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I personally prefer a doggie-dog world. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Something tells me that the guy in the story from above who kept hitting himself with his own spit won't understand what you said. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

No, not exactly. There are some amusing parts. Sad.. but amusing. You have to wonder how some of these people have ever landed a canopy safely. 'Parking in a crosswind' My God, you're right. This thread is like THIS "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I don't get it. The jury refused to convict them? What a great message to send. Look out now, the other shoe will soon fall. (heavy on shoe metaphors here) I don't mean to be a heel but the sole reason this came unlaced was these size 8's sticking their tongues out. (Now we're heaving on shoe metaphors. Good day.) "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Flysight data shows the path of you canopy, not how you fly it, just so all readers are on the same page. If you compare you maneuver from zero wind you should see no difference in vertical speeds but your horizontal speeds and over-all path will change depending on the wind direction. For the purposes of this conversation, I'm leaving out anything about your pattern. You'll fly your pattern according to your path across the ground to your initiation point which is related to wind speed and direction. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

HRS? Hillary Rodham Satan "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/19/trump-ill-appoint-supreme-court-justices-to-overturn-roe-v-wade-abortion-case.html He says it'll go back to the states. I'm not sure how he thinks it'll just automatically happen, you can't just overturn a previous ruling because there's a new SCJ onboard. Anyway, moot point. He's not going to win. HRC will nominate a new one and RBG will resign and give her a second nomination. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

It's taxed because various things allow for exemptions. I don't know what a soldier's filing would be like considering the different allowances but a soldier with two kids who bought a house and is repaying a student loan would have a much different filing than Joe Single who stays in the BEQs and has zero withholdings. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Bullshit, just lower the opening altitude and open so you turn straight onto final. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

It's a colloquialism. I'll say "Rigga, please" in the future to keep the lingo germane to the skydiving community. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I'm writing in Steamboat Willie. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Without a doubt. $15G to re-up? No brainer. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Amen. Give it back. There are a bunch of people out there who lost their shit because they did what they thought was right and payed Uncle Sam. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

By that definition HRC falls short of Trump, in the morality department. Oh for fucks sake. Trump Foundation vs. Clinton Foundation and yes, Haiti. Trump in an elevator with a receptionist, Hillary in an elevator with a receptionist. Bitch, please. You can say what you want about Hillary pissing people off for being an aggressive woman but don't for a second say that Trump has higher morality just because you think he wants to overturn Roe v Wade. He isn't overturning shit and said so in the debate. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Ah yes, I had always taken that to be canopy opening altitude not "container opening altitude". Thanks. In the link you posted it clearly states container opening altitude: Yes, thus why I thanked him for pointing that out. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

NOW.......If you're talking about a normal landing pattern: Downwind, Crosswind, Final. You'll find that you have to crab your canopy on various legs to stay in a straight line. A mental mistake that a lot of people make when they think they "feel the wind" when they turn onto final is because they have turned their head straight ahead now and can hear or feel the wind on their face more at exactly the same moment that they realize their speed across the ground has slowed significantly. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

A good way of putting it is to picture this: Sit in a rolling chair holding a GI Joe in your hand, close your eyes and have him execute your maneuver. Do it 10 times. If during one of those 10 times someone pushed the chair you're sitting in (eyes still closed), that's just like having a wind from a certain direction, but the maneuver in your hand doesn't change. If you were trying to place your roll-out at the same point on the ground and you have a head wind, you still don't change your maneuver, you're still the guy in the chair. You just have to adjust your setup so that you initiate at distance up wind equal to the horizontal distance travelled during the time it takes to execute the EXACTE SAME MANEUVER. The result will be a shorter roll-out. Tail wind, longer roll-out. Crosswind, you'll have to crab a bit during roll-out if your intention is to fly a specific straight line while crosswind. Think about the closed-eyes-rolling-across the floor thing for a moment. It becomes very simple if you can grasp this. To answer one of the questions: Wind does not affect lift. Your canopy (and physics) doesn't care about how fast the wind travells along the ground. It's because you are probably reacting to your site picture. You're used being able to reach a certain point on the ground and you're likely accidentally changing your input. There's an opposite side to this too that has resulted in more than one ride to the hospital. Some people, reacting to their site picture, expect to see greater forward movement and hold their dive too long, thinking that they haven't reached the point in their maneuver when they need to pull out of it. This emphasizes the need to have your timing down as part of your muscle memory. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Oh man, I read the first entry on this and knew this thread was going to be a doozie. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Welcome to world many here create for me. Funny how some dont like this thrown back at them isn't it! Of course it's not your fault... How could it be? It's everyone else who is wrong, stupid and forces you to say the things you do and think the way you think. You're the one blinding beacon of rational insight in an otherwise dark and unthinking forum. There's a guy in the news a lot at the moment who shares this same psychological trait - narcissistic personality disorder. You might have heard of him. Woosh He's talking about Donald Trump in case that was the sound of it going over your head. :) "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Yeah, the E-8 who did the dirty workgot flogged and a couple of officers got their wrists slapped. They make it sound like there wasn't anyone else in the command structure overseeing these bonuses and then fucked over all of the solders. Dulce et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

And the Prime Minister of Canada is a just a super nice guy because...Canada. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Ah yes, I had always taken that to be canopy opening altitude not "container opening altitude". Thanks. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I didn't mean that to sound so absolute. I think the parties are doing a poor job of selecting candidates and the result is that we're not getting the best people into the job. The entire process should have third group federal over-site that follows a Primary/General format that results in two candidates in the General Election. Yes, that's dreaming but we should take lessons from how businesses, schools, etc hire their executives. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

You said you pulled at 3200ft. So you would not have been open above 3k. Anyway, the people you jumped with were wrong. You should adjust higher, not lower. They should have adjusted breakaway to allow a higher opening for you, you don't tell new jumpers to go lower for any reason. You especially don't adjust to a lower altitude because of a known issue with gear. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I'll give you the cheese, but no crackers. The Wiki article points to a section of the New Hampshire code, not the New Hampshire state constitution. The states are involved, true, but only because the RNC and DNC decided to work that way. Is the Libertarian primary in New Hampshire on the same day as the Democratic and Republican? How about the Green Party, or Communist Party? It's unfortunate that the political parties even have any control over how candidates are selected. The system is broken and the only people who can change it are the ones who utilize its deficiencies for their own candidate. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher