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You poor soul..... Maybe some day you'll be like all the others and realize that driving a little farther really IS worth it. driving to any drop zone is worth it.... also... check out all the free advertizing my home dz gets......... hope to see you guys there soon....

Question for all the tandem masters out there. Would you take some one this heavy? Not me. why not?.. how heavy are you? i hate taking peaple that big... just because it is hard to flare.... by myself..... and i dont like having the students help me flare....

mine used to do this. and as said above after about 50 or 75 jumps, it goes away. i think it's not really packing that does it, that it may be more of you while it's opening, and eventually you calm down in the harness, or what ever and it opens better. later you will notice after about 75 jumps the lines dont have that slickness to them any more... and they look a little "worn in" it seems that this may cause a little more friction on the slider grommets to hold the slider up a little longer.... i dont know... just a guess.. but most peaple ive talked to with a vx has said the same thing... weird openings even some hard ones untill about 75 jumps... but the way that canopy swoops i could care less about how it opens... but mine now opens great. ive got about 150-200 jumps on it...

saved my ass a couple of times... asc is a great drop zone.. no need to be jealous. also i go to thomaston on a not so regular basis but im known down there by name... it is also an awesome drop zone..... looks like i might be paying a visit to monroe soon... have heard a few good things but has been a few years since ive been there.... and rome.... well it is rome.... havent been for years to rome either.... i call asc my home drop zone but i could just as easily call thomaston my home.... maybe you should come by asc sometime with a positive attitude and see how that gets you along there then...

they do some funky things on opening while the lines are new... give it about 75 jumps and it should start opening better... mine had very bad openings when it was new.. and now it is doing fine...

lmao!... just flip it over.....

i would take a kid in there teens.... 13 plus... on a tandam if they wanted too and there parents said it was ok... as long as i could find a drop zone to let them jump..... im not really too worried about being sued.. because i wouldnt think that i would hurt them in any way... if i did for some reason and did get sued... well whoever sues me is welcome to my debts.... i wish i was able to jump at that age/....

i remember a leval 4 student looking at me at pull time.. and i could see it in his eyes... he was about to loose it........ it was an awesome skydive for a level 4 but something about solo pull time got to him.... he brain locked..... it was the look in his eyes that made me relize at 5500 ft that this skydive was getting ready to get fun.... he then rolled on his back.... but me just seeing his eyes gave me the knowledge that something was wrong.....and i was already on the way to grab him when he flipped.. i will never let a student of mine wear goggles that i cannot see their eyes in when you have an A license there are different types of goggles out there... ask your instructor if there is any other kind that you could use.

my nuts never hurt so bad when i did that same thing... ouch

acually somone posted on observation and others including hooknswoop has just tried to explain the missconception and also did it in a very proffessional manner. and that said.... let me try .. im horrible at this but here it goes... well say your flying you canopy above a solid layer of clouds and the air mass was moving at 100 mph... the same air mass you canopy is in is the same air mass the cloud is in you just "above the cloud".... now imagine if you could paint an x in one spot of that cloud but you could not see the ground in any direction.........ok now.. say the canopy has 20 mph forward speed..... say you got right over the top of the x and preformed a hook turn..... downwind or upwind ... you tell me...... how could you tell if you turned down wind or up wind or even crosswind for that matter..... you cant.... because the wind has no effect on the canopy... if you turn facing north with the x to your back.. you would move 20 mph away from the x in a norther direction... say you faced south.. with the x to you back... you would move 20 mph away from that x.....if you faced east or west or any other direction for that matter you would move at a rate of 20 mph from that x... if you did a hookturn or any other turn with your canopy in relation to that x... you would not tell a difference in wich way you went.... because it doesnt matter...... but the airmass is moveing at 100mph... i hope this makes sense........ mark edit to add..... the solid cloud layer would be your pretend ground.... and since it is.. it takes away the ground sheer theory..... also this is only to talk about wind..... im not talking about updrafts wind sheer turbulance or anything else but wind.... Thank you. I'm quite familiar with Galilean relativity, what with being a professor of physics and all. Lets repeat your experiment but over hard ground, and you intend to perform a 90degree carving turn to land into the wind. Let's also have a more realistic wind, say 25kt from 270. You are on a heading of 360 before the carve. What is your course? What will be your response to what you see? Will you adjust your heading so your course is 360? What will be your heading if your course is 360? What does that do to your carve to landing? Next: Why exclude atmospheric phenomena that are associated with wind? When you skydive, can you turn off windshear close to the ground? I can't. Let's assume you are on final, flying directly into the wind. Your airspeed is 30kt and your groundspeed is 5kt. As you descend through 20ft agl the windspeed drops by 10kt. Can you tell? What happens to your airspeed? What does your canopy do? Now make it more difficult: the same wind and shear, but you are halfway through a carving turn when you encounter the shear. What does the canopy do? The question that started this thread is about real skydiver in a real atmosphere, yet you wish to simplify it to an idealized atmosphere where difficult-to-analyze phenomena are excluded. A strong wind will always have an associated shear close to the ground, and skydivers swoop over the ground, not over clouds in 100mph winds per your example. is that what thats called..?....i feel smart already... no but seriously... you are correct..... i think you missing the point of what peaple were trying to explain...... it is dificult for some to grasp.... not because of mathmatics or anything else... it is just hard to picture all this in some peaples head... so it was simplified to try and make sense to peaple... everyone learns in a different way and not every explanation is going to get through to everyone..... i do not dissagree with you at all..... your just getting into all the other aspecst that you have to deal with in the real world..... this isnt the real world is it.... no..... it is the internet... same as trying to explain somthing to somone without ever seeing them or makeing hand jestures... or useing models..... it was simplified to just discus the efect of solid wind effect on how you turn..... of course there is 5 million other things that effect the way you fly your canopy.......... and ... see well .. i dont really quite understand this..... maybee because it is in writing...... if you could show me by pointing and maybee models... then maybee i would understand it... but i think... maybee im wrong... but i would definatly start my turn.. in a different spot relitive to the ground.... but at the same altitude..... as i would inrelation to there being no wind.... i dont know.. maybee im not getting this annalogy.....

