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Ah ha! Here with one 'l'. Thanks! Alouette

870 jumps since my last malfunction. Had a couple of close calls involving line twists, and one with a guy falling through my canopy, but none yet. *knocks on wood*

What is the name of this thing? I remember it starts with an A, but can't find how to spell it on the website.

Kazaa Lite ++ has blocking for the RIAA ip addresses (not exactly totally secure but it helps get me a small piece of mind). It also doesn't have any spam with it, so its a great alternative imho. The RIAA's main beef with this ought to be clear. Internet music exchange has the possibility to cut out the middle-man (the RIAA) entirely. Imagine a system where artists where to actually get paid for their work Here is a link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1326240&mode=thread&tid=158&tid=99

I actually don't have a land line and I've only gotten 1 telemarketing call in 2 years. When I'm at my parents and I did have a land line it went something like this: Telemarket person: Hello Mr Thomas I'm-- Hang up. I never let them finish the intro and they never called back :)

Ahem...

I've measured a friend's rig to 24 lbs of force. This was on a fresh pack job and big canopy for the container. Even at that amount of force the PC will pull it out no problem (assuming its made properly and cocked). I think my main is usually under 8 lbs which is a little on the low side. I used to be overly paranoid about my single parachute system and measured it frequently usually getting readings from 12-14 lbs. If you let the canopy sit in the container overnight and reopen/close it its much easier and requires much less force to open, but I seriously doubt you have much to worry about.

Just saw this quote in another thread: Why the hell aren't people getting intense canopy training? Most people graduating are basically taught landing pattern, pull left go left, and don't turn under 250 ft. Some people take that very literally and just don't give the canopy any input even if they are headed for a tree or other obstacle. Shouldn't they know how to turn? I mean I can get the target 90% of the time just on setting up nicely but how can a person just starting out do this considering they aren't familiar with either skydiving or the canopy they are jumping. Maybe the USPA should implement some kind of codicillary part of the coach program where the coach and student pull higher and do follow the leader. Most coaches at 100-300 jumps should be at wingloadings able to stay with students (perhaps people with that few jumps shouldn't be all that close to a student under canopy). Shouldn't students be overly familiar with all canopy inputs and how to flat turn before getting an A license? Maybe this is too overwhelming for starting out, but I don't really think so. I bet 99% of students getting their A license would not know the effect of different riser input and I don't see that as very good. End rambling...

Make your own skydiving t-shirt. I think this could be cool. A skydiving one that says: "My mom thinks I'm at the movies." OR a BASE Jumping one with a guy going off an antenna that says "My mom thinks I'm skydiving." Some friends and I came up with lots of cool ideas in the past. Link to make your own: http://www.t-shirts.com/custom/

I would be careful doing crew with microline... It will cut to the bone and shave ALL the meat off in a wrap...

I had varying guidelines. If it looked massive (more than 5 lights) and was an inside climb you know its "jumpable" in terms of altitude. For buildings it is generally at least 17 floors for me to bother lasering it. Sometimes I would still laser stuff. One building in a certain town east of the Mississippi was 17 floors and over 240 ft. Of course other factors can be more important like landing area. Other things to consider are the climb out, getting to the exit point, and security. All of those have an effect as well. All in all take a range finder just to be sure :)

I can fly much farther in tracking pants. The horizontal speed is insanely faster. My fall rate tends to be in the mid 80s with them. Very cool things.

You know I always answered that question with a yep to. I qualified it though: "If they did it successfully and lived" I would say. Funny how things come true :)

I did it all for the nookie...

Are their any rules regarding packing for money at Rantoul? Is all you need a sign? Thanks

One has 27 cells and the other has 21...

I'll be there all day Think its going to be my new home for a while.

Vapor Pressure lowering. Pi = imRT I think that is why could be wrong though.

^^^ Aren't fatality reports required though? I know they have forms for injuries but why not go ahead and require them (assuming fatalities are required)?

Was thinking about USPA requiring an incident report for an injury somewhere above a broken leg but less than a fatal. Is there some reason they don't do this? I've seen several serious injuries (many many months in hospital) that people could probably have learned from at different DZs the past year. I think it'd also be an eye opener to those people who only think in terms of fatal skydiving accidents and justify safety based on that alone. Granted it may be in the body of skydiving's best interest not to have this reported...

I am just hinting at getting a new container. I currently have an M2 G3 with a PD 143R and Velocity 96. I was curious if anyone has a MO with a PD143R in it? As for the Microns, what size container would fit that canopy combination? Doesn't look like anything fits to me. Side question: How many jumps have you put on your non ZP pilot chute? I currently have 800 jumps on my ZP one and its holding out great.

reg+ed 909 jumps @ 2:1 (150 jumps at that wingload)

Sounds like the bulk of what I was saying was overlooked. In a fantasy land where everyone is qualified to jump what they do that would be practical, but everyone thoughs this not to be the case. My main point is this: Different situations require different approaches to exit order. I think you must take into account: type of jump(freefly, rw), wingloadings, pull altitude, and the uppers. There are times at our DZ when strong uppers had the freefliers going out last. I never have an issue with RW groups opening close to me there and I've done hundreds of jumps going out before RW groups. We've had/have super hot 4-way competitors that jump insance wingloadings and pull consistantly at 2000 or below. In this case they would go out first.

At our DZ the freefliers exit first (yes we are one of the only ones). With the increase in canopy collisions and such I was rethinking the policy of freefliers out last (because I tend to agree freefliers last is a better idea). Most of the freefliers jump at wingloadings above 1.6 at my DZ. When going out after the RW groups at other DZs I've noticed that its easy for the freefliers to overtake the RW groups. In a lot of cases it isn't a problem holding in brakes waiting for others to land but... This causes extra landing clutter when part of the RW group has a much lighter wingloading. When freefliers exit first at our DZ I almost never encounter the RW groups. Instead of totally depending on the competancy of the pilots, outright prevention seems a better solution. I think the way to go about it would be better load planning: taking into account opening altitude, wing loading, and type of jump altogether is a better idea. Maybe take into account more separation at intervals having two types of jumps (ie rw and freefly). What does everyone else think?

Any special considerations other than usual ones when jumping in non standard jump suit. Ie look out for your handles etc?