The recent accident-statistics report—“Non-Fatal Incidents Summary” by Ron Bell in the May issue of Parachutist—was interesting and prompts me to bring up, once again, the problems of opening  shock.

Should jumpers who die inside skydiving aircraft be counted as skydiving fatalities?

The D license represents that the holder has earned and demonstrated the highest level of expertise in our sport and is a master parachutist.

The 50th anniversary of my first jump is next month and I can’t tell you how much fun it was to watch the 1969 film “This is a Sport?” that you included in the recent USPA Update!