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And even simpler for me. I need a truck about four times a year, so I rent one from U-Haul-It for the day. Total cost per year about $100, and no insurance/registration/maintenance/parking needed.

1 year > 4 months. ...let me guess, maths and whiskey don't mix?

Forgive me, but I can't figure out why any "conflation" would be necessary to explain this very straightforward fact. What am I missing? Himmelsbach has it in his book and in his head. Years later, after the book exists, and after Himmelsbach has repeated the data point and believes it to be true, a suspect is suggested who has that as one of their traits. That seems completely normal. Each suspect has lots of traits, some of which directly correspond to the boilerplate, some of which don't. It's not weird at all that two suspects might share a trait, particularly this many years apart and this many suspects later, and expecially given that now the stains are "out there" as a thing. If anything, the odd part is that that particular trait showed up that one and only time in the boilerplate, as @olemisscub says. The rest is entirely linear and utterly explainable. What am I missing?

Those files were released in 2017. I think Bob is great, but how he has Cooper jumping over or south of the Columbia is a mystery to me. Both Rat and Andy have statements indicating that both the jump and the call to Soderlind happened before the Columbia.

You can’t see that and honestly believe “We are making progress.” That is a giant leap backward. USPA can’t promote canopy piloting competitions in its current format and simultaneously promote a goal of zero deaths because the two are mutually exclusive.

If FOX doesn't cover the trial or its outcome. How would its viewers ever know what happened?

Just read april 2023 fatality report for 2022 and looks like 2022 was a bad year for intentional turn fatalities. Years prior look better. Overall my sentiment is we are making progress.

There's a great book regarding global warming. It contains all of the seminal papers written about global warming since the 18th century. https://www.amazon.com/Warming-Papers-Scientific-Foundation-Forecast-ebook/dp/B00CM7AI9M/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ALZFYC06E75P&keywords=The+Warming+Papers&qid=1680297653&sprefix=the+warming+papers%2Caps%2C477&sr=8-1 We need to become better stewards of our planet. I don't think anyone would argue against that.

Nah, pulling low would get you grounded and you’d get a lecture about how dumb it is to pull low before CYPRES’ were the norm - at least that was the case at the FL DZs I was jumping at during the early 90s. So, USPA and DZs collectively had enough of people bouncing from low pulls and began cracking down on low openings before then. Now, 30 years later, most skydivers talk about pulling at 3k as low, LOL. That’s the result of a culture change. (As a side note, I believe Tom Piras’ death in Dec of ‘92 was very influential the wide-spread adoption of the CYPRES throughout the mid/late 90s. Ironically, Piras was also highly responsible for popularizing hook turn landings.) As for @gowlerk’s questions, as long as high performance landings and “Canopy Piloting” are promoted as “This is what the best in the world do, these ‘athletes’ are demonstrating the pinnacle of skydiving” it will be viewed downstream as something to mimic and strive for. If the culture of the skydiving community is one that admires high performance landings with small canopies, the skydiving community will continue to lose people to high performance landings. USPA can’t promote canopy piloting competitions in its current format and simultaneously promote a goal of zero deaths because the two are mutually exclusive.