wildblue 7 #1 June 8, 2001 Those crazy CReW dogs...Video from abcnews.comI wonder if the videographer obects to the the link on the front page that says "Amateur Video of Skydiving Accident" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RemiAndKaren 0 #2 June 8, 2001 Does anybody else get a plug in error on that page, then iExplorer crashing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GeekStreak 0 #3 June 8, 2001 worked fine for me with v 5.51111,GeekStreak Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cyberskydive 0 #4 June 8, 2001 gotta love whuffo news coverage :)C-28534http://www.sunraydesigns.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mattb 0 #5 June 8, 2001 i thought the coverage was above average - but then again nobody was hurt. my theory is a fatality always makes the reporters twice as likely to exagerrate / misspeak / etc.-mob Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RemiAndKaren 0 #6 June 8, 2001 got 5.5 too... but kept on crashing till I upgraded Realplayer to 8...Good job Mr Video Man...which reminds me of an interesting storry...2nd time at Quincy with about 250 jumps, and I decide its grand time to try CReW (Quincy, after all, is THE place to try new things).Walk up to the CReW area, and end up on a one-on-one coach jump with a very experienced CReW dawg (Mike) who was running the CReW area. What a rush!! did rotations, I managed about 4 or 5 (cant remember now). I was using the safer technique of turning out and away to drop altitude and dock back on.Then comes the 2nd jump.... And being Quincy, why continue with 2 ways... Mike took me and 2 others (with only a handfull of CReW jumps each) to do 4 way rotation. I was base (for those who know me, no surprise! same as in RW being a fat bastard). Mike docked 1st, then the 2 others.So its my turn to start the rotations. I turn out, and come back in (probably took me a couple of tries) but managed to dock back in. wooohoooThen its mike's turn, who does his stuff and does his rotation the normal way for him: over the stack and back behind it. It felt like it took him 1.5 seconds to do his rotation. Very kewl to see a canopy fall behing you....Then the fun starts.The next guy in the rotation decides he's hot enough to do the same thing: over and behind. But doesn't do it correctly, and as he's rising along the lines of the lower canopy, reaches the canopy but snags his hand and toggle in a cell. As he is continuing to rise, his hand is kept low, and he end up breaking more and more.....Now at that point, the 4 way stack is supposed to fly at a slightly steeper angle then a canopy alone. But because of this, the angle of the formation is being flatten, and flattened, and then it feels like the angle is going up, and up.... and at that point, mike starts yelling: LET GO LET GO LET GO LET GO.... so we did.... Well, most of us... the 2 others got to practice wrap emergency procedures!The beer tasted good for all 4 of us that night! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
