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    *this isn't the post you were looking for...
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    What does someone have to do in order to become an unreliable witness? If someone is caught lying about their experiences in relation to a case, is just that part of their testimony dismissed or can their whole contribution be binned? Is there a 'hierarchy' of expert witnesses? Can these morons that the plaintiffs have bought in be top-trumped?
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    Is this Dennis still a current jumper?
  4. yoink
    I bought a comfy couch to sit on. Not as a place to hold a dozen cushions. Quit it!
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    It certainly cuts down on the incedental 'crime of passion' household murders. Much harder to shoot someone you catch sleeping with your missus if you don't have a gun in the house. As for the pocket knife rule, I've carried a Swiss Army knife in the UK for years, and I was a scout. The 3" law was also ammended to exclude any knife that had a butterfly or rocket action in the mid 90's IIRC. I'm curious at what stage the 'freedom to do something' brigade here would actually step in. There is a big significant rise in knife crime among British teenagers lately. Would you allow that to continue? How would you stop it, because that's the priority... ceasing the increase in deaths.
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    There's lots of good information around here on this subject - also lots on paraglidingforum.com. There are good lessons to be learnt from both sides of the fence. Have a search for 'Groundlaunching' or 'speedflying'.
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    You know referring to yourself in the third person is the first sign of schizophrenia, don't you Brian?
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    *grabs beer & popcorn Ah good! Another episode of 'As the Prop Turns' is on! Hooray for mindless melodrama! There's room on the couch...
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    I'd totally travel for that boogie. And I'd make sure plenty of footage of people having an awesome time and not suing each other was taken..
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    IIRC it was made to replace the Demon as a swoop canopy and was supposed to be flown at loadings up near 2:1
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    Super uncool posting those details... Particularly as it seems both parties aren't telling the whole truth, or at best, are unlear in what they mean.
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    Same here. I never roll the nose of my S1 or push it through to the tail ... BUT I DO look after my slider very well. Yup. I never roll the nose, but I do make damn sure the slider is right up against the stops and the tail roll keeps it there. Not entirely convinced that it's necessary to start grabbing risers quite that early in the deployment either. Lesson learnt.
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    Yup. BUT - do it away from a DZ, or on a hop and pop where you've the landing area to youself. People kiting their canopies in the landing area of a dz is dangerous, ignorant and selfish. It's a personal bug bear of mine. When you're skydiving, land. Get your canopy down and under control. There are people coming in behind you...
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    whoa. Bad attitude, dude! Jon's lesson is the same as it's been for the last 20 years. If people get to jump small canopies, they'll invariably fly themselves into trouble because they lacj the understanding and experience to realise what they're getting into, therefore we need to stop them being able to do that. Unfortunately, skydiving is so resistant to any form of rules, cross dz agreement or legislation, that I don't believe this will ever be solved. There will always be places where people can go to push the envelope, and those places will have more than their fair share of canopy injuries.
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    I've always been curious how jumpers are supposed to know the reliability of their rigger if they're not a rigger themselves. This is a great example. It's a case of something that any inspection should have caught. It obviously wasn't and this reflects badly on the rigger that last signed off on it, but other than knowing that there's a sketchy rigger out there, it doesn't change anything for the rest of us. People will keep going to this person because they're not aware of this mistake. As far as I'm aware, it's extremely rare for people to name-and-shame riggers in the sport who do a sub-par job. It's always 'the current rigger should let the last one know' and a keep-it-in-the-family attitude to any faults that are found. I'd love to see a transparent database of names and reported faults against riggers. Equally, I'd love to see positive glowing reports that we could make better decisions on. At the moment it's pretty much a word-of-mouth lottery.
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    Good fun last night, even if I did spend most of my time strugglinng to survive! ;)
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    For CP stuff, particularly groundlaunching I usually wear a paragliding helmet. I use this one: http://www.ukairsports.com/catalog/images/b_L-downhill-colours.jpg in conjunction with a Chin-Jock to keep it stable. The protection it offers over any skydiving helmet I've seen is massive, while giving great visability. It probably wouldn't be suitable for terminal jumps, but for hop & pops, it's great.
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    I'm there.
  19. yoink
    Fuck you, Nick! Sorry. what game are we playing?
  20. yoink
    I'm assuming they're conscious, aware and under a functional parachute and have flown into you because they're an idiot? Chop it quickstyle and let them deal with getting out of the wrap.
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    I can't think of any time I've heard it when it isn't derogatory.
  22. yoink
    You were much more fun to wind up when you were green.
  23. yoink
    Free translation software is RUBBISH!
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    If the machine is configured to boot from Floppy or CD, or if you can get into the BIOS to set these options use this: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ I've used it a number of times and it works like a charm.
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    Iedited for tequila