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AGL OR MSL? I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

"Reading" Quote one sentence, or even an article title! No, article title is to easy..." Girls of the (insert name of NCAA conference)" And column titles don't count. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Now when ever someone runs a search for sexual reassignment folks with 'corrected' gender he'll be added right in. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Which is why, pissed with both the Congress' and my state legislature's unwillingness to protect perceived or real sexual orientation or gender identity, I introduced and got passed an anti-discrimination law in my city where I'm on the Council. We included real and perceived sexual orientation and gender identity with the normal race, religion, etc. No matter you personal beliefs allowing two people of the same sex to be married but legally denied housing, work, meal etc is not moral. 44th city in MI to do this because Rep. State legislature unwilling, as is U.S. Congress. Notice the perceived sexual orientation. Straight men and women can be and are discriminated against because they may be perceived as other than straight. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Insurance fraud and the fact that you'll probably have video on FB easy for the investigator to find. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Eventually someone with this problem will answer. But I've know several skydivers over the years with this issue. One lady's should routinely dislocated, she would pull with her other hand and either pop it back in under canopy or after landing. She was an experienced jumper when I got to know her. DO NOT RUSH getting in a tunnel or in the air. Wait until you MD or PT says to go. Take their advice on braces, tape etc. Skydiving and the sky will be there. But if you rush it you may end up with a joint so loose you can't continue skydiving if you push it. Also make sure you talk with you instructors about emergency procedures, including main deployment, if it happens again. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I will repeat "ask you EXPERIENCED rigger". While someone through Handsome Dave's course this year has a rigging ticket they may not have the experience of judging gear for appropriate uses. A 10 day course does NOT impart infinite wisdom. It gives a license to learn. The Dolphin is a perfectly fine rig for belly flying. I know several professional jumpers doing AFF or other student work who choose a Dolphin for it's economy. If you not into KEWL, it's fine. But it is not designed for serious freeflying. Can you get away with it? Sure, lots of us got away with it for years. Until we didn't have to anymore. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Static line training with rounds doing PLF's backwards off the roof of a pickup cab. Both ways. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I don't consider sleeping nothing. Like eating. Can't live without it. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

We don't do this to be athletes. We do it because the earth sucks and the airplane engines do all the work. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I would guess the differential strength and elongation between warp and fill and the weaker tear strength. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I believe your comparing two different finishes, products. You may not have ordered what you wanted. Is this what you ordered? http://catalog.bourdonforge.com/item/forged-metal-safety-o-rings/2005-o-ring-parachute-ring-2/2005 Look through their rings and you'll find different finishes, all PIA-H-7195 rings. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Biggest danger may be chest strap. They tend to be high on Talons. If they harness sets too high it can catch your chin on opening. Hang in it and see how high it is. It can be dangerous. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

