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Did something to make it faster, how long does it take now with dialup? Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

thanks Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

I just bought the Panasonic E60 and I need to buy some DVD-R's.They told me: We recommend using Panasonic, Pioneer, and TDK 4.7 GB, general media DVD-R disc in the DMRE60. They say other discs may not perform as correctly? Well, they are expensive. I need to buy in bulk and I'm scared to buy the wrong ones. I saw a bunch of DVD-R's for like .69cents upto 1.40. Shop4Tech.com Do I want the cartridge type or non-cartridge type? Question is can I use any DVD-R's? Does it really matter what DVD-R disc I buy? Of course I dont' want the cheapest one but not the most expensive. Cojones, you have sony what do you use? You have alot of experience so what do you recommend? I decided to put the labels on the DVD case. What do you all recommend? Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

Ya, I didn't get that at all. I'm illerate when it comes to this stuff. Maybe I'm just slow, but I didn't get that. Maybe alittle but... Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

My website just got finished. I would like to know what you think and what could be done to make it better. Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

Meta tags? Keywords. I don't understand? ALso does the host company have anything to do with this? Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

I am having trouble getting my business on most search engines. Google is great when I type in my business name. But if I type in Utah skydiving my website does not show up at all. If I go to Yahoo search, and type in my business name, it's not there at all. How do I fix this problem? Thanks, I want to be there at least. It doesn't have to be the first one that pops up but that would be nice too. Any suggestions? Thanks, Clint

http://dropzone.com/columns/GettingIntoBASE.shtml I don't know how to do the "clicky" thing. I just went to "Getting into BASE" and I found this interesting. This article was written entirely by Tom Aiello, BASE 579. Tom has made over 500 BASE jumps in the past 30 months, from more than 100 objects. He is not an authority or expert of any kind on BASE jumping or any other type of parachuting, so all his advice should be taken with a grain of salt. As I understand Tom wrote this: Make the Skydives First, make at least 200 skydives. You need to make these skydives in order to practice accuracy, tracking and canopy control skills. You also need to establish a general comfort level with parachutes, free fall, and split second decisions. The skydivers who are best prepared for BASE generally jump large, 7 cell, F-111 canopies, have had a number of malfunctions and responded correctly, and are comfortable with multiple skydiving disciplines. If your only focus is BASE jumping, don't succumb to the temptation to become canopy swooping freeflyer. Instead, focus on CRW and Accuracy as your skydiving disciplines. To practice tracking make entire skydives in max track. Don't count on the limited tracking on break off, or on the balanced tracking of a tracking jump. Make the whole dive tracking as hard as you can, with camera and coaching if possible, and work on getting the most lift, and the most drive out of your track. For accuracy practice, it's best to use the canopy that you intend to BASE jump with. Try to set up low (under 500 feet), to simulate the BASE environment. Don't forget to make approaches cross- and down-wind as well, since you will often have to do this while BASE jumping. For canopy practice, you should make some CRW jumps (on a CRW canopy) and then do some canopy drills on your intended BASE canopy. CRW is a great way to learn canopy flight characteristics in tight spaces before you get into the BASE environment (and CRW with your BASE canopy is an excellent drill-after you've learned some CRW skills). Be sure you've made several night jumps during your skydiving career. In many places, BASE jumps are made almost exclusively at night (to avoid arrest, incarceration, and gear confiscation), and comfort with flying and landing your canopy at night is essential to survive these jumps. Make some jumps on your BASE canopy to learn its performance envelope. Pay particular attention to riser input, practicing riser turns and riser flares. Make sure you practice your riser turns before popping your toggles-that's the way you'll have to do it to avoid smacking the side of a cliff one day. Obviously, you'll want to practice them after grabbing the toggles, as well. I believe that all the info that he wrote down is correct. I think if everyone did this to get into BASE, they would have the knowledge to stay safe. Long story short. He says, "First, make at least 200 skydives. That pretty much says it all. I hope you don't mind Tom that I quoted you but it makes sense. Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

MAYBE and Maybe not. I agree with you though about the perspective. I didn't make it that post I had to write a reply then. But still it's the same things. It's nuts. But it can be done. Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

