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It makes no difference to me whether it's an innocent virgin or a prostitute who's slept with thousands of men. Rape is rape.

Amen.

I just don't understand why some people don't get that.

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That may be good marketing for you, but I think it's condecending. Anyone can build the muscles to fly a suit better.

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And this week I'll be purchasing a little heat.

There is no better weapon on the road than the car you drive, particularly against high C of G vehicles.

Guns have their place, but this was not one of them.

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huh ?


so it fits 170's like the Stiletto and Spectre... I know I have put a crossfire2-169 in an M3 as well.

Yes.

The Spectre is a 7 cell. Fewer ribs = Less fabric. And it's a brick.
The Stilleto is an eliptical. Tapered trailing edge = Less fabric. And it's a brick.
The Crossfire is an eliptical. Tapered leading and trailing edges = less fabric. And it's a brick.

Since you posted the info from the mirage site - do you see a Sabre1/11 170 in there?

I don't.

In addition, main canopy size is only half the equasion which is why I asked for the reserve size. If a "like a brick" main is combined with a tight reserve packjob, with a cypres, at a 5000ft AMSL DZ, the rig may well be impossible to pack. (Parachutes pack bigger at altitude.)

In short, it's not on the list you posted for a reason.
Can you fit a Sabre 2 170 in a Mirage G3 M3? Yes.
Is it a sensible, practical, safe, comfortable thing to do? No.

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It's really just a 1 point 2 way.

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I would be afraid it would discharge accidently.

With respect, that sounds like gunwhuffo ignorance. The glock has a "trigger in the trigger".. and we all know the very best safety sits in our index fingers anyway.

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Between you and Lowpull there's a quarter century experience and 12000+ skydives.

Lets try and get along, shall we?

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so who will be the first to land a wingsuite without a canopy?

Several people have done this in the past.

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I know that it probably won't make much of a difference, but still.

Take the money you would spend on webbed gloves, and put it towards your own gear, or an alti, or an audiable, or a tracking dive and learn to track. I did a few 100 dives with webbed gloves in the early 90's while learning to skysurf, and doing some camera.

Webbed gloves are bullshit. They'll do nothing for your track, and I'll bet within 50 jumps something will happen that will make you wish you never wore them.

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What size is the reserve?

I think you're going to end up with a very uncomfortable rig that may have less than perfect riser and pin protection because you're shoe horning canopies into it that it was never designed to take.

The M3 is designed for PD canopies in about the 150 size max.

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I think these issues are unrelated.

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You are going to be so gutted when you find out what a first choice, un-injured England team can do to you

Ah.. The old "stiff upper lip" and "England expects.."

Those days are gone, I think. No team has ever retained the Trophy, and the truth is your team was not beaten, it was whipped - and that a month ago. No team improves that much that fast.

But time will tell, and this week one of us will be wrong.

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Edit to add:

SA Has scored 33 tries in this WC.
England has scored 13 tries in this WC.

That's quite a difference.

Life is too short to stuff olives.

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A rematch eh? This is going to be very, very interesting.

You think 36 nil twice is interesting?

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I'm in for 22 years with 5300 dives... so... 240 dives a year. I jump weekends only, so that's just about every weekend for 22 years, with the skipped weekends being weather or plane related. 3500 of my dives are from cessnas. I last skipped a calendar month in 1998, and the time before that was 1987.

I averaged around 200 a year for the 1st 18 years, then moved up to 300+ a year since about 5 years ago. I'm pretty current now with 300 for the year so far and summer just starting.
I think jumping makes you better at jumping. (Skill)

I think DZ time gives you better experience. (Judgement)

I think 5000 dives jumping different aircraft, at different DZ's and doing different tasks makes you more experienced than someone with 5000 dives out of the same plane, with the same team and the same DZ.

When it comes to saving your ass, if you have the great judgement, you probably don't need the great skill.

Bottom line is we should be doing what we love, and staying within our limitations regardless of our skill/experience level.

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They each have privacy settings.

Learn to use them and creeps can't get you.

Unless the creeps own the site. I think that they're all CIA type nets to gather information on people.

Now where did I put my timfoil hat?

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That's without gear. He should be taking pax in the 100lb range if all up weight is 450lbs.

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There's a hole in the ozone layer. Normally I'd need a scientest to tell me that, but here in the south southern hemisphere, there is no doubt. As a child in the 60's and 70's, I ran and played in the sun day in, and day out and never wore sunblock. I can never recall being sunburnt until I was in the military in the 80's and was told it was a "self inflicted injury" and was viewed the same way as shooting yourself in the foot. People tried to get sunburnt, but you had to really work at it. It never happened in a day. Sunstroke happened before sunburn.

These days, things are a little different. I have 2 girls. They're 9 and 13. They are seldom in the sun, and wear factor 40+ sunblock that's 1st applied at around 07h30 in the morning and repeatedly through the day. It's in my budget. A day in the sun for both of them costs about $15 worth of sunblock. $15 a DAY not to get cancer. (sure, we're reamed on pricing here at $15 for 200ml) If a spot is missed, it's a blister before lunchtime. We really are cooking out here. Tourists arive having been briefed for the crime and the poverty, and can't move after day 2 because of the sun. Foreign skydivers come here for a boogie from Europe, and by day 2 cannot wear a rig because of the blisters on their backs.

Somethings changed. It's more personal than the glasiers on top of Kilimanjaro melting. In the 80's, people never needed to put sunblock on their cat's ears or their dogs noses to stop them dying of cancer before they were 5. They do now.

It's radiation city out there...

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I had one for about 20 years. Found it worked best with Winchester Silvertip JHP's as it never had the energy to reliably expand anything else. Overpenetration can still be an issue at close range with FMJ's.

Shot one made by Manhurin this past weekend and managed to hit a 1l Coke bottle at 90m 1 time out of 7. The rest were within a foot or so. The same sights that make that possible are small and difficult to pick up in a hurry or darkness, so as with all small calibers, practice, practice, practice!

Great gun. Small, clean, simple, reliable, classic. Congratulations!

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I always consider travelling 1st, and my luck is generally not great.

In 2004, I flew from South Africa to Eloy for 15 dives when I had budgeted for 40 due to bad weather. In an effort to spend that, I flew to LA and hired a car to Perris. I should have hired a U Boat. I did 1 dive at Elsinore. Total travel costs around $2000 for 16 dives... $125 per jump.

In 2007 I went to Germany for the AN-72 boogie, again budgeting for around 40 dives. Travelling and accomodation were far more expensive in Europe. Crap weather again, so around $4200 for 13 skydives... $329 per jump.

What made both trips worthwhile were the people I shared them with. I have a bunch of dives already, so more dives don't mean that much. Time with people who matter means much more.

(And Africa is a long way from just about everywhere...)

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Excellent.
A good exercise when the weather is bad one day is take the BSR's, MOP's, SIM, whatever, and together with an instructor, try and figure out why each rule is there, or how else to deal with the event it was designed to prevent. These are "living documents" and should rely heavily on review from participants to see if there are better ways of doing things.

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The women I know don't have masters. They have partners.

(And they don't bark.. cos they're not dogs..)

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http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=142088

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even though some of the minimums over here in Sweden are a bit odd... why do you need 200 jumps to jump off a hot air balloon?

The fact that you can't see the reason for this is part of the reason it's there. In South Africa, you need a PRO rating to jump a balloon... because...

You can't steer a balloon.

So when you get out at 6000ft (or whatever) and you're over a forrest, or a mountain, or a village, or a freeway etc.. you have the skill to deal with those situations. Your alti is set to where you took off, not where you are. If you can't judge the difference, you're in a bit of trouble.

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Year US Deaths US Wounded

2003 486 2,408
2004 849 8,003
2005 846 5,948
2006 822 6,398
2007 812 4,996

Total 3815 27753

Looks like this year will certainly produce the highest toll yet.

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