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Crap, you're right. Positivity rate has skyrocketed over the past week.

This is more of a higher level comment not specific to cutaways, but if you're worried about making an error in a procedure that might contribute to a poor outcome, the solution is more training--not to just incorporate the error into the procedure and pretend that's the way you meant it...

Interesting. Well, definitely stick to what your instructor tells you, at least until you are licensed.

Are you sure that's right? I'm familiar with two methods: The one I was taught in AFF: look red grab red (both hands) look silver peel, pull red grab silver (both hands) pull silver And the one I practice now: look red grab red (one hand) look silver grab silver (other hand) peel, pull red pull silver

You might not, in which case you might get hurt. If you have a more typical emergency but you mess up your EPs because you emphasized weird edge cases in your training, you might get hurt. Which scenario is more likely?

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Come to Urbana-Champaign and jump our Cessna with us! 20 minute drive from the University and there is an active group of student jumpers.

The university didn't retract it because they didn't publish it. It was published and retracted by "The Students of Johns Hopkins" as clearly indicated at the top of the document.

It's possible, but my understanding of his followup was that when he made his initial post he understood the author was a journalism student not representing Johns Hopkins, and that was why I responded the way I did. Maybe he was mislead as well, but that wasn't clear to me from his response.

So by "Johns Hopkins" and "newsletter" you meant "student newspaper" and by "journalist", you meant "journalism student"? Those are important differences.

Well, it looks like we might be over the hump. So there's that, at least. Hopefully it isn't some weird testing artifact related to the holiday.

Nobody knows What do you mean by that?

The underlying problem here is that you are giving your own personal guess more credence than the educated opinions and conclusions of experts. If at the end of the day you're going to choose to ignore references cited by others, not cite any yourself, and stick to your own beliefs without any justification, why bother posting in the first place? It's completely astounding to me that you think you have the knowledge and skills to make such an inference. Why bother with virology and epidemiology when we have you? Aside from that, your thought process is flawed: 1) You've arbitrarily predicted (and stated as fact) that the outcomes of COVID will be (or "are", as if this is retrospective) similar to those of SARS, for reasons you haven't explained 2) You've been presented with scientific evidence that the outcomes of COVID are different from SARS 3) The only reasonable conclusion is that you were wrong at (1), yet somehow you conclude the opposite. That's not an argument--that's a statement of belief with nothing to back it, and it's wrong. You believe it because it seems intuitive, but intuition does not equal truth. You've already been provided with two specific example diseases that start as a mild viral infection but then later on become much more severe and even deadly. And you've been moving the goalposts, too. First it was "organ damage", then it was "organ failure", then you got called out on that and moved it to "severe organ damage".

Yes, apparently the MD-80 and MD-90 series were developed from the DC-9 and the B717 was renamed from MD-95: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_MD-90 Knowing that, it isn't too surprising that they would share a type rating. I guess it shouldn't be hard to find someone rated.

I'm not sure about your actual question, but I think it's worth mentioning that you might consider changing your rig to a left-handed deployment. Even if you get full range of motion back, you may end up with an increased risk of dislocating the same shoulder.

I'm surprised the group seems so unanimously opposed to this--It's really smart and it's exactly what we need. It can be effective in ways that no other measure can. Apart from that, I don't understand how any reasonable person can look at the current state of the global pandemic and think that this measure or any known measure is overkill. If overkill existed, the pandemic would be over. If this measure is overkill, we should be clamoring to adopt it so we can put this all to an end.

I love my Katana. I'm looking at FW Gangster but according to FW's infographic they recommend loading at least 1.5 psf, so I guess have another Katana or two before then.

Well, shoot. Doesn't look too bad if no cracks are found. I think you linked to the wrong one though. Here's what I found: https://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf/0/c8c585a037fe19ee862586140053ce37/$FILE/2020-21-22.pdf

I'm familiar. I'm talking about years and decades after. We won't understand that until it's happening. Absolutely same here.

This might be the scariest aspect of the whole thing: Nobody knows what the long-term effects will be or how severe. The potential heart and brain damage we've already seen is alarming.

Why? If there is any transfer at all during the curfew period, then enacting the curfew will be beneficial.

I guess intuitively it makes sense that a satellite directly overhead would result in the largest difference in time measurement per difference in altitude. If the 4 satellites happen to all be on the plane tangent to the surface at your location (might be impossible by design), I wonder if it would be impossible to calculate altitude. I understand how triangulation works, but how they get a distance from the timestamps without an atomic clock in the receiver is something I never wrapped my head around.

That's pretty much what Illinois is doing, and the results are pretty dramatic (see attached). We probably should have initiated the recent batch of lockdowns sooner.

Right... Science says the more people you interact with, the more likely you are to get the disease. A curfew reduces interaction. This is reeeeeeeally basic stuff we learned way, way before COVID.

Joke's on you--ours are all old enough to be unaffected by the AD!