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Very cool! (South African cricket fans will smile at the "my captain, my captain" painted underneath the "big cheese" sign)

Your contribution to the cause has indeed been yuge. (You should never post this in Speaker's Corner - you might just get confused with someone else.....)

Alas.... From CNN. At least four people were killed in the city of Darwin

Correct. He and another jumper had originally planned to jump from much higher than the main load, and jumped 10-20 minutes after the main load.

If their opinions are important enough to go to the trouble:- Invite these people to spend a day at the DZ. Let them chat to other 'family and friends', as well as other jumpers. Perhaps walk them through the various areas - training, packing, manifest. From the ground, talk them through a jump - show the aircraft running in, the exits, the openings, the pattern, the landings.

Thermite.....?

Surely this belongs in General and not Q&A?

Probably the wrong place for this, but no account I have read anywhere mentioned someone who elected not to jump? Three jumpers were pulled off the load because of weight issues.

Agreed. One is very unlikely to accidentally click on the "mark as read" button, given its position, therefore making the 'are you sure' box really redundant.

I can now see pics and was able to attach one no problem. Cheers.

This is Oscar. He rules our household with a furry fist.....

I have a similar problem but with new posts in the new forums. I don't see any images, inline or attached. Is there a setting I missed?

From his emails : Buy land for family out west or possibly NC mtns........

I would recommend one common Q&A 'forum', otherwise overlapping subjects could be difficult to pin to one specific area. Is it envisaged that the Q&A forum is moderated, so that only legitimate Q's & A's are allowed to avoid noise?

From the Fox article: The drugs, worth an estimated wholesale value of $466 million, were intercepted off the coasts of Mexico, and Central and South America and off-loaded in Port Everglades, Florida on Tuesday, the Coast Guard said in a news release. Six different crews seized the drugs from 21 separate vessels stopped in Pacific waters.

The new site is very nice, but I think you are being a bit optimistic.....

I have reported this as well and thought it had been fixed. Alas, it seems it appears intermittently. Currently there is none.

Two clicks and half a rotation on the scroll wheel and I could see all 24 AADs currently being advertised in Classifieds. You must really struggle with Google searches?

Sorted.

And......?

Not functionality, but an observation: The tab for the "Dropzone" page at the top of my browser just shows an "empty page" icon. Any plans to put something prettier there?

Thanks. Works a charm.

The new forums do not appear to take me to the first unread post in a thread, as before. They all point to the first post in a thread.

I can state with great conviction that that would be almost impossible to do. As was said earlier, I also believe that drones will be used to deliver "payloads of warfare", such as explosives, gases, poisons, etc and it will be very, very difficult to prevent. I am very familiar with DJI's Phantom series of drones. The software needed to fly these drones already have built-in exclusion zones over airports, big sports stadia etc. These drones are also registered with DJI and have unique identifiers. To legally fly them they also have to be registered with the FAA (or local equivalent). Third party apps exist which do not have these limitations. With some of these one can literally plot a mission sitting at one's lap-top, launch the drone and go drink a beer, while the drone flies the mission completely autonomously. I have flown missions of over 5km away, with the only reason for turning back was fear of running out of battery. An autonomous mission does not need remote control contact, and if one is not concerned about retrieving the drone, missions of beyond 10km - one way - are easy to accomplish. The above is not a big deal technically and has been done for years with large, expensive drones. The problem now is that these small drones can be bought relatively cheaply at any good toy store by anybody (without so much as a background check ) The only real solution is regulation - regulation of both the hardware and software, and we have seen how efficient regulation of firearms has been.....

No problem, Chris - just create sock puppet. Oh, wait.....