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  1. White ~ roughly GoPro 1 Silver ~ Roughly GoPro 2 Black ~ Only one worth spending money on anymore Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
  2. Jumper was doing a Christmas demo and it appears at approx 50 meters the canopy collapsed potentially due to wind conditions.
  3. Odds are the cops were looking to make some quick cash. The prices of 30 round Magpul's were $13.99 2 weeks ago, I just bought 2 new ones at the shop for $39.99 and that was out of the last case they had. They had a limit of 2 per customer and had sold an estimated 30 cases worth in the last 2 weeks. It was a 2 hour wait to get to the gun counter at my local shop with 5 sales people working the gun counter. I just saw some Magpul's going for $70+ on ebay and most online retailers do not even have them in stock or able to be back ordered anymore. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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    Hard Landing

    Jumper was doing his first AFF jump and followed radio commands to approx 1000 feet where he became unresponsive. He then flew downwind and landed with no flare. He landed and then flew/was dragged into a fence.
  5. I've seen cases where the red seal loop was not super tight and the skyhook disconnected after a cutaway. The seal thread was found still in place but the skyhook had slipped off. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
  6. https://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/ This is a converter that works very well. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
  7. Jumper was doing a High performance turn and at a very high altitude their VIGIL fired. This lead to both the main and reserve canopies opening and transitioned to a downplane at a very low altitude. The jumper was unable to cutaway prior to hitting the g
  8. Typically this is an error that will show if you do not have a mandatory field correctly entered. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
  9. Unknown military accident at a civilian dropzone
  10. Tandem pair was under canopy when they accidentally flew into a dust devil at 50 feet which collapsed their canopy and it did not re inflate prior to hitting the ground. The instructor was killed in the incident
  11. And I have seen this not work as expected on a Vigil in student mode. I watched a student release a single toggle and then did nothing and rode the spinning canopy to the ground. The student was lucky that they ended up going straight into a woods and the canopy caught the a tree and brought them to a stop since the descent speed was less than the firing speed but still high enough to be fatal if they had hit the ground like that. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
  12. The older CX100 was side loading. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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    Mid-Air collision

    Background A group of wingsuiters had organized a training weekend and a certified Wingsuit Tutor was brought from interstate to oversee the wingsuit program for this period. A 17-way formation was planned by the wingsuit group under the direction of two
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    Suicide

    Jumper had canceled their business license shortly before this jump. They were found with no handles pulled. The jumper was not observed to be missing for over a week and his body was discovered before anyone had identified him as potentially missing.
  15. The lack of centralization and the issue with time zones is impacting things too. For most of us the events occured overnight and by the time we wake up the entire days events are over and we see the scores and no running commentary. With the lack of a social media site to stay up to the minute it loses some of its appeal and the fact that the events have lasted for so many days does not help either. I am used to the US nationals were 4 way is done in 2 days max. Making it last for multiple days means that other then about 45 seconds to check scores once in the morning I just lost interest since it was going to be another day for anything to happen. The lack of central places to see the social commentary did not help on the interest levels either. The deletion of the Youtube channel, the limited videos being posted and even the lack of the USPA to post running commentary on their Facebook other then the final results was not a great effort to engage US jumpers. I know 4 jumpers that are there and the total amount of info coming out of Dubai was things like "Wish us luck!" "Here is the scores for today", "We won X Event!", "We were disqualified!" (My personal favorite!) and things like that. I saw more from the vendors then I saw from the official sources. PD, Cypres, and a few others did a great job showing off their athletes but beyond that... almost no information was coming out that I was able to see. The US team either did not have any sort of blog running or if they did they did a horrible job of promoting it and I was never able to find it. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
  16. That entire piece of hardware needs replaced. There is a master rigger around that knows how to do those repairs... Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
  17. All the new designs use electric engines in a pull configuration. They use propellers but more to pull the air though the chamber and not to push you up. Go to the tunnel up in Boston or in NC since those are the closest to DC at the moment to see what a modern tunnel design looks like. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
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    Medical

    Jumper was jumping after the tandems with the plan to pull high but was found with no canopies out. Jumper suffered from hypertension and other medical issues which are suspected in causing him to have issues in freefall.
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    Bit Coins

    Has it reached the point where the value for decoding a block has now dropped in half? I know that it was looking to be sometime in November and there was some speculation on the potential for deflation at that time but I have not been keeping up to see what happened. I was looking into BitCoin for a few items and though about trying to run the software on my system then figured out that the hardware solutions were the only really option and a normal PC is a waste of time for that process and even then the reward was only going to be about $10-15 a week or 1 bitcoin. That was probably not going to cover the hardware and the electrical costs for the system. It really rewarded the early adopters and is making it harder to earn some Bitcoin by halving the rewards to later adopters very similar to a Ponzi. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
  20. Please keep employment posts in the classifieds. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
  21. Please post this in the classifieds, the post will be deleted soon. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
  22. Jumper was jumping a rig without an AAD and after a main malfunction failed to pull the reserve handle at the correct altitude. This DZ had a policy of AAD's were mandatory and the jumper violated that policy.
  23. Since under your other name on here you are talking about having a cutaway on student gear recently I am going to say that swooping is a long ways off and you need to start taking canopy courses as soon as possible to avoid bad habits. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
  24. Talk to the instructors specifically about this next time at the DZ. I am sure Adam, Bud, Brad or any of the other instructors will describe in great detail what we are wanting you to focus on for that specific skydive. You can only learn so much online and some of the topics are just better learned in person where we can draw out the diagram of what we expect on each skydive. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com
  25. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/08/navy-seals-punished/1693453/ I've played the game and can't tell what they would have leaked that was not already in half a dozen games of similar nature. It is disappointing to see that these soldiers are disclosing this information, it is even more disconcerting that this has now happened twice with the same unit within the last year. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com