Re: 2015/03/27 Jean Lake crash
Posted: 2015/04/09 09:11:01 UTC
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Two Dead on Hang Glider
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=463
Davis Straub's "Oz Report" Conflict of Interest
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Scott? His age didn't vary in the right direction and he wasn't little and cute so what the fuck?
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...they WILL fail any time things ain't going right.
Two Dead on Hang Glider
Brian Scharp - 2015/04/08 20:07:03 UTC
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/daily-times/obituary.aspx?n=arys-thoring-moorhead&pid=174529307
ARYS THORING MOORHEAD Obituary - Farmington, NM | Farmington Daily TimesArys Thoring Moorhead (2003 - 2015)...
A really varying one. The kind for whom we all really wanna make all places they visit really safe - whether they like it or not.Scott C. Wise - 2015/04/08 23:16:26 UTC
Getting a Clue
I think we can all "get a clue" from that last post. How many of us have had -or still have - a son (or daughter) that age?
Well yeah. Let's take steps but let's make absolutely certain we never actually DO anything. Let's spend decade after decade after decade after decade...Taking steps to keep the same thing from happening again is what people who care about the safety of other people do.
...telling people that the guy and fishing line controlling your power on takeoff CAN have a critical effect on the glider's safety and that it takes TWO hands to fly a glider and placebo releases won't cut it when the shit hits the fan but let's not go nuts with this taking steps stuff. People DO need to...Manned Kiting
The Basic Handbook of Tow Launched Hang Gliding
Daniel F. Poynter
1974
"A bad flyer won't hurt a pin man but a bad pin man can kill a flyer." - Bill Bennett
"Never take your hands off the bar." - Tom Peghiny
"The greatest dangers are a rope break or a premature release." - Richard Johnson
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=463
Davis Straub's "Oz Report" Conflict of Interest
...be allowed to CHOOSE. We don't want any human spirit snuffed out ferchrisake. Lives of people of varying ages lost doing what they love - no problem.Bob Kuczewski - 2011/03/09 02:33:49 UTC
This is going to sound cold, but I believe people have a right to make their own choices. I don't want a "nanny state" where anyone is telling me what I can and can't do ... for my own good. The sport of hang gliding would surely not exist if that thinking were carried to its logical extreme. There's something bred into all living things that urges them toward taking some degree of risk in their lives. Those who want to forbid that risk are essentially snuffing out the human spirit itself. I can't support that. I do support information. I support good information. I support exposing bad information. But I don't support dictating what anyone can or can't do. The fundamental principle of economics (and evolution) is two words: "people choose".
Dang! Where were ya after this one:Dang!
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Scott? His age didn't vary in the right direction and he wasn't little and cute so what the fuck?
Well yeah. But there's nothing stopping us from taking steps to keep the same thing from happening again again.Steve Davy - 2015/04/09 04:38:38 UTCThis was the same thing happening again, Speck.Taking steps to keep the same thing from happening again...
Along with eliminating T** at K*** S****** from every place possible for the ones who really care about the people of varying ages. Great threat prioritization guys!...is what people who care about the safety of other people do.
Good luck with that!
Yeah Rodent. Fuckin' PESSIMIST! How ya ever gonna die doing what you love if you're always so pessimistic 'bout everything? Enough already.Bille Floyd - 2015/04/09 05:03:14 UTC
Las Vegas
Would you be insulted ; if i called You a Pessimist ?
Hope not ; cause i'm calling Ya one !!
Well yeah. If ya sacrifice the risk that attracts us to this sport and like having your spleen and the lower portions of BOTH of your legs. If ya call that LIVING.Steve Davy - 2015/04/09 06:03:51 UTC
Not in the least. Being a pessimist helps keep me alive.
SUSPECT? Name some people in aviation who died doing what they loved who WEREN'T optimists?I suspect that Kelly was an optimist...
Long and great track records....and thus using equipment that may function in a best case scenario...
Or in best case scenarios prove beyond any shadow of a reasonable doubt that......and fail to function in a worst case scenario.
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...they WILL fail any time things ain't going right.
Skydiving student.I'm still alive, Kelly and his innocent victim...
Good freakin luck with that....are not. You do the math, Bille.
Fuckin' Tad Clone.Thank you.Hope not ; cause i'm calling Ya one !!
Losing your spleen and lower legs didn't quite do the trick. But this six sentence reply of Ridgerodent's switches on the lightbulb.Bille Floyd - 2015/04/09 06:32:51 UTC
VERY GOOD Reply ; I just learned a bunch from Ya !
Really ; and your correct !!
Keep up the great work, u$hPa.William E. Floyd - Nevada - 19773
- H4 - 1983/02/21 - Steve Hawxhurst - FL AWCL CL FSL RLF TUR XC
- P2 - 2007/06/06 - Ron Peck - FL ST CL FSL HA RLF RS TUR