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long time Air Canada pilot, Labatt Blue skydiving team, Warren Dunne passing at 62, after a long courageous battle with his family by his side, on February 11th 2018. https://turnerporter.permavita.com/site/DunneWarren.html?s=40 https://turnerporter.permavita.com/siteContent/photoGallery.html?p=GiwaHR4Bfz01cXdCRFp0Bg

Tony's is the worst; cheap fabric, poor workmanship, no after-sale service. Tony's is the worst !

his brother Harry Cole wrote: Memories of William Henry “Bill” Cole October 31, 1932 - December 25, 2015 Bill was the third son of William and Gladys Cole. Born in Long Branch, Ontario, Bill grew up admiring his older brother Syd, a Second World War hero. From an early age, Bill had an unbridled thirst for adventure - and a seemingly wont to challenge the world on just about everything. From his early days in Long Branch, Bill was always involved in some escapade or adventure. There were schemes among schemes that involved all of his brothers in one way or another. The building of a raft with two of his younger siblings and a couple of boyhood friends - to sail out on Lake Ontario - then having to be rescued from the somewhat dubious craft by the harbor police shortly after its launch. Later, when the family moved to Lakeview, Bill again gathered his younger brothers and led them on a number of adventures alongside the railway tracks, climbing around and over the train bridge that spanned the Etobicoke Creek, and foraging into the ‘unexplored’ woods. There were the forts that lined the ridge of the hill behind the family home - forts that Bill had help to engineer, complete with a communications link to a distant tree fort where they spied on train movements - not for any nefarious reason but only because it was fun to do. And then there were the “war games” with the scouting missions over and around the Toronto Golf Club - where he and his brothers were chased more than once by the Greens Keeper. There was never a doubt that Bill was going to push the limits of what he could do - and he had fun doing it. Everyone enjoyed being part of the excitement their older brother created - or perhaps they just didn’t know any better! He was always doing something that had an element of adventure (and it was not always exactly legal) but it was Bill doing his thing. Like the clandestine excursions into areas, acts which fueled Bill’s quest to go where no one else could - or would. Then conversely, the time he came to the rescue and defended the owner of a small restaurant against the rage of some unruly customers who refused to pay their fare. Bill was an avid hunter, whether using a bow and arrow or a rifle - although he was not known to be the best of shots. He later joined the Peel Police Force - but alas, he was not one to be confined to the rules of the establishment, and his love of adventure and the unknown, soon took him elsewhere. In 1962, Bill followed his younger brother Bob’s lead and tried Sport Parachuting. For Bob, it was a thrill to make a few jumps; but for Bill, it was in the world of sky diving that he was to experience his most interesting accomplishments. It was not enough to jump from airplanes - and later hot air balloons, but he had to take the adventure to a different level by becoming one of the first jumpers to take pictures during freefall, then setting a high altitude record for the time (albeit against the rules and not official), and then to eventually making two ‘chuteless’ jumps (again against the rules). He produced an early documentary on sky diving entitled “Silent Sky” and then got involved in television commercials where he sometimes acted in a featured role, while other times operating behind the scenes with other parachutists making the actual jumps. Bill enjoyed being in the spotlight and later formed “The Descenders”, a group of skydivers who did a number of exhibition jumps at air shows around the country. He also piloted hot air balloons as well. One of Bill’s greatest achievements was to singlehandedly build a full-sized Fokker Dr.1 Triplane from scratch. Unfortunately, a pilot friend he allowed to fly the temperamental aircraft, crashed on takeoff. Bill was his own man, to be sure. He was always looking for the next great adventure that would take him to a new high and give him a sense of achievement. Some did, some didn’t. There were many who did not always agree with his position on some issues - or the adventures he chose, but for some, it was a pleasure to be part of the schemes, plots and ploys he created during his lifetime. Bill will be remembered by some as one of the more radical pioneers of adventure. Some will remember him for reasons of their own. I will remember him as my brother. Blue skies forever, Bill.

Funeral arrangements are as follows; Taylor's funeral home 524 Davis Drive Newmarket ON, December 30, 2015 visitation starting from 11:00-1:00pm followed by his service and then heading to aurora cemetery to his final resting place. All are welcome in attendance.

