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I still don't understand how people are sit flying with a CX7 cause i couldn't get it to work at all. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

Isn't the value of the $ held in part by the value of assets like gold? if so doesn't the overprinting of money devalue the money itself and cause inflation? That is long since not true. The companies got sick of just making a little money, they needed to make MORE! So they started doing all kinds of crazy things with "money" to make money on money, and it all goes way above what I can understand, the point being that there isn't any tangible association anymore. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

Yeah I would take this over a CX12 w/o stability issues. I would rather not have batteries and extra shit on my head. I am not totally replacing my still camera, but may opt to not take it on tandems. Even if I do, this is still an awesome item right here. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

Speaking from the standpoint of having not been jumping the last 3 months due to a broken neck. Also, just hating having a bunch of shit on my head. I am sold. Cost needs to be semi-reasonable, like, under 3k. I'll dump the still camera and video camera and just jump with this unit. Tandem pics at 2.3mp are good enough for me. I also think that, once this thing is out we need to do some research into what is exactly in that cable. I don't think it would be unreasonable to cut one apart and put a release in it. Just depends exactly what is going through there and how easy it is to manipulate. Either that or breakaway mounting on the helmet so the camera can release from the side of it. Though honestly, if you take the ring site off, and make the right helmet design, with a camera like this you can eliminate 99% of snag potential. Did I mention I am sold. Please oh please let the price be something I can afford! ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

As far as my knowledge, none of the rigs on the market can be retrofitted. It requires major changes to the rig. I don't know who all is selling them. I only know of the vector, mostly cause I'm a supporter and wouldn't buy anything else right now. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

Same

Yeah - man.. those guys can be really rough to deal with. I have had a few this season that "Left turn" "let it fly' required me having them doing multipule rotations to get them flying in the right direction because they were pulling the toggles to their feet They usually understand what they are doing wrong once they get down though. Just damn hard to get em goin the right directions! ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

Speaking from experience as a video guy and having to help out in incidents at the dropzone. If someone is hurt its a pretty noticeable thing. When I read that post earlier, I too was flabbergasted. There is no excuse for something like that ending up in the end product that a customer gets. 100% not acceptable. I agree with the sentiment that sometimes the "video just didn't turn out" and or being selective about what pictures I put on the disk for the customer. That's just the reality of this job, you could permanently scar a person with pictures like that if they aren't ready for it. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

There is some video here: http://www.skyleague.com/pages/scores/results.php?event=530&meetNumber=11 ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

Agreed. I don't think that it is a technique that will work well for a saber1/2 @ 1.2. I would know, I started learning to swoop on a saber 2 170. Break from the "formula" that he stated. Work on the same similar technique, but do what you need to do to get things flying right. Work on pulling that riser back down at the end, but also compromise and understand that you are going to have to let up on the other one to get it flying straight again. A canopy that size and design at that loading will require much more force than you can exert to keep double fronts going w/o bleeding off speed after you come out of a turn. I would also suggest sticking to the "basic" parts of learning to swoop. Practice double fronts and turns, but don't get super hung up on it. Learn pattern flying and "swoop accuracy." Learn the defensive flying techniques required for swooping. Slowly you will build a sight picture and the turning technique will come after that. You will learn how to tell the differences between what happens when you try different things. Also, you didn't mention having a local mentor. Please find one. That is an invaluable tool in staying metal free. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

Yes, you can talk about wind speed without referencing the ground. The reasons we do billvon posted above. I could however reference windspeed to the aircraft it's a whole lot more work and unnecessary though. I am on the right track, in fact, everything I am saying is true. I know this from practical experience. In all circumstances where the wind direction from exit to deployment is the same, and jumprun is flown into the wind, slower falling groups should get out first. If jumprun is flown downwind (which doesn't happen often, and is really a bad idea) or if there are mixed opposing wind directions, that might change. Luckily, the first for sure, and the second most often don't happen. So, FF always gets out after belly. The airmass that the airplane is flying in, and that you jump out into is a system. When you transition from one altitude/windspeed condition to another, you are changing systems. That relative number is the one that you have to take into account. The only way that the groundspeed (and it's relative nature to what the plane is doing at altitude) makes a difference is if the opening point is exactly the ground (or if you were dropping pumpkins of different sizes out of the plane or something) Opening point is never equal to the ground unless you are bouncing (let's hope that never happens) so the ground "system" doesn't matter. Only the airmmass systems and their relative speeds to one another. Slower fallers spend more time in each of the systems they pass through on the way down, so as long as the direction between groups (i.e. the line of jumprun) remains in an upwind direction throughout as the jumpers pass through the systems going down, the slower jumpers will drift more. None of this has anything to do with the ground. That drift distance is often refered to by the ground, only because it is easier to do. You could refer all of this to where the airplane is, but then you also have to take into account the speed/direction of the airplane AND the airmass that it is flying in. The ground is used to help simplify things as a constant frame of reference. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

