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That's what I use. Finally got room to fit it all in there. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Did the people doing skydiving change, or did different people arrive? The guys who gave everything to jump - how many of them were there? I'm saying it's possible they still exist, but now a lot more people skydive, too. And in a sport like skydiving, which is not cheap, to get more people means either convincing more people of low means to become super-humble just for jumps, or convincing more people who have lots of money to put some of it toward skydiving. Obviously they'll bring their BMWs along and buy new rigs that don't smell like 10 years of military service. Some dropzones still have that "back in the day" feel, though. You could try going there. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Mmm. "It's not stolen, it was just pawned by a guy who's in jail right now." That's a rig I don't need to buy. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Pink reserve is the way to go. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

What is this conversion of which you speak? I reckon they rip the grommet out of each riser, stitch a tube of webbing onto the back of each rear riser, stick one of their wicked hard-housing cutaway cable end holder up in the webbing tube, and put a new grommet through the old riser hole and the new hard-housing cutaway cable end holder's mouth connector.

As soon as I heard the details about what they might have to do to me for the impacted one, I opted for general anesthesia. They knocked me out, I remember pure blackness for 5 minutes, then I woke up. The monster white meds they had me on kept me knocked out for most of a week; my mom funneled gruel and odwalla into my stomach whenever I woke up to go to the bathroom, and used a camomille teabag to staunch a site that wouldn't stop bleeding. Worst thing was the suture ache for about 2 or 3 weeks after that, but eventually it got better.

Exactly. That and check the ID one last time. Age math can be tricky late at night. Also good to know where she lives in case you have to drop her off in a shopping cart. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I'm with you that pointing mistakes out, for correction (learning what wasn't done as well as possible, and doing better next time), is the name of the game. Punishing is not. But I think the core issue with the "purple instead of red" is they're saying children have come to associate red ink on a paper with punishment. But wait - the red ink had the purpose of pointing out the mistakes, for correction. So we can deduce that students (or the people speaking on behalf of the students) have come to associate merely calling out the mistakes, for correction, as punishment. That is fertile ground for two arguments. The first, which we have seen above, is "BFW." (The "W" is for "waaaaaah".) The second, which makes my head swell to think I pointed it out here on a skydiving web board first, is that in no time at all children (or those speaking on behalf of them) will begin to associate purple, blue, and green writing on their papers with pointing out mistakes, for correction, and not long after that those colors of ink will be seen as punishing. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

It's hard to explain in a post where the line between friendly professional competitiveness is "you shoulda bought brand X - they blow up into little pieces far less often " vs. being a dick. In the original post, I am confused about "some of their techniques". Are you referring to sales techniques or canopy control techniques? It's normal for some sellers to be "pushers." I don't like it, but that's how it is sometimes. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Belgian waffle three inches tall, with lots of sliced sugared strawberries on top. But do you know how hard it is to find proper tall Belgian waffles? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Oof. I can hardly connect the 3-rings on the ground some days. Holding the riser end, harness connection ring, white loop, and cutaway cable housing end connector, then manipulating the yellow cable. Glad I saw a lazy (I mean smart) old rigger use a pullup cord to manage the white loop. Not sure that would work so well in the air. Excellent suggestion for something not to do. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

#5 matches my rig perfectly! -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Advice I'll keep with me if I do this. (OK, OK, I'm a skydiver, "when" I do this.) And I always wear a helmet. I walk into the plane a lot on the ground.

A round of applause for a guy who got in, got his, and got our before skydiving became too cool. That's the way to do it! And if things are different on "the other side," maybe we'll all be jumping with you again later. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

For me, 2k. Any lower than that and I'm just increasing the number of people who will get hurt or killed. My decision is based on the fact that I'm not good enough to save myself if I'm distracted at terminal velocity with less than 11 seconds to impact. That means I'm also probably not good enough to catch and deploy my friend. But everyone is lucky sometimes, and I'd give it a try. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

What is the Serial No.?

I think that's doable. As long as you have the water rescue crew whipped into shape. I don't want to drown next to a boat full of eye candy. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I think one of the founding members has to do a sitflying "sport rig tandem" with SpongeBob Squarepants himself frontside, then the pledge sit-flies up to SpongeBob and docks on him. (Leg or hand docks are both allowed?) Looks like SpongeBob loves to skydive. See him waving and smiling on the video? You go, porifera! -=-=-=-=- Pull.

OK, first of all, I'm not going to do this. At 100 jumps I thought I might like to try, but at 250 jumps (and 40 sq ft smaller) I am much further away from attempting this sort of stunt. A looong time from now. As in "third rig, water landing" far away. OK. So, if I just hook the right riser to the left 3-ring, and the left riser to the right 3-ring (both risers facing "forward" on the 3-rings), when it opens it will have have half a twist in one of the riser sets (and the canopy would be bent in a "U", except I think the canopy has a lot more tendency to maintain correct shape than the line groups). That doesn't sound good. It sounds bad, actually. It would probably fly OK, but lines would be passing each other. The flat 180 twist in one riser probably isn't what I would be looking at in flight - probably more like a 90 twist in each riser. But the front line group of one riser would necessarily be behind the rear line group of the other riser. I wouldn't be surprised if it was slightly deformed and flying partially sideways instead of straight backward. (And the RSL ring will be on the wrong side. ) If I put the left riser backwards on the right 3-ring, and the right riser backwards on the left 3-ring, I have essentially detached the harness from the canopy, rotated it 180 degrees, and reattached it. No lines should cross, and the canopy should fly "normally," with minor variation for how I'm hanging from it. But the 3-ring releases would be facing the wrong way (and thus may not meet manufacturer's desired clearance from the MLW!) during freefall / deployment / any possible malfunction. (And the cutaway cables would have to be in a slightly different place, with the housings rotated 180 degrees. Not a big problem. Oh, and my RSL ring would be on the wrong side again. ) OK, so what if I just disconnect the canopy lines from the risers, rotate the canopy 180 degrees, and put it back on. Do a super line-check, and it should be good. While I'm at it, I can rotate the slider 180 so I still pull the tabs the right way.

No, it helps me make sure I don't hook it up backward. "Yellow riser to yellow webbing, purple to purple." Although, I suppose it would also help me hook it up backward if I really wanted to. But I still have some questions about that. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Where did you get the Reebok ankle weights? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I have only heard of red brake lines to assist packing, i.e. to make sure you can see where they are. My risers are contrasting colors (yellow and purple), and I found it does help a bit for the line twists. It also keeps me from hooking the canopy up backward, since the risers match the lift webs, but I don't expect that to be any use for anyone else. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

The air force has some documented helmet-caused deaths. The issue they documented is referred to as "hangman's noose" effect. I think helmets are like airbags. Plain and simple, airbags kill (i.e. are directly responsible for the fatal wound delivered to) some people. But the reason this is OK is they save more people than they kill. Yeah, it sucks when someone wasn't going to die, but their safety equipment killed them. But if for each of them, ten other people are saved from death by their safety equipment, then that's a tradeoff in the right direction. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

So, she got to the hospital for the broken legs, right? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I keep telling her she needs some sort of pre-deployment drogue. -=-=-=-=- Pull.