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My opinion is that before going to a course that is short and intense, that you get ALL of your 20 pack jobs logged BEFORE you even get there. Packing is only a tiny part of a rigger's course and knowledge. It is a necessary skill, but not the only one. If your pack jobs are done, you should be able to spend an appropriate amount of time in the rigging course on the other rigging skills and knowledge taught and tested.

"aerated water?"
I don't know if the video is real or fake, but you can't aerate /bubbly water a lake.

Congratulations and thanks for your long service.

Now..........about those scantily clad women............

Sounds like illegals can get this too. Costco member is all that's required. (Member's dependents too) Just not getting Medicaid or Medicare.

Denver Post reports the anti recall money was about 3 million, and recall money was less than 1/2 million. 6 to 1 correct.

If I remember correctly it was in 1965 or 66. Great meet, cool place. No there wasn't any fire or even smoke until we came in downwind on our PC's and dug deep trenches. Then there was both: embers (not fire) and acrid smell of smoke. We didn't miss a beat, and kept jumping with our wet butts. No damage and we didn't think it was a big deal. I have it logged and can look up the date.

It looks home made. That being said...........it looks long enough to go around 3 times, and looks like Spectra, so that's a plus too. Plenty strong - unless the tab pulls through. I would prefer the red tab to be a lot more stiff. The tab (or metal ring) on a soft link is what makes the end secure. In my opinion, this one could be stiffer. For a small amount of money a factory built soft link seems the way to go. Might be false economy to home build one if it lets go on opening.

Went to youtube to see sliding extension. Didn't see anything referring to it. Is there a picture or drawing or explanation of what is sliding?

I've seen pictures and drawings of the double sided RSL for years. This picture is nothing new.

Can someone post a picture of the "sliding RSL extension"?

OK. Turn that rig around - Let's see the RSL

And no RSL

Choice is simple in my opinion:
1. Eliminate any system that doesn't have a workable single sided RSL. Listen to the posters here, and on other web threads, about the RSL issue.
2. Will your local riggers will pack your brand of parachute? Check first, or be ready to ship your rig out of state every 6 months for a repack.
3. Consider the MARD (main assisted reserve deployment) decision. I'm going to get one. They work.

I remember jumping at the Citadel accuracy competition meet in Walterboro North? or South? Carolina many many years ago. Sawdust circle. Deep sawdust. Very nice to land on but....
if sawdust is deep enough, and is rained on to the point it gets damp, and the temperature is warm enough by the process of spontaneous combustion it eventually creates red coals and embers down deep. Just like a stack of hay bales that was baled with too much moisture in the hay.

If those conditions exist, and enough time elapses, dig deep enough and you'll be seeing red glowing embers. I remember those jumpers coming in at twilight and hitting hard and putting up a veritable shower wall of red embers. Yeah- lots of them. This spontaneous combustion can be extinguished by soaking the pit with a WHOLE LOT of water, but then that creates a wet pit. Caution that your customers get their $1800+ canopies showered with glowing red embers=melted holes in the fabric and having to replace the canopy? Or land in really wet sawdust.

I don't know if this will be your experience, but it certainly happened there. No canopies burned, luckily, but everyone was really wet after landing because they tried to soak it before the event. Just didn't soak it enough to put out the deep fire.

A 1989 Talon has quite a few Service Bulletins issued. Everything from pilot chute to flaps - (not at my loft to look up all of them) to RSL retro fit.
It is not jumpable unless ALL service bulletins have been complied with. If you have to pay 200+ bucks to get this harness/container in compliance - well - that's more than it is worth. Additionally, if it doesn't have the RSL factory installed and needs that retro kit, updating this rig to RSL may run another $200. Also might not pack a rig a rig 24 years old. Even more skeptical about canopies that are ancient and not in common use. In my opinion this is not a good product to purchase. I'd skip it and go shopping on DZ.com Classifieds. Only my opinion.

I recommend watching Nick Grillet's (Performance Designs) You Tube video on packing a Sabre 2. You can google it under 'packing demo videos performance designs nick grillet' or some combo of that. You will notice he doesn't do anything with the nose besides make sure it is in place etc.

This a detailed packing video by a good manufacturer. Probably the best place to start.

A thousand feet for a reserve to open?

I actually have the orig 16 mm film of Skydive. When shown with an old projector the whole picture is brighter and colors are way way way more vivid than the present lame-ass digital DVD projectors. If one could screen them side by side it would amaze you to see how pathetic the DVD digital projectors have degraded the picture. That said, no one has a 16 mm projector- they break down- have to have a good screen, sometime the film breaks, yadda yadda.

You can find the DVD of it if you look harder. It's out there somewhere. I got my DVD somewhere and occ play it on my TV. It's OK.

The music is Liszt's (spelling) Les Preludes

Guess you had your sherpas carry your gear?

Anniversary Edition (1902-2002) Bonneville, shaved head to give 10 1/2 compression.

5 runs at Bonneville Salt Flats. Bigger primary gear for it. Had to buy full leathers for the first time. 115, 110 average, no fairing, no streamlining - jus' me on the skittish salt - and a hell of a lot more gnarly than I thought.

Love my bike. Tank color? Lucifer Orange

I think this will have unintended consequences for 7711-1 Demo Waivered events. Now the "Special Provisions For Parachutists" has a paragraph that states 2000 feet -pack open. It is created by the FAA FSDO for airshows weeks and even months before the shows. If USPA changes to 2500 as a BSR then it is likely-almost certain to find it's way into the 7711. The S&TA will have no say to change this FAA document. In the airshow business 2000 feet is sometimes the difference between doing the demo and not, and/or is sometimes a preferred option for some acts.

The FAA printed 7711-1 Waiver will not allow for S&TA's to intervene, and if conditions change on the day of the demo, etc. the FAA airshow supervising official in charge usually can't be found in a moment's notice. Heck, probably can't be found in an hour's notice. The more authority a supervising official has at a big airshow the harder it is to contact him. How can he have the knowledge or judgment to make any such decision on the spot? Get on the phone with the S& TA? Who says the S&TA would be available by telephone? More complications and verified communications to be reviewed in case of an insurance claim where breaching of insurance conditions are at issue, (demo insurance is thru USPA) yadda yadda etc.

The waiver is printed "in stone" and must be complied with to avoid a violation and to comply with demo insurance provisions. Doubt it can be changed at the last minute, and doubt the S&TA would be able to influence the author of the 7711, even if one could arrange telephone communications with the two parties.

I hope 2500 doesn't make it's way into the 7711 Waivers. If the current BSR language is in place, I bet it will. In my opinion the new BSR should exempt ALL demos from this requirement. If it does the FAA will probably leave the 2000 in place.





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BSR should state this new 2500 standard shouldn't apply to any demo jump.

Got two back recently. Both in about 10 days of shop time. Normal good service.

Sometimes people forget shipping Ordinary Ground stretches the interval a lot.

You are correct. The Flux Capacitor was in Back to The Future. This information is worth a Pretty Penny

You are right. The Flux Capacitor was in Back To the Future..

That info is worth a Pretty Penny

It's a Flux Capacitor for sure.
Need it to penetrate the 8th dimension.

I know this because of a scholarly article published by a professor at YoYoDyne University named Buckaroo Banzai.