katzurki

Castrated men also live longer, but would you call it a life?

On a 50-jump Spectre?

maggot shmaggot... Faber is the one and only grammer man!

I have ~45-50 jumps on mine now, it's very light-weight and super-comfortable. I am even able to get it to look good packed (got lots of tips from Adrian). It'll serve you as well as any other rig from a renowned manufacturer. You are in Austria, so you are subject to EU VAT if you buy new -- that might be the only downside of the Zak for you.

I reconsider. I bet $50 now.

Bingo, anyone? I bet $10

Lee Hulett, BASE 420 (?) October, 1997 Impact (Skydiving) Lee is a BASE jumper who died while skydiving.

I am ashamed to admit my last jump was with it playing in my ipod

yeah

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rsJYXBDr7Ds

Yeah you can. I got both on my Phantom...

When Chuck Norris farts on the way to altitude everybody does an emergency bailout. Yes, the pilot too.

When Chuck Norris makes a BASE jump he never pulls until he bounces up. When Chuck Norris flies a wingsuit he never pulls. Chuck Norris's reserve canopy is a handkerchief. A real handkerchief. Chuck Norris once ran out a wingsuit landing. (He was having a bad day, normally he lands it tip-toe.) Chuck Norris went through AFF in two jumps. (He made the second one because he is a sensible, safe guy.) His student canopy was a Velocity 75. He thought it was a bit slow. VX-46 and 39 are Chuck Norris's transition canopies. Chuck Norris was fond of his student canopy so much, he packed it in his tandem rig as a reserve. Chuck Norris doesn't have a slider. When he wants a soft opening, he grabs the lines on deployment and lets them out slowly. Chuck Norris doesn't trust the Cypres. He says it can't cut through a single pubic hair of his. To be fair, other AADs can't do that either. When Chuck Norris was having his canopy relined, he had the lines made out of his pubic hair. (Chuck Norris's canopy saw only one reline in his six billion jumps.) Once Chuck Norris sneezed and wiped his face with an old canopy. That's how ZP came to be.

That was (obviously) during WW-II, emergency bailout from a burning plane after a bombing mission. Ivan had a parachute but the ripcord was severed by a bullet hit, which he noticed when he smoked it fairly low (the intention to deploy low was to avoid being a dangling target for the German planes), so there wasn't much time to do anything. However, he landed on a steep slope, the impact was therefore glancing, and of course the snow helped him. He underwent surgeries and never returned to active duty, though he did resume flying later. I can't find any information whether he is still alive.

Oops — I meant the steering lines total length, not the brake setting. I took 4 inches off mine (RD 303), and I am amazed with the flare power I actually developed.

Is the change in the flare noticeable?

Using a home-rigged harness/container and an accuracy canopy (HIT-252), self-taught handheld 47" off a low cliff on New Year's Eve, 0.5' delay by the look of it. Jumper's skydiving experience: ~150 jumps. Jumper's name: Aleksei Roslyakov (published with permission) edited to add: according to the jumper, he built everything but the canopy himself—this includes PC, bridle, and risers.

By how much, if at all, have you shortened your canopy's steering lines?

I don't know about the jumps, but how do you like the Christmas Packjob?

I am betting it was all brown and stinky, and landed with a big splash?

Some pretty amazing stuff by these guys.

Remind me to never ever click on attachments without reading the post first, then getting distracted and going AFK, then returning to the computer some minutes later to find my 15 y.o. niece checking her mail, and then she closes her mail site tab in Firefox and the attachment pic pops in unobscured view, and we both see it for the first time and go really UHHHH looking at each other.

Today's nugget, uttered in all seriousness: "Now, I don't think I need vents and valves. I've got this great 200-ft tower in my vicinity, so I'll just stick to it and pass on 12-story buildings for now."

I've put together a very short compilation of Rock Dragon 303 Vtec slider down openings as per someone's request. Perhaps someone else would be interested as well.

Seen a guy do that, great heading performance, awful glide, bad landing. Super easy to pack though.