>For example, I have learned more, per jump, about wingsuit flight, on BASE jumps than on skydives. I think this is because the frame of reference is better for seeing what is going on in terms of absolute flight (as opposed to relative flight). Question is: Did you do your first Birdman flight on a BASE jump or from an airplane? I would NEVER jump a Birdman for the first time in Norway. Would anyone else like to this? IF so, you got some balls! And I do agree that you get a better frame of refrence. >I'm definitely not advocating learning to fly a wingsuit off a cliff. It's a freefall dependent skill that _really_ needs to be learned out of a plane. >I made my first BASE wingsuit flight after about 150 wingsuit skydives. You can still do this off a cliff for the first time with no birdman experience. YOu don't HAVE TO jump out of the plane. It's just tracking! RIght? IT is EXACTLY THE SAME THING. YOU CAN TAKE YOUR CHANCES BUT............. SAME THING, IT'S STUPID!! If someone wants to start BASE jumping with No skydives, that is his desicion, Plain and simple. Good luck! It's your life!! There is a much easier way and there is a stupid way. As people said before and like 311, it can be done but why would you take that risk? Go do 1 tandem or 1 aff or 1 static line. Then you will be much better equiped to start BASE jumping. At least you will know what the feeling is like to be under canopy. Doing your first BASE jump is wicked powerful and overwhelming and then you have to fly a canopy for the first time and land in maybe that open field or land on the beach and flare at the right height. All that on your first jump! That is alot for people with a 1000 skydives. I think that we are all taking it for granted, for us experienced jumpers. Remember when you made your first skydive, how scared you were, most people anyway! Remember how scared you were on your first BASE jump! Try combining them together. Anyway, If Ddog want to take people out on their 1st BASE jump with NO skydiving experience, that is his and his students CHOICE/LIFE. He has to live with himself for the rest of his life and if something goes wrong..... WOW, I couldn't do that and most people couldn't do that. THat is why no one is doing that. 98% wouldn't want that responsibility. Like Tree said THAT IS WRONG!!! I hope nothing happens to your students! Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

>has the LANC port on the right side of the camera, making it difficult to work w/ cameye on side mountz That't not new, the PC 101 has it in the same place and I don't have a proble with the cameye. >has a different style --->RCA cable that is not as easy to use as the Sony 2 to 1 cable This kinda sucks, if you are at a friends house and he has an older camera, 120,101,105,etc ,you can't use the A/V plug. But soon, everyone will have that and then the old A/V plugs will be extinct. Say 2-5 yrs. >comes with a smaller (Mseries) battery When I bought my 101 it only came with a 2hr battery. They all come with a small battery, don't they. YOu usually have to buy the big battery separetly. >Has a different (but functional) power switch This is not as easy as the older PC's. If you have the cameye like Lew said then its ok, but if not then I think it's a big problem. The IP5 is like that and he always had problems pushing down too much but that was him, get a system down and it could be ok. I personally don't like it but you get used to whatever you have! Buy the cameye! $55 kinda cheap for what you get out of it. That's only 1.3 tandem jumps and then it pays for itself. I am looking to buy that and this is my opinion. I have had 3 older cameras and they have been pretty much the same set up. BASE would be good, you would want the small battery anyway. The big one sticks out alot and really could have a riser strike. I don't use the big battery at all when BASE jumping. WHY take that chance? Keep looking on ebay and you could find it cheaper. That one I mentioned before went for $1060. Plus shipping. Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

Thanks for the input. I was thinking of using the paper sleeves for the DVD. They are really cheap. .03 cents each. I agree that over time it could ruin the DVD but it's so new that we don't really know. I would really like to know what all the other people do for labels on the DVD's. It's pretty important. HELP! Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

I don't have any idea. I was just told by panasonic it is going to take me 10 min to finalize with the TDK-R. I am waiting to hear if I can use another disc so it won't take so long. Anyone have ideas why it takes him 40min? I would like to know also. and can you help with my question, so it doesn't take me 10min to finalize. Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

Panasonic told me not to put labels on it at all. What do the videographers do. We did it at CSC after we recorder it. Panasonic said: "Thank you for your inquiries regarding the Panasonic DMRE60 DVD recorder. We recommend using Panasonic, Pioneer, and TDK 4.7 GB, general media DVD-R disc in the DMRE60. Please note that a finalized 4.7 GB General Media Panasonic DVD-R disc will play back in 85 % of DVD player manufactured after June 2001. DVD-R disc do not get formatted, then get finalized. You do not put labels on DVD disc, they spin very fast in a player and applying a label will cause the disc to be unbalanced. An unbalanced disc will wobble in the player, like a car tire that is not balanced, and it will not be read correctly. Label the DVD case, not the DVD." Do you agree? Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

