No, it's an option...
Thanks much for clueing me in.
I started jumping through the hoops but part way into the process I started thinking...
- Yeah...
If you move the posts to a new topic, it will likely screw up any existing Google hits...
It'll probably do that - and it may be real tough to climb back into our existing position (and, as of today, we've moved up a notch to Number 6), especially if Google doesn't recognize the original hits from the original location.
- Our own forum hit counters would be screwed up. All of the hits earned by the posts in the new thread would be stripped and credited to the original parent thread. (Right?)
- The search result would look like:
Blue Sky Scooter Towing : General - Page 1
http://www.kitestrings.org/topic46-7.html
Mar 28, 2012 - Blue Sky Scooter Towing. Steve's methods have gained wide recognition among instructors in the United States as representing the current, ...
It currently looks like:
instructors and other qualified pilot fiends : General - Page 33
http://www.kitestrings.org/topic14-320.html
Mar 28, 2012 - Blue Sky Scooter Towing. Steve's methods have gained wide recognition among instructors in the United States as representing the current, ...
I think the existing one is a whole lot more intriguing than the envisioned replacement.
Why would anybody click on something that just looks like another copy when he could go to the original from Wills Wing at the very top of the list?
- And "instructors and other qualified pilot fiends" fits these bastards like a glove.
For that particular topic, you still have to use quotes for our site to show up, and I suspect most people won't.
Super.
http://www.kitestrings.org/post2.html#p2
- I despise most people at least as much as they despise me.
- One of the main purposes of this forum is to keep most people from participating and sabotaging it.
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?
Steve Davy - 2011/08/31 10:11:32 UTC
Zack figured it out. Well done Zack! Enjoy your vacation.
Kinsley Sykes - 2011/08/31 11:35:36 UTC
Well actually he didn't. But if you don't want to listen to the folks that actually know what they are talking about, go ahead.
Feel free to go the the tow park that Tad runs...
- Most people are too stupid to be able to be able to get anything out of it.
- We really only want the people anal enough to use quotes for all their searches anyway.
Speaking of anal...
However, inadvertently deleting things IS a big deal.
I don't move a punctuation mark unless it's saved in word processing on my hard drive first.
They call that paranoia!
Zack C - 2010/12/13 04:58:15 UTC
I had a very different mindset too back then and trusted the people that made my equipment. Since then I've realized (largely due to this discussion) that while I can certainly consider the advice of others, I can't trust anyone in this sport but myself (and maybe the people at Wills Wing).
- There's no such thing thing as being too paranoid in this sport, Grasshopper. I've been anything from royally fucked over politically through expensively crashed and pretty badly hurt to nearly killed by people because I wasn't being appropriately paranoid.
- You know how EASILY you coulda been killed every time you launched off a ramp.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hhpa/
Houston Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association
Zack C - 2010/10/15 13:25:50 UTC
Sunday I performed a hang check at Pack, stepped onto the ramp, and proceeded to wait for a lull in which to launch. Due to this discussion I realized at this point how dangerous it was for me to assume I was hooked in. It's like assuming it's OK to lock your car because you remember putting your keys in your pocket a few minutes ago, only the consequences of being wrong are much worse than a call to AAA.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hhpa/message/11700
Zack C - 2010/11/18 05:59:03 UTC
But I'm one of Matt's 'defective products'. The first thing I learned to do in the field at Lookout was a hang check. I was told a story by my instructor about the then-recent death of a pilot who launched without being through his leg loops. The instructor called this pilot an 'idiot'. This is how I was taught to think from Day 1. As you said, it's a bitch to rewire a brain...
- And you know how many extra ways to get you killed that Matt was bestowing on you every time you got on a launch dolly.
http://vimeo.com/16572582
password - red
2-112
http://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7600/28811055456_925c8abb66_o.png
I don't think Steve Wendt has much influence over Google.
Remember that "Blue Sky Scooter Towing" ISN'T Blue Sky. That's an optical illusion.
Copyright 2007/03 by Sport Kites, Inc. dba Wills Wing, Inc.
"Blue Sky Scooter Towing" is pure unadulterated Wills Wing - the biggest glider manufacturer on the planet.
And these guys are MAJOR serial killers.
John Moody - 2010/09/18 13:32:24 UTC
Whew!! Tad... Thanks for showing us these letters/articles.
In Houston, we are well aware of the WW wire tank tang problem. The first pilot it happened to plowed into the road. Awhile in the hospital and he pretty much recovered - but he never flew again. He was a great guy and friend and an aspiring pilot lost from our ranks. WW poo-poo'ed the event and made no effort to change their nose wire connection to make it fail-safe. The second guy it happened to will never walk again - or have a decent life at all. If you ever met him, the image of the wheelchair would be burned into your brain. WW poo-poo'ed that one too.
In industry, safety incidents are evaluated and the equipment is re-engineered wherever possible to make it impossible to repeat the event. I was/am furious that Wills blew me off when I told them they needed a design change.
And they're a big part of an informal global conspiracy of serial killers which shuts down dissenting (read science based) positions at EVERY opportunity.
The hook-in check I'm trying to push here - even though always a rare practice - used to be at least a common and frequent message that was never treated with hostility.
Other issues - starting and leaving students prone on the basetube; high tension launches; tow systems which wouldn't dump you every time time your nose went up a little; built in, high capacity, bulletproof releases; both-hands-on-the-basetube actuators - used to be universal practices and standards.
And they're now being exterminated from the regulations; publications; global, national, and local discussion groups; training programs; and in-the-field practices.
There are a HUGE number of wrongful death, negligent homicide, manslaughter cases waiting to happen out there so, yeah, I DO get a little paranoid when it looks like we might be getting suppressed a bit.