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  1. masher
    not the analogy I would have used.....
  2. masher
    re RSL disconnection and a two-out... AFAIK, if you disconnect your RSL, you're removing a potential snag hazard if you are forced to cutaway. That extra 12" (or so) of webbing may entangle with your reserve and ruin your whole day. That's my (non-instructor) feed on the idea anyway... -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  3. masher
    To rub more salt in the wound, the PC is the wrong type to be off a woomera. A Woomera reserve PC is made entirely of F111, with little circular holes cut in the bottom half to allow for inflation. You have to make sure that you pack the base of the PC inside the top of the PC to prtect the PC from tearing if/when you deploy the reserve. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  4. masher
    or a swoop and chug with lemonade.... maybe? At least you can have more than one round.... -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  5. masher
    Pressure is a force per area. I can push my finger into my arm/leg etc as hard as I want; it won't pierce my skin. If I push a needle into aforementioned arm/leg as hard as I can.... -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  6. masher
    For one and two pin reserves. I've got a racer, so I've got a two pin cypres. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  7. masher
    Can't remember what jump it wsa, but it was after a month off after being in the sport for 3 months. First jump on a long weekend. Comment: Flare thud, not thud flare. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  8. masher
    That's what I do. I check that the tape insode the PC is tight. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  9. masher
    In a meandering stream/river, the ratio of the actual length of the river to the straight line distance between mouth and source is pi. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  10. masher
    re the latest Aust. incident. The vigil fired as the jumper left the acft at 3500'. Apparantly it was quite a sight from inside... I saw a "canopy" open, and then I saw the freebag floating away. I got pretty much everything after that on video. The unit wasn't switched on. The jumper landed uneventfully. Nice sideways PLR. 'twas his first jump too. . I can't comment on the "static line causing static" theory. Just a reply though. Isn't the line you connect from the fuel to acft a wire? so it's not an insulator line, but a conducting line? making sure that the acft and fuel are at the same potential? I don't know how conductive a static line is, but rubbing cloth together does generate static, if it can't travel to the plane, then it stays in the rig... Just thinking out loud. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  11. masher
    Also, in the cypres vein... Remember that it doesn't arm until 1500', so don't rely on that. Not that I'm say you would or anything... -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  12. masher
    I didn't have my A until around 50 jumps. I just never got around to filling in all the paperwork. Then I got grounded one day because i didn't have the paperwork filled out. Took my 10 minutes to do, and I was back in the air.... -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  13. masher
    About 250 km. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  14. masher
    oh. I wasn't sure if it was your stills or video camera... -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  15. masher
    I'm pretty sure that quade posted a story about him cleaning the CCD on one of his cameras. Try a search for that... -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  16. masher
    http://crass.on.ru/flash/bbird.html Not too bad... -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  17. masher
    I am 90% certain of going. The DZ is Ramblers, and it's based in Toogoolawah, just outside of Brisbane, QLD. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  18. masher
    So when do you normally breakoff and dump ?? If it's at 5500 and 3500, then I'd leave your settings alone. I like the idea of setting your dytter below the altitude, as you only hear it if you go wrong, you're not going through your dive waiting for it to go off. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  19. masher
    Cutaway - Oops Reserve - Take 2 -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  20. masher
    What do you set your dytter at? and what altitudes do you do things at? Mine is set at 3500, 2500 and 1500. Normal breakoff is at 4k. So the 3500 warning is "Why haven't you broken off yet?" Normal pull altitude is 3k. So the 2500 warning is "Why haven't you dumped yet?" warning at 1500 is "What the fuck are you doing?????" Note: I've been open by 2500 on pretty much all of my last 15-20 jumps. You can hear my dytter beeping its 2500 warning after the canopy has opened. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  21. masher
    they (apparantly) make mine look small. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  22. masher
    Have you got Quades sighting image? If you haven't, the get it. do a search for "reticule" edit: This is the thread: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=657239;search_string=reticule;#657239 -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  23. masher
    C licence to jump a camera D licence to film AFF students -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  24. masher
    Is this bit true? I don't know if it is, I haven't seen the specific legislation, but I thought it _had_ to be an FAA rigger -- Arching is overrated - Marlies
  25. masher
    CLICKY! -- Arching is overrated - Marlies