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They really need to take his twitter account away from him on security grounds. Hell, surely even close supporters must realise that his old Tweeting habits simply cannot follow him into office. In fact, I thought senior members of the administration were all supposed to have (yes, I know he's only President Elect at this point) specially vetted and tweaked mobile devices for security reasons? I also recall a techy article during the election campaign which said that by looking at the meta data from his tweets they could tell that the ones spouting vitriol were all done from an android device and often in the early hours of the morning whereas the ones saying how great it was to have been in [insert campaign location here] were from an Apple device and presumably from a staffer rather than him personally.

That almost looks worse than the stock mount. Try hanging 800lb (a light guy with gear pulling just 4 G) from the mount and see if those pins lock the cutaway cable from being able to release. Then try it with 1600lb.

Switzerland did pretty well, and they were smack dab in the middle of the playing field. And surrounded by mountains.

So for muslamics clearly it'll be a crescent moon, that's obvs. But what shape badge will it be for the Mexicans? A taco? Or would that look to similar to a crescent moon? Both groups are kinda brownish after all.

Are our American friends aware that in British English 'trump' is a synonym for 'fart'? In our parlance you just elected President Fart.

Dear America, What the fuck have you people done? Lovingly yours, Everyone else in the world. xxx

I gave your survey a whirl but as above, there are massive differences between the equipment used by sport (recreational) skydiving and military skydiving with associated differences in what each are trying to achieve/avoid. I rather suspect you'll want some further input on the differences between an operational combat drop and what paratroopers do in peacetime training exercises.

But if the DZ keeps the paperwork the student can't go down the road to the competitor.

Yup, that's how I do it - when I move my knees back from in between the two s-folds I kneel on the grommets for the locking stows and I can shove all I like into the bag and it's not going anywhere. In fact I tend to then rotate the d-bag through 90 degrees back towards me so that rather than pulling and pushing I just use my weight against the planet to pull the mouth of the d-bag down over the canopy. I'm all about using lazy ways to achieve the same thing that everyone else sweats over.

I too use a modified technique for putting the canopy in the bag. Just before I make the first s-fold I draw the d-bag under the canopy so that I make the s-folds directly on top of the d-bag's closing flap. Once the stack is neatly folded on top you just have to lift the mouth of the bag round the stack. It's a lot easier and tidier than trying to move a slippery stack of s-folded canopy material about. OP - once you have learned the basic steps a good tip would be to talk to and watch as many different people pack in as many different ways as possible. The result is always the same but lots of people have small variations on how they physically achieve the end result. You can then cobble together your own set of techniques which you personally get on with best. Sort of "I like the way Dave does this bit but prefer the way Bob does the next step". Just make sure you already have the basics down so you don't introduce errors into your packing method.

Rather makes you wonder, if the Canucks can do it, why the Yanks can't, doesn't it? In Canada: The Minister of Health is a Doctor; The Minister of Families, Children and Social Development is a poverty economist; The Minister of Science is a Nobel Prize winning scientist; The Minister of Status of Women is a woman; The Minister of Veterans Affairs is a quadriplegic after being shot; The Minister of Employment is a professional geologist; The Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities is a paralympian athlete; The Minister of Democratic Institutions is a Muslim refugee; The Minister of Defence is an Afghan combat vet; The Minister of Transport is an astronaut.

Boyle's law in action. Usually manifests itself in someone letting a fart go just short of jump run.

Did an end of day beach demo jump years ago. I was in the back of a 206 and we just went round and round and round with the demo team leader getting ever more exasperated with the pilot, giving bigger and bigger corrections each time we ran in. 5 right became, 10. 10 became 20. 20 became 90. We must have done 3 or 4 full circuits running over (or at least vaguely over) the PLA. In the end the demo team leader leant over and, pointing, told the pilot he wanted us 1/2 a mile over there and given the off-shore breeze, could he please fly over the beach rather than out at sea... or words to that effect anyway.

Wow, that vertical stabilizer just lets go without warning.

Yeah, I took the time to answer the survey when it first went up. As I don't have a go-pro or intend to buy a go-pro however my input is evidently not wanted and the survey showed me the door. Ho-hum. FWIW, I don't own a go-pro as I think they and the mounts which were available when I went digital were dangerously snaggy so bought a different format camera which I mount inside the box on my FF2, one of the most snag resistant camera helmets available. Sure, the box which used to contain large Sony PC-format cameras is now mostly empty but now I have somewhere to store my alti and gloves.

The other half is bi so I've spent a fair amount of time in gay bars over the years. The biggest culture shock was suddenly becoming the prey rather than the predator, which is a very odd sensation as a bloke, so I can sympathise with you there. It's a very enlightening experience to suddenly be on the receiving end of male advances!

Lol, an entire thread over a throw away joke.

Who the hell uses Bing?

Very much depends on who is in the bed with me/us.

For sale: reserve canopy, only used once, has some stains.

Private schools are 'public' schools in England because any member of the general public can go to them, subject to paying their fees, in contrast (historically at least) with all other schools, which were only open to those children living within a certain geographical catchment area. Hence the apparent reversal in terms to those used in the US.

What about that pilot a couple of years ago who was part way through AFF and ended up in that infamous 2-plane collision on jump run where his wing separated? Got out of what was left of the tumbling airplane, tracked clear and pulled. Got cleared for self supervision on the basis of the otherwise unintended jump.

'Lords' and 'Commons' are just archaic terms still used for the upper and lower houses of the legislature. Ie it sounds a lot worse than it actually is. It gets worse when you actually listen to debates - in the houses of Parliament they refer to them as 'this place' and 'the other place'.

Rig for life? By the time you have enough jumps to be jumping a 2.1 wing loading you'll have worn the thing out.

Radio Skydive UK is going to be interviewing Luke next week. Check out their facebook page if you want to submit any questions.