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  1. phoenixlpr
    525 Dacron I got my Triathlon 160 relined with Dacron. Getter than ever.:)
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    What is the current record of flying a docked horizontal formation?
  3. phoenixlpr
    repost: see Laszlo Csizmadia almost swoops the Hole in the Rock, Bay of Islands New Zealand
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    That would be a real poor choice of canopy. Its no use to fight and try to keep diving something so big meanwhile trying to learn a difficult setup : (FR)180.
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    I don't think so. You force the canopy fly faster than its own speed with front rise(s). Auto-recovery means that you canopy bleed the extra speed off and going back to the speed which belongs to full flight without using any breaks or rear risers so you have 100% flare as usual. See above. If you fly in a direction you decent will be steeper under using front risers, than shallower when the canopy flares itself than you got back to normal. You AoA won't be anything like using brakes or rear risers after you relese the front risers.
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    Ok if it fits. Some containers are having the stows facing down...
  7. phoenixlpr
    You can still learn how to fly a good pattern in any wind condition. You can learn how to land in 10,5,2m 10/10. You can learn how to setup and execute a safe 90 front riser turn and land with speed. By the time you complete this you could be ready a more diving canopy.
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    It does not matter in your case. It can have even tail-gate installed, you don't have to use it. You can jump it with a regular slider and PC.
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    Yes, you can. I did it too. You can learn a lot on flying a pattern and accuracy. You can get a taste of front riser turns too.
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    With you jump numbers short recovery arc is the way to go. Your canopy might save your ass before you learn how to save yours. I used to have a Pilot150. I was really happy to have a full flare landing after flying 90 degrees around a 6m high trees tip.
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    No such a thing. Every canopy is built for a purpose.
  12. phoenixlpr
    Did the packjob look proper? Was the free-bag closed? Than it has served its purpose, but its time to replace.
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    What difference a one size bigger reserve would make? Have you checked incident forums for unconscious landings? 168 is a decent reserve. Not when you are pushing 200 fully geared up. Would you want to land a main loaded at 1.2 without any flare? Show some statistics! How many percentage of the reserve rides are unconscious?
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    What difference a one size bigger reserve would make? Have you checked incident forums for unconscious landings? 168 is a decent reserve.
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    If you ask me you rather take a paragliding or ground lunching course. Define experienced skydiver! Not all disciplines help you survive a GL wing.
  16. phoenixlpr
    Use a digital visual altimeter with descent rate indication, eg. Neptune. Check usual descent rate, it should be 3-8 m/s. Do some turn which you can repeat quite well, eg. 180 front riser turn. Start counting by sendond after you let the canopy recover untill your descent rate gets back to normal. Than you can get the recovery time of your canopy, for that turn and for your load.
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    You could watch the video first, and than type...just so it sounds like you are actuallly commenting on the video you've just seen The airplane he exits in this video is an Antonov II. SkyJester, Yvess and other weird (powered) flight experiments also get by with special permits (and the occasional shady jump). The reason for more Balloons than airplanes is mostly related to engine start-up, and ease of exit (try to exit stable in a relative airstream, with a ton of thrust attached to your feet...easy to end up in a 200 mph dive... He is Finnish, living in Finland. That video is most likely not taken in Finland. it sucks if you have to travel abroad to fly with your jet.
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    There is a catch. He is not allowed to board any airplanes, just hot-air balloons.
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    Wrong. I pull from full flight regular basis. Its important to have stable position for pull.
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    Here is my story. I used to have a Z1. I had some fog issues, but it was not really critical after using some antifog liquid. I lost that helmet mid-air than bought a Factory Diver. I got my first jump in freezing conditions with wing suit. I took the helmet on in the very last moment. I still got it 100% fogged up. I got bad visibility for ~20 seconds because of the fog, than it has started to freeze up. I was flying blindly for 70-90 seconds, trying to peek in that 6mm hole next to my nose. I got a blind opening, it felt like a half line twist than I zipped up my arm wings and ripped the visor off. I removed the visor and jumpped without it. I have ordered some CatCrap(tm). I works quite nice. I used visor when the temperature was about 15-20C on the ground. I have ordered and tried some motocycle stuff from neoprene, that direct my breath out downward, but with that helmet its a dead trap. I can not breath at all. I'm going to install a pipe to that mask.
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    Eh, I mean slocks.
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    Slinks are just perfect. Those are low bulk, effective and easy to made. BTW. I have a set of type 8(wide) risers. I know those are not sexy, but no magic is needed to keep the slider down. If I pull it down on the risers that stays there.
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    Its even bulkier than slocks. Slocks are the best I used so far.
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    [url"http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/i-Blue-747A-Bluetooth-GPS-Recorder-66-channels-AGPS_W0QQitemZ270412131285QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCycling_Parts_Accessories?hash=item3ef5d1abd5"]i-Blue 747A+[/url] It gets lock faster than older devices and keeps in even in aircrafts.
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    WBT-201 is dinosaur too. There are 66 channel, 5Hz, high sensitivity hw out there.