particular organisation is getting rich off a war they provoked is a straight up denial of reality. It's also worth noting (not to Slim but to anyone who's interested in nuance and analysis) that the rise of the original far-right nationalist Azov gang has a lot to do with Russia's hostility towards, and infiltration of Ukraine that's been going on for decades. For a long time prior to the 2014 Crimea and Donbas annexations Russia had been conducting a long campaign of espionage, bribery, election interference and all the other things they're actually quite good at throughout Ukraine, right up to the President. They installed or turned pro-Russian officials wherever they could, and sowed corruption and confusion everywhere else. The result was that during that first wave of land grabs Ukraine was utterly unable to defend itself, its official armed forces were a hopeless mess. This is what opens the door for nationalist militias to form and step into the gap, and quite frankly Ukraine was probably in a 'beggars can't be choosers' situation at that moment in time. But that was 8 years ago, and since being absorbed into Ukraine's national defence structure the organisation is simply not what it used to be, even if it does still have some neo-nazis in it (show me an army that doesn't). PS: This is also why the Republicans' stupid conspiracy theory about Biden and the 'Burisma prosecutor' is not just wrong but actively dangerous. Biden carried out official State Department policy - supported and encouraged by the EU - in forcing the removal of a chief prosecutor who was blocking investigations into the widespread corruption that was crippling the nation. Replacing him with someone who would actually do his job is an integral part of why Ukraine's ability to organise and defend itself has been so much better this time around.

Supreme Court rejects Trump ally Mike Lindell’s appeal in 2020 election lawsuit Even our warped SCOTUS doesn't want to listen to Mike Lindell's whining about the hole he dug for himself.

Unpopular opnion: I've stopped watching their content long agao, but I'm not sure that the Red Bull guys are doing our sport a favour.

Hard reboot needed, small hole under the battery cover, push with a paper clip.

The use of dual parachute systems is an FAR (not a BSR) and thus not applicable outside the U.S.

Great reserves. They open great, fly like a main with great flair. The company was bought out and are now made under the name SMART reserves, with some slight changes. I'd own and jump one any day, in fact am looking for a 210 now! PISA the parent company makes great parachute, locate in S. Africa..

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 !