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  1. mr2mk1g
    Standard training in England it (virtually) the bill booth method. we are told to ALWAYS S-fold the bridle into the roll of the PC - THAT is the way to avoid a horse shoe / maya hard pull. The 1 1/2 inch vecro patch you refer to is called an "idiot patch", (assuming your talking about a little square patch on your top flap and it doesnt actually "go" anywhere). Its basically there to remind you how to route your bridle. Its entirely superflous and can either be removed, or ignored. You could always get some hook velcro on your bridle though and... use it to remind you how to correctly route your bridle.
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    brain buckets
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    damn thats odd, both lawyers and both worth the same in jail!?
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    Still no symbiosis suits to review... Know your busy, esp with all the upgrades but was supprised you'd added a load of manufacturors and left em out... they're real big here in the UK. http://www.symbiosis.suits.btinternet.co.uk/
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    On my rig, (another new wings that arived a week before Chrisky's), the tag did actually say that it was cypres equiped. It said: "this rig contains a cypres" which woukd seem to indicate to me that it was intended to stay on, as the rig obviously didn't come with a cypres pre installed. Although I was going to remove the tag anyway, it fell off the first time I packed the main... so this would seem to indicate it was intended to come off or it would have been made of stronger stuff. Equally, if it was intended to stay on it would have been put on a cable housing or somthing where there are no moving parts. Perhaps choice of wording is simply indicative of a poor use of English.
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    no one's listening to deronde. D said that their mind is made up, they want an RSL, they're just enquiring about what different types there are. My answer is that I would be amased if your rigger would fit anything other than one which hooked to one riser and went traight to the reserve pin. I think I know what you mean when you refer to other types but they aren't very common. I know the skyhook attaches to both risers but you can't get that on anything other than a new vector.
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    you like those one liners dont you tonto, thats gotta be the third I've seen from you in a week. "can i set my cypres off..." "no" "can i survive..." "no" "can two use one..." "no" Whilst I wouldn't argue that in essence you are right... its funny that everyone elses answer is "yes, under certain circumstances" and then back them up with real life accounts of them actually happening
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    The US legal system has gone overboard. But this is not really the best place to have a long discussion on over litigious societys. There's a spin off thread here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=708563;#708563
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    There are a lot of very good arguments about the US and other legal systems being made in another thread on here. Its a very good discussion, but not really the right place to be making it. We therefore have yet another spin-off thread. So, feel free to express you anoyance about your overly litigious society.
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    accepted, was just being anal
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    Maybe put the elastic keepers at the top so that any slippage would suck the keeper into the hardware too and lock it. You can always put a second set of keepers (or bungee) on the straps if you feel you need them down the bottom to keep the excess in place.
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    if its PS its good... look at the light source and the shadows on her shoulders.
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    So why we are not all dead?, I think you mean the other way around. No no... he was right, going from 0-120 instantly WILL kill you. You subject the body to exactly the same force as going from 120-0, just in the oposit "direction". I don't know about you, but it takes me about 12 sec to get up to 120 when I jump.
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    It has happened before: and check out this link to a couple of other stories: http://www.manbottle.com/trivia/Terminal_Velocity.htm_answer.htm
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    HHAHAHAHA, you have NOOO issues. I just put my 190 into my W13 several times last night. Looks like I will be buying that 170 I demoed at the weekend.
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    do it. Im in a uni club and we visit dozens of different DZ's with our students. Just so long as they are fully briefed there should not be an issue. I must have done my raps training at at least half a dozen airfields myself. Just get a FULL DZ orientation and a full brief. You have to swap to through out at some point so there's no real biggy there. the air's the same wherever you go.
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    didnt say they're not good. just some of the manufacturors who used to make em have stopped and switched to making 1 pin. dont know if there actually is a safety issue with them, just that they are percieved by some to have a very marginal safety issue. Some consider them to be simply adding something that can go wrong. some consider that if 1 pin works fine, why put in a second - that simply doubles the risk of having a problem with it. As I said, not my opinion, but if there are enough people who think like that, the rig will not sell as well, so the design feature gets dropped. hence "safety fashionable". Not saying its not safe, or even that it is less safe, just that its not fashionable.
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    There are two kinds of pop top reserve systems. 1 pin and 2 pin. If you have a 1 pin reserve, you need a 1 pin cypres, if you have a 2 pin reserve, you need a 2 pin cypres. If you get hold of the wrong one second hand it can be modified fairly cheeply. the only difference is that 1 has 1 cutter, the other has 2 wired up to the same control unit. Most containers are 1 pin. 2 pin reserves are not safety "fashionable".
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    My friend Iain Firkins... His Nicknames include but are not limited to: Firky Firktron 2000 Firkomatic Sir Firkalot Firkzoid Firkziller Firkinator Domino's Neon Freak Forky and yes, all of these are actually used to describe him, and most feature in someone's phone memory.
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    YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN OLD-TIME SKYDIVER WHEN: You wish you were'nt a Wigflyer.
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    If you're shooting in DV, most people put it onto a PC to work with. This eliminates all PAL/NTSC problems as you can simply convert it to whatever format you want or edit it and put it into an MPEG before recording onto VHS or even burn a DVD if you have the drive. (sorry, too many nomenclatures)
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    says that this rig is equiped with a cypres... im gonna be taking mine off... dont like where it is, there are moving parts there.
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    looks very similar to the one I just got through a week ago... its with my rigger but will post pics soon Very sweet. Great rigs arent they
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    I did: but thanks for the bump
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    EXE canopy

    mr2mk1g replied to mr2mk1g's topic in Gear and Rigging

    Ok people, I've seen a couple of old threads on this canopy, but there's surely more info out there. Im looking into buying an EXE170. I flew it at the weekend and it handled nice, (high winds though so couldn't put it through its paces). I'm looking for opinions from others who have put in a load of jumps on this canopy who are gonna know it intimately. My main frame of referance is a Sabre 190. I'll be back in a week to jump it again before I decide, but all opinions are welcome. Good canopy / bad canopy? Cheers