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And here's one for Skydive Dallas. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

The version of Google Earth for Linux that I downloaded back in August didn't quite work. I just downloaded a newer version and it works fairly well. Here's one for OSC in Cushing, OK. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

This is more of a general query, and not specifically in response to this incident. Is it known if TSA training covers parachutes? More specifically, does TSA have their own rigs that they can run through the X-ray machine for the new guys? If not, would it be useful for them to have some? This wouldn't even have to cost a lot of money. Take an old container, put two ragged-out mains in it (one hooked up as the reserve), and a timed-out Cypres. It wouldn't be something you could jump but it would look exactly the same as a good rig on the X-ray. The minimum would probably be one per state and better would be one per major airport. That way it would be easy for the supervisors to run the rig through the machine each time they get some new people. One problem with this is some way to mark the "dummy" rig so nobody actually tries to jump it. Another is that it's hard to have all the options and variations on each "dummy" rig. Maybe if there was one per airport, it could be set up so that the next airport over has a slightly different rig, so they could occasionally exchange rigs. An even cheaper way would be to take some good rigs and a digital camera to an airport. Take visible-light pictures of the rig in different orientations, then take pictures/screen captures of what it looks like on the X-ray. This would allow for pictures of a wider variety of rigs and options as well - tandem vs regular, spring pilot chute vs BOC, rapide links vs. Slinks, hard cable housings vs soft, etc. Then the only cost is incorporating those pictures into a training document and emailing it to the various airports. USPA's role in this might be to work with riggers, AAD makers, etc to get some old gear assembled into "dummy" rigs for TSA, and coordinating with TSA to get the rigs to the various airports and/or training centers. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Look down in the lower right corner - it says diy.despair.com . If you go there, you can make your own poster. I grabbed a photo from this thread and created the attached. Eule Edited to fix typo in clicky PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Strong Screamer or something else? It'll be even more interesting when the 60k pound truck decides to use it, against the advice of the loadmaster, because "he doesn't know my skills." Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a GROO. On the basis of mass production it probably doesn't count, but I think a 182 (the older, the better) has a little bit of soul. During the week I work with students that are trying to use AutoCAD and Solidworks and occasionally Unigraphics to stuff a bunch of new components into a production car that they are converting to a hybrid. They've got some other software that they can simulate pretty much any aspect of the powertrain control strategy with. Then on the weekend, at the DZ, there is a 1959 182B that was designed by a bunch of biscuit-eating engineers in Kansas with slide rules and maybe a (horizontal) wind tunnel. If they wanted to know if they did it right, they had to build one and go fly it around. Despite all this, they got a design that's right enough that they're still building it 50 years later. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

What's the backstory? Did he just want the canopies as a pretty backdrop for photos, or does he feel like he needs more votes from the young hip hoopy frood demographic? You should have asked him if he was going to let the mayor of Denver show him up. But if you couldn't get him to jump you should have at least challenged him to a Red Bull chugging contest. Have a camera flier surrepetitiously turn on a camera, of course... people hopped up on Red Bull tend to say amusing things. :) Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Yep. I will say that I think some of the numbers are a little goofy; I live near KRVS and it claims 926 operations a day (337,000 a year) or about one every 1.5 minutes. I might believe this as a peak when the student pilot operations are in full swing, but I don't think this is sustained 24 hours a day. It's currently showing 313/day or about 114,000/yr, which is the highest one I've seen so far. Why did they shut down? Did the little beagle with goggles and a scarf that was flying his doghouse shoot at too many tandems? Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Since about May, the problem with the index has come up about once a month: May June July August September October If it's not going to be fixed, how about a note on the search page that it's broken? Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

There is a problem with searching posts from about mid-January through the end of May 2006. All of the posts are still there, but they aren't indexed, so the search function won't find them. If you remember which forum you posted in, go to that forum and start looking at the older index pages and you can probably find it that way. (Once you're in the forum, look at the top of the list of posts, above the word "Subject". There is a line that looks like >> or similar. This will take you to the older index pages.) Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

180,000/yr seems like a lot. AirNav has a statistic near the bottom of the page for each airport; DeLand is about 77,000 and Zephyrhills is about 37,000. To quantify "a lot", the main commerical airports in Tulsa and Kansas City have about 159,000 and 172,000 operations per year respectively. (Neither has a DZ.) Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

I know the feeling; I broke my leg in March. Since then, I've been eating lunch at the picnic shelter at the local general aviation airport about once a week, just watching the airplanes come and go. (The dropzone is at an airport further out of town.) From CSpenceFLY: I agree. I took some the first few days but was then able to stop. I did take one a few days later in a highly scientific experiment to find out if it made my Pink Floyd CDs sound better (conclusion: yes it did). [joke] However, I did consider telling my doctor that I needed a refill - he seemed quite willing to do that for me. The initial 30 (generic) Lortab only cost me about $30 at the pharmacy, and I was told by a reliable source that each pill was worth about half a jump ticket in the parking lot of the local high school. :) [/joke] Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

You might ask at news:rec.aviation.owning or maybe news:rec.aviation.piloting . I think there is also a Cessna owner's group (based in the US) that has an online discussion forum. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

QuoteCommercial turbofans have bulletproof jacket-like protection surrounding the blades, right? Don't turboprops? In a non-skydiving discussion in another forum, someone posted this report about the blades failing on a commercial jet. Fortunately it was shortly after takeoff and the aircraft turned around and landed with no injuries to the passengers or crew. (That page is a summary; download the PDF for the full report with pictures.) In that same discussion, I had mentioned the apparent thicker piece of metal in line with the prop on the side of a Twin Otter. I figured it probably wouldn't stop a loose prop blade, but might help with gravel or dirt being kicked up by the prop. A cold-country pilot said no, it's mostly for shedding ice that is flung by the prop. Back to the Skyvan engine failure, it doesn't seem to have shown up at the FAA yet. I realize it may not show up immediately but I figured a week would be long enough - does anybody (diverdriver?) know how long these usually take? Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

