BASE813

That I like.............

after questions made here and on BLiNC, i am still trying to find info on the burble size depending on freefall speed........... can anyone help me?

speak to these guys : http://www.baserigs.com/ they will tell you everything you need to know..............

there is no such thing as a stupid question, ever..........

Maybe you are aware of these. Most dont have the power of google searching, but some of these are some pretty cool features that you may find useful / worthwhile: http://www.kartoo.com/ web searching through maps of sites http://beta.exalead.com/search quite large index recently hit enough to be a "main" search engine. http://www.wisenut.com/ http://www.mirago.co.uk/ http://www.gigablast.com/ http://www.teoma.com/ ah well, maybe a useless post.............

any information on this and the delays and size of burbles? I have tried to find info on this (and posted on BLiNC without any response!) I would be interested in mathematical data if you have it?! Thanks Michael

something in your posts and tone says to me this is not your main focus in posting this............

Thats pretty fucking cool.................. from what I hear from some of the old school jumpers, the UK were certainly up there in the progression of BASE in the early days, especially for the lower end stuff.............. perhaps a certain Mr N.S would like to pipe up and give some nice stories in NDG style?? That would be cool.............

I know of quite alot personally, so I am guessing that there are many many many many many more that have not bothered............

did I really say 300ft limit for FF?

http://www.warriorsofthe.net/movie.html For us non techie people, I think this is quite a cool explaination of how it all works....

I tried to do this with my accident report, and EvilIvan also did the same after seeing my report - but I did not get any feed back on whether my report was worth doing. In the end I guess people either thought "why bother?" or thought I was just trying to get attention. I would love to read accident reports similar to mine to find out more information on how accidents are actually happening and the reasons behind them and then perhaps make analysis of them. I believe that most accidents are jumpers fault and would like to know if the same mistakes are being made time and time again and perhaps find a common factor.....But maybe I look into things too much........

Most injuryes happens becours of the pilot(inkluding my injury),only thing to do is to learn by the mistake and only by looking towards yourself you can jump safly again. If you blame evrything else for your injury you probaly dont have a clue about what happened to you(whith small exeptions ofcourse) I got injured because I fucked up.........

I have been at Hinton for almost 6 years (although I have not skydived for 3 of those years). In the 3 years I have jumped there I have spent around £8,000 on jump tickets. I have seen Hinton slowly get worse and worse - so excuse me if I say to you, you have not got an idea or the History to tell me to get over myself - I am aware I was getting shit customer service and not being put on a Let lift because I was only wanting to go to 6k was a complete snub to me.............. Dont mistake the manifest for being full for waiting for lifts because tandem lifts are going up - open your eyes Spend some years there, and listen to the skydivers with years of experience - compared to other DZ's (and yes there are also shit ones) Hinton rates LOW for a place for skydivers to go - its a tandem factory, and wait until you get bumped a few times for tandems before you tell me how great it is for skydiving - why is it that a few years back you would get 70+ skydivers there on a day and by 11am 10 lifts full up on manifest? but now you get a third of that? Am I wrong? Dont bother preaching to me & Dont go mouthing of to me without knowing the history or reading my post correctly........ I have been at Hinton alot longer than you. Nuff Said.............. and dont think I am the sort of person to hide behind an internet forum to say what I think.......... If you feel you want to discuss this "real world" then I am quite happy to explain my thoughts. btw: you werent the blond chick with freefly pants on with her kit in the hanger (near the door) near mine were you?

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1567667;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread I would be interested in your thoughts, especially if you were there this Saturday. Sorry if cross posting forums is bad form.

