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  1. ORANGENBLUE
    +1
  2. ORANGENBLUE
    Thanks!
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    Is any one using gate sensors with a audible alarm to judge verts? If so who makes them? Where did you get it? Did you make it? Is it laser, infrared, etc? We have had a few close calls with verts this year and if it isn't too expensive it would be nice to have.
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    as dave just pointed out (thank you dave) point that spring loaded pilot chute in to the relative wind and it is far less likely to "get away from you"
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    Pull, pull on time, pull on time and stable. Reserves are designed to be deployed (like any other canopy) with your belly to earth, but I think its more important to have something over your head. I know plenty of people that have fired their reserve on their back and been just fine, and I have known people that fired their reserve on their back and got proper fucked. Usually with spinning mals, you can throw your shoulder over and get closer to belly to earth than flat on your back. If you do enough tandems you eventually get in some carp situations that will make ya pucker. Landing a reserve and having line burn on your leg from the reserve lines is one of them.
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    Word. Nice work Stuie. Even though you didn't get a mention.
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    "Carving Accuracy.The slower more docile canopies like the Xaos did much better in this event." Jim slaton ULTIMATE SPEED EVENT 1 Jay Moledzki Velocity Round one-1.83-Round two-2.2 2 Isaiah McCauliffe Velocity 1.93-2.17 3 Stuart Schoenfeld Velocity 1.83-2.33 4 Chris Hayes Velocity 1.93-2.33 5 Brian McNenney Velocity 2-2.3 6 Jeff Provenzano Xaos 2.07-2.33 7 Scott Roberts Velocity 2.1-2.43 8 Nick Boyd VX 2.17-2.5 9 Ian Drennan Velocity 2.27-2.4 10 Mikeal Stevens Xaos-27 2.67-2.63 Man they should ban those ultra high performance, blistering fast JVXs. It's just so unfair for those slow docile Xaos pilots.
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    dyneema is a sheethed nylon line. the second picture shows what can happen when large shock is applied.
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    are you positive that they are dyneema? Dyneema is more commonly found on paragliders and tend not to hold up to loads of opening shock.
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    Ah yes! Thats where experiment comes in. Try 1/30th see what happens. Somnthing you you also might try is shooting at a wider angle 20mm or 18mm. Often this allows for a larger aperture, but you obviously have to fly closer to the formation.
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    Slow the shutter speed a little and shoot on the largest aperture setting (smallest F stop #) possible. You should be able to slow the shutter a bit without getting blur and the large aperture will alow the most available light hit the sensor. Any time you crank the ISO above about 600 it tends to be grainy. if you have Photoshop you can also selectivly rec\duce the RBG grain with a noise filter.
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    I didn't think that this said anything about restricted DZs.
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    I very much agree. Some of my most satisfying swoops have been when there is no one around at all.
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    Maybe you should read the wingsuit forum, not the Swooping and canopy control one.
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    3.33 vx 69 2.6 xaos 27 every day
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    Oh boy, well a few things pop out. When someone is a "little low" rear risers are appropriate, however, if you feel that he should have bailed on toggles that means that he was probably VERY low. As mark and others have already said it is very to look at the water coming out of the turn. The problem with this is our canopys have a happy habit of going where we are looking. If that happens to be the round then you see the result. Remember, look at the horizon! Parachutes, unfortunately sometimes, fly where you point them.
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    Sunset freefly
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    Hey Stu, go have Slaton rub yer sore nutz.
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    SNOHO! come out and kick it with your Snohomies!
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    I'll be there around sixish after I fight traffic!
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    When is the course going to be set up?
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    Not yet. I'm braking the cycle. i do have some custome lines on it that I made I Eloy when I broke a center C line. It's amazing you just take the two broken halfs and tie them back together! Seriously. It's hot! p.s. fuck you. P.P.S. I may have cried like a little girl, but at least I didn't have to have Slaton RUB MY SORE NUTS!
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    I smacked my nuts on the pond a few times..... Oh wait, THAT WAS YOU!!! HA HA HA HA!
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    How cold out was it? I have found that Neptunes can be kind of sensitive to cold weather, specialy if the battery is even a little low.
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    uh... Try to remember that quantifying fight characteristics (good, better, best) is very subjective. Some people really enjoy how crossbraced canopys fly, some people really enjoy the way Stilettos fly. crossbraced canopys are not for everyone, and thats fine. At the end of the day it's just about what you prefer and what feels good.