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I didn't bother trying to explain this part. It will take awhile, and the FAA could reject it altogether and not have a supported standard. Our intention is for it to become the European JTSO standard also. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

It will be posted on the PIA web site in the near future. The cover letter to send to the FAA is being drafted now. This was the effort of a number of people over 10 years! One issue was personnal disagreements between the participents. Also, over the years issues were revisited over and over. With Pat Wilson and myself as user representatives on the committee, we forced things to come to a vote. Over about 20 hours during three days we finished the document in Reno last March. In Jacksonville in September we finished cleaning up some cross references and had the number assigned. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Not quite right. SAE is no longer involved and no longer will be supporting AS8015b. PIA has just adopted PIA Technical Standard 135 which either has been or will be submitted to the FAA in the very near future as a replacement standard for TSO C23. I'm on the committee because the FAA wanted user representation and I'm Chairman of the PIA Rigging Committee. BTW George from the FAA is not a voting member but either he or other FAA reps often set in. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

A 30 day grounding for NOT dying because your stupid is a small price to pay. These people WOULD be dead from their "mistake". There are some legitamate excuses. If your trying to save your life and can't because of the gear or injury and the cypres saves you great! If your unconscious. Bonus Days. But if your too stupid to open your own parachute above the dirt? Maybe the better option would be to make them jump WITHOUT a cypres for a year. Not that this is reasonable but it might wake them up that they're responsible for their own life. And not just by spending $1200 extra. A better remedy to the situation? Yep, ground them for life. Okay Rant off. Sorry I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Keystone's web site is unknown after finding it on a google search. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I know of sewing machine sales. That isn't the one I was thinking of. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I get motion sick early in the season or on odd aircraft. I've use Bonine (meclizine HCl). It's once a day and has never affected me other than being fully effective. This will vary from person to person and should be investigated on the ground. Often I from time to time and other students have felt sick from psychogenic shock (cold and clamy skin, face fealing numb, etc.) This is caused more from the excitment than motion. Ask your wife which one it felt like. The two are similar (you may barf) but you can tell the difference if you've had both you know. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

There used to be a company in Ohio that rebuilt 7 class and added reverse to all and increase foot lift. But I haven't been to find it for a couple of years. Any help? I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

The line in the non collapsalble is the line which pulls the apex down. This line stays intact in a collapsable. This line is usually double and very important. It sets the "height" of the apex in relation to the "skirt", the edge of the solid fabric. It looks like the top of an apple when inflated. The kill line is an ADDITIONAL line. The bag end all work on the same principle but vary in execution. Take care and make sure the failure mode is to the corrent configuration. The kill line is not the only attatchment of the bag/bridle assembly. There is a keep tape or line of some sort to keep the bag from going to far. Good luck. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Various blocks can be installed. One friend put welding rings about 1 1/2" or 2" on his french links. This just hangs there and adds bulk to grip. Or you can try changing your hands by wearing something like Neuman Receiver Gloves. I personnally wear gloves on every jump after years of tearing up my hands. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

It says 28H pattern. Not a 42 stitch pattern. See manual above for 28H pattern. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

We do fund raiser demos for high schools. Same as turning cow loose in field and winner is where they take a dump. Sponsor sells squares on football field. Where four jumpers land determines the winners. State of MI requires people to buy undefined squares and by drawing they are asigned to specific squares on field. This is to randomize the squares so the jumpers cann't cheat. Our only involvement is a standard demo, but the jumpers spread out on the field. Less pressure. These are subject to state raffle laws. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I've never seen them for sale. Here are instructions for a plastic one. http://www.works-words.com/alti.htm I do have an example of a stiffened webbing version with pull the dot snaps and could provide pictures to some one. I really don't want to get into making them. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

In high school I took a girl named Teri to homecoming. Actually we wen't to both our homecoming dances the same night. Someone at either dance would yell Teri/Terry and we'd both turn. It was our first (and only) date and so we were having to introduce each other to our friends. Kind went like a comedy routine. But you know, some of the girls I've been most attracted to have been Teri's. Hmmmm, maybe that's weird? I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Actually you might check local marine dealers. Some of these inflatables are now Coast Guard approved. I still think, even with DOT shipping which I think Paragear charges to (but check), that the link I gave above is the cheapest. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

http://www.chiefaircraft.com/cgi-bin/air/hazel.cgi?action=serve&item=/Aircraft/Accessories/LifePreserver.html Same as one chamber Paragear but cheaper. Buy small fanny pack or make your own pouch (as I did). Hmmm Haven't tried cypres fanny pouch. Might just fit. Maybe not. Or wear under rig for water jumps. Undo chest flap and inflate orally. This is the best and cheapest I've found in many years. More expensive alternatives exist with included pouch etc. http://www.go2marine.com/frameset.jsp?servletPath=/g2m&action=search2PL&family=70112F,86504F,86500F,86499F,86496F,70320F,70117F,70118F,86485F,86506F,86507F DOT shipping is a pain. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Run over it with your truck. Don't have a truck? Borrow one. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

http://www.parachuteriggers.com/packing%20instructions.htm Scroll down to Thomas Sports I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Ken died shortly after presenting AFF to USPA and probably before it became formal. I think it was 1981 or 1982. He was a local at my DZ. Rocky Evans was also instrumental in developing the idea. They were team mates on the Rainbow Flyers; 3 time National, one world and one world cup champions in 74 through 76. Ken and Rocky were both in a hot air ballon in the Chicago area that caught fire. Rocky jumped without a rig. High estimates vary but it shouldn't have been survivable but he did. He was jumping to his probable death rather than burning. Ken stayed in the ballon and all in it died. BTW it was a ballon flight, not a jump, so no one had rigs on. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Nomal sheet metal washers are ok. But I've found that POP rivet backer "washers" are a better choice. They are thicker than a normal washer and don't bend. The hold is also somewhat smaller. But they can be sharp so the edges need to be deburred. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

No method you use will "match" number done using the PIA method. Even two people trying to match the PIA mehod will get variations. No two test "chambers" are identical. Jump Shacks is different from Rigging Innovations (Sandy Reid) is different from Precision Aerodynamics. See http://www.pia.com/piapubs/TSDocuments/ts-104.pdf for the original study and the background. PIA is working to update a testing procedure but meeting twice a year and being all volunteer it's slow going. The rig manufacturers most often refer to measured canopies to determine their rig volumes. For a container the volume changes if you inflate it like a beach ball or pack it square like a d-bag. Bottom line, unless you want to complile a personal data base and test every canopy that you care about so the numbers compare, don't bother trying. Chair, PIA Rigging Committee I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

A large 160 could easily be bigger than a small 175. And depending on who did the measurment and where the volume can vary with the same canopy. There is larger variation in volume measurement than area measuement. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

By the way PD measures it's 143. By the way PIA recommends measuring it's bigger. So when your comparing sizes between PD and other manufacturers your not comparing numbers obtained in the same way. This is why PD reserves seem to pack bigger. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Just so there is no confusion.... For most rigs the risers WILL NOT release at the same time by design. The RSL side is cut with more cable through the loop (usually about an inch) to insure the other side is gone before the riser with the RSL leaves and deploys the reserve. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

You may very well be hypoxic on a flight you described. But, only one or two breaths at lower altitude will bring you back to normal. The effect is not long lasting because nothing else has bound up the hemoglobin. The effects of hypoxia would have been gone before you opened, let alone before you landed. An example. I took the flight safety chamber ride to 25,000. There is a work sheet they have you do when your off mask and getting hypoxic. It includes some simple math, I think spelling, and a small, simple line maze at the end. I thought I was doing pretty good but couldn't find a way through the maze for nothing. They had us hang the clip board behind us on the wall. Then we told us to put on our masks and restart the oxygen as we had been trained. One guy couldn't even put his mask on. He sat there grinning until the instructors put his mask on for him. I put my mask on but didn't turn on the oxygen flow. The instructors were telling me to and I was thinking "Okay, I'm going to turn my oxygen on right now" while I was looking at the switch. But my arm never moved. The insturctors had to turn it on. Within one or two breaths I was back to normal. I turned around to look at the maze because I was pissed I couldn't get it. It was immediately obvious there was no way through it. They wanted you to fail so you weren't too self confident. The chamber ride is informative, but a long day because there substantial classroom instruction. And being in an enclosed tank with 14 other people (all men in my case) with all the gas in their bodies expanding makes for a pretty smelly ride. Luckily your on oxygen most of the time, and hypoxic pretty fast when you take your mask off. So yes, it was probably just another "bonehead blunder " on your part. You may have had some extra adrenaline going and you may have been worried about being hypoxic. But I doubt that you were. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE