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What I don't like about that camera is that it has optical image stabilization which sucks for freeflying. ~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 same day. People who wait a long time to pie people, or find out that somebody wasn't pied a long time ago and pie them, are dicks. Brian did you just hit 1000 jumps? hahah kidding. ~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 you buy the right helmet you'll be able to use it for nearly every camera in the foreseeable future. If you buy this helmet, you will be able to use it for every camera in the forseeable future that is shaped similar to the HC3/5/7 series. That doesn't sound very appealing to me. This is why I did not buy an FF2 two years ago, and I am happy with the decision. Sure, if I buy like a flat top pro. I don't really want to top mount all my cameras though. I dunno, for some reason I like the side mount. ~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 never was. I did however recently get pied for getting my AFFI rating. There was a period of time when it wasn't really big at my DZ. I know a couple people with over 1000 who haven't been pied. ~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 agree with tdog and as an AFF Instructor and previously as a coach, everyone that I have worked with that had tunnel time did MUCH better in the air. You are much more confident and quite a bit less nervous about the whole experience. Go do it but like was mentioned before. Let them know that you plan on doing AFF. ~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

Most people have to repeat a level or two. I would say at least half. ~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

We still do at Wissota. When we are getting 4ish, its a launch and track. Fun stuff. It isn't relative work unless you turn at least one point! ~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

Sorry, I don't have any great pictures. The one dave posted does show a decent tracking position. The guy in yellow is.. uh "Guy" ~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

You cant teach everything in a FJC. Period. How many FJC teach flat turns? Should they? Again, with so many student not even comprehending "landing into the wind" and how to do that in real life, you are telling me you teach how to deal with a low altitude accident avoidance? Come on... It is taught in my DZ's first jump course. I don't half expect that they would come up with it as an answer to a problem in most cases, but if one student uses it and doesn't get hurt I guess it's worth it. Most of the time we do our best to not let them get in a situation where they would need to use that skill in the first place. ~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

Is the point that you are trying to get at this? If the winds are consistent from opening altitude to jump altitude, ground speed is irrelevant to the time needed between groups. What if the winds at altitude were 80 knots (not a likely condition that most of us jump in, but bear with me here) The plane on jumprun would be doing 80 knots airspeed and not moving at all relative to the ground. It would seem that, we would have to wait an infinite amount of time because there is no ground speed. That just isn't true. It is this way because the plane is moving forward relative to the air, which the jumpers will become part of once they get out of the plane. The plane will keep on moving forward in the air and the jumpers will be carried backwards relative to the plane. Everyone got out at the same point over the ground, but there is plenty of separation. Now, in the real world most of the time the winds are not consistent from opening point to jump point. They vary some by speed and heading. "90% of the time" if you just plan for exit separation based on airspeed at exit, things are going to work just fine. It should, for the most part, always be the same amount of time between groups of a similar discipline. They all have similar "profiles" in the air and will all be affected by the moving mass in a similar manner. The problem results when subsequent groups have wildly different "profiles" in the air. This would be the difference between freefliers and belly fliers, or like students who may be opening their canopy in a different wind condition than everyone else. Separation over the ground is going to happen on its own as long as you have similar "profiles" in the air. At least that is how I have always understood the physics to work. ~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

Let's just add another line under "in sport" that lists the persons highest instructional rating. More information that someone can see when they are reading a post w/o going into profiles Honestly though, trying to limit the forum as was described by the one poster isn't going to work. People should have to read a "waiver style" page with lots of check boxes when they sign up to the site that lays out all these rules and ideas. Haha yeah... thats 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

Why not always shoot in 16:9 and let it letterbox on the TV or chop the sides off in post? I would think it would be a waste to throw away the data at record time when you can easily do it in post. ~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 wait in eager anticipation of what is to come. I don't really like the idea of having to buy a new helmet to go HD, but whatever I guess? ~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

Thats why I dont think group tracking jumps are necessarally good tracking practices. These tracking positions are awfull. I agree. The tracking position shown in the "belly down" tracking picture is pretty bad. For all the jumpers in it. That would be more of a delta, not a track. The idea that I teach is to get the belly side of yoru body to form into the shape that the top of an otter wing makes. You never really quite get that, but the idea works pretty well. Make sure you are rolling your shoulders up to your ears and once you're comfortable you should be brining your arms in and legs together for even more speed. ~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

Falling slow would be vertical speed. Also, I don't need to go look at a website to show what I know from experience and actually jumping out of planes. But just for kicks I did go take a look at some of the plots and it proves exactly what I was saying! ~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

Wrong. Extremely common misconception. You can gain the most horizontal speed / separation with a slow vertical fall rate. When you are in a good tracking position you will be going much slower vertically than in a neutral freefall position. Any type of diving down is wasting altitude that you could be using to track farther. This isn't just me saying this, its basically a proven fact that a lot of people are ignorant to and unwilling to admit. I would bet quite a bit on me being right, hell, I'd go all in. ~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

this is exactly why students should not get advice online... Lets just say that again. I wish students would stop taking advice from these forums and I wish people would stop giving advice to them. It's going to get someone hurt. ~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, I am not saying its right. I am saying that if you aren't willing to stand up for something you believe in, what is the point. If you are upset at the fact that people want to give you a hard time about something, then you are questioning yourself. Thats a lack of confidence. Just be confident you made the right call and stand up for it. I won't encourage anyone to jump when the conditions are marginal and have sat on the ground myself. Some times it would have been ok to go up, some of the times it wouldn't have been. I have heard the "haha you should have come with us, see everything was fine" before and I have basically said, "good for you, I don't care." That is standing up for yourself. Complaining because people want to give you a hard time is stupid. ~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

Good on the guy for sitting down when he didn't think it was good conditions. The problem that I have is with people being whinny. I mean, if you had the self confidence to actually scratch off the load, don't be a pussy and whine when people give you shit for it. Stand up for yourself. More and more it seems like people want to be handled with kid gloves and take everything personally. What happened to sticking with your decision and dealing with taking some shit for it. I mean, if a person can't take some razzin, I don't even know what to say. People get way to upset about things that are probably done in fun / jest. ~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

This somewhat fascinates me. I just can't see operating w/o this stuff. I mean, I can't say I have gone a weekend w/o using them. Between jumpers on the plane asking what direction jumprun is, correcting the spot, explaining things to students, choosing landing direction. I guess there are other ways you could do all that stuff, it just doesn't seem like there could be easier ways. ~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

From looking at the pictures in your other thread, it looks like a pretty tight fit with both cameras mounted horizontally. Actually having it in your hands how do you think that works out? I don't like the idea of having a HDV widescreen camera and a Digital still where the aspect ratios are rotated 90 degress from one another. It would seem like I could only fly for one or the other in that case. ~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

It just struck me as something to do, I had just gotten a haircut that I really liked. See avatar. ~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

Sorry, don't have any PC1000s, go fish. Haha, good luck, they are basically not on the market. ~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 agree and so does Airtec/SSK. The vigil people don't. That is why I won't buy a vigil. ~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

Heh, I am sure it is.. I have an optic illusion. It just doesn't have the real estate up top to mount everything they way I would want to. i.e. both horizontally. ~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