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Tomato, "Tomahtoe" Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Just the messenger. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I base it on the person. It is up to me as an Instructor to figure that out. I ramp it up till I see where I am at your limit. But "touchy feely" some times leads to a funeral. Knowing where you took AFF and how you started here, I would venture you have had a bit of both? But your still jumping, so it worked for you, the bit of both thing. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

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Matt, can you summarize the explanation? I think I am leaning more and more towards this option. Blevins... are you trying to tell us that you are now comfortably numb? The Gentleman said he had two ideas. One was Cooper pulled high enough that he drifted into the lake, and drowned. The second idea (the one he favored) was he pulled lower and drifted into the river, and drowned. While in the river his money bag was opened and that is how the cash was deposited on the river bank. He thinks that happened when a river tug may have run over the body in the night. This would put the Cooper body in the ocean, in no time at all, and in parts to small to be found. He also went and researched the Dredging and found that it stopped 150 feet (or yards?) short of where the money was found. This he said allowed for the money to "wash a shore" and not just be buried by "Cooper" as so many said had to have happened due to the dredging. But he did add that this would only prove true if "We find a body", which he said was not likely. I do not believe "Dan Cooper" to be alive. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

25 Best Reasons We Believe Kenny Christiansen was DB Cooper: http://adventurebooks.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/30/5955262-the-25-best-reasons-we-think-kenny-christiansen-was-skyjacker-db-cooper This still doesn't address the money, specifically how KC got it and how all other potential ways he got it where eliminated. It is purely circumstantial. I would like some one to be right, your just a as good a person as any, but be right because you asked and answered ALL the questions. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Yet, none of that money has ever been linked to the hijacking. Why? is it not from the hijacking? Did he steal it? or maybe he did save it? I bet if where that money came from was looked at it could explain it. If it was looked at show it. The FBI apparently did and found no connection, or they would have mentioned it! The past agent and current Agent in Charge each dismiss KC, why? they find no evidence other than a relative making the claim. Decoded is a neat show, not new, just neat. It is the same info repackaged in a new wrapper. Remember it is a show based on a fiction writer and his interests. A fiction writer who uses "facts" loosely to create a good story. And that works, look what Mr >brown has done with his books! In the end of the show last night the Agent made his belief, based on the actual evidence, known. He believed "Dan Cooper" died during the hijacking attempt. He hoped some one watching the shows today (Decoded and others I am sure) would recognize a missing relative from that time and come forward. But it is great marketing for the Book and TV show. You can never complain about free advertising. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

"The Skyjacker that got away" is on National Geographic Channel today. It was produced in 2009. It discounts both KC and DW as a viable suspect. KC since there is no actual physical evidence just a relative saying he looked like Dan Cooper. DW is just one of over 1000 suspects they discounted. Agent Larry Carr has a profile that neither DW or KC fit. A Scientist, Tom Cabe (?), explains the found money pretty convincingly. He also has a plausible explanation that the man who posed as Dan Cooper died that night. Just thought you all may want to know if you had not seen the show. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I am not a Freeflyer but use a Bev Freefly suit for Tandems and Slow AFF's. The Suit has held up great over the last 3 years (900 ish jumps) I only got a Cordura butt added and the rest of the options are standard. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

It looks like these UPT suggestions were deleted from the current Sigma manual. Apparently they were in Section 5, Chapter 3 in the 2005 manual, however the 2007 manual has no chapter 3. I can find no suggestions in the current manual or on USPA's page. Is it a free-for-all with tandems now if the TI gives a thumbs-up? Chris Read Sec 5, Chap 2. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Wow, you must look shifty when you travel. The rest is not directed and Phreezone Aren't these things for like a 10% random testing thing? and then only 10% of those asked are felt up? TSA is screwed up sure, but lest be factual. Of course, I still see no need for a machine of this type, if not applied safely and for ALL. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I think that portrayal is just a bit of confusion on the OP's title and the web page he linked. I venture it is not on purpose. The Patriot Guard is made up of People, who just want the Families of the fallen to have a funeral with out hearing the hate spewed at them by an Extremist. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

So, it is Safety Day weekend for most of the US. How have DZ's, Instructors, S&TA's, DZM's and DZO's approached those Individuals who they where concerned about last year, already concerned about this year? Did you try further mass education or individual education? Did you try nice friendly chats? Did you try the in your face method? Did you hand them a Incident report and asked them to fill it out and leave the date blank? Did you add them to your "Bounce Board"? (Can some one be added to the Board after surviving a "Bounce", if you feel they did not learn from it and are on the same path again?) What methods did you fellow Managers of Chaos use? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Son, I got at least 2 tattoos and a pair of socks older than you. Quit jumping over a year ago but probably have more freefall time UNDER 3K than you have total. Saturday night I was running the Harley triple digits through the red and yellow cells on a dare. Not living? Come see me when you've been around long enough to have done something other talk. Yeah, yeah, YAWN ~and I got more dead centers on reserve rides...at night...drunk... than you do skydives! That is "Game, Set, Match" right there, particularly if you tell them it was all before those boys made that flight in NC. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Some do, some don't. I still log every jump. I get laughed at some times, oh well. I log them since I have so many different things to keep track of currency wise. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

So it is a number of flaps issue more than a cutter location issue. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

What I find strange is that Mr. Booth is trying to rise the opening altitude for the AAD's but he's doing nothing to place the cutter on TOP of the reserve PC on his rigs. Blue skies What will that do? If it traps the closing loop instead of cuts it, your fucked! No pulling a pin to fix it! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Just curious how close the left hand is to the "danger zone" and if the Hand Cam T-I's have seen an increase in hand grabs. If it is a minimal increase and some thing the experienced T-I can keep an eye on, I think Hand Cam has no to little added risks. Do a handle check after drogue set and use the left hand if executing EP's. (not directed at you Martin) Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Not in freefall? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Bill's reasoning is he gets sued, but not the canopy company till later in the process (maybe), he spends more money than them. He has no control over Production or Design of the components he does not make. But he gets hit with the responsibility for them. Not defending him, but I understand him and I will try and support him till things change in all of Our favor. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Any Hand Cam T-I's ever get that hand snagged by a Student? Is it no more of a concern than normal? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Yeah, it may be over kill. But If they ask for it all and only get the most serious, at least it will be more than just the fatalities. I have over 2000 Tandem Instruction jumps, and about 300 of those are on the front, only one reserve ride. I mentioned it on the phone, but never did fill out a report, it was a tension knot. So I see your point, but I see theirs too. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Could be, but PIA was approached and said "No Thanks", probably cause USPA is in the mix. But I really think that the way "we" behave across this country as "Rebel Skydivers" we would not be jumping with out USPA. If that did happen, then of course Mil only would be the case. Much like the few weeks after 9-11-01 (I know not the best example, but USPA did lobby to get the DZ's operating again.) Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I like boobies and yes. Matt Ha! Sad part, you've hung out with me more than almost everyone that posted to this... Am I really a smart ass?? No more than the rest of us, and we are all smart ass guru's so we should know! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!