Unparagoned

Well the cannopy I jump is 15 years old and I just assume so is the container

I agree with you that everyone in the plane should be stone cold sober. But if someone has a smoke the night before then they will be stone cold sober in the plane the next day. Also I found the combination of your post and your signature very ironic

I will soon have a merit 170 to jump, and I can do as many jumps I need to on that. Speaking to instructors the 170 is a good steping stone. Do you have a link to BillVon's checklist?

Thanks, for the price comparisn Phreezone, if I had the money and time(uni student) it would be tempting to come over to the US and spend some time in the wind tunnel & buy a rig but I can't. Anyway with your US price estimates the savings would not be that great.

Hi, A group of people are getting a bulk order of kits and are getting a good discount on it. I wanted to know what you lot think about it. It will be the new atom container with a 150 electra main, cypress 2 & a reserve. The price is £3000, is that a good price? Is it worth getting it now even if I'm not at the level to jump it. Or would it be worth waiting around a while until the next deal comes along. I'm not in a desperate need for a rig yet but it sounds like it will be worth getting in on it now due to the price¿ P.S. I have briefly talked to an instructor about it and will talk to a few more. I'm more concerned about the price and what you think of the container & electra.

That sucks. At my dropzone things are very different. I think there is a cycle going on where, when people are newbies more experienced people jump with them, so when these newbies become more experienced they know what it is like for people to jump with them, so they jump with more newbies, etc. Anyway I get offers from people wanting to jump with me & someone with a video wanting to jump with you is very useful. I've found someone more experienced than me and planned a 2-way which turned into a 3-way & then another more experienced person came in making it a 4 way with a camera man :) From my experience at attempting to do a 2 way with people who have 75+ jumps, two people with 30 or so jumps are likely to be no-where near each other/could lose track of each other, one could be above the other, etc. I'm not sure what the situation is there in the US, but here in the uk we have to gets coaching for fs1. Maybe you can pay for an instructors slot as well and get some coaching, once they can see you are good enough to jump with other low timers they may let you¿

There are 1000s of websites that just aren't updated, some of them are from massive/big companies. There are many reasons for a site not to be updated, so I don't think there is a massive need to be so pessimistic

I would get it filmed so you can actually see what you are doing wrong. Then if you can just do lots of jumps in a short space of time, at least 6 jumps in a couple of days. I've just got my A licence, but that was the way I stopped my spinning problem

Static line can easily cost more than aff in the long run :( It is very variable, some people can complete it in 16 jumps, others take over 40 jumps.. I did RAPS and found that alot of the jumps were very intense as there is actually very little time. DRPs seem like a very big sticking point. The 5/10/15 second free fall are all relitivly quick, so if you have a problem turning, you don't really have any time in free fall to fix it. There are so many people I know who transfer from RAPS to AFF, I'm not sure if you are making the right decision. If you can trasfer into the RAPS course at say turns or so, then maybe it will be worth while. But it really does depend.