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AFF is not a good form of training. It is an extremely high pressure scenario, from the start. The amount of information and skill required is overwhelming for many people. They can only process so much, and coupled with the mental and emotional effort required to carry everything through, makes it very difficult to assimilate what may be rationalised as "less important" information. There is also pressure from outside factors, family/friends, financial, in some cases, time and weather. Add all these together, plus in some cases less than competent instruction/instructors, ill suited equipment, and you have a formula for failure. I've never liked AFF as a way to train first jumpers, and I believe it will eventually see the death of the sport. I've seen it happen in my own country where the number of operations training first jumpers has declined from 15 - 20 to just 2 over the last 20 years. Tandem carnival rides will become the only way to experience jumping within another 20 years, and even that will decline as less people will be around to qualify as TIs. One of the other reasons AFF students may not "care" much, is that their instructors are not teaching them to "care" about the minutae, and not going the extra mile for them unless they open their wallets and pay for information that used to come for free. Its not the students fault. Just re read the OP, and it illustrates the point about the instructors lack of quality. If it was apparent to him, that the guy you were talking about was paying no attention during class, why did he let him jump at all? He should have told him to take a hike before letting him anywhere near the plane. He put that guys life at risk, as well as everyone else on the load. I think I know the answer to that, and at my DZ, such poor judgement would probably result in a loss of rating. Money does not compromise safety. Part of the job is to sometimes tell people they should take up bowling.

Terminal idiocy is the simple answer.

Gimmee a minute to think about it..... Actually that is a waste of about 58 seconds!

Time should do a loser of the year cover...no wait, loser of the century.

Easy demonstration: Take a piece of line, hold it under tension, and introduce multiple twists to it. Then relax the tension. You will see it automatically kink up. Thats how many tension knots are born. I had a student canopy amongst my rigs that every now and then would be cutaway. I had 4 other identical canopies, but this one quickly showed itself as a rogue. I found the problem to be several lines which had been attached during manufacture that were twisted. Easily solved, but had I figured it out earlier, it would have saved me a few reserve repacks, and a few students from an extra adrenalin rush. Untwist your brake lines.

And that is where the quality of their EP training comes in to play. They should not be going near the plane until they have demonstrated correct EPs multiple times in the training harness. It is why I sometimes question the quality of their instructors and the quality of the training they have received. That should be consistent right through their training in EVERY aspect of jumping till they are licenced, but the doubt, questions and ignorance I see from some newbies tell me that in some cases, the instructors have done a piss poor job. And that is a problem. The standard and variation of instruction leaves a lot to be desired. This thread alone is a classic example of that. The SOS system is by far the simplest and best system for student training. No question about that. It is about as fool proof as you can get. The simpler it is, the safer it is. One pull does all. The transition to two stage EPs can come later, and is easier to manage when "A" licence holders have a lot more confidence and awareness in the air, and are not burdened by multiple tasks as they are during AFF.

Just don't wear pants.

EPs should be practised before every jump, even if its just visualising the procedure and going through the motions with your hands. Easily done on the way to altitude in the plane. After training multiple students on their EPs, where they used the SOS system, I used to practice my EPs on every jump on the way to altitude, because they were different from student EPs. You don't have to spend months or weeks doing that. Putting on a training harness and going for a walk by yourself during downtime at the DZ, is a good way to practice your EPs 50 times in a short time. That kind of practice is what builds muscle memory. And you should always be looking for your handles during a real emergency.

As for disrupting a country, one nerdy hacker, with a click of a mouse, can bring the whole infrastructure of a country to a halt. Damaging a railway line is small bikkies compared to that. Lying to the populace as to the danger of a virus can cause a lot of deaths as well. Who is the bigger "terrorist"?

I don't understand this morbid fear of Communists. I do understand the insecure individual who has this absolute need to have some sort of scary monster to project the multiple insecurities they hold. AKA a nutcase. Give it up mate. Your man lost. BIGLY.

We don't believe everything we read already. We read you, that is example enough.

This is jump pilot 101 stuff. Major problem can occur with AADs if the pilot gets it wrong. Having said that, just use the finger pointing upwards to tell him you want more. And its up to you to decide when you want to depart the A/C, not him. (unless of course someone has pressed the "wings off" button.)

How does a person this stupid make enough money to give away 2.5 mil?

Donald Trump Leaves The White House | Spitting Image - YouTube

Here is Glenn Kirshners take on it. Fair points. Watch from 2.40 on. Here's Why the Rule of Law Requires Trump Be Prosecuted Upon Leaving Office - YouTube

Don't confuse revenge for justice. This has nothing to do with revenge, even though any punishment is richly deserved. Trump deserves to be prosecuted for his crimes in the interests of justice. As is the case for any other citizen. A court can decide on his guilt or otherwise. Why is he talking about self pardoning if he thinks he has done nothing wrong?

Not much good if there is no evidence to base a case on. Its no coincidence that the "good" lawyers he had all ran for the hills.

If Trump were pardoned he would claim it as total exoneration. As he did with the Russian investigation. I have a feeling Mueller may have held something back and we may hear more about That after Trump loses the protection of the presidency. As for the GOP controlled Senate finding him not guilty, that is like the foxes judging and finding no case to answer for the great chicken coop massacre. McConnell squashed any chance of impeachment even before the hearings began.

Glen Kirchner makes a pretty strong case that he can be charged with 2nd degree murder in the case of 250000 Americans who died of covid on his watch. He clearly fulfils the 3 criteria necessary for indictments in the deaths of every single individual. And could be charged for every single one of them. No pardons. So what if his brain dead supporters consider him a martyr.

All of them.

It will never work. Everyone knows right wing racists don't think. They are safe.

I never thought to equate wearing a mask with wearing a set of handcuffs. And they, of course, have the freedom to choose. Burial or cremation...No need to be scared.

Trump will match donations by 1000%. Yeah right!!! Anyone want to buy a bridge?

He needs to give Lionel Hutz a call and get him on the job!!! (Donny probably thinks he's real)