Beppo

Hi ZigZag! I must search and scan this pictures but im sure that i have some of this. On the one hand - service bulletins are the solution to eliminate material caused errors. On the other hand we must accept that ANY metal can get hair-cracks by different reasons.

Nobody should say that this is not possible. A hair-crack in material caused by smashing a ring on a stone can be the cause for a ring failure. Has nowbody seen the pictures of riser or 3-ring failures? And what is if this ring is on your hip and not on your shoulder?.....

Rob, one question: Do you think a PDF Techno is as strong as a PD Reserve?

What can you tell me about *openings *packing *turns *flare/landing? Thanks for every answer!!

Of course: - flub - mhhmpfffftttttt - pong - clap clap clap (the Slider)

I was in the Air Power Arena Hueckelhoven for 8 times. Do you come from germany? When you speak German, you can contact me: coldhand99@gmx.de

6 g's for 5 seconds reduces 658 mph - wow ;-) 29 g's for 1/4 second reduces 159 mph....

Hello ladies and gentlemen, for the first I had to say that my english sometimes looks catastrophically. But this will everybody see anyway ;o). *bg*. OK I often read articles about anti downsizing. See in this forum. Very very very often in many threads rookie jumpers are asking about downsizing. And on every dropzone you can find skygods where tell you about the risks of highly loaded cannopies. Every AFF jumpmaster tell his students, that they hadn't to fly canopies above 1.0 as first cannopies. When you visit the homepages from the manfuacturers, you can also read articles about the danger of downsizing (for example: PD's articles as pdf). But they ALL don't show in their advertisement clips and pics low loaded cannopies. No, only the mega hyper ultra swoop machines wich are be loaded above 2.x or so are on the pictures. Turf surfs, long swoops - that is what the main pages shows. Did you seen really a manfufacturer which has made advertisement with a 1:1 canopie and a conservative landing? No (in my opinion john le blanc and the other manufacturers are lied i***ts...). So all manufacturers and often many experienced jumpers say (rookie) jumpers that only elipticals are the right stuff. On the one hand they all warning but on the other hand they show you that when you want to be really cool you can't fly a F111 monster!. What are the problems? Parachutes are very expensivly products. Skydive are expensive too. Sure - it is the right way to downsizing slowly. First the 190 square @ 1:1 for 200 jumps or so, than the 170 for 200, than the 170 (slightly?) eliptical (and so on and so on). But which jumper has the money to buy a new rig every 100-200 jumps? The most jumpers hadn't money to make more than 100-150 jumps / year. When a young jumper get his license he has the problem what to buy. He want to jump often as possible - but he don't want to jump his "uncool" PD 210 for 2-3 years or so. Now some rookie jumpers think - why not a Stiletto @ 1.5 from the start? This is the problem. The trend in skydiving generally where that are only spectacular landings, only small cannopies, only small rigs are cool. You wan't to be a really cool guy? So you don't can't get the conservative way... It is not cool to land a PD 210 conservative - so you must hook it. But a hook under a a Stiletto is much cooler.......... Do U know what I mean? GrEeTz, Tom