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Don't bother.... same ole same ole...

Quade. Any chance of locking this thread. R It would be more helpful if people just let it die. It's essentially dead right now. Nothing to worry about. I don't think it hurts to have an occasional skydiver post about DBC, the subject is relevant to parachuting history, but the old forum just got crazy and poisonous near the end. I don't recall that jumpers (or knowledgeable aviators) caused much trouble however. There is a forum that started away from Dropzone and it is active. Its moderator has had to do what Quade did, expel and ban people. Sad how these online forums become nasty no matter who runs them. Would be an interesting behavioral science study. R.I.P. DB Cooper forum. 377 Careful lest it draw back the whack-a-doodle crowd that were expunged.

Gold Seriously I live on a ridge that was formed by a glacier. It is what is known as glacial Till... and just for grins when I was digging down with an auger to put in my horse fence.... I decided to pan some the unsorted sand and gravel coming up from 4 feet down... I managed to find a bit of black sand and a couple small flakes.... flour....

Or this.... Not safe at all... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXNVO-JWAlk

And in 1963 some guy died because of a ruby.

On this Day in 1971.... He who shall not be named did a night jump

Only in Canada EH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnIQYYP62_4

Nothing a nice big bonfire couldn't fix. How about LSU and Florida postponing their game in Gainesville? What a bunch of pussies. They could have played. Even played the next day on Sunday, like Georgia did at South Carolina under clear skies. Hell, mad props to Notre Dame and North Carolina State. They actually played in the hurricane! Well My mom made it home yesterday with her sister and brother in law being driven home from the mountains north of Charlotte back to Myrtle Beach by my first cousin and his son... No major damage to either of the family homes... just things like downspouts and gutters being blown off.. the winds were pretty strong just 100 yards from the Ocean and the leaves and small branches littered everywhere. It took them 8 hours to drive the distance that normally takes just 4.5 hours. The Cousins are on clean up duty today... Oh Damn.. I missed the yard cleanup stuff again. Power was out long enough to have some stuff in the fridge to be questionable.. but in the freezer... even her popsicles she loves did not melt at all.. ( they usually melt inside the wrapper and end up flat) So we dodged another bullet with this one Other folks in the area took some damage but moms house is old and very sturdily built

That is quite the pile of "chigger" habitat..

We managed to get the old folks out of Myrtle Beach on Tuesday... mom lives just 100 yards from the Atlantic .... Mom, her sister and sisters hubby loaded up with my LEO first cousin and took them up to the mountains north of Charlotte. It remains to be seen how the $30k of renovations to the house this summer will do.. I knew doing all that work would draw one of these damn things Joachim last year in early Oct caused flooding in the garage and into the crawl space under the house and the vibrations of walking in the house and from traffic... caused some serious settling of the house because there were not enough cement piers under the main beam that supports the center of the house and it started falling in on itself. Hopefully when they get home in a couple days.... they will not have the same problem again.

It is not that far from Ogo-pogo country to Seattle iFly in Tukwilla

I will pipe up here a bit concerning weather since I live in Americas version of crappy British Isles weather in the Pacific NorthWET. During winter months I would take a long weekend and I would hop a flight 2 hours from Seattle to Eloy AZ... and jump my tail off all weekend then fly back to do the work thing Take Friday off so on Thursday afternoon ... 1 hour drive to Airport... 1 hour to get thru security to the gate... 2 hours flight time Rent a car and drive 45 minutes to the DZ. Get up Friday morning for first load.... JUMP... Sat Jump and jump and jump Sat night have adult beverages Sun morning make almost sober load.... Sunday afternoon.. catch last flight home and rack up more airline miles

I really should sell off a bunch of my old stuff... I doubt I will ever jump any of my rounds ever again.... 3 PC's... a Papillion... even some not so cheap cheepo stuff... and the rigs they all fit in... And then there are the Wonderhogs...and the squares...... Strato Star... various other old squares. Good for paying off some medical bills...

I learned that having more the better.... I had the two on the container... but I also had two in my helmet programmed to go off at the bottom of the Measurement Zone.... when to come out of the track..... and Hard deck.... I learned also to use a full face to make sure I could hear the alarms going off... Open face helmets allow too much noise.. and you do NOT want to miss one of your pre set altitude alarms... that is how I blew up my canopy by dumping at too high a speed... because I was getting way too low.. still going WAY too fast.... highest speed on that practice dive.. 325 MPH.... I was happy with that.... I was not so happy about the opening.... or the cutaway... the DZO was sure I had broken my back from the BLAM they heard on the ground when the canopy opened explosively.

It shows deployment at 200km/h, which is the typical belly speed. I open at anywhere between 180 and 210km/h[1]. Also consider that it's quite possibly showing SAS ("skydiver airspeed") if they're using ProTrack, which normalises barometric altitude and speeds to 3000ft MSL at standard conditions. Thus the indicated speeds might not correspond to physical speeds exactly. It is however indicative of the problems in speed skydiving that we're having this discussion here wondering just what the hell their measurement method is. If it were governed properly, it'd be blindingly obvious and nobody would have any doubts. [1] My Viso is set to SAS, so that's the speed it shows, though at the deployment altitude those two are very close anyway. Granted that is has been a few years since I competed but they used two special RED Protracks that have closer tolerances for competition. The Red Protracks are cycled among the competitors to remove having one person use one set thru the competition that might induce a perceived higher speed or lower speed for any given set if one set read a bit higher than another set of them. That would remove any chance of giving any one competitor an advantage or disadvantage. The Official Protracks are also affixed to the main lift web near the center of gravity of the diver. Mine I put into little pouches on the side of my container that allowed them to be as far outboard of my body in clean airstream and prevent burbles that might kick me out of bounds if one read too high compared to the other. The two Protracks had to both register the speed within 18KPH ( if I remember correctly) for it to be an IN BOUNDS jump. If they read more than that difference it was OUT OF BOUNDS jump and did not count. The speed you were awarded was an average speed over the measured Kilometer and the Protracks were averaged between the two devices. http://speed-skydiving.com/images/files/ISSAWorldSeriesRules2016.pdf

Or sleeping off the hangover, or off on her honeymoon, or whatever... Where the hell does an Alaskan go for her honeymoon??? Someplace warm....

Aw man...... that is such a sad Saab Story

5500' is the bottom of the measured window. I always went to a track to bleed off speed... then get big about 3500' to slow down further... most of the time it worked pretty good except the time I thought I was at 4000 when my hard deck 2500 setting went off on my Protrack... I was still going too fast.. tried to get big.. then dumped... friggin canopy exploded open at 2000',Damn that rung my bell quite well.,,, blew off lines and took out a center cell... it looked really strange and would pulse a bit as it would inflate on one side or the other... then I decided a good canopy over my head was a good idea and non watching the shit show over my head. I cleared the blown lines away from me and chopped and pulled silver.. not a good jump at all....and I was sore for a while. Protrack said I was doing over 150 when deployment occurred.. something under 10 sec that seemed like an eternity at the time.