PIA - If you're there - What's new?

[IanHarrop 42]

Please if you're there, start letting the rest of us in on what's new and interesting.

We're waiting....

Edit to add: Hey Mods!!! You should make this a sticky!

I somehow doubt this will work but its worth trying

"Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

[councilman24 37]

Exhibits don't open until 3:00 pm PST Monday.

You've got awhile to wait.

Other than the inside scoop I have.

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

[slotperfect 7]

They actually cleared the schedule during the Riggers Forum so there are no more conflists with technical seminars - THAT is new, and excellent!

Arrive Safely

John

[DSE 5]

I've been asked to shoot some interviews of what's new. I'll be posting that at night on youtube, with keywords of PIA, skydiving, etc.
Should have the first one up by 9 p.m. tomorrow.

[councilman24 37]

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They actually cleared the schedule during the Riggers Forum so there are no more conflists with technical seminars - THAT is new, and excellent!

Yeah, because of me. I bitched about it 4 weeks ago but we finally resolved it on Friday.

But the one scoop I do have is that Booth is showing a suspension line reserve ripcord. Haven't seen the installation but have handled the ripcord itself. Jury's out until I see the full system later today.

See the PIA rigger forum [/url]www.pia.com[url] for information on a new FCI manual that ban's clamps.

Information on 180 day and 65.111 will be discusses on Thursday at the rigger forum, if I have a voice. Been sick all week.

I'll be hanging around registration later this morning.

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

[skydiverek 63]

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But the one scoop I do have is that Booth is showing a suspension line reserve ripcord.

He was showing it 2 years ago, too.

[piisfish 140]

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But the one scoop I do have is that Booth is showing a suspension line reserve ripcord. Haven't seen the installation but have handled the ripcord itself.

does that mean there is actually no cable, but a line instead ?

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[CrazyL 0]

See the PIA rigger forum www.pia.com for information on a new FCI manual that ban's clamps.
I tried to no avail. Is this info on the PIA site?

[icevideot 0]

http://riggers.pia.com/tool/post/riggers/vpost?id=1669509

You can try this link. It was a little hard to find. I had to enter the forum and then it is under the Urgent News heading.

I hope this helps. There is some other neat stuff on there but navigating took a while to get used to.

"... this ain't a Nerf world."

[skydiverek 63]

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But the one scoop I do have is that Booth is showing a suspension line reserve ripcord. Haven't seen the installation but have handled the ripcord itself.

does that mean there is actually no cable, but a line instead ?

Correct. It was displayed by RWS at the 2005 PIA Symposium. I had it in my hands then. 1000 lbs Spectra line, I believe.

Check my post from Jan 29, 2005
http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1458216#1458216

Actually, read from the quoted post DOWN, for more info.

[jimmytavino 16]

how do you feed it through the housing????

.... Is there still a pin at the end????

just wondering

jmy

[skydiverek 63]

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how do you feed it through the housing????

.... Is there still a pin at the end????

just wondering

jmy

Bill Booth in 2005:

"My new Spectra ripcord is "stiff" enough to thread easily through our stainless housing with no tools. It is only about 14" long, and with no pin on the end."

[DougH 270]

That sounds cool, less chance of getting it knocked out while moving around in the plane.

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[kingbunky 3]

that does sound interesting, but to paraphrase bill booth, isn't that 'an elegant solution to a problem that doesn't exist'? what precisely is the problem with the steel cable that the nylon one solves?

"Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart."
MB4252 TDS699
killing threads since 2001

[slotperfect 7]

DSE is posting daily links to the video interviews he is conducting here in Reno:

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2655245;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;

Arrive Safely

John

[DSE 5]

I'll have the BillBooth interview showing the "bungee" reserve cord, magnetic riser covers, etc., up in a short time. Editing it now.

[sundevil777 102]

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That sounds cool, less chance of getting it knocked out while moving around in the plane.

I don't see how that would change, if there is still a handle at one end, and a pin at the other.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[DougH 270]

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I don't see how that would change, if there is still a handle at one end, and a pin at the other.

From above: "and with no pin on the end".

Wouldn't a flexible supple line, instead of a stiff pin, seems like it would be less likely to be pushed out when it is pressed against an airplane bulkhead?

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[sundevil777 102]

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I don't see how that would change, if there is still a handle at one end, and a pin at the other.

From above: "and with no pin on the end".

Wouldn't a flexible supple line, instead of a stiff pin, seems like it would be less likely to be pushed out when it is pressed against an airplane bulkhead?

Right, I was reading that to mean no swage ball/pin at the handle end.

Of course everyone would like to know how the mechanism works. A line would have to be as stiff as a pin to function as a replacement with the rest of the existing system.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[councilman24 37]

Everything with a skyhook as the separate pin. The line ripcord just has a loop in each end. One larks heads around the reserve handle and the other has the pin from the RSL put through it. Take the place of the marine fitting on the end of the cable. So still a metal pin.

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

[sundevil777 102]

What is the advantage?

Without such a description of the benefits, then it looks as someone else said, as a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[pilotdave 0]

Bill Booth's explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J_zE3eFdw

Dave

[sundevil777 102]

Thanks!

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[Unstable 9]

Wow - "A solution to a nonexistent problem" doesn't quite fit the case then Bill Booth is shooting for excellence.

=========Shaun ==========

[ianmdrennan 2]

Stronger, less pull force and cheaper.

Sounds like a good reason to change to me.

And I really found the video on the riser covers interesting.

Blues,
Ian

Performance Designs Factory Team