mattjw916
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I like to deploy between 3-3.5k as well. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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Breathe and relax dude... your post was making ME tense just reading it. It is good to get used to jumping from different aircraft anyway, it is just a fact of life in skydiving... and now that you have, I bet your next jumps will go better. Then again, there is always tunnel training. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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I have been briskly spun a couple of times on a Sabre2 190 and once on my Safire 189... both loaded lightly at 1.1. In all cases I was able to correct/counter the spin and/or get the end cells to inflate before any significant speed built up. YMMV. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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Right on dude! That basically sums up many of the reasons that I will be working towards my coach rating in the near future. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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Don't overanalyze.
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Can't Fly with a rig in Boston
mattjw916 replied to Plaedouh's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
[TSA brain] Hmmm, Lets open it and see why it is so important to him...[/TSA brain] It'll be worth the $40+ reserve repack to see the TSA screener get the reserve pilot chute right in the face. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080 -
one more...
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Huh??? I was just trying to make a point, calmly. There is no "fighting" in skydiving. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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Point taken... I digress. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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1. Lots of people pass AFF without a wind tunnel, as you know. 2. I wasn't disagreeing with Mark, I just offered another point of view. 3. I was just offering my experience (the point of the forum). 4. I am sure the guy was intelligent enough to see the "B" next to my name. I have no doubt that the guy was getting good advice at Elsinore. First timers are uber impressionable and people often pimp the tunnel a little too much. I am not saying that was the case here, it is just what I have noticed, esp in SoCal. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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15 minutes of wind tunnel I'd make another suggestion, but there are other people who will probably give you better advice.
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Good luck... I hope you stick with it!
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Yes, I have more than a couple tunnel sessions. First timers, i.e. AFF students, in the tunnel (that I witnessed) are closely monitored and grabbed the second they start to go unstable. Maybe this varies, but that was what I have witnessed to-date. You don't practice barrel rolls from back to belly in your first few, or even ten, minutes of tunnel training that I have ever seen. Turns, PRCPs, and basic "fly the column of air" seems to be the norm. Since the student in question was more concerned about recovering from an unstable body position and had one bad exit... tunnel training wasn't the first thing I would have suggested. If a new skydiver wants to do tunnel, I say great, go for it. More training never hurt anyone. At the same time I think that the best way to build the necessary skills to pass AFF is to get up there and jump. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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I agree tunnel time can help you in freefall... but you said your problem was going fetal on your last exit. Other than giving you more self-confidence... you can't practice exits in the tunnel and you don't practice getting unstable in the tunnel either. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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I thought those were the statistics for Ted Kennedy's yearly alcohol consumption. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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Um, yeah, that's the grade school version... the Revolutionary War, like essentially all wars, was really about money. The Civil War, the conflicts with the Native Americans, the Gulf War, etc... all have a common denominator. Money. Rarely, if ever, is a war fought on purely ideological grounds. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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You know what the Problem with Hollywood is?
mattjw916 replied to bertusgeert's topic in The Bonfire
lol, you just watched Swordfish... NSCR-2376, SCR-15080 -
We HAVE sent a lot more than just soldiers over there you know. ...and the "common goal" we banded together for, was to not pay taxes to the monarchy. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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How about just extending those legs, facing the relative wind on exit instead, and making more skydives. I'm still not a big fan of people pushing tunnel for AFF students unless they have serious body position problems. But hey, instructors are never wrong. My $0.02. edit: grammer NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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Pick whichever method you feel like doing. Personally I think tandem progression and/or AFF is the way to go. But that's just me... The only way you are going to get proficient is to jump and jump often, regardless of the method you decide upon. Remember that you can change methods if you want to down the road. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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prayer won't help... NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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I have seen it done in person... (on a Precision canopy) all the lines are premeasured and tagged as to placement on the canopy. Remove old lines, attach new ones (hopefully in the right place) Personally, I would just send mine in and have the pros do it and give the canopy a thorough inspection while they were at it. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080
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look under tools --> options... or something near there.... there should be a place to adjust the default time interval for the "send and receive" operation for the email accounts that are configured to be part of the "default" send and receive operation. When you receive new mail it should display an icon in the system tray adjacent to the date and play a sound. edit: damn you beat me! NSCR-2376, SCR-15080