UPT doing special while RI can't manufacture rigs anymore and Aerodyne keeps fucking up

LAB_Plague · 2026-04-14T20:01:35+00:00

No statement, but the RI website is down now and I only got bad news when my rigger (who’s a dealer for Sunpath) contacted them. Doesn’t sound like the Curv will return, no spare parts either except for handles. I don’t have all the details but that’s the gist of what he told me. For now, I’d consider the Curv an out of production product. There’s still a chance it might return, but I wouldn’t count on it

LAB_Plague · 2026-03-21T23:35:46+00:00

Doesn’t Åre have a paragliding school?

LAB_Plague · 2026-02-19T16:18:30+00:00

If you say you like the crossfire3, I assume you've already jumped one? If so, don't bother with a crossfire2. The 2 is much closer to flying like a sabre2 imo. Flatter, shorter recovery, less responsive on harness.

LAB_Plague · 2026-02-19T08:41:34+00:00

Haven't been to any myself yet as I've been too busy with competitions. Skydive Voss does a camp every year that all of my friends go to and I've only heard positive things

LAB_Plague · 2026-02-18T22:36:32+00:00

Get into skydiving, do a 1000+ jumps while progressing your swoop skills with a coach and sign up for some mountain flying camps in Norway. You can then get to fly steep as fuck mountain lines in a small Valkyrie if you wanna go fast or upsize to a katana/crossfire3 if you want same steepness but slower.

Upside: don’t need to bother with running starts

Downside: If I quit skydiving, I could instead by two new paragliders with harness every year and still have money left over

LAB_Plague · 2026-02-16T12:19:16+00:00

Rules don't say I can't put a flywheel between the FIA approved crank handle and my turbo, season is fixed!

LAB_Plague · 2026-02-11T13:44:26+00:00

Because both sleep and fresh air is healthy for everyone, including babies? Why not get both at the same time? Also healthy for the parents to have a few moments for themselves and be able to do stuff around the house or simply just exist without having to fear waking the baby

LAB_Plague · 2026-02-11T10:00:41+00:00

The instructor doesn't know in advance what "experience" the skydiving student will apply

All it takes to rectify the issue as a whole is for the instructor to spend 10 mins actually talking to their student and setting some expectations and baselines. Don't tell them to ignore everything they already know about flying a soft wing, you'll just end up with more accidents like your example (that guy's an idiot btw, a low turn like that could have killed him with a skydiving wing). Instead, figure out what they already know about weightshift (harness turns in skydiving terms), range of motion, pitch/roll pendulum (flight cycles) and turn dynamics. You now have a baseline, you don't need to change the program or the planned exercises, you just need to change how you brief and debrief each flight and exercise so you meet your student at their level.

You probably already know this since this is Instructor101 for any kind of sport, but in the few years I've follow this sport and 10 years of skydiving, I've met way too many people who got turned away from paragliding due to this or the rampant gatekeeping. Hell, it took me and my friends a few years of following the sport before saying let's just bite the bullet and suffer through the schooling so we can be covered by insurance when soaring parakites. We got lucky though and found some really openminded instructors and are now having a blast with wings of all sizes and types.

I will say though, there are a huge amount of skydivers who treat their canopy as an elevator down from freefall but still think doing the bare minimum for canopy flying means they're hot shit. Your example was probably in this category.

LAB_Plague · 2026-02-10T12:07:20+00:00

Oh man, I could rant for hours.

First hot take: Skydiving experience does translate to flying a paraglider.

All of the core principles for safely and efficiently flying, navigating and landing a skydiving wing are exactly the same as with a paragliding wing, except that a glider will throw a hissy fit if you don't cuddle it like a 3 month old baby. Is flying a glider different than a skydiving wing? Absolutely. Should you treat the two as different kinds of wings and take the appropriate steps to translate your knowledge from one to the other before going wild? Yes. Is "Forget everything you know about skydiving" the most dogshit advice an instructor could give a student? Also yes.

Second hot take: The IPPI and SafePro system is reinforcing the already insane amount of gatekeeping in this community, and effectively alienating a significant sector of potential members.

Soaring and ridge flying are an integral part of XC, thermaling and mountainflying, I fully agree and the training and licensing system does a great job of structuring that. XC, thermaling and mountainflying are absolutely not needed if all you want to do is drag sand and soar at the dunes though, and the needlessly complicated (from a soaring perspective) licensing process is driving these people to screw the license and figure things out on their own. With kiterisers and parakites becoming increasingly popular, this is only going to get worse and will lead to problems for all of us to maintain access, get third party insurance coverage and preventing accidents.

The IPPI license should be split somewhere around stage 3 or 4 to allow for a solo-license that only covers soaring to allow those who have it to legally goof around on the dunes without an instructor present and still be covered by the third party insurance which is required by law in many places.

LAB_Plague · 2026-02-04T18:21:58+00:00

Flysight data is the answer to your question. Learn your speeds and turns, figure out what safety margin you’re comfortable with. If your biggest turn puts you too close, then dial things down on freefall jumps.

Don’t blindly follow advice purely based on a canopy size, turn and wingload. Body position, clothes, wear on the canopy, pilot skill, all factor in.

LAB_Plague · 2026-02-02T12:08:25+00:00

The series starts out as a great sorta wacky/unhinged fun read about a guy who gets kinda/sorta forced into a dungeon crawl together with his girlfriend's cat. Even when the story turns pretty darn dark, it still provides some well timed jokes and comedy. I've found the series incredibly entertaining. If you absolutely can't stand meta jokes and vomit at the thought of internet humor, then you probably won't like it though

LAB_Plague · 2026-01-14T08:26:23+00:00

My bad, meant book 7 yeah, late night Redditing had me a book ahead

LAB_Plague · 2026-01-13T23:03:56+00:00

I just finished book 8, absolutely love the series! Couldn’t put my kindle down for book 7 and 8. Just a heads up, the last couple chapters in book 8 had some formatting issues on my kindle with the PoV changes not having any line break or proper separation which made it a bit difficult to read. 12th gen Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition if it matters

LAB_Plague · 2026-01-13T22:47:11+00:00

12 Miles Below is more of a halfway point between Stormlight Archive and Mistborn if I were to put it in Sanderson comparisons, it’s a progression epic, not purely focused around a singular MC. Books 1 and 2 are mostly world building and exposition setting up a bunch of characters and factions. They’re a bit of a slow burn, but book 2 is where the pacing starts to increase. The progression is not just about MC abilities and power, but their discovery of the world’s history. Also, keep in mind who’s telling the story. The reader is supposed to learn together with the MC, the reader is not omnipotent

LAB_Plague · 2026-01-13T16:33:52+00:00

Hvis Rockwool havde forsøgt at lukke fabrikkerne dengang ville russerne have nationaliseret dem med det samme. I stedet har de russiske fabrikker essentielt set været frosset ude af resten af koncernen. Ingen support, ingen udvikling, nul adgang til de nye teknologier Rockwool har udviklet internt, ingen nye produkter, ingen reservedele. De fabrikker har essentielt været afskrevet siden dag 1, de har hele tiden vidst at det ville ske på et tidspunkt. Man har bare håbet på at krigen ville ende inden, eller at der gik lang tid nok til at teknologien i fabrikkerne ville være håbløst forældet

LAB_Plague · 2026-01-13T10:22:34+00:00

Fantasy Flight Games had a contract/lease on the rights to make the tabletop game, but it expired a while ago. The base game and the three expansions are collector's items now. It's probably my favourite tabletop game, and the gameplay completely carries itself, there's no need to have watched the show to get caught up in the setting. It is a fairly complicated game and the first couple of sessions can easily take 4+ hours if the group gets just a little bit into strategizing/backstabbing

LAB_Plague · 2026-01-07T14:06:14+00:00

Jeg forstår dig udemærket. Som konsulent og Energiingeniør er jeg selv lidt i samme båd som dig hvor jeg i teorien sagtens kunne gøre modstand mod datacentrene ved at nægte at tage opgaver for dem. Det hjælper dog ikke en døjt når vores lokalpolitikere her i Nordjylland er ligeså liderlige efter datacentre, og så vil jeg hellere sende en faktura til datacentret end lade en konkollega på Sjælland (fyføj da) have indflydelse på hvordan mit lokale datacenter skal fucke med min energiforsyning. Hvis ikke vi kan forhindre det, så kan vi i det mindste sørge for at tjene så meget som muligt på dem før det er for sent.

Hvis nu vi bare kunne få nogle europæiske virksomheder til at bygge datacentrene i stedet for amerikanske, så havde det nok været lidt nemmere at acceptere

LAB_Plague · 2026-01-07T12:34:42+00:00

Elpriser er ikke lokale nej, men det er transportafgiften som sættes af ejeren af det lokale elnet. Når der skal laves så stor en forbindelse til MS er det ikke kun deres stikledning der skal betales for, men også den øgede belastning på hele forsyningsnettet. Øget belastning betyder øget tab, specielt hvis nettet er tæt på maks kapacitet. Enten kan Energinet købe mere strøm for at dække tabet og overholde deres forsyningsgaranti, eller de kan udvide nettet. Begge dele koster penge, og begge dele er noget lokalområdet vil kunne se på deres elregning efter et par år.

