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Been discussed here a couple times, including this thread: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2101957 tl;dr is: in AAD cutters installed below the PC, a too-long, unlubricated loop can fully lock the reserve tray in play in the event of AAD fire. The mechanism of it being that the overlong loop snakes through the flaps rather than going straight, and the force of the PC spring coil pins it between flaps. Since it's AAD fire, the reserve closing pin remains in place, completing the lockup. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

Since I happen to jump at the same DZ, I will chime in. The new DZ's owner is doing his damnest to make the jumpers feel welcome. Take the fact there's pizza or other food up for grabs during the day for jumpers. It's in no way required or expected of a DZ, but it's such an amazingly nice thing to do. He's done a lot to make sure jumpers and instructors are happy, and seized the opportunity provided by the growing frustration with the other well-established DZ in the area and used it to create something beautiful. Plus the issue of who is available for jumping. In fact we had an interesting talk about just that with some of the old timers this last weekend -- there are cycles, and they can change the DZ atmosphere completely in a couple years. That your DZ is home to many high-level jumpers and a great place to practice team jumps can be its undoing if it becomes a place where you can only jump if you're a high-level jumper in a team because nobody else is available for random pickups. And that can have a very subtle in onset and happen without much warning once it gets going. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

It shows deployment at 200km/h, which is the typical belly speed. I open at anywhere between 180 and 210km/h[1]. Also consider that it's quite possibly showing SAS ("skydiver airspeed") if they're using ProTrack, which normalises barometric altitude and speeds to 3000ft MSL at standard conditions. Thus the indicated speeds might not correspond to physical speeds exactly. It is however indicative of the problems in speed skydiving that we're having this discussion here wondering just what the hell their measurement method is. If it were governed properly, it'd be blindingly obvious and nobody would have any doubts. [1] My Viso is set to SAS, so that's the speed it shows, though at the deployment altitude those two are very close anyway. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

I don't know how many jumps you have exactly, and what kind of a refresher you've had, but 175 will put you at almost 1.3 wingloading in the "average" scenario and 1.4 on the heavy end. That is not a docile, forgiving WL for someone who's had decades of a break in the sport. If you're going for soft landing and no injuries, 175 is most likely too small. http://www.flyaerodyne.com/triathlonsel.asp "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

I'm not familiar with anything called Cookie Revolve, did you mean Cookie's roller mount? Also there are many other helmet options than Cookie (I assume you meant Fuel specifically, not G3); Tonfly Performer is one, 2.5x is another, Bonehead makes a range of nice more-or-less camera-oriented helmets. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

Talk with instructors at the DZ, make sure to go through the basics and when you jumped last. I'm not sure what the rules would be for you, but even if you're perfectly legal to jump, talking with instructors is a good idea. You might want to get 1-2 jumps on a rental 190 first, but since you've flown a Sabre2 before, your newfound WL is otherwise not a big deal IMHO. I've been flying a SA2 170 @ 1.13 since I had 40 jumps; it requires some technique to land properly, but you knew that. A little refresher should have you flying again; 6 months is not much longer than the off-season break you can see in DK if you're unlucky and the weather is particularly crap. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

Storms are surprisingly sporty. Toggle turns are faster than a SA2, and it has an unexpectedly large amount of flare. Enough to pop out a good deal if you're expecting a slow 7-cell that needs to be yanked hard to land. ...which is probably something for OP to consider. Almost any modern ZP design will have copious amounts of flare compared to F-111 of yore. I've never flown anything like a Cruiselite, but most canopies you can get today will quickly require multi-stage flare at anything above student wingloadings. Spectre is a notable exception. Pulse would be another one because it's trimmed so very flat. And Pulse would be another strong recommendation for a no-stress canopy, it opens right away, on heading, will get you back from any spot, is very easy to fly without being sluggish, and lands better the less you apply any sort of technique to your flares. It's an exceedingly good "I just want to go home" canopy for people who don't want to be pilots. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

Yes. Better tolerances with laser cutting, better materials and better CFD make it possible to create 7-cell designs that are much closer to what was traditionally the "9-cell" performance, in actually 7-cell designs (not just technically-but-not-really crossbraced canopies like Velo, which is more of a 21-cell). They're still often more reliable on opening and less prone to spin-ups thanks to their still lower aspect ratio, thus the recent breed of wingsuit-specific 7-cells on the market. Pilot7, Epicene, WinX are all examples of that. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

