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"PERC Benefits From Oil Industry Funding And Has Close Ties To The Koch Brothers PERC Has Close Ties To The Koch Brothers, Who Lead An Oil And Gas Conglomerate And Bankroll Much Of The Right-Wing Movement PERC Is Partially Funded By The Koch Brothers. PERC Received $258,144 from the Koch Brothers. “The Koch brothers, leaders of a vast family oil-and-gas conglomerate, use this political network to pursue their right-wing agenda at nearly every level of government" I'm instantly skeptical of any position taken by yourself or by Turtle. So less than five minutes of digging, voila.

One other interesting and relevant factor is the pool of people that choose to buy a tandem jump during the pandemic. After many weeks of answering the DZ phone, I can attest to the cavalier, myopic and rather selfish disregard many of these callers exhibit. Many are wet Egyptians (Dey r deep in de Nile) and some have even expressed their opinion that this is all a hoax. Thus those showing up wanting to spoon with me are highly likely to have already disregarded most if not all of the safety protocols epidemiologists have clearly outlined and come from a much higher risk pool than usual. Also, I am reading reports of people who are symptomatic but do not isolate themselves, and continue to spread the virus without regard to others There is also a report of some who have tested positive, kept the results secret and still didn’t quarantine For me the concern is not for myself as it is for the elderly and already health-compromised I take care of. Any exposure to this coronavirus would be fatal to them.

A review of the situation: Nothing substantial has changed biologically regarding the coronavirus. It still is happy to infect whenever and wherever it finds a host. There is not yet a proven safe & effective vaccine available, although that will eventually change. The only reason numbers currently are down is due to us starving the virus of new victims. As new hosts become available, the numbers will rise, especially the easier we make it for the virus to find a warm, moist host. We do not yet know everything about this virus, but we do know this one is especially contagious. Masks by themselves are proven not sufficient to stop infection. Good masks, goggles/face shields, 6' distance, frequent hand washing, avoiding eyes/mouth/nose contact with infected media, all together help in greatly reducing risk of infection, but may not be totally effective 100%. One can be infected but asymptomatic and spread the virus unaware to family, friends and co-workers. Symptoms vary, and can take a week or more to manifest, if at all. In some cases, hospitalization may follow about a week later, sedated intubation may follow a week after that. In extreme cases, death may follow quickly, or take weeks, or one may recover completely quickly or slowly, or recovery may result in lingering, perhaps permanent damage to certain organs and/or senses. The elderly and health-compromised are most at risk, but victims can come in any age and health status. Recovering survivors of those sick enough to be hospitalized describe an extremely unpleasent experience. As skydivers, we are used to understanding risks and devising technology, methodology and training to mitigate those risks. Good luck is always welcome, but we know better than to rely on it, because we know just how unreliable luck is. With careful and committed mitigation, we may know just enough to safely resume sport jumping, perhaps even student jumps. I am not at all convinced we yet know enough to safely resume Tandem jumping. For those choosing to Tandem jump at this time, please let us know the mitigation protocols you've implemented and how they are working. Any obvious symptoms should start manifesting some 2 weeks following infection.

Alright so a few things. It's a bit hard to tell everything from the video, so I'm making some generalizations. - When you get linetwists the FIRST thing you do is get the risers even. Look at the slinks and make sure the left and right riser sets are even. If they are not, even them the fuck up pronto. Uneven risers are effectively equivalent to inducing a harness turn into the canopy by which the lines on top of the canopy are uneven. That effects a turn in the canopy and it will start to spiral down on you very quickly (which is what happened in your video). The more you spin under the canopy the more friction you're going to build in the lines making it harder and harder to even the risers up as you spin under the canopy. That's why it's important to get them even quickly, immediately open opening. - The type of linetwists you experienced are called body twists. They are mostly specific to wingsuiting. They occur when the canopy opens without linetwists, but you spin under the canopy. It often occurs when the risers are loaded unevenly, which in effect throws your body in a spin as soon as the canopy starts to slow you down. The cause of this is failing to fly the opening correctly, and in almost all cases it's because you dipped one shoulder low which made one riser effectively shorter than the other. To reduce the occurrence of dipping a shoulder low and causing this chain-reaction events, look at the horizon through the opening and keep your eyes on it so you have a reference. When you collapse your arm wings to reach back for the PC, fly with your shoulders to ensure you're still flying straight. Keep your hands on the BOC for a quick sec to make sure you dont start turning or dipping a shoulder low. You can practice this on a jump by flying your WS with both hands on your BOC. Try flying straight with only your shoulders. -If you do have linetwits with uneven risers and the canopy starts to spiral down you, try to twist the linetwists down onto the risers which in some cases will allow you to straighten the risers up. If that doesent work in a very short amount of time, cut main away. - You took too long to initiate EPs. Dont mess around with a canopy spiraling down. If you cant make progress on it within the first three seconds if it spinning like that, chop it immediately. In the USA, the first three fatalities of 2019 were all from what you experienced. Canopies that spiraled down on linetwits and the pilot ended up spiraling down too low. That has killed a lot of skydivers over the years. You burn through altitude very quickly when the canopy is spinning like that and you have less time than you think. - The Storm is not an ideal wingsuiting canopy as it will spiral down easily like you experienced. However, far more important is flying the openings correctly and getting the risers even if you have linetwists.

Couple quick things from watching the video. First, you are leaning to the right when you pull. You can see the horizon going wonky. That will turn your burble into a big ass vortex which will rotate your bag/packjob before it gets to line stretch like it happened in this jump. It also means that when you get snatched you get ragdolled to create even more twists. If the packjob gets thrown around it will also open harder as the slider will come off the stops before bottom skin inflation, compundng the ragdolling issue. So dedicate a number of jumps to do practice pulls smoothly and slow concentrating in keeping level and being symetrical, as well as getting comfortable with flying the suit during the pull sequence. There's no rush to pitch in a wingsuit, we are falling relatively slow. Also try and make sure you slow down first efficiently without dirtying the air behind you. The link above has some stuff about it The other thing, once the twists are in full flow there's not much you can do to stop them, and all you might achieve by reaching wildly into the risers is getting your fingers trapped between the twists. What you can do though, is prevent the canopy from diving by ensuring the risers are level. So as soon as you see you are getting twisted grab the risers low down or at the three rings and yank the right/left risers as needed to make them even before the twists lock them in an uneven position. Keep the fight to maintain the risers level until the whole thing settles. With a canopy flying level you got more time to get rid of the twists and is way less stressful. Besides that, storms are notoriously bad ws canopies. Just because they are 7 cells does not mean they are ws friendly. Other things you may want to consider are semi-stowless bags, 9ft bridal and big PC if you don't have them already.