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  1. JonBonGraham
    Nice one! I'd love to do a Mr. Bill but was sort of put off by a video involving the passengers' leg getting wrapped round the pilots' lines - SCAAAARY! The passenger was the one wearing cammera and, as far as I can recall, looking at a half collapsed & badly spinning canopy, frantically grabbing at lines round his ankle and screaming like F**K at the other guy to chop it, and it was a very, VERY close scrape! (Also, our CCI was put off by this incident and banned them at our DZ) I was also wondering what the canopy the pilot jumps, and was he throwing it about a bit? Bet it was a sh*t load more responsive when you double the wing-loading! Durham University Freefall Club Grounds For Divorce website (band I'm in)
  2. JonBonGraham
    At the end of the day, YOU were the one flying the canopy - it's 100% your decision to chop or not. I'm assuming the canopy you were flying wasn't affected too much by the PC, (ie in too much of a turn) otherwise you would have noticed at some stage in your canopy flight and looked up to see what was causing the problem. So you would have had a canopy that was; ~Large ~Pretty much (if not totally) rectangular ~Controlable As far as I remember from being a student, that means you keep what you have. After all, why get rid of a canopy you can land under? Just my 2cents. :) Durham University Freefall Club Grounds For Divorce website (band I'm in)
  3. JonBonGraham
    I think another major factor may be what people view as 'experienced'. I've only recently got my A-license and to me everyone with over, say, 200 jumps seems really experienced. I (and I assume this goes for most people with very low experience in any field) wouldn't see much of a difference (except on paper) between the advice given by one person with 2 years and 200 jumps, and another with 30 years and 5,000 jumps*. I think it depends very heavily on your vantage-point. Hence it may not be a combination of bad advice by someone who you percieve to be experienced but actually isn't, coupled with the fact that deep deep down you really want to be told that "yes, after twenty jumps on that 220 fury you CAN downsise to a velocity sixty-nine". Mine arrives in two weeks. :) * - this may be a little bit of an exaggeration. Durham University Freefall Club Grounds For Divorce website (band I'm in)