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my main has one like that too. i had to send it back to get a bridle attachment point sewed on and they swapped out sliders with one that didn't have a hole in it. i love jumping reserves like mains, and you've got it backwards, i got them cheap as hell. one came in the container i paid $400 for. a brand new one may cost closer to a new main though.

you could just sit around watching others do all the fun shit... kidding, and i would choose to jump a few times, not wait it out. as long as i was cleared by the doc and felt like i would be ok. i was cleared to jump a couple of months ago by a doc and i felt that i wasn't ready, but that was just hernia mesh and no rehab or serious injury. you'll know when it's time.

you can get a couple of weekends in or you could get a few extra months of rehab. i know which one i would choose if it were me.

i thought that was the shoulder when i watched it both times. my bad.

so, did you watch this video? truck completely out of the road, not blocking anything, so it was not a factor nor could it have been. maybe in the case where the fire truck was blocking the road partially it was a factor that was not here in this case.

did you watch the video? it can't be considered a contributing factor if it was there to clear a crash scene. doesn't matter how good that lawyer is. maybe without the police body cam video, but with the video, no way.

almost all the really cool shit came from either military use or use in space. if it makes it to the military it will get to us shortly afterwards if it is any good.

i was referring to seatbelts in cars. i don't know anyone who doesn't wear one in a plane on the ride to altitude.

why not? they make a visiting jumper show the reserve data card and aad, why not step on a scale and write down the canopy size given? i heard so much whining when seatbelt laws went into effect and now we have some that don't use them but the culture changed. it's a lot easier with uspa and skydiving, just give the info or don't jump there. it would be a whole hell of a lot safer with a few folks flirting with the safety margins than if everyone were doing it.

looks like you could print a new one. need to use abs plastic though.

none. i think this is a false statement. this is a big part of the problem, the license structure. the other big part of the problem with this statement is the attitude. uspa has no duty such as this, @JoeWeber is right in that swooping needs to be done outside the view of the public at the very least. uspa didn't accept low pulls, jumping without an aad, and too many things that have changed for me to list. and now even though an aad isn't required by uspa, almost everyone has one and most dzs require them. i'm not going to say you are wrong in this conversation since that is very subjective and not applicable to this, but it's ok to be wrong, even on the internet with something you believe passionately. it's also a good idea to be able to truly able to see another perspective, even when you disagree with it as passionately as you believe in yours, probably more important with these things since you're more likely to be wrong about something when you're so deeply invested in it. what i will say is that your comments and attitude toward swooping doesn't leave a lot of room to do anything useful about it, and that is evident in the fact that as pointed out, we have been educating folks on swooping too long with no improvement on the number of fatalities. took me over 40 years to figure all that out. have a great holiday weekend and stay safe.

you'll be really surprised when you find out what they use for the equivalent of a black box for cars. they don't really need cameras to tell what you are doing while you drive these days.

can you put a sim card in a watch? it would have to have a sim card to have signal to be tracked. i have no idea what the internals look like, it would be cool if it were possible as a watch is smaller.

not at all actually. i recalled something i thought i had read. i am also pretty sure i said that, right after i made the statement. maybe i should have put that part first. or was it just recently that someone said they hadn't had a student fatality at lodi? i didn't bother to look that up either. edit: i did just scroll up and see that i also put the part about student fatalities in there too. was i being that hard to understand when i wrote the comment?

if i recall correctly they have yet to have a tandem fatality at lodi. at least that is what i heard someone in one of these discussions say, but they had some issues with the tandem instructors though. maybe it was no student fatalities there.

just wondering, can you install the tracker and just not pay the subscription until you need to use it? like have it in the rig for as long as you need but only pay the monthly fee when you cutaway and need to use it. that would make it worth it.

plea deal with the faa that carries up to 20 years in jail for trevor jacob crashing his plane for youtube views.

speaking of that, perhaps we should get together with austrailia's governing body and exchange notes since they had a lot of tandem fatalities and we had the swooping fatalities it seems. isn't that what these discussions are for, learning from those who are doing better and emulating them?

that sounds exactly the same as why some folks used to pull low.

not sure if i'd call that trending down, but we'll see next year.

the movie. dodgeball. funny as hell, even if it was dodging a wrench.

"if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball" that is the first thing that came to mind when i read that part about the tennis balls. thanx for the laugh.

i have no idea how that works. like maybe straight talk so that you don't have to pay for it until you need to use it. i'd give it a try. i'll bet you can pick those trackers up cheap if the company went out of business.

that's not what you need to program, the os or whatever runs it is what needs programmed. qualcomm has pretty good documentation on their chips and what the pins do, but they look real hard to get to the way they soldered the chip on the board. but it's hard for me to tell a lot from a picture because it isn't my specialty, just something i know about. i've done it before on other devices and could probably figure it out but maybe not. now going into the qualcomm firmware, you're right, no way to do that i could ever figure out anyway.

i don't see a jtag connection but it looks like you could reprogram it if you knew how. you'd need some way to attach to the chip. some of those test points may also be the jtag and it just isn't labelled, some companies do it that way. i'm gonna look it up since i now have numbers to put into search engines. thanx for the pics.