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CYPRES units do not have a reputation in the industry for doing what you say. You are mistaken. I would suggest you not post things like this if you are not sure. You may give other people the wrong idea. There are three main AAD manufacturers today. All three make a very good product that people can depend on to perform as advertised.

Just because I love you Joe: West Germany, East Germany, Unified Germany, Italy, Turkey, Belgium, France, Holland, UK (England and Scotland) Ireland, Spain, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Canada and California.

Your membership # will remain the same but your licence # will change as you progress to diff ones

No, The current MarS and Vigils are both multimode. You can select speed mode yourself without sending them away. The new C-Mode CYPRES has the same feature.

Heather Cox Richardson November 26, 2019 (Tuesday) The wrap up of today should start with tonight, with Trump’s 1:26 minute “rally” in Broward, Florida. It was his usual rant against the media, impeachment, socialism, and so on, but there was an interesting new interlude when the president talked about health issues. He said he had always thought Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was heavy, but when he saw the governor without his shirt on (which almost certainly never happened), he saw that DeSantis was actually strong. Then he launched into some “Sir” stories—“Sir” is his tell that he is about to tell a whopper—about how after his surprise visit to Walter Reed hospital on November 18 one White House guard after another asked him “Sir, are you all right?” because they had heard he had a massive heart attack, an idea he ridiculed. Since Trump is a master at spewing whatever is uppermost in his mind, it seems likely that his hospital visit was due to something that made him think he was having a heart attack, and that the doctors told him at least that he was overweight. (Since then, by the way, it has been notable how empty his schedule has been.) For a rally in which he boasted of his health, Trump was in bad shape tonight, slurring his words so badly that “stock market” came out “slock rocket.” The president is under tremendous pressure, with more details of the Ukraine scandal emerging daily. Today Trump denied that he had directed Giuliani to try to find dirt on Biden by working with Ukrainians, despite much evidence to the contrary, including Trump’s own comment to Ukraine president Zelensky on the infamous call of July 25 that he should talk to Giuliani about investigating the Bidens. An association with Giuliiani has become a liability, and Trump does not like liabilities, especially now that the scandal is becoming clearer. Today we also learned that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) withheld aid money from Ukraine on July 25, the day of the infamous phone call between Trump and the new Ukraine president, Volodymyr Zelensky a fact which sure suggests that military assistance hinged on Trump getting the public statement he wanted of Ukraine‘s investigation of Hunter Biden and that the connection was crystal clear to Zelensky. We also learned that two members of the OMB resigned in protest of the withholding of aid, and we also got more confirmation that Trump knew of the whistleblower complaint when he released the money. Altogether, the stories seemed to solidify the narrative that Trump withheld money Congress had appropriated to help Ukraine fight off attacks from Russia, intending to pressure newly elected Ukraine President Zelensky into making a public announcement that his government was opening an investigation into the company on whose board Joe Biden’s son sat. Such an announcement would’ve tanked Biden’s candidacy, much as the constant stories about Hillary Clinton’s emails tanked hers in 2016. We really already knew all this. The lines are just getting filled in. But why should we care about the story at all? Yesterday, Fox media personality and strong Trump supporter Tucker Carlson said on his show: “Why do I care what is going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia? I'm serious. Why shouldn’t I root for Russia? Which by the way I am.” Carlson’s declaration was extraordinary. Aside from anything else, Americans care about Ukraine because what is happening there is a proxy war between oligarchy and democracy. Ukraine was part of the USSR until it fell apart in 1991. After that, Ukraine remained under the sway of the Russian oligarchs who rose to replace the region’s communist leaders monopolizing formerly publicly held industries as those industries were privatized. American journalist Paul Klebnikov, the chief editor of Forbes in Russia, was murdered in 2004 trying to call attention to what the oligarchs were doing. In that same year, a Russian-backed politician, Viktor Yanukovych, appeared to be elected president of Ukraine. But Yanukovych was rumored to have ties to organized crime, and the election was so full of fraud—including the poisoning of a key rival who wanted to break ties with Russia and align Ukraine with Europe—the government voided the election and called for a do-over. Yanukovych needed a makeover fast, and for that he called on a political consultant with a reputation for making unsavory characters palatable to the media: Paul Manafort. Yeah, that Paul Manafort, the man the Trump campaign called in to resurrect Trump’s floundering campaign in June 2016. For ten years, from 2004-2014, Manafort worked for Yanukovych and his party, trying to make what the US State Department called a party of “mobsters and oligarchs” look legitimate. He made a fortune thanks to his new friends. In 2010, Yanukovych finally won the presidency on a platform of rejecting NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization through which Europe joined together to oppose first the USSR, and then the rising threat of Russia. Immediately, Yanukovych turned Ukraine toward Russia. In 2014, after months of popular protests, Ukrainians ousted Yanukovych from power in what is known as the Revolution of Dignity. He fled to Russia. Shortly after Yanukovych’s ouster, Russia invaded Ukraine’s Crimea and annexed it, prompting the United States and the European Union to impose economic sanctions on Russia itself and also on specific Russian businesses and oligarchs, prohibiting them from doing business in United States territories. These sanctions have crippled Russia and frozen the assets of key Russian oligarchs, including Russian president Vladimir Putin. Now without his main source of income, Manafort owed about $17 million to allies of Yanukovych and Putin. His longtime friend and business partner Roger Stone was advising the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, and Manafort was happy to step in to help. He did not take a salary. He began as an advisor in March 2016, and became the campaign chairman in late June, after the June 9 meeting between Don Jr., Jared Kushner, and Manafort with a number of people, including a Russian lawyer associated with Putin’s intelligence services (that is, a spy). Remember that Trump tried to explain away that meeting as being about “adoptions,” because the Russian response to sanctions was to shut down American adoptions of Russian children. Manafort had to step back in August 2016, after a Ukrainian member of parliament and journalist revealed a secret ledger from Yanukovych’s headquarters detailing illegal secret payments to members of his inner circle, including Manafort (who was later convicted of tax evasion on some of that money). Manafort officially left the campaign, although documents have since shown that he continued to advise the campaign unofficially. This is the origin of the “black ledger” story, and Trump’s insistence that Ukrainians had it in for his campaign. As David Holmes testified before the House Intelligence Committee last week, this ledger is indeed believed to be legitimate. Desperate to get the sanctions lifted, Putin helped get Trump elected, and since then American policy has swung his way. Trump has attacked NATO and the European Union, weakened our ties to our traditional European allies, ceded Syria to Putin, worked to get rid of Russian sanctions, and threatened to withdraw our support for Ukraine. It sure looks like American democracy is a great deal weaker than it was before Trump took office. Putin’s corrupt oligarchy, in which a few rich men carve up their country and any other countries they can grab to pocket huge amounts of money, is fighting Ukraine because its people want a democracy based in the rule of law. Until Trump became president, America was firmly on the side of democracy in Ukraine. Now, not so much. And that is why the Ukraine scandal is so very important, and why the public announcement of a major Republican media figure that he sides with Russia was chilling.

