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Climber injured in bluies after 30m fall 2/Jan/13 21-Jan-2013 At 3:40:33 PM pecheur

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On 21/01/2013 dawyndham wrote:
>I've used that calculator before, and came to the conclusion that it's
>just plain wrong. It's impossible to get it to give you a FF of less than
>1.
>
>Try 10m of rope, 1m from last piece and it gives FF1.1 whereas it should
>be in the order of FF0.2

dawyndham's correct that calculator is just plain wrong, I wonder how many people have looked at it and come up with some scary, scary results for minor falls.

What's more frightening, several rock climbing sites reference that calculator, one site having the wrong data is bad enough, other sites where people go for advice to learn about rock climbing referencing the dud calculator is MUCH worse. People think that if oher "experts" think it's good then it must be. Seriously if they don't understand that much about fall forces why the hell are they giving advice on the topic.

Unfortunately I didn't really find any decent calculators online that were that easy to use, one of the guys on rockclimbing.com wrote a decent one but it's not as user friendly as the one referenced by M9.