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I have two computers on my desk. But that's only because I got a new one and the IT-people didn't feel like taking the old one away. It's been sitting useless on my desk for around two months now. Shame I don't have two ethernet jacks in the wall, I could do some serious post-whoring with two computers.
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>Not sure if their containers and reserves are TSO'd or not. They are, at least the newer ones. The Atom manual found on PdF's website is written in 1997, and on one of the first pages it says: I see no reason why you couldn't import PdF gear to the States. Then again, I've been known to be wrong from time to time, so it's best to find out if someone has actually done it.
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On a skydiving site? We already have one forum in which to discuss non-skydiving stuff... I'm pretty sure this has been suggested earlier, but can't be bothered to do a search right now.
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It could be -0.4 automagically rounded to -0.
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I think we need the little icons back next to the title of the thread. Something like a flaming oil-barrel would be mandatory in all of Iraq/USA/UN/War threads.
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Whoopee.
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A relative of a tandem-passenger explaining the video to his kid: "See, when they're done floating, they open the parachute to get yanked back up."
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[boobie][boobie] [boobies] Damn! Still no luck...
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[boobie] No, that still doesn't seem to work.
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Practising on becoming the crazy cat-lady huh?
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How about this one?
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I think it would be pretty difficult to compile any meaningful statistics about Cypres-fires. You'd have to know the total number of jumps, the number of jumps with a cypres, the number of cypres fires... I can't imagine where you could find all the necessary data. I could find the number of jumps made in Finland in 2001, and the number of Cypres fires that year, but there's no way of telling on how many jumps the jumper was wearing a Cypres.
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didn't we do this already? edit: Ok, not exactly, but pretty much the same.
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>That does it. I'm moving to finland. Check out the weather before making a decision.
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There is the Parachutes de France version, the "LOR 2", that has two RSLs, two pins, and two closing loops on the reserve. The reserve wont open until both risers have been cut away, and thus both pins have been pulled.
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Nothing on their website yet.
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The reserve or the main container?
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As it happens, I was just browsing the Poynter manual(vol2) last night, and read the bit about plating hardware. From what I remember, it is possible to plate metals without weakening them, if you "bake" the plated hardware immediately after plating. There were some other issues(possibility of the chrome chipping off I think?) with chrome plated hardware that made it unsuitable for use in parachutes though.
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I'll just say that everything in the article had a shred of truth in it, but that things really aren't that bad here...
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>The more money you have, the more lift you can have generated. Ok, this one I can understand....
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HOw could something so small make something so bad?
ernokaikkonen replied to akaGQ's topic in The Bonfire
I've been on a load where the pilot ordered us to open the door to get the smell out. It was pretty bad. -
If you had to live in a different country...
ernokaikkonen replied to phatcat's topic in The Bonfire
>We've got other interesting things like .... Tulips. Lot's of tulips. And windmills.. And wooden shoes... Yup, the coffeehouses seem to be the only interesting things there. -
Is it a good jump plane? Performance? Operating costs?
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Where'd you jump the Turbo Finist? Is it in regular use as a jump plane?
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If you had to live in a different country...
ernokaikkonen replied to phatcat's topic in The Bonfire
So, as a New Yorker, you have thing for bad weather huh?