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were you trimming with toggles or rears? Cheers, Travis

what do you mean inverted exactly? Cheers, Travis

Got tp agree here. I've seen video of my friends and I landing at the same time. We've all got ~1.3 WL's, but my 269 comes in much faster horizontally. -Blind The only way this was true would be due to canopy model differences. Because if they are flying the same model of canopy at the same loading, there's no way you would be flying forward faster. Cheers, Travis

You're correct in saying that the mouse will turn super fast. You're also right stating that the robocop will do better in a distance competition, but in a speed comp, I"m still saying that the mouse is going to have the advantage if their wing loadings are the same. Cheers, Travis

What makes that mini? Cheers, Travis

A person is never committed to their main. Wait till someone comes ripping through the top skin of your canopy at 300 feet and then come back and tell me if 1000 feet is a no question altitude. Cheers, Travis

They look to me, for the most part, like javelin risers. Call and order a set of toggles from sunpath or even easier(and probably much cheaper as sunpath charges an arm and a leg for everything), just have your local rigger make you a set of toggles to fit these risers. Cheers, Travis

The small parachutes will still fly "forward" faster, but because they will descend faster, some type of trim input must be put in place to decrease their descent rate, thus slowing thier forward speed as well. Larger canopies simply have flatter glide...and with a flatter glude you have less distance to travel to get in front of another canopy, assuming you are starting from the same point. Reason being is that the canopy with a higher descent rate must travel the hypotenuse between the larger canopy's line of flight and the line going directly vertical down from the larger canopy---a longer distance at only a slightly higher forward speed. Keep in mind that the large canopies in the top and middle of larger crew formations many times utilize microline to decrease drag, thus, once again, flattening their glide and speeding them up. Cheers, Travis

I'm not sure I agree. I suppose it depends on what you mean by "faster." I would imagine the larger canopy would outglide a smaller canopy, but the smaller canopy should have a higher forward speed and downward speed because of reduced drag of the lines and canopy. THe reason for a smaller canopy to descend quicker is that, like you said, there is an increased ratio of body drag to lines and canopy and therefore this can give the canopy a steeper glide slope. Cheers, Travis

I've got an RS and an RSK1. THe main container size on the rsk1 is not as large as the NJ or NJK. I can guarantee that. I've had a sabre 135 packed into an NJ, but theres no way that would fit in my rsk1. Cheers, Travis

Does anyone have experience putting a pd106 in a javelin nj or njk? I know a 113 will fit fine and I even squeezed a 126 in one a few times. But anyone who's packed a rig with a pop top and a reserve that was too small for the container knows that you can only go as small as the spring collapse distance...hard to describe here. Anyway. If anyone has seen it or done it let me know how it came out. I'm thinking about getting a NJK but i've got 106's in both of my RS's and didn't want to get another reserve. Cheers, Travis

Oh no you didn't...new can of worms...I'll sit back and enjoy... Cheers, Travis

Look where the runway is in the snapshot...its extremely far away. Which means that he is still at a high enough altitude to make it back or he had a super horrible spot. In my opinion, it doesn't look all that low to me. Besides, there is no way to tell distances and altitudes from this because its most likely got a wide angle lens on the camera which makes things look farther away. *Note: Perhaps the folks at the DZ don't land on the airport so I could have been wrong about the distance from the airport. Besides, that may not even be an airport. Who knows. But it doesnt look all that low to me. Cheers, Travis

And one looks like its colored similar to yours Miami! Cheers, Travis

I hear that. THe last DZ I called home built a swoop lane over where the fire pit used to be. The ash never comes out. Cheers, Travis

Freestyle body flying...way overrated. Freestyle swooping...incredible. Cheers, Travis

But who would actually get that sick of flying in the tunnel? Cheers, Travis

No worries. It sounded that way to me, but your clarification helps. Peace. Cheers, Travis

Wow. Talk about modesty... Even so, if it takes time to get good at that exit and it may be easier another way, why do it the way that you can only be good at by doing it 300 times? Cheers, Travis

Definetly stay away from booties. If you are freeflying, you definetly dont want booties, and most likely won't need wings either. If you want my opinion, start videoing without wings. It will help you trust yourself and your flying much more. Otherwise you will rely on wings. I have about 500 video jumps almost all with wings and have recently started flying with just a freefly suit. There's a lot more you can do without wings, but its tough to go back to simply a freefly suit because you are so reliant upon using wings for flight. As a disclaimer, I will say that wings can save your video in some cases of extremely slow tandems or for hovering on the edge of an RW formations burble. It can also make back flying easier for some. Cheers, Travis

Oh how I loath hearing that line. My girlfriend was saying something the other day about how she thought I enjoyed when people found out I was a skydiver...I really don't soemtimes. I like to wait until I know the person and they know who I am before they know I am a jumper. People instantly become interested in your company sometimes if they know that, and I hate how fake of a friendship that is. Skydiving is a huge part of my life, but i dont bring it up for quite sometime after I meet the person. Cheers, Travis

I currently fund my jumping and college education by doing tandems, video, and rigging, but when I first started, I was in high school. I began packing parachutes and then started AFF. I also worked 20 hours a week at various jobs during high school. But the majority of funding for jumping and buying gear was from packing at the DZ. Learn to pack. it will pay off even if you are just freelancing. Cheers, Travis

The technology that reserves are using are basically the same as the PD series. New technology advances are not so much in construction techniques, rather design changes, planform, squrefootage, bracing, valving, trims...etc. The smart, the micro raven series, PDs, tempos, and most other reserves we see now days (I realize the tempo is no longer in production) are very similar builds. The difference is in the stregnth and construction methods that PD uses. Incredible. The Pollster is right in the fact that there have been so many deployments of PD reserves outside their operating limits its crazy and its a VERY rare occasion to hear of PDs ripping, tearing, stalling abruptly on landing, and generally gettin fucked up from opening issues/speeds/weights. Virtually no other manufacturer can say the same. And i've always been a person who tries to buy from other companies than PD to support different companies rather than the PD conglomerate. But after a while I simply realized that other companies are great, but no company is CONSISTANTLY as quality as PD. I'll consider buying a used reserve of another company, but if buying new, I'll never buy something other than a PD. I currently fly two PD reserves and two velocities and am in total support of both, probably even moreso the reserve! *Edited for clarity Cheers, Travis

Only slightly. Either way they will be different size wise. But the pack volume of a pd126 and a smart 135 will be similar. Cheers, Travis

What the heck for?!?! Cheers, Travis