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Here are a bunch of type II deniers:- http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=0df9b3cd-802a-23ad-4984-5ac0c6d42605 Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row. and The leader of Sun-climate research at the Danish National Space Center, Henrik Svensmark, puts together the findings reported by him and his colleagues in a dozen scientific papers, to tell how the climate is governed by atomic particles coming from exploded stars. These cosmic rays help to make ordinary clouds. High levels of cosmic rays and cloudiness cool the world, while milder intervals occur when cosmic rays and cloud cover diminish. They should be shot at dawn for suggesting GW is caused by anything else than us unnatural humans. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Ok, here are mine The Landing. It was a zone accuracy round. The landing was with the wind which was variable between 2kts and 4kts with occaisional gusts a little higher. I got the entry gates and all the bonus gates. I came to the landing zone with a bit too much speed and stalled the canopy just before landing. Where I hit the sand there was a slight depression from a previous landing that stopped all forward motion instantly. That is when I felt the horrific pain in my back. The competition was immeadiatly stopped and the paramedics were called. The Injuries. I trashed the 12th vertebrae in the thorax. In the attached picture called „bone“ you can see where part of the vertebrae tried to enter my spinal cord. The doctor said looking at that I was extremely lucky that I still could walk and pee. The Operations. I had two operations to sort out the mess. The first one was to and the support pins you see in the pictures „supportFront“ and „support side“. The second one was to make a bone graft from my hip to reconstruct the vertebrae and add additional support plates you can see in the picture „secondOP“. I spent 6 weeks in hospital before being allowed home early at my request. I was 400 miles from home. The Rest. I have not jumped since the accident which was on the 1st of July 2006. I hope to start jumping again in April or May. The financial costs were all covered by my insurance. The Video Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

I had a nitron 88 with 2 center A line's broken. Because the lines were not cascaded the B lines were intact. I chopped with out doing any further control checks. A year later another jumper had the same problem and decided to do some further control checks. During these, more lines started to break. Result was that he chopped at a lower altitude than my chop. In my opinion lines should not break, once they are broken you have a broken canopy. Trust your rigger and use the reserve. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Maybe the reason for that is that the excess of CO2 is not warming the planet up Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

If that idiot plunges us into a new ice age there will be a lot of annoyed people out there Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Why not? Most people do not realize that the last report from the IPCC on Feb 2. 2007 was political. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Recent cooling of the upper ocean Or maybe John M. Lyman (Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA), Josh K. Willis (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) and Gregory C. Johnson (Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA) are not worth listening to. This data is not included in the AR4 from the IPCC. They have used data that assumes the oceans have been warming. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

They are not dumb! With all those fat grants available for making the models predict the right results it doesn't matter what data they put in. Henk Tennekes does not seem to think such models are anywhere close to predicting the climate. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

I agree with you there. So why doesn't the U.K. or in my case the German goverment offer bio fuels tax free? That would convince even a raging global warming skeptic like me to change to bio fuel. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

You might find this article interesting. http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=156df7e6-d490-41c9-8b1f-106fef8763c6&k=0 Of course, I'll get to hear that the author is in the pay of exxon mobile, the ten scientists in the articles "the series" are either "crackpot", "discredited" or have some "agenda". But I found it interesting nonetheless. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Obviously you did not read the my post just above the one I am replying to, or you did not understand the implications. I am paying $6,30 a gallon for gasoline! I don't see people here in a huge rush to get biodiesel, methane, alcohol, plugable hybrids on the road. Why should it be any different in the U.S ? Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

I would welcome $5 a gallon. At the moment I am paying $6,30 a gallon. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

