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Nor do I. My complaint was that this and other threads concerned another person. This guy keeps trying to tie whoever "Serg" is to the bad business practices people are complaining here regarding Karnage Krew. He's brought up his beef in several threads complaining about Gary. As far as I know, the 2 guys have nothing to do with each other and trying to associate 1 with the other is foul play IMO. Owned by Remi #?

Thanks for the obvious. Where are the facts? Owned by Remi #?

I didn't indulge in conjecture in my post. That seems to be your gig. I said that your financial dealings are one thing, and Serg's reputation here are another. I'm a neutral observer who "observes" that your problems are independent of the reporting members of this forum. Owned by Remi #?

Where's *your* profile pic? Owned by Remi #?

I could use some help with my power track.... and about 1000 other things.... Owned by Remi #?

Sounds more like you need to talk to a rigger and a pilot... Owned by Remi #?

Greetings Chris. Good luck today... I'm hoping to see you around the DZ Owned by Remi #?

Might help if you can't relax because you're afraid of face planting into a wire grate at slow speeds. Mostly useless to deal with actual anxiety about freefall speed problems. Owned by Remi #?

Lot's of jumps..... that'll relax you. Owned by Remi #?

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Yeah... tomorrow I'm going to go into work and not drink beer. While I'm there, I'll help finish deploying a mobile satellite communications trailer for emergency response teams. That's my morning. In the afternoon, I'll work on an ongoing project to make the emergency broadcast system more reliable for remote communities. I'll take my job, thanks. Owned by Remi #?

I think it would be a much better idea for you to jump it. Better yet, I'll happily pack my main in a room full of glass shards and pony up for you to jump it. There's a pretty good chance we don't need a rigger to inspect it.... probably no chance any glass got anywhere near the reserve. Owned by Remi #?

My experience only, but: I usually wear sunglasses or tinted goggles when I'm coaching long swoops to dock since I'm generally well under the student after they exit. If the sun is behind them, it's nice to be able to see 'em start their bombing run.... I also sometimes wear them when I'm doing coached tracking dives for the same reason. I want to know if they're beagle tracking into the sun... Owned by Remi #?

I've always thought that this was a better way to express it: It is much better to be down here wishing you were up there than to be up there one second and unexpectedly smashed into "down here" the next. Owned by Remi #?

Monitoring? Always.... Action? Owned by Remi #?

You saw that on NANOG and "TTL Exprired" was overlooked.? Wow. Owned by Remi #?

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2325.txt My job includes satellites, monkeys, and Bunn monitoring, Life really couldn't get better. Owned by Remi #?

I have one of those. I usually only wear it for high openings when I want to enjoy the scenery but still wear head protection. ETA: Heh.... remembered right after I posted that I'm wearing mine in my profile pic. I also use it a Bridge Day. Owned by Remi #?

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I agree 100% The debate makes me think about all the conversation that's been had about exit order and exit separation. I think most people now agree that it would be a seriously bad idea for a 6 way RW group to exit 2 seconds after a 6 way freefly group.... And yet we keep mixing approach speeds and angles in the pattern. It's a dilemma, isn't it? We've accepted that mixing fall rates and wind drifts is bad in freefall, but we're at a loss to deal with the same physics under canopy. It really does suck. It's a level of fragmentation that approaches unmanageable... maybe. It might be more productive to require that DZs establish a standard set of pattern rules and that anyone who wants to fly anything other than a standard set of pattern rules make sure they're segregated. That's pretty easy to do at a small DZ like the one I jump at. Most of our HP pilots open high, hang in brakes, and land in a segregated space. The majority of these accidents happen at the large, vacation / team training / bigway camp types of DZs. With both kinds of DZs, the key to me seems to be that censorship and enforcement of the rules will help prevent collisions. As jumpers and canopy pilots, we can debate and disagree and vote with our wallets all we want, but until the folks running the DZs and bigway camps and boogies and vacation resorts get on board, nothing useful will happen because too many fun jumpers think nothing bad could ever happen to "them" Owned by Remi #?

What will we do when 2 people who have both taken canopy control classes collide with each other? Require that everyone take 2 canopy control classes? Again, I think canopy control requirements are a great idea but I don't think they will prevent the kind of accident that happened yesterday. I objected to using this incident as an example of why canopy training is more important than night jump training and I still do. Do you have any indication that neither of those men had any advanced canopy training? I've taken 2 basic and 1 advanced canopy course. If I"m involved in a collision with another canopy pilot who has also had canopy training will the accident be blamed on the fact that we had to do night jumps to get a D license? No, it won't. It will probably be because either one or the other of us made a mistake or did something reckless. People will always make mistakes. We can act to censor those who make too many. Some people will exhibit a tendency to be reckless. We can act to censor them too. Occasionally, people who have shown no tendency for mistakes or recklessness collide. Some of them are lucky, as you've experienced. Some of them are not. Owned by Remi #?

Look... I'm not going to take a stand on whether or not requiring night jumps is good or useless, but I do wonder about what you just said. The 2 men who died at Perris were instructors. One of them had 17000 jumps and 20 years in the sport. I don't think that the other instructor's experience level has been mentioned. Do you think that at 17000 jumps, one of those men would actually have been better prepared if a D licsense required a couple of canopy control jumps instead of a night jump? Requiring canopy control jumps for licenses is a great idea in my opinion, but I am highly skeptical that it will prevent the type of tragedy that happened at Perris yesterday. It may help more inexperienced jumpers, but using these fatalities is invalid in my opinion Owned by Remi #?

What a lovely smile. Owned by Remi #?

What did you post a picture of? I'm reluctant to open it. Owned by Remi #?

Yes. OSHA has no authority over self-employed individuals. Owned by Remi #?