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Ah. It was pointed out to me that you already had the snap on the mudflap. My bad. Still, I would turn the knife around so that the blade can't cut your chest-strap when you pull it out.

That's what you get for doing dangerous extreme-sports! Stick to something safer, like jumping out of airplanes.... Heal well.

I had the same thing happen to me on jump #100. I simply grabbed the opposite rear riser to maintain level flight, and used my free hand to release the stuck toggle. It was a bitch to do with one hand, but even if I hadn't been able to free it, I could've cut away from the main while flying straight. Just a suggestion for an alternative course of action for the next time that happens.

> Plus, I want to be a rigger some day myself, so might as well practice. Practicing is a good idea, but you would get more out of it if you practiced under the supervision of a rigger. About your design, there are a few things I'd like to mention: *I personally don't like the idea of a unsheathed knife in the mudflap. I'd feel more comfortable if the knife was in a sheath, and the sheath was tacked on the inside of the mudflap. *The strap seems to be the wrong way around. There's a theoretical possibility that you might cut your chest-strap when pulling the knife out with the current setup. Turn the the strap so that the blade points outwards. *When you hammered the snap on the mudflap, how did you make sure you wouldn't damage the main lift web underneath? Did you have a plate of some sort under the "anvil" of the snap set? The area of the anvil is small enough that it might damage the webbing when hammered on(if it's like the ones I've seen before). There's a reason that riggers are the ones to do this kind of things: You don't need to re-invent the wheel. I'm sure your local rigger would be more than happy to give you instructions and supervision on projects like this.

... I did a two-way sitfly, jumping with gear I had loaned from a friend of mine. I got a very hard slammer opening, the slider kill-line was in such a bad shape I couldn't collapse the slider, and one of the toggles got stuck. I managed to get the toggle free after a few moments of counter-steering with the opposite rear-riser, so at least I didn't have to cut-away. Probably not the kind of "special" jump you had in mind...

Second that. At the moment the classifieds are practically useless to people outside of North-America.

Oh, that. There's nothing we can do. People will keep getting hurt under canopies too small for their skill-level, until it's made impossible by regulations. Here in Finland the regulations are already there: People under 250 jumps have to jump "non-elliptical" canopies loaded under 1,34. The "peer-pressure"-thingie will have no effect on those who would need it the most.

He got so badly wasted that he remembers nothing of wednesday, thursday or friday....

It took me while to understand what this ...meant, but I think this(attached) was what Kelly meant. Green dotted line marks the proper route, between the side flap and the center flap -- the red line marking the 'incorrect' way, which on deployment will put stress on the tuck tab.

? I'm going to assume that the last post wasn't pointed at me, although the reply was to my post.

There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.

Or with Opera, right click and select "frame"-->"copy address"(see attached) There's really no point in using frames on a site that simple(or at all actually), but that's not a discussion for this forum... Bill: During your tests of the Skyhook, did you manage to cause a situation where the lanyard would get stuck during a normal(non-RSL) reserve-deployment? Can you think of a way that the system could be mis-rigged during a reserve repack, so that the Skyhook would hinder normal reserve deployment?

I don't see how I could measure in numbers how much easier it is to find a metal handle by feel alone, compared to a soft pillow. I know I didn't even glance at my handles when I had my cutaway, I just grabbed my cutaway pillow, forgot to peel the velcro(), and pulled it like a MF until it released, then I just grabbed my reserve handle, instantly knew it was in my hand and pulled. I like the feel of the metal handle over the pillow. How should I measure that?

I didnt' know that. Doesn't sound right to me. Hmmm. You could use: "file to the webpage 'e was making" "edit the page 'e had just edited" ...but that wont save you from: "save a file from the Internet to his/her own computer " Stupid language. Bah!

I thought about phrasing the rant in a way that would not reveal the gender of the person in question, but it would've been too much trouble. Much easier in Finnish, we only have one third person singular pronoun, used for both sexes.

That should be a part of every FJC. Someone always ask the question "what if the parachute doesn't open?". After that's answered("you have a reserve"), there's always someone who asks the next one : "What if the reserve doesn't open either?". There should be only one answer to that, none of the "reserves are only packed by people with special training-yada yada", but the simple, no-nonsense:"Then you die". People need to know what they're getting into.

You're looking for trouble, mister!

LOL....

>If only people could handle Tech support like Mike is right now (UF)... Oh, that's nothing that a lobotomy won't cure... Or the employers could supply a jar of "happy-pills" on each tech-support guy's desk. In real life it's terrible. I'm managing the website of a fairly large government office. A couple of months ago we got a new, shiny, idiot-proof publishing system. Which means that now every official updates the web-pages. Dozens of clueless people get to poke at the website with the browser-based administration tool. Just yesterday I had to tell a person who was updating the pages the following things: -how to minimize a window -how to get it back visible -how to save a file from the Internet to her own computer -how to upload the same file to the webpage she was making, using the "idiot-proof" browser-based administration tool. -how to re-edit the page she just edited(! "yes, just click on the same link as last time...") and then I had to fix the fuckups on the page.

Good job Q! Congrats!

>You can also put clamps on the risers so you don't have >to worry about hooking it up backwards. Yes, again only if I don't want to take a look at the main.

What did the cat think about this? Did it survive?

>could be worse. It could?

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