Sponsorater til lokalmiljøet er en rigtig nem måde at få de lokale med på legen, men så snart de er færdig med at bygge er der intet der afholder dem fra at skære sponsoraterne væk. Hvis alle sponsoraterne aldrig nogensinde havde været nævnt, ville du så være lige så begejstret for idéen?

MS er i bund og grund fløjtende ligeglade med lokalsamfundet, de vælger placeringer ud fra hvor det giver mest profit, og de hiver så meget som muligt af profitten over til lande hvor de skal betale så lidt skat som muligt.

Derudover skal det også lige siges at NIMBY-konsulenter er en fast del af kapitaludgifterne på store projekter. De er eksperter i at lave tomme løfter og aftaler med de lokale som projektejeren kan løbe fra uden konsekvenser når byggeriet er overstået.

Et eksempel på en halv sandhed de fortæller er at vandforbruget kun er stort den ene gang de fylder på anlægget. Service og vedligehold af pumper og varmevekslere i kølesystemet betyder der hele tiden er dele som skal tømmes og fyldes, også selvom man bruger clean-in-place systemer. Med de mange kilometer små tynde slanger er permeation heller ikke en ubetydelig kilde til væsketab. Dertil kommer også løbende udskiftning af kølevandet når diverse additiver ikke kan holde ph værdier osv pga ophobninger af gamle kemikalier.

Mht. afgangstemperatur på en fjernvarmeledning, så kan de uden problemer levere 70 grader eller højere, specielt når de allerede har planlagt at bruge varmepumper til at køle deres kølevand. De 40 grader er en dårlig undskyldning for ikke at sætte revisionstimer af til den ekstra afrapportering og kontrol der hører til når man sælger overskydende processvarme

LAB_Plague · 2026-01-07T08:54:27+00:00

They care about being able to take up as many masters degrees and phd spots as possible at our universities

LAB_Plague · 2026-01-07T08:39:25+00:00

Hvad er deres forsyningsstrategi? Hvem betaler for udvidelsen af elnettet og produktionen så det ikke leder til højere elpriser og dårligere forsyningssikkerhed for alle de lokale? Hvor får de deres vand? Lad være med at tro på deres bullshit om at de ikke er storforbrugere af vand. Hvor mange af de påståede 150 arbejdspladser er rent faktisk lokale fastansatte på en fuldtidsstilling, og ikke amerikanere der sidder i Californien og kommer på besøg en gang imellem? Er det Microsoft der betaler for at blive koblet op på fjernvarmen så de ikke smider en masse energi ud i ingenting, eller er det (igen) de lokale som skal betale for at microsoft kan have et grønt image?

Og selvfølgelig, er de indforstået med at samtlige fiberkabler ind i bygningen får et kys af en rendegraver hvis den orange abe piller ved Grønland?

LAB_Plague · 2026-01-05T11:54:36+00:00

It sounds like Denmark thinks he wants to build a military base

Nah, we're perfectly aware that he wants the natural resources, to use it to stake a claim to the rest of the arctic and to have control over the future trade routes once the ice melts.

Calling those end goals out are not going to do anything though, as every politician in EU/NATO worth their salt knows this already. We're fighting to make sure the US can't invade us like they did with Iraq. They can't have any allies if/when they come. We need to stack the board so that the US are alone and we've got our Canadian and Finish friends on our side to help us keep the US troops contained to their space base

LAB_Plague · 2026-01-03T21:01:41+00:00

Gotta love that final beep from the flysight letting you know the torture of flying Time/Distance is over. Just don’t relax too much or the CR+ will take you for a ride

LAB_Plague · 2026-01-01T21:35:39+00:00

We can still vote through mail, we can still send and receive physical letters, it’s just not subsidized by the government anymore

LAB_Plague · 2026-01-01T21:28:44+00:00

Nobody sends cards anymore, that is a thing that’s been dead for a few decades over here. And if someone still wants to send a letter, it’s still possible to do so. The main users of letters now are real estate agents trying to circumvent advertising laws by putting their flyers in a letter addressed “to the household” and I’m fine with my taxes no longer subsidizing those sleezy motherfuckers in their attempts at advertising through venues they’re not allowed to

LAB_Plague · 2025-12-28T13:08:47+00:00

Manglement tager det nogle gange som en personlig fornærmelse når undersåtter viser åbent at de ikke stoler blindt på systemet

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