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This one?

I not sure there is a conspiracy. Some manufacturers are better with dealing with the public than others. Aviacom is an example of how not to handle bad publicity - throw a form letter on your website and close down all communication. Who the hell is the drunk marketing director for that company? I totally agree about the Aviacom part, but that doesn't explain why the others can cover up there incidents, a conspiracy is a big word but some of them getting more credits than others, and they are doing it over our backs, safety seems no issue anymore

Lets ban solar flares and world endings than. But it really looks like orgasmo has a point here, the more I read about AADs the more it looks like some of them have friends in high and low places helping them to keep such incidents out of the spotlight. It stinks more and more

I'm just a client, I payed all those people to make this work. I don't care about there politics. I don't know what is wrong with cutters or rigs, I don't have to, I pay those people for it. My conclusion is that they don't deliver what they promised me, and that involves aviacom and in my case UPT. They all told me this combination would work. And by now there is a problem and no one takes there responsibility. IMO this is to blame theme all. And please don't tell me it's all to blame at my "el cheapo" AAD specially not if you have a sponsorship with a different brand

I wonder how many people still jump there Argus switched on. I started doing that sinds it looks like it doesn't have any priority anymore. Not for Aviacom,PIA or even the Dz's. So if no one looks what kind of AAD I use I'll keep on doing this till my next repack. Imo this is safer then jumping without one. If no one takes us serious why should I take them serious

Apparently a large multitude of H/C manufacturers, dropzones, and nations have all independently concluded Argus cutters to be a flawed design based on its track record of inabilities to perform up to par and have also concluded that this is a danger to dropzone aircraft and other jumpers. I don't disagree. When you buy "El Cheapo" brand you take a serious risk. When the "El Cheapo" brand company goes belly up because it is plagued with reports of terrible performance, the educated purchaser with a paper weight has nobody to blame but them-self. Not directed at you, but it's really silly to read about all these people who want to blame the rest of the world for their poor purchasing decisions. Sounds like someone sponsored by Cypres

PIA did not ban Argus. PIA cannot lift a ban they did not (and could not) impose. Individual harness/container manufacturers disallowed Argus in their rigs. If you want to put an Argus in your rig, talk to the manufacturer of your rig. What is disappointing is that Aviacom has not been more forthcoming with their investigation. They need to demonstrate how exactly how the steel ball interfered with the cutter. The best way to do that is to duplicate the cutter malfunction. Mark Your right about that And yes, Aviacoms actions or the lack of it are disappointing. In there efforts to proof they have to do nothing they totally forget about there customers but so are some of the manufacturers of rigs. If they are so concerned of our safety why did they approved it in the first place and react on information that had no independent investigation. Lifting the ban now would be in the same line as putting a ban on it without proper information By now no one knows what to believe, but we still are grounded. No AAD is no option in Belgian, they are mandatory

I know, I also have to deal with that. I'm not far from the point that I will take my lost and let Cypress win. I had it with this AAD soap. I'm not in the industry nor a rigger, I can't decide who is right or wrong, I just wanna jump and have fun. I don't need this

I now begin to believe the claim from Argus against the PIA. The ban on the Argus, as it looks by now, was put on easy without to much investigation. But now that the facts aren't so clear against Aviacom they refuse to lift the ban because they want to closely look at it? It al begins to look a bit dirty. Looks like PIA is measuring in there own benefits

communicate what they will do for the customers and how to solve there(customers) problem.

It's about time aviacom shows a little respect for there customers and communicate what they will do for them or how to solve the problem other then these announcements on there website

I use a Alti-2 N3, it connects with a USB cable You can use it with paralog on a mac I believe you can also do the firmware upgrades with paralog

It looks like Argus is more interested in placing movies that proof nothing on there website. This is by far easier than to worry about the peoples who once trusted them

I don't know it is that easy but it looks like a good idea. I don't think other AAD would benefit from taking Argus off the market other than Cypres. Most Argus owners don't want to go true this again if they have to replace there AAD. The only sure option (imho) looks like going for a Cypres. For me, how save and/or good a MarS M2 maybe, there is to much risc it will be the next one, you can be sure in about 15 years or so. For Virgil, I don't think there record is all that clean. So why not helping Argus owners by replacing there cutters, I think most of them would be happy to pay for it, and be thankful they helped them out. This way the opposition maybe benefits in the future. But is this the way it works? hmmmmm, I'm not to sure about it