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Hi gang here is a chance to help save some skydiving history! One guy took a huge risk and covered the cost to win the WHO wings & things on ebay in order to save them for the sport's history and museum, he is asking for a little help to cover this expense. Please see the attached msg and if you can help support the cause please do so.... THX! https://www.facebook.com/groups/28649069239/permalink/10152981182159240/ you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Not always, get fair amount of forward drive on a pc class canopy, add in a little wind from behind and you can cover a good amount of distance, even a T-10 can do it, its all about conditions and proper use of the gear and spotting. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

But not near as good as a round parachute, a round is sound, but a square will get you there. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I have one but my T-10 is packed in it at the time being, why can't you ask for shit during the winter when god intended for projects to be done.... you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Funny.... it's never the roadies out taking a bow and waving to the crowd... who's the star of the show, the guy out rolling and pimping the white walls on his P-51 and buzz job'n the E tower while blasting the other guy, don't get much more badass'er then that. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

You know that dude is a badass, his has white walls on his P-51 you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Well that is true, the law passed in the last session and it's a little known fact that slipped by many, the media hardly reported on it at all, because it was hidden in the ACA health care bill. Now not only are you forced to carry health insurance or get fined, you ,must carry floatation devices as well, yep even tandem's, so that you have more chance of a larger medical bill after they rescue you and force you to go the hospital. This really came about from that botched flying Elvis demo back in the late 80's where those guys were blown off course and landed in the harbor. I heard one of those guys mothers bother in law's sister's husband was a state representative who was elected to congress and pushed that in as a mandate to the ACA bill. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Yea no shit, ya think.... http://www.uspa.org/SIM.aspx you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Ok so I was reading on a skydiving centers FB page and a number of instructional peeps were talking about what to do if you end up with two canopies out and they are in a stable flying biplane and how they would train FJC's and students in continual education in regards of how to handle this. One of the leading instructors said, he believes teaching FJC's to cutaway. The reason being is it's too complicated for any wuffo student's to understand and act correctly in those events, there for KISS: Keep it simple stupid, have them cutaway from that because keeping it to one canopy only is the most simple thing to do. Personally I think that kind crack is whack. IDK maybe this is the newest & latest, greatest hot shit training advice in the industry and I need to stop my old dyno ways, get up to speed on these modern ways. Oh yea, I did a number of searches and can't find it, but if anyone knows the video, I believe it was Mike McGowan who shot it?, riding in a mess when the chopped main pulled the reserve closed and he landed in trees..... Bueller, Bueller, Buueeeellllller. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Not really you have to remember one major point, those are all very small cameras, hardly weight anything and besides that, they just sit there, I mean it's not like he is doing any real work to be distracted from. Also with them being so small, non distracting and mounted proper.... their not a snag hazard. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Love my singer 3115... you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

A fool and their money soon part ways.... I've said the very same thing a few times during vintage round jumps... only difference was I said it to the crowd watching, not the jumpers... My thoughts are: if you can't pack your own round to jump it, maybe you should not be jumping it. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

"Pack your own rig, you get out what you put in" - Byron Black Jump Hawaii Words to live by, been following that advice from the time I first heard him say that... he was my second dzo to hire me as a packer... while I was in 7th grade. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Matt, my reply was to such statements: Well no where in 105.45 do I read that says I MUST have a current class 3 medical or higher in order to comply with 105.45, iV or V say nothing about having a medical, subsection B make even more clear what is required to act as PIC, no where in there does it say hold a class 3 medical or higher. Also I fail to see in there where it states I must present any such medical to an FAA field inspector for their inspection on demand. Sounds like I could have passed a RWS course on a vector one and also a strong course on DHT in the early 90's and now as a non USPA member, at a NON uspa dz, I could in fact as a legal mfg rating holder having passed their course comply with both of those and not hold any damn medical nor any USPA bullshit mandates.... There is not a damn thing the USPA nor Strong or UPT could do about it. more so if I own the gear, and it's all legal! you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

