Andrewwhyte

I have wondered about this myself. I mean, all these people who boycott Harry Potter and other innocuous films because of 'witchcraft' and 'magic' - they do realise that magic doesn't really exist, right? Ahh, there's the root of the problem. They do not disbelieve in magic. They believe in the devil and all his works. they believe in witchcraft, and Voo-Doo, and Oiji boards etc. and believe their invisible friend's arch-enemy Skeletor is behind them all. No wait that's not right. It's Lucifer not Skeletor (different planet).

Dude on my second-last jump last weekend my sinuses clogged and I got HUGE pain in my left ear. I was stupid enough to do the last jump and I didn't get hearing back in that ear till this morning, it came with a huge sinus headache too. For the last two days I've been thinking I'm gonna turn out like YOU Could be worse. Billy could turn out like you. He might not mind waking up 20 years younger with a huge ck No, I meant a dumfuck who can't fly worth shit.

DeHavilland Buffalo.

Dude on my second-last jump last weekend my sinuses clogged and I got HUGE pain in my left ear. I was stupid enough to do the last jump and I didn't get hearing back in that ear till this morning, it came with a huge sinus headache too. For the last two days I've been thinking I'm gonna turn out like YOU Could be worse. Billy could turn out like you.

Yes, but have gun crimes declined since the introduction of the registry? No, they have not. Canada's lower murder rate is a product of a cultural difference between the US and us; while it is fair to argue that gun laws contribute long term to that culture, it is not legitimate to argue that the lack of availability to guns (or ammo) have any real effect upon the level of violence. Even the enormous socialist weasel himself, Michael Moore, made the point that we have the guns, we just don't use them on each other as much.

A large majority of the nearly 800,000 murders committed in Rwanda during their tribal massacre in 1993 were done by machete.

Thanks. I do notice, however that the homicide rate with guns is not really that high; it is the suicide rate that does it.

Actually, the text was "Thou shalt not MURDER." - a bit of editing was done from the original Hebrew. I refer you also to Luke 22:36. Does ancient Hebrew make the same distinction between those two concepts the same way English does? What are the two words?

Well, i have done IAD out of a beech 18, but not training pulls. To tell you the truth I have never had the pilot chute interfere with the student's dummy pull on an IAD. I have, however had those problems on a static line jump with the d-bag ripping the student's altimeter of their wrist (more than once).

C'mon Rob, stop beating around the bush ant tell us what you really think.

You can not add power.

I know how it was done; that doesn't change the fact that they are abusing that clause to poach on States' jurisdiction. IMO of course.

Because the last hundred years has seen a continuous assault on State power by the Federal government. It is none of the Fed's business, just like highway speed limits weren't in the seventies (for example).

i learned on an IAD system 22 years ago with round mains and belly-band throw outs. As a result I have a bias towards the IAD system. The biggest advantage to the IAD system is that the deployment is in sequence. The pilot chute goes downwind of the pin prior to extraction and the entire deployment is exactly like a free-faller's. The two main disadvantages are the possibility of a tail strike and the possibility of the student capturing the P/C. The former happened to a jump-master candidate during a course in the eighties (I am muddy on the particulars but I think he lost a leg), and the latter caused a fatality in the nineties for a first jump student. Both of these problems are caused by the same mistake by the instructor- letting go of the pilot chute too soon. When the J/M lets go of the P/C it immediately goes down wind of the next point of resistance. Normally that is the pin, followed quickly by the large rings on the harness. If the student has not let go of the aircraft (say on a 182 hanging exit) then the large rings on his harness are above the horizontal stabilizer, and the pilot chute goes over the tail. The most likely time for this scenario is in the event of a bag drop. When the instructor sees the container open they want the student gone; throwing the pilot chute is, however, exactly the wrong thing to do for the reasons I just stated. If the J/M holds the P/C the bag falls down, the canopy comes out and begins to inflate below the stabilizer. When the drag pulls the student off, the J/m releases the P/C and the student falls away. I have never faced this scenario but I have been on the DZ for three or four of them over the years. Usually the student goes before the canopy comes out, but in every case I've seen the student got a functioning canopy. If the J/m fucks up the pilot should be trained to push the tail away and to roll right. If the student rolls over on exit fast enough to trap the P/C (a remote yet non-zero probability) the same action is required- hold the P/C a bit longer. This insures the pin is pulled. I always tell the junior J/Ms, "It is important to throw the pilot chute down, but when you throw it is always more important than where you throw it." I have done a couple of hundred S/L direct bag deployments and supervised (read- watched the deployment video) of a couple of thousand more. I thought the deployments were in general, horrible. The incidence of the d-bag hitting the student, of line twists, and of malfunctions that were induced during deployment (i.e. not built in) was unacceptable compared to IAD. Furthermore the off balance snatch force was a severe impediment to learning during practice pulls. That said, I think a thorough look at the pros and cons of S/L is better left up to someone with more experience with them than me.

I don't see why right side is any better than left side, the pin is in the middle. The fact that the P/C is out of the air flow is definitely an advantage. This is similar to the U-206 or Beech 18 exit. I can see, however, that the crouching exit would be much easier for the student than the one cheek in one cheek out exit used for the 206 and Beech.

I think the pot and tobacco laws should be identical. Not an appropriate public behavior. That said, do what you please in private.

For those of you who enjoyed the pig roasts at Pitt Meadows throughout the nineties and after until the arrests were made, guess where the pigs came from? Hint: it's the closest pig farm to the DZ.

It also grossly insults the intelligence to suggest that the founders of the US were not heavily influenced by religion and that they were not 100% Christian. The historical records are pretty clear about that.

No one has a perfectly symmetrical body position. The reason we don't all spin is because the friction from the air dampens out the imperfections. When students get into a flat spin they tend to stiffen up as they try to correct it. This tends to make matters worse as the rigidity just increases the effect of whatever is causing the spin in the first place. If you have a persistent flat spin remember this: you can still see your altimeter and you can still reach your handles. Now take a deep breath and as you exhale relax. This may not stop the spin but will almost always slow it down. From there you can work on countering the spin.

If you look at where US law has been you can certainly see #3 and #6.

They boo'd and whistled the US anthem.

If alcohol was illegal,... the Hell's Angels would be even more powerful than they are now.

I use the Kool-Aid allusion all the time and it blew right by me when I read that quote.

How the hell did you learn to read if it wasn't through MAD?

yea..thx EDIT: this is your one warning. No PAs. So how the fuck does skydiver007 earn a PA warning but ExAFO doesn't?