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not sure where this would go, but i figured i would start here. i just found out that the cabell county commission is trying to take away my dz. this is from the facebook post i just read: ***CALLING ALL FRIENDS & SUPPORTERS OF THE ROBERT NEWLON AIRPARK *** The Cabell County Commission has been viciously & secretly working over the past few months to terminate the lease & the existence of the Robert Newlon Airpark, The West Virginia Skydivers Association, the Fly In Cafe', the Campground, and everything that takes place at the Airport. Carl Bailey has had Attorneys working hard, but the County Commission has just scheduled an Emergency Agenda at the Cabell County Commission Meeting on Tuesday November 24th at 10:00 am (Thanksgiving/Deer Season Week & Covid Shutdowns) in an attempt to disband the Cabell County Airport Authority Board, and move toward termination of the Robert Newlon Airport. PLEASE contact your Cabell County Commissioners & Politicians and tell them that you are against this, and support all of our efforts there. PLEASE attend the County Commission Meeting and show your objection to 1 or 2 people's personal agenda or opinion of something very postive and beneficial to our County, should not be taken away in this manner. Behind the scenes they have hired an expensive contract-breaking Law Firm, and are spending A LOT of YOUR TAX DOLLARS trying to accomplish this crooked agenda !!!! if you could sign the petition, not sure that it would do any good because wv politics sucks balls, but it couldn't hurt. anyone know how to get a hold of the uspa so they may be able to help? i hate this shit. 2020 can suck my arse!

i believe that if i were wondering that i would contact the manufacturer just to be sure. that doesn't sound right, but i have zero experience with them.

yeah, but every five jumps is another jump, so...

now, i missed most of this discussion, but don't the changes to the license requirements also add the canopy course work to get your b? granted, it's not major, but it's something. i also don't see what the issue is with the faa making sure everyone is inspecting the aircraft properly or otherwise enforcing the rules to make us safer. and it is a very good point that a jump ticket is practically identical (close enough) and that covers the ones doing the actual maintenance as well as those not doing it, so the "added cost" argument holds no water. if i pay $30 a jump instead of $25 so be it as long as i am safer for it. i hear folks all the time ask me why i don't use an aad and how much is my life worth. well, $5 is damned sure not the limit.

i found another page with italics on every post after one halfway down. https://www.dropzone.com/forums/topic/264707-uspa's-role-in-enforcing-aircraft-maintenance-issues-(was---incidents-thread)/

you haven't seen how companies operate very often, have you? i doubt anyone will pass on any (probably minuscule anyway) savings to the customer when the other option is more profit.

you'd be better off using an barometer along with the gps. i made one once using a gps module and a barometer, a small display screen, and a raspberry pi zero, but couldn't get them both to read at the same time. the forums i was looking at when i put it together suggested using gps also to check the accuracy. getting the raw gps data works fine, and it works with just the barometer, but not both together yet. i had to stop when shit went bad a few months ago. when i get some time, i will post some links that i used to help you with yours. i used the same battery you have and it seemed to do fine. when i get it working this winter, i plan on testing it in the air as a wrist mounted altimeter. as a chest mount it would be great. i was going for a sub $75 altimeter/gps/logbook. if that works out, i was going to add bluetooth and mate it with the pi i am putting in a helmet over the winter, but that may take a backseat also, a little ambitious anyway.

he said the magic words, "flash player". deprecated in all the places you mentioned.

am i missing something, having a computer problem, or did you just upload the audio of a jump? never heard of that before.

'97 static line from a 182. i agree with this 100%. no way in hell would i ever allow myself to be that out of control to be strapped on someone. has nothing to do with anything rational, just is what it is. it's a control thing, not a safety thing.

i would like to add a line also, i wonder how well that will be taken? i would like them to say, "feet and knees together for a good plf, ready, set, flare". that will keep the students from sliding in and breaking tailbones.

some things folks will tell you can't be done can. like the piper cub, most say it can't be jumped out of, but it can, by a small enough jumper. it did happen though and it made me want to try it, but no matter how i tried, i could not get out the door very easily on the ground so we scrapped the idea. we had a rigger on a water jump that got stuck in a tree one time (hard to do at a lake). instead of waiting, he tried to climb down himself from about 20 feet and ended up with a broken back and a medical discharge. granted that was a military jump and not civilian, but same thing applies. and as far as not being able to get out of the plane, things get real serious real quick when you have no other choice. i could see myself exiting most planes if the only other choice was ride it to the ground. post a link to the scene when you get done please, i love reading good stories. good luck on it.

