BlindBrick

We had a suicide in AR about a decade ago where the jumper placed a note in his main tray then cut all his risers. The really sad thing about it was that he asked the dzo's young daughter to get him the knife. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

There's a lot better photos of launch jumps if you dig around on here. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Even without rings, a Mirage harness is grossly over-engineerred. I've got a Mirage that has sustained 100+ high speed openings (~144 mph to 207 mph w/ average of ~168 mph) while supporting 350+ lbs of exit weight. The harness is fine. The only issue I've ever had with it was the stiching on a riser after a deployment during during high speed horizontal flight in a wingsuit, and there's slider issue with that type of deployment that result in higher opening forces than those seen in belly or freefly. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

\ Jesus did not say he was going to change the old laws (Matthew 5:17-19) but fulfill them. He not only makes changes to the law, he also also assigns a heirachy to it. See Matt 22:37-40 From experience, they are not particuarly well-behaved. The production crew does a lot of serious editing to give that impression. FWIW, I think it's more a case of the number of kids exceeding the parents C3 capability though. Anytime I pulled Mr. Duggar aside to warn him about his kids getting too close to a prop or active taxiway or landing area, he was right on top of it. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Based off an article I read, I get the distinct impression that the Discovery crew filmed his death at his request. I wonder if it will get aired. Lord knows there's been millions of peopleghouls waiting for five years for someone to buy it on camera on the show. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

You can't fly a human into a building. Best you can do is throw them AT a building. Less damage, Meh, freeze them solid, apply a heatshield, nose cone, some fins and a guidance paclage and they'd probaby do some nice damage if used as kinetic kill vehicles dropped from LEO. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Oh, did MLK promote any violence? Please show us where via quotes. Wow, if that's the qualtiy of misdirection used in SC, you guys' rep is way, way overated. Any reasonable person would not misconstrue my argument as you intnetionally have. But to spell it out for you, Im not saying he advocated violence, jus that he obviously didn't have the perfect answer with total nonviolence. But if you'd life a nonviolent figure ehad advocating violence: It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ~Gandhi As I said: Sometimes there are no good answer and you're left with choosing the lesser evil. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

[reply- +But violence is not only the answer, it is the only answer." Wrong. MLK established that it is the wrong answer and achieved change w/o it. Wrong. MLK established that sometimes there's a better answer. There's a major difference there. Unfortunately, it does sometimes boil down to simply choosing what you perceive to be the lesser evil and then hoping to all that you believe in that you made the right choice. In this case though I think it's pretty clear that he made the wrong choice. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Just registered. Between crappy winter weather and instructor duties last fall, I'm not as WS current as I want to be. I'm going to try to get there early in the week to remedy that. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

No one made it back. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Unfortunately, I have very little say in the spot. I'm the only bird at my dz and no one understands, or is willing to listen about how the flight plan should work. Thus, I'm pretty much locked into a mandated flight path that sucks balls. About 2/3rd's the time it's not an issue because the spot's over a clear open area. But during the late fall/winter/early spring season the prevailing winds often put us skirting the edge of some really rough country that's densely forested and full of little narrow finger like hollows. Plus once you get below about 3.5K agl, the wind patterns get real unpredictable due to the hills. You can have great drive and think you'll make the field no problem and all of a sudden you're being blown backward even though you're loaded to almost 1.4 We've got a staff meeting next weekend for curriculum alignment and safety. Hopefully I can get them to see that since they trust me to teach and throw students, they can trust me to pick my own flightpath. back on topic: PLB's seem to be overkill, or as my wife said, getting life insurance on me would be cheaper. As I said in the OP, the terrain is full of cell phone dead zones. Maybe a mirror and light? Not too sure about flares because in the time of year when there's a decent chance of landing in the rough, it's a dry tinderbox. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Last Friday I had the unpleasant experience of a bad off field landing into an isolated densely wooded area with no cell phone coverage. I was laying on the ground hoping feeling would return to my legs as I watched the sun set while our jumpships flew unsuccessful SAR patterns over me and it occurred to me that it might be nice to have a rescue beacon in such situations. Can anyone recommend a decent model? -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Bet ya wouldn't say that at night, bobbing like a cork in the north atlantic, in February. Oh course he would, it'd just be more along the lines of "Get your gay ass down here and fish me out!" -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I used one extensively several years ago. There are two key things to remember. First, most foods should be marinated before cooking because the weight of the upper plate does squeeze out juices from whatever you are cooking. Second, that top plate has a heat element so your food cooks much faster than you'd expect. -blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

business one, but I've ehard that the format is the same for any research-oriented ph d program. I've found a few online, but none of them really showed how they tied a candidates research interests into the university's. "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Trying to write my personal statement for this roudn of apps to ph. d. programs and was wondering if anyone had a copy of one they mgiht let em look at? -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

For future reference, the PA R-Max and Jump Shack Angle Fire both offer sizes with a max weight of over 300 lbs. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I ended up goign with "Not Again!" and "Double or Nothing!" -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I've seen the AFF students who rode a plane back down because they were too scared to go out the door at 3500 and I've seen students struggle through S/L that would have almost certainly done better on AFF. I've also had the opportunity to experience three different instructional courses, one before the ISP and Coach programs were in use in this region, one during the years when the transition was occurring and one this past summer on the new format. I've also had the opportunity to look at them critically as I've finished up my Master's in leadership and prepared to move into a phd program in leadership and education. Based off all that, I think that Nick is both right and wrong. What Nick attributes to AFF is far less about the instructional method and far more about the instructors. Times have changed and perhaps even more important the generations have changed. While I understand Nick's fustration I also understand that the genie can't be put back in the bottle. So rather than debating why a method has been a success or failure, why are we not asking ourselves, "how have the times and people changed, and how do we as instructors tailor our materials and presentation to remain relevant?" -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I'm averaging about 40 seconds right now. Not a lot of time when you tend to get out of the plane around 9 grand and start shutting it down at 4.5 -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Would an instructor be more likely to do it with an experienced jumper? I've been wingsuiting for so long that I've gotten rusty on RW, and since we're taking my wife to get some time, I thought I might try to get some refesher training since RW is coming back into vogue at my dz. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Well if you bounce really, really well, it could be due to actual physical destruction fo the brain. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Thanks for the tip man! Wish I had known that about three chops ago. . -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I've once had to drive the dz doctor out to the landing area to treat a jumper who had a freeflyer accidently open up her legstrap b12 during a sitfly. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

you are making a classic mistake. Stunt work does not equal sport skydiving. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."