How to kill yourself downsizing, a stupid man's tale.

[nacmacfeegle 0]

Spectres are handy when you have to chase a chopped velocity....

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[freeflir29 0]

Stupidity hurts doesn't it..... Glad your OK.

[Deuce 1]

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I'm reconsidering going on a motorcycle run with you... you sound stupid!

Glad you're OK Deuce.

Thanks HH
Naw, I got over motorcycle-stupid crashing my Katana 1100 about 9 years ago. I would NEVER drop my K1200RS!

I think I've been cured of swoop-stupid for the low price of sore back and knees, and a bruised ego.

As the bruises begin to bloom I realize that I did manage to get my feet all the way up to my butt, and hit with my feet first. I had a lot of forward velocity and the toes of my shoes dug in, rotating my knees to impact the ground. That explains the two parallel ditches with a short break. My feet hit and dug a 3 foot trench, then my knees hit and dug a two foot trench, my flare finally took effect and I flared up off the ground and then I actually PLF'd pretty softly about 8 feet from there.

I keep trying to articulate to myself the differences. I think this is the best one so far: Downsizing is not like turbocharging your car. A smaller canopy of the same type is not like going from a normally aspirated Corvette to a blown Corvette. It's not a higher performance version of the same car. It's a completely different car with totally different steering and brakes.

I took my new car for a spin around the Wal-Mart parking lot and then took it out on the track. Duh.

I think Quade's comment about having accuracy be as "cool" as swooping is one worth reflecting on.

And a Velocity? Fuggettaboutit. Clearly it's gonna take at least 300 jumps to get proficient on my new Spectre. And anyone who thinks a Spectre isn't a high performance canopy is an idiot.

A Corvette is not as high performance as a Formula One car, but it's still very high performance.

[jfields 0]

Deuce,

Thanks for sharing. I'm sure you learned some things, and hope others have too. Now cut that shit out and engage your brain!

[kevin922 0]

[replyNobody, Q. It was just a "Here, hold my beer and watch this" stupid moment.

Well there is your problem right there, drinking and flying?? what are you stupid?



p.s. have you heard "whata ya stupid or something?" enough yet forrest?

[christoofar 0]

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So, um, who told you to do front riser turns to land on jump #2 of your new canopy? Geeze.

Don't get yourself dead.

Yeah... first 25 jumps at least on a new canopy (any size) I would: leave the slider uncollapsed, get big, fly straight-in approaches when you get close to the ground.

You can always dial it in one jump at a time.

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[AggieDave 6]

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leave the slider uncollapsed

Why? So you can wear your lines out quicker? Other then that, it won't increase your speed so much that you biff in your landing.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[christoofar 0]

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leave the slider uncollapsed

Why? So you can wear your lines out quicker? Other then that, it won't increase your speed so much that you biff in your landing.

No, so you pay attention to the canopy flight and where you're going instead of staring at the slider (unless you normally collapse it w/o looking). Even though you are at half-brakes, you're going faster than you were at half brakes under the slower canopy.

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[AggieDave 6]

Even if you're not used to collapsing the slider, you're doing that at above 2k (atleast, more like 3k for most), so it shouldn't wouldn't matter, except it will severly distract you by flapping and making all kinds of noise and put undue wear on your lines.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[christoofar 0]

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Even if you're not used to collapsing the slider, you're doing that at above 2k (atleast, more like 3k for most), so it shouldn't wouldn't matter, except it will severly distract you by flapping and making all kinds of noise and put undue wear on your lines.

True, but you also lose some time for practicing. I haven't seen anybody get massive line sep from leaving their slider alone for a few jumps.

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[AggieDave 6]

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I haven't seen anybody get massive line sep from leaving their slider alone for a few jumps.

Yeah. Its still makes that annoying flapping sound, though...

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[christoofar 0]

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I haven't seen anybody get massive line sep from leaving their slider alone for a few jumps.

Yeah. Its still makes that annoying flapping sound, though...

I know I hate it, too.

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[Deuce 1]

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Yeah. Its still makes that annoying flapping sound, though...

As opposed to the annoying sound of a baseball home run hit. That's what my, uh, impact was described as sounding like.

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As opposed to the annoying sound of a baseball home run hit.

If you've heard the *whoooooosh* *crackelTHUDcrackel* sound before, that's something you'll never ever forget, that's for sure. I'm glad you didn't make that sound.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[Deuce 1]

Quade's thread about dreams of cratering spooked me. I had a dream last weekend of a tib-fib crash and the sound was very eerie. I was talking to another camera flyer and "vroom crack-crack!" The crashed flyer wasn't anybody I knew (in the dream).