Your calculations are wrong. Bill is right. Everyone keeps thinking about this in terms of the ground. The ground doesn't matter. The ground speed of the airplane never makes a difference in air-to-air separation of groups of skydivers. The only effect on group separation is exposure time to the different wind speeds at different altitudes. The part that you missed in your calculations is that, even if the plane is moving backwards relative to the ground, the airmass that the plane is flying in (this is almost like the argument of, can a plane take off on a treadmill....) is moving relative to the plane. So, while in freefall, if the FS group drifts 1 mile backwards, then the FF group gets out and drifts .5 miles in freefall, the distance between the groups is equal to: Airspeed/second * seconds between groups + (First group drift) - (second group drift) Please take note that it is airspeed, not ground speed. So if you have a pilot flying a 80kt jumprun your seperation is as follows: Feet Seperation Seconds FS First FF First 1 2775.024789 -2504.975211 2 2910.049578 -2369.950422 3 3045.074367 -2234.925633 4 3180.099156 -2099.900844 5 3315.123945 -1964.876055 6 3450.148734 -1829.851266 7 3585.173523 -1694.826477 8 3720.198312 -1559.801688 9 3855.223101 -1424.776899 10 3990.24789 -1289.75211 11 4125.272679 -1154.727321 12 4260.297468 -1019.702532 13 4395.322257 -884.677743 14 4530.347046 -749.652954 15 4665.371835 -614.628165 16 4800.396624 -479.603376 17 4935.421413 -344.578587 18 5070.446202 -209.553798 19 5205.470991 -74.529009 20 5340.49578 60.49578 At somewhere between 19 and 20 seconds they would collide, before that, the FS group would pass over the top of the FF group and open well on the other side of them. Assuming 1 mile and .5 miles of drift for the groups. (theorhetical numbers) It's physics, it just works this way. It's not a subjective thing. Edit to add: I understand where you guys are getting hung up. But it still doesn't have anything to do with ground speed. Only relative air masses. Sometimes it is easier to think about it using the "ground" but in practice, stuff just doesn't happen like you are thinking. I mean, I haven't been jumping that long, but I haven't ever seen us go up in a situation where at some altitude the windspeed changes so drastically from very very high to nothing. Typically the wind direction is pretty consistant on days when it is that high, and if it isn't, it's because of thunder storms and you shouldn't be jumping anyways. I think the situation that some are hung up on here is that, if 10 feet below the plane,(and this is the most drastic of circumstances) the wind went from exactly equal to airspeed, to nothing, then the groups would drop out on top of one another into the 0 windspeed air. But still, that has nothing to do with ground speed, it still relates exactly to exposure time to different wind speeds/directions at different altitudes. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

If I found myself at 1500 feet under line twists, i would cut the fuck away right away. I jump a velocity, that's a deadly place to be with linetwists. I have a skyhook too, hope it works. 1500 feet is the lowest I would cutaway. After that, pull reserve straight away. 1500ft is a bad number to use in an example cause its the lowest a lot of people are willing to cutaway. A lot of experienced jumpers I know have harddecks that range from 1500 to 2000 feet, depending on age, experience and canopy choice. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

In an otter with side benches and lap belts with two points of attachment, you don't need to do more than put it over your lap and cinch it down tight. In a floor seating situation in a cessna, in many seating arrangements just putting the belt over your lap won't do anything, it needs to go through the harness. That would be why you are receiving conflicting information. Different airplanes require different procedures. Hope that helps.