Single 1/3" CCD? Isn't that the same as the old sony 3 CCD trv 1000 or 2000? the battery, yeah, that sucks. What do you think of it in your opinion? Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

Good question! I am thinking of buying it next month. I have had 3 PC camera's in the past and this is the bomb!! MH, I don't think there will be ANY problems. It is absolutely the BEST camera out there. Finally they came out with the 3CCD in a PC model. I have been reading, It's just like all the rest of the PC camera. Mount it on the side, with the L bracket. I am putting together a video of swooping the cliffs in Moab and I am going to wear the 330 for all the shots. The 101 just isn't good enough quality for making a video. How much did youfind it for? I found one place for $1000. It'll come down in a month or so. Good luck! Hey it's 1:32 Moutain time. Tues. ON ebay there is a 330 for $1059 in 40 mins. Brand new. I looked again and most places are charging $1149 to $1700 Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

Is who coming back to CSC? I can answer for the both of us! NO. I started my own dz in Moab and Tweek is the Chief Inst. at Richland, WA. Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

then you must have the wrong set up if it's more work for the dubber. It shouldn't take any more time except for the formatting which is only 3 min max. $70, WOW someone is making alot of money. People are making their first skydive and then you want them to buy video at $70 and then add $70 on it for a DVD. WOW, I won't say what .... SOmeone asked about the .50 for T20. I was mistaken. It was .62 with out the sleeve. Here is what I'm going to buy soon. http://order.store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/wg-order?unique=d8033&catalog=tapestock&et=402d873b&basket=b%3D5Cd0e188d8013e4b402d7aa5b75cc97a9a34264b38bd87b926b9b2cc55b6f3572%26l%3Dc0ij02b8dj/o%26s%3DxFsbtEzBiGtzz8216wLtUtbWc_Q Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

Back in the day, "skydiving teens" was 200-500 jumps. I was voted to most likely to die before I got to 300 jumps but I'm still here and I know why I was that person. I was stupid and 18yrs old. I only hurt myself when I had 2500 jumps, and then again at 4000 jumps. I agree with Jon and that it has dropped to about 100-300 where they think that they are invinsible. Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

I have yet to buy one. I really was thinking of getting the Panasonic E60 for $425 or the Sony GX7 for $505? My friend had a Phillips and it really sucked last summer? Then I had a good friend write back about her Phillips and she hates it and here friend went through 3 of them so far? So that's not my favorite. I did ask a few people other than on dz.com and they said the Panasonic is the best Recorder out there. I've been searching for 2 weeks now and I'm glad that everyone responded to my questions. Thanks to you too. Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

I like the thought but the swooper can't land on the top of the cliff, there is no room for it! Well there is but it would be very dangerous! I dont' think I would try it. You would have to see the cliffs to understand. But I really like the thought! Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

I like all the comments. An Aussie told me about it and everyone is using it over there. I agree that a personal videographer is much better but like the guy said. Small dz, and 2 tandems show up, and they want video but they also want to jump together. IT happened to me last Tuesday. I think it's a great idea and it's going to catch on fast. Sure it's dangerous but you have a choice! I have 700 tandems and I haven't done one in 4 yrs but I just started my own dz and I have to do them. Right now I would not put a hand mounted camera on right now but those pictures that were posted. WOW! They are ausome and just image how good they will be when you do 20 of them or so. Tandems make more money. You can offer a package of both handycam and personal videographer. You put the two sources together and you have the ultimate video. I have over 3000 tandem videos and if of course you ask them if they want video and then if they say no, when your getting them geared up then you can ask them if you want the tandem master to wear it for half the cost? It's like commision for the TM. Rigger Rob, I would like to know more info on your setup. Email me at info@skydivemoab.com Thanks, Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CompareModels?storeId=11251&catalogId=11005&catGroupId=11058&surfCategory=DVD%20Video%20Recorders&items=63388|63384| IS the E 80 worth having the 80GB hard drive? IT also has the Relief Recording, Auto Renewal Recording and that's it. The E60 has PC Card Slot and the E80 does not? SD Card Playable File Formats-- Still Picture: JPEG & TIFF and the E80 does not. Input for the E80 Composite Video In: x3 (RCA Jacks) S-Video In: x3 Composite Audio L/R In: x3 (RCA Jacks) RF In: x1 (UHF/VHF) DV In: x1 Composite Video In: x3 (RCA Jacks) Input for the E60 S-Video In: x3 Composite Audio L/R In: x3 (RCA Jacks) RF In: x1 (UHF/VHF) What is better? The difference in price is $70 extra for the E80. What is better? Sorry if it's confusing? Just really trying to get the best deal. Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

