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Over five years ago, I made this clock. It still hangs on my wall. The page referenced in that article is no longer available but it is via web.archive.org, well, some of it, but not the important bit, the Corel Draw file! I think François is still available at the address listed in the newsgroup article so you could try emailing him and let us know how you get on? I doubt I have the file anywhere :-( Edit: Google groups reference Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

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Caroline and I have just booked flights with Ryanair for £31 including taxes! We arrive in the morning of the first saturday and leave on the afternoon of the second. We might be hiring a car, but we could also be interested in group transfer Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Gus, did you see this post? Vesa and Asaf are going to be at Empuria for the Christmas boogie. I wonder if they could evaluate you there? I've not been to a Herc boogie, but with the 8-way minimum requirement I think it would be unlikely a course could be run there. Besides, the CI's will be too busy partying and flocking! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Manufacturer is ParaAvis. From the little I saw when I was in Moscow, they appear to be well made and look pretty good. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

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I read on the Jersey Skydive mailing list that the Porter at the Para Club de Granville in France has been totally destroyed in an intentional fire. Police are investigating. The drop zone is now shut and it is unknown whether it will reopen. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

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According to the Emupria Brava website, in the News section, BirdMan's Asaf Fishelson will be at the Christmas Boogie with suits for demo and will also be organising! That's cool, but damn! This year is going to be the first time in three years that I'm not going to the Christmas boogie (and I think I've had my wingsuit with me for the past two years) as I will be "somewhere else" but I'm still gutted to be missing out! Oh well, I'll just have to catch up with you guys at the Herc Boogie?! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

They have a website with larger pictures and video Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Not necessarily. Application can be made to STC for special permission if short of the required time. See Section 10 (Permissions) Para f in the BPA Safety and Training Comittee Minutes, Thursday 10th August 2000 Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

You can get a Word Viewer from http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q165/9/08.ASP From F104 - Temporary Membership 2003/4 Same as Full Membership I think, also Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

The later version Suuntos, such as the Observer and S6, are accurate to within 3 feet, whereas my older Metron (and I guess the Vectors) are accurate to 10 feet. Although I'm not sure I want to be in a situation where 7 feet would make a difference! :-o Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Interesting times for the UK with some news about a rival tunnel just picked up from uk.rec.skydiving. I've been hearing rumours about this tunnel for years! As I asked on uk.rec.skydiving, it appears to be using one big impeller; I thought modern wind tunnels favoured several smaller blades for versatility and cleaner, upto-the-edge column of air? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

No disrespect to Geoff, but people get killed skydiving without wingsuits too. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Nice. Happy Birthday Bill! Coincidentally, skypuppy (thanks Robb!) just sent me a capture of an advert starring Bill. I've uploaded it to SkydivingMovies.com (1 MB) and now I have a mysterious urge for a beer! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

A couple of weeks ago I was at the very large legal wall in Northern Italy, to increase my meagre wingsuit BASE experience. This is the same wall where Jari and Robi first met and first BASE jumped their wingsuits. This is the same wall as the amazing video you've probably seen with Robi This wall is ideal for wingsuit jumping as it is 4000 feet vertically to the landing area and very skilled flyers can achieve delays of over a minute. However, due to the sloping talus and forest below, without the aid of a wingsuit, even the most the best can achieve, albeit with Pantz, is 21 seconds I took a ProTrack with me, so that I could download a profile of the flight afterwards. As per the instruction manual (page 43), I set the Dive Type to 11 - SPC (Special), where I could set the altitude of the exit point. However, when I landed, the ProTrack was indicating a much shorter freefall delay than my camera recorded and a much higher deployment altitude than my eyes were telling me. I surmised that this was due to the unit not being in Dive Type 10: SLOW (Slow) mode and the wingsuit flight had tricked the unit into thinking the canopy had deployed. This happened again on a second jump. See the attached graph CraigMBOct2003_2.jpg So, on the third jump, with nothing to lose, I thought I'd try something. First I set the altitude of the ProTrack at the exit point using the SPC mode. After the unit had adjusted to the altitude, I then went back into it and switched it to SLO mode. Upon landing, I was happy to discover that the unit was reporting a more accurate freefall delay and deployment altitude. When I got back and downloaded the data I was sort of pleased to find I'd achieved one of my slowest freefall speeds, with a sustained rate in the 30s. Sort of pleased, because whilst this is a best for me, slow vertical speeds are better suited for skydiving from planes with appropriate deployment altitudes, whereas on a BASE jump some vertical speed should be sacrificed for horizontal speed. Anyway, see the attached image CraigMBOct2003_3.jpg for the graph from this jump. Although this ProTrack was head-mounted, I'm fairly confident in data as I didn't move my head at all during the flight and this can be seen in the video. These graphs are also available on my online graphing website. However, I'm having some DNS and connection problems with the box so you may not be able to access them reliably: Graph 2 Graph 3 Graphs 1, 2 and 3 overlayed I've also uploaded some video of these flights. My first flight was my best with me reaching the landing area and opening above it at a reasonable altitude, but typically, it wasn't filmed from above and my camera was zoomed in. The second jump is not bad, but the flight seems to stall towards the end, just short of the landing area. I've consulted with a very experienced wingsuit BASE jumper who thinks it could be down to fatigue. Although I can't say I felt tired, it would figure, but also I feel the approaching ground has a sub-concious physcological effect on my flying! The third jump is interesting because you get the perspective of two other jumpers, one without a wingsuit (and front-looping too) and UncleCharlie with. We are both jumping Skyflyers, but I have a lot more experience on mine. What you can't see from the video is that I sink out on the other wingsuit quite early but I make that up as well as overtake by the end, before we both stall again! Anyway, this has been quite a long post. In summary I just want to reiterate, if you don't want your ProTrack to stop recording because it thinks you've deployed on a wingsuit BASE jump, first set the exit altitude using the SPC mode, and then set the unit to SLO mode after it has adjusted to the new altitude. I've contacted Steffen at L&B who doesn't think that setting both the modes had been tested before but believes that what I've seen is "reproducible because the SPC feature just offsets the height and SLO just changes some trigger parameters". Cool! Craig Not a BMCI! :-P Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Pigs will fly! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

And don't forget Bruno on his 55 at 4+ loading! Edit: Ooops, I guess he's the "other person"! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Well, since the USPA publish it, I should hope they are involved! :-P According to Kevin Gibson's Safety Check in the October 2003 Parachutist, This is the best way; the experts providing the information, rather than people legislating about things they know little about. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

This aired in the UK on the satellite channel, Sky One, on Friday the 24th of October, 2003. I captured it, and edited it for the skydiving/BASE stunts, awards and the tribute to Harry. The running time is just under 20 minutes and the file size is 46 MB. You'll need Windows Media Player to view it and you can find it on SkydivingMovies.com It's a shame they didn't show the demo. Especially since the the preparation and rehersal were shown in the Xtremists programme aired on British TV not long ago. They featured the "race" in the programme so the actual demo is curious by it's absence. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

And? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Unfortunately, true. From Safety & Training Committee (STC) Minutes 09/10/03 BSBD Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Can anyone explain the technicalities of the jump? I see the "student" has a pilot chute in his hand. I'm guessing it was a go and throw. As the student is being extracted, one of the "instructors" deploys? I'm guessing he's packed slider up just in case? Is the second instructor staying with it after the student is extracted or does he start tracking? What sort of delays were the instructors doing? Would the "instructors" care to be identified to me (via PM)? I'd like to ask them a few questions. Thanks Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

What's the story behind the picture titled, paraplegic Is the guy being "AFF'd" really paralysed?