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    How about adding a note in the posting screen similar to the one in "Incidents", explaining briefly the matter of naming sites in public? That might cut down Tom's workload a bit.
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    >To keep the FAA happy that would require repeating some of >the TSO drop tests: an expensive proposition. If you wanted to retrofit WLO/SUPER-toggles to an existing container, yes. But what if you just added them as an option when bringing a new rig/new model on the market? Which raises a question: How much of a change in a H/C's design necessitates re-applying for the TSO? As I recall, Talon/Talon2 would be a good example: The original Talon was gradually improved year by year, until the Talon 2 came out, which was pretty much similar to the latest Talon1s. Are there certain things you can't change in the design, and you're free to do what you want with the rest, or what? Erno
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    >What can I say, I never loved my reserve as much as >when I saw that blue canopy over my head. Light blue FireliteR's really are pretty! Now I have a Techno though, I don't even know what colour it is...
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    MWAHAAHAAHAAA No I'm not selling anything. Really.
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    Yeah, it's that PC shit. I just don't get it. Could someone explain it to me please?
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    I try to collect €uros(so far not too succesfully). I could use some help, if anyone has any that they don't need, feel free to send them to me.
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    Congratumalations! (No, this isn't a feeble attempt at post-whoring to increase my numbers...) ((yeah, right))
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    Yay, a TSO debate! Risers(and thus, the toggles) are a part of the container, not the reserve. Since just about any TSO'd reserve can be fitted to any TSO'd harness/container, I'd think that the reserve manufacturers can't really have much control on what kind of toggles can be used on their reserves. I think a mod like that would require re-applying for the TSO(for the container). Or the container would have to originally be TSO'd with WLO-toggles on the reserve. As a side-note: Wouldn't something like the SUPER-toggles(which require two hands to release, right?) be a better idea; it would really suck to accidentally release a control-line of a perfectly good 100sqft reserve... (Disclaimer: I'm not a rigger, nor do I play one on TV)
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    I wonder if you could manage to con the travel-money out the nigerians? And if you con the con-artists, would that be called "recon"?
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    And yes, a Navigator 220 swoops like an animal when you give it a good amount of front riser...
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    I don't know what software they're using here, but a week ago everyone got an email stating that from monday on there will be "light content-filtering" in effect. Looks like they're not worried about people not working, but they do make sure that people waste the governments money only while keeping up high moral standards...
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    Oh, I hadn't really looked into it in that kind of detail, pressing F5 has worked for me. And I use Opera most of the time anyway.
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    On just about any browser pressing F5 will have the same effect.
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    Your new picture see I now.
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    I can't take all the credit, but there was a bunch of posts about extreme bagel eating on the NA-thread that seemed pretty funny at the time...
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    mr. Bill!

    ernokaikkonen replied to jtval's topic in The Bonfire

    I've tried that a couple of times. The first time I was the pilot, the jump went pretty well. Last summer I tried it again. The details of that jump can be found here.
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    Probably the easiest way would be to get the JumpTrack-software for the Pro-Track. Larsen and Brusgaard website
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    That was hilarious! A couple of last minute pointers by the instructor: "There is?" ... And then the silly whuffo femurs on a chest mounted reserve. Because it didn't have enough time to slow her down. Good thing they had a standard response to that particular emergency; I shudder to think what would have happened if she hadn't started running in mid-air... heeheehee....
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    Oops, my bad. An earlier discussion got me confused. This thread had discussion about a mod that some people said served the same purpose as a tailgate(anti-lineover measure). Hmm. Reading thread again, it looks like people found three different explanations for the mod...
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    There are some. I remember reading here about something resembling a tailgate on some Jedeis, or as after-market mods.(I think?) Installing a tailgate is a trivial task for any rigger, so the option is available. Why aren't there many in use? In short: It's more trouble while packing, and people don't think it's worth it. Lineovers are (most of the time) easy to avoid by careful packing, and heading control isn't as important in skydiving. Erno
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    >>"I'm glad that AlQueda doesn't read this website- " >> >What makes you think that? > Ooh, they're out to get us! Where's my tinfoil hat? Damn you all, you just put Finland to the #1 place on Al-Queda target-list... And BTW greasing your face when it's -20C outside will only make it easier for you to get frostbite...
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    Have none of you heard the old aircraft-builders saying: "Well taped is better than badly welded" ?
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    >Too many syllables. Besides, shouldn't a nickname be somethng catchy? Cthulhu? Sheesh, nobody can even pronounce that! Hell, nobody seems to know how it's supposed to be pronounced...(Google:"cthulhu pronounced" gave the following options on the first page alone:k-THOO-lu, k-TOO-lu, THOO-lu, kuh-thew, kuh-THOO-loo, kuh-thool-hoo, khlûl’-hloo, ker-thoo-loo)
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    >See this thumb (holding up thumb) I could kill you 49 ways with this thumb
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    >I would hate to be the second Richard there. Not too many Richards here... and it works better in Finnish anyway. JT, calling people "Middle-" would mean that people'd have to change their names when someone new comes along... we can't have that now can we? How about "Tiny-"?