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I was sitting on a runway with a trauma patient waiting for a takeoff clearance so I could fly from Wyoming to Salt Lake City. The controller had us holding for quite a while so we asked if a VFR departure would speed the process. He finally told us to taxi back to the ramp and added that we should go inside and turn on a TV. We watched the second plane hit in the FBO in Casper, then rented a car and drove home.

I must be doing it backwards. After my PD canopy put me in the ER with broken ribs and a hemothorax I took some time off and returned to the sky with a Precision that opens much more consistently. I'm starting to think that individual canopies have their own personality. I was at a dropzone a few months back that had two jumpers both with more than 1000 jumps on Stiletto canopies. One had zero problems with his, the other had something along the lines of a dozen cutaways or hard openings. Both used the same packer and both were very experienced.

I think dynamo hum has the same effect, but for a true WTF experience Mojo Nixon's Tie my pecker to my leg seems to drop more jaws.

Thank you sir!

It's a Precision canopy and I'm hooking it up to a Velocity Sports container. The Precision manual says absolutely nothing about attaching a pilot chute other than saying it should be a kill-line chute. The Cazer manual (for the pilot chute) shows direct attachment to the metal ring on the pilot chute attachment point of the canopy, which does not exist in this case. The Infinity manual gives sizing information and lists the Cazer as original and therefore appropriate replacement equipment. Ultimately I guess I was just wondering if fabric against fabric was a bad idea or not as bad as another piece of metal in the bag.

I just got a new canopy and am hooking it up myself before it goes to the rigger to get checked over. I psycho pack with a bridle extension and the new canopy does not have a metal ring to attach the extension to, just a cloth loop. I am wondering if I should just attach the extension to the pilot chute attachment point itself (cloth to cloth) or put in a rapide link. There is already a rapide link where the extension attaches to the bridle itself, in addition to the one in the bag for the kill line. Thanks in advance for any advice.

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I've had my first two reserve rides in the last year, both on Micro Raven 150 reserves loaded at 1.3:1. Both were easy standup landings, but I pull high and made the decision to chop above 2000' in both instances leaving me ample time to fly a normal pattern with traffic and do multiple practice flares on both canopies. Two things I noticed: The Micro Raven's reputation for an early stall was not the case on either of the two I rode, I could easily flare to hip height without the canopy starting to deform even at 90 degrees and 5000', and The toggles on both canopies (both in Infinity rigs) were more difficult to access with gloves than I had anticipated, particularly on the first system. I believe there is more than one way for a rigger to stow the toggles on a reserve setup, and the latter was much better. I have heard from multiple sources that the flare on a PD standard or Optimum reserve are much better than on the older Ravens so I could only imagine that would have made things even easier.

If you're learning to jump via a static line progression (particularly a direct bag setup) you can almost count on having line twists more often than not. I've watched hundreds of students get line twists on static lines and not a single cutaway. Line twists generally aren't an issue on anything appropriate for students.

The PT-6 like most turbines require airflow for cooling. If you were to start one with the prop brake engaged you would lose accelerated air from the propeller, the power turbine not spinning would interrupt outflow, and the higher internal pressure would lead to a higher temperature. If the battery were good and everything else was perfect it would probably be fine, but excessively cold or hot temps along with a forgotten brake and a worn battery are the recipe for turbine blade stew.

I'll throw my hat in for not worth it. One malfunction that shuts something down and sends one in will hurt or kill more people than will die walking into a prop. Add in the money for installation and maintenance, and figure that at least one idiot pilot will hot start with the brake engaged and the whole proposition becomes a bigger pain in dthe ass than its worth.

With it's land-o-matic landing gear, omni-vision, high wing design, and para-lift flaps, it's the best thing since the automated toaster. But don't take my word for it: http://youtu.be/THV0VZPvYnc

You were in Eloy for the Brazilian 150 way attempts?

It looked to me like you got dangerously close.. ...to Cahokia!

I heard that police were combing over the area, and then planned to look for the suspects.

I recently had to take a King Air up unpressurized for a maintenance flight to check the Cabin Altitude light and a few other systems. Boredom got the best of me, so I wore my Viso II on my wrist for the ride up. We took off from 3200msl and climbed to 10000msl to check the light. My Viso read 6800 even at 10k, so if the King Air pitot static system is accurate, my Viso is as well. I realize this isn't all that scientific, but it's something.

Mile High in Longmont, CO had me step on a scale and asked about my main last time I went there to jump.

I "heard" it was meant as, Anytime, Anywhere, Anyplace. But, cannot verify. Sounds like an ex of mine. Is she your ex because the fourth A was anyone?

They should learn to sleep in the cockpit like the rest of us.

Fuckin-a this instrument stuff is difficult. Where's that dunce cap at these days? Once you've embraced IFR flying VFR will seem difficult and foolish. It's a lot easier than it's made out to be during training, just think of everything as a simple to do list.

In his autobiography "Fate is the Hunter", pilot Earnest K. Gann wrote about flying a DC-3 in which a heavy cargo of steel piping slid aft on take off. As he struggled with the stalling airplane, one of the crewmembers went back and starting hucking the pipes forward, one at a time. They avoided a fiery crash by the narrowest of margins. It's a good book, but I think that story and the one where they use flaps at the last possible second to avoid collision with the Taj Mahal might be a bit exaggerated. I used to fly freight for a tiny company in eastern South Dakota. We would frequently get flights from Denver to either Brownsville, TX or Florence, SC to take haul pallets of airbag igniters to Saturn assembly plants. I was racing another Metro loading to see who could get out of Centennial first. Metros have the wheeled roller tracks that run the length of the fuselage, so you can forklift pallets in, scoot them up to the from, and tie them in place with ratchet straps. I carefully tied mine down and the other gentleman hurried and was taxiing before I was. I watched him depart at max gross weight, the nose came flying up, they closed the runway as he declared emergency, and then watched him land so hard that he bent both landing gear and split the trailing edge of the wings, leaking roughly 600 gallons onto the fancy FBO ramp. He had failed to secure the pallets trying to beat me to the runway, and they all rolled back on takeoff. When I talked to him later he said it took full power, full down elevator and full down trim and riding the stick pusher all the way around to land.

I travel a lot for work, and try to jump in as many different places as possible. Many smaller Cessna dropzones don't care where you land or how you set up, as long as you don't hit anyone else. I love Eloy, planning that if the first jumper down takes it downwind then I have to keeps me on my toes and reinforces good canopy choices knowing that crosswind and downwind are likely on most jumps. Mile Hi is excellent in that you always set up to land into the wind, which is helpful at a dropzone that high and with that much wind. Either way, as long as the jumpers listen to and follow the rules it works. The real problem is when one person doesn't want to deal with the rules, and screws it up for everyone.

In that case replace "dances" with "bounces"

Maybe she was raised with strong morals but has chosen to abandon them, she is sensitive to detergents making fishnet the hypoallergenic choice, and respects herself to some degree. It wouldn't be fair to rush to judgement without pictures, or meeting her in person at the club she dances for

I just got done reading the Pacific City Beach Boogie thread, and I think it's fairly obvious to anyone with any intelligence whatsoever that superjim got too close to the dropzone's chemtrail conspiracy participation and had to be eliminated. What they didn't count on was his average pull height, nor did they plan well considering that he would likely float in the ocean.