Feb 4, 2007, 6:10 PM
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Exhibits don't open until 3:00 pm PST Monday.
You've got awhile to wait.
Other than the inside scoop I have.
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Feb 4, 2007, 7:07 PM
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They actually cleared the schedule during the Riggers Forum so there are no more conflists with technical seminars - THAT is new, and excellent!
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Feb 4, 2007, 9:52 PM
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I've been asked to shoot some interviews of what's new. I'll be posting that at night on youtube, with keywords of PIA, skydiving, etc. Should have the first one up by 9 p.m. tomorrow.
Feb 5, 2007, 8:10 AM
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They actually cleared the schedule during the Riggers Forum so there are no more conflists with technical seminars - THAT is new, and excellent!
Yeah, because of me. I bitched about it 4 weeks ago but we finally resolved it on Friday.
But the one scoop I do have is that Booth is showing a suspension line reserve ripcord. Haven't seen the installation but have handled the ripcord itself. Jury's out until I see the full system later today.
See the PIA rigger forum www.pia.com for information on a new FCI manual that ban's clamps.
Information on 180 day and 65.111 will be discusses on Thursday at the rigger forum, if I have a voice.[:/] Been sick all week.
I'll be hanging around registration later this morning.
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Feb 5, 2007, 4:28 PM
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But the one scoop I do have is that Booth is showing a suspension line reserve ripcord. Haven't seen the installation but have handled the ripcord itself.
does that mean there is actually no cable, but a line instead ?
Feb 6, 2007, 2:49 AM
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But the one scoop I do have is that Booth is showing a suspension line reserve ripcord. Haven't seen the installation but have handled the ripcord itself.
does that mean there is actually no cable, but a line instead ?
Correct. It was displayed by RWS at the 2005 PIA Symposium. I had it in my hands then. 1000 lbs Spectra line, I believe.
Feb 6, 2007, 6:15 AM
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how do you feed it through the housing????
.... Is there still a pin at the end????
just wondering
jmy
Bill Booth in 2005:
"My new Spectra ripcord is "stiff" enough to thread easily through our stainless housing with no tools. It is only about 14" long, and with no pin on the end."
Feb 6, 2007, 7:34 AM
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that does sound interesting, but to paraphrase bill booth, isn't that 'an elegant solution to a problem that doesn't exist'? what precisely is the problem with the steel cable that the nylon one solves?
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Feb 6, 2007, 8:46 AM
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DSE is posting daily links to the video interviews he is conducting here in Reno:
Feb 6, 2007, 4:05 PM
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I don't see how that would change, if there is still a handle at one end, and a pin at the other.
From above: "and with no pin on the end".
Wouldn't a flexible supple line, instead of a stiff pin, seems like it would be less likely to be pushed out when it is pressed against an airplane bulkhead?
Feb 6, 2007, 4:16 PM
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I don't see how that would change, if there is still a handle at one end, and a pin at the other.
From above: "and with no pin on the end".
Wouldn't a flexible supple line, instead of a stiff pin, seems like it would be less likely to be pushed out when it is pressed against an airplane bulkhead?
Right, I was reading that to mean no swage ball/pin at the handle end.
Of course everyone would like to know how the mechanism works. A line would have to be as stiff as a pin to function as a replacement with the rest of the existing system.
Feb 6, 2007, 8:43 PM
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Everything with a skyhook as the separate pin. The line ripcord just has a loop in each end. One larks heads around the reserve handle and the other has the pin from the RSL put through it. Take the place of the marine fitting on the end of the cable. So still a metal pin.
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how do you feed it through the housing???? 
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