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hey faber, thanks for linking, thats a badass vid! I would love to try the paragliding BASE jump, hehe --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

hey thanks, that was great information! I jump at the skydiving place, in parkton, NC. I am still doing AFF, but I feel like Ive got a real good handle on landings and such, and basic canopy flying. Of course, theres so much more I need to learn! I love flying my canopy, and can't wait until I get off AFF and can get my own appropriately sized canopy. I guess right now the most important thing like you folks said is concentrate on getting safe gear for me, and not what will be optimum to use when I have more experience. Thanks, I'm sure I will have more questions to ask about CRW, it seems really exciting! --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

I am excited to start crew, I am a complete beginner at skydiving though, not even through AFF. I take it you need at least 50 or so jumps, to start CREW? I am content with this, as I know it will still be fun by jump 50, perfecting my canopy skills, and just freefalling. I plan to pull high-ish on my beginning jumps to perfect my canopy control skills. What else should I be doing in this interim between student status and when I actually start doing CReW jumps, besides pulling high and becoming familiar with canopy control to be as ready as possible when I fly with the dogs? I can't think of anything else that would benefit me besides pulling real high and messing around alone. Also, one more question, I know for BASE its a good idea to get your BASE canopy and use it in a skydiving setting to get used to it. I think though with CReW don't you need to have the same canopy as your CReW buddies? So, there's no way, barring meeting the people I will be doing CReW with when I gain experience, to know what canopy I should buy now and be able to play around with it and get used to it. I ask this because I am on an extreme budget, and would like to buy my CReW canopy now, as my first skydiving canopy, and get REALLY used to it so its second nature by the time I start CReW. I am 5'7" 125 pounds (lightweight, I know!) if that's any help for the canopy thing. I really would like to just get the canopy that I'll be using for CReW, cause I doubt I'll have enough $ to buy 2 main canopies. Thanks for your help, this forum has helped me a lot so far. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

[QUOTE]Actually... normal forward speed of a canopy is usually with in a few miles per hour of each other no matter the size or loading (to a point). Air Speed is 20-25 mph but . . . [/QUOTE] I was under the impression that a higher wingloaded canopy descended faster, thus creating more lift, which converts into faster foward speeds. Is this wrong? --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

while I'm not an expert by any means, and have never had this happen to me. I have heard about it. It seems not common, but does happen from time to time, with a bad position deployment. I think what you should do is to clear the PC from your arm and let it extend into the air above you. Don't quote me on this, and I would like someone else to back this up, but if the PC is caught in your burble, or under your arm, effectively hindering it from floating the length of its bridle, the main will stay in the D-bag, unreleased. That PC needs to not only come out, but fly up and pull a pin causing the release of the main parachute. Again, lets wait for some more experienced folks to tell us whats up, but by my reckoning clearing the trapped PC is your first course of action. The next would be to work on body position at deployment, it seems to me sloppy body position is the culprit of most malfunctions. If this keeps happening to you, get someone to shoot a couple videos of you deploying and have someone experienced critique you. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

Also, swing your feet slightly out front, so you're prone to not slam all your weight down on them. You'll just naturally fall on your ass. I know this, because this was my first landing under a parachute, and it didn't hurt at all. I think the key to this not hurting is to have a HUGE canopy. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

why not just wingload at like .5 and time your stall correctly so you get some backwards motion, first your feet would touch down very briefly, with not a lot of impact (due to the low wingloading) then you would fall on your ass, with the brunt of the impact. If you had a BIG cushion type thingy on your ass this might work. I would suggest testing your "prototype" out without a parachute and just falling on your ass in the grass. I'm not experienced at landing parachutes or anything, but it seems with the slight backwards motion you get from starting a stall too early into the wind, added to the ass landing, you'd be alright. Good luck, and take my advice with a grain of salt, please. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

I'm not really that great at math, but I have a hunch you would need his surface area as well as his wingloading to get a truly accurate measure. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

FYI, you can go to google and type in the title of most of these stories in quotes, and find a site that is mirroring it for free. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

[QUOTE]Maybe 50'. The canopy basically inflates and the jumper is in the water a fraction of a second later[/QUOTE] 50' over water is nothing. I'd jump that with just a pair of shorts on, there is a certain point where too low gets lame, youre just wearing out your gear for the sake of using it, its a lot more fun to just jump in (like off a waterfall or some such) than have to worry about configuring your gear, IMO, but of course I've never used BASE equipment, but I have taken 50' foot dives from rock ledges into deep rivers --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

