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Who has the original tape. Impossible to say for sure on the wma clip, but I'm sure you could tell on full quality... There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

For students jump, maybee ti's good enough with a walkman and a tape of someone yelling "ARCH! ARCH!".

In the canopy skill debate, I thing maybe AFF is better. At my dropzone at least, AFF pull at 5500' the first jump, giving 2000' or more to learn canopy controll at safe altitude the first jump than S/L jumps from 3500'. After 4 AFF jumps, you actually got much more canopy experience than 4 S/L jumps, but the same amount of landings. Also, at my dropzone we don't supply students with radios. Once you're up there you're on your own, and that actually works great.

As soon as I can afford it, I'm getting a new canopy. The reason I jump the PD is because if I buy a new canopy now, I couldn't afford to jump. Trying to save those $$$ as fast as I can.

I've been told I should try and stall my canopy at high altitude to find the stall point. I've done that using both flares and backrisers. However, when it starts to collapse I let the flares/risers up, not letting it collaps. My question is safe to let it completely collaps. Will it catch air again anyway, or do I risk a streamer having to cutaway and hit the silver? I have a PD190 loaded at 1.1 -fudd There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

When thinking a bit about it that sounds reasonable. Could be interessting, would this give you a shorter spot when comming in for landing? I'm going to be VERY careful learning to hook. First I got to learn how the canopy reacts at different manuevers when I'm still high. When I feel I have good canopy skills I'll start to hook high. and go lower and lower as I'm learning when to hook it. Probably going to do at least 50-100 more jumps before I'm even begining to try the high hooks. I don't want any suprises at low altitude. There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Hi I started doing frontriser turns at high altitude do prepare myself for learning to hook. It is suprinsingly fun doing 360 frontriserturns. Now, sitting at home I thought, what about pulling the left frontriser and the right backriser. Wouldn't that put you in an even steeper dive turn? I'll try this next time I go up, just want some input on how I can expect the canopy to react. Also I'll love to get some tips about more fun things to try under canopy. -fudd There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Some people at the dropzone started playing rock, paper scissors and I came up with this idea for a game: Two or more people in freefall plays R/P/S. When someone lose, they pull. The one who's left wins. Disclaimer: I don't think anyone should actually try this because it could be dangerous and a stupid way to get killed. There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

LOL Whats the proper emergency procedure for a cat in tow? There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Me neither. how many jumps does a breast job cost??? I don't mind though , but I'd rather jump... There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

I know bikers have radio devices to talk to eachother while riding. It should be possible to use them for skydiving to. The noise level must be about the same. I think it would be cool to be able to talk to others in freefall, and under canopy as well. Who hasn't tried yelling what to do to a teammate with a brainlock As for the cypres, they have now all been modified better protected against radio interference, but I would ask Airtech first before jumping with such a radio. What about the risk of the radios interfering with the airplane intruments. Someone turns on their radio and the exit light goes green. Hey! 20 people exit 4km off the dropzone and one REALLY ANGRY farmer... --- The sky is the limit...or a playground! --- There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Saw a documetary about this crash which was during an airshow. The pilot didn't eject before the last second because he did all he could do to steer the misbehaving plane away from the crowd. That's heroic, and almost costed him his life. Think of having to pull your reserve at below 500' to save someones life. Would you have done it, or wipped out sooner??? There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

I've experienced a PC in tow malfunction due to my own stupid packing error. See pictures at one of my post at

hmm..what a concept! Pay to work at my office! Get to do one week of dull paperwork for me while I'm at the DZ. It will only cost you the ridiculously low price of $950. Book your week NOW. C-YA!!!!

