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I'm pretty sure Chuck can show anyone at Spaceland a thing or to from 50 ' swooper me to 200'Eric and Chris and including future swooper Slappie . ramon

If we have a litle swoop contest in the future (350' ditch) you should come out and show the local Gods how it's done. bloo skies ramon

Accidents happen in threes. proof. 3 weeks buddy breaks ankle 2 weeks DZ friend breaks femur and compression fracture of vertabrae last weekend buddy off landing breaks both femurs pelvis and 3 vertebrae with hairline fractures. BSBD ramon

If I can't take it I'll video it ramon

You go girl. not my thing, but have fun. ramon

okey dokey. If we get out of control and I let go of you, make sure you can get into a sit

We have all been really curious at my DZ but afraid to try anything. very interesting. I see that a non simultaneous release could be at the minimum very funny and at the worst tragic. bloo skies ramon

I definitely can't organize anything bigger than a 4 way RW jump hahahaha . I will organize any number of freefly/sit jumps with the following restriction restrictions. for any jump bigger than 3 way the majority of participants need to have extremely solid sit so that everyone can campfire around the least experienced person. That way we can be safe

A good samurai has very deep brake settings and with proper flare input which takes practice can surf very far. A crossfire seems to take less skill to land nicely, but both require a lot of skill to surf far. The vengeance is very easy to surf, but unlike the other two it flat turns very lousy, it always wants to dive..in fact instead of a flat turn, it does medium carves . the samurai flat turns like a champ

It came from the heart, man.... It has been widely known that George Galloway was parting with Icarus to manufacture his own 'versions' of said canopies. Most of the scoop in the DZ is that the worst (constructed) Icarus canopies were seen over by Precision. I was just commenting on their sort of mixed commitments and then bailing to make their own money. r

I guess no one entered any crossfires. I wonder if it was the recall or just coincidence. ramon

Craig e-mail me ramon@mindspring.com and tell me what the hell happened. Were Kevin and Gabe there? ramon

I'll video. ramon

Thanks for the update. I sent you a private message with a last name if you could verify that it is my friend. thanks ramon

That MF is a good friend of mine. I hope some of the Louisiana people have more details. BSBD ramon

The guy named Russ who landed out and broke legs. Was he a Moss Point jumper? Was he jumping a small Crossfire? Possibly did he wear a red, black and white Michigan suit with black and red diamonds on it? thanks ramon

Taking a newbie/less experineced jumper low is kinda uncool. Rodeoing them to about 6k is allright if you think they might have fun. Scaring someone intentionally is immature. If they are an AFF instructor then they are really uncool and obviously have an attitude about owning up to their mistakes . This sport has a way of taking people out that fail to be humble and respect it. just my 2 cents ramon

You always 'cook' at the dropzone. bloo skies ramon

Ain't no info on the website. Slaton keeping it all under his hat or what? ramon

Scotty Carbone has sort of monopolized the food situation...however if you can bring a barbeque pit and put it say..by the pond, where we can't hear his bitchin a nice barbe cue could be held. BTW mosquito spray is a must. At precisely 5:40 PM Billions and Billions (Carl Sagan heh heh) of Mosquitos will swarm every breathing skydiver not protected. bloo skies ramon

Dunno. Wasn't drunk either. R

I'm just writing BS about Precision/Icarus Some of you may know that Precision is having some sort of half off deal to boost sales of their canopies. From what I understand you can trade in any unairworthy POS and get half off on a Xaos21 Synergy or a Nitron with restrictions on the colors. And they are having a money back guarantee in case you don't like it (just like Icarus). For what its worth, the only experience I have with any of those canopies is we have a Xaos 21 at the dropzone. My two friends (limited cross brace experience) both really enjoyed it and seem to swear that it opens better than an FX. They swear it flies better also and has lower riser pressure, but....we will leave those opinions for jumpers with more experience. I looked closely at these new lines...weird...the high modulus aramid fiber looks slicker (silkier?) than vectran and was sort of capucino colored. It seemed more flexible and did not look like there was any minute wear anywhere (this canopy only has about 60 jumps on it at ~2.5). One thing, like the labels on some other canopies the Xaos panel on the side looks like it has 2000 jumps on it already. I'm not getting one but I think my friend Wane might. He can't decide on the loading as Precision is recommending higher wingloadings than most of the best canopy pilots in the world feel is most effieicent for a 21 cell cross brace(2.4 vs 2.0ish). Maybe the stabilirib BS actually increases the theoretical aspect ratio of a 21 cell and makes it perform better...I don't know. From what seems to be inthe rumor mill via Dan Preston and others Icarus is doing badly and Precision is bailing on them to sell these new canopies. but also in the rumor mill is that the Canopies that came from Icarus that were inspected by Precision had quality problems...I don't know, but my FX made this January with 150 jumps on it had stitching coming apart and it was inspected by Precision...and I have heard of that before> ok I'm done. ramon

This is a good little manual. Good job on wanting to more knowledge saves bones. It is the one called high performance canopy handling manual http://www.apf.asn.au/apf_services/publications.asp Jerry Sobieski wrote an extensive book about high performance canopy flight discussing aerodynamics and swooping. It used to be on this website but can't be found now. John Leblanc and the Australian Parachute Federation each wrote little manuals also and they added their own material and borrowed from Jerry. I assume you can find John's on his website. jump high pull low swoop long well..not really pull low ramon

Third crew jump ever. nuff said. ramon

Most of them are mad at me, too. Cmon Ann I'm sorry