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Contact the publisher of the book and see if they will put you in contact with her. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

And if you over run the wave ahead of you will get some people upset. On the big ways at Perris this last week end, if I had tracked like a bat out of hell I would have run over Remster and maybe caught Kallend.

And I can remember a hand full of jumpers who had their name permanently painted on the grounding board. At both Perris and Elsinore. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

The best way to learn flat tracking is to flat track. On big ways, most of the jumpers will reach vertical speeds of close to 90 mph. But they do it by not going steep. Going steep is as bad as pulling in place. Basic rules for big ways. 1) break off at right altitude 2) follow tracking leader if needed 3) Flat track to assigned altitude 4) Do not over track wave in front of you Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

____________________________ That's... Super! Glad, I could help. Chuck No pun iintended. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

I have more packs on an F-18 head box then Racers so I feel more comfortable packing them. I turn down Racers because jumper safety is important to me and their reserve should be repacked by a rigger experienced with type/model or under the supervision of someone who is. For me they are more difficult and require more tools, always a potential problem. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Grounding is not criticizing. It is a way of forcing a jumper to consider the nature of the behavior that brought on the grounding and in this case receive training to avoid it in the future. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

She should be grounded at least until she gets some rather intense refresher training. She failed to do 1 of the 2 things that MUST be done on every jump to survive. That is deploying a land able canopy. She left this to a back up device. She was 3 to 3.5 seconds from dead. Sparky

Welcome to life. Did you think because we jump out of airplanes life in the real world would stop at the parking lot? Its up to you to choose how you deal with it. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

I wonder how many riggers out there today even know what a "Rodrigues rig" is, was. I only pack what I feel comfortable packing. Some rigs I do not have hands on enough to feel comfortable with doing them. And you are right, if an individual is going to be a rigger he should be educated and make every effort to continue learning. And one of the most important things for a rigger to learn is to say NO. That way he won’t have hear someone say "that guy made my rig look like crap" When was the last time you did a GQ-1000 into the head box of an F-18 ejection seat? If one comes to your table tomorrow would you bitch about it or pack it? Sparky If I remember right it was called a “Solution”. My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

What other component of a tandem rig supports the weight of 2 bodies at 120+ mph for 40/60 seconds every jump? The P/C on a sports rig is one of the most often replaced components and its exposure to terminal speeds is just a fraction of a tandem drogue. While testing a new system for the P-3 at Yuma I had the opportunity to observe a drogue similar to what Bill described. It was almost twice the diameter of a tandem drogue and made entirely of ZP. With a 376 pound, 6’ 7” test dummy it jumped around so much I was afraid to get close to it in freefall. It would randomly oscillate 6 to 7 feet off center line with the dummy oscillating 4 to 5 feet. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Well, I have to leave, my rides here.

I spoke the skylord on Sunday evening about this incident. He told me the reserve handle, to his knowledge, was never out of the pocket. If this was the case, and I do not believe he was lying to me, at the very least someone should find out if there is a problem with the rig that may have caused this to happen. I would be curious to see how much of the reserve cable extends past the reserve handle when the pin is fully seated. I have seen rigs were the ball is tight against the handle and by moving around with the harness tight the pin can be made to move. I do not think the $15.00 bucks was all that important to him. I think the attitude of the person he dealt with was what bothered him the most. As someone posted earlier, poor customer service. This is not the first person I have heard mention "attitude" when referring to the person skylord spoke to. At what point does the company renting equipment accept responsibility for problems with the gear. " Maybe due to my inexperience I blew it, " The very people that most often rent gear are the ones least likely to be able to identify problems. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

So you are saying if someone else bought it they could store it at your place?

All you need are the 2 locking stows to keep the canopy in the bag until line stretch. Line dump is a myth. If it were real you would have line dump with every reserve deployment. The only reason you stow the lines is to stage the deployment, not to meter it. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

I had this conversation with J.C. a couple of days ago and he said the same thing. Do you think it might be a trend? Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

The Cypres was developed to protect skydivers who failed to pull by 750 feet. It has worked damn well when used as it was intended. Skydivers, not Cypres changed the rules and then bitched when the unit worked as designed. Now they come out with something to prevent (maybe) some of the recent problems with jumpers exceeding the design limits of the old units. Before the first unit is sold you want to blame it for causing fatalities. This new unit was designed to be used within certain design limits. If there is a possibility that a jumper feels he/she will exceed these limits don’t buy the damn thing. In any of the various skydiving disciplines, there are gear choices to be made. The smart jumper will educate him/herself and make good choices. The stupid, lazy or “can’t be bothered” jumper will continue to make poor choices. To say that someone back tracking into the ground was the fault of gear is not looking at the facts. On any skydive there are only 2 things that you must do to survive. 1 is deploy a land able canopy and 2 is land that canopy safely. There is only one piece of equipment that you should depend on to do this. And you can’t buy it at a gear store. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

Given the stuff I've seen pictures of that freefall cameramen used to strap to themselves "back in the day"... I'm not sure you're kidding...

The DC-3 that you, Tim and Lisa are talking about is the same one. I was on its first load with jumpers at Cal. City, along with you and Tim I think, and then jumped it again at Perris. The door is so damn big that Hank H. couldn't reach the outside floater bar. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

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When I proudly showed my teenage daughters a recent piece I did for the History Channel, the eldest remarked, "What are you so proud of dad?...it means "you're history". Bill, you are history.

I always cut off the excess, its like putting them on a permanent diet!

Is it an inside radius or an outside radius? Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

It wasn't Kevlar lines. They were using Kevlar for lateral bands and in some cases to reinforce the radial seams. During high speed deployment (ejection seat) the canopy expands like a big balloon initially. When the bands and the seams can’t expand with the rest of the canopy, the rest of the canopy goes away. We did a series of tests on a canopy, ACE, that was designed to replace the GQ-1000 in the F-18 head box. The tests were at 300 KEAS with a load of 300 pounds. The canopy came out of the head box, went BANG, and all that was left was a skeleton consisting of Kevlar. All the nylon was gone. Now if the body of the canopy is made of a zero stretch material the explosive forces of deployment will end up going somewhere. Sparky My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals