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Add another to the list: Start Skydiving - New policy is no Wingsuit Exits from side door aircraft until a formal training program can be implemented and all wingsuit flyers will have to show evidence of completing the program and will have to sign a liability agreement that if they damage the plane they will pay for it. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Come on down to Start on October 13 and Phoenix Fly will have a few different suits out that you can try and fly to see which you like better. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

My interpretation was the loss of the S&TA function with the appointment of a new S&TA at the DZ as a replacement. Once again I don't see that leading to much of a change in the environment since if the first person was not willing to do it there is no driving factors that the second person would do the paperwork either. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

The 11 was from all of 2011. At least 6 of them had occurred on Caravans, 2 of them on 206's, 1 on a PAC 750. Looking back to 2009 there was even a fatality on a tailstrike on an Otter. All of this was presented to the UPSA at the latest BOD meeting from the group that is trying to get a Wingsuit rating. Numbers from 2012 have not been collected yet since people are not really willing to report them except to make insurance claims to fix their aircraft. USPA is having issues right now even getting S&TA's to turn in Fatality reports. I just spoke to a member of the BOD in the last 2-3 weeks that said we only had the paperwork on something like 50% of the fatalities from this year sent in and they are now looking at options to get the S&TA's to send in the paperwork or to remove their ratings. Getting S&TA's to send in paperwork on injuries and things like tailstrikes is asking a lot if they won't even talk about fatalities. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

I was forwarded a message from a DZO that got this letter from their insurance carrier. For years people have been talking about the fear that the FAA may make us stop doing activities, it looks like we were worrying about the wrong group stepping in since the insurance carrier that is insuring the majority of the jump fleet out there is in the position to implement restrictions to anyone that wants to keep their planes insured. Currently in the cross hairs are airplane formation takeoffs, formation flights with jumpers and wingsuiting due to the high number of tail strikes occurring. We as a community need to come together to correct these issues or we could be finding that the plane operators might need to stop allowing those activities to occur if they want to keep insured. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

I'll get specific on it since I have had details passed to me since multiple people have messaged me and they are afraid to go public with the info. Skydive the Farm was said to have had a Vigil fire on a tandem with video at 5000 feet. I started an incidents thread on this one. Vigil should have the unit and I am awaiting the results. Another one was said to have occurred at Mountain Gravity in Switzerland last weekend, this one was a regular Vigil that fired on the bottom end of a 360 degree swoop on a canopy loaded at 2.0. I'll put info out on another two I know of first hand. Wingsuiter had one fire at about 4000 feet in the middle of a flight in Ohio early this summer. They were in the process of waiving off for deployment and next thing they knew they were under a canopy. Another one in Ohio occurred last fall when a jumper was flying their pattern and was about to start a swoop and it ended up firing. This was after they had been under canopy for a bit. That unit was sent back to the factory and I never heard why it fired. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Could someone translate this? I could do a google translate on it but those are usually missing some minor details and I want to make sure this info is right. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Its plus or minus 6 months based on the DOM for the maintenance so since your window is 11/2004 + 8 years = 11/2012 and then the unit is good for + 6 months its valid until 5/13 at the latest. You can get it repacked this cycle but send it in in the spring as early as possible to get it serviced so its returned for the spring season. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

CYPRES 1 units are good for 12 years 3 months from their DOM. CYPRES 2 units are good for 12 years 6 months from their DOM Both of these need to go back to the factory at their 4 and 8 year marks to be worked on and re-certified. These checks are mandatory. The checks are around $180 and include a new battery on CYPRES 2 units Vigil 1 and 2 units are good for 20 years and do not need to be re certified. They do need a new battery installed when ever the unit reports it has a low battery. Batteries are around $100. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

You will need to keep looking for assistance since this moderator has no intent of removing any posts thus far in these threads... Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

They are still looking for investors so it might be some time still. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Couple of questions I will throw out since I have seen similar airport fights including one locally about 10 years ago and the reasons for it might vary but getting to the root of the issue might help. Does the DZ lease/own a hanger directly from the airport? If they are a direct tenet then they have a say to the airport board but the board can still vote to evict. But if they are on a sublease then they lose some or all of their say at the airport. Does the DZ buy a substantial amount of fuel from the local FBO or do they truck it all in? One DZ locally was in a fight with the airport board years ago and stopped buying fuel and would truck it in from other airports, this ended up costing them the FBO's favorable opinion and the FBO chose not to support them anymore. Once this support was lost they found they had very few people willing to assist. I have no idea the situation at St. Mary's but these are factors that the airport looks into. The "Just off airport" landing area that was described was identified as being around 2 acres in size. This might be too small to qualify as a student landing area so that all non-licensed holders may need to have a separate landing area that abides by the USPA BSR's. Further depending on the near by obstructions this may be closer to an open field demo landing area in which the requirements are much higher and might even exclude most licensed jumpers or potentially even tandems. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2012-08-27/navy-wants-st-marys-airport-moved To anyone that thinks that national security does not play into GA airports they should do some research on Meigs Field and see how in the interest of security they were able to destroy an airfield that had been in operation for 65+ years. Navy wants St. Marys airport moved By Terry DicksonMorris News Service – published Monday, August 27, 2012 The Aug. 12 landing of two skydivers inside Kings Naval Submarine Base’s perimeter has heightened the Navy’s security concern to the point that the base commander on Monday called for the relocation of the St. Marys Airport from which a skydiving business operates. The St. Marys Airport Authority last week revoked The Jumping Place’s operating permit, but in spite of posted trespass warnings the business carried dozens of skydivers aloft Saturday, three of whom landed in a city park. Four skydivers received warnings and five were cited. That action was apparently not sufficient to allay the Navy’s concerns. In a letter citing the landing on a base softball field, Kings Bay commander Capt. Harvey Guffey Jr. reminded St. Marys Mayor Bill DeLoughy of the city’s failure to “eliminate parachutists encroaching on the base despite multiple letters of concern from several base commanding officers...’’ Rear Adm. John C. Scorby Jr., commander of the Navy’s Southeast Region in Jacksonville, reinforced Guffey’s letter with one of his own. “Repeated exposure to these security threats in this era of terrorism creates significant disruption for the [submarine base’s] mission, and raises the specter of needlessly dangerous reactive responses. We can no longer accept this state of affairs,’’ Scorby wrote. The Navy “must heighten and reemphasize’’ it’s desire for that moving the airport be made a priority, Guffey wrote. “Let me be clear,’’ he said, “parachutist intrusions on the base must be eliminated.” The Navy said as much Wednesday at the meeting in which the Airport Authority revoked The Jumping Place’s permit. The vote came after owner Cathy Kloess said she could not guarantee that parachutists who jumped from her plane’s would not again land on Kings Bay. Those Aug. 12 landings were the sixth and seventh in three years on the base that has some highly restricted areas. Although things got off to a late start Saturday, Kloess said it would be business as usual. By the end of the day, however, the St. Marys police had issued four criminal trespass warnings, two criminal trespass citations to skydiving instructors and three reckless conduct citations to three jumpers who landed in the city’s Sweetwater Park, authority lawyer Jim Stein said. With no clear end to the jumps, Stein said authority members Frank Frasca and Frank Drane will ask the FAA what steps it should take next to provide better assurance no more skydivers from the airport will land on the base. Stein said the Navy’s strong letters will help him make his case to the city and the FAA. “It’s my advice nobody be allowed to operate at that airport as a skydiving business,’’ Stein said. Kloess’ son, Casey Kloess-Finley, who owns the business with her, called the arrests a “gross misuse of power by the city and the Airport Authority board.” The latter three jumpers had intended to land on a two-acre piece of property off the south side of the airport’s runway, he said. Kloess and Kloess-Finley told the Times-Union Saturday morning that they own the property and the authority could not stop them from using it as a drop zone. “Their intent was not to land in the park. They didn’t feel they could land there safely,’’ Kloess-Finley said of the two-acre landing spot. “They found a safe landing spot in the park.” Kloess-Finley said The Jumping Place believes police were clearly wrong in citing the two instructors for criminal trespass after telling all the jumpers that officers would issue only warnings. “They were singled out as our instructors,’’ Kloess-Finley said. The two were cited after completing tandem jumps and as agents of The Jumping Place clearly knew they could be charged with criminal trespass, Stein said. Stein also said that shifting the landing zone Saturday to the plot closer to base only increased the risk that a skydiver could again land on King’s Bay. Kloess-Finley disagreed saying the spot is only 0.6 miles closer meaning it’s still more than a mile from the base, which provides plenty of buffer for an experienced jumper. He also said any assertion that The Jumping Place doesn’t take Kings Bay’s security seriously is wrong. “The Jumping Place policy is to never land on the base. Never,’’ he said. But when a skydiver leaves the plane, he becomes his own pilot and in charge of his own landing, Kloess-Finley said. Individual skydivers must make decisions for their own safety, he said. Kloess has said that skydivers blown off course by “acts of God’’ chose the base to ensure they could land safely, most recently on a softball field that they thought was in a city park. As part of its pre-jump education, The Jumping Place tells skydivers not to land on the base even as a last resort and shows them aerial photos, Kloess-Finley said. “But we’re not going to tell them to hit a tree to avoid landing on the base,’’ he said. Asked if The Jumping Place will take skydivers up again Saturday, Kloess-Finley said “Our plan right now is we’re looking for other fields to jump in.’’ The two-acre field off the airport is not suitable for student landings, he said. “We’re looking at anything to keep our business open,’’ Kloess-Finley said. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Also if its a Mirage talk to the rigger about some tricks to make the install a LOT easier on them prior to removal! Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Lodi Loops tend to be a west coast thing. I have ran into a few different rigs that had them and for the most part the last rigger was almost always a west coast rigger. One was in Hawaii and two were in California. I can see the point of them if you are getting a rig that you don't have a guide to use for the loop length but for most rigs they are not needed. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Best bet is Aerohio up there. They have a Caravan every weekend and a really fun group to jump with. Skydive Pennsylvania or Canton Air Sports are an option depending on where you are staying up there also. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Explain that one.... How does just living in Spain mean that you paid royalties for everything? For Music I prefer Spotify anyways... why steal when everyone gets paid and I can stream via any device? Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Only places that sell things like that are the local dropzones usually. If your DZ does not stock anything then you will need to look at ordering things off the internet or from catalogs. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Here is the "survey" http://tayaweiss.com/ Its not a survey but more of a "If you are against the USPA doing a Wingsuit Instructor program sign this". I see a few names on there that I know only have 100 jumps or so and a lot of foreign jumpers also. One issue with the "survey" is there is no way to validate the person is a current USPA member since those data points were not collected and nothing is preventing someone from just typing names away and keep pressing submit. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

After effects is a program to alter video and add items into video frames or to create new motion effects. If you are looking to work with still imaes PhotoShop is a better option. After Effects has a pretty steep learning curve for people starting out. What are you trying to do exactly? Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Oh... the banning stick is out in full force and its being prepared to swing one more time... Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

If you are making thread here is the specs that are typically used: E sized Thread Size 69 Nylon is a middleweight thread typically used for sewing leather, lightweight upholstery fabric, canvas, and vinyl. Stitching, with a size 16 or 18 needle, is noticeable. This size is also known as Tex 70 and Government Size E. It has an 11 lb. (5.0 kilo) tensile strength; a 0.115 in. (0.2921 mm) diameter; and gives about 6,000 yards (5,480 meters) per pound. In terms of some of the other materials like the lines and the canopy fabric we have PIA that holds all the Military level specs for those materials since a lot of the materials are used in military items and they have very specific specs. http://pia.com/ http://www.pia.com/shopcord.htm http://www.pia.com/shopcloth.htm Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com