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Yes it seem's ironic, however the student will soon be jumping with your upjumpers who are not I's or coaches. They will not be with an I for their entire jumping carrer. With the coach's they are learning how to conduct themself safely with others or in groups. With the beginning, the Instructor is training them to save their life on the skydive.

Did you practice reading an altimiter and pulling the handle in freefall? Did you participate more on the exit, and getting stable? Did you wave off and pull the handle at the correct altitude. Did your Instructor give you more info under canopy about collision avoidance, and how to flare a canopy? Some of these items are advancement criteria, so if your Instructor gave your logbook to manifest and you were told you passed, you may have! You should receive a more comprehensive, course in a class, and practical training like hanging in the training harness for emerengcy procedures before you jump your first AFF. I agree with all the rest that you should receive a pre and a post jump briefing from you Instructor. He should write not only things you did good but also things you need to improve upon in your logbook The piece of paper your looking for with the jump criteria is called a A-license Proficience card. You can download one from www.uspa.org It would also be a big help to buy and read the most current copy of the SIM's ( Skydivers Info Manual) also from uspa.org. Pay close attention to the ISP (intergrated student program, or section 4). This is the material you will/should be learning. Catagory A Is pretty much is an outline of a first jump course. The TLO are on the first page of each catagory other than catagory A. There are Catagory A-H Have fun, and welcome to the sport

>>>do you not experience any pressure adjustment problems with earplugs? I get this sometime with only my helmet, It's a bonehead and it has been baked. Have you ever had your ears clear a day or so later? It always wakes me up to the fact that for the last few days I have been talking louder and hearing less.

>>>We just had an alcohol-related death in New Jersey; it happens. So there was a tox report? He was impared?

OK thanks for clearing that up, I was never a jumpmaster, I started at coach. When I was a student I would here the term's Tandem Jumpmaster, or AFF jumpmaster associated with individuals whom I thought were Instructors. They were all surprised when they received their new mebership cards, and were bumped up to Instructors. Thoes who were already I's had #'s like I-98....They said they only had to use their D# now instead of their I #.

Jumpmaster...... What was a jumpmaster's duities in regards to S/L- IAD? We are all aware that the USPA grandfathered all JM to I's. I know that JM had to take a course called the BIC. I was wondering because I have seen alot of JM conducting a class, and conducting S/L jumps, before the coach was created. DID the JM have more duties? or Less restrictions on there raiting than Coach's have now? How would the equation read... JM=coach, JM>coach, JM

>>>As I understand it if a Coach is "working" at all, it’s all under the "supervision" of an Instructor rated in the method (ie. Static line instructor can’t go out and do a “harness hold jump” with a student who’s having stability problems). ------------------------------------------------------------ A coach can do anything under the dirrect supervision of an Instructor raited in that meathod, present, and attentive to the coach. an example would be to put a Tandem student in their harness in the presence of an T-I, and then have the T-I check it. A coach can only make jumps with students in the cat. F,G,H. A coach can make gripped exits with students in these catogory also. These jumps are mostly learning tracking, floater exit positon's, Diveing exits, and how to swoop into a formation. A coach can fill out a logbook for these jumps, but the A license proficiency card requires a I to sign off. The term "harness hold" to me means AFF. OR that an AFF-I is going to pull the student out. How ever if there is a student who has been cleared for freefall self supervision, (usually AFF-7 compleated) Any Instructor may take gripped exits with the student, but only an AFF-I may pull a student who has gotten in trouble. If a DZ staff isn't keeping up the Students A license Proficience card I believe it would be harder to make the distinction from catagory to catogory, so then how does the staff know when a coach may take over the student training..

I watched the movie last night and was floored. The only part I am speaking of is the beginning where GW is out on vacation, away from the white house during the attack of 9-11. I find it overwelming to find Bin Laden and bush were tight in the money thing- oil. Conculsion from only watching the movie and reading no books on this subject. If what I saw was true It means the republican's installed a puppet resgime in the white house. OR micheal moore dosen't like the president we currently have, and want's to spread doubt. It is just a movie, watching The Passion og Christ didn't make me a better christian, or start going to curch. I will not allow a hollywood production to affect my vote. If the content of this movie is true I believe GW would have been impeached by now, there are too many people who hate him and would give him up to the government. Remember Clinton and the blow job, he got impeached over it, so I believe GW would by now have also met the same fate.

>>> Next week, I ordered my first pull out. So there's my story. Please tell yours. They have this very clean, slightly older Mirage G3, which belongs to a Tandem Instructor. It dosen't get jumped by him very often. It has a main pull out deployment system. A packing mistake can cause the birdle connecting the handle to the pin to get pinched under the flaps. It is imposibale in not hard to pull. There has been alot of terminal reserve deployments on that gear, by jumper who borrowed it, packed it up to jump again, or worse.. it waites till the next guy borrowes it.

