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And it only costs 20% more than an ATLAS altimeter. 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.

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AMEN! Hydration and Nutrition. That is some golden rule to keep in mind if you want to keep going for the whole day. Whichever works for you, fruit, nutrition bars, etc. but I know I get fiercely hungry when I skydive. And if I don't drink, I know I'll have a royal headache at the end of the 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.

I think there is also a big part of a "cultural" problem. From what I've noticed in the Anglo-Saxon world in general, any amount of drinking and working is frowned upon, regardless of the job: even more so if the job/activity is safety critical like skydiving. I've had many instance of people telling me that having "a beer" during a business lunch was not exactly appropriate, even if it wasn't a big deal either. On the contrary, in Italy, Spain, etc. ONE glass of wine or ONE beer over lunch is generally given for granted. Heck, we used to serve wine at the cafeteria of the military base I used to go to. That might or might not be because, from what I've learned after hanging with you guys (Brits, Americans, Australians), there is no such a thing as ONE beer. which is more like an euphemism for 4 or 5. So in that respect, even though I think ONE beer over the course of a lunch would not affect the judgement and motor skills of anyone, I am also ok with waiting a few hours before having "one beers" (sic.). 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.

Hard to say, it could be actual motionsickness, or it could simply be the effect of anxiety, adrenaline rush, etc. I remember getting quite sick (stomach etc) before a jump, because of anxiety and being nervous, I was positive it wasn't motion sickness (never suffered from it the slightest bit). And yes, after two jumps in a day, I would be totally drained because of this tension. It eventually went away after a couple dozens jumps. Now I can do 7-8 jumps in a day and simply feel like it's been a great day and anticipating the following day like that. If you never suffered from motion sickness, then I'd be more prone to say it's other factors, but it's hard to say. If you can manage a couple of jumps per day while being on top of your game and staying safe (i.e. head's in the game), then I'd say don't worry and go for it, I'm willing to bet it'll get better, even if IT IS motion sickness, taking anxiety out of the equation should help a little. Just always make sure that when you exit that door, you are not feeling like total shit because then it won't simply be not enjoyable, but it could potentially be dangerous. If you have to call a day after one or even zero jumps, do so. If you feel like one day you can go for 3 or 4, do so. Know thyself. :) 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.

True that. You're of course right, mine was more of a tongue-in-cheek joke. 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.

If you were able to squeeze a whole extra 180 degs in your turn, you began too high to start with. Which is a good thing, because with that attitude, and peculiar interpretation of the word "abort", if you started at the right altitude, we'd be reading an incident report. 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.

Classic situation where both paths can end up in bad or good outcomes, and it really depends on luck. I personally am a fan of the one-handle approach for every case where the main risers are still tucked in: no tension on risers, no clean cutaway. But that's just me. If the risers are still stowed, so is the bag, probably, which really only leaves us with only a PC in tow as a possibility, if we know we threw that PC. Also, I'd rather deal with a two out of sort, than with an entanglement. As for the students, or refreshers, I generally don't correct them as long as I see they have clear ideas on what to do, whichever procedure they describe correctly is OK with me (and with the USPA). It's one of those situation where, as long as you properly do one of the two things, you'll *probably* be fine.

It's a nice and useful thought, I'll keep that in mind, although it's been a while since I brought a 'packed reserve' to my riggers. Let's just say it's been an interesting year... but I certainly gained some first-hand insight on the validity and effectiveness of those EPs of ours that we teach so adamantly.

If a Sabre2 doesn't open naturally most of the times, and by most of the times I mean almost every time, either you need to learn how to pack it, or you need to fix it. As I said, you have a problem with it. See "generally speaking". What I said it's clear: on a "normal", common, current canopy, the ones jumped nowadays and built in the last two decades or so, this should not be necessary. If you consistently (again, notice consistently, of course it might happen every so often) need to do weird maneuvers on opening like pumping brakes, grabbing toggles etc. you have a problem. We shouldn't be doing it. Those are all operations meant at fixing occasional problems, they should not be your "normal opening procedure". Stop. 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.

Just throwing it out there, pulling on rears (constantly, non pumping) can also 'stall' an opening, i.e. make it "snivel forever". Hard to do on big canopies, but possible. And quite fun to do, if intentional and controlled. I am sure this will happen anyway, but make sure a good rigger inspects your main before putting it together. Generally speaking and for the type of canopies we jump, there should be no reason to pump the rears to make a canopy open, if you need that, then you already have a problem. 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.

Easy-piecy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity 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.

Well, I mean, it all comes down to money. Of course having two separate rigs is very convenient, but also makes an expensive sport even more expensive. There is also the consideration that you'll be flying very different canopies, so that might bite you in the ass at some point, especially after a hot, tiring day etc. That being said, it will make jumping easier and quicker. I still think it's worth it, depending on your budget availability and dedication to the sport. I am going toward a two rigs solution, as my main focus this coming year will be coaching and videoing for work, while dedicating to swooping as the personal skill development of choice, and those things go well together, while wingsuit and other stuff does not, I plan on putting everything else on a side for now. My current rig has a safire 129 in it, which I'll keep as wingsuit or turn-rig but I don't plan on putting too much use on it, except when we'll need to do back to back work jumps or the occasional ws jump. Come think about it, I might probably sell it halfway through the season depending on how things 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.

Good decision and well done! Just out of curiosity, what canopy is that and what's the WL? It dives pretty hard, even for a line over of that kind. Again, well fucking done, buddy. 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.

Agreed. To me, seems totally like adjustable MLW that was let for a way way longer guy. Our rigger at the DZ and I had the discussion about it not long ago, when I inadvertently didn't adjust the harness for a student and the exact same thing happen. Even if the guy is a big guy, that distance between the handles and the hip rings is way-way too big. I'm willing to bet that the 3rings sits way to backward over the shoulders, Coaches/Instructors are supposed to check the fit of the harness but for adjustable harnesses is easy to forget that. If you have a picture on exit or on the ground, that might help to figure it out. Anyway, tighetining up the MLW should definitely help, the chest strap should be a chest strap, not a neck strap, handles should be a couple of inches below your nipples and hip rings should sit on the rings. 3Rings should sit in front of your shoulder bone, whatever the name is. A little bit of difference is acceptable, but if you differ too much, you'll have uncomfortable rides. Or worse. 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.

Go tot he DZ on a weathered out day, bring beer, grab a grounded instructor/rigger, "bribe" them and and learn to pack! You have to for your license, learning it's very time consuming and you don't want to waste a morning of good weather doing it. You don't need any jumping experience to learn how to pack a parachute, on the other hand knowing it will give you a good knowledge of the gear that will make learning stuff through your course much more reasonable and easier. 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.

Damn, the guy's a hustler! To be honest, he did get a pretty cool video though. 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.

At Jumptown (Orange, Massachusetts), where I jump almost every weekend, I've seen several paraplegics do tandems, of course not often (I want to say groups of a few people once or twice a season and 3 or 4 more over the season, and honestly I am not sure if most are fully paraplegic or only leg impaired, and how that would affect a tandem flight), I would assume that it takes a bit of extra preparation, maybe only the most experienced TMs feel comfortable doing it etc. no idea really, so you probably want to give the DZ a call well in advance to arrange the whole thing etc. BUT I know for a fact we are very very happy to welcome them and have them safely jump. So, long story short and since I don't want to talk on things I don't know... call them, explain the situation and see if they will be able to accommodate all the special needs. It is certainly something that can be done. I have "a strong feeling" that it will all work out. 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.

A driving license. 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.

without getting in the specifics of "swooping advice over the internet", something I will say is: a base leg is used to set up a swoop, if you want to build consistency it's very important that you don't give any (or as little as possible) input to your canopy in the seconds before starting your turn. You're toggling very heavily right before starting your turn, that induces cycles in your canopy... which results in your arc, swoop etc. being inconsistent and unpredictable. That's very bad. Use your base leg to let all the remaining cycles in your canopy to die down, usually about 8 seconds to subside, without unnecessary inputs that dirty the flight cycle. There are many other things but you need a good canopy coach to tell you more. These kinds of things will all be discussed in a canopy class, like flight 1 201 and 202, or anything similar offered by serious canopy coaches, TAKE THEM. They are worth every penny. 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 don't think I've ever heard any canopy instructor discouraging anybody from taking a canopy class. If anything, a higher WL is a reason to take it! Best money you can spend in the sport. 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.

That is correct. I just got off the phone with them for other reasons but they mentioned this. 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.

Before you worry about what happens in a descending plane, you should, let me be clear: YOU FUCKING HAVE TO, know what type of AAD you have (basically, between expert/pro and student AAD), because some of them behave very differently, particularly between 1100 and 750 ft if they are cypres, and students' AADs are really easy to fire doing "stuff" under canopy (whether the canopy is a student canopy or not) in that range. I assume that if the rental gear has non-student canopies, they will also have non-student AAD, but you really want to double check that, and if they are AAD with the capability to change mode (all Vigils and, now, some cypres) you HAVE TO to make sure it's in the appropriate setting when you turn it on in the morning. Make sure you're familiar with the AADs your shop uses, please. The possibility of having a two-out below 1000ft because your AAD was wrongly configured or you have the wrong AAD for the type of canopy is a much more serious, and probable, issue than the relatively rare, and arguably more controllable, occurrence of having a fire in an airplane. 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.

Most of these pictures from a, ehm, rather familiar environment , were taken with the 70-200 F4 referred to in this topic. https://www.flickr.com/photos/di0/sets/72157647244359978 If you're interested in giving it a try, I can take it with me to the DZ next time I come there and you can play with 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.

7 in 2 years. Not bad but it could be better. 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.