acually somone posted on observation and others including hooknswoop has just tried to explain the missconception and also did it in a very proffessional manner. and that said.... let me try .. im horrible at this but here it goes... well say your flying you canopy above a solid layer of clouds and the air mass was moving at 100 mph... the same air mass you canopy is in is the same air mass the cloud is in you just "above the cloud".... now imagine if you could paint an x in one spot of that cloud but you could not see the ground in any direction.........ok now.. say the canopy has 20 mph forward speed..... say you got right over the top of the x and preformed a hook turn..... downwind or upwind ... you tell me...... how could you tell if you turned down wind or up wind or even crosswind for that matter..... you cant.... because the wind has no effect on the canopy... if you turn facing north with the x to your back.. you would move 20 mph away from the x in a norther direction... say you faced south.. with the x to you back... you would move 20 mph away from that x.....if you faced east or west or any other direction for that matter you would move at a rate of 20 mph from that x... if you did a hookturn or any other turn with your canopy in relation to that x... you would not tell a difference in wich way you went.... because it doesnt matter...... but the airmass is moveing at 100mph... i hope this makes sense........ mark edit to add..... the solid cloud layer would be your pretend ground.... and since it is.. it takes away the ground sheer theory..... also this is only to talk about wind..... im not talking about updrafts wind sheer turbulance or anything else but wind....

i couldnt keep up with you when you were on your belly... i dont know what the hell im going to do now.... now dont you wish i went with you to video it?

uhhh isnt the thanksgiving boogie going on in eloy that day?... im sure there should be alot of peeps there...

well ive been following this thread and i agree 100% with hooknswoop. i can understand it but in no way could i explain it.... geese hooknswoop i got mad respect for you now. just sitting here reading the way your explaining it.. then well... you lost me here.....

hahahaha ohhhhhh

ok im leaving for real this time!

i wish i was educated ... but then again... i cant even spell//..

No, wait, don't go... Shit. lmao..... no really... got to take the kids skydivin tomorow you know!

If any hot single men show up you'll need to be pitchin' your tent tonight. I'm not looking for a hot single man. im outa here then see ya.... goin to the dz

catholic???

you rang?

ya those guys didnt even open the bag that i had 2 rigs in.... then my roomate went through and saw the hhok knife through the x ray and went right to it and made him mail it back home.... but other than that no problems whatsover... they even knew what was in my bag... while he was off mailing the knife to the house the lady asked me what i did with my hooknife. i told them i packed it in the checked bag..... then they asked why my roomate didnt do that.. well thats when i told them that hes a dumbass

Same reason you have that avatar....cause you're a weirdo!! But in a good way.

whats wrong with this picture?

fx is crossed braced also