I'm Eule, a dealer here in the city of London, I intend to purchase your (Wind Tunnel Instructor - £0.99) as long as it is in good conditions.I reside in United Kingdom, but presently in Western Africa on a contract with my company and would want this transaction to be risk free.it is going to be shipped to London. Cost,arrangements and modalities of shipping to be born by me. Preffered method of payment is Certified Money Order which would CLEAR in your bank account within 1 to 2 working days. If you are interested in my offers, do not hesitate to get back to me at [email protected]. PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

You are in dire need of a safety meeting. If you don't lighten up, there isn't a rig made that can handle your weight. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Strangely, I'm more freaked out about Bakersfield than I was a few minutes ago. A baby died of being shaken too hard. Another kid was beat to death. A 55 year old lady was killed in a hit-and-run. A semi hit a car on Highway 223; one person died and another person was seriously injured. Several elderly people died of old age, illnesses, etc. It doesn't help that the Bakersfield Californian newspaper lists all the recent deaths in the area. It's true that there are some single points of failure, but quite a lot of effort is put into removing them. A single-engine airplane usually has two fuel tanks and two ignition systems; some DZs have multi-engine airplanes. The container has a main parachute and a reserve parachute. Usually there's just one way to get the main out, but there are up to _three_ ways to get the reserve out - ripcord, reserve static line (the cut-away main pulls the reserve), and automatic activation device (a computer that senses speed and altitude). Actually, the one that really gets you is the second landing, after you bounce back up in the air. If you grab the grass really tightly after you first hit, you won't bounce, and your chance of survival is high. If you're not sure that you'll be able to grab the grass, you could do [url "http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2400402;#2400402"]this[/url ] with your shoe instead. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Hanging out at the casinos all week will probably be cheaper than becoming a regular jumper. :) It's OK, though; Harleys usually have pretty good resale value. Welcome! Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

A couple of ideas for this: First, change bars in the margin would let people quickly see what's new or changed. Second, especially for extensive changes, perhaps issuing a "what's new" document along with the SIM would be helpful. This document would have to say "these _aren't_ the new rules, you have to read the SIM for the new rules" but would give you a hint on where to start reading. Sort of like some of the FAA's advisory circulars - they aren't regulations, but help point out and explain the regulations. I've only got two years of the SIM (2005 and 2006) to hand, and I looked through them quickly, so maybe either or both of these are already being done. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

I think this kind of goes along with the feeling that some DZ.com posters have expressed that USPA doesn't represent individual jumpers anymore and is instead a trade association for the DZs/DZOs. I haven't been around long enough to say if I agree with this or not, but if you take it as a given, that also seems to say that there should be at least two organizations: one for the jumpers, one for the DZOs. One way to do that would be to let the USPA be for the DZOs and create a new organization for the jumpers. I am not sure how well this would work; starting a new organization takes a lot of time, effort, and money. Another way is to have the USPA be the jumpers' organization and expand PIA to include the DZOs. PIA is already concerned with the business side of parachuting, but it seems like, at the moment, they mostly represent the gear manufacturers. I know that some larger DZs are also members, but I don't think there are nearly as many DZs that are PIA members as there are DZs that are USPA Group Members. This may be also be hard to set up; if one assumes that the DZOs are currently "in charge" of the USPA and are structuring the rules to favor themselves, they probably won't like the idea of being a couple of steps removed from the rule-making process. Again, I am not an instructor and I haven't been around that long. It just seems like there are a couple of areas where "splitting DZs from the USPA" might possibly be interesting. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

My guess is that even if the DZ is USPA, USPA won't be able to help in an "official" way like they can in the US. USPA should, however, be able to provide examples of the procedures at US DZs that operate close to commercial airports, to help show how the commercial traffic can coexist with jumpers. Failing that, it is sort of up to the DZO to work the politicians. One popular approach is "the DZ brings X thousand dollars per year of business to the city". Some of the airport access cases in the US seem to hinge on a principle of equal access to the airspace; if Spanish law has that too, that might be a place to start. I am also under the impression that the EU has some standards for their airspace; it might be worth checking if the EU has any equal-access provisions in their law. Off the top of my head, I've jumped at a DZ that's about 50 nautical miles (90 km) from Dallas/Fort Worth airport, and the DZ coexists with the commercial traffic just fine. Looking at a map, Elsinore appears to be about that same distance from the Los Angeles airport. It appears that Ocana is a little closer to Madrid - something like 30 nm (50 km). Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. I am a member of USPA but I don't work for USPA in any official capacity. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

In my limited experience, DZs that do night jumps often schedule them on a weekend close to a full moon. For the rest of 2006, that's Oct 7/8, Nov 4/5, and Dec 2/3. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

Me t00. The last time I checked, the unindexed posts ran from about 13 Jan to about 27 May, or around 4.5 months' worth. Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

I just tried it and I'm getting the same thing. city and state -> doesn't work zip code only -> doesn't work city, state, zip -> doesn't work street address, city, state, zip -> doesn't work I cleared my cookies and cache, logged back in, and tried the four queries above again, with the same results. I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.6 on Linux (2.4.x kernel). Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.

See what you think of this. :) Eule PLF does not stand for Please Land on Face.