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Gemetria  : (01 September 2010 - 11:35 PM) interesting right here.... http://www.courthous...07/16/28888.htm
INVS  : (02 September 2010 - 11:21 AM) yeah your not wrong be interesting to see how that turns out
Gemetria  : (02 September 2010 - 02:52 PM) I guess it meanz that we will have to restrict the use of Cypres now for Students and Novices
Gemetria  : (02 September 2010 - 03:18 PM) http://au.news.yahoo...nally-unmasked/
Winston  : (02 September 2010 - 03:38 PM) sueing airtec what a joke. hope it gets chucked out of court and costs the idiots shit loads of court fees
MattyHylander  : (02 September 2010 - 03:39 PM) Im with you MrB..... We know the consequences of our actions......
Robert Stevens  : (02 September 2010 - 05:02 PM) yep but sad to say she has a good case
Winston  : (02 September 2010 - 05:39 PM) i seriously doubt that, would like to see the data on the cypres. any $ she turned it on at home in the morning which has a different asl than the dz
Robert Stevens  : (02 September 2010 - 08:45 PM) cool at the end of the day it was a life saving device that failed back that up
MattyHylander  : (03 September 2010 - 10:02 AM) Mechanical devices do and will fail - We assume the risk when we jump
Gemetria  : (03 September 2010 - 03:41 PM) sure things fail, but there has been numerous times when Airtec have stated that something couldn't happen and it has happened. They said that you couldn't fool it into firing in a swoop.... dead people say otherwise
Gemetria  : (03 September 2010 - 03:42 PM) Winston... even NASA has problems with electronics at times.... think any of the AAD's are different? Think again. Back up does not mean 'fail safe'
Sadist  : (03 September 2010 - 03:55 PM) http://www.bettercallsaul.com/
Gemetria  : (03 September 2010 - 07:56 PM) I am not making any comment on the law suit, just that sometimes these things can fail and we should accept that.
Gemetria  : (03 September 2010 - 07:57 PM) of course they should strive, and I am sure they all do, to be as reliable and well designed as possible
nicholas  : (06 September 2010 - 06:26 AM) it will get chucked out of court, any decent judge would no you cant eliminate 100% of the risk involved in skydiving, airtec's intent was to try to add safety. im not aware of the circumstances of this fatality, what happened?
Yossarian  : (06 September 2010 - 11:59 AM) I'm with Gemetria! they did it with Argus, so they have to do it with cypres, the APF is transparant about these things, and cannot behave in a parochial manner
Trout  : (06 September 2010 - 01:57 PM) Canice
Trout  : (06 September 2010 - 01:57 PM) You hairy motherfucker
canice  : (06 September 2010 - 03:50 PM) WHAT?
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pigboy  CYPRESS wanted, with at least 2yrs left on it

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patto  sad news for the fox crew..thoughts are with all..

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Winston  how good is flocking hey, did a awesome 4 way that must have looked like a nice flock of birds soaring through the sky from the ground, yeah a very sick flock of birds...

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