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OK, then just ignore the type 4 webbing on the nose if it doesn't have the nose slider. My single keel has the outside and keel lines evenly distributed between front and rear risers, so the double keel one sounds a bit funky the way you describe it. Have a look in Poynters to see if there is a picture of a double keel in there. You might be able to see the line rigging on that. I've actually never seen a double keel Dactyl in the flesh though, so I can't really help you there.

I have a manual for mine. It's out on loan though, so I can copy it when I get it back with the Dactyl. Basially though. lie it on it's side like a flat pack, and make the fold from back to front so the whole thing is stacked on the tail. Fold it, put it in the D bag, and turn the D bag 180 so that the nose is now facing forward. Stow and close as normal. If it's fitted with a nose slider as well as the normal one, bungee that to the nose line. Also, band any excess steering line to a band on the outside canopy lines.

OK, I'll have a go then. It is exceedingly rare for a person to fail to deploy either parachute. However, it used to be not so rare that they would cutaway and then fail to deploy their reserves in a timely manner. In fact, the two fatalities at the last convention were attributed to this. Both jumpers had AADs if I remember correctly. More jumpers today use RSLs than ever before. They were virtually unknown for D license holders when I started. A large percentage of fatalitities are prevented by RSLs, not AADs which do not re-arm in the case of low cutaways. IMHO, you're way safer with good well practiced emergency procedures and an RSL. I am actually removing my AADs from my rigs because they are expired, and I'm not about to spend $3000 replacing things that work just fine. I'm keeping my RSLs though. OK, that's enough from me on this.

I ran one of the largest DZs in the world for a few years. We didn't require AADs, but we did require proper training. We had several fatalities, and none of them would have been prevented by an AAD. IMHO, requiring AADs is a waste of time and makes no business sense whatsoever, unless you're in the business of selling them. It's a pointless argument though. DZO's are free to make whatever decisions they like, even when it drives perfectly good safe and current jumpers elsewhere.

Like many of the people I met while working in the music business, a very talented guitar player, whose personality was in direct inverse proportion to his ability. Let's just say he was an aquired taste.

That's one of the many reasons I love PD. They lead, not follow.

All this is true, but it misses the point that I'd rather spend a day pushing live lobsters up my rectum than spend a day day jumping at SMB. It was that much fun there. YMMV of course, but it seems from previous posts that the good times just keep on rollin' there.

Nobody cuts away my Dactyl ! Here's the landing from that jump. A nice PLF works wonders for the Dac.

The opening was fast but not a slammer. Mine opens fast because it's a reserve Dactyl. That's correct, the Daftyl is TSO'd as a reserve. Mine doesn't have the nose slider the RW Dactyls have.

It's a Paradactyl. I got one. Fun to jump if you know what you're doing. Just don't take it to terminal and don't try to flare it.

This is true, but it is a list of what annoys me, to be fair, and I do find 8 through 11 annoying, though I would imagine the issue of intellegent design/evolution to be an issue of science rather than politics.

Yes indeed, my time is my own.

Yes, I'd hate to have an advert appear in a sig line attached to one of my posts. It might get in the way of the damn Aerodyne one that gets stuck in every PM I send.

CD player ? You might as well ask what's in my 8 track. I haven't turned on my CD since I went digital a year or two back. I got 5000 songs in my back pocket at all times, and a radio link into the car stereo for it. As for what's on it, it's always on shuffle. It's nice to see what weird combintaions come up, like having Pantera followed by the Bonzo Dog Band.

