Designer 0 #26 February 22, 2003 Mine are a little higher than yours(25-30)(NOT GUSTY)steady winds.Making sure of your own spot at opening is still your responsibility! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bodypilot90 0 #27 February 22, 2003 I've said it before....better to be one the ground wishing you were in the air then in the air wishing you were on the ground Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kmcguffee 0 #28 February 23, 2003 I'll jump up to 20mph if the winds are fairly steady. If it gets gusty I might not jump above 15mph. I'm scared of my canopy collapsing low to the ground due to a gust. It happenned to someone at the DZ Saturday in gusty conditions right when she started to flair. Luckily only bruises resulted. "Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." Ben Franklin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edenney 0 #29 February 23, 2003 This occurred just a couple hours ago and is posted in the incidents forum but it seems applicable to cross-post here: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=557&ncid=755&e=1&u=/ap/20030223/ap_on_sp_au_ra_ne/car_nascar_skydivers_hurt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Iflyme 0 #30 February 24, 2003 Two jumpers from my DZ ended up with broken bones, and another landed on the roof of a house when they jumped in high winds recently. Here is a thread regarding thathttp://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=319490;search_string=wind;#319490 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pringles 0 #31 February 24, 2003 I think that jumpers are jumping in higher winds than they should because that is what they are taught to do from the start. A couple of years ago I was visiting a DZ on a very windy and turbulant day. Well after my first jump and one of my friends that was with me hurt his hand on landing we called it a day. In fact I would say about half of the expirenced jumpers were calling it a day also. The funny thing was that the DZO was pushing for more loads. He had noticed that I jumped camera and asked me to do a tandem video. I told him no because I wasn't going to jump in those winds. I think it kinda pissed him off. Too bad... I wasn't going to jump in those winds. The funny thing was that he was sending up students that didn't even know any better. That kinda pisses me off. Well anyways that is why I say that is what they are taught from the start. Its Dzo's like this that are too money hungry that make the sport what it is today. Its to bad there isn't a rating for being a DZO. Maybe then some of this non sense would stop. Matt Matt Davies Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tonto 1 #32 February 25, 2003 http://www.humphrey.za.net/blueskies/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=16&mode=&order=0&thold=0 tIt's the year of the Pig. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
