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- From: shibuya@bl.applicon.slb.com (Hiroto Shibuya)
- Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
- Subject: S&TA grounding (was: Re: Whuffo Q&A)
- Message-ID: <SHIBUYA.92Nov17082647@chute.bl.applicon.slb.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:26:47 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.162604.2050@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <BxIv5r.Exq@vti.com>
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- In-Reply-To: mark@vti.com's message of 10 Nov 92 22:44:14 GMT
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- In article <BxIv5r.Exq@vti.com> mark@vti.com (Mark Smith) writes:
-
- : I've never seen an S&TA spot a low-pull so consequently, I've never
- : seen one be in the position to try and ground a low-puller.
-
- I've seen one! Down at Eloy a couple weeks ago, we were doing fun
- jumps after the competion doing lots of stupid stuff to blow our fuse
- off. At one load, which I was not on, they were funneling through
- break off altitude and opened at around a grand or lower. DZ manager
- (I'm sure he is also S&TA) Bryan Burke saw that and grounded them for
- the rest of the day. Well, it was sunset (or presunset) load so they
- didn't mind that much.
-
- Hiroto
-