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1.1 until my new rig arrives then 1.23

Didn't Travis Pastrana get his membership revoked for his no rig stunt?

Ok. Then allow your gear to be stolen by an irate land owner who feels entitled to your property for the inconvenience of having a strangers feet on his land. You do you buddy.

So if you land off and the property owner wants to confiscate your $8k rig, you will hand it over and hope to get it back in a few months via the court system? You are acting like I am landing off and randomly attacking sweet innocent land owners. I merely said if the land owners acts the ass, I can too. I also said I support DZs doing something for the landowners to maintain good relations. Your reading comprehension is very selective.

Find statutory or case law that allows a land owner to confiscate personal property of an individual, even one "trespassing". I also suspect you are mostly unaware of how the majority of trespassing laws are written or enforced.

A land owner attempting to confiscate my personal property, or having me arrested for trespassing in that situation would result in a very interesting interaction. If I land off, I am very apologetic and diplomatic. I support a DZ fine system where off landings result in a $5-$10 drop in the fine jar that gets spent on the neighbors at Christmas in some fashion to keep up relations. But if they want to be an ass, I will rise to the challenge.

Had to explain that to a guy my last trip to the DZ when my buddy was trying to be polite yet very firm about his displeasure with the guy making a 90deg turn in front of him while on final. He commented that he thought the lower jumper has the right of way. SMH. "I thought I had the Right of Way" makes a great epitaph.

Something sticking that far out not flush to the helmet "looks" like a major snag hazard to me. YMMV. And no, the chin mount does not have a cutaway system. Grellfab figures that since BH has a quick release for the chinstrap, one is not needed. https://grellfab.com/product/gf3027-hero5session-on-bonehead-aero-adjust

Great. Thanks. Love the helmet and been super happy with it by the way.

I saw they offered one and would install it if you bought it along with the helmet but they don’t list it on their site as a stand alone purchase option or have any images of it.

Thanks. I like that.

Any reason the Cookie Roller Mount could not be mounted on top of a Bonehead Aero? The Grellfab chin mount looks like a major snag hazard and the Roller Mount looks like the most snag free mount for a GoPro.

So, we should or should not dick around with our canopies?

I just went from a cushion mount to mudflap mount. Under canopy it flops around when the chest strap loosens. The mudflap stays tight regardless.

My first canopy was a Pilot. I just replaced it with a Sabre2 and had a moment of worry that I would have a harder time sorting lines. None whatsoever. Everything lined up and fell in place naturally. The colored packing tabs really helped when I started packing after struggling with the student canopies where the lines looked like a bowl of spaghetti to a noob.

I know Pluto is no longer considered a planet, but when did they change centuries from 100 years to 50 years?

Looks awesome.

More importantly, what is that sign warning you about referencing a tank? Is a tank being airdropped after you? Are there free range tanks roaming the DZ?

I have not planned that far yet. Any recommendations?

I am going to be in Stuttgart Germany for 10 days in August. Can anyone give me info on jumping there. Google and the DZ locator give me place locations, but since I don't read or speak German, other than to order a beer, I am not getting info from their web pages. Searching threads here, I saw a mention of where Vigil AAD's were not allowed at one time there. Is that still the case? Thanks for any help.

Wow. That looked stupid easy. I had a pretty good twist, about 2 1/2 - 3 revolutions, a few weeks ago. First in a while and first in a suit with booties. Just having the booties kept me from being able to kick as hard as I could in the past. I kicked for a while before I got any movement to untwist the lines.

^^^ This

Yep. Good stuff too. I have a ballistic helmet with their upgrade kit. I was actually looking at their site yesterday to see what they offered that might work with my Bonehead Aero. I am going to contact them to see if I can send them the liner and have them cut foam panels in various thickness to the same template. Some people may take this as sarcasm but it's not, honest. Have you looked at Pro-Tec helmets? I'm not actually saying to get one, I don't know because I haven't seen any good evaluations of them and how well they work. They're considered novice, or maybe even nerd helmets. I wore one for years and lost it out the door of a 172 somewhere over West Virginia in the 80s, but if I were to go back to wearing a helmet I'd more than likely get one, or maybe get really hip and with it and get one of their half-shells. I was talking to my rigger about how I wrote "Warning: Newbie Jumper" on the back of my Pro-Tec when I got my A license. Being older when I started this, I did not want someone to confuse grey hair with experience in this sport. I wanted people to feel free to stop and correct me if it looked like I was about to do something less than wise. He replied, "Oh don't worry. As soon as they see you wearing a Pro-Tec, they will know you are a newbie." So yeah, I have one. And Oregon Aero makes an upgrade kit for it. But I prefer my full face for comfort and my audible stays in it easier.

Yeah. Replaying it in my mind I would have been fine turning on my base, keeping an eye on them and as long as I turned on final before their final gets close to my base I would be well clear of them. I appreciate everyone's input. Thanks all.

Yup. Left hand at SDO. I normally do my base over the hangar or preferably, just shy of it so I have the whole field under me for final. The two ahead of me went over the airport office building. Had I known they would go that far, I never would have followed. When I turned on final I startedf eyeing the grass between the hangar and the road coming in, but ended up between the hangar and that fenced in transformer/power station thing. Nice bruise on my ass from the manhole cover in the grass there.