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Mspaint version 5 or above (paint that comes with windows) will do it.

I don't think Joe Public really get's to find out. You send it in, it's get checked/repaired/bits replaced and comes back . Maybe its different in the U.S. but I have never seen any results for tests on my cypres. It just took ages before it came back (8 year check). Dave

0:4:3 DZ closed on friday. All jumps from 5000 ft . 1st jump in the rain. The last jump from 4500ft, also in the rain, was a nice 2-way.

She was told another whuffo had left his wallet in her apartment, So....

.... and then she woke up. It was all a dream after all. A quick check of her gear and stephanie was ready to do her first naked skydive. But what if ....

I actually found myself doing this last Sunday! 6. While waiting on the ground for the next load to be dropped, I wondered how long before they exit. I instinctivly looked towards my wrist to check the altitude Er,

I voted cheaper, but, that only holds true if I stay in the same country.

Rub a tiny bit of washing up liquid on the inside. Works for full face helmets too.

I have done one night jump, I may do another, but I am certainly not in any hurry. Your depth perception really does suffer dramatically. Just rumour, but I heard that they did a night jump here in Germany no so long ago and something went wrong with the spotting. A whole bunch of very experienced jumpers got hurt on landing. No light, nothing to see that would indicate wind direction and then small high performance canopies

In your case, I would say do not use cypres or find an AAD that is designed to fire higher or lower than cypres. I will stick with cypres, from what I have read and seen, it seems to work just fine.

aaahhh, artificial stupidity, didn't they make a film about that once?

Hi Blondie, Thanks for that interesting post.

Hey, it's good music I am certainly gonna use it on some of my videos. Thanks

I don't have that problem as a beer *bottle* is attached to my hand. Don't like canned beer

[replyI think the best thing to do to make a cypres fire 150 feet higher is pull 150 feet higher yourself. Before this thread dissapears into an Astra/cypres debate which was not the point of my original post... You may want prefer it, if your cypres fires 150 ft or indeed 400 ft higher. BUT, to acheive this by calibration of the landing height before a jump is NOT the answer. For cypres, the jump ends before you have landed! The jump ends at approx 120ft above the ground. If you set your cypres so the landing zone is 300ft above the ground then the jump ends for cypres 420ft above the ground. Now imagine a malfunction on your main. You try to resolve it but end up cutting away rather low. You cannot find your reserve handle, you accelerate to cypres firing parameters at 400 ft AGL. Your reserve could still save you but cypres thinks you are only 100 ft AGL. It does not fire. You can argue all you like about pulling higher, but that is not the point. Cypres is designed to fire, and only fire, as a last ditch attempt to save your butt. This last ditch attempt takes place at 750 ft AGL. Above that height you have time to resolve the problem. Dave

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Do you want ...... No I won't say it despite the beers I drunk

Is driving me nuts It seems my program is faster than my database then everything screws up with a invalid expect-ation or some shit. Should I really be using C++, MFC, Access to write this piece of crap. No replies needed, just wanted to unload a few moans. Dave

What makes a Student cypres more dependable? What makes it less flexible? Both versions are just as dependable, it's just that the student versions have different firing parameters that more suited to student jumping. With my VX I don't think I would even need to turn more than 90° to get a student version to fire (hardley a wicked maneuver).

He's got it!! 534 jumps in 24h in the rain too Dave

That's nice of you. At my Dz the TM's don't. So I think I am entitled to keep mine

Never mind the Tandem Master, what about the Video. As Video man I've had from 100 videos this year... 1) three $20 tips 2) 2 bottles of high grade alcohol 3) A t-shirt + skydiving googles May be that video was not so good and he thought I could not see 4) Numerous thankyou e-mails

groundrushpull Wrote Because one day you get it wrong and it fires lower instead of higher. Because on your next low pull your reserve fires into the main. Because on your next jump when it is supposed to fire it thinks you are only 120ft above the ground and does not, the true 240ft might have just have saved you. (figures approx) You are right, it's your life, but at my Dropzone I would be very wary of someone who was adjusting their cypres just to make it fire higher. Mainly because I could see no valid reason for it. Give me a reason other that you be happier hanging on your reserve 90 -120 ft higher and I might buy it. I have seen experienced jumpers having all sorts of problems adjusting their cypres. I would hate people to get the idea that this can be done lightly. Dave Edited to add: I moved this discussion over from incidents but I will probaly still get shouted at by SkyMonkey because it should be Gear and Rigging. Decisions decisions....

13 jumps is nuffin, I know a number of people that have had way over 20. I think they sorta got hooked (pun intended) on the static line did not want to risk freefall. So to make sure freefall was not an option they probaly deliberately did a bad exit so they would not progress

How many Static line jumps did you do before your 1st free fall? I would like Military Jumpers that maybe did a whole bunch because that's what they do to ignore the poll please