JohnyCrawford

Even that is not safe: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3551599/Fishing-tackle-Hilarious-moment-naked-swimmer-bursts-Russian-lake-bite-caught-legs-bit-fishy.html

This place has been boring lately. Let's liven it up! Name something that is a bad idea to do naked. I'll start. Fry bacon.

Here's the photo Keith is talking about.

Another possibility is if your closing pin gets dislodged before or during exit, or in freefall. The closed corners can help hold the bag in place for a normal deployment. The jumper may not even know his flaps are open behind him. But with open corners, that bag can float up out of the container. And with the pilot chute still in its pouch, that gives you a nasty horseshoe malfunction.

The downside is that if you get a pilot chute hesitation, your deployment bag may start floating up off your back and entangle with the bridle. Those pocketed corners were designed to keep the bag in place until it's actually pulled out by an inflated pilot chute.

Are you deploying while you still have some forward motion? Wingsuiters are careful to get or modify their rigs with "open corners". That means that the bottom left and right outside corners are not sewn with a slight pocket in them to help hold the bag in place until it is snatched out of the container by the pilot chute. That's good for a normal deployment when you're falling straight down. It helps keep the bag from floating out prematurely and mixing up with the lines. However, if you have forward speed, the pilot chute is pulling backwards against those corners, instead of straight up. So the bag can catch in one of those corners and pop out unevenly, causing it to spin, thereby winding up the lines as they deploy. To avoid that, you have a rigger "open up" the corners to remove that pocket. So, check those corners and see what you've got. Note that this is a trade-off depending on what type of jumping you do. What's good for belly-flying, is not good for tracking, and vice-versa. So whatever you do with those corners, if you're using that rig for both types of jumping, then you've got a compromise with one or the other. Bright idea: Someone invent a rig with convertible corners. Snaps? Something that could be packed open or closed, depending upon what type of jump you are planning on doing next.

Yes, indeed. I'm glad we've got dpreguy to explain all the legal mumbo-jumbo!

News reports: http://wfla.com/2016/12/23/crews-on-scene-of-train-versus-car-accident-in-hillsborough-county/ http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/accidents/one-killed-in-truck-hit-by-train-in-plant-city/2307357 http://www.wtsp.com/news/driver-killed-when-train-hits-pickup-in-plant-city/377408652 This would have been Z-hills, Florida. Map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Zephyrhills,+FL/@28.2301691,-82.1568949,5183m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x88c2ad35eb2d6321:0xef1a2a9643b21756!8m2!3d28.2336196!4d-82.1811947 Paul Buckman Highway is also known as State Road 39. You can see the train track curve around the west side of the airport. But I'm not sure where that elevated section is that you see in the news photos, so I'm not sure exactly which road crossing it was...

Jingle Balls.

She earned a hell of a lot of bonus days.

My thought: Get another jumper about the same size as yourself. You wear jumpsuit A, he wears jumpsuit B. Go make a two-way and see how you fly together. When you get down, re-pack. Then switch suits: you wear jumpsuit B and he wears jumpsuit A. Go make the same two-way. Compare notes. Sinking? Floaty? Changes in body position to stay neutral with other jumper? If you have audible altimeters, check the logged speeds.

I think I'd take a pit stop to get that steering wheel issue straightened out, rather than re-enter the race with the risk that it could come off again and cause a deadly wreck...

What could be better than watching Raquel Welch pack a parachute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqWTXeNKiyw

The Army Gold Knights and the Air Force Academy had these systems, which were used to judge style at the National competitions. They were the only ones that could afford them. Check with those guys. They would follow the aircraft on jump run to pick up the exiting style diver. The cameraman actually called the cut by radio up to the pilot, for the purpose of getting the best angle for the video. Hooked to a TV screen to show the video was awesome. Much more magnification than binoculars, and the judges could review the tape multiple times. When idle, they used to point it at the daytime moon, and you could literally see the rotation speed of the earth as the moon crept across the TV screen.

White Ford F150 pickups.