Cameras mounted on any helmet compromise protection, its banned in most motorsport, and just look at what happened to Schumacher. However, where else are you going to put them, so its just a case of accepting that risk
I cut away an on level line twist yesterday. Couldn't clear it and got to 1800' and chopped it. I found everything and landed safely. Made two more jumps with my turn rig. No sense getting hurt.
I'm honestly surprised that this wasn't stressed more in my training. Most things on my rig have the potential to get me killed. The closing loop is one of the things most likely to get other people killed. It should be treated with a lot more respect than it normally seems to get.
I jumped out there from 1978-80. It was the wild west in some ways and a hell of a lot of fun. The old packing tables had ruts worn in the dirt on both sides from the jumpers packing the old rounds.
Laughed listening to this. I once asked (as a joke) if another skydiver ever looked at his rig and thought "well, at least I trust one of the two people who packed a parachute in this rig" He asked who did my reserve and ensured me that I had a good rigger. I told him that I knew he was a good rigger. That's the one I trust. I didn't trust the main that *I* had packed 😅
@ Tony B On a home network and what to do in VMWare Workstation if I want my VM to be isolated so no infections and vm escape can happen but also have internet connection?
Hi @TonyBourke Even bloopers teach a lot of things. 1. How to use l3-edge role with ip auto assignment 2. How to use host vars and assign ip manually 3. How to add custom prefix to structured config files Nothing embarassing I appreciate you having put this up for us to learn from. Takes courage to upload something where one fails.
Hi @tonyBurke Great content, building the files from scratch and explaining them as you go along is the best way to teach. Lot of effort, please keep up the great work
Thanks for sharing Tony. I'm struggling with some errors using AVD examples and your video gave me some other ideas.........keen to test it in the morning, the only difference is I need to find a way to adapt the inventory.yml to CVaaS....will find a way.
I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but please bear with me if you could. I work with a sound engineer who used Waves Soundgrid protocol for his sound system. Each device in this protocol can be connected via ethernet network, thus the implementation of network switches. Recently he thought that his network connection, especially from the front of house (mixer control) to stage could use redundancy/traffic regulation via the use of LAG, thus comes the swap from unmanaged switches to managed switches. But the thing is, the switches we bought are only capable of creating static LAG, we then tested that when one of the trunked ports in the same LAG starts to drop in speed (from 1GB to 100MB) AND one of the normal speed Gigabit port is elaborately disconnected; the connection between stage and front of house seems to drop out as well, because a LAG require all ports to run at the same speed and duplex. This issue can be seen when there are: - 2 ports within the same LAG (If one drops in speed, the connection ceases) - 3 ports within the same LAG (if one drops in speed, and the other one got disconnected, the connection ceases) The issue becomes non-existent with 4+ ports in the same LAG. The problem is that, it is almost impossible to request every music venue's suppliers to provide us with 4 80-meter ethernet cables from the front of house to stage, because they have to be shared with and cycled between other bands. We could bring our own, but currently as the budget and man power allow; we could only bring 2. We need to be sure that the LAG would still be up and undisturbed during the whole show or the result could be disastrous. The LAG already did traffic regulation pretty well, seeing that there are almost little to no errors packets on the Soundgrid side, but the redundancy is still very unsafe. Questions: 1. Is there a specific cause to speed drops in the port/cable and how can we prevent this? Because the drop would cause problems for the whole LAG 2. Is there a workaround for this? Or do we need switches that are capable of implementing LACP on LAGs to make them dynamic?
Hi Tony, I watched part one and even after surfing GitHub couldn't find your PowerPoint file. Is there somewhere I can download that from? Thank you for the video and supporting scripts.
It does not. There are no Czech companies listed in the FAA TSO approval database for C23D that I can find. They may have tested to the standards set forth in C23D, but they have not received a TSO authorization from the FAA. They must received an FAA authorization to be considered legal in the US for US and foreign residents (foreign visitors can jump it, as long as the harness isn't also TSO'd). From the EASA, I can only find their pilot bail-out parachutes (rounds) listed in the ETSO list, which makes sense since the EASA has specified they do not certify skydiving gear.
No problem, good question! This is a hacky with a locking tab! I love locking tabs. I don't freefly much these days but I really enjoy knowing that my pilot chute is solidly in there. I find hackys are easier for me to grab during pull time, but that might be preference as I've only done a couple of jumps with a pud and I did not like that experience. I'm sure if I did more I'd get used to it. But I came up with hackys, I've got locking tabs on all mine, and my handle is firmly in place.
@@shadeland Thanks for your perspective! I did 50 jumps with rentals with hackeys before getting my own gear with a freefly handle w/ locking tab. I really like the locking tab, but I remember the freefly handle did feel weird. I don't know if I've just gotten used to it or changed my grabbing of the handle. I didn't know that you could get a hackey w/ locking tab, so I'll have to think about that for when I look at downsizing containers. While I like the hand-feel of the hackey, I'll probably still stick with the freefly because of the smaller profile. I have my first big way camp in December, and with all that rubbing at the door I want to make sure I don't have an early deployment. Great videos and blue skies!!
New jumper with a whopping ~10 pack jobs lol. A manufacturer recently told me about a technique where they kneel on both sides of the container, over the main, with all of your weight. If the pin slides around with little to no friction, it's too loose. Unofficial thoughts?
I dunno, I'd have to try it a few times to see how loose it can get via my test to see if it's tight enough for what I like. I can see the methodology since it's replicating sitting on a plane with your weight on your pack. It does seem a bit more complicated though. With my method you can check even if someone is wearing the rig.