Aren't you precious? You tucked yourself away in upper back woods Georgia decades ago to escape America and you have the unmitigated gall and audacity to question my desire to live here? And it's not like you're getting your affairs in order to return to the fold. Nope, you spend your days ringing your hands over the horrid dissipation of American society, praying for Jesus, Q or, for all I know, Rip Van Winkle to swoop in to save the day all while stock piling hat tin foil on your 40 acre hidey hole somewhere back in the sticks even further away from America. How does knowing that I enjoy travel, meeting people from other cultures and am fully convinced that understanding, as best I am able, those who share our planet give you the idea that I hate capitalism? Trust me, I love capitalism; it's been good to me. That, to be blunt is why when those who either have put no thought into the problem or don't own a pot to piss in or a window to toss it out of start discussing taxing the rich I'm inclined to request a little non-subjective clarity. I simply believe, and don't drop your ammo, that the best way to protect it's benefits is to include a certain fundamental fairness into a system that has always operated in shades of grey. For you, to put it mildly, everything is Black or White.

nice! share some pictures and video please. what size/wl you've got?

Vlad?

Puerto Rico and California...heh...good one

Christ knows if my flysight was still going (I always turn it on, but I flew the WW like 4 days into a boogie). I should definitely have some footage I can dig up.

There are a number of foreign news broadcasts that have broadcasts in English. PBS carries NHK (Japan) in addition to the BBC and Al Jazeera is available on some cable/satellite services.

If you mean USPA license, it's a totally new license number

Sure. Let's do the math! Currently we have 138M taxpayers (i.e. all working people) and we get $1.5T from them. Divide that by taxpayers - that's 11K per person or around 18% of the average US salary. So someone who is the head of a household who makes $25,000 a year (i.e. someone below the poverty line) reports $14,600 in taxable income. That is taxed in the 10% and 12% tax brackets now. That means a $1512 total tax bill. Under your scenario (18% flat tax) he pays $4500 a year. You have taken someone below the poverty line and taken away another $2988 from them. Meanwhile, someone who make $2M a year sees his taxes drop by ~$340,000. In my world, taking thousands from a poor family to give millionaires a third of a million dollars in tax breaks is unfair.

She told me I did great at the end. She also said I jumped out good but I need to try to pull next time.

Many of us civilians also went "huh"? You're simultaneously claiming that the upper echelon guys need to stay out of it while also ignoring that they guys directly involved want Trump to stay out of it. This sailor is going to get his Trident back with a big asterisk on it because his shipmates don't want him to have it.

Spectre with Dacron lines. Opens like butter, easy to land. I'm 54 and previously injured, 135 # body weight flying a 150. One of the best canopies for us old farts. You can get a demo from PD. But that's just my opinion. I'd suggest jumping as many different canopies as you are interested in. What is perfect for me might not be perfect for you. A canopy control course is a GREAT idea. Your landings will improve, and it will likely help your confidence.