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  1. Orange1
    Actually, a 182 DZ with three S/L's on the plane is the most profitable method of instruction. For the DZ or the instructor? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  2. Orange1
    what he said. i think you'll find people who did AFF will tell you to do AFF and ditto for SL. I did both so I'm unbiased but have posted enough in the other threads already! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
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    I certainly don't skydive as a challenge to see if I can survive "against the odds". But I daresay it's that kind of thought process that might have been part of the reason certain safety features are now required. by the way do I infer correctly from your post that where you jump you have to have an AAD until you are off A license (as you say you will switch it off "when you get your B"?) Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
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    Great to hear you enjoyed it so much! Well, over time the yellow overalls give way to cool custom jumpsuits and the huge weigh-a-ton student rigs to smaller sport ones.. cramped planes, well that you'll have to live with yes i think we all know that feeling! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
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    We hear a lot of "the BSRs were written in blood". How much more blood is needed to write this one with?? Maybe there is an attitude that we already have all the BSRs we need, but imo it's becoming increasingly clear that as the sport evolves, the BSRs need to evolve with it. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
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    Hey Nikki welcome & enjoy the training... by all means go jump the porter at JSC but come and enjoy the great view down in the cape too Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
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    Nice!! When I grow up... Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  8. Orange1
    Having a collision with a canopy can be softer than hitting a cliff, and the cliff might not try to steer away. Did you miss the fatality in the incidents forum from a collision on opening? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
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    An example might be exactly along Diverdriver's line of argument: you may trust yourself more but start realising that you can't trust other people. The string of incidents on canopy collisions just reinforces that type of thinking. Put another way, you start to realise that there are risks in the sport that are different to the ones you accepted when you got into it. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
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    Can you expand on this? I know of the "i'd never jump without a AAD/RSL/whatever" jumpers but I believe this is the first time I've heard it phrased like this: it sounds as though you're implying instructors pass students they wouldn't have otherwise, or do I misread? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
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    I've seen it done with another JM watching thru binocs from the ground as well. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  12. Orange1
    I second that It has got to be the most difficult exit possible in skydiving!! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  13. Orange1
    This is basically what was explained to me. I had line twists on about half my SL jumps, even those with perfect body position. When I did my first freefall I could feel the absence of "being jerked" and opened perfectly on heading without twists. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  14. Orange1
    It is etiquette down here that a 100th (or whatever) jump that requires you to go naked has at least the other members of your formation also going naked, if not the whole load! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
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    ditto Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  16. Orange1
    Not a good analogy, since both are arguably risky behaviors. I do not expect risk-averse vegans to pay for my McDonald's heart attack, and they shouldn't have to pay for your skydiving injuries either. For all of us, the expected value of our insurance benefits should be equal to the amount of our premiums minus some amount for admin fees. Mark what about healthy young adults subsidising the bills of elderly people who get sick (and break bones) easily? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
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    Hey Jinxie, welcome to the forums! You're gonna get bored with being a passenger soon enough ... then you'll do AFF, and I expect to see you at Nationals next year Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
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    I tried a search but it didn't seem to give me what i was looking for, which is how did skydiving formations get their names - other than the obvious ones just describing the shape ... are others (like meeker for example) named after people, or what? who "invented" the formations? when did the "dive pool" as such actually begin, and what factors cause it to change from time to time? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  20. Orange1
    ? I've got a 1995 Javelin (like what the OP is referring to) and the RSL is on the left hand side... Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  21. Orange1
    ah, but judging by another recent thread it seems to take a lot more UK pack jobs to pay for BPA membership than it takes SA ones to pay for PASA membership of course, a simple answer to your original question would be: exactly the same as determines prices anywhere - supply and demand. If packers felt they were being paid too little for their efforts they would stop doing it, which would lead to a shortage of packers, and (assuming demand is unchanged) this would tend to drive the price of packing up. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  22. Orange1
    Just the thought of being in the plane at all without a rig on my back freaks me out!! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
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    None. But I did do some SL first and like some others am really happy that the first time I exited a plane was on my own. But your question is impossible to answer anyway as any one particular person can't really know that they were more "comfortable" than something they didn't do, if you get my drift? Is it possible that "too many" tandems (whatever that # is) might work the opposite way - the TM becomes a "comfort blanket" that the student is scared to let go? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  24. Orange1
    wow, what a mature response. as i read argyle's original post, it wasn't about "following the rules" blindly, but about considering all factors involved in what makes you safe and competent. i thought he used a great example too. but i guess people only hear what they want to hear sometimes. btw, from your other post: I agree you shouldn't blindly follow what people say just because they are instructors. But, it may be an idea to actually ask the instructor (not yourself) why he says A and not B... it may well be something that you just haven't thought of, or that you didn't even know could happen. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.
  25. Orange1
    Most stories written for the general public wouldn't have that detail I guess. But if anyone can locate anyone who was at the parachute center specified below they might recall what was there? from http://www.aero.com/publications/parachutes/9602/pc0296.htm Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.