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  1. Andrewwhyte
    Well, most spectators have not signed the waiver. You could have them sign it but guaranteed some will slip through the cracks. Even if they have signed a waiver they have not undergone any training in the specific character of the dangers. OTOH I have escorted a professional cameraman onto the field for a TV shot. In that case I had no other duties than to take care of one individual. In general I think it is a poor practice.
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    How do you feel about losing it to you creditors?
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    Actually air resistance isn't the problem,... ground resistance is.
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    Put the hooka down brother.
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    A league of their own.
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    Knowing there is a difference and practicing are two different things. 182 jump pilots are often on there first job (although this guy apparently was not) and can usually use all the training/unusual situation practice they can get.
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    Can you think of any Iranian suicide bombers ever or are you just hating on brown people in general?
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    Gotta remember, never get out of the boat.
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    Well, you have to work with what you have. Paying for at least one video of you tracking will do you a world of good. There is nothing to translate the theoretical to the practical like looking at yourself doing it. regardless you can still make the decision that you are going to get beter by practicing until you improve and do so not just at the end of the skydive but by tracking for the whole thing. Tracking dives are also very fun BTW.
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    Why don't you make becoming a crack tracker a short and intermediate goal. If have completed your cat 8 there is nothing that says that you cannot devote the next five or ten jumps to nothing but tracking. Get a coach to help set up your program. You need video on some, but not all, depending on your budget, of the jumps. With a little feedback you will be surprised how fast you improve. After this program make sure you return to it and schedule tracking dives periodically so you continue to improve. Heres the hot hint: If there is a wing suit jumper on your DZ he may be the best guy to coach you and probably the most enthusiastic; Good tracking skills are sine qua none to the bird people, but be careful it's like religion to these folks, they can be like the Hare Krishna.
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    Not quite. Terminal velocity is a function of acceleration. Each object has their own acceleration function with acceleration reaching zero at a time and speed unique to the function. If this was not true we would not be able to make up any vertical distance on each other for the first twelvish seconds of the skydive. Gallileo's experiment would have failed if he had conducted it; he did not. What he did was announce he was going to as an example of applying his new "scientific method" to the problem as opposed to simply applying logic to accepted principles. This was enough to get the church on his back. If I am not mistaken the experiment was conducted about ten years ago, demonstrating the flaw in his hypothesis (but not his method).
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    Ya, about that. In case you haven't noticed there are no places close to there for people to live for to give you a ride. So uh, buy a car. If you do you should come see us in Westlock at Edmonton Skydive centre.
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    GAME OVER (I went in)
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    If it happens during Burning Man no-one will even notice till they go home.
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    As Tom said the slower deployment sequence of IAD allows for a slightly higher instability risk. I definitely feel, however, that the entanglement risk is significantly higher during a S/L deployment. The reason is the out of sequence deployment inherent in the S/L system. During an IAD deployment everything is coming out in order and downwind of the student whether they are stable or not. Since the static line is attached to the plane it must be upwind of the student when the canopy separates from the D-bag, or the pilot chute separates from its static device, depending on which method is used. I think it is this "sail effect" combined with an unstable student which provides the most significant entanglement risk.
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    If I board an aircraft for the purpose of skydiving does that mean that the aircraft cannot land once before I get out? For example can an aircraft pick up jumpers at two locations on the way to a demo provided the 25 mile rule is adhered to? The FAR does not specify a non-stop flight. Another point is that landing a full jump plane is not necessarily an emergency procedure and thus practicing one is not necessarily emergency training. I have landed in a full jump plane for various reasons from low clouds to an ATC shortage. Both of these situations could have afforded everyone on board a safe jump, but not at the altitude they purchased; there was no emergency.
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    Your second graph is a supply shift. The new 180 day rule represents a demand shift- from 3x the number of rigs out there to 2x the number of rigs out there. The supply of rigging services available does not change. The demand shift requires a new graph to represent the new equation D=2N where N= the number of rigs out there. New equation- new line on the graph paper. Movement should occur along the supply line to a new equilibrium at a lower price and quantity. A new supply line may occur subsequently as some riggers exit the market. This will result in a higher price and constant quantity. Whether the demand shift or the supply shift dominate the price depends upon the price elasticity of supply since the price elasticity of demand is assumed to be close to infinite in this neighbourhood. The graphical implication of the last sentence is that the demand curve is almost vertical.
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    This thread is SHIT. Jarrett, you are just wrong on this one. Flying under or over the tandem is a move that does nothing for the guy paying the freight and increases his risk. Almost everyone else (and stratostar especially) your obsession with Jarrett's age is bullshit. We all know there are older TMs and vidiots out there who do the same thing. J has 500 jumps. He is not a student or a novice; he is an experienced jumper with a reasonably large ego. WOW that is so unusual in our sport. Using his age like a stick to beat him with is just dumb. How many references are there in this thread to him being a child. What a pile of shit. We let seventeen year olds go to war as men. it is only when they die that we call them boys.
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    You are exactly right! The problem is that no politician can afford to be seen propping up a lame duck GWB. It almost seems like the Iranian hostage crisis where the Ayatola wanted to be rid of the hostages but had to wait until Carter was gone until he could release them so as not to let Carter gain any vindication at all for his approach. Sarkozy will be anxious to improve relations with the US but troops in Iraq to support Bush will be too high a price. In Canada the Conservative Prime Minister Harper is very supportive of Bush, but he knows that sending troops to Iraq will cost him his minority government. A similar situation is true for most NATO countries not already there. In UK Prime Minister Brown will be trying his best to distance himself from US foreign policy in a desperate attempt to survive the wrath of the voters. Bush is despised around the world and until he is gone I don't see any solutions coming from the international community.
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    Try Transcendental Meditation. Maharishi Yogi has been saying this for a long time.
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    I have done this at least five or six times over the years. At the DZ I used to work at it was the last thing the pilot had to do before the DZO would jump out. If the pilot had any talent we would do it again that year when they graduated from the 182 to the 205. I have also done this on a Westjet FO's first 737 landing (ROUGH). The big difference here was we had to pay for our ticket and we were not given any warning.
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    Fuck! I was there and renting a place in Casa Grande on Jan 1. If I was still there I could get a Z Visa for 5 grand, Fuck! The nearest estimate to get a visa legally is way higher than that.
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    What he said,...or something.
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    Unless you just succeeded in fracturing the timeline.
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    Ask a man on the street if Elvis is still alive,...