My bad misread that paragraph. Regardless nothing wrong with flat packing, not my first choice in today's world, but nothing wrong with it, works for Strong TDM reserves. Who cares what the TI's like, it's about packing and if the DZO or head rigger cleared that method, then fuck what the TI's like or want done, they can do it (pack) if they like. Not your dz or your packing mat, nor your decision to make, you can always report violations of the FAR's to the FAA. FYI: we still call that stowing or setting the brakes in rigger lingo.(riggers use rigger lingo and not engineering and design lingo) It's kind of like inventing a new name for a tracking dive and calling by a new made up name, rather then what it is, a tracking dive. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Ok I'll bite.... Is this a local term you all use or is this new lingo in the packing mat world? Cuz I'll be damned if it's in the Poynters manual Volume 1 or volume 2, can't find it in Beckmons manuals as well. Do you even have a riggers ticket? What is wrong with a rigger who chooses to only flat pack tdm's? What is wrong teaching a class for 25 a head, when done by...... get this, a licensed FAA rigger! I mean after all the DZ mgr ok'd it, and it's their dz to run as they please, if you don't agree go open your own dz and run as you see fit too. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

That and if a rigger tells you, that the reserve you are jumping is too small for your fat ass, then listen to them or end up like my friend Jay, who did not heed such advice and rode a blown up reserve in to his death. I was jumping at a dz that Jay started to learn at, I was one of his instructors and one of his riggers. I was also selling gear at the time. Jay came to me and priced a bunch of shit, I kept on telling him NO, bad choice etc. Jay was loaded with cash, and like a lot of rich people he liked to throw his cash around having fun and spending to get new toys was not an issue for him. One day he shows up with all these new rigs, like three of them! He at one point talked to me about this gear he got, and the very rig he went in on! I flat out told him he was heavy for that reserve and he was overloading it beyond the TSO..... well you got the have the smallest and coolest fashions to parade around, cool over function was the rule of the day and well, now you know the rest of the story. RIP Jay. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

open to all you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

That is, (as you know) because there is no FAR language that states, demands, mandates or requires that a TI hold a valid class 3 or higher medical... FAR 105.45 is clear as to what it says. http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=69e17bead06f8e759487ecd9be2b368a&node=14:2.0.1.3.17.2.9.3&rgn=div8 you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Well that would cost money and we don't have extra money to pay for that shit, we have pay for the PR firm! you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

That is because those industries have the right kind of advocacy that get's them legal protections, USPA has a PR firm. With those others, it's a known assumed risk... yet for some reason you can't claim you didn't know hitting a tree skiing would kill you or leave you in chair for life... yet you can make that retarded claim with skydiving and get away with it, as the current laws are. Just so everyone understands, if you are a member of USPA and rated as an instructor by USPA< and you go to a non USPA dz and do instructional work, that is in clear violation of the USPA rules or BSR's or even FAA FAR's, they can still take your ratings, regardless of the fact the jumps were at a non GM DZ. You have to let your membership and ratings expire, then go make the jumps at a non gm dz, at that point there is nothing USPA can do to you for BSR violations, like taking your 16 yr old up for a first jump. Also they are asking USPA to require all dz's to name mfg's as third parties in the wavers. And the gear mfg's are now going to publish no one under 18 is allowed to use the gear... I wonder if that applies to bail out rigs too, like those that 14 yr old solo glider pilots wear. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Sounds like you need to make it a point to go find him and not only buy the guy lunch and a cold beer, but hell give him ride in the plane a free jump if wants one, and end of the day extend that hand and tell him stop by anytime and visit. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Yea pretty fucking stupid that the FAA say's it's legal for your 14 yr old to solo a sail plane.... and or become licensed for that type/class... but you can't let um jump out for sport cuz USPA says so. Totally legal for said 14 to go out and do aerobatics in that sail plane at 14, have the wing fall off, be forced to bail out and that is all cool with the FAA, in fact the FAA mandates he must wear said parachute.... so it's only cool to save yer ass, but don't you dare do that for fun! I started @ 16 FYI. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

The whole story is true, I was there and saw him blow up the canopy on deployment. I was also there for most of the rest of the story. Kim I think it is best to let it rest and just be happy in knowing the truth, after all these years and after all the BS that has gone down in regards to why many things took place there, and people leaving etc. See we were not all crazy after all.... you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo