Cajones

Wait... Are you implying I beat you to a "load?" I, sir, am a flaming heterosexual. At least that's what Lew tells me. BTW: You should change your dz.com nick to "Ganja" - it fits you much better. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

I can't believe you used the word "load" in that response... The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Could be one or more of a dozen factors. Slider creep, pilot chute spin-up due coming through your wing burble, etc.. As a side-note though - the thought of a pull-out with a moderate to large size wing gives me the creepies. Your PC is coming from the burble. I've seen at least one pale-faced cameraman land scared enough to get rid of his pull-out before he'd put his wings back on. This, in-turn, brings up another point I haven't mentioned in a long time... If you're jumping wings - you have a huge burble! Practice your emergency procedures, including good symmetry with wings collapsed! The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Something important to most of us. Feel free to elaborate or post pictures. I'm a combination person. Shave some/trim others. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

How about... "You can't stalk the willing." The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

It is possible a driver update has caused your video-in port to be invisible. Many of the "automatic" updates do not see specific models of video cards, rather just the chipset they are built on. Automatic updates (and even manual ones) may not install drivers to support all the features of your particular card. You can try restoring the old drivers (remove the newest ones, and install the drivers from the CD), or do a more thorough search for drivers specific to that card and not just specific to the chipset. - Cajones The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

The roll cage makes it too hard to put the camera on/off. The most useable benefit of the d-box is it makes it easy to pull the camera off very quickly/easily to change tape/batteries/shoot ground footage. - Cajones The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Instead of a Stroboframe QR, I'd say get a BH d-box for the 120. Bolt the d-box to your top-mount, and leave it there. The camera is pretty easy in/out, is much better protected, and a bit more line/riser-strike streamlined. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

No apology necessary. I was aware of this, in spite of the television portrayal that it constitutes entrapment. You actually have to prove the officer enticed you to do something you wouldn't have done on your own. Difficult, at best, when it comes to BASE jumping. My premise was more in - how do we check out the background of newbies? We generally don't. We don't care where they come from, or what they do for a living (unless they happen to work for a tower company or can bring some form of stimulation to the parties). Our community carries enough cautious suspicion of anyone interested in BASE jumping, as is. We don't need to further this with a questionnaire. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

They ain't cheap, but they are the coolest things you can strap to your feet... Check out Customatix. They're still a little "underground" for the light hearted, but will be all the rage - especially with the types that like all their stuff in all the right colors. Lew just got a sweet pair of slip-ons. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Read my response in the videots forum. - Cajones The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

I'm not an optometrist, but I am familiar with the condition you have. It is referred to as "Ambi-Eyed." It is the visual equivalent of Ambidextrious (sp?), wherein both eyes are equally dominant (or neither is dominant - if you prefer). - Cajones The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

What are you suggesting we do? Should we ask every BASE jumper we know... "Are you an officer of the law? Are you associated in any way with Law Enforcement?" I don't think we're important enough to draw this sort of attention. Keeping an officer undercover long enough to get "in" with any substantial number of BASE communities would be hugely expensive. BASE jumping is not the sort of crime that drug dealing is. We are not affecting anyone other than ourselves. So long as we follow good BASE ethics (a word used strangely correct, here) and don't leave behind evidence we were even there - I see no reason we would come under any special sort of scrutiny. Leave only footprints... - Cajones The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Ditto. The microMV is not quite ready to force its way into mainstream skydiving video. My vote is for the TRV70. I believe you'll be happier in the long-run. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

We all pick 'em. Where do you put them? No multiple answers in the poll, so whatever you do most commonly. If you save the real gold-mine types, you can explain in a post... The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Okay... Time for another actual malfunction in an effort to clear some of this noise up and provide something useful from all the BS tangents... When I was a young static-line instructor, I accompanied a student on a 45-second delay. During his skydive, she was supposed to execute a 360 degree left turn, followed by a 360 degree right turn, within 30 degrees of her original heading. After initiating her first turn, she began to turn very, very fast - the word spinning comes up, but her body position was creating it, and she did nothing to counter it. Following the skydive she said she was disoriented by the fast turn and lost altitude awareness - she deployed while in this orientation resulting in some hellacious line-twists. Unable to clear the malfunction by her decision altitude, she initiated her emergency procedures. She was still kicking out the twists as she pulled the SOS handle, resulting in a reserve that also had some line twists. These were cleared in time to have a safe, into-the-wind landing. This former student is now an Instructor, and has been known to fly jumpers from time-to-time. Conclusion she has talked about during discussions about her first cutaway: "Thank god I was under a huge canopy, if I was under a 'napkin,' I'd be dead." I put quotes around the statement, as these are her words (as closely as I can write them). Her wingloading saved her (my interpretation). - Cajones The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