camper trailer and a camping spot. probably a little harder in the winter that far north though. best part about that is you can still drive around without having to pack up every time you want to leave.

you are way over thinking this plf thing. there is no classic plf, or any other type than the one. the legs are underneath you always, never in front or behind. the only thing you need to really do is keep your feet and knees together, bend at every joint that can bend, and roll it out. that is the plf in a nutshell. it takes way more practice to do it and keep your feet and knees together. they had to tie my boots together and i hopped around all day long at jump school. it worked though. students should spend at least an hour on it all by itself, and they should also do at least five before every jump. on the radio, the person talking the jumper down should say, "prepare to land, hands up, feet and knees together to prepare for a plf, flare" right before landing, but like wendy, i am also not an instructor nor in charge of anything.

there are four directions in a plf, front, both sides, and back. whether you go forward or backward depends on the direction of travel, mostly forward with square canopies. it took me a week to learn how to plf, but i was with about 500 other folks and we had nothing but time. i could teach you how to do it in an hour, maybe a little more, but you would never get the same thing from it that i got. if you set up a zip line and a platform, you can simulate a plf accurately and would see how it does work with forward motion. i don't know how many movies you've watched, but round parachutes rarely fall straight down. mostly they move, forwards if you're lucky, but they move and pretty fast sometimes. when you are going in for a landing, you flare, then if you can't just set your feet down (they should already be together), you simply face to the right or left slightly and roll it out. that is a proper plf. if you're going fast, you may roll twice. you may have a step through. but you'll be fine, with no broken bones.

did you read the article i wrote on the plf? it is very much still appropriate, and i have used it many times to prevent injuries in other areas besides parachute landings. i would think that if anything, we don't teach it well enough. it takes a week of landings during jump school while we make the new jumper do it what, five times max, and from a bench at that. jump school teaches it on the platform, then the zip line, then the sling load trainer (the really fun one). if anything, i would increase the time spent on plfs to at least an hour, and have the student jumpers do five before every jump, not modify it at all. regardless of the amount of forward speed(up to about 25 mph anyway), it is safer to absorb the impact with every joint that will bend and roll as much as necessary to bleed off the speed. i had to take a downwind landing to avoid powerlines and had about 20 mph forward speed into a plowed field that was dry as a bone once, rolled twice and ended up with a few scrapes. even when done wrong, they can help avoid injury as long as you keep your feet and knees together and bend everything and roll it out. you can't say that for sliding in, or any other landing type that i know of. improving our methodology is always a good thing, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it. change for change's sake is never a good thing. when you come up with a better landing technique that works well when done wrong, test it well and see what happens, also, let me know so i can try it out myself. i am always up for improving things, but some things just can't be improved on. that doesn't mean we should stop trying.

i started with my brother in law on a static line jump and haven't stopped for long. he never went back. as to the 2d question, i have to ask, why would you want to? i like getting away from everyone and hanging with my sky family.

just curious, why don't you wear a mask to the dz if you wear one everywhere else? the only place i go is to the dz, since my s.o. does the shopping and pays the bills, and i wear a mask every single time i go someplace, except the dz. i try to stay away from folks, not the 6' recommended, except in the 182. i justify it by thinking that the mask is for others and not yourself, so if they aren't wearing one to protect me, why should i wear one for them? just wondering what your reasoning was, not judging, that's someone else's job, not mine.

that is not a requirement of the d license, here is the link to the sim, look on section 3-1 E 4 of the online version to verify. you can also download the sim at that link. it is a requirement for keeping an instructor rating if i recall from my coach course.

as did i. me thinks a book is in order. that was entertaining as hell.

it looks sketchy and dangerous as hell. i love it. can't wait to hear about the results.

and just couldn't help myself from chiming in...

he just did and got the desired result...

i watched the video, linked in a comment above, then i bought one. a little big, but damn, that thing cut through the bridle like butter.

hell, my rig is within a month of one of the ones op has and i jump it regularly, in fact, i enjoy the hell out of it. it's a great first rig and i have about $900 total in it.