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So our military is not "high quality?" OK, I guess if you believe that. Our roads - 99% socialist - are not "high quality?" Do you refuse to use them, so you don't have to live in socialism? And you're a skydiver. You must be miserable having to skydive within airspace controlled by the socialist ATC, with pilots and planes certified by the socialist FAA, and using parachutes maintained under the same socialist organization. The reason the US works as well as it does is because we pick and choose which systems to use. Consumer economy? Capitalism. Military, roads, ATC? Socialist. National parks? Communist. We avoid the abuses of any pure -ism by using a mix, with each used where it works the best. BTW we're not even the most capitalist country out there. On pretty much every ranking of countries by economic freedom, Hong Kong leads the pack. In terms of pure capitalism, Germany wins. http://blog.peerform.com/the-five-most-capitalistic-countries-in-the-world/ https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/1212/the-5-most-economically-free-countries-in-the-world.aspx http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/capitalist-countries/

I don't know why this is still a debate. The manufacturers are nearly in universal agreement--double stow. Virtually every manufacturer out there says this. By contrast, I don't know of even one major manufacturer who currently recommends against double stowing rubber bands. Bag strip is a very serious malfunction and if it happens to you there is a legitimate chance you could die from the resulting hard opening. Double stowing is explicitly intended to prevent a bag strip malfunction and it is more effective at doing it than other forms of stowing. At the bare minimum, if you dont double stow you should be able to easily lift your bag off the ground by the lines without them falling off. If you cannot do that, you need to use a different stow method that provides greater stow tension. One of the problems that makes single stowing seem attractive is that the problem that is created with single stowing does not immediately manifest itself. You could go thousands of jumps without ever having a problem. But one day out of nowhere the physics align and you get slammed like you just got into a car accident at 120 MPH. That would be the bag stripping off the parachute causing premature inflation because your locking stows were too lose.

Thanks! We did some testing yesterday and came to the same conclussion. There's some permissions either in the database or the file server that need tweaking, which will also help a lot of the spam issues. Since the issue is preventing us from adding plugins. Our dev is working on it trying to find the area to adjust and then things should be better.

Billy, man, don’t mess with my free stuff. Tell ya what, we all get “free education and guaranteed housing and guaranteed economic security” and we can all GO BACK TO SCHOOL! It’ll be absolutely EPIC! We’ll have the best frat house on campus! Hot tubs, vibrating beds, hot and cold running empty-headed sorority chicks, the sky is the limit! And Occasional-Cortex is gonna get us that FOR FREE!

Hi Bobby Without tunnel time, I guess it's quite common to not be perfectly stable during the first jumps and turning without wanting it. But you passed your level 3? If so, it's maybe not even necessary to go to the tunnel....I'm also very new in the sport (60 jumps so far), but I met already a few students who were able to pass AFF program without tunnel time. (But some of them needed to repeat some levels) I just went to the tunnel before AFF and after level 5 to feel more confortable and I wanted to be stable in freefall. And it helped me a lot. So if you are worried about turning without wanting it.....go for the tunnel Any yes - keep it up It's so much fun once you get over those first issues. Took me 25 jumps for my license in Germany. Have lot's of fun and patience....it's worth it

Bigly.

I'm reading it and assuming a sarcasm font was sorely missed when he wrote it. That's what makes it so much fun. I couldn't tell at first, but at least he lets us off the hook at the end of the post.

Seems these days that half the newbie questions are about putting big canopies into a hot little rig. Fitting 10 pounds of shit into a 5 pound bag, so to speak. The term "full fitting" comes up more than it should.... (No offence to the OP. Finding, choosing, and putting together gear is one of the tougher parts of becoming a skydiver.)

Hi, I'm Ricky Bobby, and if you don't double stow your lines, then F*ck you.

You've come to this conclusion after one jump with double stowed bands? Do you normally pack for yourself? Does your rigger normally pack for you? (insert philosophical quote here)