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  1. Driver1
    I'm not asking that question to challenge anyone for doing that, it's just that of the landings I've seen, they appear to be harder landings than standing them up, so with my knowledge of physics, and my limited knowledge of the human anatomy and after showing a video to my chiropractor who's response was "Ouch, that had to hurt", It's just a question I felt needed to be brought up. And you're right, I don't have the tandem rating yet, Plan to, but way back when I was a tandem student, My instructor found it unacceptable to butt land. Who's right? There will be no addressing the customers as "Bitches", "Morons" or "Retards"!
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    I have a question about Tandems. Why is it that I am seeing more and more Tandem instructors do Butt landings. I recently overheard a Tandem Instructor doing the pre-jump training and what caught my attention to what he was teaching. He told the students that it is safer to land on your butt instead of standing it up. What is missing from this practice is the fact that butt landing is much harder on the spine and pelvic areas, and it only takes one landing on a small rock to permanently disable a customer and/or the Tandem Instructor. Later when there were no customers around, I asked the TI about it. He said that it keeps from breaking legs. All I can say about that is that Legs heal and the person can lead a normal life, Backs don't do so well. All this being said, what about a tail-bone strike? There will be no addressing the customers as "Bitches", "Morons" or "Retards"!
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    The only DZ that will take kids that I know of is those guys over at the Russellville, Kentucky Airport. I don't know much about them, but I took my kid over there last year and had a lot of fun. The last I heard they were having some kind of problem with their airplane. A guy that I know in Alabama told me that they are scheduled to get going like the first week of Sept. I live in Mississippi and don't get around much, but the only other one that I've heard of is I believe, in Oregon, or Nevada or something like that. Hope that helps. There will be no addressing the customers as "Bitches", "Morons" or "Retards"!