frankiebrina

And?? When is it then?? Or does anyone have information on what the flight characteristics will be??

Does anyone know when is PD going to post the Flight Characteristics on there web site of the new KATANA.??

Going to start a course with Scott tomorrow!!! I will post later friday how did it work out for me.

Again... my bad. that ...."When I was growing up, I wanted to be an astronaut. Later, reality set in and I had to settle for being a skydiver."... got me confused. I didn't notice it was your personal phrase SORRY

When will there be any Katanas at Deland for demoing??

Way to goooooo!!! Hope you dont stop!!!!!!!

Welcome!!!!

my bad then, I'm sorry. Not from here and I have sometimes a hard time determining what someone means. Here is the picture of the newspaper.

It might be just me or are you being sarcastic?? Just thought I'd tell my story. You don't have to believe. Didn't even ask you to. I know what happened.

It might not be legal or smart but it gives you a really good feeling. My best jump ever was a bandit jump. I was in Brazil and the airport was relatively near a football(SOCCER) stadium. There was a game going on and I asked a friend to open higher and land in the the stadium with me. He said yes but he decided not to later on the dive. As planned I opened higher and went towards the stadium, as I made the last turn on top of the spectators everyone stud up and cheered!!! I landed on the middle of the field and everybody was cheering for me. You can't imagine how I felt!!! I ran out of the field and was taken to a room where they asked me many questions involving what had happened. I said there was skydiving activity at the airport and the wind blew me over, and between the street and the stadium I had to pick the stadium for my safety. They said I was right and let me go. It was GREAT!!! Don't think it would work here though. Next day my picture was on the sports column of that city. I have it framed!! hehe

Thanks. I was feeling pretty bad!! Anyone else has stories like these from the tunnel

OK. I live 5 minutes from skyventure and even though I've been living here in Orlando for about a year yesterday was the first time I ever went to the wind tunnel. It was really fun and different in a way but. I sincerely am not sure if I will be going back ever!! The service was great and the instructors very helpful but I found it to be very different and I really don't know if training in the tunnel would do me any good because I strongly believed it to be different from my skydiving experience. Even my position had to be different for me to maintain myself above the net. And I would not stay centered. I wasn't hitting the walls like crazy but there were slight movements unwanted. WHY?? When I'm skydiving with others I'm no Mr. Experience but I stay leveled and totally stable in front of anyone without rocking back front side side. Has anyone ever experienced this the first time you went to the tunnel.???? One more thing..... I also practice Freefly and I noticed some guys yesterday trying to sit fly. They had to learn to sit fly again because they could not sit in the tunnel. Even being that they regularly sit fly when skydiving with no problem.

I would just like to know if theres any activity in ZHills tomorrow?? Jan/14/2004

Deland Florida is.... U$ 6,00 for 170Sq/ft and above and U$ 5,00 for anything smaller then that. Don't know there rates for Tamdem

BRAZIL!!!! About U$ 1,80!!! I had never packed it myself till I moved here. Now I spend 20 minutes sweating to do it myself!!!

USED!!! First was a used Cliper 190 Then my used Sabre 150. Now I'm not sure if I will purchase new or not. I am looking for a Crossfire2 129 at a good price. If I find one I will purchase used again!!

I had only one witch was in a major city downtown area, fortunately some kids found it and returned it after I provided 20 bucks. #@%%^&*$%@@. Well its better then a new free-bag i guess. Blackmailing little sons of...

Nice rig

i have seen a post like this in the past but there werent to many replies. And since I really wanted to see some pictures of containers out there. Here it is again. If you can please post pics of your container. Thank you

thanks for the input

Thanks!! For all the feedback. Now my question is How to get these canopies for me to demo with. Also is it OK for me to use my javelin J1 container with a 135 if i choose to demo that size. It might stay a little loose wouldn't you say?? Also the thread went towards the safety side and has no mention on wether I would be capable of flying a Katana. (Is it more HP then the Stiletto and Crossfire 2)

As I previously had posted... I intend to downsize to an elliptical canopy. I currently fly a 150 Sabre and I intend to go to an 135 but I will demo a 150 elliptical a few jumps to make sure I can handle the 135. The big question here is.... I intend to do this in about 3 to 4 months. I was planning to purchase a Stilleto but now with the Katana coming out should I consider this option better???

Hello!!! Looking to downsize. My main is looking bad and I must put him down to sleep. Currently flying a Sabre 150 since about 60 jumps. Been thinking about the Stilleto 135. Not thinking about hook trns only nice swoops. I weigh 165lbs and have no idea how much my equipment would weigh. I would not like to make of this a great discussion and would truly apreciate honest opinion on the Stiletto in comparison with my Sabre and what big difrences I would experience, and of course a diffrent canopy that would also be intresting to me. Thank you

As time goes by so does that pain. Don't worry after 20 jumps with that rig you wont feel a thing. Welcome!!!

Wilson