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  3. Those only cover death, loss of limbs or total disablement. Whilst big things a lot of other things can stop you working. Plus Extreme+ halved their death benefit after a few claims. They are good cheap skydiving life insurance but not much else. You need to talk to a PFA about critical illness/ injury cover including skydiving. Look up Chris Southworth on facebook. He jumps at hibaldstow and can help you out.

    Edit: don't forget, BPA insurance includes small death/ paralysis benefits also.
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    I'm curious whether he'll go for a windy day,



    Sorry, I should have quoted the rest of the tweet where he says,

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    be looking for good weather window, please all do sun dance, and no wind dance cheers



    So it appears not.
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    He did a lot of test flights with his wingsuits during the last couple of weeks and he was jumping with 2 flysights. During his practice jumps he aimed at a target and tried to flare the suit as much as possible, that's how he got the speed data.



    Did he also go foetal 5 feet above the target or roll into his back or however he is going to enter the boxes during these tests?
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    Is Daniel Craig a skydiver?



    I'm guessing that the "James Bond" thing is just a theme to make the opening ceremony exciting, but the actual jump would be done by a body-double substitute, not by Daniel Craig.



    A bit like "Larry the Cable Guy"?
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    an other thing came to my mind: How about the legal aspects of the jump? I don't know the UK local laws but as far as I know you may not drop heavy objects (includes persons) without parachutes in any ICAO country.

    If he exits with a parachute and does not pull - wouldn't that call for the BPA to complain?



    It is my understanding that he has or will get an exemption from the CAA to undertake the stunt, so it is nothing to do with the BPA, practically at least.
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    Presumably?
    You good with that?

    I give.

    I don't give a shit.
    I don't jump those damn things anyway.

    carry on.

    I'll stop worrying about people surviving this sport.
    This damn place doesn't care anyway.



    "Presumably" is a polite British way of suggesting that is one of the things that should be done.

    No, I'm not good with it, which is why I forwarded the details to my NGB to ensure it was disseminated,even with the small chance there are modified suits in the UK and the people jumping them aren't intelligent enough to realise what a bad idea they are in their current configuration.
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    If it was designed for BASE, why the need for the handles THAT COME WITH IT TO USE FOR SKYDIVING???
    :S:S:S



    Whilst designed for very experienced Wingsuit pilots, surely one would still be advised to explore the flight envelope of a new suit with as much altitude as possible i.e. from a plane, rather than from a fixed object.
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  16. Any idea how many (factory) modified Apaches are in the field? Presumably TS has contact details for every customer with modified suits and has contacted them personally? Still, they should contact the NGBs and publicatons as you say. Nothing to stop people contacting their own NGBs as well.

    The BPA has been made aware of the issue and the info should have been disseminated down to all DZs by now.
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    Recap:

    Aug 2005: Skydive Arizona sued 1-800-Skyride et al
    Oct 2005: 1-800-Skyride et. al sued USPA
    Jul 2007: State of Georgia filed a complaint against 1-800-skyride et al
    Nov 2007: USPA settled out of court with 1-800-Skyride et al
    Aug 2008: State of Georgia issued a COURT ORDER to 1-800-skyride that included restitution of more than $128,000 to 363 customers.
    Oct 2009: Skydive Arizona WON their lawsuit with a jury judgment of $6.4M
    Apr 2010: Skydive Arizona WON additional claims (see attachment) resulting in $9.6M for Skydive Arizona

    More details are available from publicly available court records.

    See http://funjumper.com/skyride FMI.

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    March 2012: Appeals court upholds award (but rejects lower court's attempt to double some of the damages)
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  19. Leo Dickinson has kindly given the BPA permission to show the Wally Gubbins films at the AGM this year. The AGM is being held in the Premier Suite at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton, BL6 6JW. We'll be showing as many of them as we can between the end of the official AGM business and 13:50.
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    Now, from what I have been told, the Dubai 500 way folks did offer refunds.

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    Do you know whether the "refunds" are free of any "fees"?



    Yes they are. P3 have even covered international bank transfer charges.
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