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C-123 is a twin engine. The aircraft in the video has four of 'em. Ah, gotcha... the memory isn't quite there as it used to be.

Are you sure thats a C130? Skydive Arizona has had a C-123 from time to time over the years. Don't know if they still do. Its LOUD as FUCK and has been featured in many movies.

Well, I would have suggested a few jump tickets at your expense but she isn't jumping any time soon from what your post says. Whatever she is going through now, maybe something relevant?

And try to avoid the front float position on exit if you don't want to get oil splattered on you... Depends on which DC3 though

Well, its there so people would know where to find them, and new ones are getting built as I type this. And people get to bitch and complain about customer service and whatnot.

I've jumped Mr Douglas a bunch... unfortunately the paint job had seen better days when I did. Last weekend out of it was shortly before it blew the engine.

Well... I guess the good will from 1992's Dive Rite World Record event over Myrtle Beach has evaporated.

This. Most of the features in your helmet will not work for skydiving use. It's open face, so you won't be able to neither hear nor speak into your radio. The GPS will likely have too low of resolution to be useful, and the snag-free camera, while a cool option, is not necessarily something I'd invest a fuckload of moneys into considering my Cookie G3 has a super awesome mouth-area camera mount that works just as well. As far as GPS goes, there are better, more tailored GPS solutions out there on the market for skydiving (Flysight). Perhaps integrate with those? If you want me to spend my limited moneys on a shmancy helmet instead of jump tickets: * It has to be a closed face helmet, with a locking visor that's easy to pop open. Examine some existing skydiving helmets to see what I mean. Go to your local dropzone and have a skydiver give you a tour of their Cookie G3 and all the ways it's so super convenient. As a side note, skydivers slice through the air at 120+ mph. That's a LOT of noise. Your mic won't pick up anything but noise unless you shield it with a visor, and you won't hear shit without a visor blocking a lot of the noise. * Integrate audible altimeter or pockets for an audible. If you cannot accomodate two audibles, your helmet is shit useless to skydivers. * 10 Hz+ GPS + altimeter + programmable glide ratio vocalizer such as flightsight. * HUD with altitude, horizontal speed, vertical speed and glide ratio. * REAL impact protection. Not the bullshit we have in our helmets today. Make it skiing certified and we're talking. * Keep the camera. It's a neat addition. But unless you can deliver on all of those, I'm sticking to my G3 with grellfab mounted gopro, audible and flysight. Good luck! And paint it Ironman colors and you're bitchin!

It could be beneficial in case some douchebag finds your canopy by a roadside and decides to swipe it as a souvenir.

Oh yes. If they want to make it difficult, then they can eat shit. Nobody comes and spends money in town. See how they like that. Dublin, GA learned that the hard way when the St. Patrick's Boogie organizer more or less said screw you and moved the event to Fitzgerald.

And this has been on the MHS website for years: Maybe if the CQS droids had ever bothered to note when MHS actually operates, they wouldn't make fools of themselves by: - Claiming credit for a non-existent change. - Repeatedly whining about 24x7 noise. - Filing noise complaints on days when MHS isn't even flying. No credibility at all, I tell ya. Somebody should post the operation hours on there in response just to shut them the fuck up.

it would have been cooler. if they had set up the cutaway . to release all 4 at once . and built a four way on the bottom. They wouldn't have to build it, Just launch it linked! Left hand on right arm grip of the jumper to your left, and with your right hands, count ready set GO, pulling the releases on GO, and kick your legs out.

Trying to make an analogy between MHS' planes and the Concorde is just bat fucking shit STOOPID. WTF?!? Really????

Why are today's nutcases usually named "Kim"? Gibbs is trying her dogged best to get noticed and make her cause heard, and she STILL only has a few hundred supporters mostly outside of Colorado. Then you look at Kim Davis in Kentucky. She doesn't even try. Has a few million supporters and a presidential candidate on her side despite court rulings saying she must do her job. All little Kimmy Gibbs has done is bring up a frivolous lawsuit that was shot down, hard. Has CQS paid the court ordered fines to MHS?

Damn... I don't care who you are, never land cross field like that. If you have to, at least do it diagonally so there's more room to land and stop.

Clicky

Some people request them not to make it signature required. If they request that, then they assume the risk, and I think its a STUPID risk to take with $3000-$4000 gear. Come on people. Don't be stupid.

Then STFU

How about you telling us who you are, Mr. Blank Profile?

I forgot the manufacturer's full name but he ran the old Air Ventures DZ in Rome, GA with his wife, and built the Griffin parachutes. I've only ever seen one in action and yes, it looked weird. The nose wasn't straight like a Sabre or Triathlon, etc. It looked a bit like a delta, with the center cell being the longest and the end cells the shortest. The tail I believe was a straight line.

Oh no doubt there. It's a lot of fun reading on there.

If I were you, I'd get a different canopy. The Griffin, as I recall it, is a different kind of square canopy, more like a swept back wing airfoil. Since the company doesn't make any more, you're not going to get customer support for it. Just my humble opinion.

Hey mods, You've set up specific forums just for USPA BOD Election threads in the past, and then archived them when elections were over. Maybe its time for a new forum for the current election cycle?

Leave the camera suit on the ground if you do. You won't be needing it.

He can do it. He just needs to find the right DZ that will train him, plus have student gear specifically reserved for larger students. And... what kind of 285 lbs is he? If he's built like an NFL lineman, he should be fine. If he's like Jabba Hutt... I'd lean towards "no". Personal gear for that size would need to be custom-made. That's a given. I'd rather see him go to a DZ that has student gear that will suit him for his training first, before he splurges for his own gear.