News Anchor does AFF

[cderham 0]

Pretty good video I ran across this morning. Plus Hiedi is easy on the eyes. I do disagee with the instructirs comment that it is a safe sport. He should say The sport is dangerous but as safe as YOU make it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5QUCO7IVhY

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[Gawain 0]

The emergency procedure method surprised me. Is that the standard now? One hand per handle? I think there was a thread about this in the General Skydiving Forum, so I'm not trying to start a "right-or-wrong" argument, just curious if it's the standard, or if it's up to the school.

Other than that, it seemed like a positive plug for the sport (despite the little items you noted).

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Did reserve side ever even look at the student? All I saw him paying attention to was his handcam, which isn't something I'd fly on AFF anyhow.

Blues,
Dave

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The emergency procedure method surprised me. Is that the standard now? One hand per handle? I think there was a thread about this in the General Skydiving Forum, so I'm not trying to start a "right-or-wrong" argument, just curious if it's the standard, or if it's up to the school.

There are people training both, but the two-hands per handle does seem to be much more common.

Blues,
Dave

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The emergency procedure method surprised me. Is that the standard now? One hand per handle? I think there was a thread about this in the General Skydiving Forum, so I'm not trying to start a "right-or-wrong" argument, just curious if it's the standard, or if it's up to the school.

There are people training both, but the two-hands per handle does seem to be much more common.

I was taught to rip(pulling cutaway handle off velcro, pulling straight out would be harder), then pull down and away cutaway handle, and follow the pull with the other hand to make sure the cords clear the three ring junction. Then, pull reserve.

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[cocheese 0]

Safest drop zone in the world? Handi cams for aff, Cessna 182 for plane, Lunar landing surface.

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The emergency procedure method surprised me. Is that the standard now? One hand per handle? I think there was a thread about this in the General Skydiving Forum, so I'm not trying to start a "right-or-wrong" argument, just curious if it's the standard, or if it's up to the school.

School - specific... However, I noticed that when she was given the "one opportunity" EP pass or fail in the hanging harness that her thumb was not thru the reserve ripcord handle. I made a student do pushups in class last weekend for not doing that.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[skybytch 273]

What's unsafe about a 182? Is it required that dropzones have grass landing areas to be considered safe?

I'm with ya on the handicam, but then again this was a jump done with a local "personality" for a TV news show and it was done by very experienced instructors. I can understand why they'd want more than one camera angle; it'd be kind of hard to put a student, two instructors and two camerafliers in a (non-widebody) 182. I'm sure if it had been other than a textbook level one the reserve side instructor would have put doing his job over getting the video.

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The emergency procedure method surprised me. Is that the standard now? One hand per handle? I think there was a thread about this in the General Skydiving Forum, so I'm not trying to start a "right-or-wrong" argument, just curious if it's the standard, or if it's up to the school.

School - specific... However, I noticed that when she was given the "one opportunity" EP pass or fail in the hanging harness that her thumb was not thru the reserve ripcord handle. I made a student do pushups in class last weekend for not doing that.

Yeah, pet-peeve of mine, along with pulling handles out in front rather than down

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The emergency procedure method surprised me. Is that the standard now? One hand per handle? I think there was a thread about this in the General Skydiving Forum, so I'm not trying to start a "right-or-wrong" argument, just curious if it's the standard, or if it's up to the school.

School - specific... However, I noticed that when she was given the "one opportunity" EP pass or fail in the hanging harness that her thumb was not thru the reserve ripcord handle. I made a student do pushups in class last weekend for not doing that.

Yeah, pet-peeve of mine, along with pulling handles out in front rather than down

That is certainly a downside of the system they were using. The cutaway cables were real, and she pulled them straight out, and it would probably work if she did that for real, but damn,... pulling the reserve straight out is gonna be a bitch. They should use a ripcord that has the steel cable too. Why not go for even more realism.

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You're no fun. The safest drop zone has a twin otter and a softer landing area.

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The safest drop zone has a twin otter and a softer landing area.

Yeah, cuz Otters never crash.

And you're right. I am no fun.

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Well at least you can fit your second camera person in the otter and have a cooler exit. Why do you have to use the c word? crash? Who said anything about a crash?

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The emergency procedure method surprised me. Is that the standard now? One hand per handle? I think there was a thread about this in the General Skydiving Forum, so I'm not trying to start a "right-or-wrong" argument, just curious if it's the standard, or if it's up to the school.

There are people training both, but the two-hands per handle does seem to be much more common.

Blues,
Dave

Actually the poll indicated about 50-50.

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Did reserve side ever even look at the student? All I saw him paying attention to was his handcam, which isn't something I'd fly on AFF anyhow.

Blues,
Dave

If his set up is like mine, he's probably looking at the altimeter which is attached to the glove, not at the camera.

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along with pulling handles out in front rather than down

Yup, no peel/punch down - pushups.
No Arch after EP's - pushups.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[jtval 0]

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Safest drop zone in the world? Handi cams for aff, Cessna 182 for plane, Lunar landing surface.

He said safest drop zone around (to me that means in the area.) I did notice the Driving your car comparison,though.

But the handicam thing hit my in the face like a boxing glove.

Why would you wear one unless you were taking the video with a friend who POSED as a student

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but he said he could go work anywhere in the world.

I quit.

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but he said he could go work anywhere in the world.

I quit.

Yea I just watched it again and edited my post.

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along with pulling handles out in front rather than down

Yup, no peel/punch down - pushups.
No Arch after EP's - pushups.

Lemme guess, your home DZ is Ft. Benning? I guess if they look at you funny they are doing pushups too?

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The safest drop zone has a twin otter and a softer landing area.

Yeah, cuz Otters never crash.

And you're right. I am no fun.

Airplanes are "Perfectly Safe," right?

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whuffos call them perfectly good.

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Lemme guess, your home DZ is Ft. Benning? I guess if they look at you funny they are doing pushups too?

My home DZ is in Tulsa.
The students do pushups on the first error and I do the pushups with them on the same subsequent error.
We have fun with it and they learn.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

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Lemme guess, your home DZ is Ft. Benning? I guess if they look at you funny they are doing pushups too?

My home DZ is in Tulsa.
The students do pushups on the first error and I do the pushups with them on the same subsequent error.
We have fun with it and they learn.

I was just mess'n with ya. I actually get to jump with the airborn instructors at my home DZ. Kewl dudes... at least to me, but I would hate to be a student there...