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Static line attachment point failed on military cargo plane.
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Static line attachment point failed on military cargo plane.
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After a successful static line exit the jumper became unresponsive at ~1500 feet and flew off the dropzone and into a wall. He suffered critical injuries and died a short time later.
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I had seen Iron Man and Captian America and had missed IM2 and Thor and thought they did an excellent job in filling in the story so that if you had seen only a few movies or none of them the whole thing still made sense. I have to say Joss put together a story that was a great way to make everything work. I did walk out too soon to see all the extra stuff after the credits. Forgot that Marvel puts so much into the credits and after.... oops. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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Yes, similar to major airframe maintenance. Apprentices are able to have work looked over in a shop for it to count towards their learning but you can't just have a non rated person do a rebuild on an engine and have and A&P sign off on it with out having done the work themselves legally. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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This is a LOT more informative than most of the sound byte videos coming out. Thanks for posting it. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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Just to also mention that the USPPA is currently pushing to distance themselves from this activity and just in the last few weeks the pilot in this incident was asking for a petition to be signed by all skydivers and base jumpers to prevent the USPPA from expressly prohibiting this activity in its entirety for their rating holders and members. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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New to jumping, some questions
PhreeZone replied to JPGonring's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Both BASE and wingsuiting have recommendations to have at least 200 jumps prior to starting either. That is usually a good starting point for a goal to reach to get your skills ready for both of these. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com -
John USPA offers to collect the stats for injuries and they do not publish the results in any way except in a table showing injuries and yet most DZ's choose not to even supply that information. I know you have issues with most the moderation on this site but if DZ's are not even willing to send in injury reports to the national organization that does not even publish the slightest detail it means most will not come forward no matter how the moderation is handled on this site. There are multiple DZ's out that openly state on their website or marketing info that they have a perfect safety record or "no injuries". Having their DZ name just appearing in a Google search in being associated with an injury is enough in their mind that they might lose tandem business. I have had in the past a DZ manager ask me to change some details in the posts to change the city name in the title so the searches would not appear if you searched for Skydive XXXXXX location. DZ's are that afraid of having incident posts appearing in their Google search results resulting in lost business and no level of moderation will change that. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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In the past I've sat on reports for weeks that I have been sent via second or even first hand accounts via private message since people did not want their name associated with the bad press or did not want to put out the info due to the DZ management asking not to publish it. Usually once I find a media report and start a thread all sorts of info comes out but there is a stigma associated to having a fatality or serious injury that most in the sport want to cover up since they feel that talking "bad" about their friend that is dead or injured is wrong. It does suck to have everyone online reading about the mistakes and errors that friends, family or even you made yourself, I've been there multiple times and I'm sure I'll be there again. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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Per press reports the 26 year old female jumper was on her first solo training jump and after opening her canopy flew outside the normal landing area and somehow the canopy was not above her head any more and she fell to her death.
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From initial eyewitness accounts, he exited the aircraft at 6000ft AGL and activated his parachute after 15 to 20 seconds of freefall. His parachute was deployed and fully functional. He was observed under parachute flying over and away from the landi
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Jumper was flying a wingsuit off a Powered Paraglider at a low altitude with a base rig at an airport for an airshow The jumper pulled too low for their canopy to open.
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Funny enough I was just looking at a Blade as a toy to keep me occupied.... I was also looking at some of the new Quad rotor options for internal play since they seem a little more idiot proof with the gyros and other fancy options. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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Its legit. Anyone using updated AV software should be good on this but there are still millions of computers out there that are impacted since their owners are not running AV or have not updated it in years. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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Jumper was flying a wingsuit and had difficulties in opening his main canopy. On video he was observed deploying his reserve in a head down orientation. The reserve opened with multiple line twists and was spinning. The jumper failed to regain control of
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I was originally thinking 2k had a shot from the trade mags about 3 years ago but now its looking like 4K has a lot of momentum. It will be nice once they start to lock some of this in to start driving costs down instead of having high prices due to low adoptence rate. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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I am looking for gold to drop off another 35-50% this year. The bubble is about to burst big time. Apple is looking good only as long as Foxconn keeps breaking its labor laws. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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Zanggggg! (Low CReW downplane)
PhreeZone replied to JohnnyMarko's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Its Catfish as the mentor. In terms of CRW this seems like a high break off for him If I was going to send anyone to a mentor to get Downplane training I would have them find Catfish since he has about the most experience anywhere on downplanes. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com -
More than one! Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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If you want to risk using glue all over the camera it works. I have always found it easier just to get a camera that I don't have to spend additional time and money on just to get it to work. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=273576#273576 Here are the original directions from almost 10 years ago, this was from the first camera helmet to use this style release before any company was selling anything. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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You really can't mod the camera to put a wide angle lens on it. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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Cardiac health and getting back in the air
PhreeZone replied to Foggy's topic in Safety and Training
Skip the Cypres on the main, its useless since you don't have a Spring loaded PC. Other than that just get back in the air and I'll have to hunt you down to show you what one of your old students can do in the air now Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com -
The forum logins are not tied to the classifieds except via a single sign in. You can post a classified ad and not have a log on date at all due this this originally being several different components that are now linked. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com