As Max said, as long as the riser covers peel off before the last two bights, we're good! On a Vector III for instance, the shoulder riser covers are very secure with the long tuck tabs that wrap around the top of the shoulder, especially with the harness cinched down. I'd be worried to wait for the last two bights of semi-stowless bag to find out if the riser covers are coming off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSVRSIicQDk

some riser covers will require close to 5 lbs pull force to peel off, so the line stows should require more than 5 lbs pull force to release them in order to have the right deployment sequence. When using large rubber bands, PD recommends double wrapping all line stows.

...best screenshot I could capture... Congratulations Jim !

Did anyone notice the late US Olympic wrestler David Schultz, played by actor Mark Ruffalo, wearing SIU Skydivers shirt in the movie Foxcatcher ?

You're right Deb, the "RW Notebook for the RW Awards Program, Basic 4-Way" was quite innovative in its day and is still a valuable tool today. It was a grass-root initiative by members of the Sport Parachute Clubs of Ontario (Canada). Let me forward your question on to mARK bLOOR, the typesetter.

Mario is listed on their staff page as co-owner of the club. http://www.voltige2001.net/equipe You could also ask for references on the CSPA forum at http://www.cspa.ca/forum/ You may have to register for the later.

My understanding of it, the price was to the 1000' For example $10 to 7000 ft. But the pilot was not always at 7000 ft when he got over the spot. For billing simplicity, the *500 ft is the limit altitude at a specific price. At *600 ft the price goes up to the next increment. For example, 6600' to 7500' is $10 then 7600' to 8500' is $11 So the jumper would ask for 7500 ft

It looks to me they scored 52 minus the penalty

I use tandems for target practice. Flight characteristics are similar in that, it starts out fast then slows right up. Choose customers that are not buying the video, get everybody's ok. You get to try different fall rates according to the size of customers...

Cool dry place is sufficient. Laboratory testing have demonstrated that keeping batteries in the fridge have no benefit. As an aside... with practically dead Lithium Ion batteries, you can get a little more power out of them by smashing the batteries against a hard surface like a table or the floor, it actually re-energizes the little protons and electrons for little while...

It has to do with the foul mouth fat bastard that run the place, butting heads with aircraft owners whom he refers to as 'retarded'.

Yes, she was very dear to all of us that had the privilege to know her. Born Laila Kallio, daughter of LLoyd, former owner of Parachute School of Toronto, Laila was an accomplished skydiving instructor, rigger, coach and taught all of us to skydive. Laila fought a long tough battle(~15yrs), with some obscure illness and died in hospital. Randall Jenkins, her husband, is planning a tribute in the spring.

Hollister was a fun and friendly place to visit, fellows like Greg, Josh, Dave and Skip dragged me along on my first 4-way and made it memorable, we could see St Andreas fault from the air... http://www.1800funjump.com/exp_jumpers.html

Yes Martine Robert had many hundreds of friends from 3 corners of North America. In our brotherhood, he was an icon.

We're gathering Pops of all Nationalities over Canadian soil for a ~44-way. No pre-registration, no CSPA membership required. There is a brief synopsis page here http://skydiveburnaby.com/main/Experienced/pops.html with contact information....

The Otter is nice, but it'd the people that make this event an exceptionally good place to come and skydive this weekend. Very talented RW crowd! (We're going to make it an international event!)

Excluding kit...hmm..., steep no doubt. Some of my most memorable jumps were 30 coached CRW jumps(some with World class competitors)and as such, worth that much(...briefing, debriefing can be tedious, you have 7 minutes to talk about...) By the time you land you're tired, out of breath and completely thrilled. You'd hope to get a volume discount if you go regularly, perhaps kit included.

We did several 12-18 ways night's, the strobe of choice was L1456 and we mounted it on the front leg strap to facilitate the landing pattern (the clip is just the right width and it didn't affect visibility).

The ruling was likely to deter folks from applying stickers with a little red knob that says "panic button". Imagine, the plane stalls and everyone rushes the panic button.

Welcome to the city Ali, if we had known you were coming we'd have put on a parade, threw a party... Anyhoo, here some suggestions for unfavorable weather days; http://www.ago.net/ http://www.rom.on.ca/ both of whom have undergone architectural transformation in recent months and are worth seeing...

There is a seat mounted on the strut! The fellow's likely been riding there from take off, with his legs and arms wraped around the strut???