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I've had a similar bad experience with a digital alti this week. It seemed like the screen "froze". I was tracking for a few seconds, since we broke off higher than I am used to, I though about looking at it halfway in the track, it said 3.6k. It stayed that way for what I swear could have been a good 4-5 seconds, after/during which time I of course went ahead and pulled. After pulling, I went back to my alti and it was still set on 3.6k. My 2.5k alarm on my audible went off shortly thereafter toward the end of the deployment process, which is more or less the altitude I roughly guessed to be at that point. I looked at the altimeter back and forth and I think I saw it de-freezing and going from 3.6 to 2.5 instantly. It could have been just my impression, maybe. Maybe not. I've had small problems with my N3 under canopy before, mainly it would revert back to airplane mode (maybe because of some ascension current) and thus it would make reading the altitude much harder, but never in freefall. I guess I'll wait and see if it does that again. Bottom line, altimeter are for the most part expensive toys. Rely on them but not too much because the do break. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

I think that for a beginner, a "proper" RW suit is the best choice. Or a "proper" freefly suit, if that's what you want to do. Either way, the need to "tune" your speed with the multispeed, although handy, is more a feature for people that need it, mainly instructors and so on, who need to quickly adjust their configuration between loads based on the students, and maybe don't want to have 3 jumpsuits laying around. For the regular fun jumper, especially a beginner, I think this capability would do more harm than good. The fact that the multispeed doesn't have grippers makes me think that is really aimed at instructors specifically. Learning to adjust your neutral freefall speed based on the type of jump is a great skill to develop at the beginning stage anyway! I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Basically, "TARD Over" your reserve. I like it! I would just add some swinging of the harness to get that flip right. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

I sincerely hope the USAF is not thinking of seriously using the F-35 for CAS. It's a way too complex, advanced, delicate, and fragile machine for such a dirty role, where you'll meet a II WW flak fire wall capable of taking you down, regardless of your stealth, smart bombs, advanced avionics, VTOL capability, supersonic cruise, all nice features but useless when they are throwing good old school lead at you. USAF has an A-10 built specifically for that role, and it excels at it. It's tough, it's ugly, it's deadly, it's built to do one thing, and it does it extremely well with extreme survivability, all things that the F-35 will never achieve in this specific role. USAF, since it doesn't have aircraft carriers, has no reason to pursuit real CAS with the F-35. It would be like trying to win an offroad race with a track car. Navy, on the other hand, is in a pickle at the moment when it comes to real CAS. There is no perfect aircraft that can do that AND be on a carrier. Some good compromises, the A/F-18 probably being the closes they've got, but still not exactly "close" as real "close air support" would want. Navy used it that way in Afghanistan though and probably now, again, in Iraq and it's doing a decent job. At the end of they day, if you're in the military part of your job is making work at your best what you're given and make do. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

From nzaero website: http://www.nzaerosports.com/massive-information/canopy-set-up I'd expect this numbers to be reasonable and applicable to most "normal" canopies out there. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

This is Dave's website, he is a guy at our DZ with a passion for photography. I believe his pics are amazing and his website lets you download them at full-res, which should be great for posters. I don't know exactly what his copyright is, but since he lets anybody download the hi-res, I'd expect him to be happy to let you use them for any of your school project, just make sure you let him know and credit him or his website in your final work. There are A LOT of cool pics on this website, some of them were also published on Parachutist etc. http://www.skydivingstills.com/Skydiving And of course, if you want to see some professional picture of skydiving, here is the website of one of my favorite in-air photographers of all times, Norman Kent: http://www.normankent.com/photogallery Although, since that's his "day job" it might be harder to get authorization to use his images, but since you're doing a poster for a school project, he's probably also cool with that, if there is something you'd like to use, again, you can always shoot him an email and see his reply. He is very helpful when you ask him question about his work, I've had a couple of discussion with him about the gear he uses and he's very happy to discuss that, so you probably would get a positive answer if you ask. ;) I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

And pray she's not good with math and has working knowledge of statistics, or else she'll see right through the fallacy of this argument. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

And before GooniesKid says anything, there are " that many hot sky diving chicks" at most DZs, they just hide somewhere else when he's around! I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

The real disturbing thing with this topic is that I don't need to open normiss attachment to know exactly what kind of pony he's talking about. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Risk balance, I guess. Since we are talking about the cutaway handle, we want to reduce the risk of chopping your canopy when you least expect, the soft handle reduced this risk, thinking that if you have to chop you still have time to go for it. With the reserve handle, we wasted our time, we want to go for a quick reach. Personally, at the moment I use D-rings, but I'm thinking if it's worth switching them for soft handles, I haven't decided yet. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Jumptown, check. :) http://vimeo.com/99177334 I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Italian drivers probably sincerely reciprocate your warm feelings. Or, more likely, they don't give a shit? I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

more like fubar. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

One person at my DZ uses it. I asked him what he thinks because I am considering to go with it for my first camera mount, and he likes it. So once I'll have money for a G3+GoPro+Mount (1000 dollars later? lol) I think I'll give it a go. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Why not another belly reserve? In a nutshell, because we don't want to. :) Nobody or nothings prohibits you to modify a regular harness to install the snaps to mount a belly reserve in front of you. I've seen it done when they test prototypes and plan on intentional cutaways, it's a "standard" procedure (actually, in these cases it's mandatory). I guess you could do it for your "normal" gear too but they already told you the reason why we prefer not to. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

For what is worth, I consider the 2m target the peas (in DZs where A licenses are allowed to hit the peas), or the big X everywhere else. They're generally reasonable estimations, I think. If I land inside the peas or inside the arms of the X, that's

I am not clear if the problem is with your GROUP (in that case, yes, it can be, occasionally groups let people do a higher pull in place when friends are trying canopy or there is a big difference of experiences, but it's a little more dangerous if not done right, every other group has to know and plan accordingly, it stops the dive flow for everybody, so it's something you want to do occasionally for specific reasons and not routinely just because a guy likes to pull high...it's just not a good practice) or with your LOAD (in that case, as long as you communicate with the load organizer and you exit accordingly, the only other problems are with upper winds and spots, but they are fairly manageable). I've been to a handful of DZ in this last year, from small family owned single cessna DZ to big DZ with multiple turbine loads in the air at the same time. I've never been refused a high pull (except once, I was "strongly discouraged", because the upper were too strong for my WL and experience, I didn't think about it but I thought about asking). If you know who to ask and you are understanding of the fact that it might not always be possible to satisfy your request, I'd say that generally there are no problems with it! Next time somebody brings up "safety/load organizing issues" asks specifically "what issues?" and listen to the explanation. Generally speaking though, when I think of high pull, I'd think of doing a solo (or a group of high pullers) and pulling at 11-12k, routinely pulling at 6k, right in the middle of other people's freefall might concern a couple of LOs for good reason. If you have to pull high, get out very last of the load, let the pilot take you further out and take a very short delay to pull above 10k-ish if not a real clear and pull, so you stay out of the way for the whole time (only thing, better if the pilot knows so he won't turn into your canopy after he's done with jumprun, and also he'll wait for you to get the longer spot you need). I love high pulls. The high pull at sunset two or three miles out over the Arizona desert is still to date one of my best jumps ever! I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Still better than entangled in your reserver PC!! Good job on saving your life! I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Your prospect of long term survival does, though. Everything you do has a chance of causing death, but if this chance is small you have to do it many times to approach a high possibility of this to happen. It's all relative. And defining what your "acceptable risk" is, well, that's part of skydiving and every skydiver should have thought about it. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Jees, es super-hi, you never pull above fi thousan feet. He could have die that day. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

On the other hand, charging them with burglary when they are clearly not involved in nay burglary, either real or attempted, is not justice at all. Reckless endanger? Sure. Illegal BASE activity? Pretty much so. Trespassing? Yup. I understand how a metropolis does not want people jumping from their skyscraper for fun and all. But they are not burglars, they weren't there to commit any burglary and to go after them with that just for the sake of hitting them as hard as they can, is not justice. The correct name for that is simple: false and wrong accusation. It has nothing to do with pride. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Seriously, it's clear a joke, guys. That can't be safe: they use rigs without skyhooks. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

I started jumping at Danielson a few months back. Danielson is a small DZ but the people there have great hearts and all they want to do is make sure you have a great experience: safety first, fun second. It is a small DZ so right now they only fly little Cessna 182s, but that makes it also very easy to get there and be sure that on a good weather day, there is always somebody to fun jump with and the loads are going. Everybody is super friendly, the new owners really take pride in what they do and make you feel welcome since your first step in the DZ. They also are very good at communicating what's going on using social networks, so once you're "in-the-loop" you'll always know the current weather situation, who's out at the DZ, if they're jumping, what events they are organizing and so on. They also try to organize as many events as they can, like canopy classes, seminars, coach classes. It's also good for beginners, because there is a high ratio of very experienced jumpers that are always happy to share and help with anything, from coaching to canopy hint, to packing tips etc. I honestly try to go there as much as I can. Don't get fooled by the physical size of the DZ or the constant laughs: those people are serious and know what they are doing! They organize "Wicked Wednesdays", which means that every Wednesday they run $14 hop and pops all day long. Those days get quite busy, with jumpers from all over New England and then there is usually BBQs, bonfires, and all the good DZ bonanza that comes with a good day of jumping. If you're free on a Wednesday and want to get some jumps in, make sure you check that out.

***"the warning label "Maximum exit weight 269 lb.". It's already been thoroughly answered and you decided to upsize, good call. But in a nutshell, my consideration on the matter is: what that means is "we test-dropped it with a weight of 269lb (plus maybe 25 more lbs to add a safety margin, if we were in a good mood when we ran the tests) and that's the total weight we know it consistently opens without blowing up, breaking lines, tearing cells apart and all other funky things that can happen". Anything above that, it's on you. It might work, it might not, simply put: we don't know and we don't care. These considerations are even more important when looking at the maximum exit weight of your reserve. A terminal opening on a reserve that is not TSO'd for your exit weight might be fatal, regardless of your skill level. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Not entirely correct. Also, the "horizon" is not exactly where you want to look. Don't take this type of advice from internet, discuss it with an instructor, they'll be happy to go through the final phase of the landing with you on the ground. Get some instructors to have a look at a couple of your landings and use their feedback before everything else, if you tell them you have these problems they'll probably offer help without you even having to ask. Actually, at 7 jumps they should be watching all your landings and giving you feedback anyway. :) I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.