JeepDiver

The point would be to correct any inaccurately reported information if, it is in fact inaccurate. I was hoping Lee's killer/killers would have been arrested by now. What I heard the 2nd day has not proved to be the case, nor what I heard the 5th day. It has now been well over a week into it. There is an ongoing murder investigation. I want that person or persons found and brought to justice to stand trial. If that can't be talked about here, where can it be talked about? As I see it Lee traveled quite frequently between Georgia and Florida, used the computer often to communicate with people from all over the world. Interested Law enforcement would include; The Sheriff departments of 2 FL counties. The FDLE, FDLE computer crimes division. The FBI, due to the interstate nature of Lee's activities. The Georgia State Police. The point of my post, I want Lee's killer/or killers brought to justice. Bashing a junior student life reporter and threating people to come/or not come to the Farm does nothing to reflect positively of skydivers as a group.

Lee's home was searched? "Investigators got a warrant to search his Tallahassee home, Hobbs said." http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071212/NEWS01/712120319/1010

A sliding scale could be created based on a poll DZ.com users take where ones coolness or pansy factor is debated upon. However showing ones interest in the results of such a poll would count against the coolness of such at issue. Results however may still be subjective in nature and there will a plus or minus factor of 5 points. You make this sound so complicated and advanced. Clearly you're a pansy. Perhaps but since I care so little I am actually quite cool.

A sliding scale could be created based on a poll DZ.com users take where ones coolness or pansy factor is debated upon. However showing ones interest in the results of such a poll would count against the coolness of such at issue. Results however may still be subjective in nature and there will a plus or minus factor of 5 points.

No helicopter...?

I do not know what the deal is with this operation? http://www.parachutesovermiami.com/directions.html

Jump it and see what happens. Let us know when you do.

Great video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGHfWPsmsJE

SDM's Caravan doesn't have a Traffic Collision Avoidance System. As I read the story Southwest Airline flight 3660 was at 17,000 when a warning bell sounded. Big deal. The Southwest Airline pilot never indicated the planes were close to a collision. SDMiami is the most stringent DZ I have ever been at. It is a very well run operation... for a tandem factory.

I heard the news earlier today. I am behind a firewall at work. I simply thought it couldn't be true or it was wrong. Terrible news, I remember drinking beer with Lee in some bar in Rockmart talking about friends we both knew in Deland. This is terrible news. I've yet to read any of this 'cept page one. I do not have any words.

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 - 1965)

Years ago I almost killed myself in a weather related accident. A few years later I got in the back of an airplane with someone I trusted and they almost killed me. I almost learned the hard way. That was the basis of my post in the original incident thread. If your going to travel in small aircraft trusting the pilot is probably not enough and you better know and understand what get-home-itis is.. I was talking to a young couple a few weeks back. BF had just got his private pilots license. They flew into a DZ in a rental 172. Had never flown the route. Sunday dragged into Sunday evening, they were flying back over the mountains, at night as it turned out, after a long skydiving weekend. At least weather conditions were clear & warm. I said it wasn't the smartest thing to do.... just to make it home. Monday morning would have been better but all the reasons applied why that was problematic. Sunday morning would have been ideal but they let the day get away from them. Tough call for them but it does increase the risk factor. Get-home-itis is a decision people sometimes feel they are forced to make, and not always a wise choice.

I'm thinking it may have been Lynx, which had to shell out of DOS to operate.

This month. I have to watch that scene again sometime.... for the 100th time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa3r60VQhvk

I first got online back in 1989 using Prodigy I recall. I don't recall the browser, it was not a Windows operating system software program. I believe the software program was developed in Canada for DOS although I don't recall the name now. It was not a part of the Prodigy program.

Also time of flight. Flying home the following morning vs the latter part of the day.

and binaries.

This is how I always think to do it since my 1st AFF. Personally I dislike doing this. I need both of my hands on my handles as a rule. This rule was reinforced in me when I watched a jumper never find the silver handle, have the cypress fire at 700, and land in a clump of trees hard. I helped lift her into the ambulance on a backboard. It's odd to see a cutaway, no reserve deploy and then off in the distance at near tree top level see a reserve deploy. Be careful.

I spun mine up at 1900. I had to chop the mess I created at 1300. Be prepared to execute your EP's at your hard deck.

When I chopped my main I looked and grabbed both handles. Pulled the cutaway and the reserve was out so fast I saw no need to deploy the reserve handle. I did however intend to wait a moment to see what was happening with the main after cutaway. I didn't attempt to pull one and then the other in rapid succession... so I stowed my cutaway handle down the front of my jumpsuit to free up my right hand. Then noticed my toggles were red. I believe I may have uttered profanities just before all that happened though.

My canopy is large. I doubt there is more excess brake line than I have to deal with. This is how I stow my excess line as detailed in a post awhile back when I was at the Farm. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2818876;#2818876 I'd like to hear someone from UPT chime in as to the force needed to bend the toggle pin. I understand the shock forces of deployment would be applied 1st to the brake line/toggle/guide ring/fabric keeper for the tip of the toggle, and not to the pin itself. I looked at the manual online. http://www.unitedparachutetechnologies.com/PDF/Support/Manual/09354(V3_Manual).pdf Personally I never liked the idea of stowing the brake line with the pin. I must have discarded that idea when I started using my system due to the amount of excess line I had to deal with and it seemed to me at the time to be problematic for me..

I'd have to agree with Dave also. I've never had a problem with mine in nearly 400 jumps. In fact before the pin was to bend, since it (the pin) acts as a secondary to of the toggle being stowed in the keeper itself I'd like to see how you're stowing your toggles, excess brake line using the pin, with the line keepers on the reverse side of the risers, etc. or how your brakes were stowed before the jump in question. My question is with the pin bending if the tip of the toggle is properly stowed in the first place the fabric would have had to have been damaged if not properly anchored in the first place since the pin is a secondary anchor point only. Without checking so I may be unsure. I do not believe that the pin is used or recommended per the owners manual to stow excess brake line.

The guy who got Tasered deserved it. Most intelligent ppl would say yes sir, thank you, drive away and bitch under their breath about getting a speeding ticket. The Utah state police should send him a Darwin award in a nice frame. Hopefully the kid in the car with him doesn't grow up to be as stupid as the father clearly is.

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