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Oh yeah, it's 66.89.150.222 that made the change. Someone out of Tampa, Florida. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

The chances are that they are registered on dropzone.com. I wonder if any moderators on this site would be willing to try to correlate the IP address and edit time (which timezone is it displaying in on the wiki sit) with a username on here? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

From http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=213275 Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Got just the suit for you to go with it Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

This news report says now that the family may sue. From http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/display.var.867052.0.family_may_sue_over_plane_crash.php Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Congratulations James! Just think yourself lucky I wasn't there to challenge you! Do you have any height/weight info for the competitors? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Don't put yourself down mate! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Stowing a pilot chute when you can't completely see what you are doing doesn't sound very sensible Sam. Are you flexible enough to ensure that the routing of the bridle is free or do you only do it when you have friends who can check you? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Really? There was me thinking the press were experts on all matters and never got things wrong I am not bothered about Joe Public. This is the crux of the issue. You may not think 40 minutes is very long, but it is certainly longer than the time it took to read that article, which as short as it was, contained at least one error and one misconception. It told me, a more interested party than Joe Public, nothing. In fact it left me with more questions than answers. I'd like to see a transcript of the inquest or the statements to get a better understanding rather than toing and froing on an internet forum going nowhere. Was any sort of expert asked to verify your statements or were they taken at face value. I'm not implying anything here but without knowing that an independent person with a knowledge of BASE saw the statements, or I can read them myself, I don't know what to think. Why were they accepted and no questions asked? Ultimately, Paul was an adult who took responsibility for his actions and it was his own mistake that killed him but I still have questions: Did Dave explain his relationship to Paul in his statement? It says on the BASE fatilities list that he was his mentor. Was this acknowledged in the statement? Were any questions asked about the responsibilities of being a mentor? Did Dave check Paul before he exited? Did he ask him if he'd removed the pull-up from the pilot-chute? Did Dave say who had taught Paul that method of packing his pilot-chute? Did he acknowledge that it was an extremely risky way of doing things? Would he continue to do things the same way? Preventing accidents is all about learning from mistakes and I don't just mean the fundamental one in this case, but the whole chain leading up to it. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Up sized or down-sized at least? Or why? How long did the inquest last? Where did they get that from?? The way this is written implies that it was a deployment technique rather than a packing one. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

What did he change it from/to? Why did he change it? There is more light at the top than there is at the bottom; I wonder if he would have noticed the pull up with more illumination? Does anyone know if any sort of transcript of the inquest is available anywhere? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Yes you can. I'm not sure if you are confused thinking the quote comes from Kimberly's father or whether you feel the fact that potentially saving someone else's life negates the desire to file suit when official reports have yet to be completed, but the quote is from Robert Cook's father who lost his child, just like the Delcroixs. Sorry you've lost me there. Switch what roles? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

The difference in response to this tragedy from Mr. Cook's parents and Ms. Delacroix's is remarkable. BSBD Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Saying you've never been seen is hard to prove. How many times have your been followed by the authorities? How many sensitive jumps (or should I say climbs) have you done? Your UK BASE board profile says 8 (one on your course, at least another one on your return back, and one from a South Coast E) so that's 5. When jumping sensitive objects, it's a numbers game. The more you jump them, the more likely you are to attract attention. I don't think you can compare your track record after 5 jumps with those who have 80 times that number from over 100 different objects! I'm glad you can finally admit that you made a mistake. Unfortunately, you've confessed to the wrong one. That one was merely a symptom, there are several much more serious causes. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

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Some more pictures from the event Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

I'm frequently getting JavaScript errors also, which are attributable to the Ads (Urchin Tracker code). Anyone else? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

AdSense does have the option to block domains but it might take some time to enter all those $kyride URLs! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

(on this site at least. We have them on skydivingmovies.com but they don't seem to stick out as much there) But as a non-paying member of this website, I have no right to complain! Still, Willem takes great pride in the look and feel of this website, so it must have been a tough decision to put them in. A small price to pay to keep the site going. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Two weeks ago I was at Hibaldstow taking part in the awesome 28-way competition. I was wearing my 2k Composites FFC camera helmet (no longer made but similar to the side fx but with a flat spot on top for another camera. I got very excited after the fantastic fifth round jump and dropped my helmet in the landing area. What I didn't notice at the time was that my Protrack must have popped out of the elasticated netting audible holder that is inside the helmet underneath the padding. Due to the presence of the Skyvan and it requiring the grass runway to take off, everyone was landing in the farther larger lower experienced landing area. After being bussed back I packed up my rig. When I'd finished a call went out if anyone had lost a ProTrack. Mine is coloured very distinctively and I was easily able to identify by that and the number of jumps on it (thanks to Nick from Damn Zebra for finding it and handing it in). At this point I checked to see if my Neptune was still in my camera helmet, which to my dismay, it wasn't :-( I assumed it had bounced out at the same time as my Protrack. I scoured the landing area for a while, but to no avail and gave up looking. I notified the dropzone asking people to keep an eye out for it, hoping that the Neptune's waterproof natue would keep it safe until someone stumbled upon it. Due to tandeming and BASE jumping, I didn't jump my sport rig last weekend. Fast forward to this weekend and after a day of tandeming I managed to hop on the sunset load and do a fun head-down jump with the Colonel from the Chekidowd gang. After landing, Mike on DZ control, was asking if anyone had lost a Neptune on the last load. I almost said, "yeah, me. Two weeks ago at Hibaldstow!" but didn't want to look stupid, so said nothing. It had landed next to a guy sitting outside is motor home, in the parking/camping area of the dropzone. He'd heard it falling and land 10 feet from him, picked it up and handed it in (thanks Ty!) My Neptune is a World Team one and is coloured a very disitinctive red, white and blue. There are a couple of other World Team members on my dropzone so Mike got routed back to me where he asked me if I was sure I hadn't lost anything and then the whole story came out. The only thing common between losing my Neptune and finding it again is my rig (wasn't wearing the same jumpsuit or helmet) so I can only assume that the Neptune must have dropped into my canopy or container at some point and I packed it in there. I didn't notice it come out on opening. I was very fortuitous that the 2-way freefly jump I was doing as well as the configuration of the rest of the load allowed me to be in the first group to exit. Also the weather conditions were very calm so the spot was right over the top. Plus we'd had a torrential downpour earlier in the day which must had softened the ground up, plus it landed on the grass and not the concrete ten feet away (or on someone's head or car!). There is not a scratch on my Neptune! Even the LCD screen (arguably to most fragile part of the unit) is completely intact! Just incredible. There is only one small disappointment though. When I got home last night, I eagerly downloaded the unit to determine what the terminal velocity of a freefalling Neptune is, only to find out that the jump had no detailed profile. The logbook is switched on in the unit, it recorded the exit and deployment altitudes and freefall time correctly, and it has profiles for the next jumps, but the one in question is blank. Could the shock of "going in" have prevented it from logging it completely?! Whatever, I'm very pleased to have my Neptune back! As well has having a lot of sentimental value to me, it really is a cool bit of kit, that I really like. I really don't deserve the nice things I have and I must look after them better! So what other interesting things have been packed into canopies/container before and lost/found on opening?! Have heard stories of wallets before. And I have packed a jack knife (in a sheath) into my canopy many years ago but found it as I was squeezing the air out! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Yes, you are correct! Page 60 of the Relative Workshop Vector II Tandem manual describes the "sit back drill (for student comfort)". I must have got it from there, or another TI telling me about it. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

I guess I could be accused of geeking too much! I do a few things like covering up my eyes in freefall, opening my mouth so that it inflates, sticking out my tongue, yahooing in the students ear, as well as the normal thumbs up and smiling, although not usually all on the same jump! One video guy, who I really respect, hates me inflating my mouth, so I don't do it if he's videoing but nobody else has said anything. In my defense I will say that I temper my activities depending on what the student is doing. I have watched the student's family's reactions to a video where the student, instructor and video guy are doing nothing and even though it is only for 30 seconds, that gets boring and you can see it in the reaction of people watching. I (and most of the cameramean I work with) always brief my students to be as active possible in freefall, smiling, waving, thumbs up, blowing kisses, screaming etc as it makes for a more interesting video and it can help prevent the deer-in-the-headlights look, struggling to control arms and breathing in freefall and groping for the frappe hat like it is going to come off, but if they don't, I will add something. Again, watching the reaction of the students, their friends and families, the reaction is nearly always positive. How far does it go? When working at a dropzone that does tandems from higher altitudes (13K vs. 10k) I tend to do a few turns, in conjunction with the cameraman popping up and flying around the drogue (at a safe distance), which gives a really good, alternative perspective of what is happening and the movement involved. Who's benefit is that for? What is the difference between doing that or flapping your arms in freefall? Has anyone been doing random viewings on realxstream.com for any comedy routines? ;-) Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

So you only want to change the aircraft, the exit altitude and the working time?! You can see why we called our team Herding Cats now! Seriously though, we only used a Skyvan this year because one of the G92s broke - normally it would be from two of the same type aircraft. If one dropzone had a tailgate but the others didn't that would be unfair. Also it would be unfair if the aircraft had wildly different C of G limits that would affect the exit. The Otter and the G92 are similar in that effectively they have no limit, whereas Caravans do. How is the XL for C of G? I'm assuming that's the PAC 750XL? We do have a couple of those in the UK, but unfortunately they are at different dropzones. We have a DZ with two Nomads in this country but they are only 14-place so that would mean ground-to-air video :-P plus they are at a tandem factory. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live