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Am I the only one excited for this film? I know it won't be loyal to the TV show, but shit, with Michael Mann at the helm, it's gotta be good! I heard, and this is only rumour, that there's a gunfight to rival the one in "Heat" http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/miamivice/hd/ [ There's the trailer, in high def cavete terrae.

Wingload was 1.15 Yeah, I'm going to weigh all my options. I absolutely loved the canopy, and in fact just finished billvon's downsize checklist on Saturday, so I had planned on moving to a 190. If they'll give me a discount on one (or sponsor me since I praise the canopy so much? ), great. If not, I'll have to buy something used in that class, Pilot, Safire2, whatever. Not a lot of used Fusions out there. cavete terrae.

I cannot ethically want Italy to win. Thus I must want France to win. cavete terrae.

Precision Aerodynamics Fusion 210. Canopy was "precision packed" or psycho packed, with bridle extension. Total of approximately 175 jumps on the canopy. Was on a freefly jump, went flat at 4,500, pitched the PC as I went through 3,000. Heard a *BANG*, bounced my head off my chest, saw stars for a second. Looked up, slider was maybe a metre down from the canopy. Right side of the slider was tangled in broken lines, and one of the right cells was blown up. Decided to do a controllability check just for shits and giggles. Pumped the rear risers to try and get the slider to come down, and at that point I noticed the canopy's right side was rippling in the breeze, and it started a spin and dive. I punched the cutaway handle, then punched reserve, and landed safely. After recovery of the freebag and canopy (Thanks, Stump!), I untangled the lines and took a look. Six attachment points were torn clean off of the canopy, one line broke lower down, and of course the aforementioned cell was torn up on the bottomskin, and there's a tear in the right stabiliser. So, what causes this sort of thing, and what do I do now? I'll post pics tomorrow. cavete terrae.

Precision Aerodynamics Fusion 210, about 170 jumps on it. So, the part about it being Nate's "old" canopy was a joke? He sold it to you practically new? Unless you did something grossly wrong to cause this, it sounds like this is a manufacturer issue. Yeah, it was pretty much new. I'll be contacting Precision on Wednesday to send it to them, and have 'em take a look at it. cavete terrae.

Precision Aerodynamics Fusion 210, about 170 jumps on it. cavete terrae.

Yeah, your old baby :) I was freeflying with one of my old instructors, went flat around 4,500 feet, pulled at 3,000.... WHAM. Realised I couldn't possibly land it, chopped it.. then realised how badly my neck hurt cavete terrae.

What caused it? Not sure. I'd normally say overspeed, but I mean, I went flat 1,500' before I pulled. It wasn't the slider or anything, because the slider never even got anywhere near all the way down, it tangled in the broken lines about 1 metre down from the bottom skin. I had just enough time to look at it, notice all the broken lines, and go "Wow, I can't believe it's even flyi-..." before it had the same thought and went into a spinning dive. cavete terrae.

Yup, Nate's old one. cavete terrae.

P.S., "Sketti" says hi! cavete terrae.

0:10:2 1 182 jump 9 Mullins King Air jumps First rear riser landing First completely destroyed canopy. 6 lines torn off of the canopy itself, one cell blown up, 1 stabiliser torn, 1 sore back, 1 REALLY sore neck, 1 grue on the ground for the next several months while he saves for a new canopy. So, how was YOUR weekend? cavete terrae.

Probably... but I'd just woken up cavete terrae.

How many millions of rides go just fine on those? I'd say 3 deaths in 2 years out of millions of people is pretty frickin' mild. And I'd bet that somewhere on their admission pass is something regarding liability. If people don't want to take chances, they don't need to. Nobody put a gun to that kid's head and said "Listen, punk, you're going to Disneyworld, and you're going to get on that god damned ride" Some people live, some people die. I've got money on a congenital birth defect that never would have shown up on any questionnaire anyway. Sucks for the family, but that's just how life is. If he had died on the drive there, would you be calling for no children in cars? Shutting down roller coasters that millions of people enjoy safely over a statistically insignificant death would be asinine. If people think they're too dangerous, they just won't go. Having the government shut them down would be a massive misuse of government power, like 99% of the things they do. Poorly thought out knee jerk reactions help absolutely nobody. Look at the FCC for a fantastic example of this. ***EDIT*** I had -just- woken up when I posted this, I thought he was serious. Letting the post stand as a retort to people who actually think like that. cavete terrae.

I think the furthest I've gone without one is 200 yards or so.... in the front seat. In the back seat, I dunno why, but I rarely put them on. But since I barely ever trust other people to drive me, that means about 0.00001% of the time I'm not wearing a belt That having been said, as a libertarian I am totally against seat belt laws, but I do not feel that insurance companies should have to pay your medical bills if you don't wear one. cavete terrae.

Ninjas. Everyone needs more ninjas. cavete terrae.

Not a whole lot on here makes me LOL, but damn, that sure did. I aim to please cavete terrae.

so you're the one I saw going down on my uni's softball team! cavete terrae.

Have you considered figure skating? cavete terrae.

Christ, that's an easy one to answer, since I only have one place to choose from: my dorm cavete terrae.

/me swoops by the control tower...in slo-mo since /me jumps a big parachute. Pff... you seem to have forgotten about the bright red cloud that I stuff into my rig cavete terrae.

Negative, ghostrider, the pattern is full. Divert to clearer airspace immediately. cavete terrae.

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The 16th is my 25th(!!!!) birthday, who wants to fly me in for a present? cavete terrae.

If not.. what's your excuse? Mullins, night jumps, pork chops, beer, what the hell else do you need? Southwestern Minnesota isn't -that- far of a trip, I don't care where you are! It's a matter of perspective! cavete terrae.

It's called sarcasm. In any case, how much experience with the sport do you have? I watched the incident from a bunch of angles, and to me it was readily apparent that the Australian defender was on the ground to block the shot and the Italian tripped over him instead of changing course, which he easily could have done. Could he have done it and retained the ball? Perhaps not. But he didn't have to take a dive. cavete terrae.