IMO, if they have you "cornered" so to speak, it's worth it to comply with them and cooperate. All bets are off though if your group is scattered and theyre trying to round people up. It really depends on the situation, I guess. After doing a few illicit activities you get the feel for when you should yield and when you should run. It's a judgement call, I suppose. But then again, I've never BASE jumped before, so my opinion is worth shit all, but I have done other things within the grey area of the law before which might be compareable to BASE jumping... --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

it was a funny story, but it seems it would be more appropriate in the talkback forum, seeing as no actual information is being discussed. It would make it easier for beginners to search the forum archives in future days, months, years. Just my opinion though. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

definitely if its chilly on the ground its going to be VERY cold up in the air. Think about it, as you gain altitude, it gets COLDER. I was jumping the last week and it was 75 on the ground, but it was slightly cloudy, lots of percipitation in the air, and when we got to altitude my hands were cold as shit. Just call ahead and ask your DZO or instructor what he thinks, they're your best bet for good information specific to their DZ. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

I'm sorry that I read that entire post, I was looking for some redeemable quality to it but found none. Did you want to say anything productive at all, or just bitch that a weird dude is in your skydiving class? **edit - after reading this again, it looks too strikingly similar to a personal attack, which was not how it was intended. I definitely wasn't trying to insult you for posting a funny story --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

commercially rated to load skydivers or commercially rated i.e. to fly and get paid? I know theres been people pay pilots to fly them down to the beach and back (a 45 min flight compared to a 3.5 hour drive). Is that technically illegal? --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

hah, this made me laugh, as I was thinking about what I would do if I ever got "bustet" by the police while making it to the exit point. It's easy to say typing at the keyboard that you would go ahead and jump, but maybe harder when a policeman is shining a highpowered flashlight on your ass. Also, I think climbing a little higher to get altitude for the jump would be construed as resisting arrest, and jumping could possibly be construed as reckless endangerment. I'd be curious about the stories though --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

I think maybe people have missed the point of my post. I definitely wouldnt be doing this to make money!!! This is kind of a long term dream of mine, that one day, I can get my sorry ass up out of bed, walk 100 yards to the airstrip, pay my neighbor to take up his cessna with a couple other people and jump! Just crunch the numbers yourself, I think you could get away with CHEAP jump tickets this way, IF there was a pilot wishing to take you up. I know multiple 18 year old pilots in my neighborhood that fly for fun, I know they would welcome 250 bucks for a saturday afternoon of 10-15 take offs and landings. Split that money with 2-3 other people and you've got cheap jump tickets! I hope at least. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

I was under the impression that the "ZPness" of a canopy eventually wears out. Is that wrong? --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

[QUOTE]This saved one jumper last year when he had an accidental riser release, on one side, but the canopy remained inflated enough to land him (in water). [/QUOTE] How did this happen? Did the riser break, or was cut away somehow? --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

sorry for bumping this oldish post, but I was curious as the status of stunts adventure equipment. I have my eye on a used eclipse rig, and wondered whether or not I could get support for it still? Thanks! --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

I'm confused, you can't go directly through manufacturers if you live in South Africa? That's weird... --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

[QUOTE]Is there any credence to waving off and then pausing before you deploy - say like a second or two - to allow someone to sideslide off?[/QUOTE] You'd think someone wouldn't be 10 feet directly above you around pull time, but I guess it happens. I think if youre a jumper above someone and you see a wave off, you shouldn't need 1-2 seconds, you should get off that person's ass immediately, knowing that theres about to be nylon in your face. Of course, if you are doing the waving off, you'd think you'd want to pause a second or two after your wave off, so as not to fuck things up for yourself, but then I guess people get lazy. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

I know the people that own the land, they are neighbors. The only thing I would be worried about, is that there is a major airport about 30 miles away and planes fly over my house everyday, granted they are very high in the sky, I wonder if they are getting as low as 10k or so... --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

how hard is it to open up a drop zone? I live not even 100 yards from an airstrip where cessnas regularly take off, land, do air maneuveurs and tricks. Is it as simple as getting a pilot to agree to take you up to altitude and let you jump out? Or is there red tape to wade through? This would be a non-profit type thing, if that makes any difference. I'm wondering the legal logistics of this... --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

also, ASK QUESTIONS. Just because this guy might focus on the negative (he just wants you to become better faster), doesn't mean you have to. Focus the negativity and make it positive, when he starts slamming you for the poor position you had during freefall, or your crappy landing, ask ask ask what you should do next time, get him to demonstrate body position, mimick his body position on the ground before dives. Get him to explain canopy control skills to you in depth, ask him about wind, turbulence, etc. ASK ASK ASK. You are paying this guy a LOT of money (in my opinion at least) and you deserve to get 100% out of the dive. It is your responsibility to learn. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...