speedy

Get ready for this My girlfreind edits for guys at our dropzone. She gets the DV tape and brings it back to the DZ the next weekend. From the DV tape she creates either a VHS or a SVCD and then posts it to the customer. All materials and postage are paid by herself. For each video she gets........ €25 (about $28) She would not touch anything for $5 Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

The packaging colors here in Germany have changed to orange At least the price has not gone up. I paid just under €3 a tape. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Exactly, if I was at 1000 ft with nothing out I would not attempt to open my main. I would go straight to the reserve. I jump with cypres, so pulling the main would risk a main/reserve entanglement at that altitude anyway. It would be interesting to hear what the canopy manufactures have to say about distances required for inflation. I know packing can make a huge difference but surely they must have some idea of the what is normal for their mains. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Why do Americans quote fuel consumption in miles per gallon anyway? It would make more sense if they quoted it in gallons per hour. Every time I ask an American how far is so an so from here, they answer , oh that's only 2 hours from here. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

I think you did exactly the right thing. Checked it flew properly, checked it flared, all above 2k. If it flies O.K. then land it. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

What's makes you so sure he will screw himself into the ground? Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

You can train your EP's all you want, but if you dump a velocity at 2000 ft and it quickly goes into a spinning mal and suddenly the ground, due to a hill, has stolen 500ft from your altitude, you are in deep shit. What disturbed me in the original thread was when someone said that they tend to pull higher (3000ft), it was mentioned that at some boogies, this was an unsafe practice. The unsafe practice is not giving the jumpers adequate seperation. Pulling at 3000ft should always be allowable and safe. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

No. I just didn't think it was worth commenting about. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

The name of the company I work for is Impaq. It's too close for comfort Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Maybe I'm a slow learner but, I have over 1200 jumps, I have recently purchased a velocity, I have 60 jumps on the velocity, but I would not dream off putting a first impressions post about the canopy. I am still doing all sorts of things with it to find out how it behaves. When I had 280 jumps I had just switched from a Springo 160 loaded at 1.1 to a Stilletto loaded at 1.34 and I considered that to be agressive downsizing. I now know that I did not know the very much at all about canopy flight with just 280 jumps. So, while you are welcome to your opinion, I think I will take with a large pinch of salt. Either update your profile (jump numbers) or be very careful with your new Demon. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Errr.... I pay my rigger to pack my reserve. It's his job to do it correctly. If I decide to use the reserve, I have saved my life. My rigger has not saved my life. But back to the bottle thing. Maybe they don't do that in Germany, I dunno. But for me it's starting to get expensive if I have to buy a bottle for a reserve use (3 reserves in the last 400 jumps) On my last reserve the rigger did ask for the video, which of course he get's for free. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Clicky and NSFW Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Skylark, I say if you feel the need to ask the question, go for the bigger canopy. I hate to hear comments like : There's a lot of wind today, with that big canopy you will go backwards. Everytime I have jumped in high winds I have said I would also jump with a student canopy, no problem. You can either fly the canopy or you can't. If you are not into swooping (which you should not be at your jump numbers) then why go smaller? I think a 150 would be great for you and you could jump it for the next 500 jumps. Just my opinion , ho hum Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

That must be heartbreaking If it's not from altitude, it's not skydiving My team mates girlfreind has more tunnel time than skydiving. She's too scared to jump from a plane, but the tunnel is great.

I have done 90 jumps this year and paid for all but one, which was a tandem video. For one jump this year I have paid double price The C182 was not full so I and a buddy paid double price so it would go up. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

If you want to see a video of the cutaway (but from a distance) you can see it at My Reserve. Watch for the small yellow velocity 90 spiralling across the frame Also you can see I did not dump my reserve/free bag into the main

My all time favourite The "We Were Poor" Sketch from "Monty Python Live at City Center" and "Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl" Four well-dressed men sitting together at a vacation resort. "Farewell to Thee" being played in the background on Hawaiian guitar. Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable. Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah? Terry Gilliam: You're right there Obediah. Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine? MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea. GC: A cup ' COLD tea. EI: Without milk or sugar. TG: OR tea! MP: In a filthy, cracked cup. EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper. GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth. TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor. MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness." EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof. GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING! TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor! MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph. EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US. GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake! TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road. MP: Cardboard box? TG: Aye. MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt! GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY! TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife. EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah." MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'. ALL: Nope, nope.. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Burying the cat, Mrs. Conclusion (Chapman): Hullo, Mrs. Premise. Mrs. Premise (Cleese): Hullo, Mrs. Conclusion. Conclusion: Busy Day? Premise: Busy? I just spent four hours burying the cat. Conclusion: *Four hours* to bury a cat? Premise: Yes - it wouldn't keep still. Conclusion: Oh - it wasn't dead, then? Premise: No, no - but it's not at all well, so as we were going to be on the safe side. Conclusion: Quite right - you don't want to come back from Sorrento to a dead cat. It'd be so anticlimactic. Yes, kill it now, that's what I say. We're going to have to have our budgie put down. Premise: Really - is it very old? Conclusion: No, we just don't like it. We're going to take it to the vet tomorrow. Premise: Tell me, how do they put budgies down, then? Conclusion: Well, it's funny you should ask that, because I've just been reading a great big book about how to put your budgie down, and apparently you can either hit them with the book, or you can shoot them just there, just above the beak. Premise: Just there? Well, well, well. 'Course, Mrs Essence flushed hers down the loo. Conclusion: No, you shouldn't do that - no, that's dangerous. They *breed* in the *sewers*! Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Bring out yer dead... Bring out yer dead... I'm not dead yet! Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

You forgot to mention that the "WORK" virus can also seriously mess up your skydiving activities. At the slightest hint of being infected go to the dropzone immediatly. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

I tried to upload it to skydivingmovies.com but it did not work. Problems with my companies firewall I think. I could mail it to you if you want but as I said you can not see what position I am in It's 3.2 megs big and only 9 seconds long (mpg-2 format). Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

That was what they thought on the ground. The video shows the main was well away before the reserve came out. There are pro's and con's to a RSL. That can be discussed elsewhere, my decision is not to use one. This cutaway gave me no reason to review that decision. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Yes, I was missing your point I understand what you mean now and you are right

No, that is not what happened. I had a lot of horizontal speed (ground speed). I was flung away from the main sideways not downwards. I was very different to a non-spinning mal. Dave Fallschirmsport Marl

Not for me, I like the good old D-ring