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…now they just need to accept implement the changes. WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Federal Aviation Administration advisory committee recommended Thursday that airline passengers be allowed to use smartphones, tablets, e-readers and other personal electronic devices during takeoffs and landings, according to industry officials familiar with the committee's deliberations. Under the recommendations, passengers would be able to use most devices, although some would have to be switched to airplane mode. Downloading data, surfing the Web and talking on the phone would still be prohibited. But people could still read e-books, listen to music, watch movies, play games and do work. The 28-member committee agreed on the recommendations during a closed-door meeting, the officials said. The recommendations will be included in a report to be delivered to the FAA early next week, they said. The officials asked not to be named because the FAA has urged committee members not to talk to the media or to publicly discuss the recommendations. Passengers are required to turn off phones and other electronic devices while planes are under 10,000 feet in altitude to prevent interference with sensitive cockpit equipment. Takeoffs and landings are the most critical phases of flight. But new planes are equipped to prevent electronic interference, and critics have long complained the safety concerns behind the regulations are groundless. "We've been fighting for our customers on this issue for years - testing an airplane packed full of Kindles, working with the FAA, and serving as the device manufacturer on this committee," Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener said in a statement. "This is a big win for customers and, frankly, it's about time." It's up to FAA officials whether to follow the committee's recommendations. The agency created the committee, put several of its employees on the panel and was closely involved in the deliberations, so it's expected that all or most of the recommendations will be implemented. How long that will take is still unclear. Airline passengers could see restrictions lifted as soon as early 2014 if the agency chooses a faster implementation track. The process could drag on a year or more if airlines have to apply carrier by carrier to have their planes approved, industry officials said. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., a prominent critic of the current restrictions, said Thursday that if the FAA doesn't "act swiftly" to implement the recommendations, she'll introduce legislation to force its hand. "I will know it if I see that they're stalling," she said in an interview. cavete terrae.

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If you weren't on the wrong side of the country and half my size I'd let you try my canopy cavete terrae.

Sure as hell raised some eyebrows when my Precision Aerodynamics Fusion with its fancy HMA lines showed up at my old Cessna home DZ, I can tell ya Then I started psycho packing it as per the recommendation and they REALLY got wound up cavete terrae.

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The funny thing is, I had never heard of media noche sandwiches either; but I went on Tuesday afternoon to that Havana restaurant to get a Cuban sandwich. I ordered at the takeout window, then got curious about what else their menu has, so I opened it. There, just below the Cuban sandwich, was the Media Noche sandwich. Sweet bread, pork, swiss cheese, pickles, mustard... Just like Grue described! I started regretting that I'd already ordered the Cuban. Well, next time...

I in fact do have experience with this. However, before I get into that: Your wingloading is determined WITH GEAR WEIGHT. 210lb jumper with a rig with a 210sqft main and similarly sized reserve is going to have an exit weight closer to 240lbs, meaning you're looking at a 1.14 vs a 1.26 with those numbers. Depending on your jump numbers, that could be quite aggressive. My first canopy that I bought at 44 jumps was a Precision Aerodynamics Fusion 210 that I was loading at 1.2something. About a hundred jumps later I blew it up and downsized to a Fusion 190 at about a 1.35 wingload (at under 150 jumps ), thereby doing the exact change you're talking about: Same jumper, same model canopy, new size of canopy. It was definitely quicker, and more responsive. Everything happened more quickly: It flew faster at full glide, it lost more altitude in turns, and approaches seemed a bit more spicy :) It became substantially more sensitive to harness input as well. I couldn't swoop with harness input alone, but I could sure as hell make course changes. All of the above intensified when I put on weight, and I was eventually loading it at around a 1.5 before I went on a big diet (down below a 1.3 now) I personally would NOT recommend following my path as it was too aggressive by most standards. I got away with it, but that doesn't mean everyone would. cavete terrae.

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Yeah I was a static line baby and I quickly understood it's one of those things that "just doesn't happen, but we train for it anyway", so when the video was mentioned on SDR I was like "no way, gotta see this" cavete terrae.

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This was discussed on an older Skydive Radio episode and I wanna see it. Can't find it on youtube, hoping someone has it archived since SDM is long gone Apparently it was a Canadian DZ, and the hook knife was nowhere to be found, jumper deployed his reserve while still attached, or something along those lines? cavete terrae.

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