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  1. pilotdave
    This guy (see attached) doesn't just loosen his chest strap to make landing easier, he takes it all the way off. (Don't try this at home unless you're an old timey accuracy jumper!)
  2. pilotdave
    On my first night jump, I ended up doing a 2-way with a more experienced jumper. In freefall he asked "DO YOU WANT TO SITFLY?" I heard it clear as day... errr clear as on the ground. I must have had a full face helmet on too. Really weird... BTW... I just shook my head and yelled back "NO."
  3. pilotdave
    The AN-2 is not FAA certified, so it can only be registered as experimental or maybe limited or restricted in certain cases. It's not considered "experimental amateur-built" like the compair, but it's probably usually registered as "experimental exhibition" like warbirds would usually be. Dave
  4. pilotdave
    True, but a manufacturer can never issue an AD anyway. The effect is exactly the same in this case, since (in the US) mandatory SBs (according to the manufacturer) are mandatory (according to the FAA). So there really isn't a difference, in this case. Dave
  5. pilotdave
    No, but i'm really good at google so here's what i found out... Just include a "save as" in the action. Set the jpeg compression. The filename you choose shouldn't matter... the Batch process will override it. Seems to work when you select "override actionsave as commands" in the batch. Dave
  6. pilotdave
    There are other dealers. Buy what you want, not what your dealer wants to sell you. Choose the rig you want, then figure out where you'll buy it. There really aren't any "bad" containers out there, so it's kind of hard to get any really objective information to compare them. The only really innovative feature on the quasar (that I know of) was the "flinger" system, which had to be removed not too long ago because "testing revealed the steel ‘Flinger’/PRO assembly may take a set beyond the designed acceptable range, restricting movement of the side flaps and reserve pilot chute." But now that this minor flaw of a reserve system that might not work has been removed, it's a fine rig.
  7. pilotdave
    Minimum order gets people to buy one more item. "I'll buy a t-shirt to go with my rubber bands..." I'm sure it works well. Dave
  8. pilotdave
    Use File -> Place to bring in the signature. Then use Select -> All Layers Then Layer -> align layers to selection -> bottom edges Repeat above step for right edges. Place will put the signature in the center. Then the next steps align it with the bottom right corner. Just record it as an action and you're done. Dave
  9. pilotdave
    I thought this shot came out pretty good. Unfortunately I wasn't supposed to be below the team. Took it right after crashing through them on exit... which I did three times in a row, on our first three training jumps of the year.
  10. pilotdave
    No need to tape it. Manual focus it, then change the function of the wheel to white balance. It has very little effect if it gets changed by accident. Been doing that since i got my PC1000 a couple years ago and have never even found the WB setting changed by accident, but I doubt I'd notice the change in the videos if it had changed. Dave
  11. pilotdave
    Just contact Alti-2. I'm sure they're very cheap... and knowing their customer service, I wouldn't be surprised if they sent one for free. It's listed on their website as part #C-00046. BTW, good call on replacing it. I let me old altimaster 3 velcro strap get so worn that I ended up losing it in freefall. Glad it didn't go through anything important on the ground. Dave
  12. pilotdave
    Nope. Camera just won't know the aperture (which will be set wide open). You can still zoom and manually adjust focus. I'd imagine it would be a lot easier with one of the adapters to mount the lens instead of just holding it. There are instructions online to make one out of a cheap filter and the camera's dust cover thing that you install when there's no lens on the camera. Dave
  13. pilotdave
    THIS is the good stuff. 10 yards, 2" wide of the really good stuff for $8.19. I find the 2" wide works much better than 1" for holding cables down, etc. And 10 yards is a lot easier to carry in your gear bag than the huge 60 yard roll. I thought the 10 yards would be a lifetime supply for me, but after a couple years, it's finally starting to look smaller than it did when i bought it.
  14. pilotdave
    I've been "legal" and seen 1200 feet on my neptune. It's not always a difference of just a few hundred feet. Dave
  15. pilotdave
    There's obviously no answer to your question. There's no rule written anywhere that says how the altitude can or cannot be measured. But using a device that consistently measures opening altitude lower than actual to determine if a BSR violation occurred is a bad idea. I'd guess that anyone doing that doesn't know that the device will give a significantly lower deployment altitude than where the jumper actually initiated deployment. I tried to win that argument on a coach eval once... Evaluator said I pulled under 3,500 which is an automatic failure. I knew I pulled higher than that, but my only proof was a neptune that showed I pulled at 3,200 or something. Had I pulled under 3,500, it would have shown under 3,000... but that argument didn't work so well... Dave
  16. pilotdave
    Not sure what you're looking for exactly, but http://www.pprune.org can be a fun site. It's the Professional Pilots Rumor Network. They bicker way better than we do. Dave
  17. pilotdave
    For a still camera I assume? Probably for "reverse lens macro." You can turn a lens around and get extreme closeup pictures... I took the attached pictures by hand holding the canon kit lens backwards against my 400d... First one is a dollar bill, second one is a PA quarter. The depth of field doing it that way is REALLY narrow. By the way, neither of them are cropped at all. At 100% zoom, even done in such a sloppy way with a cheap lens, you can see amazing detail in the little area that's in focus. Dave
  18. pilotdave
    The last planes I flew were grummans. I was surprised how easy it was to get used to not having nosewheel steering. Really the biggest difference was on takeoff... had to add power very slowly (or line up with the nose cocked to the right a little) to get going straight down the runway. Dave
  19. pilotdave
    Considering the number of videos out there of main-reserve entanglements, I always wonder how a considerably larger reserve would fly while trailing a tiny little main. The small reserves trailing small mains don't work so well... Dave
  20. pilotdave
    Depending on the software, you might need to change a setting to get it to work. If the video card is doing the processing, you'll just get a black square when you use print screen instead of the video image. But you can turn off the hardware processing (such as in windows media player or quicktime) and print screen will work fine. Dave
  21. pilotdave
    Looks right... which makes my guess right too! Go me!
  22. pilotdave
    Reminds me of the pacific aerospace airtrainer. Maybe a predecessor? Dave
  23. pilotdave
    I'm curious why it would be that long. I have a 580 II... but barely used it on the ground yet and definitely not in the air. But even at full power in manual mode (with fresh batteries), it seems to flash every time, just as fast as my XTi can snap pictures. So ETTL works fine with the flash mounted horizontally? Dave
  24. pilotdave
    So USPA is bad because they didn't get the BSRs made into FARs? And USPA making laws would be bad? You're contradicting yourself. What point are you trying to make? Dave
  25. pilotdave
    Since when? The idea that the R stands for Recommendation seems to be a common myth. It's Requirement, and has been for a long time. Dave