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  1. riggerpaul
    Ryan, There are many great harness container systems on the market (rigs), and each has pros and cons. If you'd like more info on the Icon Sport, please feel free to contact me at the office or visit our website http://www.flyaerodyne.com/fly/products/icon.asp Looking forward to hearing from you Blue Skies Karl Meyer Sales Representative Aerodyne Research Office: 1 813 891 6300 www.flyaerodyne.com www.myspace.com/flyaerodyne
  2. riggerpaul
    Conventional need not be about age. Regardless of its age, you cannot even put one of those UPT ripcords (with the marine eye) though the housing on MOST rigs, so how conventional could it be?
  3. riggerpaul
    Ummm... what about Booth's idea where he puts the reserve pin on the end of the RSL and then the reserve rip cord is just a pin-puller? Do they kink the reserve rip-cord in the same manner when its the RSL that activates the reserve? You are right! It doesn't kink the cable. But Rob's post said "conventional ripcord", and Booth's implementation is hardly that.
  4. riggerpaul
    First off, ditto what has been said regarding SOS systems. They came, they were found wanting, and they went (well mostly). But, as I recall, there was a time when the procedure being taught for an SOS was to pull enough to cutaway, wait to confirm that the main had left, and then to finish pulling the handle. Now, why someone would stop after the cutaway and not finish the Emergency Procedure, I can only guess. Maybe they were waiting for an RSL to save them. But the concept of delaying between the two different actions of the SOS was being *taught*. It didn't just get invented by the hapless jumper. So these events, though totally sad, were quite similar to the "cutaway and failed to deploy reserve" incidents that are still, inexplicably, part of the sport.
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    Are you saying that your DZ has no wind measuring equipment that you can read? At my home dz we have an electronic wind meter with the spinning cups thing on the roof and the display at the manifest desk. It displays the current wind speed and the highest gust. The gust number is manually reset when we think it needs it. Everybody can see the display whenever they want. If your DZ doesn't have one, maybe you can get them interested in getting one. (Of course, my home DZ is Bay Area Skydiving, Byron, CA, where we regularly experience significant winds. If your home dz doesn't have the wind problems that we have, it might not seem to them like they need such a system.)
  6. riggerpaul
    This link didn't work for me. I went to the BPA website and didn't see any way to search for the document. Please check the link or maybe just post the doc. Thanks! EDIT - Doh! I see now that I missed that the BPA main page has a link to the Forms page. My bad!