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Every soldier, from every country, came from a family; the vast majority of them were and still are loved by those families. And most of them are just young men sent to do something that only young men are sent to do. It's a way of robbing them just as much as the war robs the civilians. Wendy P.

As we can clearly see in the "Excuses for the FBI search" thread.

Maybe it's because I'm an older skydiver... "The Cape" by Guy Clark

And here's you doing it for free, like a chump.

Finally, a definitive,randomized study: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2201662 But at least all those followers of Dr. Trump will be free of intestinal worms.

I don't know if I would have taken that first step if there had not been SL option... The idea of freefall was a bit too much. At least with SL, one could learn all the other parts first. I would absolutely agree with you on Tandem in principle, BUT having gotten my TI under Strong Ent, and not surrounded by UTP, my _perception_ is that the reason many places do Tandem first and primary is money. It helps fund the DZ (at some DZ to the exclusion of all else), but I see very little "training" going on. SE pressed that this was a training jump with a student. Sigma pilots seem to be all about taking the passenger for a ride. Yea, I get it... 90% will only make one bucket list driven jump. BUT as my TI-E said (in effect)... if you treat them like a student, your rate of return will go up, and those that do return already have the mind-set of learning a skill rather than taking a ride. Just my $.03 JW

Does anyone know how to remove the screw/bolt from the D-Ring so I can detach the parachute lanyards? I tried to turn the screw with a screw driver both ways but in just a little of a turn it gets tight and does not seem to loosen up. Please Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The amazing thing about a "brag" like this is it doesn't matter if it's true or a lie, it's a humiliating indictment of character either way...

Yesterday I heard a UK-based comedian suggest that her plan for high energy bills this winter was that families huddle together whilst jacking it over a picture of Margaret Thatcher...Almost spit some coffee on that one!

Hi, both have threads. The hairpin is right, and the counter screw is left, as i remember. I hope this is not recognized as a military secret)

Just more of the same old, same old with a little distraction equivalency thrown in. FOX and the GOP has its tribe trained like a pack of Pavlov's dogs.

So why wasn't she been? Trump had FOUR YEARS of his pet FBI director and Attorney General to investigate, charge & prosecute her. Funny that both the FBI & Justice department are that incompetent. Part of the difference is that Clinton actually HAD a security clearance. She gave it up, but she had legal authorization to see & possess classified stuff. Trump NEVER had a clearance. Not a 'real' one. He had access to stuff because of his position. Same thing with the kids. They were disqualified from getting them, but daddy said they could see important stuff anyway. Clinton held her clearance well after she left governement employment. Trump's legal access to classified stuff ended on Jan 21, 2021.

Keep it in the active thread. I'm locking this and pinning it. Wendy P.

Granted. I too see "freeze" as an involuntary response / panic. That is not what I meant and accept the change to "Flight". I should not have called it "doing nothing", even though I can imagine it would feel that way to a student in that situation. You read all kinds of advanced stuff about changing stable two-outs into a downplane to cut it away. About canopy transfers. About hook knife use. About bloody standup bloody landings being the golden standard for a good landing. About sliding in on your arse. As a beginning student I do not want you to do any of that when the shit hits the fan. I want you to remember your decision altitudes and act accordingly. And I want you to PLF your first few landings, or I'll make you PLF all the way back to the hangar.

The communications lingo and procedures plus the type of information that would be exchanged between the tower and the airliner.

Filing a flight plan in the air... Cooper knew that.

In Russia, these guys are very popular now, they carry communal amenities to where bears used to be afraid to shit. This is a role model for children, like you have Superman. All the available capacities of 3d-printers are now overwhelmed with work, making new toy soldiers in this image.

Well what do you know. I socially distanced within reason, (bubbled with my brother's family, and visited and walked with lots of other relatives and friends outdoors or masked), traveled by airplane and RV (Grand Canyon, Antarctica, Texas, Costa Rica, Mexico, Pacific Northwest and back), and took the shots. I also wasn't sick a day in over two years. Wendy P.

Thanks for that! So in your posts I see: Hasty generalization - finding one guy who said the world was going to end and using that to represent the whole. Strawman fallacy - claiming that scientists are arguing that no other greenhouse gas other than CO2 affects the climate. Ad Hominem - attacking Greta Thunberg's mother because she made a silly "my daughter is superhuman" argument Appeal to Authority - claiming that since Kary Mullis is a good chemist, he is an authority on climate change Begging the question - claiming that scientists think any amount of CO2 is a pollutant, which isn't true False Dichotomy - assuming that the two options are using gas planes forever or "the government makes all your planes illegal." Can you get all 10? If you do I'll buy you a beer.

If they don't have electricity or running water, it wouldn't be any use to them. However, a toilet seat would be useful. That's why they're stealing those. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-qXF7_YI1E

I disagree. Mammals are born with three instinctive reactions to danger: fight, flight or freeze. Politicians later learn a fourth response: filibuster. "Fight" means pulling more handles to improve the main canopy overhead ... or replace it with a better reserve canopy. "Flight" means running away from the problem ... pulling cutaway handle. "Freeze" means doing nothing and hoping or praying that the big nasty problem loses interest and goes away. S/L, IAD and AFF instructors try to screen for those reactions during ground school. Most of the time, ground-school instructors screen out the least competent students.

What about low altitude malfunction? After collision, after wrong assuming of main canopy state (like bow tie lineover) If student can't handle with altimeter maybe skydiving it's not activity for him/her? IMO square canopies - altimeter obligatory for skydive

Short answer: buy a sewing machine and learn to sew. You’ll need that skill to be a rigger anyway, and it has uses outside the rigging realm. Forward/reverse/zigzag. Portable, old model with metal parts is best. Start making and repairing things that don’t require a riggers ticket. Learn how to maintain the machine. I started rigging in the 70s mostly because I wanted to know how things work. Professionally, I became a physicist, not unrelated. in the mid-80s I became a master rigger, although I was never terribly active by most master rigger standards. It was absolutely worth it, in intellectual satisfaction sense, if not in a financial sense.

But they didn't include injected bleach and anally inserted UV lights!