BPA Canopy Handling manual technical error
Hiya folks.
Having recently decided to get myself in gear and progress my mad skillz
a bit, I picked up the BPA canopy handling manual, as read now by n00bs
eager to get their CH1/CH2/FAA a/FAA b and probably lots of other people.
To my horror, I found it repeated the oft cited mistake that the
principal lift is provided via the Bernoulli principle. My fear is that
skydivers trusting in this could ultimately expect a lifting force
significantly different to that they actually get, with the resulting
safety hazard.
Before I start a crusade on this, I'd welcome people's thoughts on the
matter. The CHM is available on the BPA website for those of you yet to
peruse it.
Moschops
date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:19:30 +0000
author: moschops
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