FrogNog
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I believe it uses a camera battery. I found one for my old Timeout at Fred Meyer or some place like that where they had a decent battery offering for photography. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I have heard that the manufacturer of the container/harness assembly can sew a "pillow" into the pack tray to take up the extra space. I doubt this would make the external dimensions of the rig much smaller. I don't know if a rigger could do this. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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The first pack job ever put on my Hornet 190, made of Gelvenor, I got it in the bag pretty nice. And with only about 65 pack jobs under my belt. Of course, I'm not sure whether it's the best-flying material. I can't really tell. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Y'know, I could almost understand and accept this product and the supposed need for it, until they had 9 colors. Is there really a host of consumers out there that says "I want something to put my banana in so when I take it to work it doesn't get bruised, but I'm looking for a specific color..." -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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So, there's no such thing as an omnivore? And is there any material distinction between graminivores and other herbivores? Because not all herbivores eat grass or grains. Finally, I would like to add two numbers to the list: 8) Meat-eaters: have one stomach, and swallow their food only once if possible. Herbivores: have multiple stomachs, and regurgitate or shift food between stomachs for multiple passes of digestion. 9) Meat-eaters: have forward-facing stereoscopic eyes, better-developed intelligence, and other characteristics to help them catch and eat other animals that may fight or run away. Herbivores: have sideways-facing or top-facing omniscopic eyes and other characteristics that help them run away from animals that may try to eat them. (And have just enough intelligence to sneak up on vegetables.) -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Having never ever seen a line trim spec, and not looking at the one you posted, I can say that I hope they are not measuring line trims "relative to the previous line group", because that would cause additive error, which is bad. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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It sounds ironic because Tandem Rigs are kind of "extra-FAR status", aren't they? That is, aren't they still in an "experimental" exception to the regular rules? Thinking about some FARs that could be in question, it seems the jumpers here would be OK because they presumably each had an FAA-certified-rigger-packed reserve on their back that they didn't intend to use except in case of emergency. However, maybe we are required by the FARs to remain within the operational limits of our reserve canopy/harness container as specified by the manufacturer. Of course, many of us regularly exceed the max deployment speed while in freefall - just not at opening time. I wonder how fine-tooth the comb would have to be to allow freeflying but not allow landing (or deploying?) a Mr. Bill. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I kept asking for help until I was sure I could remember all the important details, and I felt comfortable I had packed it well enough that it would probably work. (Yeah, I was still scared, but I've always pretty much been scared the first couple times I did anything in skydiving.) I found I couldn't remember more than half the packing steps until I started actually trying to pack. Then I would commit some of them to memory by doing, and I suffered many embarrasing memory lapses that I had to ask a packer to help me out of. After about 8 attempts to pack, I finally got it. I think the second successful pack job I got to jump. (The rigger pulled the first one apart to check it. ) You may be a pest for what seems like an eternity while you learn to pack, but once you get it you'll hopefully remember and do a LOT of pack jobs where you won't be a pest anymore. So it's all OK. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I personally hope skydiving never gets into the Olympics. And I especially hope nobody asks for it to get in. I feel like asking for the Olympics to include a sport is like begging for someone else's acknowledgement that the sport is valuable. To me, skydiving is valuable on its own. I don't think someone else has to think it's cool for it to be great fun. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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And on top of that, the skyhook is a piece of equipment and like all the rest of the equipment we use, it can fail, malfunction, or operate unexpectedly. The makers do the best they can, but in this sport there are no guarantees except the ground is waiting. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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My version is "hump the wind".
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Anyone been hit by a hook knife or other debris in freefall?
FrogNog replied to jont's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
There's a lot of lines up there and I don't check them all under canopy most jumps. If it were hanging down on my face or otherwise in my way, sure I'd notice it. But if it were just one out of the "mess in the middle" that was hanging behind me out of sight, and my "squarish, turns, flares, yellow cables" test showed nothing abnormal, I probably wouldn't notice until I got to the ground and started packing. -=-=-=-=- Pull. -
why do we not have cutaway/reserve pillows like this?
FrogNog replied to Newbie's topic in Gear and Rigging
... and regular 3-ring release system maintenance, and modern cutaway cable main housings, and (for those who fear hard cuataways due to line twists to the risers) riser inserts. Plus proper assembly of all of these. Lots of ways to help reduce cutaway force. I wouldn't mind if my cutaway handle had a different texture or something, though. -
If your brake lines are lengthened to allow front riser turns without pulling on the tail, then when landing straight in maybe you could wrap the brake lines as necessary to remove the extra. Seems to me that landing straight in and making an accelerated landing approach are mutually exclusive. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Nuts are fruits that have dry and/or thin mesocarps. They are still the developed ovaries of a plant. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I can honestly say I've never been in an out-of-control spin... on my belly. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Do tell?????? Just a Twin Otter with the engine upgrades. It was fresh back from the shop this Spring. You know how normally when it's time to take seatbelts off and slide a bit it's a good thing? I dislike taking my seatbelt off in this plane because it's the only thing that holds me in place without effort. After the obligatory unclipping, I brace both feet in separate bench supports, lean way the heck toward the nose, and hold on. At least they level us out for jump run.
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I think Jet Li trailers can look cool because trailers aren't supposed to have continuity. So the fact that the movie lacks continuity still makes a fine trailer. Just my experience with past Jet Li movies. I look forward to the first one that doesn't have some major unignorable continuity shift in it. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Kapowsin's Grand Caravan with the "Skydive Kenya" sticker in it. No seats - so roomy; doesn't fly at too steep an angle. (Like their Steroid Twin Otter where I have to hang onto the seat in three places. ) -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I have started testing on it. But I can't say anything about it. I may point out that just because you haven't heard anything good doesn't mean there isn't anything good about it. It just means the only things people have said that you have heard have been bad. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I noticed a breathing issue on some of my early static-line jumps (inside the plane) that matched something I'd experienced on motorcycle before: lots of cold air. When the door opens and there's a bunch of cold air (the air being cold in the spring and fall in these parts), my breathing wants to stop. I got over this by putting my hand in front of my face to keep it from smacking me in the nose so hard, and then I got used to it. [:D] -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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It was posted a while back. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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OK. Then I don't know the answer. Some canopy mfgrs use this method for attaching lines to canopies, so maybe they know the trick. I have experienced "sneaking line ends" on my brake lines and I finally resorted to hand-tacking the excess so that line ain't going nowhere. Of course, that messes up the low labor benefit of no-sew fingertrapping. Sorry. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I think this is the key. When I bellyfly solo I have a tendency to lay head-high with my arms pushed in front of me (looks goofy on video, but it works) and that's why I can read my alti when it's perfectly in my wrist burble. I'll just work on flying with my arms up so I have to turn it to see it. (When I bellyfly with others, I think I do better with my arms.) Kinda makes me go "Durr, I shoulda figured that out."
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To answer some common questions: * it's an alti-2 Altimaster Galaxy. I think it's a great altimeter and I have plenty of confidence in it, as long as the needle keeps moving and I don't drop it too many more times. * In the plane it tends to read correct or as much as 500 low, from sea level to 14k. The effect of door open vs. door closed seems to be about 100 feet - not much. -=-=-=-=- Pull.