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Todd Pattist wrote:
Derrick Steed wrote:

I go on the recommendation of the people who repack mine - the parachute
club at Sibson: they recommend no long than four months between repacks

Nothing personally against the parachute folks you go to (I have no
idea about them specifically), but isn't this like asking
the monkeys how often you should feed them bananas?
I assume they're making money per repack, right?

Reminds me of an instructor who's given over 500 hours dual in
the past two years and gotten one student through license.
His answer to every student: "you need more training!"

I did once meet a power flying instructor like that. My reasoning is going to the parachute club was this:
1. the chief instructor of the parachute club is well respected in the UK parachute world
2. in my judgement (OK, I'm ignorant but I can smell a rat - GWB has the longest tail I've ever seen) he seemed professional and knew what he was talking about
3. his selling technique of his particular snake oil (as you are implying) was excellent - and I saw them using the oil when I was there, from 10,000 feet no less - jumping from a ukrainian aircraft (them damn commies!)
4. his legs seemed to be long enough and I couldn't detect any signs of scrape marks on his knuckles, and he wasn't overly disposed to scratching his armpits or swinging from the nearby trees - now this is something where I consider myself an expert: most managers I've met do qualify in the armpit scratching and swinging from branches department
5. Surprise at the exchange of money for work is a real surprise coming from the home of capitalism.
Rgds,

Derrick.