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i hope so! I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Just bought a 144A305 30" throat walking foot sewing machine. Now I need an engine hoist to move it. Not sure why except the price was about 1/5 what it should have been. And a bigger basement! Now all I have to do is find torn circus tents. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Just spoke with the airworthiness manager at my FISDO this afternoon. Found out my managing inspector retired. But, shortly after the two year anniversary of my getting my lap rating, March 2, 2013, I should have authority to test for the lap rating. Supervision and testing details to be worked out. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I think there are three. And other have claimed to have one. And ones like mine, new manufacture, one pin, civilian with Preserve I canopy may be available for purchase. Up to the manufacturer. BTW packing mine was demonstrated at the 2011 PIA symposium. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I have a lap parachute Manufactured 2011. I have a lap rating issued March 2011, tested by FAA inspector. I hope my FAA inspector will add lap rating to my DPRE authorization in March. I have another rigger almost ready for lap test. I can supervise lap pack jobs for added rating now. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

USPA group member dz's http://www.uspa.org/FindaDZ/GroupMemberListbyCountry/Germany/tabid/418/Default.aspx I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Are for sale on ebay all the time. But if you look hard you can find the government publication on line. If my computer hadn't killed all my favorites I might be able to find it faster. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Didn't you used to have dinner with Darwin? I just couldn't resist. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Would you rather have a leak flood the basement and have the insurance company decline the claim because it wasn't done with a permit? Or have a home inspector find it and lose a home sale because of it? Go ahead. My investment isn't worth the risk for a few bucks for a permit. And the help to get it right. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

You can do it. And it will probably work. But the hardest part about it is know the code (rules) you have to follow. I would suggest pulling a permit (if required) and talking to the inspector for some free knowledge. I'd expect that some code has changed and even if it was to code originally if you simply replace pipes it may not meet code now. Venting and multiple sinks/ traps is what drives me nuts as an amateur trying to do this. PVC is easy. I've done enought copper that I do it too. Never done PEX. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

yeah I meant liability. I knew it was wrong when I wrote it but couldn't come up with the right word. Think of it as collision on the other guy. We have to have it to renew. And we have to pay the no fault pool fee. Since I moved here in 1980. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Maybe in california but in the states I'm familiar with you have to have collision insurance. Comprehensive (tree falling on call is optional) In addition in Michigan we have no fault insurance and have to pay something like $150 a year into the fund for medical costs for uninsured. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Need a supplier for bulk line but not wholesale quantities. Paragear doesn't have it. Thanks I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I bought my first rig before I had 5 jumps and made my first freefall on it. (1980) I bought my second rig a year later. Both used. (still have both, one retired and one nobody wants to jump but airworthy) I bought my first custom rig another year later. I have three zp primary rigs, a bigger F-111 rig, and a crew rig plus at pieces for five other airworthy rigs (some conventional) and assorted other pieces parts. I've only bought 2 custom and 2 off the rack new H/C's over the years. Plus 5 or 6 used rigs. I can't imagine the idea of not having control of my own equipment. Both having it available, know what it is and how it flies as well has how it's been maintained. Of course when I bought these I was making more than 30 jumps a year. But I'm a pack rat. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

This is wrong headed thinking. There is a several hundred foot window where a Cypres (I'd have to look up Vigil) will not help. You have to fall far enough to reach the activation speed AND not get below the 'do not fire' altitude (160' without looking, may be wrong) An RSL is likely to aid in quicker deployment no matter the altitude. Of course too low is too low. And the poll is wrong headed. RSL's are standard on most gear. Hook the damn thing up! (with some reasonable situational exceptions). An AAD requires significant additional investment, which people either choose to justify (or are required to by their DZ/country) or not. I do know several folks that would be dead without their AAD's. At a small Cessna DZ. And neither is going to help with a cutaway that is just too low for any reserve to open. Modern AAD's have changed skydiving. Before AAD's worn by experienced jumpers skydiving was one of the few situations where if you didn't take a POSITIVE action you would die. Driving down a highway and stop steering/braking you may not die.. etc. This 'thrill' and self reliance was part of the allure of skydiving. Now many newbies (defined as anyone starting after 1993) won't get out of an airplane without an AAD and many AFF trained jumpers are scared to get out below 5000'. That's okay, but different. Skydiving is different. Better? Maybe, I've been to fewer funerals than I would have. But different. Frankly part of me was glad to here about the 3000' wing suit rodeo with several cypres fires. It was good to know that some skydivers were still crazy As a novice at my DZ pre cypres days I watched an eight way bust 1000'. Everyone lived, swore they'd never to that again, would get audibles, etc. Seven of he same folks did it again two weeks later. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

