matthewcline

I know several disable skydivers who will fly rings around you all day. Dana Bowman, Max Ramsey, any member of Pieces of 8 for starters. He was saying the Y-strap is not needed if adjusted proper for those that fit skydiving, exception, those who are disabled who may need the Y-strap since they might lack a limb. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

So what about small high-wage employers? They did all they could prior to the dates laws became mandatory. We lost all our coverage over a phased in program. The one and only reason, from their legal and accounting team, the ACA. The lays offs, are a result of the lack of leadership in D.C. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I am not aware of any science, or data, that states finger prints "change" with out the exception of damage from scarring by wounds. So as long as they had one set of prints from Duane, they had accurate prints, from Duane. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Same DZ a few years later. At 14K in the CASA, I'm spotting from the ramp, lights are green we are so short we aren't even going to make the same county. I stand up and yell "Keep going we are way short!" I am with a 12 way, the 8 way behind us steps up and jams counts and goes. The 12 way look sat me, I sit down and wait. Finally the DZ is under us, we still need a bit, but the 12 way will take a moment, so we stand, jam and go. The 8 way never jumped the rest f the day. The last guy in made the beer light, we exited on load 3 of a 24 CASA load day. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

If it's a friend in the door, I'm usually the asshole yelling GO GO GO GREEN LIGHT GO GO GO! Many years ago when in Florida at a winter training camp, we happened to be doing 10 man stack outs at 5K. Lights come on, me and another open the door of the Otter (Franken-otter no less) and start spotting for the Team. Light changes to green, yelling from the RW, Vidiots, VRW, AFF's and T-I's ensues. I turn and ask "What?" they yell the light is green, i respond "Sorry, Color blind" as I point at my eyes and turn bacl to spotting, we are way short! The closest RW dude taps my partner in the door and yells "Green Light" (the RW dude is wearing a full face) My spotting partner signs back "I'm Deaf" (he wasn't but was a signer). RW due looks at me and yells, "what was that?" I say, "He said he is deaf" Now we are in the right spot for the 10 of us to do our thing, I wave my hand out the door in front if my spotting partners face he looks at me and I make like I am reaching up to pull the chain on a ceiling light and then point at the lights. He smiles, Nods and then waves his hand at us all and using his fingers counts to three and leaves, a perfect four count exit count. We all follow. For two days after, if we had the door, when the lights came on, the whole plane would "turn on the ceiling light". Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Win one for the flipper! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Post them here for those of us who didn't get to hear this on Fox, because we watched ABC and heard the same thing. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Hey now! I might only have part of a few Telly's but I think I mentioned some thing like this, but explained it a lot less technical and as a "maybe". Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I agree it seems SA Carr did a pretty bang up job. So now where do we look? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Watched it live on ABC heard the same thing. But also saw VP Biden smacked his boom mike several times as well as adjust his lav and tie. So I kind of dismissed it to the VP. Ryan just drank lots if water. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Why this comment? A general question not Directed at you, I should have put some redirecting language in it. Since Jonathon is/was also DD and thought to have other user accounts as well. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Note: Robin Hood stole from the rich. The rich made their money through taxes. The poor were poor because the government taxed them into it. Thus, I am actually in agreement with you. Let's get the money from the government and give it back to those from whom it was taken. Let's leave some for the government to provide necessary services, i.e., making sure roads and defense and interstate disputes are managed, and give the rest back Sorry but Robinhood did not steal from the rich, he stole from the government (the king) and gave to the people. Well, the Gov was rich because they stole and then used the stolen goods for themselves, but I get your point, so does Jerry I bet. So the Robin Hood tax to be HONEST would be to give back to the people from which they stole from, while still providing the essentials, as Jerry mentioned. So we can have multiple users names and accounts now? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

You say that like they would respect us. riiiiiiight. i work with a large bunch every week, four or five new officers on duty each day, we seem to have no issues, and they seem to have no issues with the public. But a few fuck ups always make more headlines than the majority of decent hard workers. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Maybe going to the already used fake identity was to get more cash for his medical needs? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

She really has no clue. "Hero"? Really? The dude is a ZERO. He got lucky after being lazy and unprofessional, and it was the normal mode of operation there. I do not understand people who still defend the DZ, DZO, or T-I. Nor do I understand any who work there. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

She actually backed off that in later interviews. The whole incident was a fatality narrowly avoided by PURE LUCK! The Former T-I getting fined is a good START to fixing the issues seen in this video. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

No it's not it's called (PPPPPP) prior planning to prevent piss poor performance. And if you do that, no need for a knee jerk reaction that lead to the Y strap. Ski's point was not lost on me, I support him. Your assumption about him, yeah you missed. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Uh, lemme think...NO! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Does that mean he is no longer in the position? or has been in the position SINCE 1998? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I didn't comment on Jimmy's comment because I was commenting on your comment. He is right though, they are students. Shouldn't be counted for against the numbers. IMO, you're the one with a bias issue. I now know, IYO, I have not had a career, i need to get crackin'! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Once again you put your anti-education bias out there for all to see. Why do you so resent those people who choose to spend time and money investing in marketable skills that could potentially result in a real career? Don So the other careers aren't "real"? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Start as soon as we can, no matter the discipline, and we can get every one, informed, educated, taught, standardize, etc. Over all effect, a safer discipline, with less outside looks at it. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

And maybe given some "teeth" after the update, to help in getting tail strikes reduced and maybe, just maybe appease the Insurance Co's, and avoid the FAA's questions over flying out of the Notam'd Radius. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

You said his points 1 to 3 are " not true" I didn't think they happened to be absolute, and thought you made a good argument for a #4. I am also of a mind that many more points could be added. If there is a standardized set of "how too's", wouldn't it make the tragedy you wrote about less likely to happen? You mention you do things a particular way, how many other have this "standardization"? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I had decided to stop talking in threads about this subject because it had rapidly become as pointless as a Speaker's Corner thread, however I've finally found a comment worthy of the attached image. Not true. Demonstrably not true. One simple case in point - the one and only wingsuit tailstrike fatality in the US (Steve Harrington, 2009, Elsinore). Steve was a highly experienced wingsuiter (in excess of a thousand wingsuit jumps) who co-founded a school that taught first flight courses. I learned how to wingsuit from him and another instructor at that school. Steve consistently warned me and many other students about the threat of the tail - in fact he specifically talked to me about the increased risk of tail strikes a year before his death when I started doing a lot of wingsuit videography work (i.e., from a camera step). He clearly knew proper exit procedure in a wing suit, he was capable of doing it, and knew the importance of doing it every time. So how did it happen? Complacency. Combine that with a reportedly fast exit speed and a distance run that probably had him slightly nervous and wanting to get max flight fast to get back to the DZ. Complacency is the biggest killer in skydiving. Would a USPA rating have prevented Steve's death? I can't see how. He KNEW the issue; he was CAPABLE of closing his wings (unless you're trying to twist the word "CAPABLE" to mean "DID", which is a semantic game that obviously falls apart fast). He knew it had to be done EVERY TIME. He was complacent, though. Would an active and constant series of reminders to avoid the tail have helped? Maybe. If somehow they prevented his complacency. [Personally, I'm still on the fence about the proposal. There are arguments in favor and arguments against. I will sleep happily at night either way. If Dante is right, at least I'll have the best place to make smores. But as I've consistently said, if we decide to do (or not do) something, let's take that action based on evidence and reason, not hysteria and reactionary behavior.] IMO 1,2,3 are correct, you just added a #4. Maybe if there was a standard for that type of wingsuit jump, he would have been successful and still here with us today? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!