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I think it has made it safer for dangerous people, and more dangerous for safe people. In other words people who would have never been let to jump or would have burned in had it not been for their aad are still out there flying around endangering others. All aads have done is allowed many people to fly with their heads up there ass as S.O.P. Edit to add, I do know two or three people who were really saved by an AAD, both were knocked out cold by another. But I know way more who fired them because they can't read a dial or see the big ass planet their about to smack into. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Waldo Pepper Catch 22 Big Wednesday any Carl B. films, wings, skydive ect. Gyspy Moths you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Your are correct, sorry to lump you in with older members, that was not fair of me. You maybe right, but I don't think it was as early as 76, I'm guessing 84 or 85, but don't know for sure and no need to get into a pissing contest on the date. When I say I think we need a firm rule, I'm thinking of people I personally know who have blown off good advice and used their ratings to preach to noobs and steer them in the wrong direction with really bad out comes and had we had more real enforcement available, there would be one less dead tandem master taken out by a 4 yr hotshot superswoop'n skygod with all the ratings one could have. We have lowered the standards for instructors these days and we are seeing the results of going "mainstream" this sport is not for everyone and it should stay that way. The bottom line is the current rules, recommendations, requirements, or what ever fancy word you care to dress it up as, isn't working! This sport for me has never been about a team thing, there is no one to hold your hand and keep you safe, but you. It has always been everyone for them selfs. So I for one will keep on keeping on and stay far far way from the current crop of mainstream idiots in the sport today as best I can. ("mainstream" the ones who are to stupid to know I'm talking about you) It is sad to meet a longtime jumper this week who has done a lot in this sport to learn they won't jump anymore because of the danger of the current mainstream jumpers we have today. But at least I got some cool old gear from a cool old guy, this sport lost a lot when he quit. (you know who you are, you lurker) Have a good day, everyone.

Genral membership is for jumpers and the BOD is for DZO's. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Yea just like it's a requirement for DZs' to follow in order to be a GM. As far as I'm concerned they are only Basic Safety "Recommendations" They have no teeth and can't be enforced by anyone anywhere at anytime and the USPA BOD has a long history of looking the other way as it suits the needs of their buddys. So what year did they change the word from Recommendations to requirements? you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

???? What part of recommendations don't you understand about, Basic Safety Recommendations That is what a BSR is a recommendation not a rule or law or FAR. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

How a wing works is pretty basic stuff it don't take a rocket engineer to figuare it out. Funny thing, I see many new I's who have been in the sport less then 5 yrs.. talking smack and teaching others to be in fashion and pushing noobs to get the joe cool small canopies and containers and these I's are walking dead men and are to stupid to know they are, while the old guys are teaching to take the time to learn about flight in all conditions and learn to fly safe first and fast last and smaller wings much later on, yet many noobs are talked into getting wings they shouldn't be flying in the name of fashion and looking cool. One don't need to be Brian G or Scott Miller to teach canopy flight and teach it well. As a side note your right my number 95% is way to high by todays quility of I's teaching, it should be more 45% and those 45% have all been in jumping more then 10 yrs. The rest these day have their head up their ass for the most part, and those who I'm thinking / speaking of are going to get an ear full next time I see them. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I disagree with you! When Roger Nelson got taken out myself and others took our concerns to the S&TA as well as the DZo about a few pilots who kept doing the same crap as Danny did load after load and used students as pylons to swoop thru. We asked for a second landing area for the swoopers and were met with a bad attitude from not only the swoopers but the DZO as well. I felt at that time and I still feel we need a BSR and have for some time now. You and the rest of the BOD have sat on your ass for a number of years now without addressing the concerns of many of the membership with regard to HP canopies and those who shouldn't be under those wings, to the point we are today that now instead of having to clean up one mess we get to clean up some other dead person who was taken out while following the rules in place. You don't want a BSR, fine how about a USPA canopy flight instructor rating then, and a BSR for high wingloadings then. Sorry I forgot you guys did spend a bunch of membership money for a video and poster to show at safety day, that was a big help....wasn't it. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

The same people who don't enforce the current ones.(depending on the dz your at) Or to back S&TA's who wish to put a shoe in jumpers ass It's just not "economically viable" to piss the jumpers off I guess. What ever happened to people listening to instructors after student status? When's the last time someone you saw someone grounded? How about the last time you saw someone asked not to come back to the DZ because of unsafe actions? BSR or no BSR, untill someone gets out on the field who cares enough to be the "bad guy", ain't nothing gonna change. I appreciate all the people who took the time to be the "bad guys" in my skydiving career, even if I didn't in the heat of the moment. I thank them, because of them, I'm still sucking air. *** Your welcome! you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I think 95 % of I's can teach canopy flight into even advance flight, but I see 85 % of new jumpers get in a rush to run out an get XXXX hotrod canopy and blow off the good advice of many of the I's out there who say to slow down and learn, while all the cool kids are telling them that standing on ones head and flying a pocket rocket is the happening thing these days and if your not doing it too, then your not cool like them and jumping some big old boat is the for old out dated belly jumpers! Funny thing though you see very few dead old out dated belly jumpers lying in the landing area these days from crashing their canopies and if you do it might be from some idiot taking them out with a hotrod they can't fly or should have been sold in the first place. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I never take the tape to the end, I just lock it so it won't record, it is faster to lock it then fast forward it then rewind it to shoot the next one. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

How do you figuare that? When you export the signal don't don't care if it pass out the camera or your "apple conection" it's not like the signal stops for a coffie break on the way out of the imovie to the camera to the dvd, it is a stright shot to the recorder and takes as long to record as it dose to export the the vid, however long your vid is is how long it takes to record. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

For you the offer still stands if it will help you earn the money you need to replace you stuff. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

If it any help to you I have a extra video for top mount I would lone to you. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Yes and yes. You got it. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I don't know the brand, some wal-mart cheap crap for 99.00 bucks the DZ owns. I haven't spent the time or money to get my own yet. For any movies I might make (personal) the built in works great if you don't mind the wait. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Yes and if you lock the tape so it won't record it will ask you if you want to anyway, click yes and export it to your burner, we have never a gen. loss doing this. P.S. don't use an "s" cable firewire from mac and RCA from cam to DVD. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

And just how many of those people will you find in the class teaching FJC's and flying skills every weekend? Just because someone can do 4-way kickass or be on a sponsored team, don't make them PRO's, if someone want's to learn about making a living in skydiving try talking to the guys and gals who have been teaching and jumping with students for the last 25 years, not walking around with their "billboard" jumpsuits on and their nose up in the air and acting like their shit don't stink! you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

What no stills and flash with that, you pussy! you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

17in power g4 1 gb running imovie for tandems and passing the signal in "export" thru the cam to external DVD to burn in real time. And iphotos for stills. FCE and FCP is way over kill IMO 4 TDMs. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Never ! (unless said jumpers is also a rigger) you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I'll b there.

Only one way to find out. See want ad for test jumper. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

No problem here, mate. We are still on the same page. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I understand that and said why don't we talk this over with Sandy and see about getting fixed. I can't make a DZO pull their head out of their ass. Not my rig, not my money, not my dz, not my student sitting on the ground waiting for a rig, and not my problem. Just wondered what it cost homeboy over there so I can throw out again next time the issiue comes up. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo