matthewcline

It was alive and well in Iraq too. Until the US invaded and the first course of business was restricting civilian gun rights. We allowed them to keep an AK type weapon for protection, and only confiscated the Military/Police/State OWNED weapons, IIRC. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Or a massive tsunami of global support for a Robin Hood tax. Robin Hood was a fictional character, he also robbed the GOV, who was rich by over TAXING the people. You're actually advocating the Sheriff's actions, not Robin's. You're advocating more taxes to benefit the GOV. Using the misnomer doesn't it make it any more believable or right. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

But apparently it's bad when Obama does it. Maybe every one who argues these two points should put them back in context? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Yeah doing those at night helps so you can't see just how fast the ground is ripping by you and just how BIG everything on the ground looks. I just close my eyes! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

No need to take a third chute for survival. if there is a main and a reserve plus the containers and lines for both you have a hell of a lot of material to "improvise" with. I have trained hundreds of college boys how to cut up C-9 canopies for making shelters( A-frame or lean-to or full blown teepees) and clothing out of. Risers make great pack straps... and belts... we even taught them how to make multi-strand ropes out of suspension lines..... the list is endless with what you can make. Plus.. no one in their right mind would bail and try to hold onto the damn thing. Carrying the "X" chute would have just taken up space that was not in surplus anyway. Not to mention if it had little or no useful contents, why risk it? IF, "Cooper" had training, I think he would have at least made the exit, after looking for his spot, by doing a nice poised step back launch, slowed a bit to freefall terminal and then pulled. I may only have a limited number of 727 jumps, but I have plenty of big jet jumps, and even a few at higher then optimal exit speed, I would not pull on the steps unless that plane was inflames and REALLY REALLY REALLY low! And even then I might ride the forward throw! (OK, I probably would, sub 500' exits are in my log book, I am comfortable with it in the right circumstance) Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Most of your comment is not true, particularly the "democratic movement" part, they never wanted that. As I am a member of the "99%", the former "Occupy" movement never represented me, it makes them, frauds from the start. They are no longer in existence here, and in most other places as well, the other still struggling hold outs, will fade away, after a slight resurgence post election. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

It is almost like there is a HUGE misplaced personal fear, he might be right, and that would make a few look foolish. Me, I'm going to Mexico, Cabo Wabo, and have a beer with a near 90 year old expat, Paratrooper, SF type. Seems more plausible to me. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Actually it qualifies as "truth" there, DD. Occupy is only alive in a fantasy world of a few. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

When did you hire "Mr Legal Esquire the third"? He wasn't very "forceful" or even all that "threatening". Kind of funny, once he got put in his place, reading to him your own words kind of caused a bit of a touretts like episode. He may be rethinking his fees, FYI. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I hate to tell you this Farf, but I was the night clerk at the Beverly Hills Hotel back then. The "important meeting" Raquel had that night she rejected you was with Bob Knoss. 377 Damn you! I need another beer and a towel to clean up the screen of my Mac Book! I just spit Shock Top "End of the World" all over it! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I have WORK o do! Chuck A concept the 1% have trouble understanding them being leeches on society and all... Still thinking the words you use do not have the meanings you think they do. Occupy would be more attuned to being "leaches". Come one DD when ya gonna start being productive and stop the trolling? Every thread, a troll. You can use that as your signature! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I don't think shiftless and lazy mean what you think they mean. Come on DD you actually USED to have viable points, even if the subject was as irrelevant as this one is. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

No you're not. I am part of the 99% and guess where I was today. Instead of occupying some street corner or park and/or posting mindless drivel on an internet forum, I was at work. So stop saying I am one of you, because that is pure bullshit. I will never ever be one of you. You do NOT represent the 99%. Truth! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Odd, all there camps seem to be empty here now. All two of them with there tens of folks, gone! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Keep typing Bobby! The printer and copier are humming along! Remember those notes you refer too will need to be REAL and HANDY soon! I hope I can be apart of it! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I hope you're just playing devils advocate, because I think defending the T-I's incompetence, the DZO's deplorable (recent) safety record and lack of following industry "standards", to be morally weak and ethically anorexic. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Welcome to America DD! Scott walked into a projectile BTW, he even admitted it. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Same Bain Capital that had BOD Members donate to the POTUS 08 Campaign and this one as well? You do seem bitter at those who have somehow done better than others. Dislike them for being Politicians, less hypocrisy that way. Since neither is with out their issues and failures. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

That is a reference for Surface winds, so the pilot knows how it will effect his air ship during take off and can plan accordingly. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Maybe, if he was heading north? But, if he was heading south things to his right, would be west of the flight path. Of course to my right could be any where from the 1 o'clock to 5 o'clock position, bur more than likely in the 2 to 3 o'clock positions. Once the location is a beam, it is pretty much behind you. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

"I've seen worse" and then the camera mal. Problem, no one used those events to teach PROPER Harness adjustments, or have the T-I learn from the event. No one focused on the issue of complacent Instructors, DZGM'a and DZO's. Instead it became a web "rumor" and bonfire gossip. The good from this event, we the skydiving industry is openly discussing how not to let this become the norm (mostly). Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Thank You so very much in your assistance! Please have the original notes you are referencing handy. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I'm aware of those guidelines. The IRS generally only seeks to determine status for particular workers or groups of workers in court actions or in review of particular forms. Matt indicated that he knew of specific instances where this was being reviewed. I can't find any, but perhaps my google-fu is weak. I wrote, Auditors, and their feelings, not court cases. But maybe the case in Ohio might apply. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Several IRS Auditors feel the same way. And really if an "employee" looked into it, they would want to be "employed" as well, far better for their taxes, benefits, and PROTECTION. Since they are doing what they are being told to do. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

But that then would make it very difficult, if not impossible, to correctly look 2 miles away, in well lit and clear conditions, and call an exit spot accurately. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!