Well, after 3 years out of skydiving and 11 months after a parachuting accident that badly smashed my leg, I decided to pay the outrageous £112 pounds BPA membership and £10 club membership, throw my Troll into a skydiving container, and do some hop n pops from 6k to gain canopy and landing confidence. A beautiful day at Hinton, and I was disgusted by the treatment of people. First off it was a shock to hear that people had to have their BPA membership cards to jump. In the past having made application was enough and is actually enough for the BPA to enable someone to jump. Ok, I can understand the DZO's making this ruling, it is their business and it does ensure that people dont take the piss and jump without membership as has happened in the past. This I dont have a problem with. What I found unfair, was that people (including cameramen and tandem masters who had worked there for years, and people who had jumped there for years and lined their pockets and were deemed "friends") where not allowed to use eMails / BPA web checking as confirmation of membership. To not use the BPA web checking for membership and to blatently say this is not good enough and to turn away these people was just obtuse and damn right unfriendly. There were alot of unhappy people there on Saturday and I cant blame them. The person I was wanting to jump with on my return back, had membership but not the card, this in turn ensured he was not jumping and ensured that I would not make as many jumps as I planned - to me this was all round bad business sense, as not only did they loose money from people that day, they will be loosing future money from people who did not appreciate being treated like this. I was standing at the manifest when one chap who had been living in Oz for a few years asked if his temporary membership was valid (it was in date and as he had an Oz address the BPA had granted him a temporary membership) - he was told in no uncertain terms "no", and was led to beleive by the DZO that it was the BPA rules that he was unable to jump - he walked away disgusted , and no doubt another loss of a jumper and future revenue from him and the people he would jump with. Secondly, I was only wanting to do Hop n Pops, after being told I was on the first C206 lift and me having to say I was not ready as I was still rigging up my canopy to the skydiving container, my name sat on the board with names below me constantly being added to lifts and my name not moving. I asked the manifest what was happening, and I was then told the DZO had said I was not to go on a Let lift but only a C206 lift - now to throw me out of the Let at 6k on a climbing pass would not be a major issue, but again I guess the greed made the decision I was only worthy of a C206 lift. So I asked around and there seemed to be only 3 students in this day, and they were all on SL, I was then told I would not be able to be taken to 6k as it was not worth just taking me there and I would have to find people to fill the C206 to take it to 6k. Now this was impossible as (1) it was a beautiful blue sky day and people were wanting to go to 12k, (2) who the fuck wants to pay £14! to 6k in a c206 except CRW / Accuracy / or me who wants to put their BASE canopy in a skydiving container and have some canopy time and landing practice after a bad accident in BASE. I took my name off the board and left the DZ about 3pm. My return to parchuting now will be back to BASE, I am that annoyed that I have decided not to gain some canopy time in the skydive environment, not ideally what I wanted to do. Now I had skydived at Hinton for 3 years and have done most of my 500+ jumps there. I have been there many weekends and have been their on shit weather days hanging out and filling the c206 to cloud base and hop n popping. Alot of my money has passed through there, as has alot of money from my friends. The change I saw in returning back to skydiving at Hinton is a change for the worse. They are a business and they are running the "skydiving Center" as a business, and although I appreciate this, they are making bad business decisions in pissing people off like this. You have to give something back sometimes to keep the customer happy - you cant assume loyalty and you cant keep annoying people and bumping them off lifts and assume they will be back the following week. Several years ago there used to be a mass of skydivers there, and even on a bad weather day the hanger used to be filled to the brim with skydivers (not tandem families) waiting to jump - on saturday on a blue sky day there were barely enough to fill the let, where and why did these skydivers leave? So for those of you new to the sport, and only jumping at Hinton, take it from me, go out and try other DZ's. You will see a massive difference in the treatment of skydivers. Ok, rant over, had to say something as I was really unhappy at my return to skydiving and my return to what I saw as my home DZ. Its not the place I once knew........

its not big its not clever its not cool its just very fucking lucky just a hesitation or a fumble away from getting a nice sub100 number.......

i dont agree

i dont think that in certain (most) situations a 42 over a 46 matters................ in fact I would prefer a 42 over a 46.........so bothering about 1" to me is just not worth worrying about..............

Also there is a C4 documentary called "seconds to impact" that had Terry featured in it on his first jumps and then eventual death.

I prefer an internal handle

Vote = No

I found that it fills out the container more consistantly so pin pressure is more consistant. It helps fill out the corners with dynamic corners. I have had an increase in heading performance since using this method (although I do think packing is a small effect on overall heading performance). I have found it generally much easier to pack and close with both velcro and pins.

just curious, but is anyone using the one fold and then roll method that i use? (i make the first fold then roll up the "ears"individually into the bottom of the container after making certain dressing) I have found advantages in using this method, and wondered if anyone else is doing something similar...........again, just curious...................