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    Increasable ass? Does that mean its doomed to increase in size??? __ My mighty steed
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    Mark, This is exactly the information I was looking for.
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    Apology accepted. Language barrier can sometimes cause misunderstanding. However, in reading the website, its not really that clear. Is the statement regarding the double pin cutter the same issue that I'm asking about? I say its not clear because there is no mention of the specific problem that the new cutter is supposed to address. __ My mighty steed
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    So you are saying that these failures did not happen? My "very reputable source" gave me the information he had. He did not claim that he had ALL the information that is available on the subject. Thats why I asked others for more information. This does not make my source any less reputable or indicate that what he did say was untrue. I have a Vigil in my rig, so I think its pretty clear why I'd like to have all the facts on the matter. I am an AAD customer with a very valid question. Your sarcastic reply would seem to validate some of the current feelings about how AAD deals with these types of issues. __ My mighty steed
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    I know all that. My point was that using altitude as a point to judge this "contest" when you both agree on the pull altitude makes no sense. __ My mighty steed
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    Today I had a very reputable source comment to me that he had knowledge of recent events in which a 2 vigils were tested and failed to function. In other words in both cases it did not activate, and the test gear bounced. It was stated that after the first case AAD told them they must not have turned the unit on, and after the second failure were told that AAD placed responsibility on the company that manufactured the cutters. Has anyone else heard this? __ My mighty steed
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    If you both pull at the same alt, how is one of you going to be higher than the other?
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    Yes. Its even weirder that you would even want to do this. __ My mighty steed
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    That makes two of us __ My mighty steed
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    skyhook

    ChrisL replied to longtall's topic in Gear and Rigging

    Any feature that adds to your margin of safety is good. If some individuals change their EP's and decision altitudes because they believe that feature gave them more leeway to do so, then its their reliance on that feature and their mistaken belief thats harmful. Not the feature itself. If they have a skyhook, and keep everything else (EP's & decision alt) the same, they have effectively increased their level of safety. I dont think the skyhook is "making jumpers" do anything. The jumpers are doing it themselves through wrong thinking. __ My mighty steed
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    what did he win? free tact lessons? mr brave anonymous award? 1st prize for petulance? maybe a bag of 'wahhhhh'?
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    In that case you were about 2 hour and 7 minutes late
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    Apparently you believe that anyone making a straight in approach under a larger canopy is a fuck bag. You're cool
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    C'mon bill there is no truth to that comment. You are saying every 270 degree apporoach in history where there was somebody else in the area put that particular 2nd person in danger every time! No, he didn't say that at all. He said that doing a 270 never made anyone safer. "Never safer" does not equal "always more dangerous" __ My mighty steed
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    Chris, closer examination of the facts shows 5 out of 12 were relating to high performance canopy flight. 5 of the 12 were not related to high performance canopy flight and 2 of the 12 there are not enough details to put them into either category. They probally go into the non-HP group but there is not enough facts to back that up so they remain as outliers. Thats 41% HP related, 41 % not HP related and 16% unknown. Fair enough. I stand corrected. Just the one line wasn't enough info to base my response on. I jumped the gun . __ My mighty steed
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    Its not ignorance. Its fear. I love to jump. The thought that someone could swoop in from above me and kill me even though I was following the pattern and doing everything right scares the crap out of me. Do you think that because we already accept certain risks that go hand in hand with jumping out of a plane, that other people should be allowed to increase that risk for us? I'm not for banning swooping, BTW. I just think it should not be allowed in the regular pattern. I dont smoke around non-smokers, and I dont drink and drive. Why? because these activities come with risks which should not be shared with others without their consent. Same thing __ My mighty steed
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    How many people would you say swoop? Maybe 20% of skydivers? (I don't know, just guessing, at my DZ it's about 10%). So 20% of skydivers making up 58% of canopy collisions? I was merely using the other side of his statistic regarding the fataities: "1) 5 of the 12 (41.67%) were NON SWOOPERS." If this is true, then 7 of 12 WERE swoopers. Do you see it differently? __ My mighty steed
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    Could you not also read this line as: 7 out of 12 WERE (58.33) swoopers? Incidentally, how many cases of a swooper taking out an univolved jumper would be OK with you? I guess you think 3 is acceptible? __ My mighty steed
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    I believe the point is that some swoopers are rolling the dice, not just for themselves, but for uninvolved jumpers as well, and in some cases killing them along with themselves when the dice come up wrong. __ My mighty steed
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    Cute as a Knut!

    ChrisL replied to sioux's topic in The Bonfire

    I wonder if they believe a human infant should be killed if its mother rejects it. Thats a fucking retarded position __ My mighty steed
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    15 sq ft? __ My mighty steed
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    My Life.

    ChrisL replied to Mark24688m's topic in The Bonfire

    Yep. All small towns in the mountains. Thats why I stipulated that this attitude may be limited to the area I was living. I don't presume to speak for the entire province and certainly not the whole country. __ My mighty steed
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    My Life.

    ChrisL replied to Mark24688m's topic in The Bonfire

    I lived in Trail/Rossland/Castlegar, BC for 3 years. Thats not all that far from Whistler either. I dont know where the school you mentioned is located though. LOVE the area, but if you like excitement after 5:00 PM forget it. Plus, and quite surprisingly, I felt a LOT of anti-american vibes there and that was 8 years ago. Its even worse now. The economy stinks, there isn't a lot of work, and as an American I was always the first guy laid off even if I had seniority and even when the newer guy was a shitty worker. Honestly? Its a beautiful place to visit, but I would never live there again. Never. Other parts of BC (and Canada as a whole) might be different, but I was not welcome where I was living and it was based solely on the fact that I was a US citizen. You CAN get good Cuban cigars there, though
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    Myspace...

    ChrisL replied to mamajumps's topic in The Bonfire

    Dont bother. 99% of them are not worth knowing. Close your myspace account, and dont look back.
  25. ChrisL
    Haldol doesnt have a shuffle. For a top notch shuffle, try Thorazine __ My mighty steed