councilman24

I think your going to have trouble meeting the DOM. I've got the parts to put together a direct bag 35' static line rig with 35' T-10 and T10r reserve but I don't think anything i that new (1994). By then the army was demilling everything. I don't think I've ever seen a complete mirps reserve in civilian hands. Of course most of my skydiving gear is older than that.

I'm not involved this year but I expect they will post it when they have it. It is VERY hard to juggle everyone's travel schedule, try to avoid conflicts (two aad seminars against each other) etc. And changes come in daily until next thursday. I know some big conferences post the schedule months to a year in advance. We've never been able to get that hard core with skydivers and manage to get it very early..

Better have contengency plan. I wouldn't expect any delivery from a manufacturer to be precise to the day. And one snow storm can delay shipping by that much. If you have it AND you rigger can get it put together your damn lucky. Also the PIA symposium, I think the USPA board meeting are the first week in Feb. Randy and his wife who's name I don't remember will be gone. Cliff's likely in Florida or PIA. And other riggers may likely be gone. There very well may be nobody to put it together even if it shows up on the first. Cutting it way to close. Check NOW if your rigger or any rigger will be in town. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I owned one of the original prototype SSTs. Had a 1400' reserve total, with ripcord extracted. Decided to clear and open at 300' at terminal. Part of the reason I became my own rigger I packed lots of Racers on the 80's, all with round reserves. Then Javelins, Vectors, and other one pin rigs came to market and killed the market share for the two pin Racer. Ram sir and reserve one pin rig kind of went together for new buys. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Found a deal. I'm not selling them but there is an ad for Bernina 217n on facebook group sewing with industrial machines. https://www.facebook.com/groups/393364310851014/permalink/974327739421332/?sale_post_id=974327739421332 Ad says 217 but photo I got of back confirms 217n. She has 3. $750 firm which is reasonable/cheap. Prescott AZ. No cam reader but global in Europe is making copy and may sell you a cam reader. Large cams. A friend had 308 cams made last winter and is going to do some more. If someone near Prescott could pick.one up and store it for awhile I might buy another. Just found she has both 217 and 217n. Make sure what you want and what you buy. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

But no picture of the poop! Had to go google it. https://goo.gl/images/Yc4CFe I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Just google the manual online and read it. To save you the trouble needle size 19 to 22, F thread maybe double FF at most. So no, not 3 cord or harness work. 3 cord's going to take beyond a lot heavier machine. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

You got all the report your going to get. We didn't FIND a rig issue. But rigs were tested with appropriate sized reserves. Not over stuffed. And three major US manufacturers did not participate for various reasons. Sunrise, Rigging Innovations and Parachute Laps (Jump Shack). RI didn't have their new rig ready and didn't want to test the old one, to the best of my knowledge Sunrise didn't respond to offer to participate and and I was told Jump Shack wouldn't agree to condition not to use data for advertising. Non US FAA TSO'd rigs weren't invited in first (and likely last) round. People expect too much of PIA. PIA is an industry association of competitors. PIA has NO full time staff. PIA's only sources of funds are dues, sales of PIA-SPEC documents which replaced MIL-SPECs for parachute items in 1998, and symposium profits that to date have been earmarked for the 'museum'. PIA spent a significant portion of it's funds on defending a frivolous lawsuit in Europe. We (I'm a full member) spent $50,000 on the study in the report. ALL of the work of PIA aside from some clerical work is done by member volunteers. There is no report from the data requested in the advisory because we received almost NO information from the field. For the first time the live jump study gave the public real pilot chute and extraction force data behind a live skydiver in the air. While a few companies had done that kind of testing and others had done research wind tunnel testing all of that data was for their own use and proprietary. If someone wants to donate a few million dollars to test all combinations of rigs and reserves, overstuffed or not, bought off the shelf instead of donated, etc. let me know and PIA can write a RFP for someone to run it. And just like USPA PIA has NO legal power to make anybody do anything. BTW the majority of members of PIA don't make parachutes, harness and containers, jump or otherwise have ANYTHING to do with skydiving other than selling thread, hardware, or material to the companies that do. Various committees and individual members of PIA lobbied AAD manufacturers, particularly Helmut, to raise their minimum. It took 10+ years of lobbying (arguing, I did some personally) for AirTec to make activation altitude user adjustable. There are those of us that are willing to get out a 2000' with gear that isn't constricted and might still choose 750'. Helmut's (owner of AirTec) comment was often (paraphrased) 'if something is wrong it's because the gear changed. The gear manufacturer's should fix the gear, not force me to change my product.' If you don't like what PIA does join and volunteer. Otherwise be grateful there are manufacturing specs for fabric, hardware, and other materials going into you parachute rig, the FAA isn't writing the TSO specs themselves, and there is somewhere to go to see equipment and learn from other industry members. Rant off I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I think that's the chart I quoted. What the best way to think of that chart is whether or not you should put that chemical in a bottle made of nylon. And that's compatibility with the nylon polymer itself. Once you had dyes finishes zp coatings and other environmental contaminants all bets are off. During the acid mesh issue in the 80s I found one canopy that had two white panels next to one piece of mesh in a modification. One white piece of material was completely degraded to 2 pounds of strength and the other piece of white material that had seen the exact same conditions and the exact same acid mesh since they were sewn together was full strength. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Potassium Chlorate an nylon compatibility The orange dye who knows but it's used to dye all sorts of plastic. Nylon wasn't listed in the references I looked at. But who knows about the combustion products. Your a test dummy. Let US know what happens. I'd pull test the canopy routinely. If it's a high value canopy you might want the panels replaced. If the harness is ringed I'd replace the webbing contaminated. But I'm the picky rigger. If I had to guess, and that's all it is even though I am a chemist, it probably would be okay. But it may depended on what other agents it's exposed to. The acid mesh issue from the 80's was NOT just the fire retardant. There was some other factor to do with the nylon that made it susceptible. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

No matter what the final decision is about this rig this sentence needs to be banned from your mind. If it's to small, too old, doesn't fit, etc. etc. you pass it up. "I can deal with a (enter reserve size too small)", "I'll be good with this canopy in a 30 or 40 jumps, I can survive that." The harness is a little small/big but it'll be okay." NO price is to good to pass up. And this isn't any different than anything else. WHY is the price so good? I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

In my basement and in my customers rigs (not my idea). Mine are all intact, not mains. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

WHY in the world did you ask for a slider in a 16 year old thread about rigging knowledge? I'm kinda glad they're ignoring you and answering the 16 year old question. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

It didn't say if he was clipping one to his riser or dropping a 20x30 with 40lbs. My advice stands not knowing what he wants to do. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Do not trust a plastic buckle and do not trust a coil zipper if your suspending with a weight. You can get away with it until you don't. Get with someone who you know has experience building freefall suitable accessory containers. Don't take advice from me or anyone else you don't know over the internet. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

He was trying to get his canopy to light up like a light bulb. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

My gold standard? Gypsy Moths. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Helped him out.

DACRON!!! Might save your neck of aorta. BTW spectra being slick is a good thing. I believe it mostly eliminated dacron tension knots. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

There is only one or two impact rated helmets suitable for skydiving. We've never cared. A Protec is better than the carbon fiber stuff because it has some give and won't break into knife edge pieces. Some Protecs have a snaps along the top of the forhead. Kroop goggles are easily pulled forward and hooked on the snap. For those without a snap I put a pop rivet in the middle above the forehead and snap the goggles on that. Been doing it for 37 years. Still haven't found anything I like better. For better padding there is a pad set available from https://www.oregonaero.com/helmet-upgrades/pro-tec-helmet-upgrade-kit. I usually put matching color duct tape over the ear openings to make it a little quieter. I make small spandex pouches that velcro around the ear pad to hold audibles. I'm not kewl but it works for me. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Got it. Thanks. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Okay, I have two, I can't find them, Strong pulled it from their website, UK skydiver doesn't have any strong manuals right now and I can't find it on my recovered data from my dead lap top. Can someone send me the Strong Aerosport manual? I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

They vary in both length and design by make, model and age. Correct answers could 8 to 18 inches. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Oh, for chrissake! I didn't know she was part of the Amway scam-family. Wait, is all of this connected to Meiers? Please say no, I really like Meijers. They're expensive but a nice alternative now and then, especially since the closest one to us is about sixty miles. There's one right next to the airport in Lancaster and when the winds were right we'd be in freefall right over them. Then at the end of a winter's day of jumping I'd go over to their food tables area and have a cup of coffee and donut as I warmed up under where we'd been jumping. No Fred was a good guy from what I know. Just happened to be in the same town as Amway and the Amway Grand Hotel downtown. Fred has the Fredrick Meijer Botanical Gardens with a very large statuary collection outside and exceptional gardens both in and outdoor. He had a second Michalangelo's horse actually cast. I thought the story was he funded both and had to do two. One for him in the gardens and on for Italy (Milan.) The American Horse The American Horse at the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The second full-size cast of Nina Akamu's design became known as The American Horse, which was commissioned by philanthropist Frederik Meijer and was placed at the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, a botanical garden and sculpture park in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 7, 1999.[8] I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Mine are called Fred Meyers; and they are now part of Kroger. And yes, best move ever. Jerry Baumchen Interesting that the major mid west regional competitor for Walmart is Meijer's (pronounced Meyer), started by Fred Meijer in Grand Rapids. Also a major philanthropist. Or course I throw up a little in my mouth when I have to go to the Van Andel Arena or the Devos Hall in Grand Rapids, being those two namesakes started Amway. And yes it's that Betsy Devos. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE