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So, it releases the other side ONLY IF the rsl side was released too. In otherwords, if both risers are still connected it wont release anything.

In my limited experience, the worse it looks the better it opens. So, stuffing is totally ok as long as lines are tight and slider is tight against grommets...

Somewhere on YouTube is a video of a two way, both of them lose alti awareness and both of them have audibles. Both of them have AAD fires. Both survive, but do you really, truly want to trust others with your life? What, for examle, if everyone decides they're having a great time and ignore a deck, and someone has an AAD fire, putting them into you or someone else on the group? Use the eyes that evolution gave you. Maybe train yourself to see that alti on your wrist, even in FS formation jumping? You can always use a forearm mount to make it easier to see. Either way, depending on an audible is short-sighted. They fail from time to time. And that is why I wear 2 audibles.

No such thing as too slippery, just poor technique But personally I have had great success packing slippery (my brand new magellan for example) using the wolmari pack -method. Also remember to never show fear to your canopy if you wish to pack it

From what i've heard from fellow skydivers, it's scary as fuck to be the lucky recurrency passenger...

yup! went to a so cal dz with my logbook back in the days that I actually recorded my jump numbers but ever since I got my D license I never get autographs unless its someone famous or infamous. She looked at it and said "sign that last jump" to which I replied "uhh what?" then I signed it... Roy[/quote So, what's the big idea behind this signing stuff?

All cessnas (182's and 206's) I know over here dont have seatbelts... and considering the fact most dropzones here operate on small cessnas, yeah, not seatbelts seens around here...

Took me over 30 jumps to get over the anxiety... And I was just doing S/L... So, yeah, it takes time and is perfectly normal..

I like my aero, fits better than any g3's I've tried... Also I really like the fact I can adjust the fit with shims

Didnt do any tandems but went straight to S/L instead

I'ts never too early to take a canopy control course.

"We decided that we liked the idea of getting the maximum performance out of the suit. Those people that you see on YouTube who fly down the cliff are actually flying the suit very badly. You'll always see them with their arms behind them because they have got to fall next to the cliff to follow that terrain. Whereas we're interested in flying as flat as possible so we can go as far as possible. It's high-performance flying." Just wow, really? I have understood that in base flying flat gets you killed becouse you have no margin left, while flying steeper gives you more speed aka margin... Best regards, a stupid noob

You're joking right? I know people who can flat pack a canopy faster than most people PRO pack. Knowing how to flat pack is as essential as knowing emergency procedures or how your equpment functions. For some people flat packing is easier to do than a PRO pack, especially for those with large mains. Regardless, one should become proficient at flat packing before moving to PRO packing. it all goes with the crawl, walk, run theory of learning. +1 I personally refuse to PRO pack any canopy I cannot lift off the ground at my waist (that normally means 120 square feet). PRO packing tandems is dumb and causes so many line-overs at some dropzones that the instructors just laugh about it like it's not a big deal. The "it takes too much space to flat-pack" argument is BS as it normally takes about one minute to get from side layout to stack. Ultimately, it should be about what makes sense, not what others tell you is "how everyone else does it". I work at a place where every one of our students jumps his own packjob on his first jump. Guess what we teach/test them on? Chuck AFF/SL/TM-I, PRO, S&TA, FAA Senior Rigger I couldnt flat-pack even if my life depended on it yet I can pro-pack my zero jump canopy (170sqft) in a reasonable amount of time. Does this mean I should still learn to flat-pack too before moving on?

That is the actual reason some companies dont patent things becouse it would mean they had to disclose their ideas to public. If you dont patent it you can keep everything disclosed and within the house...

My understanding is that the slippery feel comes from the coating (silicon i believe) that is applied to nylon during manufacturing. And the subsequent diminishing of this is caused by the friction the nylon is subjected during the deployment that wears down the coating...

Dont have to be a USPA member to jump in USA, just need to have a skydiving license (and an insurance?) from a member nation of FAI... or something like that...

I checked them out, it seems like a nice place and the price is logical. Thank you for pointing that out. After looking into their pricing, it got me confused. Why do i need the 10 con jumps? The website says it is the first step towards your A-licence. Doesn’t Completing the 8 Aff levels mean I get the A-licence? AFAIK completing the 8 AFF levels clears you for self-supervised jumps... You wont get your A-license until you complete all the requirements for it...

Poor little me coming out from cessna dz's was totally lost on his first load in a grand caravan. Never before having been in a plane with seatbelts in it definitely was a learning experience...

That's a messed up philosophy and anyone who does this likely doesn't have many real friends. Be friendly to anyone, 0 jumps or 10000 jumps. No reason anyone is better or worse than anyone else. We're all just there to smile and have fun, right? It's sad to know that this stereotype exists I think you didn't understand my point. I agree completely with "be friendly to anyone" regardless of jump numbers. But if you are new in a group of well integrated people, and put yourself in a corner facing the wall, well, not many people will go and push you into being part of the group. That is not skydivers behavior, is standard behavior in many situations. If you move to a new city, and don't look to make new friends, almost nobody is going to go to your apartment and ask you to hang around with them. It has nothing to do with jump numbers, it has to do with being unknown to a well established group. Seems about right, In my personal experience I moved to a new dz and it took some time for the people to start getting to know me (and vice versa). Spent couple weekends, finished my student jumps and got A, Always paid my beer fines (and brought beer for no reason) and hanged out with people and nowadays I have plenty of friends at the DZ..

You guys have to actually go throught the gates? :O At my home DZ we have a small area next to airport itself where "civilian" planes are and that's also where we load the plane. We use the same runway as the big passenger planes and other traffic so pilots have to always deal with the tower and request permission for drops. Most often we get to drop immediatly but occasionally we have to wait couple minutes in the air for our slot...

So, I'm looking to buy my first jump suit and it's going to be a FF-suit (becouse I can borrow RW suits at DZ and tunnel time is coming up in the future). Right now I'm leaning heavily towards Skylarks jumpsuits becouse of their reasonable price but I would like to hear about people's experiences with them too before making the purchase. So, feel free to tell me about skylark jumpsuits, experiences, complaints or anything else you feel is relevant

In this case the KISS princible seems about right...

You should be facing the prop during exit, currently you're exiting sideways to relative wind...

It's very likely that the crash had nothing to do with the fact that it was an experimental plane...

This! It's the plan i'm following :)