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Gotcha covered from 3 different directions then. :-)

That goes both ways. It's the wilful lack of desire to invest enough in a dialog to either understand if something was intended to be offensive, or to understand if a choice of words is likely to be offensive. The thing is, in Huck Finn, it's both and neither. Part of the power of Huck Finn comes from the nonchalance the word is tossed around by the characters. It's not meant to be offensive, but rather a reflection of what some people at the time, including the young Huck Finn, considered to be "normal." To our modern ears it's offensive and should be. Even in Twain's time, as it is used by his characters, would have been offensive in its casual use and intentionally so by the author. It's only much, much later in the book when Huck finally figures out Jim is a man just like him that he comes to the conclusion he does and we forgive him for all the previous indiscretions. They're butchering the book's meaning. To us, it's a big deal because we understand the meaning. The meaning will not only be lost on future generations, but they'll also never know of the controversies that caused this sort of PC stupidity in the first place. I'm trying to imagine my most favorite book in the world, "To Kill A Mockingbird" minus the "n-word." Without it, the book has no value. Remove Christ from the Bible. It would be no less outrageous.

Absolutely. Fine for freefall photography.

In Pro, you can add the velocity envelope. In Platinum you'll have to render, yes.

Depending on Craig's size, he'll be able to try both Shadow and P2.

Select all clips you want to timeshift. Hit the "G" key to "GROUP." Now hold the CTRL key and click on the right edge of the last clip. You'll see the cursor change to a squiggly line. Still holding CTRL, drag the clip edge to the right. All clips will now timeshift. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18f4o3f1wUo&feature=fvsr is a tutorial for this.

would toluene damage the finish on the helmet?

Alcohol

There is no way to solidly mount the GoPro as a side mount, unless someone has come up with something. It's a relatively wide body. Riser strikes do happen, and often at low experience levels. There is a reason you see the majority of side mount systems having some sort of protection for the camera. There are some people that have tied their camera to their helmet using spectra or other sort of "tether" so that if it does get knocked off, it doesn't go flying away. It's a very risky thing to do, and could easily make a less than ideal situation turn into a much worse scenario.

I'm still trying to understand why newbie (mostly GoPro/Contour) camera flyers can't grasp two major issues; ~A cutaway is necessary (IMO) on any helmet that has a high potential for snags (ie; cameras) ~Tethering/tying the camera to the helmet is incredibly foolish and a sure sign of inexperience, ignorance, and lack of forethought. To the OP, as every post has indicated, you need a cutaway. Contact Linda or Chris at BH and get one ordered, or search this forum for ideas on how to make your own.

AMD is doing the same thing....FWIW. Get used to it, DRM is here to stay, with more and more hardware/software options being opened up. Go to iTunes or Amazon.com and you'll note that all of a sudden, songs are meta-tagged now too. "Record Company Required Metadata The record company that supplies this song or album requires all companies that sell its downloadable music to include identifiers with the downloads. Embedded in the metadata of each purchased MP3 from this record company are a random number Amazon assigns to your order, the Amazon store name, the purchase date and time, codes that identify the album and song (the UPC and ISRC), Amazon's digital signature, and an identifier that can be used to determine whether the audio has been modified. In addition, Amazon inserts the first part of the email address associated with your Amazon.com account, so that you know these files are unique to you. Songs that include these identifiers are marked on their product detail page on Amazon.com. These identifiers do not affect the playback experience in any way." Someone has to be "first." Intel chose to be that.

The threat of being black-balled in a very small country whose economy is based in great part on tourism probably plays a role in the incident statistics. Incidents happen in NZ, but you don't hear about them.

Maybe they could start in San Diego? talk to the S & TA there... San Diego has someone flying camera at 100 jumps?

A few FFC's from last month. New birdhouse has suits to fit anyone. Short, fat, tall, wide...we gots a suit for ya. Welcome to the flock, Alex! C'mon out to Elsinore; we've got a great flock, fun coaching program, lotsa demo suits too.

