Kite Strings

.... NMERider - 2017/06/18 05:10:55 UTC Simple is best. If that were true you wouldn't be using a drag chute. Good drag chutes are like good wheels buddy. Simple and effective insurance against sub-superior RLF skill. In my case it's sub-average RLF skill as I'm often pretty fatigued when I come in...

Pending hearing from Jonathan on the issue I've gone through all relevant entries on Kite Strings and made a y/i substitution in correct and incorrect spellings of his last name. Jonathan's only concern was that he didn't want his name too easily searchable and that should do the trick. And Bob... ...

I put several years of hard work into getting a stable and reliable drogue chute into production... I believe I sent you a request to be put on the list of people interested in buying one.... I'm going to be using an old WW Eagle for flying some of our tighter LZs like Templeton & High Point fo...

.... He was too high when he turned final. The LZ is small so you have to slip it in aggressively & fly very fast (my preference) or fly close to the trees and time it just right (most everybody else). We discussed approaches at launch beforehand.... I put several years of hard work into gettin...

....And the really important thing is to not reveal any information on what caused the crash in any public venue or any private venue in which there's any risk of it being made public. .... Shouldn't the title of the CHGPA thread be changed to, "Preparing for the next, inevitable landing crash...

Nice knives. Thanks. I tried opening a beer with that hook knife. Was a no-go. I'm going to sell it and switch to a larger solid hook knife with a better grip and a glass breaker. I have no issues sharpening all of our cutlery around the house and even sharpen drill bits so keeping my safety tools ...

.... Not THIS: http://ozreport.com/20.181.... This accident was a few weeks ago. Here's what I carry. The knife is a Spyderco Salt 1 with a sheepfoot tip to avoid accidental puncture wounds and a 14mm hole to allow one-handed opening while wearing gloves. The hook knife fits closely on my belt and ...

It's bad news having a backup hang loop the same color as the man hang loop and just enough longer so that it's possible to have the following: The backup loop is made from stiff webbing and is poking through the main loop. The pilot hooks his carabiner over the two strands of the backup loop which ...

Golden Eagle that joined me briefly in a thermal above Highland, CA on Tuesday.

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....What we have now is not sustainable. Sadly, it's part of human nature for people to mentally filter out things that don't jibe with their personal views. Far too many people are easy to manipulate and gullible on top of this. Then there's confirmation bias when people research things and draw c...