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G wrote Source for the statement that the sat comm transceiver can't be turned off without disabling vital aircraft functions? Aircraft power buss design usually tries to avoid "ganging" flight essential gear with other stuff. Don't know how circuits are divided on the 777. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Trying to read the rest of the posting. Was there anything like that in 1971 - of course I have not a clue what you are talking about! No Jo. Not in 71. Not even close. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

The conspiracy nuts will like this. The plane has already been stripped. The Israelis got the flight data recorder. The parts are available on eBay. See attached.

The only comm systems that cannot be shut off from the cockpit are the ELT crash beacon and the acoustic locator pinger attached to the flight data recorder. Both have internal batteries that are not connected to the aircraft power buss. The ELT is usually activated by a G impact switch in a crash. The pinger is activated by a submersion switch. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

I have an VHF ACARS decoder Georger. Mine is hardware based. There are modern software based decoders that use your computer sound card. Cheap. http://www.airnavsystems.com/ACARS/ Range on my ACARS reception is about 250 miles max for high flying aircraft. There are HF ACARS systems but I have not checked out if it's used much. SAT comms have put a big dent in HF traffic but I still hear trans oceanic airliners giving position reports on HF. http://www.hamuniverse.com/aerofreq.html Want something really cool? Check this out. It's not really radar but rather a transponder receiver-decoder that can be assembled dirt cheap. http://www.rtl-sdr.com/adsb-aircraft-radar-with-rtl-sdr/ 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Jo wrote There will be plenty of traces if it crashed at sea. They just need to look in the right place. There are also acoustic pingers attached to the flight data and cockpit voice recorders. Most have a battery life of roughly 30 days. You have to have hydrophones to hear them and range is only a few miles at best. http://www.rjeint.com/pdf/DK-100revB.pdf http://www.rjeint.com/beacons.htm 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Everybody brings baggage Jo. You do. I do. Bruce does. But we are all on the Cooper plane, like it or not. You aren't the TSA. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Wrong Jo. You may despise Bruce, but he is part of the DB Cooper venture. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Check this out: http://riordanco.com/jimsblog/?tag=parachute 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

The alleged 4 hours of further engine telemetry after voice radio contact was lost is disputed by Boeing and the airline. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Perhaps there was a structural failure that caused loss of cabin pressure. The pilots may not have donned their O2 masks quickly enough to prevent hypoxia. Once hypoxic they may have decided not to go on O2 and quickly became disoriented. Just a guess. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

You dont know anything about the professional reputation of the Master Rigger involved in the inspection of that rig. I would say: Both statements are correct. It does indeed "look like" total crap... but that seems very unlike the well respected Allen Silver. Did he only have a few minutes to examine the gear, and reported verbally to an FAA guy who didn't know parachutes? Is he out of touch with skydiving rigs despite his past experience and familiarity with bailout rigs? Whatever faults the rig might have had, are impossible to tell from the so called FAA report. I wish Mr. Silver would give his side of the story. Allen knows parachute gear, all kinds. He has even designed specialized military rescue gear. I watched a Rigging Alternate Method Zodiac (RAMZ) that Allen rigged being dropped by a CA ANG 129th Rescue Squadron Herc. The system was invented by Malcolm C. Hassler CMSgt, USAF Retired, but I understand Allen helped a lot in optimizing it for the 129th's missions where he was a rigger. Pretty impressive to watch some PJs and a big box land in the ocean and minutes later the PJs are motoring away at 30 knots in a boat. I WANT one of those OMC 35 HP milspec waterproof outboard motors. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfzyX-XTr6o Allen jumpmastered me in the late 1960s and I jumped with him at WFFC a few years back. He isnt a very active skydiver these days but he certainly knows the gear. He is PRO rated and does demo jumps occasionally. He used to do a wing walking airshow act with Eddie Andreini atop Eddie's Super Stearman. I'd put my bets on Allen Silver any day when it comes to investigating gear issues. If something doesnt sound right he is probably being quoted out of context or someone is spinning what he said. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

