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  4. Coreece

    This world will end by fire...both science and the scripture agree. Global warming and floods are the least of our problems.

    oh....and there is nothing you can do about it.

    Get over it and move on with your life while it lasts...



    However the evaporation of the earth's oceans and the ending of all life due to heating of the sun is likely to occur about 1 billion years from now. I'd worry more about what can occur in this and the next few generations for now myself personally.

  5. This was established in the UK some years ago I believe when a married man had a sex change and the circumstances were similar.

    As far as I am aware, more generally such EU agreements leave member states to make their own laws as long as they sit within the framework agreed. Thus it allows countries such as the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands etc. to have same-sex marriage laws whereas other member states have not but all countries still operate within the European Convention on Human Rights.

    The thing that does irk me a little is that these cases make the ECJ when they should be decided by the national courts. The ECJ should decided upon the more broader issues as to whether the member states laws comply with, in this case, the ECHR. The backlog at the ECJ is huge in part due to it hearing cases that should be decided by member states' judicial systems. Mild rand over :)

  12. There are quite a few that do jump regularly but join the USPA. These guys tend to jump in spain or the US. In order to jump at BPA dropzone in the UK (there's one in Cyprus and Germany too) then you have to have BPA membership as a (very significant) portion of the membership includes 3rd party insurance in case you land one someone's house or car. The actual number of jumpers in the UK will be slightly higher than those given by the BPA.

    Most jumpers are flat flyers though. I would estimate that there's probably about 100 or so freeflyers that are good enough to do big-ish way freefly jumps in the UK.

    HTH :)
    Adam.

  15. Thankfully in the UK the number of regular jumpers is up on 2012 (5557 vs 5260) and the total number of jumps is up 4.5% to 261,951 (which is a drop in the ocean compared to US total numbers). How many of these are fun jumps is not clear though.. but generally the UK's getting better despite the cost which, admittedly these days, is getting prohibitive.

  17. Sanjak

    Seems to me that having two completely different handles helps you identify the correct one. Isn't that why they alter the shape of different aircraft controls, so that pilots can identify the correct knob/handle by feel alone?



    I would be hoping that I've drilled my EPs in so well that muscle memory would handle the load.. thinking, looking and figuring things out in a high stress situation takes valuable seconds.

    You have a point though. I remember watching a documentary on the three mile island accident in which ambiguous controls led to confusion as to which instrument to adjust. Similarly operator difficulties interpreting instrumentation under stress led to a plane crashing at East Midlands Airport a number of years ago.. The point being there's a lot of history of people making mistakes in high-stress situations due to either changes in the kit they were operating or ambiguities in what equipment to operate. :)

  22. Hollywood5581

    It wasn't a stock, I bought it to fit me.



    Can you get yourself and your rig to Sunrise Rigging at Z-hills? I'm sure Tony and the gang will have a good look at you wearing the rig and make any adjustments you need to make it comfortable for you. I've found them pretty responsive for the 2 wings I've owned. Both were bought from new and to fit me.

  24. councilman24

    The go pro video in an above post is a reason not to wear a go pro, not to change your last chance to live.:S



    I wholeheartedly agree which is why I don't wear a go pro.

    I did a few dummy pulls of the soft pillow handle on the ground with my rigger just before repack. The first time I found it quite hard to unpeel but subsequent goes found it easier. Prior to buying the rigs, having thought about this, I came to the conclusion that downsides of having a pad (harder to grab hold of than a D handle, change of drills to 'unpeel', less positive pull) were not enough to outweigh the risks of other peoples go pros, thumbs or other appurtenances pulling the handle and me end up having my reserve wrapped around the tail of the plane. YMMV, of course. :)