You probably misunderstand what the commercial skydiving diploma course I attended has to offer. At 50 jumps we were practcing filming each other (without cameras) by pairing up. One flys around the other, while the other simply sits in place (at first) then the jumps become more dynamic. At 100 jumps we put a camera on while under dircect supervision of an instructor, we paractice and practice and have assignments in video and stills, and by 200 jumps we were ready to jump with a tandem and shortly after we begin filming them at a commercial dropzone. We were specifically trained from scratch to do that. Only one person that was on my course of 16 people had a skydiving license before starting the course. We very much pick something (camera jumping) and focus on it, we train and get coaching and train and do assignments and train and jump more than 5 times every day, 7 days a week weather permitting. Doing your first 170 jumps in 5 months is very current, and quite different to what most people experience. The course is a government sponsored and accredited tertiary commercial sydiving diploma that specifically trains camera flyers from scratch. The focus is on training for camera from before your very first jump. Students do written assignements on safety, risk and crisis management, airspace, professionalism among other subjects. There is constant coaching on offer and the focus is on camera, not freefly or wingsuiting or crw or formation skydiving, camera is the focus from a very early level. ..... I seriously doubt you have seen anyone go through a similar progression as there is not another training organisation in the world that offers such a course (as far as I am aware). To be very clear about the NZ program; while I agree it's a great thing... Our DZ is a host to the NZ interns. We always have at least one, and occasionally more. Despite whatever diploma is issued following completion of the course, the ones that I've seen here, in Byron Bay, and other DZs overseas...these guys are FAR from ready to fly camera once they're graduated. I've had several in my Coach Course, and have done many eval jumps with them. All of them have received the "B certificate" issued by the school. I've also helped a number of them get their camera gear set up, something that would have happened at the school were camera the focus you imply. It's a terrific program, but it isn't what you suggest it is, either. At least not from what I've experienced in multiple locations.

It's not a lack of canopy skills (although you could use some focus there). It's more that you're not going to be skydiving every day, and I suspect you'll be traveling to a lot of DZ's with different density altitudes. As you go to higher altitudes, you'll want the larger canopy. You're already near sea level, so you won't need to worry about coming back to Elsinore or being @ other DZ's that are near sea level. If your rig will hold a 170, it'll likely hold at least a few of the 150's out there. But again...I think you're premature to go there, especially with your currency and skill levels _at this time_.

We'll be jumping with Dan in mind today. His death triggered a cascade of events and in part because of him, wingsuiting has changed forever (for the good). Blue skies, Dan.

put it this way... I put on the new phantom as soon as it arrived. A friend with whom I often fly put on the older Phantom2. He was kinda pissed because he couldn't keep up with me (and that's usually not a problem for him in his own Phantom 2) 2:47 my first jump on it. Same thing happened today with a kid that is 6" taller than I am, same weight. I'm usually punching it to stay with him in his P2. Today he was chasing me pretty hard. The new Phantom flies quite a bit faster than the last generation, and overall it's a bit smoother to fly (seems to be, only 10 jumps on it so far) The new booties, grippers, tail, legs, cutaway system, sleeve, slight armwing diff, shoulder pitch, zippers...all these little things add up to greater performance. The end of this video shows the two P2's in flight. I'm backflying the new one. Matt is above me in the "old" one.

Search is your friend.

Is that a new and improved Phantom? Indeed. I was a little surprised on the first jump...s It screams.

Thanks!

My new Phantom arrived just in time for the sunset load on NYE. Love the way it flies.

Anyone reading this already knows it's a joke; the Katana doesn't come in a 27. 18, yes...It's part of the new 18squarefoot Cherokee, so that when you deploy, it couples as a 36 squarefoot system you can land on your belly.

Yes.

I _highly_ recommend a RED with a 15mm lens. The CF/REDCARD will be enough storage for a skydive. He'll need a custom CCM, so plaster him up and get with Matt Hoover or Bart Stonestreet. Don't forget stills....a 7D with extended battery pack and 10mm lens...perfect.