http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63906
Hang Gliding and COVID-19
Davis Straub - 2020/11/23 02:00:17 UTC
We should all make decisions that are informed by the actual science.
Like:
http://airtribune.com/2019-big-spring-nationals/info/details__info
2019 Big Spring Nationals (pre-Pan-Americans)
http://airtribune.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/contest/files/2019/07/GTxd6mT4AIn8.pdf
Local Rules
15 - Launch
Weaklinks of 140 and 200 pounds will be available and provided by the organizers. Weaklinks provided by the organizers must be used by the competitors.
Pure...
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?
Jim Rooney - 2011/08/26 06:04:23 UTC
We discuss this stuff a lot more as well. We vet more ideas. This isn't just "neat stuff" to us... it's very real and we deal with it every day.
It's not "us" that has the track record... it's our process.
We're people just like anyone else. And that's the point. THIS is how we do it... normal, fallible humans... and it bloody well works.
So I don't give much credence to something that someone doesn't agree with about what we do for some theoretical reason.
...science.
Davis Straub - 2020/11/25 02:22:59 UTC
http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/the-three-biases-screwing-up-americas-coronavirus/617192/
Your Individually Rational Choice Is Collectively Disastrous
Stopping the virus from spreading requires us to override our basic intuitions.
But some activities, including dangerous ones, provide negative feedback only rarely. When I am in a rush, I often cross the street at a red light. I understand intellectually that this is stupid, but I've never once seen evidence of my stupidity. In fact, every time I cross on red, the world sends me a signal that it's safe: After all, I've never (yet) been hit by a car! So I keep crossing on red.
Exposure to COVID-19 works the same way. Every time you engage in a risky activity--like meeting up with your friends indoors--the world is likely to send you a signal that you made the right choice.
I saw my pal and didn't get sick. Clearly, I shouldn't have worried so much about socializing! But that is just as wrong as thinking that jaywalking is safe because you haven't yet been hit by a car.
And please don't trouble yourself to put anything in quotes. We'll eventually figure out that it should be:
http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/the-three-biases-screwing-up-americas-coronavirus/617192/
COVID-19: Individually Rational, Collectively Disastrous - The Atlantic
Your Individually Rational Choice Is Collectively Disastrous
Stopping the virus from spreading requires us to override our basic intuitions.
Yascha Mounk - 2020/11/24
Stopping the virus...
...because you haven't yet been hit by a car.
and that it isn't you to whom we're listening.
Stopping the virus from spreading requires us to override our basic intuitions.
Bullshit. It requires common sense precautions and behaviors.
But some activities, including dangerous ones, provide negative feedback only rarely.
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31052
Poll on weaklinks
Davis Straub - 2013/03/10 14:09:22 UTC
I've had no problem releasing my barrel release hundreds of times.
http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3391
More on Zapata and weak link
Paul Tjaden - 2008/07/22 04:32:22 UTC
I got clobbered and rolled hard right in a split second. I have never had a lockout situation happen so quickly and dramatically and had no chance to release as I have always thought I could do.
http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3107
I have a tandem rating!!!
Lauren Tjaden - 2008/03/23 22:20:15 UTC
When Jim got me locked out to the right, I couldn't keep the pitch of the glider with one hand for more than a second (the pressure was a zillion pounds, more or less), but the F'ing release slid around when I tried to hit it. The barrel release wouldn't work because we had too much pressure on it.
When I am in a rush, I often cross the street at a red light. I understand intellectually that this is stupid, but I've never once seen evidence of my stupidity. In fact, every time I cross on red, the world sends me a signal that it's safe: After all, I've never (yet) been hit by a car!
And Paul and Lauren are always nice and high when this shit happens. So nobody ever considers this as negative feedback to the slightest degree.
So I keep crossing on red.
1. And they keep extending their track record lengths.
2. Total rubbish. Nobody ever got mildly bruised because of a light color. One gets trashed by being hit by a car. One may be perfectly OK dashing across the street against the light without checking for traffic in any direction or instantly totaled standing on the sidewalk five seconds after the light has said he's good to go.
The traffic lights and speed limit signs signal the driver with information about how he's required to operate legally. They do absolutely NOTHING to guarantee compliance by anyone. And anyone who steps out into the roadway without checking the situation at the moment is total Darwin material.
Exposure to COVID-19 works the same way. Every time you engage in a risky activity--like meeting up with your friends indoors--the world is likely to send you a signal that you made the right choice.
Not to Yours Truly, thank you very much.
I saw my pal and didn't get sick. Clearly, I shouldn't have worried so much about socializing!
You mean like:
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=14230
pro tow set-up
Jack Axaopoulos - 2009/11/12 14:49:58 UTC
One of the stated goals of this site is to promote HG. MOST views on this site are NOT from members but from visitors, they have no ignore button.
Having Tad run around every day giving the impression that there is a massive weekly slaughter of pilots at tow parks due to their horribly dangerous devices surely doesnt promote HG. Especially when the safety records are quite excellent.
Like Jim said, theyve gone a decade with no fatalities at their tow park. Pretty damn good I say.
Yet listening to Tad, you would think guys were dying all over the place
He's been nothing but misleading and negative and ignored multiple warnings from me. So He's GONE
But that is just as wrong as thinking that jaywalking is safe because you haven't yet been hit by a car.
Bullshit. There might be a case to be made that the jaywalker is LESS likely to be hit because he knows he needs to better tuned into what's happening inside of the critical radius.
Nobody who actually thinks actually thinks like this. And your article is gonna have total zilch influence on the assholes who don't think and are the major threats to everyone else. I hit the grocery store earlier today. Everyone was wearing a mask and was required to be. And I'd say that everyone was aware of the threat and behaving accordingly.
And I'd say that every foot launcher is aware of the threat of launching unhooked 'cause virtually all of them adhere to the ridiculous religious rituals they were trained to perform in order to eliminate the threat. And all of those are analogous to looking at the light, determining it's green and/or WALK, striding out onto the roadway accordingly.
You say NOTHING about checking traffic immediately prior to stepping out into the roadway - legally or il. I'd wager that 100.00 percent of both jaywalkers and the heads of the herds of the legal crosswalkers do. You say NOTHING about the check that actually matters just like all instructors say NOTHING about hook-in verification at the only time it matters. (You sure know how to pick your authors and authorities, donchya Davis.)