That is great, and very profitibale. I had that idea once, and I figured the DZ would maybe give them a written test, and only charge the cost of a student jump. The independent contractor part, I checked in to with a local DZO first, and he said NO! That the student would pay him the $ and he would pay me $20 bucks to teach the same course. I declined. ALSO If someone recieved training from another Instructor, and then came to this DZ, he wouldn't accept it, and force the student to take a FJC. All the while having you believe you've been taken advantage of by some unknown Instructor, and are now recieving the best possibale training around.

How difficult is it for a person currently holding a S/L I to get additional raiting of IAD? Do you have to retake a whole course? Or can an i/e give it to you one on one? I think there are only 4 different questions on the test, and 2 practical jumps.

I though I read somewhere, that the only one who may assemble the main deployment for a student, was a Instructor rated in that method, or a rigger.

Yes if you can get your coach you more than likely be able to pass the Instructors test. S/l or Tandem, AFF. We all take the same Instructor test, 25 questions. Then we take the method specific portion 25 questions. Unless it has changed. I would be cautious about comparing a coach to a S/L-IAD instructor. OR any other Instructor.

.. I'm a s/l I . If a student took all 5 of the first set of static line jumps they would have 0 freefall time. The mistake you are making is.... even though those s/l jumps do not count as free fall jumps they still count as catogory advancement. a s/l jumper student could be cleared as soon as 8-10 jumps and start working wiht a USPA coach. They have to demonstrat stability after 5 seconds of an intentional instability move and do not break the hard deck, front flip.etc.

Thanks for that link!

I am an Instructor, and have numerous times had to turn off a students AAD, for what ever reasons, The "I" has to ride down with the student. I do not own student gear, or rigger cirt. SO Your question was I should already know this, I have never owned a Cypres. The student AAD I have turned off and on were FXC 1200. I always make sure a student has been ( in my FJC) breifed on the use of THE FXC 1200 on/off switch, and they should not break there hard deck cause they may wind up with a two out situation. They are different, and I fell the question was viable to someone like me with no experience with Cypres.

Does anyone who owns a Cypres expert one pin, feel the need to undue a cheststrap and slip off a rig to access a unit before landing in a jump plane?

When the other jumper asked if I had a Cypres It starting my thinking and wondering if this sort of thing has happened before, An AAD misfiring on a decent. As an Instructor we have been trainded to turn off Student AAD's I have never owned one, and would like to purchase a Cypress. I was asking If the Cypress brand had ever had a misfire during a decent. This is something real that happened to me.

About 3 weeks ago we were at 7.5K when the pilot of the 182 annocenced to me there was rain over the airport, and we may have to make a low pass, I was in student position seat of a load of upjumpers. When we rapidly decended to 3k the pilot stated he saw lightning over the airport an we were landing. We pulled up into the hainger and I step off and my reserve springloaded PC hit the tarmack, The first reply from a jumper was "Did your Cypres fire" I replied NO I don't have one. The pilot grabed behind me for flaps and opened my reserve contianer. Could a rapid decent from a 182 fool the Cypres in to thinking it was more than 76 Miles per hour?

OK thanks, Now, I have one more question, seems trivial, but I have never owned/jumped an AAD. Do you need to turn a Cyrpes off on a decent due to weather or traffic...etc?

Cypress2, or Vigil? and where to buy? Thanks for the help.

Your exit weight (body+at least 25LBS for gear) divided by 155( square footage) If you weighed 150 lbs, with gear you will weigh at least 175lbs. 175 divided by 155 equals 1.13 sq. lbs/1 sq. foot of canopy. Acording to the USPA that is too high of a wing loading, for your liscense. However Downsizing is done everyday by people way too early in their career. Ask an Instructor you trust about your skill level. Also IMO>>>>>>>ZP's flare differently, Jump one of the same size canopy first . PLF

DO you know haw to calculate wingloading? What would be your wingloading under the 155? Have you jumped a ZP canopy yet?

It happens more often than you would think. The times I herd about the bootie tore. But I do Believe it could actually hang on , you would be traped. Hope to have a hook knife.

Appoligies for not make my statment clear. IMO... Usualy a jumpers opps for a pilow reserve handle , as to avoid a metal handle from catching a freefliers feet or bad hand grab, etc....... Well the rsl tab and loop hanging off of your risers are also a snag piont. That is all I ment. If your gonna get a pillow handle for snags, I would think the same for the rls. And again, I may be old school, but I believe a jumper should jump an RSL and a D ring reserve until they have suscefully compleated an actual cutaway, or obtained a C license.