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you mean like this ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZizIbSpI-g Even though this guy was no where near terminal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRB-woVjlFY Does anybody have videos from the other cams ?

You can be pretty sure that a closing pin contains nickel since nearly all stainless steal alloys do.

Yeah, it used to be for smoking crack but the meaning has currently been replaced with something more expensive and more addicting !

Having gone through S/L progression and being a Static line instructor I can say that S/L is mentally more challenging because you are left to yourself. Once you complete the progression with your dummy pulls, you will have to jump out of plane by yourself and pull by yourself. This is the mentally most challenging part. In my experience 9/10 people quit during that phase, they make one or two manual jumps(where the pull themselves) and never show up again. During AFF you will have one or two instructors in the air with you until you are proficient enough to go alone. S/L it's all on you. I also think you get a greater feeling of accomplishment pulling through static line, and jumping in small club will make you a better skydiver as whole, you will learn spotting, and you will have way more time under canopy than AFF Students giving you more experience. You will not be scared to jump from 1000m, unlike AFF students... If you have any trouble, go to a wind tunnel for 10 minutes and let them know what you are doing, this will boost your self confidence and you won't have to worry about pulling unstable.

You could try http://www.skylark.ua/en/ from the Ukraine. They make great quality jumpsuits for a fair price. They also speak english, just contact them.

Ha ! I once smelled my fart sitflying in freefall

At Indoor skydiving Bottrop there is sign system in place. The controller can always see into the tunnel and any experienced flyer can give the signal to the controller. You can give the controller a percentage value from 60 to 95% in one signal. Since it's the only tunnel I've ever been to I thought this was common in all tunnels...

I know and jump with a guy who had about 30 hours of tunnel time when he did his AFF. He did a 5 way Headdown on his 16th jump and did fine. All the others where very experienced though and break off was thoroughly briefed

1. Why exactly are YOU looking at my balls?UnimpressedQuote You are right ! I was bored and looked at this thread for the first time, I did not in the least expect photos like these... My Bad !

Dude, shave your balls !!!

Yeah I have taken one. It is very rare for even a native speaker to achieve more than 8. You should really prepare for the test. The time is very limited and you have concentrate for about 3 hours without a break. Don't take this lightly even if you are a very good at English.

Rainbow in Germany, they make very high quality suits and have good service too.

Thanks !! Looks interesting.

Hey, I found this picture on Facebook, anybody know the story behind the square round ? It seems to be a new parachute for soldier deployment, a successor to the T10 perhaps ? Thanks for reading !

Yeah he probably meant belly flying. I think with freeflying it has more to do with the techniques you learn in the tunnel... The first tunnels where slower than many are today, this made it very hard for people to take in freefly positions so they developed ways to fly slowly.

Headdown is one of the freelfy positions. If you mean speed skydiving, the world record is 527km/h I think. This is not the max speed, but an average over 1000m. You can add about 10 sec. until you reach terminal... Freeflying can go from about 250km/h to about 280km/h. It's gotten slower since everybody has tunnel time

sadly this is the only way to reliably recognize bots and scripts. A lot of other captchas have already been compromised... Re Captcha remains as one of the most successful... Other attempts to solve the bot/human problem include things like: Click on the picture of the cat, showing 6 pictures of animals.... This maybe a more elegant solution, though you would need millions of pictures in your database or way to dynamically edit them... I think this is a very interesting problem because usability and reliability have to be very carefully weighted... Yep, that's exactly what its for.

Thats googles recaptcha, one word is known, one isn't. Normally the illegible one is not known;-) Google uses this for it's book scanning project to identify words that OCR(Optical Character Recognition) can't. If enough people enter the same word, google implies that it was correctly identified...

You guys should practice some hop and pops... those exits where horrible...

I think that exactly this behavior contributes more to a jumpers uncertainty than anything else. You are complaining how the AAD companys handle incidents and yet you are contributing to the general uncertainty by claiming of knowing about incidents the others do not know about. Where you directly involved ? did you hear about them 1st. 2nd. or 3rd. hand ? How reliable is your information ? Do you care to elaborate ? If one thing holds true in our little sport is that rumors spread like wildfire and seem to change from person to person. This seems to be true for everything that is not written in black and white. I, myself have heard 4 different versions of an an incident that I witnessed myself and none of those where correct. The same goes for rumors concerning AAD Incidents.... There is just way too much hear-say involved...Claiming you know about "Cypres" incidents without further elaboration contributes more to this uncertainty... Have you asked yourself why these incidents where not publicized ? Why where you not the one post the incidents in these forums ? Going public will definitely increase the pressure on the manufactures to release a statement.....

QuoteWelcome to the "problems" that the credit card generation and AAD's have created. Quote Do you think it might be the form of instruction ? Making people pay for learning how to pack and not thoroughly explaining how an AAD works and which philosophy is behind it, contributes more to this problem than the credit card generation IMHO. I think there is a fundamental difference between freezing up for apparently no reason and consciously waiting for the AAD. AADs where developed for the former... Anyone who does the latter has no business skydiving or has gone through a faulty ground school. How many of you where taught how AADs work and which philosophy is behind them in the FJC ground school ?

Brilliant !!!

thanks ! btw.: 19 000 Czech koruny = 774.613328 EUR