Southern_Man

I admit to not paying much attention to the Pope for good or bad. What has he done to garner some kudos in this thread? "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

The age of consent in Virginia is 18, with a close in age exception which allows teenagers aged 15, 16 and 17 to engage in sexual acts, but only with a partner younger than 18. However the legislation is not clear cut and the details are discussed below: Any penetrative sexual act other than penile-vaginal intercourse is defined in Virginia law as 'sodomy.' Section 18.2-361 of the Code of Virginia entitled "Crimes against nature" states in part; "If any person carnally knows in any manner any brute animal, or carnally knows any male or female person by the anus or by or with the mouth, or voluntarily submits to such carnal knowledge, he or she shall be guilty of ... felony..." In addition, any sexual intercourse is defined in Virginia law as 'fornication.' Section 18.2-344 of the Code of Virginia entitled "Crimes against nature" states; "Any person, not being married, who voluntarily shall have sexual intercourse with any other person, shall be guilty of fornication, punishable as a Class 4 misdemeanor." The courts of Virginia have ruled that these statutes are not invalid under the US Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas since that case only applied to adults, and the age of majority in Virginia is 18. This means that those 18 and above involved in consensual activity in private may have a defense in court, but those under 18 do not. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Assuming you are in the USA then yes, your A license will allow you to jump with other A licensed jumpers. You will not learn much from those jumps, certainly a lot less than jumping with experienced jumpers. However we do this to have fun so keep your expectations low and jump with your friends sometimes too. You will both get better eventually. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I think the Eagles new fast paced offense is pretty entertaining... "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Let's get back to thinner lesbians... "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

There are some folks in History and Trivia that might find this interesting. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Actually to make it even more foolproof you should, according to jumpshack, disconnect the RSL any time you have a good canopy over your head. Seems if people did this it would eliminate any issues with fumbling to disconnect the shackle. I don't know anybody who jumps a racer with a double sided RSL, so I don't know if people actually do this or not. That is potentially very deadly logic. My guess is - though John Sherman would probably deny it - that Jump Shack encourages the disconnection of the RSL on every jump more as a statement to protect against liability than anything else. An RSL should not be disconnected as a way to avoid a situation that has not happened and likely won't. Besides, having the reserve deploy with the RSL connected isn't a problem anyway. Only cutting away without disconnecting it (potentially) is. Keeping it connected is essential in case of a malfunction after the deployment of a clean canopy. Historically there have been many canopy collapses, turn or turbulance-induced line twists, canopy damage from collisions, etc. in which an RSL could have or did make the difference between a reserve repack and death. Having a good canopy at deployment in no way insures it will stay good. Jumpers should keep every piece of safety equipment at the ready in case something goes awry on the trip down - especially any device that minimizes the altitude necessary to get a reserve out in a low altitude emergency. If a reserve doesn't deploy before, during, or shortly after main deployment (most typically because of an AAD activation), the odds of it coming out thereafter are miniscule at best. It makes no sense to disconnect the RSL to guard against a highly improbable scenario when doing so also removes it from possible and much more likely scenarios in which it might make all the difference in the outcome of the jump. I am not advising people to do it but it is the official jumpshack advice. Actually John Sherman's article says you should do this with any RSL system, not just the racer. Just so people can look at the article and read for themselves:http://www.jumpshack.com/default.asp?CategoryID=TECH&PageID=2SQUARESOUT&SortBy= "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Actually to make it even more foolproof you should, according to jumpshack, disconnect the RSL any time you have a good canopy over your head. Seems if people did this it would eliminate any issues with fumbling to disconnect the shackle. I don't know anybody who jumps a racer with a double sided RSL, so I don't know if people actually do this or not. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Personally I am not a fan of Abita beers. I know a lot of people who really like them but I don't. I am a big fan of Terrapin. They make some excellent IPAs that are very hoppy. I have had their treehugger and it is pretty good, although much milder than my preferred style. I like the stone Black Ale--I like Stone in general and the Black Ale is somewhat distinctive in my opinion. Had the Sunshine Daydream, pretty good, a bit citrusy. Medium body. I either haven't had the others or they didn't make enough of an impression to warrant comment. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

This would have no effect on the man's financial responsibility. It's no longer a case of he said/she said or an "accident." Willful, deliberate, and most importantly evidentiary proof. May even be enough to get the woman declared an unfit mother and put the baby up for adoption. You either have no knowledge of the legal standard for removal of children or no experience in the system. Either that or you are simply posting on the way you think things "ought to be." No matter how much you might wish they were that way, they aren't. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

This would have no effect on the man's financial responsibility. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I don't assume you know this, but maybe you do. You would also have to pay a repack fee to have the AAD inserted into your rig. And possibly another one to have it removed from your rig. If you are using the same rigger you may get these at a discount from a complete repack fee but I would talk to him/her first and not assume that. Also, I have no idea what the status of your shoulder is but you should try to get that sorted. Dislocations in freefall are a fairly common phenomena but they are still very serious. Surgery and/or a brace should be on your list. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Since when is a bakery a religious institution? "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Jumpers need to contribute more to the airport access fund. I can't afford very much but I contribute a little bit every year when I renew my membership. Please consider doing the same. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

You got married? Congratulations. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Funneling more profits to defense contractors. More socialism for wealthy corporations. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

First thing I would do it ask to see specifically the policy that prohibits the skydiving club. That just reads like bluster and a brush off attempt to me. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I may be in favor of "punishing those responsible" but I disagree that "WE" should be the ones doing the punishing. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Let's assume for the sake of argument that raising the minimum pull altitude means people will actually pull highigher. I've seen the argument here that people will continue to pull low, but that's begging the question, so I'd like to put it aside for now. If people pull higher, they will have longer to deal with a partial malfunction before getting to the point that their reserve is useless. Don't discount the extra time. There have been fatalities, including recently, where people futzed around with partial malfunctions, finally gave up, and cutaway too low to survive. If they had a few extra seconds, perhaps they would have either fixed their problem, or cutaway at a survivable altitude. My last cutaway happened when I hit my hard deck after messing with a spinning line twist. I was just about out of the twists. The temptation was there to keep working on it for just a little longer. I can't see how having an extra 7-10 seconds of working time could possibly hurt in a situation like that. The only thing that cures a loss of altitude awareness is become altitude aware. If you have another 7-10 seconds for that to happen, it's better than being interrupted by impact. I don't agree that preventing two-outs is a dubious concern. Two-outs are rarely fatal, but they are most certainly dangerous, and can turn an uneventful low pull into a life threatening situation. I don't disagree with either of your statements, I guess I just disagree with the underlying assumptions regarding those statements. We either see different facts on the ground or interpret them differently. I do not know (many) people who pull below 3000 feet on any sort of regular basis. Raising the minimum pull altitudes will have no effect on any sort on the vast majority of skydivers and skydivers. I believe there was an incident of spinning line-twists and low-cutaway on a big-way out in California last year but I do not believe that low deployment altitude (

I disagree about this being better than doing nothing. At present we have an increasing number of people dying with partially deployed reserves. People already have the option of increasing their AAD deployment altitude, but that still misses the root cause. So we raise the deployment BSR, but that still does nothing to address people going in at reserve line stretch, it ONLY makes a few people feel good. Just look at the past 10 years of fatalities here on dz.com and you see the increasing proportion of 'low cutaway' type deaths. Edited to add: just clicking through the Fatalities database there is a sharp upward trend around 2009/2010 onwards. A number of them are listed as 'low cutaway' and I am willing to accept that the rise in popularity of Skyhooks is to blame - directly because people have started to blur the line of no cutaway decision altitudes. Raising the AAD firing altitude may help with "reserve at line stretch". Raising the minimum deployment altitude may help prevent 2 outs (although I think that is dubious). Neither does anything to help with low-cutaways. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Don't have to pay for those pesky repacks every 180 days either. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

That would be hot if you did, though Guys don't want to date a chick with bigger balls then they have. Never had a skydiving girlfriend, although my last one did make two tandems and would come and hang out at the DZ now and then. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Is there some documentation on this? Has it changed at all? I know you have a lot of experience and knowledge with the Vigils. I called and talked to them a few months ago specifically about altitude offsets and (unless I am remembering incorrectly which is possible) they told me that the bottom end would turn off higher. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I do talk to myself but people look at me funny. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I am a big fan of waiting until you have the money saved up. The students I've seen that have done that have then jumped more consistently and more often, have a better learning curve, and succeeded. The ones who are scraping for every jump struggle to jump frequently enough to build their skills and have a much higher frustration level and drop out rate. Also, my answer really has nothing to do with the weather. I'd be surprised if they close for the winter in Utah. If you can get the money together in January there is nothing wrong with waiting until January. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"