This is a very interesting thread... Talk of greasy food, lesbians, quivering excitement, Vallerina in cuffs, coke, and Lou's ass... Sounds like a real party! - Cajones The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Just curious - why are you only considering front entry? Is there a particular reason you are opposed to rear entry? - Cajones The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Wingloading had nothing to do with this fatality. An RSL may have saved him. An AAD more likely would have. These three factors (AAD,wingloading, and RSL's) are the distinctly different issues. Most tragic incidents are a chain of events. The key to preventing these tragic events is in identifying and breaking this chain. Any of these three devices can contribute to diverting a series of events away from a tragic ending. You were given opportunities to spell out the intention of your statements and the purpose of this thread. You made one very simple statement to do so... More than one person has tried to explain to you that there is no "yes" or "no" formatted response. Not a well thought out one, anyhow. The purpose of this forum is to discuss and learn. Many, many people view these threads without comment. Some of them are students or low-time jumpers. People like Bill and Lisa (skybytch) are especially conscious of this in their replies. Others, I'm certain, are also. As you argue (read - not discuss) the points given by replies by taking them on tagents and possibilities unrelated to the issue, you add noise and confusion to this - a learning - environment. I know of no other way to educate and discuss issues than giving examples,statistics, realistic scenarios, and sharing personal experience. Especially when the topic of discussion does not have a black-and-white or "yes" and "no" answer. Most of these themes have been used here to near exhaustion. I'll make one more use of one, as I still have hope you are not simply a troll looking for a place to argue and create controversy (if you are, please relocate to the nearest bridge - the only bridges found on this website are under the "Talk Back" forum). Early in my skydiving history, I remember the first Boogie I attended. I was jumping borrowed gear, that included a Pegasus main (and a round reserve). The main was fairly large, the actual square footage - I do not know. I was flying in my holding area, and another load that got out after the load I was on started flying into the pattern area as I was about to, also. Not wanting to attempt to merge with much faster traffic, I opted for a secondary landing area. Still a bit confused, and very few jumps on this particular main, due to the sudden change in plans, or simply because I lacked the skills/experience as a canopy pilot, I set up very long on my final. Mistakenly, I applied some brakes to "slow down" and try to shorten my approach. This just made my approach even longer. I did some s-turns, and found myself flying crosswind with other jumpers flying toward me (they would've passed beneath me, I was later told with an acceptable margin). This added to my stress, as I thought I was messing up their landing pattern. I initiated a hard 270 degree toggle turn at what witnesses called "about 100 feet." I had barely enough time to get back under my canopy (or so it seemed - again witnesses told me I completed the turn above 30 feet), get my feet together, and flare. It scared the bejeezus out of me. With the experience I carry today, I know, had I been jumping a more heavily loaded canopy (like a Nova 150, which I bought 2 years later) - I'd be maimed, or more likely - dead. My light wingloading "yes" saved me. - Cajones The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Does your camera display the video during playback? Make sure your camera is on and connected before you open Premiere. Highlight the timeline, and press Enter. Do you see video on the LCD of your camcorder? Let's switch to PM's... The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Microdrives are also not recommended for skydiving. The platter floats on "air-bearings" - as IBM calls it. A rapid change in pressure can cause the drives to fail. The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Don't despair, Bill. I agree with what you posted. And I look forward seeing the agree/disagree comments from rgoper on the other statements you made, since everything is black-and-white in his world. In the meantime... If your canopy is less than perfect - should you chop it? - Cajones The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

I'll still count it as a happy ending. And we all like happy endings! Sweet! The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

I'm with Deuce on the d-box. It's good armor/insurance for your camera. Cajun looks like he's put together a nice setup, and a pretty comprehensive list. If you're going minimum profile, look at some of the integrated side-mount helmets. There are trade-offs with some of the helmets in terms of using them for future cameras. Helmets like the SkyPimp and FF2 that recess the camera offer excellent profile advantages, with very low snag potential. Adding stills to the top of these helmets creates what I've heard described as a "giant gaping mouth waiting to catch a riser" between the camera body and helmet. Even more versatile cousins like the Optik share this caveat. For good profile, flexibility, and basic protection, the BatRack is hard to beat (if you are planning on stills, also) it even includes a tidy little cutaway system. These are also thermo-fit, so they adapt to your noggin' pretty snug. Adding my $.02 a Canadian Nickel at a time... - Cajones The laws of physics are strictly enforced.

Umm... Can I get the 3-1/2 minutes of my life back? Who do I see for refunds??? The laws of physics are strictly enforced.