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Post #107,583
by deSitter
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6/27/03 4:50:12 PM
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New Re: Jumper scientist friend
What causes most of the fatalities? Stupidity (controlled descent into terrain) or bad equipment?
-drl
Post #107,659
by tuberculosis
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6/28/03 12:13:26 AM
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New Stupidity
specifically - failure to land perfectly functioning parachutes correctly. The transition time from intermediate to advanced seems to take out a lot of jumpers.

There are high performance canopies on the market that are under 100 square feet in size, that are jumped by 180 lb jumpers, and fly with max forward speeds of something like 30-40 mph. It takes some skill to flare these things on landing and convert speed to lift at the end. Misjudge the performance curve and you're toast.

I don't fly stuff like that but its considered "cool" to "swoop" your landings (dive to gain speed, pull out and convert speed to lift for a long "turf surf" a foot or two above the ground). Problem is, some people don't initiate the recovery from dive soon enough and pound in.

You don't have to fly stuff this zoomy - only if you wanna be "cool". I'm not cool.


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lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination
of their C programs."
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Post #107,973
by mmoffitt
6/30/03 11:46:49 PM
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New Huh. Interesting.
The transition time from intermediate to advanced seems to take out a lot of jumpers.

And pilots. Most accidents occur when the PIC has 150-200 hours.

bcnu,
Mikem

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.

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     Happiness is.. - (deSitter) - (24) - June 23, 2003, 11:25:23 PM EDT
         Hey, you be careful with that thing - (tuberculosis) - (23) - June 26, 2003, 01:36:58 PM EDT
             Two things - (drewk) - (7) - June 26, 2003, 01:51:50 PM EDT
                 There are times... - (folkert) - (6) - June 26, 2003, 02:05:31 PM EDT
                     Re: There are times... - (deSitter) - (5) - June 26, 2003, 02:22:01 PM EDT
                         Yes... - (folkert) - (4) - June 26, 2003, 03:26:10 PM EDT
                             They must have been *really* moving - (drewk) - (3) - June 26, 2003, 04:08:51 PM EDT
                                 Oohhh___ bench racing - (Ashton) - June 26, 2003, 04:58:59 PM EDT
                                 Yep... - (folkert) - (1) - June 26, 2003, 05:21:25 PM EDT
                                     Too bad - (drewk) - June 26, 2003, 05:57:46 PM EDT
             Re: Hey, you be careful with that thing - (deSitter) - June 26, 2003, 02:17:11 PM EDT
             Re: Motorcycles is dangerous I think - (mmoffitt) - (13) - June 26, 2003, 09:36:50 PM EDT
                 Well, there are folks on waiting lists for liver transplants - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - June 26, 2003, 10:10:38 PM EDT
                     As I tell my client . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - June 27, 2003, 12:06:34 AM EDT
                         Guzzis are nice - (deSitter) - June 27, 2003, 12:15:52 AM EDT
                 flying presents zero risk - (boxley) - (5) - June 27, 2003, 08:31:25 AM EDT
                     "Failure to maintain altitude" will get you every time. :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (3) - June 27, 2003, 11:16:44 AM EDT
                         Re: "Failure to maintain altitude" will get you every time. - (deSitter) - (1) - June 27, 2003, 12:04:38 PM EDT
                             The biggest one is... - (mmoffitt) - June 30, 2003, 11:55:39 PM EDT
                         That, and excessive air in the fuel tanks ;-) -NT - (bbronson) - June 27, 2003, 12:26:22 PM EDT
                     A) Speed B) Altitude Pick one. - (mmoffitt) - June 30, 2003, 11:48:16 PM EDT
                 Jumper scientist friend - (tuberculosis) - (3) - June 27, 2003, 04:03:24 PM EDT
                     Re: Jumper scientist friend - (deSitter) - (2) - June 27, 2003, 04:50:12 PM EDT
                         Stupidity - (tuberculosis) - (1) - June 28, 2003, 12:13:26 AM EDT
                             Huh. Interesting. - (mmoffitt) - June 30, 2003, 11:46:49 PM EDT

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