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This has already happened due damage caused by jumpers slamming the door down. In the story I was told the tailgate swung past the the stops and when it hit the air it tore open and unhinged at one side but remained connected to the aircraft with fatal results.

I just deleted a post about density altitude, which I think was in error since it's not the same as pressure variations with temperature and altitude AFAIK. But it did leave me wondering what algorithmic compensation is in there for altitude variations with temperature (not exclusively sensor related) and if this was a factor. The issue here is not the correct compensation by temperature but that the device doesn't know that the temperature is in error w.r.t. atmospheric temperature. The sudden introduction of a mode or compensation value after a marginal self test seems like a bad policy and the root cause regardless. Worst case the compensation should have been continuous and would have drifted back to nominal with cooling which is a better outcome than firing if/when some mode suddenly kicks in to produce a different value.

Your response makes no sense. YOU implied he had no right to comment because of your speculation that he was a 3x3 now you're talking about what's going for you, it's not about you. Just because you ride a bike and your victims don't doesn't mean that you're the only one qualified to comment on what you should be allowed to do with your bike. I don't want to hear some jackasses loud pipes thanks, I don't care how safe it makes them feel. A bike used to be my sole transportation but that's totally besides the point when you intentionally set out to be a noise polluter to compensate for the other choices YOU have made. Almost all of us have a basis of knowledge in noise pollution, and are perfectly able to comment on it. Whether or not we give a shit about your safety is a separate issue.

So some secretaries and a junior minister resigned? Am I missing something here? These revolts used to involve cabinet heavyweights. At least I learned from this article that the self-serving backstabbing Robin Cook got booted, I'd missed that being away.

It's not just about whether he lied about Lewinski in the well published questions (although clearly he did, see lawrocket's 1st post), it's also about whether he lied giving a deposition in the Paula Jones suit earlier which was the whole point of the line of questioning. In the deposition he also lied and was disbarred as a result. The questioning was relevant initially because it was a sexual harrassment lawsuit and relevant subsequently because the investigation was probing his sworn deposition. It's very American to boil everything down to a single issue usually the wrong one, this fiasco is no exception.

That's funny. Especially with your previous "expert" advice in this thread. Do you actually ride? Or were you a 3-year 3,000mi rider? Someone who doesn't ride is better then the 3 by 3 rider. Why does he have to be an expert on bikes? If he has ears and even goes near a road he has a stake in your "safety" plan. His other "safety" points were intended to facetiously point out the issues with your solution. As always, your safety on a bike comes from your attitude, being prepared, and making eye contact with drivers at junctions, if you don't register that eye contact you'd better be extra defensive. That might frustrate you when you're all badged up and people aren't respectin' your au-thoritah, but you're the guy who chose the low visibility mode of transport that's less likely to be spotted by motorists.

There wouldn't be anything to notice if you fumble your bag when doing up your stows or when dropping it in the container and it somehow falls through your lines. You just get your line groups going from your risers to a stow where they're all one wad of lines. To know any different you probably have to unbag to the grommets, so even if you have a niggle that there's a slight chance of a step-through, on a hot day I'd bet there are many who would be tempted to take a leap of faith, literally. P.S. you drop your bag or it slips between your knees, and you retrieve it. Your lines look a bit messy so you tension them to see what's going on and straighten them out. After this they look just fine, but when you pulled your bag to tension the lines to the risers you just pulled the stepthrough up near your last stow where you'll never spot it.

Kallend that table of the history of musical pitch is awesome.

Prosecutorial abuse & blackmail? In America? Surely you jest, this could NEVER happen here. I'm sure the good voters will rouse and swiftly correct the problem before more innocent victims are jailed by another amoral career politician on a media rampage. Let nobody say that the good electorate of this fine nation are asleep at the helm of justice.

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Yup, I don't seem to have a problem on my canopy YMMV, I try to make sure my pilot chute is cocked first, then roll with the bridle to the side and always seem to have enough bridle. With your pilot chute cocked it's the kill line length not the bridle that's the issue, but obviously they're directly related, it still seems OK. I have thought I'd forgotten to cock my pilot chute on a pack or two so maybe that's me being careless pulling on the kill line while bagging, but if that's the case it's just a matter of being careful.

I don't think it could be said any better. Well done both of you helping bring some decency to this thread.

Seen it, I'll miss this guy, there's a lot more to Steve than some newsbite the haters focus on.

He has plenty of company then.

You're the guy who has the problem with John, not the other way around, your own conceit leads you to assume it's popular to keep taking cheap shots at him and you expect to get away with it. Try some rational argument instead of gutless personal attacks.