U.S. TSO testing can be done by assembly or component. You can TSO riser only if you so choose. PD does NOT TSO test harnesses just as UPT doesn't TSO test canopies(UPT bad example, still C23b Not to say they haven't done testing). Now, in order to meet the TSO testing for their individual components they have to pick a harness(es) to use or canopy(ies) to use. But, if components are simply scaled size variations only the largest and smallest need be tested. Not the largest canopy in the smallest container it will fit... only the largest container size and the smallest container size and the largest canopy and the smallest canopy. And a container need not be tested with all canopies on the market or the reverse. Now, this is minimal testing and more testing can and is done but it is not required. So very very few of the real world combinations of container size and canopy model/size are tested. And little guidance is given the rigger in terms of determining compatibility, only the responsibility. That's where experience, not pushing extremes, and common sense (usually uncommon) comes in. Just because you can cram it in doesn't mean it will meet TSO requirements or even work at all. Early(hmm midway, it took 16 years) on in the discussions by the PIA Parachute Certification Standards Committee (that wrote the base document for the new TSO C23f) the French authority wanted the U.S. TSO to require a comprehensive and exclusive list of what canopy could go in what container. They may still require it in their country. I've lost track of the joint TSO efforts after the C23f approval. This would have eliminated the upper and lower sizes of what could go in a container because of the 'mystery bulk' issue I referenced above. No two individual canopies of a specific model are the same volume. And they vary so much that you may have one H/C - canopy pair that fits and another that doesn't. This isn't theoretical I've seen it. As mentioned above canopies can be too small. I had a guy with a Tempo 150(maybe 170) in a J5. The safety stow locking the free bag closed had NO tension on it at all. The bungee cord was fully contracted and the lines stows not held at all. I refused to pack it. Two other riggers did and then the guy got his own rigger ticket and continued to pack it. Later he sold it to a newbie who called me on the phone to get his reserve packed. I asked what rig it was and when he told me I had to educate a second generation on why this rig was unsafe. I'm sure if the OP wants to cram the largest canopy possible in a rig some rigger will pack it. At one of the last symposiums we had a seminar titled roughly 'putting 10 lbs of shit in a 5 lb bag'. Apparently in one area of the country the gear dealers were routinely selling canopies one size LARGER than stated by the H/C manuf. to fit. The riggers had to learn how to deal with it. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

yes to all. The biggest danger is that it may not fit at all. Canopy volume can vary by 10% between individual examples of identical models. In addition containers can vary somewhat also. So if you get a big reserve and a small container an individual set of components may not go together even though another set of the same models may not. Do not get the absolute biggest reserve that the manufacturer says will fit. First it may not. Second the rigger will be cursing you. As to whether it will work? Its supposed to but be aware that you will probably be the test jumper. Not all combinations of reserves and containers are tested. Being at the top end may also encourage the rigger to put a loop that is too long in the rig. This can lead to AAD fires not opening as fast (or not at all) as an appropriate loop size. Just all round a bad idea. But lots of folks do it. And I turn some away. Chose the reserve you should have, then the container size that it fits in well. If necessary there are a couple of reserves that are lower pack volume for the same size. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

THIS is the reason I carry to my City Council meetings. You never know who your colleague will have an objection. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

This guy didn't have a clue and the last thing you wanted was him flying with his feet at the head level of the spectators. All he had to do was land straight and he couldn't do that. Again note his hand position in the photo. He's turning INTO the crowd as he crashes. BTW if the guy in the video is reading this YOU should look at your hand position and watch it through the entire video. It will explain to you why things were happening that you didn't expect. It wasn't wind, it was you steering your canopy in a direction you didn't really want to go. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I don't know what was to the left of the screen where he was heading but he made the classic rookie/student mistake. He started trying to balance with his hands and lifted both of them. Then he lifted the right one higher and turned left into the crowd. See photo below taken from other thread and note the relative length of steering line below the ring. If he was clear ahead on his original flight path all he had to do was keep his damn hands down. Or at least even. And if landing too hard to take it on his spine/butt in a slide that's what PLF's are for. With lots of round jumps it's automatic to drop into some sort of PLF that may look more like a roll but saves my butt (literally and figuratively), This guy didn't need to get to the ground sooner. Just needed to keep flying straight! I don't know how many newbies I've had to convince they had done just this. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

If you have an experienced rigger that knows how to pack Javelins the partially exposed PC (not what I call a pop top because the pin is still on top) is not an issue. And the reserve is the appropriate size for the container. Some rigger compensate for inexperience with a longer loop. Not good. Either of these two rigs would be a good choice with my own choice probably going to Infinity. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Even a RW PC in a bag it would be the size of a very heavy and plump queen size bed pillow. I just packed one last week in an old sport conventional back rig. Someone would have to make a custom container, At 92 jumps my guess is what ever your thinking it's not going to work. See the thread on C9 or T10 for my post on how to make a jump on a round in your skydiving rig. My guess is you want to jump one but cut it away and not land it. You wimp. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

