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Well, you could buy an accuracy parachute for several thousand dollars, and a split slider would come with it. Or you might just go to Para-Gear for a less expensive alternative: http://www.paragear.com/products/10000166/P826S/

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Ding ding ding! I'm glad someone out there understands me.

I'm okay with watching Sandra Bullock for two hours. ;-) I loved the scene at the end (spoiler alert!) where she has crash landed into the ocean, swims to shore like a fish, slithers up on the beach like a reptile, rises to all fours like a mammal, and then stands erect bipedal like homo-sapiens. She covered the whole gamut of evolution there in that scene, and I wonder how many people got that comparison.

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Sounds overly compicated for what you want to do, to me. Just get a split slider. That's a slider that comes in two halves, left and right. When packed, the two halves are joined together by a cord. After your canopy opens you yank on that cord and the two halves come apart, allowing your lines to spread out, and the halves stay attached to your line groups by the grommets so you don't lose them, and they just dangle behind you. Quick and easy to pack, quick and easy to split. Just like pulling on a line to collapse a regular slider so it doesn't flap in the wind. But in this case the cord separates the two halves. Doh!

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'Twould be down right rude not too!

Heck, they spent billions of dollars to send a rover there to poke around and look for life. That wasn't good enough?

Maybe we should also cease reporting the religious affiliation of terrorists, so we don't harm the esteem of other sensitive muslims.

Forgot to check his chest strap. But didn't forget to do his hand-slaps with his buddies. Priorities askew!

I've had riggers tell me that the shoulder of the pin should not be sitting on top of the grommet, because that leaves an airspace underneath the pin, such that just throwing the rig down onto the carpet for packing, or any other sharp whack, could cause the pin to bend. They say to lay only the pin itself across both sides of the grommet, so that there's no high spot which is subject to bending. For that reason, my pin is always primed with the shoulder back off the grommet. Some people would look at that and say it's not fully seated. Others would say it's the way it's supposed to be. Perhaps a subject for discussion...

I have heard this said before and I don’t understand why people think there is something wrong with you if you are not afraid. We plan to put on a piece of equipment and trust our lives with it and our ability to operate it. Is the design of the equipment sound? Is the equipment in good working condition? Is the training good enough that you are sure you can carry out your tasks? If you “believe” the answers to those three questions are Yes, then fear make no sense at all. Yes, there might be something wrong with me. But if someone says they trust the equipment, trust the training, and trust themselves but are afraid, I would be very puzzled as to what was going on in their head. Maybe is that person that has something wrong with them. Maybe they really don’t believe the answers are all Yes and they only "hope" the anwers are Yes. Fear in that situation is very understandable. The answer may be "yes" to those questions, but we also know that nothing is perfect, and accidents still happen. Therefore, there is still plenty of room for fear. Even amongst the highly experienced, where it may surface as just twinges of doubt now and then after a horrible accident, and we wonder "what in the heck am I doing?"

Gasoline.

If I could retrieve the fortune I have spent, Worrying where it came from, not caring where it went, I could live the heady lifestyle of Playboy magazine, I would see the worldly sights that still remain unseen. It must amount to thousands I’ve squandered on the sport, The mark of any jumper, a balance close to naught, But if I had it back in one financial lump I’d go south in the winter, And jump and jump and jump. - Skies Call

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Yes, there is a contingent that still does it, and they have a showing in the National competition each year, as well as at world meets. It's more popular in Europe than in the U.S. Style is doing turns and backloops with both precision and speed. If your turns or loops are off-heading, then penalty time is added to your time score. It's realtively easy to be precise if you go slow, but when you combine both speed and precision, it becomes very difficult. Accuracy canopies are either the Parafoil or the Eiff Classic. They are landed totally different from swooping, with a vertical straight-down approach over the target to maximize accuracy.

I'm not touching that line.

The Butler.

Try this: Google "skydive le luc". She gave you the clues you need to find what you want.

That's going to make for an awfully expensive teddy bear. I'd just go to a good outdoor sports store like REI, Bass Pro or Gander, and look at the backpack repair components they have. There are all sorts of little buckles and stuff made out of sturdy plastic that would be a good simulation for parachute hardware, at a very small cost compared to doing a special run of steel castings in one-third scale.

Yes it is. The name of this rigger needs to be made public so that jumpers can avoid him. If the government won't act to revoke his rigging license, then the community must act on its own.