jeremyneas

Wasn't me!!! DAMN http://relativeworkshop.com

Staff only, 500+ min for me

drop me an email and i'll mail you a program...you know...one of those 'shareware' ones. neasj@hotmail.com

Jib, you are my hero edit...this is a great website...thanks ...again quinkydink that i'm thinking pre-law and am helped by a lawyer...nice

YES!!! if you can't rely on other skydivers to help you out in a jam...talk about disappointing resources

search engines suck, too busy sifting through all the garbage. i'm sure someone will straighten out this crap called the internet one day, unfortunately i'm cleaning up a report tonite

professional papers written by professionals (licenced by the state...) about the effects of adrenaline in the body during skydiving. would be grand...tkx

when mine broke, they had a new one on my doorstep in 2 days before they saw the defective one. customer service is top notch in my book

get in your car NOW and drive south, you'll have no rain all weekend, and cool experience at another DZ

start packing!

yeah, but it's only temporary imagine the advertisements for that one!!! seriously, some boogies and events have ambulences standing by for quick response

I felt shortchanged too, just cause i did the military thing before college, i can't compete because i make a living (partial) with skydiving (instruction and video)

Alright, i'm feeling it. I can see you points. I didn't jump today and learned something. Although, we could just get a bunch of mattresses and have a demo. Good thing i don't swoop anymore, i was way out of my league

i'm still not convinced...yet. mostly becuase my personal experience has shown me otherwise. mind you i'm not pulling out every jump, it's probably only happened to me 5 times (i can recall) when the pucker factor told me to GET OUT. but, 1 was a spectre, 1 on a stiletto, 1 on a batwing, and 2 on a VX. the VX just didn't give me the immediate response the others did. and the greatest responce came from the batwing, in which a 180 was done in the stupidest of fashion.

well, you did leave alot of catagories out...family man...students...people that work for DZ's for a living hey i'm all 3

I had a blind tandem passenger this year...but thats not the same thing is it. He did great though.

I'd like to address this, maybe to learn something. First out of personal experience, i have found that the 9 (stilettos) and 7 (spectres) cell canopies i have flown have alot more forgiving characteristics when it comes to pulling your ass out of the corner when low. I have flown similer sized FX and VX canopies that have considerably less umph to get out of similier situations. Luckally I noticed it up high and began to pull out of it, but just thinking that a little lower and it would have been iffy at best. Second, from the manufacturers standpoint. Mind you, i'm not cutting these parachutes. Icarus boasts a selling point of tail deflection. According to them, traditional canopies have a 20%, FX sits at 11% and the VX at 8.7%. If you found yourself diving toward the earth and yanking on the toggles in panic to get out, with 20% tail deflection, your going to produce more drag, and more drag is going to slow you down faster to plane out faster...maybe more abruptly, but faster safer. Derek, I liked (and understood) what you said but you didn't address the drag situation.

"getting out of the corner" is the same as being to low in the hook turn. the 'corner' is straight down from the final downplane, you want that to be a curved motion, but the closer you get to the ground before you pull out the more your decent under the canopy looks like a abrupt angle. swoopers have to be aware of the pendulum effect but, not like a person starting out. there is no worry of pulling out to high and having the canopy slow down and having no flare for the landing. the essence of pulling out of a low turn means that either your going to have the flare in the plane out or your going to hit the ground before it does. the way i interupt seeing the ground at the 'wrong angle' would be if your carving in for landing, in which case your using your toggles and have control of the canopy in that situation, this would be more of a heads up thing, than trying to 'pull' out of a bad situation.

Skydive Walterboro in South Carolina. 2 Cessna 182's and when it gets busy they break out the Cessna 172! Picnic table by the landing area!!! Now I haven't been there in 5 years but most definately the #1 DZ, no doubt

if you hear swoopers talk to each other enough you'll hear phrases like "i had to pull out of that one earlier than expected" to "you pulled that one out of your ass". they are doing what you described. they were too low or the canopy dove more than anticipated and they had to bail out of the swoop for safety or fear. most people go strait to brakes and plane the canopy out as fast as possible. most of the time it just scraps their distance or makes a harder than normal landing. traditional 9 cell canopies have an advantage over crossbrased canopies in "pulling out" because they have more tail deflecting, increasing their chances of planeing out without the stall. what am i missing here? this is a good thread

don't swoop near flagpoles!!!

i'll admit there have been some scary CO swoop accidents lately, and most have been from jumpers with alot of experience, which makes them even scarier. we have it harder becuase with our altitude, and the crazy winds that move with the mountains (especially in winter). the swoopers at higher than normal altitudes have a narrower margin of error, especially the ones that have to learn here.

JP, i love you man, but you wrong. I definately think your ranting about your customers bitchy habits but 5 years ago... ...there was ready to mount helmets, from the cheapys paralite, system 3, to midrange, stealth, headhunter (those BIG ASS enclosed topmounts to stop hi8 flutter LOL), the mindwarp, to the expensive ones, batrac just came out, the flat top pro... ...it was plug and play, i remember around that time i switched from a cam eye1 to a cam eye 2, the difference, button, sure you had to turn the camera on and off and had to load the cam eye 1 with AAA batts and mount the light sensor to the rec light, but it was gucci compared to 5 years before that... ...bite switches went from splicing a bite switch to something concocted from radio shack, or a finger clicker, but conceptus gucci'd them right up, making it easier, and i was one of the first people to switch, becuase it was easier and nicer. even so, conceptus was around 5 years ago. ...the helmets got nicer and stronger, and can protect a camera very well, the cameras are better, the switches are cleaner and easier to operate, with less maintence. the cameras are are treated so much better, no wind to worry about, no tape all over the place, shit...gaffers had an account in my name ...it's so easy to use and set up that everyone has the opportunity to film their buddies without the headaches of radio shack personal hounding them for their phone numbers. ...as i type i have a table full of brand new equipment setting up my 3rd complete camera setup in my skydiving career, and this one is by far the cleanest, sharpest, most effective setup i ever had and the cost from my last setup is less than a 1/3..thats nutz, thats progress. and skydiving is like burger king, we all greazy!!!

As i am one of the few victims of the dive loop escapades i will tell you that dive loops are definately the way to go. after said accident, i had blocks installed on my fronts and now that my nerve is back a little, even front 90's are hard because you have to grab the block alot harder (gripwise) than you would in the loop. even 90s make the riser want to pull out early. and likely you'll drop it distorting the canopy quickly (as opposed to easing it out). disadvantage of the block also is i can't get the slider down (SRC's prevent it also). the accident you saw was the fault of the diver (me) using dive loops with homemade stitching for the use of keeping the loop big and round instead of laying flat against the riser for easy in and out. also don't forget that i did 12 tandems before that jump that day, and decided against wearing gloves because i was so damn tired, me skinny long fingees had something to do with it also. fuckup...learn...don't do it again (assuming your givin the chance )

I don't know...would you buy a Firestone tire if the ad was an Explorer blowing out the front tire at 80mph on the highway ready to flip over... ...even if the stupid driver just drove over a bunch of broken glass. If the glass isn't in the picture, we don't know if it's the cause so we assume it's the tire. How can we assume anything from the pic? The only facts are that it's a Cobolt and that it's not performing very well (reguardless of what the pilot is doing, it doesn't look intentional)... ...he could have just "run over glass" (i.e. fucked up the landing [mostlikely], but that evidence isn't in the pic. Marketing Mayhem!!!