If all you want is a round jump it's easy. Get a Phantom 28 (or 26 or 24) or FFE Preserve I or III (20 year old ones have been retired, no don't start this argument), Strong Lopo 26, etc. Put on three ring risers and add a bag with a throw out PC. Lots of non collapsible PC hanging around. A Phantom 28 will go in a rig for a 170 sabre. Probably one size smaller. Either use your rig or borrow one. A Phantom will fit, I expect the others will to. Hook it up to your rig and your ready to go with your square reserve and AAD. No reason not to freefall this rig. At your weight you should stand up. My last round jump (and first since a busted up an ankle in 1987) was a few years ago at naked weight about 220lbs on a Phantom 28 in my Reflex. Terminal opening on a Phantom 28 using a D bag and not the diaper. If you have that many round jumps your accuracy will come right back. I have to admit that at my weight I was VERY GLAD I hit the pea gravel pit. Don't know if there are APF rules against this but don't know why there should be. Unless they have a drop dead service date on mains. Now if you want a nostalgia jump with belly wart and capewells then you've heard some ways above. The BaseR chest, based on the manual, uses a speed loop like a Racer and should be able to take a two cutter Cypres. But this a lot harder and/or more expensive than just putting one in your rig. I have my Phantom hooked up ready to put in a rig right now. Finding the round might be a little hard. Look around. I've gathered a bunch but right now the only one on ebay is overpriced at $229. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

On a 176 F-111 seven cell? Loading it to 1.3 or 1.4? The 140 pound girl had trouble landing a Maverick. Hope your real good and PLF's. Have fun. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

We have officers in our two high schools. They are much as you describe. And they become the first target. And may not survive upcoming revenue losses by both schools and cities. One did have to tase an irrational, knife welding, non-compliant 17 year old a couple of weeks ago. In Michigan, because I have a CPL I can OPEN carry in a school but not concealed carry. Gov vetoed a law reversing that mistake in the wake of the shooting. Bad people (bad for whatever reason) will do bad things with whatever tools they have. Criminals do not follow laws. The last "assault weapons ban" only made some people lots of money. NOTHING available before the bad was unavailable during the ban. Just more expensive. Rifle OEM's only had to remove the bayonet lug to make the exact rifle legally. Without confiscation it will take generations for current weapons to leave the society. And criminals (as well of lots of folks who aren't criminals now) will ignore confiscation or ban and the items will still be available to those who want to do evil. Registering all firearms once again only helps with law abiding individuals. Killers aren't law abiding. We are a country and society born with a gun in our hand. I don't think the French revolution used firearms much (pitchforks) but the Colonies did. We continued to grow the country by stealing it at the end of a gun from the native population. We fed our families by hunting. I see NO way that any gun control law would stop many of the shootings. Even legally purchased and registered guns, as used a week ago, can be used by deranged individuals. England was able to enact a handgun ban and confiscation because of a lack of history of individual gun ownership. Of course their Olympic pistol team had to practice out of the country. (I think it was theirs) And we have too many soft target for security to be practical. In MI our school's funding has been cut. Our mental health funding has been practically eliminated. Getting mental health services in this state, EVEN WITH INSURANCE, is difficult. When shall issue CPL was enacted many folks predicted blood in the streets. It hasn't happened even though it is relatively easy for most to get a license. Right now I don't see more concealed carry to act both as a deterrent and reactive force as bad. I shoot more rounds in a single evening of training for competition than most cops shoot in years. Am I as good at law enforcement? No. Can I shoot as well? yes. Can I make the right judgements? Maybe. The problem is if one gun carrying teacher killed last weeks shooter after 5 killed, but killed one kid in the process, we would have a net saving of life of 20. But we would never know that. The good guy would be ruined (emotionally, financially, socially) and perhaps in jail. And we would never know what good might have come from it. I have 6 and 4 year old girls. I cried much of last week end. It felt very strange walking into the school with the first grader on Monday. But I know that I can't protect them everywhere, and society can't protect them everywhere from mad men. I can only hope or pray that they are safe. What will happen. I don't expect teachers/staff to be armed in most of the country. I expect new high(normal) capacity magazine will once again be banned to little effect. I expect some rifles may be banned but I don't expect only 3 round bolt action rifles to be legal. I can't envision confiscation in this country, like it or not. Not when a major manufacturer sells a shotgun complete with water proof case to bury it in. I expect controls on all sales, commercial and private, of firearms but not sure that will make it. With the concurrent cost of expansion of background checks. And I expect little real increase in mental health services. What can we do? Hell if I know. Double taxes may provide for children's security, mental health system restoration and expansion and I might go for it. But most won't and it won't happen here. And I just can't help but think that the possibility of armed resistance in most places (school, etc) would help a little. The random thoughts of the last few days. Now it's time to hug my kids again. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE