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>If you say something in a public forum, you should -have- to be accountable >for what you say. Otherwise the rules of civility go out the door and slander >becomes an acceptable form of expression. Pretty much the only way a person >can be accountable for their actions is if you know who they actually are -- >otherwise they'll just run away, create a "new" identity and do it again. Bingo. This is almost exactly what was going on at Blinc until Mick made the board registered user only. The only difference was that anyone could post without registering... I haven't been around here for that long, but has DZcom always been a registered user only forum? Erno

After reading the responses, I counted four people who answered something like this: >You look across a formation and notice that someone’s main pin has come >out of the closing loop? >-Get their attention, point at their gear and give them a pull signal. Did you all imagine a jump without a video-guy, or did you just forget about the poor fellow who's going to get a PC at his face? And my answers: >A steering line broke at 200 ft? Ugh. My opinion of not practising rear-riser flare bites me on the ass... I'd probably stall using rear-risers... >Your altimeter was hit and knocked off on exit? No probs, on 4-way jumps I rarely look at my _own_ alti. If it was a solo, just eyeball it. >You lose sight of the formation in a cloud and you are at break off altitude? Take it lower than planned, wave-off, do a barrel-roll to check above airspace and deploy. Hands on risers to avoid collisions. >You experience a hard opening, dislocating a shoulder, rendering one arm > useless? Land in halfbrakes, PLF. >After opening you look up and your main was packed w/ a step-through? Controllability-check, possibly a cutaway. Turn to final REALLY high to make sure one toggle doesn't get jammed down after the turn. >In free-fall, your shirt flys up, covering your cut away and reserve handles? Been there, done that. Get the shirt down during track and keep it there during deployment. >Your helmet comes un-latched in free-fall? Lose helmet? Tried that once as well.... >Your full face helmet visor fogs up in free-fall, or under canopy? One of the reasons I don't jump fullface. >You look across a formation and notice that someone’s main pin has come >out of the closing loop? This is EVIL. No way I'm going to give the pull signal, cause usually the cameraman is right above... Maybe fly in and try to contain the shit until others breakoff thereby signalling the cameraman to open? And at deployment altitude throw the other jumpers PC? >After all of the floaters have climbed out (Twin Otter/King Air jump ship), >you are sitting up near the pilot, and the pilot yells for an abort/go-around > for traffic? Get to the door and start yelling and pulling the others back in. I don't see what the danger is, as long as you watch out for handles just like during the climbout. >In free-fall w/ other jumpers you look down and see an open canopy directly >underneath the group/formation? Turn'n'track. Can't kill the cameraguy here either. >In light and variable winds, you watch four other jumpers land before you in >four different directions? Usually that would mean that I'm the last one in air... But considering more jumpers than that, I'd land in the predesignated direction! >You accidentally land in water, too deep to reach the bottom, 200 feet from >the nearest shore? Stall the canopy on landing to get it behind me, cutaway(I have no rsl) swim away. Get out of harness, swim ashore. >You land in a tree, suspended 20 feet from the ground? Do a macho-bullshit attempt at getting down by myself, fall down, break leg. >Your reserve pilot chute launches just after your main opens? If I can catch the PC, do so. If not... If I can't catch the PC, the reserve isn't inflating and I'm at normal altitude, I cutaway my main. Why? I don't want the reserve to inflate and downplane me to the ground at 100 meters... Erno

>Have you tested the two canopies side by side in identical situations while >recording the data that you retrieved? Point taken. However, since very few of us have actually conducted scientific studies on any of the topics discussed here, almost everything that's said here is just the opinion or belief of the poster. What I posted is what I believe to be the truth. I haven't heard any Springo pilots complaining about frequent line twists. Erno

I'm not sure if I understood correctly, but if I did: The PdF Atom Legend has a simple solution to prevent main lines from snagging on the reserve container corners. I'm not sure it would be practical to retrofit something like this but here's food for thought in the attachment. Erno

So, just out of interest: Since: -He knows the IP-address 63.119.175.56(which wont take him to the website) -The information on how to get to the site is public (the DNS's know it), is there a way to access the website without a working DNS? Erno

I managed to catch the source for the same page with the error and without it. When I first clicked to the page from Talkback, I got the error, then I refreshed and got the error(didn't save that source), and when I refreshed the second time I got it right. Looks like the page with the error has loads of stuff missing from it. The source has been edited to show the differences between the two versions. (lines wrapped at column 80) I hope this helps. baby_arrived_correct.htm baby_arrived_incorrect.htm

Got it again, this time I saved the source. Looks the same with IE5.5 opr00L2F.htm

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=219918;page=2;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=100; Opera 6.05 and Netscape 6.2 both look like this.

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>>I blacked out fifteen times trying to read this post. >> > >Huh? I think he was trying to say: >I have an OD(huh?) green/black Texas A&M(whats?) >Corps of Cadets patch off of a set of my BDUs(the say what nows?) >and a Bonehead American flag patch (like on the chin straps) and >a Jack the Ripper hookknife sewn on my jumpsuit.

Hmm. The thread is really sidetracking here but: >most of the article is written in so called American English and she has >written her part in Correct English. AFAIK the 'so called American English' is taught at schools across the US. Should the americans be calling the two dialects "Correct English" and "British English"? Erno

>yeah and it teaches you perseverance!!!!!! Jump nr 22, getting lots of canopy >practice, but still not past 3sec Yeah, don't I know it: jump #19 was my first 3 sec freefall... >oh well, tomorrow is a public holiday so hold thumbs that these clouds will >go away *holding thumbs up*

>none have fired since I've been there, or that I've heard of ... Ok, your way must be working at least as well as ours. >BTW - we do have AFF as well, but I can't afford it ... Good for you. I'm a firm believer in that S/L-progression makes better skydivers: More canopy time as a student --> better awareness under canopy when you get your licence. There are people who will say that AFF is by far the superior training method, but the opinion seems to be mostly affected by which method the person him/herself learned... (yes, I went S/L

I'd be under a 245... The Fox is available in that size...

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>I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this no alti thing .. Mine? Ok. I find the concept kind of interesting. To me it seems like you're doing things down there in an "old skool"-darwin-sort-of way. Reminds me of a new student training-program that was planned on some bad-weather-day: The Accelerated Natural Selection-program... But seriously: Sounds like a good idea to me to get used to judging the altitude by eyes only. This should produce much less device-dependent jumpers. The fact that a lot of people rely only on an audible is asking for trouble... That being said, there is no way the mandatory alti will ever be dropped from our aviation regulations. The people in charge would be seeing students trying to clear mals until impact if someone proposed this. This would require changing some fundamental things in our student training; now, students are taught that they should try to kick out of line-twists and get end cells open till their hard-deck of 600m(AFAIK, I'm not an instructor). I actually saw a guy with spinning line-twists on a Navigator who calmly tried to get his canopy flying, until he saw 600m on his alti and chopped. It was his 5th jump as I recall. Do you have AAD's on student rigs? Do they fire a lot? Erno

>I keep clicking on "Edit Profile" by mistake.... I just did the same...

A bit of spandex to patch a hole in the elbow(from an intentional crosswind landing that I unintentionally landed on the runway) And will have a big cordura patch on the knee when I get around to doing it. (from dragging a knee during a surf on a new DZ which didn't have a LZ as smooth as my homeDZ. stupidity is painful.) Erno

> no alti (static line jump) Wha?? Effectively meaning "No way to know if your below your hard-deck trying to get your canopy to fly"? And don't you use your alti to decide where to start your landing pattern? Here in Finland a visual alti is mandatory equipment on everyone on every jump... except I think hop'n'pop water-jumps. Erno

Actually, I disagree with Bill here. (I know this has been discussed here before, but I just want to give the newbie the other view on this...) (from Billvon's post:) >-flat turn at 50 feet at least, say, 90 degrees >-flare turn at least 45 degrees >-land uphill and downhill >-land crosswind and in no wind >-land standing up in a 10 meter target consistently >-land with rear risers I do agree on the other points, but: >-land with rear risers I don't think this is required. Practising rear-riser landings can be more dangerous than not having the ability to do it. IMO. >-land uphill and downhill If someone jumps on a flat DZ where there is no place to practice uphill/downhill-landings, it's not practical to require this. Again, my opinion only. Erno

>If I had line twists, would performing that task, releasing the brakes, >cause an uncontrollable spin to initiate? That's indeed possible; I've seen it happen. Although the student in question didn't cut-away, but proceeded to kick out of the twists. As a result, she lost A LOT of altitude, couldn't make it back to the airfield, and landed in a tree. So yes, it's a bad idea to unstow your brakes if you still have twists in your lines. Erno

>After trying to help my mother use the computer, I realized that, yes, >there really are people who can't use a computer. This is exactly the situation I'm going to be in a few hours. A week ago, my mom calls me and says: "I've decided to get a computer, can you help?" And she has always been sort of annoyed by computers, has had absolutely no interest in them whatsoever. So, today I'm going to go and assemble the computer for her, install the OS(for which I decided to pick Linux...), and try to teach the basics to her. I wonder how much patience I have... Erno

>I don't think it's laziness. I just think people don't realize how to do it. Doesn't make the idea itself any worse in my opinion... So: In order to cater to the needs of the lazy and the ignorant, let there be automatic clicky-links. Um... please, HH? I like clicky-links. Erno

>>Maybe I could hire some chick to wear nothing but a rig! >> > >hey! i just did this for a photo shoot! You're not the Leading Edge chick are you?

Brothers and sisters! There are lazy people on the forums! That's right; the sin of SLOTH is upon us! These sinners are easily recognized; they are the ones who do not make their links "clicky". So how about a feature that automatically turns any string on a post beginning with "http://" to a clickable link? Maybe the feature could also be turned off at the profile if someone doesn't want it for some reason? Erno