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  1. skyhighkiy
    Sounds like a grand idea BE THE BUDDHA!
  2. skyhighkiy
    My comment was on the terminoology used. "I WEIGH 100 kg) something like that Unless I"m sadly mistaken, the definition of weight is an object's mass multiplied by the gravitational pull of (in the case of being on the earth) the earth, which is the mass times 9.81 m/s^2 please, someone help me out if I'm wrong. BE THE BUDDHA!
  3. skyhighkiy
    ok, ok, fine, come on< i had to get in on it! BE THE BUDDHA!
  4. skyhighkiy
    Yeah, what the question said....KG is a measure of mass, not weight....so shouldn't they be saying, "what's your mass"? and how does onego about developing a scale taht measures someone's kg rather than weight? weight=M x G BE THE BUDDHA!
  5. skyhighkiy
    topic is void, didn't know PD was F111, no PD for me! BE THE BUDDHA!
  6. skyhighkiy
    BE THE BUDDHA!
  7. skyhighkiy
    one must ponder if it's worth throwing a line set on a tired F111, or throw a couple hundred more in and get a zp canonpy you'll have quite a few hundred more on. ZP's more fun anyway BE THE BUDDHA!
  8. skyhighkiy
    ooh hey man, tell me about it, I"m a plastic flipper and it sucks!
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  10. skyhighkiy
    .....buy brian Germaine's book www.bigairsportz.com and talk to someone about that statement, it's not wrong it's just incomplete. BE THE BUDDHA!
  11. skyhighkiy
    My apologies, I was attempting to make a joke regarding something that I thought was a mistake of terminology. Did not know that "toggle" was another word for the hackey/pvc handle on the pc in the UK. Yoink, Thanks for the clarification BE THE BUDDHA!
  12. skyhighkiy
    as far as showing it to students fresh out of the gate, I agree with you... but what about hot shit whippy doing toggle turns to land at 30/40 jumps and talking about how much surf he got? I say this because I know someone that does it. maybe "totally unnecessary" is not necessarily the right phrase, what about, a good idea only in rare instances? and when accompanied about INFORMATION ON WHY THEY BURNED IN, rather than the standard "if you do this, you'll die" Just my opinion
  13. skyhighkiy
    I think his point is not whether or not the instructor can get the point across. The instructor portraying and explaining something well, and the student hearing and really understanding it are two different things. I'm sure you've seen toggle monkeys right out of the student course. BE THE BUDDHA!
  14. skyhighkiy
    Those damn toggles, always getting stuck in the boc, you need to have some serious discussion with whoever packed that... is packing a toggle in to the boc beer worthy?
  15. skyhighkiy
    My opinion: I think it has its ups and downs...I know a guy that was scared as hell to turn low from horror stories and made a straight in approach from more than enough altitude and ended up in a tree. possible that showing a video to jumpers just getting in to it would cause more of these? I don't really think students are warned too little about the dangers of low turns, at least, it was drilled in to my head over and over. But, then you also get the occassional toggle monkey Edit to add: a good solution, however, now that I think about it, might be to have videos of that on-hand, and when you see mr. whippy comming around close to the ground, the S&TA sits him down and lets the video do the talking? good thoughts, storm BE THE BUDDHA!
  16. skyhighkiy
    Man, I was looking forward to doing the nekkid jump when it was just over freezing, too... BE THE BUDDHA!
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  18. skyhighkiy
    ...... in reply to MarkM's "Figure that if your main doesn't work you'll be under that 160 with maybe only a thousand feet to get used to it with a good possibility of an out landing." to add to that, reserves are...essentially..just crappy versions of mains. you're not going to get the same flare out of a reserve that you're going to get out of a main. (neglecting individual characteristics) BE THE BUDDHA!
  19. skyhighkiy
    look @ fatality database, 35% of deaths are from low turns in to the ground, look @ the jump #'s of those ppl. BE THE BUDDHA!
  20. skyhighkiy
    I agree and disagree with that statement. don't force yourself if you're paralyzed with fear and all, but if it's really something you want to do, get up and make yourself do it. YOur instructors won't let you progress if you don't have the ability to do so. If they pass you, you should be good to go. I have some friends that had to make themselves do the next jump and are glad they did. Nerd, It sounds like you are doing DAMN well at your progression, great job
  21. skyhighkiy
    just as a frame of reference for cost of lines, Iknow PD charges 125 bucks to reline your canopy and do an inspection of it. (includes cost of lines) BE THE BUDDHA!
  22. skyhighkiy
    *looks at common sense of knowledge already attained* *walks to the penalty box* BE THE BUDDHA!
  23. skyhighkiy
    ok, understood, so it's just a matter of giving them too much information too quick. Do you, as instructors (don't know if you guys are) ever watch the individual annd say "it's time to start feeling your flare" ? or do you wait until they come and ask you when they repeatedly make bad landings? BE THE BUDDHA!
  24. skyhighkiy
    We've been studying torque in physics and, as everything in my life relates to skydiving somehow, I began to think of a skydiver being a pendulum and swinging back under the canopy (axis point) for something like a swoop. Now, according to the laws of physics, theh longer the radius (or length of thelines) from the axis, the further away the suspended object is from said axis. and the further away the object is from the axis, the more torque will be produced. This being said (I have my own theories but don't know what to think) would longer lines produce more torque on the system and thus, more forward speed(on the entire system) and greater recover arc? or would it merely provide more forward speed to the individual suspended from the axis and cause him to pendulum in front of the canopy? BE THE BUDDHA!
  25. skyhighkiy
    well, I know during my canopy progression I was taught to "flare flare flare flare flare" and I should be at full extension by the last "flare" but I was thinking...nobody told me, at any time during my progression to take my staged flare, if you can call it that, and try to start feeling what my input is doing while I'm flaring. It's something I kind of just started doing and figured out it was essential. Do any instructors tell their students to begin to feel what each stage does to their canopy? If no, why not? BE THE BUDDHA!