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Congrats to Makler & Co

What about French team?

According to official website of Malevsky Cup, they have a new world record.

no time for discussions - everyone is preoccupied trying to load the vids...

That is pretty cool!

I believe this is AFF level 1 (after getting 2h of tunnel time) http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=37609;

They use L-410's - pretty similar to twin otters Edit to add a few pictures of LET-410 http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0106478 http://www.skycenter.ru/gallery/show.php?gal=1&pic=14 http://www.skycenter.ru/gallery/show.php?gal=9&pic=1

Loading the dives is painful again ... Edit to add: they just posted the scores for round 4 ... Go Black Cats!

Congratulations! Natasha, you are amazing!

Looks like she's managing well to post here and fight for gold medals . 6-point lead after 5 rounds. Go Airkix

They just updated the scoreboard for 4-way http://www.skyleague.com/pages/scores/index.php wow

Oh I see. I was wondering why they were holding that star for a few sec Thanks for clarification.

Can anyone post the 4-way draw? I am really curious about the exits from such a small door. Must be a real challenge to launch some long formations.

... as soon as the priest said "and remember, she will always be with you" a sudden gust of strong wind hit our faces drying the wet eyes. It felt like someone was telling us "hey fools, stop crying and looking at that grave, here I am flying next to you" and somebody kept shaking that plane today when we were climbing up to make a glitter dive …

Two weeks ago Mar needed an RW jumpsuit, so she borrowed one from our good friend and teammate. It seemed to fit well until she looked down to realize that the booties were about 1o inches too long … Mar grinned and said: "well, perhaps I should try it with high heels"

I will never forget that night. She picked me up when I had 70 jumps or so and taught me how to become a teammate. She was my mentor. I was angry at her a couple of times but I always knew that she will be there when I needed help or advice. That night she called me brother ... cannot write anymore ...

This is soooooooo cool!

Both ideas are great! Why don't you pass them to IPC?

Not entirely true. You always have two people running back to the hangar like crazy and two other people walking slowly.

There is no doubdt that Otters will eventually disappear (although I doubt that they will disappear in 5-10 years). I am afraid some people are still missing the point. It is totally possible for any team of any experience level to consistently launch the 4-way exits (some, not all of them) from any type of A/C currently used in skydiving industry. The point is that some types of A/C are better (more convenient) than the others. Since the Otters are CURRENTLY used as a standard A/C at Nationals, what's wrong with preferring the Otters to other A/C for training or local competition? We (very inexperienced team) use both Otter and Caravan for practice jumps. Both work fine, but we don't even try to take some exits out of a Caravan (bipole, for example) because the Caravan door is smaller and because we are not that good. Now, if we didn't have the access to Otter at all, we would not be able to practice launching these exits intact - a serious disadvantage that would probably put us behind the team of the same experience level that has an assess to an Otter. As fas as teams being arrogant, here is my personal take (I agree with everything that Ron said earlier). First of all, the teams are formed by individuals and are frequently being judged as a group. If I join a group of people to make a few fun loads on Saturday, these people will not be blamed for my personal attitide but there is a good chance that my team WILL. Second, the teams are relatively isolated from the rest of skydiving community because they are busy during a day and usually want to go home/team room ect. at night. This isolation is frequently being interpreted as unwilinnless to communicate and therefore aggorance.

Hehe ... I meant different Ron - Reginald

PhreeZone and Ron already nailed it, I will just add a few points: Yes, theoretically you are right, but you do like to use the right equipment when you swoop, play golf, ice hockey or any other equipment-intensive sport. An aircraft door is a part of equipment and it does not make a lot of sense to struggle using the wrong (or unfamiliar) plane if you have a choice. What difference does it make? Here is a quote from omniskore highlighting 2004 World Parachuting Championships "FS is being done from an MI-8, the only one here. A lot of teams are having trouble on the exits -- lots of Js in the scores; for most teams, round 1 is their first jump from the MI-8, and for some teams, their first jump from a helicopter" Not a plane, but the same idea - using an unfamiliar aircraft ... and I guess all those guys were pretty damn good ...

There is a lot of variability between the camps in terms of who runs them, experience levels of participants and goals. Keep that in mind when choose a camp. At 44 jumps I'd definitely advice to spend the money on 2-ways with a coach or tunnel time - cannot go wrong with that.

here is a link http://www.divx.com/

Awesome video