Spectre is a very well-behaved, no stress canopy, though larger size ones open slow. Like, so much snivel I got scared the first time I jumped one (Spectre 190 was my first canopy after student Navs). Smaller Spectres reportedly become very snappy. Packing technique has a lot to say here, and if you don't do any rolling at all, they open much less snively (though still very soft). It's an "old modern 7-cell" design, so its flight characteristics are significantly different from a newer 9-cell, but it's also much more efficient than an old, F-111 7-cell. Pilot7 is a "7-cell that thinks it's a 9-cell", and in my experience has very fast openings (too fast for me). It flies somewhere between a Sabre2 (fairly steep and fast, lots of flare) and regular Pilot (pretty flat, still very decent flare). If you load them lightly, they will definitely be slower, and if you pick one made of Ultra LPV fabric, it will pack ~2 sizes smaller than a corresponding 9-cell (so you can fit a 190 in most 150 containers with no trouble). The design is very new, and it has the performance of an easy going modern 9-cell, though the flare is still noticeably deeper in the brakes (there's plenty, it just lives deeper). "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

The trouble is when you find out that the configuration is in fact not landable, but no longer have the altitude to change canopies. It's always your call in the end, but in-air rigging is rarely the right choice. Unless you're sure it's good to land, the odds of finding out the reserve is bad after you cut away are lower than the chances of finding out the main is not landable after you decided not to cut away. PS. "Lines" and "canopy" are the preferred terms, rather than "cords" and "chute". "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

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For everyday life, the difference of 1 degree is too small to have an accurate feel for either way. You don't *need* the resolution, as demonstrated by thermostats usually being scaled every other °F. And if you actually care about the fever (also, did you mean 35.2 vs 37.2? Because 32.7°C is marked hypothermia for a human), you're going to have a completely different feel you develop for those specific ranges and resolutions. Same way you develop a feel for the difference in canopy sizes, and can clearly grasp that the difference between 67 and 74 is probably bigger than between 220 and 240. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

It's more relatable because "is water freezing?" is a huge concern to us, water-based lifeforms. That's why people specifically talk about it being freezing or not. And having that clearly marked by the origin point makes it very clear that -1 is qualitatively different from +1, unlike 30 vs 33. For that reason Kelvin / Rankine scales are not at all appropriate for everyday use, because it completely obscures the important (to us) difference between 272 and 274. Now, if you're talking superconductors, picking absolute zero as your origin makes perfect sense, and is indeed done as a matter of fact. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

Ahh, I thought it was from this year. That explains! Parasummer was fun, got my first two cutaways there (in 2 jumps in a row on two different rigs, too, I've heard suggestions of investing in lottery tickets) and had my first contact with CF. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

Including "No, I use another camera" as a choice in the "Do you use a GoPro camera?" question would be nice. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

Or the common meaning of "resolution", which is rather obviously what was. Although I'd argue it's more of fake precision than actual. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

Fahrenheit has bullshit anchor points though. Knowing that 0 is when water freezes is much more relatable than having 32 denote "freezing". If I want precision, I can just use fractions of a degree, but in daily life, that precision is unnecessary or sometimes even worked around, like my car A/C which has settings every 2°F. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

My answer to THAT is: There are those around the world that uses the metric system. Then there is the one country that has put man on the moon without it. NASA and the military have been metric since the '50s or so. The one time Lockheed retardedly made components in non-metric units, it crashed an expensive Mars orbiter, because NASA's specification was metric. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

Americans can learn proper units like the rest of the world. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

To satisfy my gear curiosity, I've been looking into some of the interesting ideas Basik rigs incorporate, and it doesn't seem they're available for purchase anymore. I've been unable to find any sort of explanation or even statement to that effect however, the best I could find was a passing mention of "too bad they're not manufactured anymore" in another thread here. So, what happened? I know Jerome is still around and posts actively, and Basik the store is still in operation. The rigs looked well-made and thought out, and very well-liked by people who jumped them. What gives? "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

I believe bigfoot meant https://freedomsports.uk.com/. Their prices are nothing out of ordinary, decent but not amazing. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

I like the smaller remote, the old one is a tad too bulky to fit on a Viso wrist strap easily. It can be done, but it just sticks out. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

How many boogies called Parasummer are there in Estonia? I was in Pärnu this year, and it was also called Parasummer :) "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

Why does it have separate handles on fronts, and what are the clamps they're attached to? Look vaguely like trim tabs, is that it? and if so, why'd military rigs include that? Also, holy crap, with a slider that big, you scarcely need a parachute. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."

I still threw a drift to get cleared for no-jump-master jumps in my SL progression! That was in 2015, and was really only included as a talking point about the fundamentals of spotting, how corrections for the drift worked, and also since it's technically there in the rulebook and we do have almost an entire roll of crepe paper lying around, students would still do it depending on how much the JM felt it was a waste of time... Anyway mine hit the tail and disintegrated instantly, so we didn't actually calculate the correction from where it landed. "Skydivers are highly emotional people. They get all excited about their magical black box full of mysterious life saving forces."