TrickyDicky

Well we all have our sticking points. I did 20 s/l and about 10 3/5s delays. He'll sort it (I hope). UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Terminal Velocity All about skydiving. Mostly bollocks but a nice scene with a car in freefall. Ill let you judge for yourself. UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Thing about fandango is, it all seems so based in fact. I saw the video on skydiving movies and thought it was a piss take made by skydivers Ahh well. UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Wow, I wish I could have a go in their suit. It makes it sound like they can do what the planes did in hot shots :) UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

I think you're all looking at it wrongly. Complacency is one of the biggest factors. Aslong as you take a little care over packing, you should never have a line-over. Take good care of your equipment and should should never get any opening damage. Also, dont do swoop landings, and you are at less risk of hurting yourself. I always thought a good skydive was one you walked away from. UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Any idea how far he is? Only on the TV special he got to level 3. Lucky bastard gets paid to go to america and then bottle it grr.. (Not dissing him, the fear is not a good thing to have) Does he have a camera crew around looking like they're gonna make a special on him completing it? UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Just find a group of friends to jump with yourself. Then just ignore other arragant bastards. Just to ask, are these people saying this the "Cool" skydivers or the quieter ones? UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Are there any celebreties that skydive? I know Andy roddick has just taken it up, and didnt I read somewhere someone refused Tom Cruise a reserve repack? Anyway, just wondered if anyone else does. I dont mean 1 off tandems or aff (like Gearge Bush Sr), I mean people qualified and turn up every now and again to hurl their heavily insured arses out of a plane. Oh, anyone know if Simon Thomas (blue peter presenter, probably wont mean anything to you yanks) has returned to complete his AFF after he got really paralysed with fear after 6 AFF jumps. UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Remember, alot of fatalities now happen under a perfectly good main due to low hooks. The only deaths Ive read about (in this country anyway) that werent low hooks were student main/reserve entanglements. UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

I thought that guy in the 60s went faster than the speed of sound... or could it not be proved? UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Acording to the website the purchase price is under 2/3 of the cost of a new caravan ($900k compared to $1.5mil!!!) But the running costs are the same apparently, so overall you make more profit initially out of the XL. UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Sorry, meant to say need a certificate to be unsupervised. Generally it seems the check stages are sufficient supervision. But I would recommend doing your first few packs with someone watching the whole thing just so you know you're doing everything right. Ill be up this weekend. But best to ask tony, the fastest packer Ive ever seen, and extreamly reliable. UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

From www.utilityaircraft.com So flap is stepable and with cushions AND a padded floor we're gonna be flying in luxury. But with its cheap price and the comparison of running costs, I think it could be one sweet A/C to have at your DZ. Maybe ticket prices will come down UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Im sure similar things are done in the US but in this country to pack centre (including student) equipment requires a packing certificate. To get this, you go through a packing test (at my dz at least, and its similar at other dz's Ive been to) that consists of getting tangles out (they generally try and really fuck it up), reconnecting and main and attaching a pilot chute. Often you have a time limit to untangle and pack (usually about 1hr). If you are packing under supervision the DZs I have been to have a system where there are 4 check stages: 4 line check (canopy flat, check stearing lines and left/right ABCD lines) to make sure theres no tangles, just before the s-fold and putting in bag to ensure stearing lines are separated from main lines by using the stabilisers, just before its put in the container and finally closed check. UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Obviously a good spot UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Until you actually get in the situation you dont know how you're going to act. Having been in a serious horseshoe/entanglement and baglock I know that after what seems like a eternity of blind panic and visions of watching myself go in from the flight line, and thinking about the guy who had gone in from an entanglement 2 weeks previously, it clears up suddenly and you know what to do. I looked down, saw red, pulled it and made sure all the yellow came out. VERY luckily the mess cleared off my left wrist and Ill never know if it was the RSL or me that opened the reserve as I threw the handle away and was never found (had a 2 ring RSL, student javelin). But I would definatly, if in a more fucked up situtaion I would pull everything and try and get as much fabric above my head as possible, and maybe aim for trees. UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

I get the feeling unfortunatly that limits will be imposed only when a serious incident happens that was caused by instructor fatigue UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Have you asked at the DZ or the BPA themselves? UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

If you join now, you wont pay full years membership I dont think. You have to join the BPA on your first freefall and the price drops throughout the year. Really pissed my friend off though. She had to pay £25 for 3 weeks before havinging to renew it at £70 UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

We had a Tandem instructor get his foot caught under the pilot seat of our 182, and to get it out had to leave his shoe in the plane. Similar thing happened to a 4 way. 3 of them launched, as the fourth guy dived, but got caught on the seat. Im not sure how the resulting 3 way went though UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

The one fox video that really pisses me off is the one with a S/L student who has a lineover (I think, might be entanglement) but takes ages to sort it out. They make it out to be such a big thing, whereas personally I dont think it is. I think its one example of how the media makes out that the student is never in the wrong. There was a video on british tv about a year ago where a first time aff student had a good ff but had a lineover. He decided to ride it down to 100', then cutaway and pull his reserve. Luckily he did it over some trees that broke his fall so he got away with little injury, but the tv made out as if he had done everythng right, and it was a freak accident. He'd even pulled himself at 5k. My housemates had a go at me when I called him a stupid twat, they're excuse being that "He had probably filled his pants". Another thing I noticed from the first vid I mentioned, is that the instructor tells the student over the radio to do his reserve drills. Is this not a bit dangerous? In this country (britain) all you're allowed to say on the radio to students in that situation is "Check your canopy!". Telling them to cut away may be heard by another student with a perfectly good canopy. Sorry for the rant. Im bored at work. UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Peterlee use to be a small DZ but with the introduction of a new bar, bunkhouse and TurboLet 410 13000 feet can be reached in around ten people. The only problem is as it has expanded so quickly there are few people about so there are fewer lifts in the Let than most DZs (about 10 a day) but this means you dont have to wait long to be put on a lift. You can be up and down all day without any waiting around.

HYBRED. I only do RW because I dont have FF friendly kit (being a uni student made sure of that) but to be honest I actually love the look of formations. Im really interested in doing RW over freeflying (I havent actually tried any yet. Will have to borrow a friend's rig). In this country, to get your FF1 (free-fly) you need to show almost all of the qualifications for FS1 (formation skydiving). But this allows you to do FF jumps with others. You can do as much solo freeflying as you want. There are plenty of FF's at my dz and plenty of people that do RW, and some that do both. I dont think FF is the death of skydiving at all, just a new discipline. RW is still the biggest competitive part of skydiving. But I dont see it dying off. At least, I will try and not let it. UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.

Just go to the DZ and do something else skydiving related like learn to pack. Or if you know... Practice!

Then why dont we hear of them happening more often? Im sure people have done swoop type manouvers through 750ft before, not coming into land. UK Skydiver for all your UK skydiving needs.