I like what you posted! With our BASE specific program, most of these things you posted are already there, just need to put them in certain jump orientation. I do like the CrW stuff. I didn't really think of that and I have no crew experience at all. I think Jimmy has some. We should go play and somehow add that in to the program. Thanks Tom, Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

>Honestly, I feel like these things (stall point, riser stall altitude loss, and especially deep brake setting) are far better checked off a nice, friendly span over water. I just have a much better frame of reference to judge what is going on if there is stuff around to look at. When I do these drills out of an airplane (err, aside from the DBS--when I do that out of an airplane, the canopy experiences deployment stall and I don't get to test the DBS at all) all I see is open air. That means I'm guessing at such things as altitude loss during riser stall based on how it "feels" to me. >Judging actual used altitude precisely on a skydive >is very difficult. >I do all my "new canopy" drills off objects because I want to know what's happening as precisely as possible. >?You can't test DBS out of an airplane. If you put a slider on a BASE canopy with properly set deep brakes, it's going to stall during opening, and you won't know if the brakes are too deep, or just right. DBS must be tested on a slider off opening. Why not do both. I understand that you don't judge the ground that well when your at 2000' and falling backwards while stalling your canopy but at least you'll know what it feels like to fly backwards. 99% of the time your canopy flies foward, it's a very weird feeling or scarry feeling to fly backwards, isn't it. I have over 5000 skydives most all of them under high performance canopies. I have yet to fly backwards. Give me a BASE canopy and I will have fun scarring myself flying backwards. A 19yr old kid came to my dz and he had 55 jumps and I asked him what he was doing on his Hop N Pop and he said he was going to fly backwards with his Rear Risers. I asked him why? Because I want to BASE jump later and... he gave me a great explaination. If you want to BASE jump and you want to live then you will do what it takes to survive. IF you just go do it and don't put any effort into it, then we will read about you later or maybe not because you are the lucky one. How many people have you seen pull out of some amazing shit? Would you have done the same thing in the same situation? Who knows? You can only react when your in that situation. Someone with 4000 skydives and over 400 BASE jumps had a 180 and he said cool, I'll just push off the object and then turn it around. Well, that didn't work and he couldn't jump for over a year. What does this person tell everyone else to do in this situation? Turn it around as fast as you can and you know the rest of the story. Canopy control off the B in potato valley. 10-15 sec canopy time. PCA you have 20sec or more, depending on wingloading. Someone with no Skydives and doing their 1st BASE jump, they go off and have a line over and line twists. What is the possibility of this person going in? Sure you can put them over the middle of the water but what if they have been flying and spinning to the right and towards the shore. So they get out of it, maybe by releasing the toggles, they clear the line over, now they are still heading towards the rocks, now they have to land with the rear risers(how many times have you landed with your RR on your BASE canopy and how was the landing?) on the shore, near the rocks. What % do you think is going to get hurt and remember that they just dealt with their first BASE jump, spinning, maybe dizzy from the spins and now they have to deal with landing with RRisers? I be a very high %! Teaching someone with NO skydives is very, very stupid in my opinion. I have taught AFF for 6 yrs now and the most heads up people can really mess up under canopy. Some people get it and some don't. How would you feel taking someone with no experience, and they had the jump from hell, as I explained above, and they broke their back, femuers, brain damage and so on. How would that make you feel? Sure someone with lots of experience skydiving could have the same experience and do the same thing but you'd feel better because the person probably has dealt with a problem in this type of canopy enviroment, I'm sure everyone that has made at least 20 skydives has experienced some line twists or some type of problem, more than the person with no skydives. At least the person will have some type experience with canopy control and be less likely to freak out and maybe NOT >I do all my "new canopy" drills off objects because >I want to know what's happening as precisely as >possible. How many BASE jumps to