The IPCC has released the political document: Assessment Report 4, Summary for Policymakers. Bizarrely, the actual report will be retained for another three months to facilitate editing -- to suit the summary! IPCC procedures state that: Changes (other than grammatical or minor editorial changes) made after acceptance by the Working Group or the Panel shall be those necessary to ensure consistency with the Summary for Policymakers or the Overview Chapter (Appendix A to the Principles Governing IPCC Work, p4/15) Let's wait until the actual report comes out. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Do you mean the aircarft ground speed during the drop run or do you mean the wind speeds on the ground? If that was the aircraft ground speed 30 secs would be too short. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Your are right, so here's a one with a different scale. Same data, but it appears that CO2 is rising faster than temparture. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

A quote from John Kallend was " 5 seconds is never enough delay". I did manage show that in exceptional conditions it could be enough, but most of the time it isn't. You followed a group out, they are going be tracking at break off, which means you need more separation than when following a solo. Here's link to Kallends skydiving resources Download the "Powerpoint presentation on exit safety with freefall sim.(updated 3/2004) " Read it, study it, ask questions here or at your DZ about bits you don't understand. When you have understood the presentation, you should be able to calculate the delay you need yourself.

For the 3-way group I would wait slightly longer than for the Tandem. Say I was waiting 7 secs for the tandem, then I would wait 11 seconds for the 3 way group. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

You made some excellent points your post

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I have left out the source for the attached graph. Obviously if everyone knew where I got it from it would be incorrect. However, if I let people believe it came from their good source, they might believe it to be correct. Make up yours minds people, is the graph correct or a lie? Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

I am curious about the .3 part of the 7.3 I assume that the 70kt is IAS. TAS = IAS + [(IAS·2%)·(ALT/1000ft)] Which at 13,000 ft gives 88.2 TAS = 148.8 ft/sec (note the DZ was at 1000 ft msl and at 13,500 AGL the TAS would be actually higher) 7 sec would give you 1041.6 feet separation at opening time. Is the .3 an extra margin of safety? Or is something wrong with my calculations? Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

But you must use just horizontal separation! As skydivers we are eager to jump, but if you cannot get the horizontal separation needed, do not jump otherwise you may get injured or die. A second pass is always better than a freefall collision. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

For someone of your qualifications your inability to count is amazing. Far from a very simple question, that is indeed three questions. Question 1. Is GW real. Answer: The evidence around tends to suggest that overall since 1776 out planet is a little bit warmer. Question 2. Have humans caused it. Answer: Maybe we have contibuted to the warming slightly. The level of our contribution is so small we would have difficulty measuring it. Question 3. is it a good thing. Answer: This is a bit biased but based on my location on our planet, Germany, I would prefer the average temperatures we have now to those of the "little ice age". As our contribution to the warming is only minimal, it can not be judged as good or bad. It really makes no difference. So now I have answered your three questions, will you answer mine? 1. Do you really think a 20ft sea level rise will happen by 2100? 2. Do you really think the human race will make any significant cuts in CO2 emissions during the next 20 years? Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Sometimes we have no wind at 13000 ft. In the OP he said "Winds: no wind said the pilots". I would assume, maybe wrongly that the pilots would be referring to winds at altitude. Maybe aguila just made a track down the drop run? Backsliding is also a possibility. Looking at the plan he posted it appears the Tandem was dropped short of the DZ ( consistent with a no wind situation) and possibly augila also. It the TM did not hold off before flying up the drop run and aguila stared at the LZ during freefall while backsliding towards the TM ..... that does not help matters. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

People plan to deploy at a certain altitude, however premature deployments or malfunctions can change the height at which they deploy. That is why we should rely on horizontal separation and not vertical. Freefall speed alters the distance the jumper will drift while falling. The longer the jumper is falling the more they will drift (depending on wind). That is why when the drop run is into the wind it is helpful to put faster fallers out after the slow fallers. If you dropped with the wind you would want the faster fallers out first. With a cross wind drop run the fall rate does not really matter. No wind means no drift. I also agree Our grand caravan 208 can take 20 jumpers. We seldom have that many on a load as we are more concerned with keeping the plane turning than maximizing the number of jumpers on the load. Yes, 20 is pretty crowded, 17 is OK. There are smaller caravans that take only 15. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl