JohnRich 4 #1 January 30, 2012 Episode: "Terminal Velocity". A skydiver is murdered... Geez, how many things can they get wrong? I could have sworn when the jumper's chute was deploying, that he was holding a cutaway handle with dangling cables in his hand, but then there was no cut-away - the canopy remained attached... Why didn't he chop the streamer and use his reserve? Two experienced skydivers, and the CSI folks think that 5,000' is the normal opening altitude. That it is the pilot's duty to calibrate the ground level on every jumper's audible altitude device they wear in their helmets. That every CSI investigator recognizes an audible altimeter and instantly knows how to push all the right buttons to get the data readout. The old acid in the pack tray trick to sabotage the chute is old stuff, first used in the 1960's black and white movie "The Skydivers", where acid was used by a jealous girlfriend to murder her cheating skydiver boyfriend. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The_Don 0 #3 January 30, 2012 TV magic! I am NOT being loud. I'm being enthusiastic! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fallcoholic 0 #4 January 30, 2012 Heck, they even got the Miami part wrong. They shoot that show in Long Beach, CA. I used to have to go get signatures in the neighborhoods they filmed in. Those were some good times, getting yelled at by rich people pissed about losing their parking spot for a day . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crotalus01 0 #5 January 30, 2012 I was under the impression that they sabotaged his reserve/cutaway handles as well. At any rate, the show is pitifully researched for sure. The part about the pilot calibrating all the altimeters was a hoot! As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TriGirl 268 #6 January 30, 2012 Quote I was under the impression that they sabotaged his reserve/cutaway handles as well. At any rate, the show is pitifully researched for sure. The part about the pilot calibrating all the altimeters was a hoot! Well, they have to have some other "possible" variable in the equation! I mean, you don't just want the episode to end in 10 minutes, especially when the CSI tech can already get all the info from the audible. How would they incorporate the "lab montage"? See the upside, and always wear your parachute! -- Christopher Titus Shut Up & Jump! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sundevil777 93 #7 January 30, 2012 I didn't see the show, but I'll bet everything that happened in the lab was done in dim, blue light,People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 135 #8 January 30, 2012 did they find small bearing balls ?scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 24 #9 January 30, 2012 QuoteI didn't see the show, but I'll bet everything that happened in the lab was done in dim, blue light, You have the show wrong... CSI Miami is all about the red lenses...Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YvonneWiggers 0 #10 January 30, 2012 What seems the most off to me so far is the fact that the skydiver has a huge house and an expensive car, yet no fancy expensive gear at all."So I jump out, look up, and think 'Oh SHIT!... It's PINK!!!'" - army guy after his first staticline jump Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
propacker 0 #11 January 30, 2012 I liked the talking audible altimeter... '.you ....are....now....at....three....thousand....five....hundred....feet..' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,121 #12 January 30, 2012 Just remember that TV's discussion of nearly any other area that's not truly common knowledge will be as full of technical inaccuracies. Wendy P.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vanair 0 #13 January 30, 2012 Any place I could find it to watch? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Austintxflight 0 #14 January 30, 2012 its on hulu, the episode name is Terminal Velocity. It's pretty bad all around. The stunts they were doing were equivalent to AFF level 6 maybe. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #15 January 30, 2012 http://www.cbs.com/shows/csi_miami/video/?play=true&pid=5NrN8gz8VpdKt1ampSfJU_oazvOQ5mhI Hulu links to CBS.com. Here's the show link."There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rehmwa 2 #16 January 30, 2012 It's just fiction. But I thought these shows used some serious fact checkers also. Lessons learned? If you want to kill someone and leave no evidence, you might want to do your own homework rather than rely on what you learned from TV. At least that's what I took away from it.as for the show - I suspect there's a real discussion topic there. Seriously - a donor has ZERO responsibility for the offspring........ZERO - but since some people clearly will not be able to make that link (or will refuse to), anyone that does donate should make sure they do it with a group that completely eliminates any and all records of who they are. ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vanair 0 #17 January 30, 2012 Thanks, Baaaad show. That show is to science and accuracy what etch-a-sketch is to art. Oh wait, no that's what Rap is to Music. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Abedy 0 #18 January 30, 2012 Oh, I'm looking forward to this episode being aired in Germany... I once talked to a press journalist about inaccuracies in newspaper reports when it comes to skydiving. He told me they deliberately use some of the terms I mentioned - because Joe Sixpack knows shit about skydiving and just expects these words and wouldn't understand the technically correct terms. I bet this applies even more to slipping-on-sunshades-solves-the-puzzle! The sky is not the limit. The ground is. The Society of Skydiving Ducks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sundevil777 93 #19 January 30, 2012 QuoteQuoteI didn't see the show, but I'll bet everything that happened in the lab was done in dim, blue light, You have the show wrong... CSI Miami is all about the red lenses... Right, red, whatever. Other CSI variants have had suspects interrogated in very dimly lit rooms. The opposite of the 'bright lights in your eyes' stereotype. Their offices are dark, even the coroner operates in near darkness. Faces are illuminated from one side only, with the other side as dark as possible.People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theplummeter 14 #20 January 30, 2012 I missed that episode, just like almost every other episode of CSI. Please tell me that there was a super slow closeup of David Caruso delivering the worst skydiving catch phrase eighth tier writers could coin. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Austintxflight 0 #21 January 30, 2012 Also they took an Otter up with just 2 jumpers? What DZ is that? Unless the guy was so rich since he had a ferrari that he just pays for the flight, then he has no friends but 1 guy that will jump with him? Next time i get on the plane ill hand the pilot my audible and tell him to match it to the planes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ILUVCHUTERS 1 #22 January 30, 2012 The best thing this show is good for is the CSI Miami Drinking Game. If you google it, there's a few variations out there, I Like to take them and put them all together - warning: don't play this game if you need to be at all functional the next day - or two... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
3mpire 0 #23 January 30, 2012 Quote Also they took an Otter up with just 2 jumpers? What DZ is that? negative ghost rider, interior shots are of an Otter but on exit it's a Caravan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theonlyski 3 #24 January 30, 2012 Quote Quote Also they took an Otter up with just 2 jumpers? What DZ is that? negative ghost rider, interior shots are of an Otter but on exit it's a Caravan Well, the Betty White jump was interior of an Otter and it was actually a PAC. Some good editing on their part too, they managed to take out the name and the tail number on the plane!"I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,121 #25 January 31, 2012 This might have been the best CSI Miami episode I ever watched But the important question is -- who did the stunts? Wendy P. There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