The VAST VAST majority of personal jury cases get settled out of court, but if that doesnt happen then 12 ordinary citizen-jurors will hear the evidence and decide the outcome. If the DZ has a meritorious defense, and the case cannot be settled, then they should hire a kick ass trial lawyer and "rack 12". It's expensive to try a case (expert witness fees etc), but so is settling. If you get a defense verdict you pay zero to the plaintiff. In California, if the defendant wins and an earlier offer to the plaintiff was rejected, the defendant might even get the plaintiff to pay some of the defense costs under this CCP 998 provision: http://www.smwb.com/ccp-998-offer-a-settlement-offer-with-strings-attached. CCP 998 works both ways, and can result in a winner paying the loser for some fees if an earlier rejected settlement was more than the verdict. I got a big chuckle when Bill Booth changed the name of his skydive gear company from Relative Workshop to Uninsured Relative Workshop and more recently to Uninsured United Parachute Technologies, LLC. That has probably scared off a few plaintiff's contingency lawyers looking for an easy insurance policy funded settlement. I have jumped at Skydive Monterey Bay, including a number of 18,000 ft jumps. I rented gear there about 8 years ago. The gear was typical DZ rental gear, well worn but airworthy. I don't know the facts of the Flores case so I won't speculate, but I have always regarded SMB as a safety conscious operation. They had a King Air 200 when I last jumped there that had a climb rate that took my breath away. Seemed like we were on jump run at 13,500 about six minutes after liftoff. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

http://www.fangoria.com/new/exclusive-dvdetails-and-art-eric-roberts-and-linnea-quigley-in-bigfoot-vs-d-b-cooper/ 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Jo wrote Jo, That applies to millions of people. There are millions of people who the FBI can't prove are not Cooper. That's the reason that the burden of proof needs to be a positive one. If you think Duane was Cooper then prove he was. The failure or inability of the FBI to prove he wasn't Cooper is useless information. Only ONE person can be Cooper. Millions can't be ruled out. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Just info, no opinion stated or implied. From Flores's lawyer's website: From CA BAR website: From YELP 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Jo wrote And 377 is positive that Jo is simply guessing. You have no evidence that anyone associated with Norjack was involved in potentially embarassing covert govt activities. You are just speculating. Being positive isn't enough Jo. It isn't even close. You need incontravertable, unequivocal, probative E V I D E N C E. EVIDENCE, not opinion, speculuation or wishful thinking. In the absence of EVIDENCE it's all just a guess. And BTW, FBI screwups, failures to investigate and prison record errors are not probative evidence linking Weber to Norjack. They just show that errors and subjective decisions were made. You insist that they were intentional and designed to conceal Duane's alleged involvement in Norjack. But that's a GUESS, nothing more. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Jo wrote Thats just a wild guess Jo and probably incorrect. It is so common for stumped investigators of unusual matters to blame it all on a govt conspiracy. You see it in UFO circles all the time. The preppers think everything is a govt conspiracy. I'd bet HUGE odds that NORJACK was not a govt op, not even tangentially. Now if you will excuse me, I'll board my black helicopter and fly to the next disinformation assignment. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

I think we have all run into fake Rangers, Special Forces, Seals, PJs, Airborne, skydivers, BASE jumpers, combat veterans etc. Some groups love to "out" the impostors and humiliate them. In some jurisdictions attempts have been made to criminalize their pathetic behavior. I look at it as more of a mental health issue. I cant see putting sick people in jail for stuff like this. Too much real crime out there. I know these posers piss off real military heroes but nobody respects the real guys less because of what a few sick wannabes do. There was a guy in my former neighborhood who had a jacked up ultra manly 4WD truck plastered with skydiving stickers. It was well known that he had only made a couple of tandem jumps. At parties he was a BASE jumper, competitor and all around bad ass skydiver. I'm sure you have run into local versions yourself. In my youth I might have exposed his BS, but now I just let posers like him be. Peace, 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Carvair http://reocities.com/anjapaul/n89fa.htm 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

It was $100 at WFFC and worth every penny. The Perris DC 9 was a -21, a special "hot rod" version designed for challenging (short, hot and high) airfields. It was an ex SAS passenger airliner. From Wikipredia The Perris jet was reportedly "grounded" due to an FAA rule that timed out one of their engines based on its age rather than operating hours. The engine had plenty of hours left in operating time, but passed the chrono age limit and an OH was mandated, VERY expensive, well into six figures. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4603962;#4603962 I doubt that skydivers will get another chance to jump from a US made passenger jet. Hope I am wrong. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

http://www.moodypacific.com/MPAS/pistons/dc-9-21/ Sure glad I got to jump it. WFFC 2006. Sweet jumpship. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Sure. The FBI got Perry Stevens to covertly pack military locator radio beacons in McCoy's chutes. They transmit on 243.0 MHz with a swept tone. UHF ADFs on military planes can home in on them. There are hand held DFs that can home in on them too. I posted photos of one long ago. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

It's been extensively discussed in past posts Jo. What info do you seek? 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.