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From: ds4a@dalton.acc.Virginia.EDU (Dale Southard)
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Subject: Re: Fatality In Colorado
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.191201.27413@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 5 Apr 91 19:12:01 GMT
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In article <1991Apr5.001044.20834@athena.mit.edu> toad@athena.mit.edu (John P. Jackson) writes:
>In article <2734.27FA00E3@ehsnet.fidonet.org> SKYDIVE@f15.n233.z1.FIDONET.ORG (SKYDIVE) writes:
>>Reply-to: NICK.DI@p0.f412.n202.z1.fidonet.org (NICK DI GIOVANNI)
>>Fido-To: uiucuxc!hpfelg.fc.hp.com!
>>
>>guys was doing AFF too and that one guy is just as dead. It really 
>>makes this the second. The fact the JM's didn't have tickets is spitting 
>>hairs.
>
>	So, are you saying that any ol' jumper is qualified to perform AFF
>	training, and formal certification for such activity is merely a
>	formality?  Come on....


Actually, only one of the AFF J/Ms in the first fatality was unrated.  
He was "posing" as a rated J/M and had been doing so for a while.  I
think Nick's point was that just cause the first fatality wasn't up to 
USPA standard doesn't make it a non-AFF fatality.

While we're discussing it, has anyone ever had their AFF rating checked at
a new DZ?.  I have jumpmastered/instructed AFF/SL at three DZ's and have never
had any of them check my ratings.

Perhaps that's why I keep skydiving -- the TRUST of complete strangers.  Gives
me that "warm-fuzzy" feeling every weekend.




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