FrogNog
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I voted $100 on the assumption I was a rigger, doing repacks for $40 apiece (plus the love of skydiving). I would seriously hope it came with periodic updates. I don't know how often changes come out, but any pay-for resource that has everything "except these rigs" is not earning its keep. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Is that a rhetorical question? I believe the purpose of a reserve canopy is to get you to the ground alive and as uninjured as possible, so you can go back up in the air and do whatever it is you were doing some more. I also believe that any feature that compromises this purpose - by reducing the reserve's ability to reliably open under all circumstances possible - will be replaced or done away with. Hence freebags that cost a pretty penny to replace. Plus dive loops add pack volume and weight. And you wouldn't want that, would you? -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Am I the only one who looked at that and saw the trunk part of a human skeleton? The collarbones, OK breasts aren't bones but there they are, the ribcage, hips, and tailbone? -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Yup, that's a good one. A variant that has worked well for me is "Hey, you." The line that got me my current girlfriend (the first time) was "I was wondering if you're single and you like me well enough to get to know me better, based on looks alone." I thought it was to the point. She thought it was "ballsy." -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Sounds like the general note for incidents I have heard a few times before: "No single factor caused the problem, but the interaction of multiple, contributing factors did." I am not going to offer advice such as "if you are jumping a camera on back-to-back loads with a Xfire2 loaded at 1.95:1 and a camera suit that prevents you from immediately reaching the toggles, you may want to change something." -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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[URL http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=697031]RRRRREpost[/URL]. Just because they show it on TV doesn't make it news.
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COD is susceptible to fraud perpetrated from the receiving end, so I can understand why sellers wouldn't want to do that. Escrow is the way to go with stuff that's expensive. That or in person. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Bob The Angry Flower is in on this action, too. [URL http://www.angryflower.com/asign.gif]Clicky[/URL]. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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The idea of the "snatch force" thing you ask about is (I think) to try and pass through static friction into sliding friction (which in almost all cases is lower) as easily as possible, by using momentum (of your hand/arm in this case) to assist the first bit of pull. Is this necessary? The cutaway system on wings / legs, from what I have seen, does not use a pulley system like the 3-ring-circus to ensure the cutaway cable receives less stress than is generated by the item needing to be cut away. So the question is whether a wing could be somehow "stuck" or under a lot of tension that would cause the start of a cable pull to be hard. Heck if I know whether this will be a problem. Some parts of our rigs are overkill until the one time they're not. I'd look into how much it would cost to have those cables replaced. A hundred bucks is a minor humbling for a mistake, in the grand scheme of things. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I think it is a stretch to say a parachute might have made a difference on the Aloha convertible. The only person killed was the flight attendant who got vacuumed out (whacking her head on the wall on the way by, some conspiracy theorists claim, apparently indicating she would have needed to be wearing a helmet as well as a rig when the roof unexpectedly popped). The rest of the people under the hole, the first class types, _could_ have decided to exit if they'd had a rig on, but their survival in this case was probably largely dependent on their seat belts, which one would have to take off to retrieve and don a rig. Then exiting a gaping hole in the ceiling and dodging the flight surfaces and engines further astern would be the final challenge before almost certainly having a water landing in the Pacific Ocean. Not what I call good odds. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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If you have a soft floor, you can practice laying down and staying dry. That's how I learned my barrel rolls - I practiced rolling over on a mattress, then back. The action of tucking in the arm, leaning into the roll, and tucking in the other arm and sticking the first back out was very confusing to me standing up, but laying down on my belly on the mattress it was natural. The timing was about the same as a quick roll on the floor, too. Much more comfortable in the air, tho. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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at last my fall rate is sorted!
FrogNog replied to freefaller2001's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Yeah, I think I have the opposite issue. I got a cheap used jumpsuit after graduation and it serves some purposes great - I can fit whatever I want under it and it keeps me warm here in the winter. But I'm about average weight / height / proportion, and it's a slow fabric and very baggy. So now I have to get a faster, better-fitting jumpsuit. Also, one that isn't baby blue. -=-=-=-=- Pull. -
Well, I'm sure the Triathlon, or what remained of it, did a good job of slowing her down to safe reserve deployment speed.
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Line twists come in different forms. The slider could be stuck up, come down, or in between. The increased anhedral issue could be large or small. The higher the aspect ratio of the canopy, the larger I would expect it to be. Also the higher the top of the twists, the larger I would expect the effect to be. Another thing to think about is a line-twisted canopy, if it twisted at opening, should still have its brakes set. Most canopies sink less in the mid brake range, as I understand it, so this is a factor in the direction of a slower fall. Edited to add blue text to unambiguate. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Any private pilots training to be load pilots?
FrogNog replied to FreeflyVan's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Some DZs may have higher hours requirements than this for insurance reasons. -=-=-=-=- Pull. -
My first really scary experience
FrogNog replied to themitchyone's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
??? What was that about ??? You have a high speed mal (not finding your hackey or whatever else your PC is attached to); its not time to relax and breathe. Its time to pull silver after 2 tries (some say 3). I think he means now, on the ground (or in the airplane), feel free to relax and breathe when he thinks about this situation, because he's been through it OK. -=-=- The first time I missed my handle was exciting too. -=-=-=-=- Pull. -
How does a proper, custom-fitted harness flex at the hip when the wearer is walking? Isn't that where about 4 layers of webbing are stitched together in a square? I know it's way easier to walk in my rig with its hip rings (and it is custom fitted) than in any of the non-ringed harnesses I've tried on (which weren't custom fitted). For small steps there may not be a difference, but for stairs, I swear those rings help a lot. :) -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I believe "mostly sex, partly skydiving" posts belong in "Talk Back". Also, I recall reading no minute quantity of material on this on DZ.com some time ago. I'm sure the repost police will be along shortly. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Does it have to be secular? Would you not be OK with an agnostic? -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Oh, excellent, it appears I get to be the one to uphold the Talk Back tradition on this post. First, I quote the ones who went before me with my favorite flower. The reason I like orchids is they look naughty to me. Like vulvas. And there's such a variety. Zenister's additional mention of roses brings to mind the joke about what some people think vulvas look like. clicky, involves word "sex". (Also involves words "bulldog" and "mayonnaise".) -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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If I bring my rig to work and someone who knows what it is sees it on my back, I hear far too often "Are you planning on jumping off the building?" I work in a city that has a limit on how high buildings can be. Maximum is 3 floors. No, I'm not going to jump off that, and if I were going to, a parachute wouldn't make much of a difference. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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The great quote for that is in the Skydiver's Handbook: "What you have to do is easy. Where you have to do it is the hard part." -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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The very definition of coincidence. :) -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I haven't seen enough of the Family Guy to make a decision about that, but the father in Family Guy looks like he has a scrotum on his chin. His older son is even worse. I love the way the Simpsons are halfway plausible for the most part. They make jokes, but they're funny because they're almost all true to some degree. What I saw on half an episode of the Family guy was more stereotypical jokes, which are funny but they're more joke humor than real life humor. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Does anyone have any idea on what the jump run speeds will be, and what exits will look like? Will they have a big slide installed in the tail? -=-=-=-=- Pull.