A dytter that quits can be bad enough. A jumper on my DZ got another scare. He did a tendem jump (as JM) and set his dytter to flatline at tandem altitude. (3500'-4000' I think). Then he forgot he had adjusted it, and did a normal jump. Guess who got a little chocker when suddenly he got a flatline. (Oh shit, am I that low, pull? pull? eh...doesn't look low, altimeters shows 4000'...wait a second...ah....!) There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Flaring and doing a PLF is not so bad. Would save a lot of broken ancles. If you flare perfect there is no need, but many have to try and fail a coupple of times before getting it right. I was adviced to do a PLF my first landings if I did feel insecure about the landing. I am used to falling and landing hard from both snowboarding, karate and aggressive inline skating. Because I'm used to falling, and am well trained and work out, i didn't do PLF's. The exception was a jump when I came down in my reserve. It was a hard high speed landing. The PLF probably saved me a broken bone or two. (When you're used to 240sq/ft canopies, a tiny 170sq/ft reserve flies fast. Specially downwinds. The moral is that it's better to do a PLF and walk, than to break your ancle and not beeing able to jump for 8 weeks. I've seen to many broken ancles this summer. There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Hang in there... I had problems during Level 1-7 too. Took me 8 jumps before I got to level 4. (ouch!!! said my bank account). My problem solved itself when I was allowed to jump with sneakers, instead of boots. (Students have to jump with boots that gives ancle support at my dz). Suddenly I felt the wind on my feet. Suddenly I was in control and then I relaxed. From there I just surfed through the rest of the levels. Not all instructor are good at finding and solving your problems. The best piece of advice I can give is to jump more. Relax and be friends with the wind. Once you stop fighting it, it comes natural. I know it isn't easy. Don't stress it, keep it fun! I can promise that jumping get more and more fun the more you jump. You might wanna try some really unstable exit. Play air guitar, backflips, superman, etc. They can be quite fun. Try to become unstable and get stable again, but be stable from 8000' and down so you got loads of time. The sky is our playground -Blue skies! There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

I've had malfunction on my alti too, But it was during a 4-way. I noticed in the plane going up that it didn't seem right. It jumped in 1000' steps. All the others had dytters and altimeters, so when we did breakof at 4000' I just countet 5 sec. It looked like 3000'. It felt like 3000' and it was 3000'. I prefer a working altimeter, though... It's nice however to know that you also can trust your inner clock a bit. Here what happend a sunset load once... --- In the plane. Everyone has seated down and buckled up: JM: Hey, you don't have an altimeter, shall I run and get one for you? Jumper: Nah, don't bother. No googles so it's gonna be blury anyway... --- There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

All jewlery is practically pointless. I think they look nice. I've heard some say that you should have 200 jumps to wear one, but I don't think that is a general rule. One of these days I'm gonna get me one. If you're of the dz, other skydivers will notice. Allways good to have a spare... -fudd There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

You kid me not! I had to do 4 extra level III jumps. Just didn't managed to stay on heading. Then it all suddenly felt so natural. I relaxed and were in full control. Just the flunked level III jumps costed me more than $500. I would recomend the AFF track, though. It's the safest, quickest and best way to learn. -fudd There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

A little program in the taskbar that checks for new messages shouldnt be to complicated. It only has to send some http request to dz.com and check for new messages in the database. It will have to log in to keep track though, and we'll be getting even mor "too many connections" Still, not a bad Idea

You got to catch us fast...and it won't last! I Have a job with a decent salary. A decent car. My own apartment downtown and a steady girlfriend

I have a very worn out PD that I load at 1.1 aprox. My landings in no wind condition always ends with a crash. With a little wind it lands fine. To wrap the steering/brake lines around your hand, won't help you, unless they are too long. You will only stall your canopy, and probably land even harder. Improved flaring technic and increased speed in the landing helps. But to use the front risers to get high velocity landings can be dangerous, and you could hurt yourself. You probably know that... If you're in doubt if the canopy is very worn or not, you could ask an experienced jumper (maybe a rigger) to test jump it. -fudd

Simular to an incident at Æra/Norway this weekend. During a 16-way, a persons container opened. The cameraman that where filming from above noticed and got the ---- out of the way and most of the others noticed and splitt. The bag didn't come out of the container, but it was a close call. He stayed untill all the others had splitt, threw out the PC and had a normal deployment The rest of the weekend nobody were sloppy and skipped pin checks. I weren't on the jump, so I don't got all the details. Only saw the video afterwards... There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

To charge the friend for manslaughter is a bit far, but at least he's got a moral responsibility. I you see a drunk friend grab his carkeys to go for a drive, you should try and stop him/her. That's what friends do. As for the BASE scenario. If someone says to you they are going to do a basejump, and just need to know how to pull because he never jumped a parachute before. Would you show him how to operate the hand deploy, or tell the persone to get proper training? We are all 100% responsible for our actions, but we also have a responsibility to stop other from doing stupid things. -Fudd There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.