https://columbus.craigslist.org/hvo/d/commercial-singer-sewing/6292469610.html Cheap but might need some TLC and a new table. I have one and don't need two. ... Like I have two Pfaff 238's and two Bernina 217's. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Not much. Just a complete teardown and inspection. Probably a new crankshaft assuming it's a piston engine. Other than that, no. And aircraft don't just "lose" their front gear. Something has to break it off. If you are talking about a small Cessna for the front gear is supported by the firewall. Which will sustain major damage before the gear is "lost". In other word don't buy it. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I've got one with almost the same story for sale shortly. And a Northern lite with a couple hundred jumps hanging on the rack since 2005 that the widow is finally ready to let go. Both need just a little work before they go in classifieds. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Go read the articles here. http://www.performancedesigns.com/resources/ And yes you can change performance, speed, fun etc without downsizing. And absolutely no one says you have to downsize. To finish a skydive safely any parachute that lands you safely will do. To compete in Canopy Piloting requires something else entirely. And then there is everything in between. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Go read the articles here. http://www.performancedesigns.com/resources/ And yes you can change performance, speed, fun etc without downsizing. And absolutely no one says you have to downsize. To finish a skydive safely any parachute that lands you safely will do. To compete in Canopy Piloting requires something else entirely. And then there is everything in between. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Still flunked english. At 58 i get to vote over 18 since you don't have an upper number. I qualify for all catagories. I'd let someone jump a camera sooner if they didn't use an AAD. If newer jumpers knew they were going to die if they didn't open a parachute they might be less in a hurry to add complications and distractions to their skydives. Yes I'm kidding, sorta. I truly believe AADs have changed the psychology of skydiving. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Once again I'll remind everyone that PIA is an industry trade association of competitors volunteering to try to address industry wide needs. With one part time employee. It is NOT an independent agency and is NOT a regulatory agency with any legal powers. The goal was to try to identify any systematic problems across the industry. In spite of this thread issues are not confined to one manufacturer. This was NOT to provide comparison between particular companies for jumpers. As I said the data was blinded even to most of the committee members. If it wasn't done this way there would have been NO testing. No manufacturer would have participated by supplying their equipment and they would not have approved PIA money for public comparison data that might have been used against them. A couple of manufacturers had data on PC drag force in real freefall but not many. This is the most data about PC drag forces and bag extraction forces across the most rigs in real conditions that exists and is public. Since it was mentioned in a meeting open to the public Sunrise did not respond to an invitation to participate, Parachute Labs refused to abide by the condition of not using the data for advertising and so did not participate, and another manufacturer was coming out with a new model as the testing took place and decided not to provide their old rig. A second round was anticipated with other U.S. and non-U.S. rigs but last I knew is not currently planned. (I wasn't at the last meeting and haven't read the minutes that just came out to members today.) All of the volunteers have their own businesses to run. This amount of testing took two years and a substantial portion of the PIA budget for those years. This is not an industry with 100's of millions of customers and trillions of dollars in sales like the world wide auto industry. And an associated industry, the insurance industry, with a vested interest in calling out unsafe products. Please say thank you to those of us that spend our own money and time or our companies money and personnel time to try to address industry needs. Right now without PIA there would be no universally accepted specifications for hardware and materials for parachutes. The 'Mil-specs' were abandoned by the U.S. government in 1997. PIA has filled the void. There may be nobody that knows much about parachutes writing the TSO testing standards if we left it to the FAA. SAE choose to end that responsibility in 1994 (or so) with TSO C23d and PIA picked up the slack. Someone come up with 10's of millions in funding for an independent testing organization and I'll go to work for them. I am about as independent and small in the industry as anybody can be. I've never worked for any parachute component or material manufacturer or commercial dealer. A sell a few pilot rigs as a convenience to my rigging customers. And I'm welcomed into PIA and able to participate in the TSO specs committee, the risk management committee, the rigging committee, (past chairman) and the technical committee that sponsored the testing. This may be frustrating and not satisfy many in the sport. If you don't like what PIA does write a check, submit an application and get involved. You'll get a vote equal to that of Airborne Systems or UPT. Okay, rant off. But I'm tired of people that don't have a clue saying that PIA should do this or that. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

http://www.pia.com/images/rocketlauncher/PDF/TECHNICAL_REPORTS/PIA-TR-401LowReserveOpeningInvestigationReport91316.pdf I don't believe the video has been made public. The data is blinded, rigs are not identified. Even to me as a member of the committee. Each participant had to agree that the data would not be used for advertising but the data was provided to each manufacturer for their own information. Not all PIA members submitted a rig for testing and although non members were invited not all (and maybe none, I don't remember) submitted a rig for testing. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

PIA has to take great care not to comment on the business practices or quality of individual manufactures, riggers or others. Especially those not members of PIA, like Sunrise and most riggers. In fact it's in PIA's code of conduct. I WISH PIA was in a position to do a lot of things. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Mark's a man of few words. I'll expand for myself. Just what do you think the Rigging committee or PIA can do about a perceived product problem that's the opinion of some? PIA has already spent well over $100,000 defended a lawsuit alleging putting a manufacturer out of business when PIA made a very specific effort to NOT take a position. As you know PIA has no authority over product approval or lack of performance to the appropriate TSO standard. PIA has no authority over rigger training or performance evaluatuon. PIA spent over $50,000 on reserve deployment performance testing for those companies that chose to participate. Not all did. What would you have PIA do? Say rig A is no good? At least one member believes everybody's rig but his is a 'death rig'. Every member has opinions, good and bad, anout every competitor's products. Educate riggers? We can only educate those that wish to be. The reality is I don't particularly expect any rig to work well subterminal back to the relatice wind. And no indication of poor choices by the user or rigger. So what would you have a very part time, volunteer organization of competitors with no authority and one part time employee do? I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

If you filled in your profile with a location we might be better able to help. There seemed to be a map with Saint Louis, Mo marked. If your near there PM user peek on here. Gary Peek, rigger, all round nice guy and USPA board member. Besides Chuting star I've acted as inspecting rigger. A lot of folks know me from running the speakers at the PIA Symposium for several years and as past Rigging committee chairman. Also DPRE. I've sent a rig to Jim Crouch, USPA Director of Safety and Training. He was the buyers rigger of choice and since I knew him and his position that was fine. Do NOT use the rigger the seller recommends unless it is a high profile person in the sport or industry. Might not exist. Chuting Star works well for folks that don't have a clue. Some sellers refuse to do this. If so find a different rig to buy. It's their choice not to send for inspection to a third party and it's your choice to buy something else. No matter what you need an experienced rigger/instructor to guide you as to what to purchase. Buy some beer and make friends with someone. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Ebay, any sewing machine dealer you find on google, Henserson, Keystone, Universal. You should already have a favorite one for needles and other parts. And to the OP if you can't install a servo motor you can't maintain an industrial sewing machine. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE