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    I think he meant with longer risers you could get to a deeper point in the flare, and assuming that the control range is long enough then you still might be all the way extended before you would cause a stall. I use 22 in that come standard with the Odyssey. I am with you Rhino I like the flare to really start at just even with the shoulders and have it extend all the way below my waist, not have it start at my pecks. and finish at my knees (unreachable point). Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    Agree, get the 9 cell. Preferably a Sabre2, but there are also the Fusion for Precision. And I think Aerodyne recently released a new 9 cell, have not gotten a chance to fly any of them. Oh and the Lotus from big Air Sportz I'm just an anti (anti PD snob) person (thats double anti = positive ) Not a fanatic of the Cobalt cult. Blue Ones Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    The full face creates a pretty calm airspace in your helmet. What most people do is wear the contacts inside a full face. Very nice. I would not worry about the contacts coming out of your eyes unless you are one of those people where the contacts come out while you are just sitting on a chair in the living room. Oh and get a Oxygn. "Best above the earth". Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    Or a Pre 1996 Jedie (before "changes" were being made). Very nice canopy, a Vengenace would be the obvious answer though also, so you could stick with PD and still get good openings and good swoops. Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    I owned one (Nitron), got one of the first production models when they were being sold at 50% off. Good learning canopy, great speed, better decent rate than the Stiletto (steeper on the nitron which I like). Great bottom end. Sold it to a guy at Gold Coast and bought a Velocity. I perfer HMA and Vectran over Spetra. Good little canopy, although I love my Velocity and have found that a Jedie 105 I have also will surf like a madman. Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    The type of rig depends on the 1 up, sized for, 1 down, If the closing loop is on the bottom flap its hard to get it tight enough to get that one down. Now on rigs that mount on the bottom of the main pack tray as a javelin does you can shorten the loop much father and keep the pack job much tighter. Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    111 to 113. mph. Could go slower but it starts to get mushy with me and tail flying flat I think. Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    When we showed up last summer it was 2 or 3. I really liked the DZ personally more so than Lake Wales and Titusville. Sebastion is where I think it would be fun to play, while train at Deland, but could easily be at ZHills all the time. Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    Stength....maybe. Although having strength in your turns both legs and arms are very important. Endurance I think is a LOT more important, closer to 25% atleast. After 10 jumps and its 4:00 and you have another 4-6 to go, endurance both mental and physical become a HUGE factor. The more you can get stronger and have more endurance the better you can last during the day from the stress of skydiving. Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    rw suit

    Watcher replied to canopywhore's topic in Relative Work

    Great Suit. I love mine. Just make sure you give her about a 3 month lead time before you actually need it, and maybe pay the $20 for rush so you get it moved up in the queue. Agian amazing suit, customer service not as good unless you live in Deland and only then if you hassle her. Although me personally, I had great service, Alittle long to get the initial suit, but she fixed my booties which were too loose, had it back to me in a couple of days. Replaced a Zipper in about an hour during the day. Replaced all the spandex on the used suit I bought in about 2 weeks. All in All I am really happy, my teammate is not though. Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    I would say mine is about the same, 25 with gusts taking it up to about 32. Much higher than that and I don't get much penetration. At around 25 I start a swoop and get about 10 feet of surf. Depends on where we are also. At Skyquest or some other competition I would jump higher winds to get the competition over. If its training about those that I mentioned above. If its "fun" jumping I probably stay on the ground who wants to jump with no surf to look forward to (and why take the risk?). Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    You switched the 4 way and 8 way scores. the 130s were from 4 way. See omniskore. Jonathan Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    100....a kinda poor Hybrid (sucks being in the base). 200...led a tracking dive out of a CASA, very fun many ppl went low, 2 got in. Good Pieing at Williston (8 months later) 500. Round 1 of US Nationals in Chicago. Very very cool. 300,400,600 Probably some training jump or practice dive. All were fun, but then agian every jump is fun. Jonathan Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    My Odyssey is an RS, Bought used from Sunpath. It now fits perfectly (I had a small growth spurt and it all of the sudden fit perfect). I tried on a C-17 ( I wear an 18) and the laterals were shorter than my own so it dug in alittle and felt funky. So i guess I'm saying if it fits you, then they are wonderful, if it doesn't fit, like any other rig, its not going to feel right. Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    http://www.aerodynamics.com/Ground_Zero/PAGES/xaos21.htm Half way down the page, there is a picture. Dacron is white very thick, spectra is white thinner weave. Vectran starts wheat colored, then gets more greyish. Then HMA is more of a light brown and stays that color very thin. Most canopies have spectra, Crossbraced tends to have Vectran, HMA on Precision's new Ground zero canopies, older canopies that are really large tended to have Dacron to be slowly phased out by spectra. Jonathan
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    And the rest of the ground zero canopies (Nitron, Synergy, Fusion). They did well on my Nitron. Jonathan
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    600 for the course, plus slots on the air plane for the eval jumps. If you are out of town factor in additional money for Hotel, unless you are staying on the DZ. Jonathan
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    I have no pictures, I have diamond back on the back pad and inner covers on the leg pads and mudflaps. I like it. I saw one right with full diamond back, also Navy, on the outside of the rigs (90%). It looked really nice. Agian no pictures. Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    Love my Skysystems Oxygn, great vision, confortable, good protection. Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    Phoenix Airport was a breeze coming back home, they did not bat an eye at my rig or the weight belt that was in my helmet bag. On the other hand in Atlanta going out there, I had to do alot of fast talking. According to the TSA head guy, a TSA approval means its allowed to be checked and be on the airplane but does NOT garuntee you to be able to carry it on. They were questioning rather it had an explosive device (the cutter), I basically said, "No, it has no explosive components." And was able to get it passed. The funny thing is I was doing all this talking while they were handleing my teammates rig, at the same time I was having a concurrent conversation with another TSA inspecter detailing where she could find the weight belt to have a look at that. Quite an interesting morning. And Yeah E-Ticket on Delta rocks. Saves masses amounts of time. Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    Had a tandem ride down in the plane about 6 weeks ago on a friday afternoon. Got up, husband jumped, she rode the plane down. $145 20 minute plane ride is expensive if you ask me. Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    My understanding is a figure 8 is indeed a left 360, then a right 360 (or in reverse order). The only reason I can think of as far as why the D license is different, Is that I think they rewrote a small section to state that both the style series and the 2 pt 8way were required instead of Choose 1, and when they did they replaced figure 8 with left 360 right 360, but since the B and C were not touched it was not edited to remove confusion (Many people did not know what a figure 8 was when I asked them about it when I was getting my different licenses, hence the reason for changing it to just left 360 right 360). Thats my best guess, but alas it is just a guess. Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    My teammate has his new Nitron 150 in his OJ, the nitron packs bigger than the same sized Stiletto. Its alittle tight, but it fits fine, and none of the flaps have ever come open. If you can get the canopy into the D bag for the container, then normally it will fit into the container without problems. Jonathan Bartlett D-24876 AFF-I
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    Yes I know who you are Ron, I talked with you a bit at Skyquest, laughed a bit about the stories regarding you, Charlie Mullins, and a Cessna. I did not say I think its ok, I have a visually mounted altimeter on my rig, and I know when its about time to breakoff based on seeing peripheal vision of the earth. I think its pretty bad that it happened, and surprised they did not notice themselves that low. I was meerly stating (obviously poorly) that a visual altimeter in the middle of 4 way is not always feasible, but that does not excuse you from being able to use your eyes to gauge altitude (and doing it).
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    (At a world cup/meet) The 4 way team (Danish National ) had been circleing at 10,500 for 45 minutes waiting to jump, they had new L&B Dytters, the Dytters rezero'd after 40 minutes (at 10,500), the whole team kept going till they all fired, camera pulled at assigned altitude, Team got a Zero for the round unfortuantly. without that zero they were very much in contention (they had a good round on that one). They all survived and no one was injured and they kept jumping, of course taking the lesson with them that they need to be aware if you are at one certain altitude for an extended period of time, then your audible might reset. And Yes I know the arguments about having a visual altimeter and ground awareness, and I certainly take a look at the ground as I am getting lower, but at world class speeds there is just so much on the line and you go so fast, there is no time to look at a wrist mount (most do not wear wrist mounts gets in the way) so it comes down to trust. Jonathan