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    Nobody who was a full participant in the 80s remembers much about it




    i dare you to tell that to anyone who was at Tienemann Square, or involved in launching the Challenger. you could even tell it to the Texas researchers who found a treatment that was effective in saving the life of a patient who needed a bone marrow transplant when no donor could be found.

    i will not speak for any of those people, however i would tend to think their participation in the eighties was full.

    i am not saying it wasn't a fun time. i'm just saying some people sacrificed their lives, and some people saved some lives. In the eighties there were "good people in the world". even though they may have been so selfish that, rather than feed a stray dog, they stood in front of a tank(let's face it, you only stand in front of a tank if you want to, and that is just selfish). i consider some of them to be heroes, and i'm sure some of them have vivid memories of twenty years ago. you dishonor them as well as yourself when you say
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    Nobody who was a full participant in the 80s remembers much about it


    blue stuff,
    p.j.



    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.

  4. it shouldn't be a big deal. as far as i know it was a contributing factor in only one fatality, and that guy forgot to put his rig on. you should be fine as long as you ask for at least one pin check.

    blue stuff,
    p.j.


    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.

  5. i am collecting some of the safety day seminars that our dropzone uses every year and was interested to see what other dropzones are using. what topics are covered and how the information is presented. please pm or e-mail me if you can help, thank you.
    blue stuff,
    p.j.

    [email protected]


    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.

  6. what do you call a guy with no arms and no legs...
    (fill in the situation)
    in a lake? bob
    on your doorstep? matt
    in a hole? phil
    under a pile of leaves? russel
    on the side of a mountain? cliff
    on your wall? art
    his dad ? pop art
    if he's rude to you? kurt
    if he's a lawyer? sue
    towed by a skiboat? skip
    in your mailbox? bill
    two of them, over your window? kurt and rod
    in prison? humphrey


    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.

  7. what do you call a guy with no arms and no legs...
    (fill in the situation)
    bob
    matt
    doug
    jimmy
    phil
    russel
    cliff
    art
    pop art
    kurt
    sue
    skip
    bill
    tad
    kurt and rod
    rich
    warren
    humphrey


    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.

  8. i have them stand on my feet to get slack in the chest strap. if i have problems seeing the chest strap i just run my hand up the main lift web until i find it. i haven't had any problems with this technique.
    blue stuff,
    p.j.


    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.

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    Sure she has..One thing was she claimed her reserve was a sure thing...

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    I really don't see your point. Again, maybe it was a silly comment, but why have like 30 people brought it up? What's the failure rate of reserve canopies? They're pretty damn reliable. Almost freaking guaranteed to open. So she left off the word almost in her interviews? What's the big fucking deal?




    "he survived the car crash"
    "he almost survived the car crash"

    seems like a big difference to me.
    blue stuff,
    p.j.


    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.

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    can we have another choice?

    Accidents happen and not all new jumpers are as cool as self richeous skygods



    the ground doesn't care about how cool i or anyone else is. i just wanted to read what others had to offer in the way of decision making and execution of those decisions. if you have anything on topic to offer i would like to read it.
    blue stuff,
    p.j.


    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.

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    If I see someone right on top of me out the door, though, I'll remember to tell them a bigger number next time we jump, or I'll let them go first.

    And the people that count slow waiting to jump after you? OPP/SEP.

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    Stick on digital timer by the door, less than $10
    ...


    i just don't see alot of seperation issues resulting from using flawed systems, but i do see those issues more often with flawed execution, specifically the lack of attention given to insuring seperation no matter what system is used. a digital timer just gives some people a different thing to ignore. i swear that some people get so amped right before exit that if you handcuffed them to the airplane and told them you would give them the key in eight seconds, they would gnaw their arm off and exit in two.


    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.

  15. the first thing i do to speed up the opening on any canopy is to reduce the tension on the line stows. going more for ten pound tension to release each stow rather than fourteen. that's what works for me, your milage may vary.


    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.

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    Don't crucify them in public



    you mean like your're doing?

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    The way those students in the other thread are doing it publicly. May be there way to solve there issues. For me it's Not and that is just a personal issue that I have



    if only there were some way these students could get the MESSAGE about this PERSONAL issue you have. hmm,... hmm,...
    oh well, i can't think of a thing. guess i'll go read something about safety. anyone know what that forum is called?


    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.

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    I also don't remember experienced jumpers considering a reserve ride when deciding if it was too windy.


    i do. it was standard policy at both DZs that i jumped at in the late eighties and early nineties that you needed a square reserve beyond a certain wind speed on the ground. most experienced jumpers i knew at the time with round reserves had a cutoff that was below DZ policy.
    p.j.


    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.

  22. unscrew one light bulb, perform a perfect river dance, kill a hobo, walk into a room full of second graders and tell them Santa Claus is hiding under their bed with an axe, call an electrician and have him tell you which switch operates which bulb, then travel once between the two rooms.

  23. it doesn't work if you are over one-hundred years old, but then again what does work when you're over one-hundred years old?


    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.

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    Im sure they were not referring to the "making of the student comfortable" as being the "pain in the ass" but the harness constantly ending up around the students neck as being the pain.

    There has been a change in the design and Im not the only one to notice. Other competent TIs who before had no issue with the harness when changing to the design with the ususually long main lift web have all had problems.



    i work with five different designs of Strong student harnesses. there are some designs i prefer over others, but adjusting the student's harness after opening is a standard step on every tandem i do. i just don't see the new harnesses choking students any more or less than the old harnesses available to me. i just don't see any of this as a pain in the ass.
    p.j.


    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.

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    what i pain in the ass.

    any comments or advice??????????




    making your student more comfortable should never be a pain in the ass. i work with Strong rigs and harnesses every day. i take the same steps you do after opening to ensure my student's comfort. i never thought of it as a pain in the ass. i always thought of it as just doing my job.
    p.j.


    pulling is cool. keep it in the skin.
    options: it does a body good.