1. Cars with Four Headlights I'm sure that you people who drive these abominations worked very, very hard beging your parents/girlfriend for the extra money to lower your Acuras, fix a spoiler onto the back, slap a sticker of Calvin peeing on some corporate logo on the back, and install your second set of headlights. However, I'm lucky to derive vicarious benefit from it - all that extra light blasting through my back window not only helps be find that damned rearview mirror that I keep losing, it helps me reload my clip in preparation for the time when you finally get sick of tailgating me and try to pass me. Thanks guys. 2. Misuse of Homonyms by...well...EVERYONE For the record: "Than" is used when making comparisons. "Then" is used to describe events in sequence. "Your" is a possessive adjective. "You're" is a contraction of "you are," and should be used only in cases where the two-part form is also proper. "To" is a preposition, most commonly used to target and focus verbs ("I mailed the package to my father.") "Too" is used either in place of the word "also," or to say that there is "too much" of something. 3. Girls with Oversized Sunglasses This shit needs to stop immediately (unless you're Elton John - since you invented this, I'll let you stick with it for just a little while longer). 4. People using Alanis Morisette's Grotesquely False Definition of "Ironic" in daily speech IRONY: Noun -An incongruity (contradition) between what is expected in a particular situation and what actually happens (note: "Irony" takes a very different definition in the context of literature - this is the most widely known definition). Irony: A fire-extinguisher factory burning to the ground. Non-Irony: Rain on your wedding day (this is just bad luck, NOT IRONY) 5. Online Surveys Taking the time to answer 200 random Yes/No questions about your cell phone/number of "crushes"/number of tattoos tells us nothing about you as a person. It makes no progress in mapping your psyche, and reveals nothing more than an overabundance of free time. 6. The Sad Decline of Rudy Ray Moore Rudy Ray Moore is a cinematic artist like none other. His artistic credits include: Dolemite - where Mr. Moore plays a pimp whose "hoes" know Kung Fu and use it to clean up the streets The Avenging Disco Godfather - where Mr. Moore plays Tucker, a retired cop-turned-disco DJ-turned vigilante when his nephew picks up an addiction to P.C.P. For the money that Sting spent on penile enhancement surgery, or the money that Axl Rose stuffed into the G-strings of Brazilian pole-dancers, Rudy Ray Moore could have made more than two-dozen movies about kung-fu prostitutes. 7. Hipsters When the trucker-style mesh baseball cap becomes part of the uniform, it's no longer "ironic" (as everyone now knows, since we've set the record straight on THAT issue). Pabst Blue Ribbon still sucks - it has sucked ever since the long bygone days when it was the official beverage of the actual, honest-to-god American working class. Drinking it thus CANNOT make you cool. 8. "It sure is cold outside, so SO MUCH FOR GLOBAL WARMING." No one, anywhere, at anytime, is allowed to use the increasingly cold temperatures that we're witnessing during wintertime as proof against global warming. It is irrefutably true that the average temperatures on Earth have increased. It is also irrefutable that both the arctic and antarctic icecaps have been steadily shrinking. Warmer temperatures mean that more ice is falling into the ocean, and thus temporarily cooling the waters that reach North America. Furthermore, since more moisture is being evaporated into the atmosphere, a greater amount of precipitation in the winter is to be expected. Thus, unusually cool winters DO NOT UNDERMINE GLOBAL WARMING. You are still free to disagree on whether there is in fact global warming if you really insist. HOWEVER: no one is allowed to cite cold days during the winter as evidence of this view (ever....I mean it, not ever). 9. The phrase "Support the Troops" being used to silence all criticism of the war in Iraq Supporting the troops means not sending them overseas to die in a country that sees them as colonizers. It means not inventing false reasons for starting a pre-emptive war that "coincidentally" profits all the companies involved in Bush Jr.'s criminal empire, and creating support for such a war by scaring people shitless with the collective weight of the American media monopoly. 10. "Executive Power" I apologize in advance for the canned summary of Constitutional Law I that is necessary for a full explanation of why George W. Bush is a threat to the very fabric of American government. Article II of the Constitution clearly states that the only powers that the president of the United States has are those "necessary and proper" to "faithfully execute" the laws passed by congress. This was pointed out in the Supreme Court's holding in Youngstown Steel Co. v. Sawyer, where Harry Truman attempted to seize American steel mills to keep them producing war materials for use in Korea while the workers striked. Any "inherrent" powers the executive branch has but that remain unlisted in the Constitution are exclusively in the realm of foriegn relations - the President is in fact the only branch of government vested with powers in the international sphere, and certain powers must be inherrent to any "head of state." Thus, when the text of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act specifically forbids eavesdropping on the private communications between people in the United States, the President has now power to do anything but "faithfully execute" this law. Thus, Bush's eavesdropping on suspicious-looking Arab-American citizens and members of P.E.T.A. cannot be justified under any half-cocked bullshit about executive power. 11. Intelligent Design Do you enjoy electricity? Jet engines? Semi-conductors? Thank the scientific method. Almost all of the technological progress that mankind has enjoyed has taken place in the past 300 years. This is thanks to a system of thought that focuses only on natural explanations for phenomenon in the world around us that survive numerous tests and retests. The "theory" of evolution was also derived from this same marvelous mode of thought. However, let us define our terminology: technically, evolution is in fact only a "theory." However, "gravity" to this day is referred to as Newton's Theory of Gravitation. EVERYTHING in science is a theory, since the only proof that scientists rely upon for formulating their beliefs are PAST observations of PAST events. However, take comfort in the fact that this minor technicality does nothing to impair the "truth" of scientific observations the next time you use a USB flash drive; everytime you plug one in, you are single-handedly proving the truth of Quantum Mechanics. Thus, no true scientific theory would look at the complexity of the world around us, throw up its hands and say, "It's SO COMPLEX! I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND IT! IT MUST HAVE BEEN A SPOOKY INVISIBLE FATHER FIGURE LIVING IN THE SKY WHO CREATED IT." This is not to say that there might not be some sort of creator - however, calling the belief in such a being "science" is anathema to the very underpinnings of our civilization as we know it. In sum - you are free to believe in it. However, you're not allowed to call it "science." Ever. Thank you. Please feel free to add your own.

That you find me so sexy that you can't concentrate ? You wouldn't be the first.

Will do. I expect it will be done in another month or so. We just stripped it to the bare wood and started the rebinding of it this week. Then we'll start applying the antique fireglo color. Once that is all done, I'm thinking about converting the 4003 into a 5 string. I may put checkerboard binding on that too. I have enough left to do another bass.

I use Trace Elliots, and have for about 20 years or so. I like to use a lot of speakers too. No real replacement for shifting a lot of air live. In the studio, I usually use the stereo feature of my 4001 or 4003 and run a pickup to each cabinet, and close and room mike each. Here's my Trace setup with my 4003. I'm in the middle of whole refurbisment of my 4001. It's getting a fireglo paintjob, a horseshoe in the bridge position, a toaster in the neck position, and checkerboard binding. I'll post pictures when it's done.

I was playing it naked just a while ago. Just keep that visual in your mind. I rock.

\ Yep, but he had Bartolinis fitted in his, which while higher gain, lost the Ricky sound somewhat.

Nice ! One of the best basses for slapping and funk IMHO.

I really have to stop buying vintage Rickenbackers. Here's a model 4000 that I picked up yesterday. It sounds great. Classic Ricky growl. Actually, no I won't. Anyone got a 4002 or 4005 lying around that they want to sell ?

I think that you might see more shots in upcoming Parachutists. The record was done a little close to press time for some magazines I think. The Swedish magazine had a good cover and full article.

Pussy. I felt all three, and they were just little tiddlers. Wait until you get a 4 or greater that goes on for a few seconds. That gets your attention. Soner or later though, all of us here on the North Hayward fault are going to get good shaking. It's overdue as it is.

None at all, when you can make them fror $15 with an organizer and a free video at the Swedish Hercules Boogie