sangiro

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  1. It will do that if you don't enter all the mandatory fields marked by a *. Please try again, I just logged in as a test-user and had no problems submitting a DZ... Safe swoops Sangiro
  2. Big thanks to everyone who made this year so much fun again! It was great meeting so many new people and getting to put more faces to the names. Sorry to those I didn't get to see to say goodbye. We'll do it again in Eloy in December. Safe swoops Sangiro
  3. Ron, So after I posted you come of with this.... Like I said, wrong thread for this BS. Take a 30 day break from this forum. Safe swoops Sangiro
  4. Not directed at you specifically.... Everyone, please keep this thread about helping Lake Wales. Keep politics out of here and those of you who have made it a habit to play the person and not the ball, this would be the wrong time for that. Safe swoops Sangiro
  5. This incident involved a student static line jumper. A direct bag deployment was followed by leg/knee in lines entanglement. The student did cut away but the main canopy did not fully separate from the harness. A reserve with main entanglement followe
  6. Two jumpers from two different groups collided in freefall after break-off. Reports indicate that one was in a track and the other was under a deploying canopy. One landed under a Cypres induced reserve by the side of the runway. He did not appear to
  7. Kanako Okado of Japan was a tourist in Guam and the tandem passenger on this fatal skydive. Please see the related report for more information.
  8. The jumper was a Brazilian tandem master. Eye-witnesses reports indicate that the pair may have impacted under a malfunctioning main canopy. Investigators say it is still unclear whether the parachute had deployed at all. They said that witnesses may ha
  9. After a uneventful skydive Dave Barksdale (AkA Goose) flew his parachute back to the DZ and turned in for final at appox 600-700 AGL and started a straight in approach at appox 300-350 he grabbed his Front risers and continued his straight in approach. He
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    Impact after malfunction

    The jumper was participating in a 102-way formation in Indonesia. He was a very experienced skydiver. Some reports indicate that he may have been jumping relatively old equipment (1985) but this has not been connected to the cause of the incident. An i
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    No Pull

    During the POPs meet in Switzerland, a jumper failed to pull any handles and impacted the ground after an uneventful 4way RW jump. The police enquiry and the autopsy haven't revealed any cause for this. The jumper was from Denmark. No further information
  12. Heya all, Please go to your account page and make sure that the email address you've entered in your account is NOT your dropzone.com email address. If you forget your password (and the answer to your security question) your new temporary password will be sent to the email address on your account. And of course, if you forgot your password then you won't be able to get to your dropzone.com mail to pick up your new temporary password!
  13. It's my cane! Safe swoops Sangiro
  14. ...and I suggest both of you tread very carefully hereafter... Safe swoops Sangiro
  15. Daniel, I do not add DZ's myself. We need to figure out why your DZ is not being posted. Other people are adding DZs and I added a test DZ myself so I know it's working. Which operating system are you on and what browser are you using? Safe swoops Sangiro
  16. Probably, and if you keep on SHOUTING we're gonna sue.... Safe swoops Sangiro
  17. Daniel, I just checked and there's no DZ listing waiting to be validated. I ran a test and everything's working fine. Something must have gone wrong with your submission. Please submit the DZ information again. Safe swoops Sangiro
  18. Please read the FAQs. Safe swoops Sangiro
  19. Maybe because you can't see around the 5 gallon Corona you've been nursing morning till night... Safe swoops Sangiro
  20. It is a fine ride. Show some respect! Safe swoops Sangiro
  21. Heya all, I'm at the WFFC. I see the PM's and emails piling up and just wanted to let you know it may take a bit longer for me to get to them (yes, even more so than usually!) but eventually I'll try to get around to all of them.
  22. Yup - and I like dancing girls and a pina colada ... Jut kidding! It's impossible to design for everyone. I will look at some options to allow users to remove some of the default fields in the tables to create more space on the screen for the essential information. Safe swoops Sangiro
  23. The signature is the only default checked field. You can change the default for whether you receive an email notification to your posts by going to: Edit Profile --> User Profile Safe swoops Sangiro
  24. Full screen browser at that resolution will not be compressed unless you crank up the font size. Safe swoops Sangiro