d_goldsmith
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I've been wondering about this too. I've also considerred a strip of masking tape over each side of each figure eight, but a friend mentioned that the tape could stick to other tape and cause line dump.
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With line dump you have slack lines everywhere. If a loop forms and raps another loop before they get tension, you could get a tension knot.
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Is this webpage just a test to see if the press will print any of that bullshit? Edit to add: Is it a joke?
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I think Tom A could give some great advise to people that are teaching. He'd probably have to know you though.
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MS Paint
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daughter
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The list talks about a guy that paraglided off of mount everest (seems like a lack of respect to not say his name, but I can't remember the link to the list). That's probably the highest a paraglider has ever been. John Kittinger is probably the highest a parachute has ever been deployed by a person.
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Like Jason said, the 5 cells were pretty damn close to square. I know a 77 year old guy that flies a DC5 and is one of the top accuracy jumpers at the DZ. I'll ask him about heading.
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Happy birthday
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AFter watching the video I'm assuming when you said "read" you meant "real".
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It's going to be really hard for some people to see the sarcasm in that.
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Yah I read it all. It's not very clear as to whether the pilot had planned to allow it. And for all I know if two people say the pilot was going to allow it, the FAA could take his license. I've seen crazier rules. I love skydiving and don't want skydivers to have a bad impression of BASE jumpers, but it seems like the majority of skydivers are the lemmings as far as how they feel about BASE. I suggest you find some BASE jumpers and learn some shit and then have your own opinion.
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I've seen a lot of the people on your side of this twisting things to make your point and that's lame. Keep it real don't try to use loop holes and shit. The person he happened to talk to, Dixie, was an employee of the FAA, and he knew that. He not only put the jumper and pilot in a bad position, but might have put Dixie in a bad position also if she would have rather looked the other way.
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Sounds like a good idea.
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If it wasn't a "BASE" rig, would you have had a problem with it?. It's a harness and a canopy. Is there actually an FAA law against "BASE Gear", or is it something about not having a second canopy? Would you have still talked to the FAA about it if he had a belly mount reserve on? I know a balloon is technically an aircraft, but come on.
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I think that's a great idea. We would have to make sure it wasn't an ubstuction for people that wanted to walk over the bridge obviously, but that wouldn't be hard.
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"A town board would be well within their rights to seek compensation for a quantifiable loss. It is entirely a separate debate, whether or not the town should reclaim such compensation from charity events." Keep in mind the town hasn't said anything yet, and might not say anything at all. And sending letters to the paper might spark another article. I like Nick's idea, but I doubt we could keep something like that rolling without funding.
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I would tend to agree with you, and NickDG put it pretty well "On the other hand we might be getting all knotted up for nothing. Consider the sorry plight of the small town editorial writer who has a blank page staring him in the face every morning. He has to write about something. So it was only a matter of time before he got around to us. I’ll go further and say the editorial writer is also using us. He’s using us to earn his paycheck." But Tom said the newspaper caries a fair bit of weight. Maybe he just likes reading the paper. Maybe the person that wrote it is trying to run for office in TF. Seems like a political move.
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When my buddy broke his hip in TF he told me to get rid of the heli, but they insisted on checking him out and said it would be free to look at him. We asked how much it cost to ride and I think it was 10k to magic and 20k to Boise.
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It sucks, but the more legal sites we get, the more likely we are to be regulated and the harder and higher profile other objects will probably become.
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I talked to Dan Schilling about this the week before the event and it did require permits. If I remember right he had to get a permit from Twin Falls county, and from the department of transportation (who ever owns the bridge, I think it was the DOT).
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Do you still have his email address in your eBay account?
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Does anyone know how to contact Andy Calistrat? If you can share his info PM me, if not hopefully you can pass my info to him. edited to add a ? at the end of the Subject.
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I wonder how the air gap compares between top skin and bottom skin on those. Depth I guess.
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Money collection for wireless meteo station at ITW
d_goldsmith replied to base689's topic in Archive
From how I took what he said, it seems that the meteo will be accessed from the bar acrost the street.
