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I'm assuming you're referring to this I'm not familiar with it, but a quick perusal suggests this would come nowhere close to a violation. A DZ could give out your name and phone number to the entire world for no reason and it wouldn't be a violation.

So their initial estimated price was 1.5-2x that of Pfizer/BioNTech, they were criticized for it, then they lowered the price to below that of the competition? *yawn* What's this have to do with Shkreli?

Sure, but what are the damages?

Can you reference an actual law they would be breaking, or a relevant civil precedent? It's quite common for people to have severe misconceptions about "privacy laws".

That's a really good point and I agree that he needs to be prepared for that. I think the optimal long-term solution is probably to become proficient in flaring with one hand. But I agree if you aren't sure you can pull it off then going to reserve might be a good option in some situations.

Yes

This is naive thinking. David will likely have a substantially increased risk of shoulder dislocation for the rest of his life, even after any mitigation efforts. I think much of the advice in this thread comes from an incomplete understanding of this fact, and an underestimate of the associated risk. Sure, we can come up with hypothetical edge cases that plausibly and intuitively seem like a left-handed BOC could add risk, and perhaps it does. However, both the likelihood and severity of these scenarios need to be appropriately weighed against the very real risk of David continuing to use a standard setup. Aside from the fact that David is probably currently practicing a two-handed reserve deployment anyway, you'd really favor completely eliminating one of your two canopies as an option vs. a small change in deployment procedure of the other? My advice: 1) Have a good in-depth talk with your own doctors to gain an accurate understanding of how likely it will be for this to happen again in your specific situation. 2) Email Steve Lefkowitz and ask for his advice. He routinely switches back and forth between left and right-handed deployment, and knowing him I'm sure he's exhaustively analyzed all possible outcomes and would be happy to discuss. Negative--the bottom seam is still sewn to the container.

I get that the slider isn't the point, but I still need to know what to do with it. Should I just quarter it evenly like usual and then pull the center cell out like in the video? Or should it be quartered with more toward the back to expose the front more? I'll take a look at the FW video--thanks

What exactly did Brian do with the slider in that video?

It's stainless steel. I'd expect it to outlast the rest of the rig, coated or not.

300 - 400 million gun owners? In the US? Which has a population of 330 million?

I believe technically there isn't something called "full RDS"

I think some people consider IAD to be a bit more dangerous than other options. I think my DZO told me one of the main reasons he doesn't do IAD or static line anymore is that it's a lot of training effort for people who mostly only want to jump once and would otherwise do a tandem. I do see the advantages, though.

Yeah, I actually like that look. I have a black titanium field watch with a nice "patina" on it and I love it. Flaking not so much, which is why I asked.

I've seen plenty of collaboration among the Chicago-area DZs as well. Doug from CSC invited our DZ to one of their boogies once with waived entry fees. I was at a competition at CSC when Rook brought over an Otter to help out. We asked Rook about leasing his 182 and he explained in the nicest, most empathetic way possible that he just doesn't lease out that particular airplane and it really seemed like he cared. I happened to do my 100th jump at CSC and they congratulated me and my home DZ over the PA. I haven't been to Midwest yet--I'll have to change that soon.

I'm leaning toward getting it on mine. It's purely aesthetic. The sales rep told me it can wear through from friction over time but won't flake off (I specifically asked about flaking).

What sort of training do you prefer?

So your misrepresentation of the author as a journalist rather than as a student was meant to indicate skepticism? As was your misrepresentation of the source being Johns Hopkins University instead of its students? Really?

Most could switch to unleaded fuel today if they wanted to. We run unleaded in our 182.

Was the part defective? I thought it was just a matter of the outside temperature being outside the intended range.

Did you see the multiple posts calling out your caveats as factually incorrect? e: Honestly hard to give the benefit of the doubt to his intentions at this point

Sure, but that still does not suggest an advantage to pulling red before looking silver. Mitigated or not, if there are disadvantages to teaching it this way and no advantage, then it's objectively incorrect. I'll take this as an assertion that teaching "look silver before pulling red" (which I'll call the USPA method) will cause some students to have a two-out. If this is true, then you'd have to weigh: 1) [The probability of a two-out after teaching the USPA method] x [the severity of the consequences of a two-out] vs. 2) [The probability of a no-pull after teaching the Perris method] x [the severity of the consequences of a no-pull] I haven't seen it myself, but others have mentioned there are known cases of the no-pull error occurring. Do you have reason to believe that the two-out error is more likely? Do you think the consequences of one are overall higher than the other? My first thought is that a no-pull is worse, but I think that could be debatable. I guess I can see how the RSL could really tip the balance here, and I'm starting to see merit in the Perris method.

I haven't seen any data on that, but for the sake of discussion let's assume you're right and that 75% end up doing it wrong. The 25% that do it right are safer for it, and the 75% are no worse off. If you teach look after, then those 25% are less safe because of it, and the 75% are no better off. I'll add that while I'm new to the sport, I do have experience in risk analysis in the medical device industry.

I've started a thread:

Branching off discussion from this thread. The EP I learned in AFF was this: look red grab red (both hands) look silver peel, pull red grab silver (both hands) pull silver The reasoning, which makes sense to me, is that locating the handle before cutting away is more likely to be successful than after. However, it came out in that thread that some are teaching to look for the silver handle after cutting away instead of before. I can't think of a single advantage to that difference. Anyone else?