Doug_Davis

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  1. Awesome post! +1 This is one of the reasons I went all new when I bought my rig. People were asking insane prices for used gear. Oh and trying to get pictures of their gear was like pulling teeth.
  2. You got the explanation in a PM, which you responded to via PM at 9:40am this morning before editing this post at 10:15am calling me out. So you had already received the explanation and responded to it, before adding that edit. Nope, you shared with me that "A BOD member shared information with you." Your post indicates that you have first-hand knowledge. I suggest you have hearsay. They aren't the same thing. If you submit that one BOD member is criminal in his actions, then you have to accept that there are other BOD members that might lie, cheat, make up things that aren't true, or bend the truth to fit a mold. in other words, you don't know anything about the topic you're suggesting you know something about. Did you talk to the President of USPA? Did you personally speak with anyone involved with the investigations? Did you call the BOD member in question? Or that you'd just accept one email from a disgruntled BOD member because it fits your facts? No wonder you never made detective in the NYPD. Or you could go back and read the original thread in the incident forums where former customers witnessed and discussed the safety problems at the DZ, or where pics from their facebook page were posted that discussed "swooping the buildings", or any number of things. Or you can continue trying to argue with me in every thread I have posted in recently, while posting snide passive aggressive insults and making yourself look like a psycho stalker. Your choice, but either way Im tired of your juvenile trolling attempts and will just ignore you from here on out. Maybe you could try the same. Blue skies!
  3. You got the explanation in a PM, which you responded to via PM at 9:40am this morning before editing this post at 10:15am calling me out. So you had already received the explanation and responded to it, before adding that edit.
  4. Carhartt makes some pretty tough duck canvas work shorts that might work. Alternatively maybe look at motocross shorts?
  5. I don't know who Tom Meyers is but sounds like we could use him on the board. This swooping accident certainly isn't the first such demonstration by Rich where he has shown a lack of Consideration for the consequences of his actions.
  6. This is all I get. Thats what I got from my phone but I can watch on my desktop.
  7. $70+ dollars? We've been using these for years. Tuck one in a pocket. Use it to look for light or at LCD indicator before going out the door. Problem solved. $4. http://img.chinamedevice.com/product/903/1449903.jpg
  8. A friend of mine just posted this on Facebook tonight. http://www.grellfab.com/product/3-3housing-gopro-hero33-on-cookie-g3 Its a chin mounted system on the G3. The video demonstrates how it all works a bit better. http://youtu.be/57Dt9yMwD5A
  9. Has anyone ever given thought to replacing the normal mounting thumb screw (connecting the base to the housing) with a quick release pull pin? Camera gets snagged you just yank the pin out and release the camera and housing from the base. Maybe not this exactly but something similar? http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTM0N1gxNTAw/$(KGrHqUOKisE5fIiSTz9BOlz4)p99g~~60_35.JPG
  10. Thanks John! I'm on vacation till the end of this week. When I get home I will shoot you an email with all the requested info.
  11. YouTube is telling me that due to a Sony copyright claim I can't view the video in the US? Edit- Now it says its been removed by user?
  12. John, Is the NMU software ever going to be updated? Multiple functions on my N3 (choosing/customizing the AC or DZ) seem to be inaccessible or nonworking due to unupdated software.
  13. Pot, meet kettle. Wow, JP. I've always had more respect for you than that. Coming from you I take that as an unnecessary insult and don't feel it was deserved. Oh well. Then think before you yell at me at the top of your voice that I don't know what I'm talking about as an instructor in front of staff and customers, when maybe, just maybe your experience wad a bit more dated than mine. Perfect. You've succeeded in demonstrating my point quite clearly. *breaks out the popcorn* Holy cow some of you old timers love your drama.
  14. This is what I use to protect my head from rocks in full on Class 4 or 5 river runs. Tom, company owner, also makes a full face version that I use as well. I've taken some hard hits with them and haven't managed to break one yet. Not sure what impact he has tested them to though. I do know his snow sport helmets have to meet some international guidelines. http://shredready.quivers.com/p/1095/ I'd actually thought of suggesting to Tom that he get into the skydiving market as he seems able to produce a damn good helmet far cheaper than anything other than protecs in the skydiving market.
  15. I don't know of a definitive source listing the policy of every public or private university in our secondary education system, but a quick Google search says CUNY didn't implement such a policy til 2012, and Columbia until 2013.
  16. Exactly. The trucker never saw him coming. Attached is the screen capture. I do 4-5000 miles a year cycling, and a cardinal rule is to never pass another vehicle (parked or moving) close enough to be caught by an opening door. That is even dumber on a motorcycle. Dumbass biker got what he deserved.
  17. I PCSed to Bragg around '92 after selection. I remember the 82nd and SF clubs. Good times.
  18. To the OP. I use an N3 as a visual altimeter on my wrist. Even being half deaf due to my career in the army I can still hear the alarms half the time during free fall while wearing a G3. I can definitely hear them under canopy. But if you want to use it as an audible it should be in your helmet.
  19. So what's your safety advisory? Don't buy a house within 500 meters of an airport and raise you kids there? You make your own decisions. But this was something I was unaware of, so it appeared to me others might be ignorant of this as well. My home DZ is a Cessna DZ. And given how little lead it takes to create IQ damage and behavoral changes in toddlers and children, I for one will be leaving my daughter at home from now on when I go jump there rather than exposing her to the exhaust. What you do is up to you.
  20. Not posting this to start a political argument but as a safety advisory (which is why I posted in the general skydiving section) for those who may not he aware of the connection between leaded aviation gas exhaust and lead poisoning. http://huff.to/1k3ipEn
  21. http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/cruises/cruise-news-its-change-royal-3385400 Its sister ship Anthem of the Seas will be sailing in Europe and will also include a widntunnel. I think my wife and I will become cruise goers next spring.
  22. 500' night jump. Of course we also used to do crazy shit like intentional tree landings in these big padded suits too.
  23. Friend sent me this on FB, thinks this is what I do. I didnt know how to explain the difference between skydiving and speed flying, nor do I have the time since I'm on a 30 day vacation right now. Thought some of you might get a kick out of this future Darwin award winner though. [urlhttp://unofficialnetworks.com/gotta-kidding-insane-130273/[/url]
  24. Well, I do make them, so my thoughts are somewhat biased. I have made a lot of them for Javs; I could spend a lot of time looking up my records and tell you exactly how many. But I'm just too lazy to do that. Early on I made two NoStoBags for a customer and he sent them back because one of them had a very slight split in one of the grommets. I corrected the 'problem' and paid shipping both ways for the correction. I should have caught the grommet 'problem' but I didn't. Sometimes things like that happen. Other than that I have only heard positive responses to users of the NoStoBag. I have never heard of anyone who bought a NoStoBag not using it or saying it was not working for them. I see no reason why a NoStoBag would not work with a 190 sq ft canopy in a Jav. Does that help? JerryBaumchen PS) DSE did offer some thoughts for improvement for the NoStoBag; I have changed the bags to incorporate one of his suggestions. And I welcome any thoughts on how improve the product. A) Would I need to send you measurements or is this something you could get from manufacturer? B) Im also guessing I will need to buy a new PC since someone in this thread indicated Javelins are shipped with their PC's sewn to the D-bag on new systems. Or am I misreading that?