velo90

Right on there, pulling low is just making things more difficult for you. I did 5 jumps today, all from 5000ft, out of a Cessna 182. most of us were pulling between 3.5 - 4k. Why? Flying canopy is also fun I have made a number of very low exits, but I prefer to pull high. Low exits mean more stress.

Yep I did it! My first jump on my brand new velocity. Is that thing cool! Did another 3 jumps, is that thing fast! Then I let a real swooper borrow it for a jump. Ahh well, I must keep practicing. What really amazed me was when you grab that front riser, you sorta go back into freefall

Hey Tom, is that your canopy in your icon? It has the same colors as my Vengeance! Yep, lot's of beer tomorrow

WHEN I was 14, I hoped that one day I would have a girlfriend. When I was 16 I got a girlfriend, but there was no passion. So I decided I needed a passionate girl with a zest for life. In college I dated a passionate girl, but she was too emotional. Everything was an emergency, she was a drama queen, cried all the time and threatened suicide. So I decided I needed a girl with stability. When I was 25 I found a very stable girl but she was boring. She was totally predictable and never got excited about anything. Life became so dull that I decided I needed a girl with some excitement. When I was 28 I found an exciting girl, but I couldn't keep up with her. She rushed from one thing to another, never settling on anything. She did mad impetuous things and flirted with everyone she met. She made me miserable as often as happy. She was great fun initially and very energetic, but directionless. So I decided to find a girl with some ambition. When I turned 30, I found a smart ambitious girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and married her. She was so ambitious that she divorced me and took everything I owned. Now I'm 32 and am looking for a girl with really big boobs. Edited to add: It's really a joke for CrazyIvan, but never mind

Tomorrow I get my brand new Velocity (Lemon on top, white underneath, red cross braces) Can't wait to make my first jump on it

Why? are they all married in Thailand?

Wondering what is worse, Foot and Mouth disease shut down my dropzone a few years back.

Cool ! Thanks, I reckon I can use that one. I started drawing one myself last night, but did not finish it. Blue ones

Well if it's that easy you can make one for me And send via email Thanks in advance

Not any more I am afraid. The mail I just sent bou... sorry, was returned as undeliverable.

A metric alti generally goes from 0 to 4,000 m. This means you have 1 at quarter past 2 at half past and 3 at quater to. The tick marks at at 100m intervals except between 0 and 0.5, where they are at 50m intervals. Also between the 1, 2 3... aw foget it ... here is an image of one...

Cool, I like the tip on the web page I don't have photoshop, but looking at the image you attached has given me an idea... Thanks

Good idea! I don't have a scanner Can someone please scan their Alti for me and e-mail the image? An alti in meters please Oh, and a white backgound, and with the yellow warning area and the red warning area

I tried to email Francios a few years agao and got no reply. The mail did not bounce though. I have mail him again, who knows, maybe this time I do get a reply. I would try and draw the image myself but I am crap at using graphics programs. Maybe some one on this forum is could create such an image an post it? At least after your post they have a link as to how it should look. Yeah, I am a cheap skate, but what the hell, I want to spend my money on jump tickets!

done a google image search, it came up with nuffin useful

Thanks, but I want the image, not the clock!

I am looking for a good image of the face of an altitude meter for a clock face. I want to print the image out (A4 size) and stick it to the clock face. I am sure many of you out there know what I mean. Where can I get such an image? errr... I want the alti in Meters and not feet!

Because my girlfriend had just dumped me and I was feeling suicidal

As you say, flare normally. Also an excellent example of the old saying -"downwind landing is preferable to a low turn"

IMH if your are going fast enough and are low enough for cypres to fire then is should fire. If you hop n' pop you will never reach cypres firing speed unless something goes wrong (like total mal?). Would you not prefer to have your cypres activated in this case?

Me thinks it is probably 99% body position and 1% spectre. I have jumped camera with many different canopies and always the dominating factor is body position. If that two side mounts on one helmet? Maybe t´hat balances your head a bit more and stops it tilting to one side.

seems like a lot of thought.... exactly how low are you thinking of exiting? Last year I did a Demo jump. Cloud base was at about 1300 ft. The only preperation for my gear was to repack my Vengeance with the slider pushed as far back as possible to the tail. I hoped it would open faster this way. We decided to fly out in the Cessna 182 to have a look and see if we could find enough height to exit. Don't we have silly idea's We flew over the landing area at 1400ft MSL and decided if we set up the drop run right we could climb the extra height we needed on the run in and exit in the cloud. We set up the drop run and told the pilot CLIMB! Well you can guess how well the beaten up old C182 climbed. It managed an amazing 200ft before someone shouted exit. My alti read something ridiculous in meters, the planes alti read 1600ft MSL. The landing area was 250 ft MSL which works out to 1350ft AGL! I was the second to go, the well known lemming effect. The 3rd decided a bit of freefall was the order of the day and I guess he had an open canopy at 700ft. After this jump someone mentioned whether for such jumps we should leave the cypres switched off. In this case it did not matter as we never ascended to the height needed to activate it. All landed safely and hit the target. In the end the best decision is not to jump out at such low altitudes. Morden sports gear is not designed for these types of jumps. Messing about with riser covers, pin covers etc, to go out low tells me one should not be exiting so low. If one really wants a low jump, then get into BASE.

Kinda gotta lisp to it...

Well said! Never count on your cypres. It may help if you screw up. But... it may not.

I guess you have a top mounted camera. I use a side mounted and occasionally the risers manage to switch the camera record mode to off on opening. Never even come close to a helmet cutaway. Perhaps as well as my helmet has no cutaway method I could always use the hook knife to cut the chin strap. My main concern about snagging is not the camera but the ring sight.