FrogNog

Oh, I agree 100%. I started looking up at my canopy to see what this bucking looks like. Also got it on video. Eeewww! I'll look into brake line lengthening (and riser shortening) with my rigger. My skepticism comes from my friend's Hornet 190; he had the same problem and lengthened his brake lines, which helped but didn't fix the problem. He didn't change the risers at all, though. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I hear ya...of course if my parents hadn't each gone on their only blind date ever...I wouldn't be here right now and they wouldn't be celebrating 30+ years of marriage Actually, you don't have any way of knowing you wouldn't be here. That's how I personally define fate: an outcome from an occurrence that you have no way of testing differently. Prettymuch anything dealing with what we take to be the human soul ends up in this bucket. But I admit they probably wouldn't be celebrating (or marking, as the case may be) 30+ years of marriage. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Are you looking for a lesbian? Did you think this would slip under the radar? Kelly I think I speak for a lot of men here when I say that pretty lesbians are HOT. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

That's a backup fire detector. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

"If you can't have fun, what's the point of pulling?" -=-=-=-=- Pull.

* pegleg * male, and either not Brad Pitt or not bringing at least two very hot, interested chicks with him. * ugly. I'm not saying "different-looking", I'm saying "looks like a farm animal." * weighs more than I do. Sorry, that's absolutely my limit, no matter how tall she is or how large her breasts are. * has worse manners than me at my worst * has worse hygiene than me at my average (Yes, technically this is a double standard). I will consider this to have addressed my smell issues from here on. * has worse belches than me at my best * is addicted to anything felonious to possess and buy. (If the addiction item can be possessed or bought non-feloniously, just not both, that's still OK.) * has freaky-pupil contacts and won't take them out * is bald and not a runway model * tells me she has warrants out for her arrest * talks to more than one ex-boyfriend for any reason on our date. (Sometimes I learn these the hard way.) * does not get at least slightly slimmer at some point between ribs and hips. (I don't need to date an approximation of my mom; my mom is OK with this too.) * has her jaw wired shut. (They gotta be able to open wiiide.) * visibly missing any major paired body part. (Pegleg is a subset of this.) * keeps a house dirtier than mine at its worst. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I refer you to [URL http://www.thewvsr.com/TheWVSRthumb.htm]Rules of Thumb[/URL]. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

You got something against chicks who BASE? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

That has little to do with where your toggles are on your brake lines, and more to do with what the brake lines do to your canopy. You should be able to lengthen your brake lines(within reason) and still be able to land in zero wind. t Yeah, when I said "I like the brake lines where they are" I meant "I like the length of the brake lines". I mean, obviously my toggles are at the ends of my brake lines. I am concerned if I lengthen my brake lines to the point they don't interfere with my front-risering, I won't have the toggle reach I need for no-wind landings; I finish those landings at almost full arm extension. If I lengthened the brake lines, I would have to take a wrap or something; that doesn't sound optimal. In fact it sounds scary to try and do that at the end of a swoop. But, my issue belongs more in the swoopage forum, I reckon. The original poster just wanted to know why he was bucking, and I see general agreement his (and my) brake lines are too short. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I believe the SIM says droguefall time counts as freefall time. (They use them together with a slash, I believe, implying they're the same thing.) Based on that, I take wingsuit flight to also be freefall time. Another way to look at it is stability; this goes back to someone's post above about flying one's body. My perspective on this is with most canopies over one's head, stability is all but guaranteed. In freefall this is not the case. Even in droguefall stability takes more skill than hanging under a round or square canopy. Now, a trickier question is whether that one guy with the 39 sq foot canopy can count his entire jump as freefall time... -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Yeah. Right now, in this post, we're working on where his handle went. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

"Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something." It wouldn't hurt so much if it hadn't been so good. I take that to mean the pain of loss shows how much I was enjoying things. Boy, I hope I never have to stop skydiving. That would hurt worst of all. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Burn it under pure oxygen. Not that skydivers know where to get pure oxygen. *cough*FBO*cough* I hear even stone will burn if the O2 concentration and temperature are high enough. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I second Snow Crash being pretty cool. The writer was way ahead of his time. A few tiny things in this book seem cheesey, but that happens sometimes. Some of the larger concepts are un-frickin-believable. It did a good job of mixing the possible/plausible with the impossible such that you started to believe in certain things you normally wouldn't. (I'm specifically thinking about the historical parts.) -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Now you're ready for Ender's Shadow. It takes the story you already know, and at first it looks like a companion story, but then it joins the original storyline and gives a different perspective, which actually changes the original story. It's sort of weird to be reading a book and be in suspense about what's going to happen, even though you already know what happens. But that's what Ender's Shadow does. To be fair, Ender's Game is the better of the two. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

My Hornet (supposedly very similar to a Saber2) bucks like hell on double front risers, and to a lesser degree on one front riser. I have been told this is a combination of how the Hornet is made, plus my brake lines being a bit short. However, I like the brake lines where they are because I can land it in zero wind without running too fast. So for now, I am just accepting the bucking and learning to live with it. I may try lengthening them in a while, but I don't hold out much hope the bucking will go completely away until, eventually, I get a different type of canopy. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

When was the last time you remember feeling your main handle? Was it in the plane right before you got in the door? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Some UnIntelligible Term? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I'm sure you could get some takers if you asked, instead, for someone to come over and help you work it off. I'd offer, but if I did, this post would find its way in front of my current GF. So I'm not offering. But I am trying to be helpful.

I don't find the sound painful until I've ridden in the 182 for an hour and had 3 minutes of freefall. Then I don't find it painful, I just hear a bit of background hiss the rest of the day. My major concern is that sound doesn't have to be painful to slowly cause deafness. Closed cell foam really doesn't help enough. It makes a definite difference, it's so cheap as to be free, it's easily removed and replaced in a Pro-tec's ears, and it'll be with you to provide a modicum of improvement every jump you remember your helmet. That's why I did it. I'll give closed cell foam a try, though. It would rock if it worked better than open-cell foam. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I got a sheet of 3/8" thick latex foam from a hobby store and cut some pieces out of if that I just stick in the ear. The foam is large enough to get pinched between the helmet liner and the shell all the way around; it shifts a bit sometimes but it stays in pretty well. It doesn't block sound as much as earplugs, so sometimes (i.e. when I remember / have time) wear earplugs underneath it. I will look into putting gaffer tape on the outside of the helmet over the ear slots. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Maybe a silly question, but why didn't you just ask him to stay at the landing-point, and judge his accuracy AFTER you both safely landed at the DZ? That would be a better way to do it. I think the core issue here was not a poor accuracy-certifying plan, but just being distracted which could happen for any reason. (Obviously some things are more potentially-distracting than others, like seeing your jump partner land hard) -=-=-=-=- Pull.

A few weeks ago, in the same field, also with a Hornet 190, I took a double-front riser dive too low trying to get down before the target in decreasing wind, and ended up grinding my ankle at the bottom of my swoop. Similar symptoms to the ones you described. I felt pretty stupid for misprioritizing my landing tasks in the last bit of altitude. (I could have landed that perfectly smoothly, with a beautiful swoop, 30 meters long but instead I gouged the target with my body. ) -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Is there a second viewpoint? I think that's just parallax. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Being illiterate is a bitch, huh? -=-=-=-=- Pull.