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    It's like any other hole in nylon fabric. It is still sturdy, but the hole will get bigger if used. I don't see why it can't be repaired. I have repaired small holes in a pilot chute used on a main and it has stayed repaired for many jumps. That is what we are looking for, for it to work when needed. I used "E" thread and loosely sewed a small hole closed, sort of "darning" the hole.
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    I think a bad would have to be much, much bigger for there to be any change at all in the opening characteristics. However, there might be other things that are changing at the same time that you might check for. A rig is a "system", where one part may affect another.
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    Actually I think all of that kind of thing is of questionable value anyway. Sure, some people enter a domain name that they see in an ad, but more often people do a search, in which case the domain at which they land doesn't really matter. Funny thing is that when I hear Cookie Composite(s), I think "helmet", (which I guess is because I have seen helmets in ads with that name). If I was directed to a web site that had only lens products it would be obvious that something was going on.
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    Followup- I wound up with a PT Cruiser which must have been a free "upgrade" from "compact". The PT has a lot of leg room and was very comfortable on the trip, but gas mileage at 75 MPH with air conditioning was only 21 MPG. That's not much better than my TownCar. So I only spent about $20 more to use that car, and of course the wear and tear was not on my car. I think it was fun and worthwhile. Now here is the question. Why are these new cars such pieces of shit? How can a new car with a whiney little engine get only 3-4 MPG better gas mileage than a 1984 TownCar? (5 liter, throttle-body fuel injection.) It cruised OK, and I could "cruise-pass", but there is no way I could tromp on the accelerator and quickly pass someone. It can't happen. The engine shudders and vibrates.
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    Bill, you don't know what you are talking about. Stop using your position as a moderator of dropzone.com to influence people's opinion of Jan (whether you mean to or not.) I have asked you in the past to be more accurate in your postings. I ask you again to please do so.
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    Supposed to be a Nissan Versa or Kia Rio at 30+? MPG, but there are about 7 size classes at Enterprise. Mine is a TownCar at about 19 MPG on the highway. Not a problem for everyday use since my office is in my home. I only spend $45 a week even going to the normal DZ.
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    With gas prices getting up there, I decided to try renting a smaller, more fuel efficient car for a 3 day weekend to drive a few hundred miles away. Weekend rentals are inexpensive enough that the offset in fuel costs nearly make up the difference in the rental costs, plus, it saves wear and tear on your own vehicle. Might be worth your while to do some calculations, since you can look it up on the rental car web sites. (The more miles you are willing to drive in a day, the greater the differential.) At the very least, it is an inexpensive and entertaining way to try out some of the more fuel efficient cars being made now.
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    Yes, editing by hand would be too much work. I was thinking of an automated way of zapping everything in the post and replacing it with an explanation,
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    When the moderators remove an offensive post, it seems that a number of related posts also get deleted. (Posts in thread). Perhaps an option for the moderators can be created to replace the offensive text in the post with something like "Offensive text removed by Moderator" and leave the responses to it. Some of the responses are of value, and even stand alone rather well in their context.
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    Yes! Yes! That is exactly the problem! You are not gracing us with your presence, which is sorely missed. I simply refuse to let you and DJan fade into the woodwork just because she is now retired. I miss you two.
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    I suggest you read a number of them for a well rounded knowledge of what is going on. I have the following in my special "links" file (bookmarks). St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Google news - CNN - MS NBC - CBS News - ABC News - Fox News - Time - NPR - Reuters - Associated Press - United Press International - BBC
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    "...report commissioned by the independent analysis/marketing firm..." Sounds to me like they created a report to come up with a new cool term "hyperconnected". (Can I interest anyone in a Web 2.0 compliant web site?) And 4 categories is way too few.
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    I hardly know what to say or think. I had just talked to Steve about 2 weeks ago about aircraft safety. And he sounded very good. He was a great S&TA as well as all of the other things he did.
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    Here is one I did: http://www.pcprg.com/cgi-bin/windsaloft.cgi
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    Is there a place to read about this topic? Not that I know of. One would think that a canopy manufacturer would not want to stock many sizes of sliders, so they could very well make only one size per canopy model, and adjust the canopy opening characteristics with the brake settings. This is only an assumption, but it is what I would do if I were them.
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    Here is a start: http://www.pcprg.com/hardop.htm
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    Depending on its condition and price, my friend may very well want to buy it from you, because he jumps canopies like this and is familiar with them. Contact me if you want to sell it.
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    Judgment is the whole issue here, and it sounds like you are doing a good job using it. "Know your student." This is an expression that has been around ever since instruction has been around. The more we train our students and the more we see how they respond to our training, the more we will know about how they will respond, and what they are capable of.
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    Well, that just shows you that I probably should not have brought that up, because I don't know enough about what happened. Apologies to Jack if you thought I was saying you did anything wrong. Oh, well, the discussion continues, (and it has been a good thread!)
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    Well, gosh, yeah, but you can't be stalling a canopy near the ground just to try to teach your student. (I can't really comment on that incident though because I don't know anything about it.) I just try to show my Tandem students the common pattern and flare things. Most of the time they are simply following along with my hands, like a CFI would do the first few times they were showing you how to land an airplane.
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    Yes, it's that simple. If your antenna is adequate for the analog signal you are now receiving it will be fine for DTV. Of course many, many scams are going to surface related to this change, which always happens when something new and technical comes along. I already received an ad from a cable company suggesting that it would be easier to subscribe to cable so that the cable company employee can come out and take care of everything for me rather than me having to go through this "complicated" procedure of adding a DTV converter. (If I were a very non-technical senior citizen maybe...) If you can hook up a DVD player to your TV you can add a DTV converter. See the FAQ on https://www.dtv2009.gov/
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    Any of you know of anyone in the US studying the physiology of skydiving? For example, I read a while back of someone using a heart rate monitor to log heartbeat on a skydive. Did this person have a medical background? (BTW, I know of Patrick Weldon's work.) Someone has asked me for references on this kind of research and some people that might be doing it.
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    Well, I think this person failed to receive an important briefing on the gear used. Why is that?
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    For a carnival ride Tandem I would not disagree. But we are giving Tandem students the benefit of the doubt that they have an instructor that is teaching them how to skydive. From the posts I have read around here I think quite a few tandem students are receiving pretty good instruction. I don't think it is a bad thing. To receive a license, a student skydiver needs to meet skill requirements anyway. A question for everyone is why we require a certain number of jumps for a license at all. Isn't meeting skill requirements enough?
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    Quite possibly. When we stow that group of lines (bight) we hold in our hand we assume that it will unstow the same way but in reverse. If a brake has come unstowed, that steering line will be slack and will not be unstowing (pulling) with the rest of the lines. As an additional note, I recall a bag lock on a student that pulled while leaning way over to one side, which caused the lines from one riser to be slack while the lines from the other side were under tension. That is pretty much the state of modern skydiving now isn't it? Any student that asks too many questions is told to not worry about it. Especially questions the instructor can't answer properly.