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Woosh! @3,500 skydives, and just last month I took up flying camera ("real" camera - no POV/GoPro - LOL). ...Man, I'm having a BLAST! OP - As others have already well covered in here - as with ANYTHING else in life - YMMV. coitus non circum - Moab Stone

No, you miss the point. What it does eliminate ("problem solve" for though) is the on-going probability and likelihood of continual ERRANT skydivers being the culprits; and therefore distractions, and further takes away the base security's needs to second-guess - "Hey - what is that parachute here now coming in over the wire" scenario too. Read the base commander's own (published) actual letter regarding this, and not just the mainstream media's paraphrase. He was neither unclear on that - nor for the circumstances, honestly for that matter either, unreasonable. coitus non circum - Moab Stone

Right. The Navy has said (and I quote); "The airport must be moved" due to these "security threats". The security threats have been further quantified as the skydivers inability to GUARANTEE that they will not land there. Game over (now) no matter how you look at it/slice it. Everything is "trumped" by national security today in this country - when it is invoked - which looks like it has / is being. This one is now blown. No matter how better it could have been (previously) handled probably at one point, or not. The airport is now in its OWN self-preservation mode too, on top of it. Their ONLY CHOICE really, now - is to show that THEY are doing what is necessary to ELIMINATE the (stated) National Security threat! - They asked the DZ/DZO if they could guarantee, unequivocally - that skydivers would never land on the base - or could be absolutely prevented - and they replied "no", that they could not GUARANTEE that. Game over. coitus non circum - Moab Stone

Right! Here's a good reference link (Rick's earlier quote, embedded and adopted): http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=821580;#821580 And, one of my all-time favorites, actually - an article you wrote yourself, back in '04. Pay particular attention kiddies, to item #9 in this list: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/safety/detail_page.cgi?ID=81 BSBD to Rick Horn. Still remembered. Still missed. coitus non circum - Moab Stone

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This is becoming more & more common lately. An insurance underwriter friend of mine has said that many of the "majors" (she works for State Farm) have even released internal "guidance" on not only just skydiving, but several higher-risk activities / sports, and rather than just outrightly exclude them (which many used to do) - they actually recognize now, that more "active" lifestyles can actually be more (overall) "healthy" than a sedentary one, and again - rather than exclude otherwise healthy ACTIVE persons (which they also recognized they were missing out on as a result) - they've much more appropriately recently decided to "rate" them. As a result too, many have become more educated even, themselves in the particular activities - and will actually recognize that CURRENCY (activity frequency maintenance and not $$) , regularity, rather than even varying activities and infrequency (i.e. being just an adrenaline junkie "tourist") - also RATES BETTER!

Yup, sure can! ...Had my rig re-packed, picked up in the (Saturday) morning to start my weekend on it, and VERY NEXT (yes - very 1st back on it) JUMP - CHOP! Had 2 rigs (reserve) repacked that morning. $50 each, for a total of $100.00 - which I paid my rigger, cash. ...New bills from the ATM, and they were sticky/fresh. Turns out I had only given him 4 20's ($80) instead of 5. He met me in the loading area just before the jump and informed me of my shortage - which of course I said I would square up, the moment I got back down from the jump. As I was walking back with all my "sh**" - having to have collected it all after the chop - - the very 1st person on the ground to greet me? - Yup, my rigger! ..."See....... THAT'S what happens when you short your rigger, deadbeat!!" coitus non circum - Moab Stone

So... will the cx210 (or any of the currently available cx models) be not wide-enough without the glue-on step-up "hack" applied to it? - - - This is rather disconcerting (read: bummer) if so. Somewhere, I thought I read that the latest even "thread-less" Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens built into the newer models went on their own, down wide-enough (to .26)? ...Is this not accurate? coitus non circum - Moab Stone

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And you would be incorrect in your thinking. There's a difference between strenghts and weaknesses and consistancy in a program. I agree with Dave here. I personally work at a "small" enough DZ (although still turbine ) - that I find when pulling returning student cards for some of the mid-to-advanced categories of AFF - I may have actually even been to that point, on every single jump they'd had - right from Cat-A/jump-1. Although that might make some students feel "comfortable", and I do indeed consider myself a good, competent, thorough instructor - I will none-the-less actually RECOMMEND that student pair-up with another instructor, at least at some time during their progression, if at all possible. No matter how "good" any one single individual instructor may be, or how "comfortable" it may feel to have that one instructor absolutely all the way through your progression - I do believe that having at least SOME variety, is of benefit, regardless - and can add valuable perspective. FWIW. coitus non circum - Moab Stone

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That's not entirely true. GA in China Just sayin'. The ad though, as put up by the OP - is clearly a FRAUD. coitus non circum - Moab Stone

I think that's a great comment I think his following comment to that though, as expressed to the OP - was even better/probably even more dead-nuts ON: coitus non circum - Moab Stone

Maybe the "problem" is not with the students, if that truly is 100% of YOUR personal observation(s), over (presumably) a MULTITUDE (as you seem to indicate) of separate, individuals. I have not had the same observation(s) or experience, - at all. The worst "ride(s)" I have ever been on in my career, btw, was with a 20-something'er. FWIW. And this is what triggered your rant/assertion that pre-jump tunnel time must be mandated specifically for this group? ...Oh yeah, mandatory pre-jump tunnel time will really help out with them (or anyone for that matter) road-rashing, biffing-in and (apparently) pissing you off that they are not responding the way you like to radio, under canopy. coitus non circum - Moab Stone

^^ - What Matt says. Think again. coitus non circum - Moab Stone

Hmmmm... Wonder if any FAA inspectors, when they show up and pull Reserve Packing Data Cards (as was mentioned in a previous post, as if a "who cares") - would ever consider asserting their authority on this? I would presume that(at least for now - otherwise I would think we'd of heard of it happening) - other than packing cycles being evidenced as "in date", that's pretty much all they with those, were even considering/looking for. Wouldn't it be something though, if they also when pulling those cards, obtained the owners/jumpers weight, and then considered / cited for violations (or worse, took "stop" / confiscation measures) there too? Far fetched? - I dunno. Maybe. coitus non circum - Moab Stone

So, May 1, you say: (Ref: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4311937;page=unread#unread Now, just 2 short weekend's later, THIS? You really are a "piece of work", aren't you? - Seriously. ...And you get offended when ANYONE really says ANYTHING at all (or even really tries) to you. Your "game" on here, whatever it is - is truly, tiresome. Honestly not looking forward to seeing your "Sangi-esque" scheme unfold. But whatever. You're an adult right? Please just don't either take out, or hurt anyone else with your endeavors is all. coitus non circum - Moab Stone

No - They have and use / develop either static-line, or IAD programs is all. Absolutely nothing wrong with those either! "Dummying down" the AFF program, or the credentials and skills needed to be under the belt and be EARNED for an (AFF) instructor to get his/her ratings in order to simply accommodate allowing a lesser-qualified instructor to do AFF at a smaller dropzone, just to say that dropzone now has AFF - and using that reasoning to answer this poll the way you have, is clearly flawed thinking! Why is it that people think AFF is the begin-all, end-all, and/or the ONLY way to effectively teach skydiving? There are several progression methods currently available, and not having AFF at any particular DZ is absolutely no reflection at all, IMHO as to that DZ's QUALITY of skydiver training being provided!! Certainly don't know what the size of the DZ has got to do in any way at all, with assuring top-quality, properly credentialed (and vetted) instructors are the one's doing the teaching there - or rather, what you seem to be saying - or advocating - that it is better to maybe allow or even facilitate having lesser/lowered standards ...just for the sake of saying (only) that they actually have a certain (AFF) program? - That is about the most non-appropriate response to all this, i think I have seen yet. coitus non circum - Moab Stone

LiPo battery in any way "installed", affixed or maintained (let alone "plugged-in" - ) in relatively extended contact with/to your (over 90% flammable material ) rig = very bad idea / ju-ju!! Indeed. No, no. That's okay Michael. Please don't. coitus non circum - Moab Stone