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Have you heard a slider-down deployment? In the middle of the night, the beach may be clear, but you wouldn't be making any friends in the apartment block. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Yes. How big is the no-fly zone around the tunnel (or is it just over)? :-P Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/jowhiley/features/sports/1.shtml Apparently they were in the tunnel yesterday evening. I missed Jo's show this morning but I will listen again later to see what they said! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Only 30-40 people world wide have the ability -- and the guts -- to wingsuit BASE jump?! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Thanks Matt. You're the man. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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I'm moving this to safety and training, as SL student in tow, partial malfunctions and failure to be hooked up by the JM prior to exit have nothing to do with this incident. t Do students in South Africa receive any instruction via radio whilst under canopy? Whilst it has no bearing on this incident (so perhaps worthy of a Safety & Training thread), what is the thinking behind not requiring an AAD on d-bagged deployed SL rigs? If a student became hung-up and had to be cut away (you carry knives on board, right?) or they had a streamer, or, erm, there must be other situations, and they failed to respond an AAD would be a life-saver. Maybe this is pertinent to this thread, do instructors in South Africa consider themselves stricter when deciding whether someone should progress on static-line (perhaps even due to the lack of AAD requirement?) BSBD Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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From http://www.bird-man.de/plan_2006.html it looks like that will be a 70-way out of an AN-72 (same Jet as Espace boogie) Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Is that because it was seriously difficult to do or because you had to keep coming back to it to avoid detection? Either way, some poor sod had to go back and wire it back up. He probably would have done it when it was dark, not at 1pm. That would have seriously reduced your chances of being seen by the passing Special. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Good idea. I once saw a tv programme about pilots who land on aircraft carriers and one very interesting point is that all of the guys take turns in critiquing the landings of their peers and thought something similar would be cool at the dz. The problem is, finding someone with the time and experience to do it. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Is it a bit like 2 minutes into GATO? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Don't know if you are aware of this but the manufacturer is a dropzone.com member and poster. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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In order to continue receiving a UK Sport grant (which dwindled to £12,600 for 2006/2007 and may be the last grant we ever receive, from item 61.2), we are required to increase the BPA part (i.e. not insurance or magazine) of our membership fees, which is usually done in line with inflation (currently 2.1%). Last year's increase was 96p (from item 3), so assuming the insurance component hasn't increased, the rumour you heard may be correct. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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1994. Doc John had the issue but it didn't have the information I was hoping it would. Thanks Doc. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Please PM me Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Not me, but reading through an old issue of Skydiving from back in 1993 (don't ask) , there is a picture of Dennis McGlynn making his 330th fixed object jump, and he says that 100 of his BASE jumps have been made at different "locations" (is that different from objects?). edit for site name ~TA Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Skydivingmovies.com Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Not only is he weak, he's also a slow learner! Hmmm, both of the guys who went back for more are from South Africa. Coincidence? I think not! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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The relevant part of the FAI Sporting code is Chapter 3 (WORLD RECORDS - CLASS G (Parachuting)) Sub-Chapter 3 (Performance Records) 3.3.3 Largest Formation records There is no mention of time limits in the 2005 Edition (page 7) but there is in the 2002 edition Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Taking a closer look at the quality of the image, it seems to have artefacts as though it has been taken from a Sky+ digital recording. Is this also appearing as a moving advert on Sky as well? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Inspired by Empuria's 100,000 jump dive. I think it's the guys from Langar but I'm not totally sure. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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So it's a bit like, would a child describe it (i.e. simplistic view), as carnage. Then I may have some unintentional CRW for submission... Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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What is the precise definition of "carnage"? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Well, one or two of the pictures are shot above the common exit points. There was a picture on the original jumptower.com website of people climbing up the inside of the "stinger" (not in the traditional sense) but did anyone actually jump from the top? Even if they did, it would still be pretty impressive to get to that point in the air so I'm guessing the exit was not from a fixed object. And the stage was much further back and facing the other way. It's all about attention to detais :-P Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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I've made a couple of posts (with video) about spins before: Spin video and Hercules kicked my arse! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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Ah, ok. You do know that is frowned upon? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live