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    And most of today's swooper types you speak of wouldn't know to shit or go blind if they had to sink in and land in a really tight area due to a bad spot or other conditions.



    Lets be honest:

    Most of today's skydiver's couldn't land their preferred canopy 2m from target. And I mean declaring the target, not happening to land at the peas (or wherever), logging the jump as accuracy, and having it signed off.

    Nothing at all to do with swoopers, just poor canopy piloting all around.

  3. Start adding foreign objects to the equation and you have no basis to expect anything to happen like it should under circumstances. It could have just deflected the cutter and wasted energy the system would normally use to cut the loop. Who knows, but the real question is why was the steel shot in there?

  4. Just got this email from argus-aad.com:
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    Dear Skydiver,
    Re: Argus Cutter investigation - Incident San Marcos TX

    Skydive Supplies Europe was asked to investigate the cutter involved in the so called `San Marcos’ incident.

    The result of this investigation is published in the enclosed PDF-file



    The initial inspection revealed a pinched loop that was cut on one side, and not cut on the other side. There were some loop fibers visible on the cut side.

    After opening a steel ball fell out of the cutter. This looks like a small steel ball, as used in ‘shot bags’.
    The cutter blade also showed a deformation at the place of the loop and was damaged in use.

    The blade could not perform its full stroke and thus not cut the loop completely.
    The loop material could not have caused any damage to the hardened stainless steel blade.

    Enjoy the reading.



    Link to the investigation report:
    http://tools.emailgarage.com/Pub/Asset.ashx?Id=23c77610-0dde-4a9f-98bc-64da7820cdf0&MessageId=509493486

    Anyone have more insight on this?

  5. Maybe just make it clear that nobody should even pass through that HP area on the way to the main landing area. If that means landing out because you don't have the altitude to go around, so be it. If we really want to put safety first and we create a HP zone for that reason, it is nonsensical to then allow non-HP traffic through that zone below a thousand feet.

    Much like we teach students not to cross the runway below XX feet due to TRAFFIC. Imagine that.

    Might not work for all DZ setups, but I imagine it could with a little effort.

  8. I've been lurking around the forums for awhile now, so I figured I'd introduce myself.

    I started jumping a few years back but lately have only gotten around 20 jumps a year, due mainly to Iraq deployments (I'm active USMC infantry).

    But I've been prepping to get back into jumping big when I get stateside early 2009, and start meeting new jumpers, improving my skills, and hopefully get good enough to instruct.

    I look forward to meeting everybody at the So. Cal. dropzones. I'm stationed in Twentynine Palms, so Elsinore, Taft, San Diego, and Perris are my likely weekend jump spots.