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  1. Blis
    If you wish to make some good decisions then find a canopy coach/mentor to guide you, start learning to swoop in baby steps (straight finals, straight finals while landing on rears, straight finals with added speed etc...) and work your way up to 90's and 180's. That should be enough to keep things exciting for couple hundred jumps more and then start thinking about a high performance canopy... Or just get xfire2 right now, jump couple dozen jumps and pound in. After that you can spend next few decades watching skydiving videos from your wheelchair, the choice is yours... ps. You never mentioned any flying skills, have you tried any of the following or are comfortable in handling them (rear riser stalls, toggle stalls, one-sided rear riser stalls, bail outs)...
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    Range comes from your flying skills and with suit you can adjust where that range lies... From my personal experience when jumping with a tunnel suit versus summer clothes (t-shirt and swoop pants) the difference is noticeable, maybe 20-30km/h..
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    If you cant pack well forget stowless bags (and probaply semi-stowless too), they dont take well to stuffing the canopy in D-bag... Best idea would be to get someone (who really knows to how to pack!) teach you and start packing for yourself...
  4. Blis
    You are still thinking it with the ground as reference, forget the whole ground for a while and just keep thinking about the air mass... Canopys airspeed stays exactly the same whether you're going agaisnt headwind of flying with a tailwind, however your GROUNDSPEED does change... For the aerodynamics of the wing AIRSPEED is the only thing that matters...
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    As long as you meet your country's requirements for the license and have a LOGBOOK that shows that it shouldnt be a problem to convert your license... But australian license should be perfectly valid for spain...
  6. Blis
    Like others have said, premature deployment in freefly is always nasty business no matter what kind of d-bag you have... A friend of mine had similar situation with normal d-bag and he ended up with split canopy and had the canopy not split he would have broken his spine definitely... So, dont blame the D-bag for this...
  7. Blis
    Viso II+ should fill all your needs...
  8. Blis
    And that is the attitude that gets people killed in tracking dives ... Also when talking about tracking dives it's worth the effort to differentiate tracking dives from angle jumps, the former is quite flat and people with relatively low skills can join in one with the later being a really fast paced jump which requires a lot of thought put into safety and generally requires more skills...
  9. Blis
    .7 to .9 is the usual recommended range around here...
  10. Blis
    Been jumping my aero for last 280 jumps (and few hours in tunnel) or so and so far i've found little to complain about. Sure, the paintjob could be tougher but besides that I got nothing...
  11. Blis
    Seeing that you have been flying huge student canopy my bet is on un-finished flare.... But as said before, get canopy coaching and have someone film and debrief your landings, it's the quickest way to success...
  12. Blis
    My personal experience of 5 tunnel hours... I can manage sit-fly basics and do basic back carving (and little bit of belly carving) while my friend with same amount of hours is starting to work his head-down on the net (he's a PT and much more athletic than me)... So, 10 hours with a good coach will probaply mean a solid sit fly and some head down too with a dash of dynamics, however it depends a lot on your own ability...
  13. Blis
    Generally in europe they accept foreign licenses from visitors (as long as they fill other national requirements). So, it should be no problem...
  14. Blis
    For a girl of her size a 170 would mean wingloading of 0.76 or so, that is less than most people have on student canopy... Depending on her comfort level I would suggest either 150 or 135 9-cell canopy (with respective WL of 0.87 or 0.96 which both are on the extreme low end of recommended WL)....
  15. Blis
    Jumped a 170 magellan for 200 jumps or so, now flying a 150 magellan... Really decent canopy for the price and works fine for swooping too...
  16. Blis
    'Cept they're widely regarded as being confusing more than anything, and quite successful at getting in the way of people actually learning anything. This is very much second-hand info I have, but I've heard quite a few horror stories of people doing AFF in USA or Spain and then getting back to France only to find out they're not allowed to spot or pack their own canopy (!) until they have some ridiculous number of jumps (I think it was 100 or 150). .... Uhhh, you're not allowed to spot or pack before 100 jumps?? what the hell...
  17. Blis
    Buy better risers with real dive loops... or just add tape to loops until they hold their shape...
  18. Blis
    PF recommends atleast 80 jumps for tracking suit...
  19. Blis
    With booties? Also do you get a better glide ratio in a tracking suit? Yes and no, if you lack the skills tracking suit will probaply result in even worse glide ratio... Good tracker with a tracking suit can reach 1.5 glide ratio, with one piece maybe even high as 2.0
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    I have no clue about your local aviation laws but around here (depending on the airspace) he just needs a permission from the tower to drop jumpers and then it's all good Obviously you need to talk to the guy first if he never has flown jumpers becouse he needs to figure out the mass of the balloon and how much meat-weights he needs to make it back to ground after dropping off the jumpers and stuff like that... And even if he has you still need to talk to him before hand... A good balloon guy usually picks his own lift-off and landing sites but if he has no experience with jumpers you need to take care that you have several landable places along your path. Also make sure that your spotting skills are up-to-game becouse balloon jumping is mostly about spotting. If you suck at it there's a good chance you end up in a forest/powerline/lake/someones roof...
  21. Blis
    Call the balloon guy and agree on date, call out to other jumpers and arrange a load or two of jumpers AND some meat-weights (passengers). Get to agreed lift-off place and help the balloon guy with setting up everything and then just enjoy the ride and following jump... Also it's beneficial to stay around after the jump and help with packing and all if you plan on jumping some time again...
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    Not really, as long as you store the rig in a cool, dry place nothing will happen to it...
  23. Blis
    Jumpshack Atair PD Stunts, when they were around Skywide systems...
  24. Blis
    So, how did they actually define a "recognized manufacture" ? Also, engineering degree for insurance purposes? Heck, closest I can imagine you could get is aerospace degree but even that hardly discusses anything related to parachutes (besides aerofoils and stuff)...
  25. Blis
    No, they are not automatically approved. You have to go throught some hoops to get FAA approved STC approved by EASA too... However it shouldnt be that big a problem...