you have? How many skydives do you have? How much experience does that add up too? You can do this but someone with no experience at all? Why not get them to jump out of an airplane and do this within 10 IAD/static line skydives. They can practice alot in 10 jumps! That equals out to almost 1 hr of canopy time at 5-6min each jump. You do 10 jumps in potato valley and that equals out to say maybe 3-4 mins. You can't possible say that they are the same. Sure you pay more money for the 10 skydives but it's your life, isn't it? How much does a funeral costs these days? Taking that chance, I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that. Some might and well, go for it, it's your life. Most of the time nothing is going to happen but that 1 time, how are you going to feel. >I had 1500 skydives before at my first BASE jump. >I jump a very heavily loaded elliptical canopy anytime I'm not doing tandems. I think most skydivers start out like I did, which is in a hurry to downsize. In retrospect, downsizing has done nothing but harm my, just beginning, BASE habit. I have 4 BASE jumps, and 0 stand up landings. First jump, I busted my ass on the rocks. 2nd jump, I busted my ass on the rocks, and split my pants and underwear wide open, not to mention burising my tailbone. 3rd jump, best landing yet, it was dark, and I got lucky and flared right, just sort of plopped down on all fours. 4th jump, I again busted my ass after barely clipping a tree in a parking lot, and my ass is stole sore. How long before a tailbone heals up? >I guess my point is, that out of all my 1500 skydives, my canopy control on a huge 7 cell sucks. It has nothing remotely related to how I land my heavily loaded elliptical canopy. I don't think that all the canopy control I learned in skydiving has helped me in BASE very much at all. In retrospect, I wish I had made 100 jumps or so on a huge ass 7 cell before getting into BASE. How true that is!! I messed up my ankle my first week I moved to Moab last year. I was flying my BASE canopy like it was my Velocity. I was trying to turn in half brakes to avoid a tree and it wouldn't turn because I was making small correction. Then Vertigo told me it was like flying a Truck instead of a Porche. You have to make big corrections with the bigger canopy. I knew this but in BASE, there is usually not a Great landing area like at a dz. My bad for being a dumbass! I've learned from my mistake(s). Czechbase said "Jumping a BASE canopy out of a plane I feel is a good idea as one can get a feel for when it stalls, check out where the deep brakes are, how far a canopy drops when you rear riser stall it and of course how it flares when you come in for landing." You said alot of good things after that also!! Our BASE specific program that Skydive Moab and Vertigo are setting up will have everything that you mentioned and so much more. So far, and it could change and probably will, we know that it's going to be that you make 2 tandems, and then you will do 5-8 IAD jumps, then progress into some freefall time, a couple clear and pulls, then some 5 sec delays, some 10 sec delays and work your way to 30-40 sec delays. At least 5 tracking jumps. Whatever you think you need to do under canopy to get you ready for BASE, YOUR GOING TO DO IT!! The first 10 jumps or so will be on a student canopy. Then the rest of the jumps will be on Vertigo's Dagger's Start with a big Dagger and work your way down! This program is going to be the best way to get into BASE jumping. Everything you do is gearing you towards making your first jump at the B in Idaho. You are still going to do a PCA on your first jump and maybe a few more depending on YOU and then work your way up. I will post all the details when we are finished with it! I started my own canopy school 3 yrs ago because I was tired of watching everyone smack the ground so I tried to do something about it. No matter how much canopy time you have you can always get hurt and putting someone in the position of learning to BASE jump with NO canopy time and with the landing areas that BASE jumping usually has, it's spelling possible tragedy. Think about it, it's common sense to have canopy control, and if your willing to learn from someone that is williing to teach you and you have no canopy control, well that's your decision. Much more than someone with canopy time. Just like someone coming to Moab with 3 BASE jumps, is that smart, not really but it still happens and it's always going to happen. That is their choice! I could go on forever and I might later. Canopy control is the most important detail in either skydiving or BASE jumping. Not too many people die in Free fall, it's after the canopy is extracted from the container when shit goes wrong. Clint MacBeth Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012