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  7. i'm new to the city and looking for rides to the dz from nyc. i live in the east village but am willing to meet anywhere reasonably close via subway (i prefer manhattan).

    if you're able to help me out, let me know what days/times you typically go, which dz, and where i would need to meet you.

    thanks in advance!

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    Curious if anyone knows of a situation where the parents have had allegations brought against them?



    I won't comment on the discussion, but most child endangerment prosecutions involve drug use or crimes committed while the child is in the parent's custody. Parents are given significant discretion in choosing how to raise their children. The only time that discretion is called into question is for fairly egregious acts (skydiving COULD be one of them, but it at least involves some sense of judgment when compared to other acts).

    I was curious anyway and did some research...definitely nothing involving skydiving. I tried just about every other dangerous sport and nothing really on point. The only time it seems relevant is in determining custody after a divorce and that involved a child riding on the back of their parent's motorcycle.

    Ok - done with my legal rant.

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    Because you skydive you have to realize you are exposing yourself to more "flight risk" than the average person who flies only occasionally. When you ignore that you are just kidding yourself.



    I agree 100% with this... a skydiver exposes himself to the full extent of both "skydiving risk" and "general aviation" risk every time he gets in a plane. this is especially true considering that most fatal aircraft crashes happen on takeoff, and jumpers are seated in a less safe manner than other seated passengers (seatbelts are good and all, but how much is that loose seatbelt that's threaded through your cheststrap and the main lift web of the jumper in front of you really going to do?)

    Also, plane crashes are one of the few ways that a jumper can die in this sport without making a single "mistake". Harness training, canopy piloting courses, good equipment, a conservative wingloading, and safe canopy piloting practices won't help.

    That said, I still call it a general aviation accident, because the line has to go somwhere. And because I dislike the headline "10 skydivers killed in tragic plane crash" being used to sell newspapers... you'd never see the headline "10 tundra researchers killed in tragic arctic plane crash"



    Agree with all of that, but would add that, at least in my opinion, skydiving planes are usually older and have a higher probability of not being maintained properly. Although I could be very wrong on both of those points; especially the second.

    Any aviation enthusiasts care to weigh in on that?

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  24. Well I griped about the old foam back pad they had here http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2017798;#2017798

    I don't have the new 3d spacer pad, but after looking at RWS's site, it looks like its a major improvement. And for just double the price of the old backpad which was just a piece of foam, I would definitely get it. Like you said, it's a small percentage of the total amount you are spending, so why not.

    Does anyone know if RWS will mod this into a new V3 micron?

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