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That post is viable again. If you would accept PM's I would have been able to message you about why the post was hidden and same with the 4-5 replies but it was your choice not to accept PM's. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Start Skydiving opened operations at Middletown Ohio and then opened a second facility at Coleman FL. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

This thread has gone on long enough.

JP I'll argue that with you all day. I've got almost 1000 airlock jumps and I can count about 6-10 bad openings and the worst of them was a massive line twist issue that lead to a cutaway. I've had about 4-5 hard openings but for the most part my canopies open like a Stiletto or Sabre2. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

It looks like the monthly graphs for the fatalities database has not been working for a while again: http://www.dropzone.com/fatalities/2010/index.shtml Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

I am now seeing the classified notifications as coming from "bdekocks" instead of "support" Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

I am relaying direct experience and you dismiss it. Lots of scary stories never make it online. I've seen a few around multiple DZs that are never talked about on here. Some countries might have lower experience recommendarios but I think part of it is due to number of jumpers. For the whole of NZ you will graduate a small fraction of the students that 1 or 2 DZs in the States will graduate. When a single dz in the us graduates 40 to 50 jumpers that are not enrolled in some sort of "work" program and there are dozens of similar DZs here the sheer volume needs to account for different recommendations. With 2000 to 3500 new A license holders each year starting here compared to at most a few hundred graduates there in the same time. With NZ having a dieing sport jumper industry and most people there involved in the commercial operations it makes sense that the programs are designed to be able to get people making money as soon as possible. If jumpers there had to wait until 200 jumps to jump with cameras and until 500 jumps to film tandems most of the diploma programs would dry up and fewer people would be starting into skydiving try to make money on it. Since the major diploma programs operators have major influence with the governing bodies you are seeing some of their influence and creation of recommendations and rules that benefit them and put commercial priorities into the rules. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Depends on who you ask since most of the group I started with started jumping cameras around 200 to 250 jumps. Then again out of the 10 to 15 people that all had that level of experience when I was starting camera flying I am the only one still jumping. I know of one person that started jumping camera at 10 jumps but he no longer jumps and quit before 200 jumps and had so many close calls that we all figured he would die but instead his brother did. I hung my camera's up after 100 or so camera jumps and cleaned up my flying a lot and put them back on after 600 jumps. It's funny how the more experienced jumpers usually recommend higher experience but the newer jumpers usually will not heed the recommendations since they need to learn the lessons fo themselves. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Check this out: http://whois.domaintools.com/66.223.16.236 That is the IP address that the Sportations.com website is hosted on. It looks like Skyride has a dedicated server that is hosting almost 1000 domains. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Its got to be better then the return rate on Lehman Brothers. WaMu, Enron, WorldCom or about any airline Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Modifying the MLW on a non-ringed harness basically is a rebuild of the entire harness. On a ringed harness it is a lot easier. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Saw it last night. It was good, not incredible but still solid entertainment. I'm giving it a 7 or 8 out of 10 Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Most master riggers are able to do this type of work on a harness but you are looking at the cost being 150 to 350 for the cost depending on if the harness is already articulated or not and depending on the amount of work. This is something the factory will need to authorize since there are very specific methods for RI harnesses. Ask to see what RI will charge to see if the cost is worth it or not Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

John, take your gun rights arguments to Speakers Corner, this is a final warning on the topic. You can also look at the users profile to see she is from the Netherlands. As for the classified they are not in violation of any rule so they can remain but in the past we have deleted ads that were "Trade laptop for car" type ads since they are not directly related to skydiving. If someone tries to use the site to trade goods that are not skydiving related then those ads are deleted. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/100504p.pdf DOD policy is during the playing of "Hail to the Chief" all uniformed personnel are to treat it as the same behavior and respect as "The Star Spangled Banner" Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

I hate to admit (since I'm not an Apple fanboy at all) if but for a road warrior the Ipad freaking rocks. I got one as a thank you a few weeks ago and as a test platform for some software and I can't tell you how nice it is in the airports. Battery life is around 7 hours when playing video or things so its been enough to get me from one side of the US to the other with charge left over. the 16 gig version stored all 3 Back to the Future movies plus a few TV shows. Add in the browser that picks up Wifi everywhere or if you have a hotspot its great for casual surfing or checking up on things. If your work lets you get email also then its almost a laptop substitute. I know a few of our exec's that use their Ipad as a laptop for presentations since it works great for that but it sucks at letting you really create content. I do hate a few things on it like the need to wipe the fingerprints every few minutes and the glare on the screen can be really bad. The Dell tablet is nice too and it has a lot more free apps in the Android Market then Apple does. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

I look for that "recommendation" to be changed to a BSR requirement to have at least 200 jumps in the next year or so. I know I have taken a few people aside and told them to leave the cameras on the ground since they don't have the first clue about what they are doing as is and the camera is only making it worse. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Prior to step 1 make sure you meet the tandem manufacturers requires to jump with a tandem. UPT for example requires 500 jumps and a TI or AFF rating. To do video they further require that you have shot video on at least 100 RW jumps. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

There is an IE that is moving to Eloy come spring I believe so your options are about to expand a lot. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

You can use any material. I used ripstop on a few I made and it's great Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Powershot is OK but expand and look at the G10/G11 if you can. Lots of photojournalists are using them for a second camera now and the image is great. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Look at Manifest Manager also. *Hint* Its free if you are going to be running on Windows Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Frequently SCADA networks that are to be air gapped and not accessible really are via some back channel item. Welcome to the human factor that its easier to do this if I just open up a port here or miswired something there. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Cessna is sued all the time though. They have been sued because the pilot ran the plane out of fuel and crashed and died. Family claimed there were better methods of warning the pilot about the low fuel level than what Cessna used to win their case. Aviation tort is a major issue and is something that is being talked about at multiple levels of government interaction. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com