Spizzzarko

NO worries friend... I liked your analogy about the ducks. I tried to say what you said, but you were more eloquent about it. Well said.

eventually you are going to hit it, assuming they are landing into the wind, and if you are close enough behind that person you are going to get the full brunt of it. Look at the pro dudes when they are doing team turns. One is higher and off to one side, so they clear each others turbulance.

Shut it twnsnd! What are you doing this weekend? I'm going to coach a few people for this upcoming AFF course we have going on out here at CAnon, and try to make some work jumps too. Give me a call.

it could cause some serious problems, but that is very unlikely and conditions would have to be dead calm. Just ecause it's windy doesn't mean the wake turbulance is not there. It just moves with the wind. Have you ever seen big way's like 120+ ways? Watch the last people landing in the landing area after 100+ other canopy's land. They usually don't land very well, because the air is so turbulant.

go take a look in the locked thread by skyhikiy. There was a big rant about backwards flying canopys in there.

Great more backwards flying stuff agian... You know, I have never jumped an airloc canopy, but I understand the concept for them. The people that I have talked to who own the "Big Air Sprtz" canopy's seem to really like them. I guess it like jumping a racer, either you love it or you hate it, but no matter what your still a dirty nasty racer jumper

I believe the manual states that the filter needs to be replaced every time the unit comes in contact with water. A new unit comes with an extra replacable filter, and your rigger can get these from airtec. Ask the knowledgable folks in the gear and rigging forum, they won't lead you astray.

You know, I tried to help you out earlier in your thread, but now your beginning to piss me and abunch of other people off here. Stop being combatative, shut the fuck up and just listen to what people are trying to tell you instead of waiting to run off at the key board, and get your post numbers up. And if you are feeling some resentment from this here impersonal internet communication, then your starting to catch on. Refer to my post in the inbetweeen canopy thread.

Dude, Why do you want to change canopy's? No, really why do you want to change canopy's? Don't say it's because of it's "short recovery arc"... Can you say you have the stilletto wrung out to it's full potential? I seriously don't think so. I cant tell you how many people I see who down size or change wings because they just learned how to land their current canopy without getting hurt. Why don't you post video of you landing your stilletto that will impress us and then we will not give you a ration of shit about changing wings. So untill then, go and fly your 12 year old technology stilletto, and learn a few things on it. Then come and talk to us. What is going on here? is it the end of the season and everyone is feeling super current, so they need to buy a canopy 100 jumps to small for them? Hell, from the posts in this forum lately, you would think, that if we are not teaching those just off AFF how to swoop, then we are short changing them. GO BACK TO THE BASICS PEOPLE!!! W T F OVER? Rant completed.

Dude, Sometimes there's just some weird shit up there. The atmoshere has way to many variables for us to understand it all. That's what makes this stuff we do interesting. We live on the ground and only get to play in the air, so we have a far better understanding of our home than our playground.

You would be surprised at how much turbulance the smaller wings put out there. Since they are cruising through the air a little faster they really make some good vorticy's from their wingtips.

But swooping takes hundred and hundreds and hundreds (if not thousands) of jumps to properly understand and master. Think of it this way. No two jumps are exactly the same. There is alway's going to be something slightly different with the atmosphere each time you jump. Instead of 45's, why don't you try double fronts straight in if your hell bent on going fast. Honestly you would progress a lot faster if you learn accuracy and slow flight first like the Canuck said. I have seen him, he knows his shit. But like treejumps said earlier, we cant change you if you want to go in, but we can try to guide you on the right path. It's up to you to use the tips of the pro's.

Tell him girl!!!! Another thing I just thought of is that you may not have been in coordinated flight. Here's what I mean by that. If you are not directly under the center of lift on your canopy then you are not in coordinated flight. Toggle turns are usually not coordinated turns, as you give the input to the canopy, and it turns and then you catch up to the canopy. An even easier way to think about it would be to think of keeping equal line tension on all of your lines when you are manouvering around through the sky. Toggle turns are the least coordinated turns, followed by rear riser input, then front riser turns, and harness turns being the most coordinated form of turning. Think about being smooth in everything you do under canopy. It will make you a more effecient, and coordinated pilot.

The best way to get around in Colorado Springs is to know your back roads. If you don't know your back roads then your just stuck!!!

You know a hundred differnet people can demo the same canopy, and you could get a hundred different responses. It all comes down to then comparing it to what they are used to flying. Every one elses opinions can be misleading. Jump it your self, and come to your own opinion.

When flying in brakes your canopy is not as pressurized as it would be in full flight. If you flew through another canopy's wake turbulance then that could be the cause of your problem. Realize though that wake turbulance will stay in the air for quite a bit longer than you may expect it to. Also the turbulance may move around with the winds, so it may not be where you are expecting it to be. AS for the response, I personally would have put the canopy back into full flight (smoothly of course) to build up a little speed and internal canopy pressurization, and then pumped the brakes to inflate the end cells. Closed end cells is more likely to happen on a lightly loaded canopy, but if you get them it's not the end of the world. If they are making the canopy un-controllable then cut away if you are high enough (above 1,000') if not then just fire your reserve and hope for the best (if you are below your cut away altitude). The best medicine for this is not to get into the situation. Try not to fly dirrectly behind another person's canopy, or their descent path down low to the ground. Turbulance near the earth makes me a little scared!!!

Ya man I know what your saying about the basic stuff, and I try to incorporate a little when I teach, but a lot of the time the student's are thinking more about the upcoming jump than about span, chord, stall characteristics, and laminar airflow... I was a PPL before I even jumped so I know how you feel on that aspect too, but ppl ground school is a lot more intense than a FJC. I would like to come up north and jump more with you guys, but right now I'm going to drink a beer and then go to bed.

The first jump course is long enough as is with out going into major aero issues. This stuff is up to the coaches to teach. But you get a 100 jump wonder coach who barely understands it himself, and they end up dissemenating the wrong info. What does a coach get paid maybee $5-10 per jump if they are lucky? I get $35 for an aff, so I'm going to go where the money is.

I'm about 900 or a little abve that with the velo 103, and I'm bringing it higher and higher but making the turn rate slower each successive jump for a 270 turn to final. I do a 270 at about 800 on the vx 98 as it doesn't lose as much altitude in the dive, as the velo does.

I agree with you on this one tree. That is an aspect of swooping that is often overlooked. If you master this then you swoops will be longer because you are not introducing drag with a control input to get the canopy to plane out. Less drag=morespeed=longerdistance!

Do you remember the months after that add ran, all of the people writing into skydiving mag, and telling them as to why they were cancelling their subscriptions!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA AH AH HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA "This is a family sport, and I am ashamed that the high quailty of skydiving mag has stooped to such a level as to print adds such as this. I thought this was a decent family magazine. This is why I'm cancelling my subscription to your magazine for the filth that you are printing" Come on you panzy's!!! Open your ears up at the drop zones. Do any of you honestly think that dropzones are a good family enviroment for your children? Bring your kids to the dz where adults come to play and act childish... These magazines are printed by skydivers for skydivers. I wouldn't really use skydiving mag to get people to come out to the DZ. That's what parachutist is for. Don't get me wrong... I have a subscription to Skydiving Mag and will keep it as long as I jump, possibly even after I quit jumping.

I'm not exactly sure what the perfect combo is, but yes there is a point when you have so much canopy over yur head that you can't get it to speed up. But the cross braced canopy's are designed to pick up a lot of speed in a turn, so you can have a slightly bigger canopy. Most of the manufacturers will not make a CB canopy bigger than a 120. Just imaging a 190 vx or a 210 vx. You would be doing tandems with it just to load it up. The pack volumn would be astronomical, along with the cost. So to answer you question the ratio of canopy size to wingloading is going to be different for each person. How much weight is that person comfortable wearing, how big of a rig do they want, ect ect ect. I hope this has helped shed some light on the issue.

You be much happier in the reserves and with civilian life in general. Espescially with an art position. Now just move over to the 15's, and your quality of life will be even better!!! hahahaha

My suggestion to you... 1. Move immediatly... 2. Drink heavily...

Ok here's the low down dude... Colorado in all actuallity kind of sucks. The thought of living here is a lot cooler than actually living here. Let me count the reasons why: 1. Wing nut talked about $400, maybee if you lived in a shanty behind one of the steel mills in Pueblo... The real estate market in Colorado Springs sucks right now. There's a lot of new construction but not as many buyers right now. 2. Look at coloradospringshelpwanted.com, and see what you have for options in the work enviroment. I just got out of the military after 8 years. I don't have a degree, nor do I have any engineering or space experience. If you are a Satellite controller or an engineer then you can get a job here, if not, then start practicing making sandwitches for subway. 3. Temperature... Not to bad, but it does get cold from time to time. Doing RW with your warmies on and looking like the Michelin man is cool for about 1 jump. And when it's not cold just wait for it to get hot and the atmosphere to get even thinner, and for your canopy to quit flying at a very high airspeed. It's like every jump is downwinder, and your canopy acts a size smaller. 4. STAY AWAY FROM SKIP's PLACE!!! If you value your life DO NOT JUMP AT HIGH SKY ADVENTURES!!!! STAY AWAY FROM SKIP's PLACE!!! If you value your life DO NOT JUMP AT HIGH SKY ADVENTURES!!!!STAY AWAY FROM SKIP's PLACE!!! If you value your life DO NOT JUMP AT HIGH SKY ADVENTURES!!!!STAY AWAY FROM SKIP's PLACE!!! If you value your life DO NOT JUMP AT HIGH SKY ADVENTURES!!!!STAY AWAY FROM SKIP's PLACE!!! If you value your life DO NOT JUMP AT HIGH SKY ADVENTURES!!!!STAY AWAY FROM SKIP's PLACE!!! If you value your lifeSTAY AWAY FROM SKIP's PLACE!!! If you value your life DO NOT JUMP AT HIGH SKY ADVENTURES!!!! DO NOT JUMP AT HIGH SKY ADVENTURES!!!! Are you getting the hint!!! Skydive the Rockies is cool, and so is mile high up in longmont. Check them both out and make your own decision, but STAY AWAY FROM SKIP's PLACE!!! If you value your life DO NOT JUMP AT HIGH SKY ADVENTURES!!!! 5. I just a little burned out here in Colorado, but the view is pretty nice, so it does have that going for it. BTW wingnut Hope you are doing well there in Utah, and the falcon isn't biting you to bad. Have you been getting deployed?