Re: open phones
Posted: 2017/02/06 15:39:48 UTC
I'm most concerned the Queen has only found Utah unfavourable.
A forum devoted to the scientific advancement of hang gliding
http://www.kitestrings.org/
Yes, I fully agree.Tad Eareckson wrote:But we here at Kite Strings know how to do things right and the information here is free and fully accessible for anyone who cares to take advantage of it.
Yeah, but lots of stuff is interrelated.But all this great information are scattered among lots and lots of different topics/pages.
- Landing:Manned Kiting
The Basic Handbook of Tow Launched Hang Gliding
Daniel F. Poynter
1974
"Never take your hands off the bar." - Tom Peghiny
Yeah, 9896 posts as of yours. But a helluva lot easier than with The Davis Show - from which the public, quality individuals, and search engines are barred.Not easy to find.
WHAT newcomers? The most recent newcomer first post we've had was 2015/09/19 16:54:58 UTC - yours, over a year and a half ago.For newcomers...
With rare exceptions - fuck others. If they're not talking to us or at least defending our positions on other forums then I'm not much interested in them....and also others...
All that stuff's pretty basic, simple, straightforward, obvious. And with foot launching there's little of controversy - other than a hook-in check being the initial action of your launch sequence (rather than some worse-than-useless preflight exercise). I initiated the "launching" topic as a mission to debunk the crap the California assholes propagate about foot launching being so much safer than rolling tow launches because of the equipment complexity of the latter....it would be nice to have:
A locked topic...
Towing for example.
When I entered the sport in 1980 I LIVED for fatality reports - as I wanted to see the most serious mistakes made by people almost all more advanced than I was in order to not duplicate them. Can't imagine why anyone else wouldn't be so wired. And back then we had two good, conscientious, dedicated reporters - Robert V. Wills and Doug Hildreth. But the commercial interests and other sleazy ass coverers made sure that none of the easily fixable issues ever got fixed and now we've got two total scumbags - Mitch Shipley and Tim Herr - controlling that department.Maybe an updated fatality list also.
Not very interested in PGs.Even with PG's.
Low double digit IQ types already have a good home with the Jack Show Mutual Masturbation Society.Even if I love irony and sarcasm, wrapped in som subtle humour (my understanding of KS), maybe it's difficult for a new visitor to Kite Strings to see it like that.
And then I get more really valuable videos and fatality reports to better illustrate the important points.And thereby get the message totally wrong.
Zack C spelled things out pretty well with the forum's opening post:A topic like that would show in clear text what kitestrings.org really stand for.
No. But let's say there's a hundred people who don't understand how to calculate how much load a two point aerotow release (or bridle end weak link) feels with two hundred pounds of towline tension and a sixty degree bridle apex angle. (Half of two hundred plus fifteen percent of that half (115 pounds).) Pretty safe bet that at least one of them is gonna register and ask, right? So where is he?All the essential information in one place, easy to find.
Silly?
Anybody who's communicating here in a second language is head and shoulders above Yours Truly in that department.Sorry for the bad English. I don't have the vocabulary needed. Hope you understand what I'm trying to say