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  1. FlyinseivLP2
    Are you asking how to identify a malfunction? When you have almost 50 jumps? If so, please get with an instructor before you make another jump. This is info you sould know before you make your first jump (tandems excluded.)
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    swoop dog
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    Just shove it in anyway you can. Who cares what it looks like.
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    Everyone likes something different. You have to try them and decide what you like. Most altimeters can be switched to either hand or wrist. If you get one of these you don't have to decide before you buy.
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    How do you know he was lower than 2K? Just by what you saw? If so you were most likely wrong about what atitude he pulled at. There is kind of an optical illusion when you are above someone like that. They can look like they are right above the trees when they are at 3K. I tell my tandem students to watch the camera man after we open and when they do they think he is about to go in when if fact they all open fairly high. There is a chance that the guy you are talking about did go low for some reason, but it is not the norm. Most tandem video I jump with open around 3K I know I do.
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    I don't jump Strong, only the Vector 2 and Sigma. The Sigma is by far the better system. The safety drouge realease system is a huge improvement from any other tandem system. Then you have things like no velcro, better drouge positioning, no main ripcord(can't lose it and don't have to put it away under canopy), better student harness, ect. And now you have the skyhook on them. I think the only downside to the Sigma is the price.
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    I love my Wings. I have had several containers and the Wings is a good as any of them. IMO, the wings is as good as the G4, though I find Wings more comfy, and I like it better than the Odyssey. You can't beat the price if you get the 50%.
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    Yea, go see it. I saw them in Vegas and it was a great show.
  9. FlyinseivLP2
    I did 472 jumps my first year. That was with taking 12 hours of classes and working about 35 hours a week. Also my home DZ was a single cessna DZ at the time. I got my D in about 6 months, but you only needed 200 jumps at the time. You could easily do 1000 in a year if you had the time, motivation and MONEY.
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    IMO, if you did not pull on level III you should be repeating the jump anyways. The one thing you NEED to do on every skydive is pull. You did not complete the most important task on the jump, so you should not be moving to IAF. Relax and it will come to you, but I think you should talk to your instructors aabout repeating level III. If you do another level III and do it well, you will be more relaxed when you do your IAF.
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    It's a personal decision for everyone. No one can answer for you whether you should jump or not. It is a great sport and I decided to continue after I had kids. This was a tough decision though. DO NOT let people on this site convince you that this sport is safe(especially someone with 23 jumps.) This sport is NOT safe,yes you can do things to be as safe as possible, but shit still happens. Do a search on this site for threads about the safety of skydiving. I think you will find that most of the experience people will agree with me, most have had friends killed in the sport and maybe even seen a few. I am not trying to keep you from jumping. I just want you to be able an informed decision. I was one of the hardest I have made and I had 8 years and 1500+ jumps of experience when my first was born. Search this site get some info and then make a decision. Your wife also needs to be involved in the choice.
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    The Sabre opening thing has been blown out of porportion IMHO. They were the most popular canopy out for many years and no one ever complained about the openings until newer ZP canopies came out and openings were slower. IMO the Sabre does open quicker than most newer canopies but is not unreasonable. Pack it well and it will open fine. People say they will slam you every now and then but I have been slammed 10X more on my Velocity than I ever was on a Sabre and I have many more jumps on a Sabre. I'm sure opinions will vary in this thread but, I think it's a great canopy.
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    First was jump#1001. Total now of 8 in 2650+, 4 of them on tandems and 4 on my sport rig.
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    We get paid $30 for a tandem with the DZ's gear. I think they like $25 extra if you use your own gear. Keep in mind some DZ's may not let you use your own gear. Also unless you are doing a ton of tandems it is probably more cost effective to use the DZ's gear. Some tandem rigs can cost more than $13,000. Then you need to include maintence which tandem rigs need alot of. Then if you lose anything on a cutaway (freebag or main) you have to pay a ton to have it replaced.
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    In a situtiation like that never let anything other than you safety be a factor in your decision. Maybe you will have to pay for a repack, but you are alive. When you have your own gear you might lose your main or your freebag(i have lost both.) It sucked but my other option was much worse.
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    Your right, alot of people nowadays haven't even seen them before. When I borrow a square canopy I love to open a bit high, hold stall for about a 1000' and then do a couple stall turns at the bottom. I get people come up to me on the ground and say "what happened I thought you were going in."
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    I love them too, but I don't get to do them very often. Velocities do not react to well to that kind of input.
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    The original Boogie-'til-Ya-Puke, accept no substitutes. I believe the original boogie till ya puke was $99 for the weekend! Come on Mike you can do it. I don't know why you quit doing it in the first place, you must have been making a killing charging me $3-$5 a lift
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    There is nothing wrong with Ravens. The problem has been when the canopies are loaded over the max weight. This line of canopy does not seem to handle the overloading as well as other reserves might. A raven loaded at the appropriate weight would be just fine as a main. Also I don't base but I think most base jumper would disagree with you about this being a bad canopy to practice on. No it is not the same canopy he will be using on base jumps but he will be able to practice the skills he needs on this canopy and he will get similar results as he would on a base canopy. That will give him better canopy control for base than someone with twice his jumps under a Sabre II 170 IMO. Also IMO it would be stupid to buy a new Base Canopy and rag it out by putting 200 jumps on it before you ever use it for what it was intended. Put some jumps on it before you Base with it Yes, but almost all your skydives on that canopy I'm sure you would have a hard time finding more than a few who have done that.
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    If your talking about a first jump it will be a bit more canopy ride so more like 6-8 min total.
  21. FlyinseivLP2
    As Dave said skydiving is not safe. Wait till you have have been in the sport several years and then make that argument. In that time you will probably had a few friends die maybe seen a fatality up close and had many more friends that have titanium insersted into thier bodies. Your view whether skydiving is safe may have changed by then.
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    I am very suprised at all the people saying they don't pay if they ride down. I am even more suprised by those who say they expect not to pay or grumble about it if they have to. If you are not a student and you decide to get on the plane you should pay for your slot. Why should the DZO have to eat the whole load. They should make their decision to send the students up or not and you decide for yourself.
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    I did a coulpe tandems in shorts one day and forgot to take my wallet out. A guy came up to the packing area and asked if there was someone named Jeff around. I went over to talk to him and he said "did you lose this" showing me my wallet. I didn't even know I had lost it. He was a pilot and found it sitting on the fueling pad when he went to fuel up his plane. Got to give our pilot props for the good spot.
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    I shot alot of tandem video before I got my rating. I watched 2 TM's that would always wrap the students legs at the first sign of a bad body position. They both would take 10 sec to get the drouge out on a regular basis. When I got my rating I didn't want to do this and just flew my body. I have never had a problem that I couldn't out fly yet. I have never been taken close to 10 sec before getting the drouge out. Now If I had one I couldn't out fly I might wrap their legs just to cange their position and then fly us stable. I think wraping the students up only causes you to be unstable longer in most cases. Fly your body and you won't go wrong.
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    Attitude seems to spread at a DZ, whether it be good or bad. If the more experienced jumpers, that people might look up to, are safety oriented then that attitude will spread to the other jumpers and the DZ as a whole might be a bit safer. On the other hand if some of the Skygods at a DZ have a Yahoo attitude then the newer jumpers can adopt that kind of think too. If you spend some time at the DZ and see what the attitudes of the regular jumpers are like it can help you decide. Just because there hasn't been a fatality at a DZ does not make it a safety oriented place. On the other hand a few fatalities a DZ does not make it a dangerous place. Sometimes shit happens and it can happen at even the safest DZ's to the safest person.