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Mods, Could you move these posts about family to a new thread. These have nothing to do with Who Will Replace Joe Biden? Thanks, Jerry Baumchen

Sounds like you have really been digging lol I have been jumping the Military and Sport AADs for several years now and am very pleased with how they have turned out. Timing is a fickle thing, when to, or not to engage in conversation on the subject... update the status of the product.. put them in the hands of other jumpers. One thing I have learned is everyone has an opinion and there is nothing wrong with that. Unfortunately an incident earlier this year reminded me why this all started in the first place. Now I sit typing a post, millions of jump data points later, with a device that has exceeded all the expectations I had when I decided to go down this path, thinking... "Now what do we do with it?... What makes the most business sense?". Those thoughts can be found in previous posts all throughout this thread and I know it drives some people crazy even though that was / is not my intent. All things in time... Until then, make informed decisions and don't put yourself in situations where you need an AAD.

A friend of mine converted a 1967 Corvette to run on electric back in 1987. People seemed to love it at car shows.

USAA is offering 12.6, but to be honest, I've not cared about the interest rate on any of the cards I have. I don't carry that debt over into the nest billing cycle. That's just crazy. That is paid off every month. Using their money and collecting points for free airfare or to pay down the bill is all I ever do. Interesting that it shows me at a max of 3% credit card use per month - but never any interest.

Yet Project 2025 fully supports Trump for President......so, that's your side supporting a twice divorced rapist to bring back the strength of the Christian married heterosexual family.... I could say I expect more....but I don't.

lol, that infamous MBA at work again. You still haven't presented data that shows a married couple outperforms an unmarried couple.

So elect Donald Trump as a proud example of that ideal.....

I see the MBA never touched on the difference between correlation and causation.

What stats are those? Then show how being married improves those stats.

O.K. Keep us informed, inquiring minds wish to know.

Yeah but come spring you have FREE material to grow huge potatoes, carrots, vegetables, etc.

Mars has it in their current manual (p38), with a limit of +- 15 hPa allowable deviation. Few of the units are around in the Netherlands, I own one myself and I check it during every repack by comparing it to published barometric pressure of the closest KNMI station (our national meteorological institute). If you go that route take into account both your own altitude (ASL) and station altitude + whether or not it is corrected to MSL. Since at sea level 1 hPa pressure difference is approximately 8 meters altitude difference, I find +- 15 hPa quite a big allowable range. I've never seen any differences larger than 1-2 hPa. Vigil can also show current barometric pressure, and I check them the same way as I do Mars AADs. But their manual says nothing about checking the pressure reading, and they responded by e-mail to me that the pressure does not need any checking by field riggers... The physicist in me finds that baffling, because why else would you include the ability to read out the measured pressure? In practice, I've never seen any Vigil units with more than 1-2 hPa deviations either. To my knowledge the Cypres doesn't offer any way to read out the actual air pressure measured.

Okay, I hadn't really thought about it closely so thank you. Good to know that at least our tourist hurricanes are welcome.

I'm guessing that you just mistakenly clicked 'quote' on the wrong post, but congratulate Nick, not me, haha! (And my apology to you was for the 'social media' type post.)

Oh! Then no worries. As long as you are OK with families of any arrangement having their own kids, doing IVF/surrogacy or adopting, I have no disagreement with you.

Wow. You seem to think that same sex couples will be the ONLY kind of couples. I never saw it as more than the 10% or 15% whose brains are 'wired' that way. And you might want to open your eyes a bit. 2 men or 2 women who are responsible, caring, educated, employed and living a productive useful life are going to be FAAAAAAAAAR better at raising children than drug addicts, career criminals or other people of that type. I know a '2 dads' couple who have 2 kids. The son is about 4 and is an awesome little dude. They just recently brought a newborn baby girl into their household. She was born to a mom who has several other kids, all of whom have been taken by the authorities. She's a long term drug addict. She's currently in prison (she was sentenced shortly after becoming pregnant). My friends welcomed the baby into their family almost immediately after birth. The county had basically taken custody away before the baby was born. The guys are planning on adopting, but that takes some time. They are currently 'officially' fostering. But, having done virtually the same thing with their son, they are quite confident that the little girl will be 'theirs' in time. That means 2 kids that are NOT in the care of the state. Not a burden on the taxpayer. Far less likely to end up 'in the system' as criminals. You know, a much better life. Just with 2 dads.

If he does he will become one of the biggest failures as POTUS in history. And Trump will likely become one of the most important ever. But not in a good way.

I’m of the opinion that many of these goals are unreachable and will fall by the wayside.

I have added 50A outlets in my house, my brother's house, and sister's house. They all varied in effort. Mine was hardest, service entrance was on other side of ranch, had to run 100ft of wire to garage. Brother's panel was in basement next to garage wall, so just over and up. Sister's was in the garage, so like yours, a bit of EMT out of the panel. But I was actually thinking of my European colleagues with their all masonry houses and often detached garages. In that situation, if I had 2.5kW available (220v residential) I might just go with that, it can replace 100 miles in an overnight.

Yet lets face it, skipping the maintenance - and increasing total lifetime- is what may be saving Cypres. Otherwise, everyone was buying Vigils or M2's. Cypres' 12.5 years and 2 servicings sucked compared to Vigil's 20 years & 1 servicing, or M2's 15 and 0. Cypres' new 15.5 and 0 is competitive, as have been the prices of all 3 models in recent years. 12.5 and 2 servicings made sense when it was the pioneering electronic AAD and everyone was cautious about AAD's, but the market didn't want that king of careful, cautious, expensive approach once there were decent competitors. (And we also had to get past the era in the 2000's & 2010's when everyone was having recalls & service bulletins, Vigil by far the most of all. The real AAD-war era! Cypres was known for its arrogance in denying problems early on; while Vigil had so many service bulletins, they changed their numbering system so you'd forget how many they previously had.) I know there's stuff in Vigil & M2 manuals about mandatory yearly comparisons to aircraft altimeters to confirm accuracy of at least the pressure sensor.... That very few ever talk about.... But what percentage of jumpers actually do those yearly checks? 1%? 5% (Maybe there are some high end full-service rigging shops that'll do it for you? If those exist, good for them.) I still figure Cypres has the edge on quality of algorithms, and that's what I buy, but most rigs out there nowadays in my area have Vigils. Maybe Cypres' are making a come back, I dunno, but I'd expect them to.

There are female tandem masters at many drop zones. If you call before going, you can ask if the one you are thinking about has a woman tandem master. If they don’t, they are very likely to know who does. Wendy P.

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