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No, it's more than one first on a jump. Multiple firsts on multiple jumps count. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

To be pedantic, to have the F licence equivelent signed off, you need the ASO to sign as well. . I've had a look through the OpRegs. I can't find anything relating directly to jumping without an approved AAD. 5.1.8 says you need written permission to jump without an alti. 5.7.15 is lowering of opening altitude for display A and B licence holders. 8.7.1 says that you can waive sections of the OpRegs. 8.7. WAIVERS TO THESE REGULATIONS 8.7.1. The Director Safety, Director Instructors, and Director Rigging are empowered, with prior agreement of CASA, to waive regulations affecting their particular area of operations. All such waivers must be in writing with copies to the local Council, the APF Secretariat and CASA. 5.1.15 and .16 deal with AADs. Basically, A-C licence holders must jump with an approved AAD. E and F licence holders don't have to. D licence holders either jump an approved AAD or a functioning RSL. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

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Check out requirements (c) and (d). One is for nominated jumps, the other is just for jumps. AFAIK, you can use any canopy for your licence requirements. Accuracy for display licences, I have no idea about. I'm guessing you have to use the canopy you use for displays. . If you want to know all the ins and outs for licences and everything, check out the link that Jasmin supplied. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

yeah. prescription goggles for me. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

The OpRegs say that the visiting jumper will have their "experience and competence assessed" by the CI. It doesn't say _how_ the CI will assess it. Thats up to the CI. . Certificate "E" conditions: Applicants must: (a) Fulfil the conditions of Certificate "D"; (b) Have made at least 500 stable free falls; (c) Have made at least 20 descents landing within 1 metre of the target centre; Certificate "F" conditions: Applicants must: (a) Fulfil the conditions of Certificate "E"; (b) Have made at least 1000 stable free falls; (c) Have made at least 20 descents landing within 0.5 metre of the target centre; (d) Have completed 20 consecutively nominated descents landing within 5 metres of the target disc (see 3.1.9); (e) Have made at least one descent at night. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

This is from our OpRegs: 3.6.2 In assessing a visitor's competence, a Chief Instructor shall certify in the visitor's log that the visitor has the competence equivalent to that required for a particular Parachutist Certificate. The Chief Instructor may also certify that the visitor has the competence and experience required for particular Crest awards. So, the CI will check out your log book (watch you land, assess your competence in general) and say, "Yes, you're F/E/D/C/B/A licence equivelent." So for all intents and purposes, you "have" that licence as far as the APF is concerned. As long as you hold a valid parachutist's licence issued by an FAI-affiliated organisation. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

You don't have to reintroduce velcro. I had a pullout on my racer when I got it, it had two pouches that each end of the pud slipped in to. It held it quite firmly. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

Good Stuff by Joe Jennings -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

Just what I was going to add. You're not falling over, you're supposed to roll... -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

Yes. You don't have an ideal cart. You have frictional forces to overcome. If you tried it on an airtrack, then it should be a lot less. It may even be zero (within experimental error) -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

Try http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ftp/public/exits/Winghang.mpg -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

That one looks like an Ewok . I got these in my email today. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

Exactly. From you powerpoint presentation you say that groundspeed methods work for groups of the same fallrate and if the lowers are in the same direction as the uppers. You are going to have to make assumptions in all of these calcs. What we want is a number that will work 90% of the time. If my DZ always has lowers that are 180 out from the uppers, then my "normal" is different to another DZ whose lowers are always zero. Those are two extreme cases. "Normal" DZs normally have the lowers in the same-ish direction as the uppers (ours were ~30º last Sunday). For the "adverse" conditions in the other 10% of the time, we have to make adjustments to what we do. We just need a number, lest we don't have a physics PhD nearby (which my DZ will have in ~year). We also need to understand the limitations behind that number, and don't treat it as gospel. Its an IF/THEN/ELSE statement. IF the lowers are "normal" THEN use the number ELSE figure it out before you go up. IF fall rates are different THEN figure it out before you go out. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

What s a bungee collapsible PC? I know kill line, and non-collapsible.... -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

Have any of you actually done the calcs? The desired goal is to have 1000' (300m) of horizontal seperation at opening altitude (~3k). The calculations presented by LouDiamond are from the military, and I'm guessing that the SF don't do head-down HALO insertions, so this is all for flatfly. If everyone is flatflying, they will all drift the same. Therefore, the only thing that will give seperation is the plane moving forward. The 1000' seperation is designed to incorporate buffers for tracking and canopies opening, so I am neglecting that in my analysis. The 1000' is, I look up at one jumper, run 1000', and look up at the next jumper, so it's seperation with respect to the ground, so you're interested in groundspeed. So, from LD's excel sheet: Ground time between speed exits kn s 125 5 115 5 ... 35 18 25 25 Tada! Those numbers correspond to a horizontal seperation of 1000'!!! -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

Ahhh, cute cats... -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

What qualifications do you need? Master rigger? -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

Also, being aware isn't worth shit if you're not aware. I've seen video, and I've done it myself. Not to cypress territory, but ~1k' below where I wanted to be... -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

So you weigh 130, plus ~25 for a rig, so your exit weight is 155. My exit weight is ~170, and I jump a 150 Sabre. I got that at ~80 jumps. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

methinks the stock standard questions are: Have you talked to your instructors? How much do you weigh? . As for container/canopy choices, I think that the only thing that matters is that the container is the correct size for the canopy. As for advice on what is good for you, I'm not going there, as I know not very much. Talk to your instructors. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

and don't forget the $5 -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

Maybe tensile strength? That is the maximum strength that can be sustained in tension. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

Strength is a material property. It's measured in pascals. (newtons per square metre) and it's kg for kilogram. . But I've never heard of KGS. It doesn't make sense to have a mass multiplied by a strength.... -- Arching is overrated - Marlies

It could work, but then you'd probably violate the TSO for that harness/container system. I wouldn't want to try it. -- Arching is overrated - Marlies