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when i was working on it, i logged in and used httrack. it got the forums that needed to be logged in for, but i stopped so it didn't take away bandwidth from another user also grabbing it. would that not have done the same thing without all the work? i am glad you did the work, but just wondering. i haven't used httrack much before, and it was a while ago. thanx for sharing the information. information should be free.

are the positions paid? i was under the impression they were volunteer positions. i was also wondering what the problem to be solved was. if they are volunteers, they don't cost anything, so that isn't it. if there are 14 regions and directors, what were the other 8 for anyway? i guess if i really cared i would have paid attention and know the answers or voted. more a curiosity than anything i guess.

is looking cool more important than safety? i don't care much about functionality, they all work, but if one were to be safer than others that is where i would put my money. they could even solve the problem of changing thread so often by only using white thread for all sewing and not using white for any part of the rig. it may not stand out a lot against yellow or some other colors, but would against everything at least enough to inspect.

if you had a free dropbox account that would be the easiest way to share it. i was going to use httrack and get a copy of what you have up.

according to the post it was the french equivalent of the faa, so it would be more accurate to ask the faa to take the proactive approach to protecting us, not uspa. correct me if i'm wrong (it happens) but didn't we form the uspa et al to keep the faa from harassing (over-regulating) us? maybe we need to convert to the french stye faa and have a government agency that protects us. pipe dreams...

yeah, it's hard to accept a risk until it's quantified. even if someone says you may die skydiving, is that all that is needed to convey the risk? i doubt it. even if you've been jumping for decades and you know that you can die, does that properly convey the risks? again, i doubt it. as long as everyone has a safety mentality and talks to one another, it is mostly ok. they say that the safety rules are written in blood, but some of them are more of a nuisance rule (in my opinion only), but it is very hard in some cases to tell them apart. i would say that the person is responsible for him(her.whatever)self on every jump, but does that apply in all cases? i know i would never try to hang responsibility for something on anyone other than the jumper, but if the jumper was not as well trained or well informed as they should have been, then who is at fault? it is impossible to know what you don't know until you know it, so i think not. but who is in that case?

sometimes it is the time to accept the risk. for example, when i was in the military, we did risk assessments on training, and anything you did really. you had to get them into the yellow, or green preferably, and if you didn't, you had to have higher ups sign off onto them. for airborne ops, we could never get them into the yellow and they needed the ag's signature on it. you can mitigate a lot of things, like using quality equipment and staying current, not doing stupid shit, etc., but you can never take the risk of death out completely, and at some point you just have to accept it.

the data isn't doing much good offline, now is it? an archived read only copy needs to be hosted somewhere. no reason to pay anyone to do anything to it and ads on every page makes it a revenue generator, not a drain. i don't recall hearing anything about it a month ago, but was involved in helping copy the website by another person, but i did not have the skills to help much. that was ongoing for about two weeks. with another two weeks we would have gotten it all. it took almost two weeks to figure out the settings for the copy. if it were not for the damned cgi scripting it would have been copied twice by now in that two weeks. data transfer was limited to 3 and 4 kbps in some cases, rarely more than 56 kbps, or about twice dial up speed.

it didn't cost me a thing to run httrack on the website and grab a lot of it, and preserve it exactly as it was, scripts and all. had i been a little more familiar with the settings, i would have an entire copy of it right now. it is time consuming, but free. not sure how httrtack works on a local copy, but it is not hard at all to archive a website as read only, keeping it working is the hard part.

you're welcome.

someone may or may not be doing just that, but i think that a complete archive is the best bet in this case. the only real issue is the cgi scripting, but that should be fairly easy to iron out. i wish i had time to do it myself, it's good practice, but it's a hell of a complicated site.

print on demand would be better.

i'm sure it's being copied by someone. more importantly, wtf is up with the guest posts? well, maybe not more importantly, but worth looking at.

damn, i wish dz.com would go back to that style of website. the new format looks like shit in comparison.

that's the thing about personal experience. mine has been the opposite of yours, but having almost no interaction with them outside my son's flight physical, i expect that. i don't spend time reading their manuals, and except for a few things i was curious about on the ppl testing, the only things i have read of theirs is in the sim. all of that was pretty straight forward, and i did find the definition i was referring to a short time after asking for it. thanx for the insight though, it's always good to have others' views about things. my perspective gets a little narrow sometimes.

so i was thinking of momentum not speed. i'm starting to look at fluid dynamics and need to refresh my core math first it seems. some of that shit is confusing as hell, but i'll get it, i always do. if you had any links to help it would be appreciated though.

i was looking up something in the sim and got sidetracked pretty good this morning. reading the canopy piloting part on page 123, there is a diagram of the canopy and the arrows indicating the various forces. i recall some of the math involved from high school, like velocity is perpendicular to lift, but then is says speed is a magnitude of velocity. i can get that, but i thought that speed was perpendicular to gravity, and not the same direction as velocity. i also thought that energy increased as the square to the velocity, not speed. is that just me being pedantic and misunderstanding the relative terms, or something deeper? i have enough distractions not to go searching for the answer myself. i could lose all week on this if i'm not careful.

i'm currently reading the oxygen jump procedures in the sim. i got side tracked looking for the answer to this.

if he's a us citizen, no matter how long he's been gone, he's still a citizen. nit picky, or whatever, not much room for error.

so someone living in the us and not a citizen is a resident alien, so would not be allowed to jump the foreign equipment. or did i mess that up?

i highly doubt it. citizenship is key here, at least in any case i have ever heard about. we had a foreign jumper at our dz for a while, hopefully he comes back soon. he was a student but lived here. the faa is pretty clear in definitions, so i'd be surprised if you couldn't look it up in the regs and find out. if you do, please post it here so we can all see.

so, there was all kinds of information available and the only way to present it was through two poorly composed forum posts and this many comments before it came to light? that would have been some good information to lead with to convince people there was a problem. keep that in mind next time maybe. or not, your call.

amazon lets folks publish books and only print them when they are ordered. is there an option like that for calendars? that would solve everything, even if it does cost a little more.

if you can't get them into a searchable archive let me know and i may be able to host them read-only for reference. i have to check the amount of bandwidth but have unlimited size on mine. all i ask is that you buy me a beer on bridge day.

i don't know if i would agree with that yet. how old was he? how about the others? from one of the comments in the other thread, a flaw in an artery wall would be deadly in this situation. not knowing the cause of death or anything else, it is just speculation, but had he gotten out with a passenger and died before getting the drogue out, the passenger could have likely died as well.