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  1. They're worth what they cost. They're not as good as a cX100 (for the nth time in the GoPro threads). Others find this to be the case as well. Compression is greater, and lower bandwidth. They are a significantly greater snag hazard out of the box. you can make it less so with effort.
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    Holiday music

    Glad you liked it. Thanks for listening. It was fun recording it.
  3. Low number idiot, wearing a cam against the advice he rec'd in this forum and on the ground, diving exit and was focused on "what the cam was seeing" and slammed into someone else. Both quite bruised. Both are lucky it didn't go worse. The issue with wearing a cam is 10%snag-hazard and other physical safety related, and 90% about mental acuity, experience, and muscle memory factors.
  4. No Such Thing As A Perfectly Good Plane No Such Thing As A Perfectly Good Parachute ?
  5. Even as a member, the author of the powerpoints has elected to not permit them to be downloaded.
  6. I'm in agreement with you on each point, except one. You haven't convinced me there is a "real" problem so much as I'm convinced that there may one day be. Absent stats, it's conjecture.
  7. I guess by copying my post, you've further underscored the idea. Phil and Brian, Logic Task Force Tag Team
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    Holiday music

    Yeah, technically a repost from a couple years ago, but wanted to share a holiday song from a few years back. This version was never completely mixed, because the label rejected the children's voices. Happy holidays.
  9. Where can you find a "traditional" camera for 250.00? Sign me up. They're not great. For the money, they're good. And I have no doubt that they'll be responsible for a number of incidents in the very near future. A lotta low-time jumpers talking about them everywhere I turn. Let's hope none of the incidents are too serious, cuz it's not an "if" but a "when." Already seen one incident that involved a small cheepy cam.
  10. If two people received an AFFI rating yet didn't meet the course requirements (6 hours, etc) then how could the USPA have accepted and awarded the rating? There has to be more to the story than what you're suggesting.
  11. THAT has to be one of the funniest things I've read here, ever. Schlomo/Rigger invented the parachute. If he didn't, then he taught the guy that did. I wonder if there is anyone with his knowledge. BTW, Brian...Gilead says that they'll now allow wingsuits at Paradive.
  12. My lifeflight was 13 minutes one way. 12,692.00. Hospital bills for pelvis, sacrum, coccyx, ACL/MCL, bladder and colon damage (plus other sundries) came to just shy of 200,000.00. Add therapy and a few other post-accident issues, just over 225,000.00.
  13. I'm not scary. I only hurt one guy with the paddle, geez! Yeah, but it left a red mark for three days. Can we do it again sometime? Soon??
  14. We're skydivers. If you take out all the pretty pictures of wingsuits, then there is very little left to read.
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    more boobies

    More boobies Since y'all are so into boobies...here's one you won't want to miss. NSFW.
  16. yeth, I'm a panthy. Andrea, what if the guy is afraid of YOU? Does that make him a pansy or a pussy?
  17. That doesn't have anything to do with weed, right? Good one, hadn't looked at it that way. Here's a prime example from another industry; Guy comes in to work on a film. Has DGA creds, has FullSail creds, has a list of awards. He lasted two days. No one liked him, he shouted and bitched, was aggressive and beyond narcissistic. He'll never get work with any of our team again. AFF (and tandem) instructors are much the same. I have a video of an instructor telling his balky AFF student "C'mon, get out of the plane. Fucking go. Get out of the fucking airplane. Now!" He proceeds to try to push the student out of the plane. That guy will never work on a major DZ again either, even though he's reputed to be a very good instructor. or the TI that forced his student out of the plane, she blew chunks on him at exit, and screamed until she fainted under canopy. That guy likely won't get a job anywhere that looks into backgrounds. Then there is the guy that played a contributing role in a fatality who was handed a rating a few weeks later. He'll never work as an instructor on any aware DZ either. The art of business tends to weed out/thin out the instructors that have issues. IMO, leave the S&TA to do his/her job of dealing with safety issues, not personal or personnel issues.
  18. Such as? Which modern design suits have this "problem?"
  19. Umm...read Variety or Wired. You'll find RudeTube. They dont do "stories." They'll present it as it is. And it's commendable that they're looking to license it, because all they need to do is use a narrative to change the perspective and they get away with Fair Use, even on your side of the pond. Back to the OP, PilotDave will likely be the best source of the content owner.
  20. I agree 110%, but what I liked in the article was the inference that Beck joined the Mormons not for faith, but for self-promotional value. He's about money. Nothing more.
  21. A local article on Glenn Beck Never knew the tie between Beck, Bill Clinton, and Mitt Romney. Interesting article regardless.
  22. It still doesn't remove the human factor. I think I'm a pretty objective guy in most situations. However, I know I could never hire an instructor that contributed to a fatal incident. That's professional. I believe I couldn't support a guy that is consistently high "except when he's teaching" (is an oft-repeated phrase). Perhaps another person couldn't support a guy because he drinks and smokes, and the S&TA is a hardline Christian. Or perhaps the instructor is a hardline Christian and the S&TA is anti-Christian. So many variables, and pay/no pay is going to resolve personal differences. I don't see the S&TA needing to be involved. IMO, the "weeding" system of business will (for the most part) keep out the poor instructors and support good instructors. I'm in favor of a mentorship for new AFFI's , it's how our DZ manages the program, and it's good practice. Regardless of whether it's "official" or not. And for all the blather about it, I'm still waiting to see stats on an increase (or decrease) in student incidents based on numbers during the "old" program vs the "new" program.
  23. The CARDS are identical. The header files found on the cards are not. NTSC carries one subflag, and PAL carries another subflag. Additionally, the geoflag is set in PAL whereas NTSC has no flag attached (in the CX100) at all.