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But over all a good deal? Safe, would you jump with it? yes, perhaps not Cadillac but certainly Chevy. Not Yugo. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I think 120 cascaded into 12 risers cascaded into three attachments. http://parachutemanuals.tpub.com/TM-10-1670-280-23P/css/TM-10-1670-280-23P_22.htm I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

The story was that it was liberated from a desert somewhere and the lines just chopped and hacked to get it picked up. Have seen it out for 20 years but some lines were just a foot or two and some were almost full length. We cascaded some of the short ones, added a few longer pieces and got enough to inflate it. Just as it got off the ground the lines started going ting....., ting... ting ting ting and they kept braking until it deflated. So essentially it has bits and pieces but no complete lines. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

When we didninflate it we had it tied off to an 80' tree. And a tractor with a line to the apex so we could deflate it. We laid it out flat and had 8 or 9 people on adjacent radial seams. Just the light breeze with it FLAT almost tore it out of our hand, just flopping in the breeze. I may have to put 8 or so lines on it and go for a ride. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

You missed the part about not enough lines. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

100' diameter cargo canopy? Not enough lines it deploy at the moment. We did cascade enough line to inflate it tied off to a tree. It got just off the ground before lines started popping. Can't afford line to reline it. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Try Herbert Jaffe Inc 40-11 Skillman Ave Long Island City, NY 11104-9003 Phone: 718.392.1956 Fax: 718-393-2748 [email protected] They do Pfaff tackers. Maybe the 269s. MEL will chime in if he's around. It may just as cheap and easier to buy one already set up. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

(rant on) do people insist on calling used gear 'new'?! Latest example? 1993 original Sabre with 200 jumps (amazing how many 20 year old canopies have 'only 200 jumps') and title is "New Sabre..) You put it in a rig and put it in the air it IS NOT NEW! And something with 200 jumps is not even LIKE NEW either! "I only put 50 jumps on my brand new custom gear so I should be able to get more than I paid because it's available right now." NO you shouldn't! You might because some other newbie falls for it. Or some one is really desperate for a particular model and decides their 'market' price is higher. But you should not expect it. (rant off) I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Still has a hard shell. Polycarbonate. If you meant one hit and done any helmet with expanded rigid foam interior is like that. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Do you have an example of such a rock climbing helmet? A quick search only found one that eliminated the hard ABS or polycarbonite shell and was just the foam liner with the suspension system. Didn't find any with crushable outer layer and hard inner or middle layer. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/08/08/revolutionary-new-zero1-football-helmet-may-help-nfl-players-reduce-concussions.html I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

We don't say pay stupid high prices for used gear. I didn't try to sort through your calculation but a couple of points. Lifetime of a main is likely not 35 years. Not that a main might not be jumpable for advances in the sport make them undesirable. 35 years ago was a cruselite and a pegasus and a cirrus cloud. The Cirrus Cloud failed in the market and depreciated 80% in 4 years. And at that time lifetime of a main was about 700 jumps. Life time of a container isn't 25 years. While I jump containers that old or near to that old they are undesirable models no longer suitable for all types of skydiving. And I don't put hundreds of jumps a year on them anymore. Lifetime is limited by intensity of use and thus wear. But also again model obsolescence. And gear depreciation isn't linear. While it's still the current model and has the desirable features it holds more value. When the Sabre II came out the value of original Sabres nose dived. (just an example.) When we tell students to buy used we don't mean a 3 year old rig that somebody still loves, is attached to, just paid $7000 for and think they should get $7000 after 400 jumps because retail prices went up. We're talking the airworthy but not current model, older gear nearer the end of its life that gets you in the air and lets you learn with NO style or cool to the gear. I have a rig downstairs that I finally convinced the last owner to retire because it was getting tired, container and reserve. About 25 years old. But it had been passed from its original owner to a second owner when he wanted to upgrade and then to 4 or 5 newbies needing a first rig to someone wanting a beater third rig to me for rigger training. First two, held its value as appropriate. Then became less than half of new for newbies to start with. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Hey Mick, Still a fan and currently assembling a new old stock reflex for my second. Terry I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

This is NOT a new idea. I'm trying to remember the exact context and I'm not coming up with it right now. It may even date back to the round days. But I do remember the general iutcome and concensus was this was a bad idea that died quickly. For a lot of what was said above I wouldn't be the first one to try it. My guess is you don't know what us old farts mean when we say daisy chain. It's essentially a series of slip knots used to shorten and keep lines neat when picking up canopies, especially round canopies with 20' lines. As said above DO NOT DO THAT. My guess is that PD has data on doing this. It may even be from them that.I heard about this. And doesn't recommend it. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I think both you and Peter are giving this guy too much credit. Testing, thinking? Anyone who advocates skipping pin checks isn't doing either. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Oh but this so you don't HAVE to have a tight loop that is to inconvenient to pack. AND you don't have to worry AT ALL about moving in the airplane. Of course why even have a main when you won't use it most of the time? WAIT, put it on the reserve so you don't have to check that either! ( For those that don't understand sarcasim this is it.) And to the guy with 2000 jumps who wondered why all the responses were negative figure out which way a main bridle usually pulls, and pull a nirmal straight pull out pin and a normal curved throw out pin in that direction. Then stick a big add bolt through the loop to simulate this killer. Then maybe you'll get it. Thenthree piece hinged pin we thought it was is a better idea. Not much but some. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

It should include a hackey handle to install right next to it on the bridle so you have something to get hold of when you need to pull out the nail while the PC tows. NO Jerry, I'm not serious. I am serious someone needs to have a serious talk with this joker. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Ok, the picture on that web page ... Is it 3 of these pins randomly laying on top of each other, or does the pin have some kind of hinged something or other? Does anyone have a picture of ir installed on a bridle? I thought for awhile it one hinged also. But its three pins. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Okay, I expect this guy was born ten years after the curved pin was finally developed and saved us from bungee closing lops with bend of bridal, soft pins, straight pins, and every other version that killed folks. Including plated curved pins with the plating flaking off and rusty steel "9" pons. What about about the need for a curved pin on a throw out does he not get? Never mind, obviously he doesn't get much. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

You say at a regular rogging loft but not 'your' regular riggi g loft. I'd guess that 70% (wag) of the active riggers have been trained in 10 day course. They may be a rigger burlt really have a license to learn. I had an issue with loops being damaged during packing and having to open rig back up and replace. Took be awhile to find the problem. The edge of one of my closing aids had gotten rough/sharp without my noticing. As long as loop didn't touch that side all was good. If it did loop was damaged. While many rigger change loop every time, and I tend to, others don't. Knoe the skill level of your rigger and consciously decide who to use. Don't leave to the shop to assign it to a newby unkess that's okay with you. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

http://www.uk-skydiver.co.uk/cms/files/file/1458-swift-cirrus-orion-manualpdf/ Page 4. Length in relation to d lines. Make sure to use Swift Plus measurement. Your welcome. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Never understood taking them apart. Too much wasted time when the damn thing.can be in your mouth. And double stuff just screws with the perfect ratio. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

http://www.paragear.com/skydiving/10000115/L5118/ I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Well, the precision is likely to the minute and the foot. It can't be 0 minutes. Your not superman or a quark and be in every part of your house at once. (Physicists, to bother correcting me. He gets the idea.) I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

It worked pretty well on my desk top. Not quite field of view but you can spin it most directions. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE