Canopy control

[Samurai136 0]

Knowledge and safety go hand in hand. Learn by doing.

I am often astonished by the tales of UK and Canadian DZ's that chastize skydivers for making high performance landings. If a pilot is discouraged from exploring the entire performance range of his canopy how safe a pilot can he really be?

Connecting jump numbers to wing loading would be in-effective. Skydivers who die under good canopies forgot (or ignored) a rule taught in every first jump course: Do not initiate turns which the canopy can not recover from close to the ground.


Creating tens or hundreds of new BSR's doesn't mitigate the fact that each skydiver/ canopy pilot is responsible for their own actions. No one makes you jump. No one makes you initiate high performance landings. No amount of rules will save someone from making one poor decision.

That's my opinion.

"Buttons aren't toys." - Trillian
Ken

[fudd 0]

Norway has recently started wingload restriction.
Here are the wingload restrictions in Norway:
0-200 jumps: 0.7-1.1
200-350 jumps: 1.1-1.3
350-500 jumps: 1.3-1.6
500 or more: You probably have enough experience to know what you are doing.
-fudd

There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

[rhino 0]

Guess I won't be jumping in Norway.. lol

[Spy38W 0]

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Guess I won't be jumping in Norway.. lol

Me either..

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Hook high, flare on time

[skreamer 1]

Do they restrict the canopy type too? If not, is there no legislation preventing someone with 200 jumps jumping a Crossfire loaded at 1.3:1?

What good is a wing-loading restriction if you don't stop people from going elliptical too soon?

[fudd 0]

The rules came this summer, and I don't know them too well. People who allready got and have jumped smaller canopy have got dispensation so they can continue jumping their canopies. (would suck if someone tells you after 50 jumps on your gear that you have to upsize). There are some restrictions also concerning eliptic and high performance canopies. I think it's like no elipticals before 200 and no crossbraced hp's before 350 jumps. Don't remember exactly how it was.
How the rules are concerning forigners comming to Norway, I don't know. But as allways before visiting a dz for the first time, call ahead and ask. There may be some strict rules, but the people enforcing them are not rigid. They will listen, and we do all speak and understand english as well.
I would very much recomend visiting Norway. There are some spectacular places to jump, and some of the best dz's in the world (I'm totaly objective about this...cough...cough...). Norway also has the worlds most beutiful women, and I'm not kidding about that one (ask anyone who's been to Norway).

There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

[ernokaikkonen 0]

>I would very much recomend visiting Norway. There are some spectacular
>places to jump

Amen to that!

[rmsmith 1]

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Norway has recently started wingload restriction...

Now *that* is canopy control!

[rfarris 2]

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[rmsmith 1]

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[rfarris 2]

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[freeflir29 0]

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