The student probably left thinking that's the way it's always done. "Of course you hand off the camera, how else are you gonna get the whole skydive?" I think he got a great video. You'll be getting requests for this from his referrals.

You didn't have to complete 500 jumps to get a D.

You should be capable of packing from the get go if you're patient. That's the idea of getting signed off on it. To me there are different packing issues which mean it's not as simple as just being good or bad in learning. 1) not screwing up badly and making a mistake. 2) keeping the pack job reasonably neat and under control. 3) packing in a reasonable time. There's overlap and tradeoffs between all three. 1 can be done instantly just learn and absorb what you're told & you should be OK but you will find that you absorb more information over time through osmosis and gear familiarity, you can make most progress on 1 on day 1. 2 is the trickiest for beginners especially with a new canopy. You can take your time to keep it neat, get tips from packers and riggers and psycho pack (roll instead of fold) and it will make a big difference to your progress. I don't think you're guaranteed to get this in 2 days and it affects 1 for example keeping the slider in place and lines in order when folding into the bag, but you might if you're prepared to unfold for a repack if/when things get out of hand. Pshcho packing will give you the fastest route to achiving this. 3 will take you a long time to get right, I'm still working on it, but I used to use packers a lot.

Elmer Fud is white you could get a tatoo of him. Hmmm... on a similar vein how about that Calvin kid, he's white get a tatoo of him, see attached option.

My comment applies more generally than to the US or UK and swords. Why should a sane adult with no record of criminal or anti-social behaviour have to have government approval to own any item at all? IMO the govt. (any govt) should keep its nose out of people's activities to the greatest extent possible. What if you catch someone on the street with two stanley blades (box cutters to Americans) separated by matchsticks for maximum scarring potential. Should someone with no prior record be allowed to walk around with improvised weapons like this? These are sane people with no criminal records, and this falls under the category of "any item". How about a super soaker converted to a flamethrower using some petrol and a lighter, still good to carry? I can just picture the libertarian Utopia Glasgow would become under your guidance.

I maintain it's not irrelevant if both seated parties are restrained with the helmet on one vs a helmet which is not subject to the deceleration over time of the airframe via the chest strap. The relative velocity and subsequent impact force of the helmet would build over time vs the helmet attached to a chest strap. It's a pretty obvious justification for securing your helmet, it absolutely can make a difference. WARNING WARNING: Physics is not something you will enjoy debating with this man. You will lose. I'm well aware of his position thanks. Like any analogy you can look for the similarities or you can pretend there are none. In this case the force applied over a longer period of time before impact does increase the impact velocity. They are not identical scenarios, but my "experiment" was illustrative, IMHO. Opinions clearly differ, I just strongly object to anyone saying that a helmet secured to a chest strap is not that different from one flying loose. It just isn't true, which is where I came in and what I was trying to illustrate. Kallend's objection has some justification but I don't think the lesson is useless.

I maintain it's not irrelevant if both seated parties are restrained with the helmet on one vs a helmet which is not subject to the deceleration over time of the airframe via the chest strap. The relative velocity and subsequent impact force of the helmet would build over time vs the helmet attached to a chest strap. It's a pretty obvious justification for securing your helmet, it absolutely can make a difference.

I'm sure you can figure it out if you try. yep, wrote it off as irony tower BS from the get go. The elite have always looked down on the masses. It's pretty close to a universal truth of human existence. I was just giving you a chance to come up with a better story. Things can't be that bad in the US - despite placing 'last' is all these student tests and having no cultural knowledge at all, the country is still one of if not the most productive in the world. And thanks to the open access, people are capable of earning their success - if cultural trivia gets them there, they can study and make use of it. Others succeed with less education and more hard work. Me - somewhere in between the extremes. His point was simple, there's always been a wide variation of knowledge and ability, and you shouldn't expect greatness to emerge from a poll of the masses. If you don't appreciate the way he said it then it's your loss.

I have doubts that the wind just stopped and that's what killed him. It was a parachute afterall. Most bad outcomes are caused when you start to downplane against the tether. Even rounds can do this if they have ports, and I've seen video of a round being towed then downplane against a rope and breaking the "pilot". IMHO it is less likely that an experienced skydiver would downplane against the tether on a square or a round, (and less likely to attempt this in a "fickle wind") but joe public has no idea what's going on. Anyone doing this without some training and canopy experience is just gambling with their legs, spine & life. A Darwin Award to anyone who just finds a parachute and decides to use it without training for anything other than decoration.

AFAIK in the UK you need BPA membership which gets you insurance and that's the main issue for jumping. I expect your USPA license as an FAI affiliated license it will equate to something in the UK and you'll be able to jump when you have insurance but BPA membership is expensive.