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According to the line trim charts its just +3 on the brake lines, and thats all i could find when i measured my vectran lined 79 compared to a 79 comp with 500hma. I now have that 79 lined with a comp lineset and it doesn't fly like the comp 79 i got to jump for a bit, it flys like a reg velo.

No swooping related hospital visits here.

You would be just as safe. Except if you choose to cutaway at 300ft then the skyhook may get a reserve over your head if it stays connected and doesn't just turn into a normal rsl deployment. Which happens quite often really, even when installed and rigged correctly. A normal rsl pretty much has 0 chance of saving you from 300ft but it doesn't have all the added complexities and potential problems brought up in this thread. Plus its a standard option so it won't cost you extra.

No one has said this yet, but on top of all the other reasons already mentioned you don't want to leave them up because they will be beating up your lines the whole way down.

Can I ask what you think you are gaining by using auto focus on your video camera? Also are you using the opteka .3? Lenses that do not focus when set to infinity have a very narrow range in the cameras overall focus range. Because of this camera is less likely to freak out when auto focus is used. But it can and does still happen. Use what ever you want, and im glad it works for you. But i am curious why you seem so adamant against something that have a list of benefits and no downside.

You will get burned by auto focus eventually. Best to just use manual. There are good reasons why that is the way its done by most everyone.

I like to tell them: "So you want to risk loosing or breaking your $300+ camera to take some awful shaky footage that no one will want to see, instead of paying $100 for some one to do it professionally and make something worth watching. But if the camera small enough and the mounting is proper i don't really care and let them bring it along. Footage is always shit though. A month ago a student wanted take a hi-8 generation camera with a hand strap. Yeah not gonna happen.

Yeah same with speed wings, not to be taken lightly.

Besides some of other things pointed out in that video the wind was one of the main culprits. You can hear that there is some wind in the video. The wind begins to travel vertical when it meets a face like that, when it reaches the top of the cliff it comes rolling over, pushed buy the wind not travelling up the face. That mechanical turbulence combined with him being upreared to deal with it is what caused the wing to fold under into a frontal collapse and come crashing down on him. Lucky for him it recovered with almost no heading change. Good show.

Huh, So you trust him more to give you adequate separation and pull where he says he is going to, then you trust yourself to give him adequate separation so it doesn't make any difference where he pulls? Just saying.

and for me the stiletto is one of the least stimulating canopies i've ever flown, but it is a lot like the 12 and 14m bullets i've flown. Its all about where your trying to fly and how you like to fly. As for ground handling in light winds, any speed wing will beat the crap out of the wings made for skydiving(small nose openings). I find the spire and glx to be plenty workable in no wind and with much more exciting flying once your off. All said i love trying new wings and look forward to flying newer speed wings, only tired the nano and bullet so far. Liked the nano quit a bit more then the bullet.

Yup and if vegas is going to be your main application its kind of silly to spend the extra money on a mac, but if you need os x for other things its a workable solution.

Nothing is disabled in hardware, its an os x issue. Run windows natively and it will be just like a pc of equivalent hardware.

The imac will run vegas fine running windows through bootcamp. Not so much through parellels unless you have it setup to boot into windows natively. So if you need os x for something else keep that in mind.

You could also just burn them a data dvd. 12 cents for 4.7gb, not gonna get flash memory that cheap anytime soon.

I think they should get a percentage of incoming tips. I've tipped out all of those people. Not always regularly but if i do well i like to spread it around.

This will have the biggest effect on the level of tips you receive. The main reason tandem students don't tip is because they don't think of our job as something you should tip for. If the idea that we are a service industry and that tips are accepted is put in their head somehow, tip percentages go up greatly.

Pulling your front risers results in a reduction of lift and in turn a reduction in drag, hence the increased airspeed(which itself is an increase in drag) and reduction in glide. Your lift vector is less directly opposed to gravity. You are confusing people by saying that pulling your risers allows your topskin to be exposed to environmental wind. This is 100% incorrect. There is no difference in your canopies aerodynamics weather you pull your fronts facing the wind, cross wind or in a tail wind. Of course your path on the ground will be different but your flight through the air is not affected. When you are on the ground kiting it is a whole different story, you are anchored to the ground so you can pull your canopy far enough in front of you to get wind on the top skin. The result is a frontal, it is not possible to do this in the air with double fronts. If you manage to throw yourself so far above your canopy that you cause slack in the lines then you get to experience wind on your topskin, exciting times. It i really a very simple question. If in zero wind conditions you can use a specific amount of fronts to increase your horizontal speed slightly then you can use the same configuration to penetrate slightly better at the cost of time aloft. The challenge comes with determining if that front riser input for your given configuration is actually increasing your lateral speed. I can tell you on my canopies that full front riser input seems to decreases horizontal speed. My glide ratio goes to absolute shit so i don't think it matters that im moving down that slope much faster, it appears that im moving slower across the ground. Maybe a small amount of input would result in a speed increase. Again the best way to answer this for sure is with a gps recording unit with a decent number of data points per sec.

I think this is where you lost people, and I think you your self know this to be a false base on other posts of yours I have read. I could just be a matter of wording. The effect of front riser input on the canopies drag is the same in any wind conditions. The You never show your top skin to any wind, relative or real. If you do manage to achieve wind perpendicular to the top skin you get a collapsing canopy. The ultimate question is does front riser input increase your lateral speed. Its obvious that it increases your speed down the velocity vector. I would say it depends on what canopy, what loading and how much input. I haven't done any real tests with my canopy using gps, but it doesn't appear that my lateral speed increases with fronts. It seems that Morris does have some quantified data that does show an increase in lateral speed. Which is what you really need to answer this question. So I am inclined to believe him at least for the configurations they have data for. For what its worth I have always taught that fronts will get you out of the sky faster if you backing up, resulting in less ground lost. But it probably won't allow you penetrate more. Although i have always suspected that some configurations would experience a small increase in lateral speed with a moderate to small amount of front riser input.

Pretty sure The Ranch Pro Shop has a few.

Cheers, that works perfect for me.

I am trying to figure out away to automate the burning of a dvd after vegas has finished rendering the mpg file. I would like to not have to come back and manual add the files to dvd architect and start the burn. I just want to walk away once i start the render and come back to a burnt dvd, any ideas?

And they go and put the card slot on the bottom. Dicks :|

Sounds like he is looking for a glove to hold both the sony cam and the go pro at the same time (go pro in stills mode). I haven't seen anything like that marketed yet so im curious too. Im planning on just sewing a little spandex pouch on the side of my simon glove. Ill probably have the go pro in a vertical orientation.

God damn that makes me happy. That line through the trees and into the canyon, wow. That's the greatest line and piece of footage I've seen from any air sport period. So tasty. I don't pop in here too often and i must say i get a kick out of yuri's relentless ripping on the relative workers in floppy suits, but to play the devil's advocate, most of those lines were made possible by at least a little bit of sloppy flying. You know to stay relative :) So glad i saw that tonight, best lines ever, bravo.