Has any doctor told you that you can jump again? I broke my neck 2 months ago. Doc said I could jump in February. I'm inclined to listen to him. For what it's worth, seeking medical advice online is a pretty stupid idea. As a doctor. Explain the rigors involved and or ask when you can do similar sports. Contact things like soccer and football, etc. Plus, the answer is different for you and me. If I broke my leg I would probably start jumping way sooner than someone with a few hundred jumps. I have more canopy piloting experience and am willing to accept some added risk. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

The short answer is that most dropzones would close their doors. The risk of liability and loss of what you have invested is too great. Even with a proper waiver, most dropzones can't afford a lawsuit. The long and short of it is that most dropzones only have the planes and rigs. Maybe some property. Most DZOs had to pour everything they have into getting that stuff. This wouldn't be a problem if every asshole out there didn't want to sue when they screwed up. That's the root evil in all this. Greedy people who are unwilling to accept personal responsibility and greedy lawyers trying to make a fast buck. The worst part is you can't really just come out and say "I don't have anything to take, don't bother trying to sue me." Most places can't afford to have a lawsuit. It's just that simple. Waivers make it harder to get started on a suit. It helps prevent having to spend a ton of money on a defense. In the vast majority of cases where someone has sued a dropzone, it was the person who filed suit that caused the problem. There is only so much we can do to prevent people from getting hurt, short of not letting them skydive. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

When I started skydiving I pretty much did: Jump -> Land -> Pack -> Jump. That was my day, all day. Eat some food here or there. Now just a few short years later, it's: Jump -> do one of the millions of things expected of me as dropzone staff -> Jump again. No time for packing in there. I don't use my staff money for anything other than skydiving and there are packers at the dropzone that need to be able to afford to jump as well. I am fully capable of packing (pretty quickly even) and will pack for myself if it means I can make the sunset load or on swoop training days. I would just rather not do it if I don't have to. That said, I'm really picky about who packs my rig. I don't use new packers and if someone gives me too many hard openings or doesn't tuck my riser covers right (Micron) I wont keep using them. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

Hey there! The sky's the limit for you at this point! You could do tandem, SL or AFF. We would be happy to have you do any of them. I'm an instructor from Sky Knights

Eh, there are a lot of reasons really. I don't recall all of them off the top of my head, but the bottom line is that the PC1000 takes video that just plain looks better. It's a newer design and honestly, I think its one of the best made cameras for skydiving in existence. There are quite a few of them at my dz. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

I can fly boxman, mantis, and many other various arm/leg positions. As far as I am concerned trying to teach an AFF student anything other than basic boxman (essentially "lazy w") is pointless. Mantis isn't something they can pick up on the first go. Even when you go to the tunnel as a wuffo, they don't teach you mantis if you are just doing the "first time experience." (At least they weren't last time I saw wuffos in the tunnel) AFF students have enough going on as it is, let alone trying to balance head high in a mantis position. I think it's inherently more unstable and requires a greater sense of what is going on. It is also less conducive to instructor corrections. It's much harder for me as an AFFI to fix what they are doing when they have their hands down in front of their face. At least that is my experience. Much akin to the fact that I when I teach tracking, I instruct them to attempt it for the first time with their arms in a T shape with their body, and to sweep them back more on subsequent attempts. They need to learn to walk before they run. I also teach tracking with legs at shoulder width, despite the fact that I track feet together (and you can track better that way). They learn that down the road, they can't start with the advanced stuff, for the average student, it's too much to grasp. I don't have a problem teaching someone how to fly that way once they are late in coach jumps or post-A. By then they don't need so much hand holding to get through a skydive. I would also have to guess that students are taught with arm position more retracted because they tend to have their legs tucked in and 90% of the students that have problems, have backsliding problems. Having their hands back a bit helps with that. Most of skydiving is spent unlearning bad habits from the ground. The best skydivers just do so more quickly. Even better skydivers learn how to use all body positions to achieve what they want. As far as the original poster goes, don't just bust this out on your coaches/instructors. Talk to them about it, no surprises please!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-alperinsheriff/sarah-palin-instituted-ra_b_125833.html ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

*yawn* Hard to deny your own party's published platform, isn't it, even if you deny Sarah's video statement where she says the exact same thing. Do you think rapists should be allowed to select the mothers of their children, like Sarah does? Again - show me the bills with her signature - THEN I'll worry about it Sounds to me like you ran out of logical arguments and are no longer able to support your position. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

Awesome! Brian is a great guy and very deserving of this article! ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

Everything that I have seen of this so far doesn't bode well for the "cost" of operating a dropzone. For what it's worth, there must be people out there who follow TBO times and the like. I know that we are very diligent in following 100H inspections and general maintenance of our planes. Stuff costs a lot of money, but lawsuits cost more, not to even mention the part about how much it sucks to die/have your friends die. I imagine we are going to start seeing a whole lot more ramp checks if the NTSB gets pushy with the FAA. ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

Sure as hell makes me nervous. I don't like the government poking around in things. Especially things that I really enjoy doing! ~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka