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One of my life legacy's is my time Skydiving and my Videography/Photography shot mostly at Skydive Greene County Xenia Ohio and a few other DZ's. I uploaded over the last few days 13 edited videos to my 24 edited videos already on my channel if anybody is interested in pre 9/11skydiving videos shot at a DZ with a full time CASA a Super Otter and 2 Westwind Beech's. follow your dreams and Blue Skies. https://www.youtube.com/@ASSYMCGEEE/videos https://www.youtube.com/@FLY2KO/videos Edited to include link that actually works -Scott

On the one hand Chuck's correct in strongly encouraging good training if one is going to play this unforgiving game. On the other hand you are correct because there is no such thing as "professional training" for this. What we all are wrestling with is that the leadership of USPA clearly states.. And he is correct. Yet USPA ( and FAI and CSPA etc.) popularizes and promotes and encourages this aspect of the sport.

Well then……bless your little heart.

Supermax? No 'gen-pop' there. Isolated all day long. Given the level of secret info he's stolen, given how valuable it could STILL be if he just told people (presuming he can remember some of it), given the fact that one of the tip-offs that he was sharing that info with others was the CIA realizing that some of their overseas sources (you know - actual people) were disappearing, I think a pretty good argument could be made for a sentence to be served in Florence CO.

No worries You do realize that there are light years of difference between learning to swoop, swooping and participating in CP competition? I don't do competitions and I honestly think competitions like that are not for everyone. Even participation in such activity requires a lot more then simply been able to swoop. That is just my opinion so please don't criticize me too bad for it :)

Barricades placed outside Fulton County courthouse ahead of possible Trump charges

How about Alaska? He would have Sarah Palin to keep him company. He would be able to see his friend Putin's Russia from there.

I'm not sure why I wanted to give Winsor the benefit of any doubt but I was wrong to do so. My apologies.

I knew you would do that just as you did the same thing to me in private mail. Be brave Chuck.

Nope. That will only cause more sketchy opinions in reply. My point was and is obvious. Swooping is an extremely dangerous activity even when conducted by the highest skilled pilots. My sincere advice to everyone is to get professional canopy coaching, especially anyone planning on or doing high performance landings.

Although this is starting to look like an indefensible case now. 40 charges so far. Evidence is rock solid. I honestly think Trump may very well end up incarcerated. And it ain't over yet, more cases, more charges.

Much of the content in this thread is ridiculous, incorrect, and deadly. I would encourage anyone wanting to learn high performance canopy flight techniques to seek the advice of a professional canopy instructor and ONLY a professional canopy instructor. Swooping is damn dangerous. Learning from the keyboard is a recipe for death.

My first guess would be dehydration. Remember to sip plenty of water throughout the day.

Oh, you get to set the standards now? That''s rich... 2 years ago NASA and other agencies predicted that the La Nina was forming and would make 2022 only the 5th hottest year on record. Instead of impressing you, all you did was crow and pat your own back that "it's not the hottest year despite record CO2". Early this year you "went out on a limb" and predicted this year won't even hit the top 5 hottest, but you know what you're doing? GUESSING. (And you already have a 97% chance of being wrong). Yes you edited it out, but this shows what you think scientists do, because you have to think you're at par somehow, and "just guessing" the absolute limit of your ability.

You are more than welcome. To the extent that I can offer any lessons I have learned in my years as a Skydiver, Pilot, DZO and Turbine Engine guy to anyone willing to listen to my nonsense is the real reason I post here. Everyone should please feel free to ask me anything publicly or privately on any topic if they think I have any use at all.

Agreed! The most dangerous turn is a low altitude, 90 degree toggle-whip. The canopy does a steep dive towards the dirt as it tries to regain equilibrium/stable flight. That recovery arc is long and difficult to predict. It takes hundreds of turns to fine-tune toggle-whip turns. The canopy may or may not recover before impact. Toggle-hooks were fashionable among the "Stiletto pilots" frequenting Perris Valley 30 years ago. Too many of them left the DZ in ambulances. Later we learned that front-riser turns result in less altitude loss and provide more opportunities to "bail out" of a poor approach. That is why modern swoopers use a combination of toggles, front risers, rear risers, steering toggles and leg-strap inputs to fine-tune their speed-increasing turns.

And VC-79... vc79-new-slider-openings-l.mp4

An alternative design of the RDS, its "fully rigid, but with a safety protection system". Combines the advantages of totally-rigid locks (as Icarus), and easy-moveable rings (as PD/Fluid etc) - but eliminates their disadvantages. u-pushino.mp4 u-pushino1.mp4