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Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

OK so... you have to repeat the level. Other than that, I'm battling a bit to see why you are beating yourself up so much! Landing pattern needs improving? Body position needs improving? There are people with many more than 3 jumps who can still say that! You had a good, stable exit, you pulled on time (I would say that's better than trying to complete the tasks and pulling low, and certainly shows you had altitude awareness), you're becoming more aware of what's going on in the air... all in all sounds like a reasonably good jump to me! It's good, of course, that you want to improve, but some things take time to become natural. Good luck with your next jump! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

This is something I've noticed; I think they even instinctively do it on jumps when it is supposed to be all up to the student to match the fall rate. While coaching is obviously invaluable, I've personally learnt a lot more about managing fall rate (both faster and slower) and having to fly my body when jumping with other lower time jumpers. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

i'm just as new as you in the sport so take my words with that in mind... but 2 things spring to mind. The first is that in a situation you have pulled your reserve you are likely to be pumped up, may be landing out etc and having to deal with a smaller canopy than you are used to flying may make the situation worse. The second is the event of a 2-out, where i understand a SBS will be more stable if the canopies are the same size - possibly a biplane too but i'm not sure - hopefully a poster with more knowledge will expand on this point. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Regardless of licence level? Is JSC really that much stricter than PASA requirements that they would make any licenced jumper redo a FJC after 3 months off?? Was that A licence jumper away longer than a year? I was off 6 months after an injury, just got back recently. It may help that our CI, who is also NTSO, knows me well but I just had to do a thorough rebrief. I got cleared for a solo jump with high pull, though some people would have been put out with a coach for their first jump. I know if I'd been off longer than 12 months I would have had to do more, possibly what your guy did. btw from what i understand you can only do that recurrency via AFF jumps if you did AFF in the first place. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

with a total of 59 posts??? what does that make the rest of us? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

One of the funnier things I saw not too long ago was a FJ student land... then get out of his harness and leave the rig in the middle of the DZ while he waltzed back in! Don't know who he expected to go "clean up after him"! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

What on earth makes you think SL rigs don't have weight restrictions???? . Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Also did SL with sitting exit (C206 & C207), and also battled at first. One day it just "clicked" ... but basically the things that helped me were: looking up at the plane, and looking up before exit so that you are already looking up as you go (in fact our exit commands were: climb out - look up - go). If you look forward or down you will dearch. Advice differed greatly on how far out the plane to sit but getting quite far out (basically only half a butt cheek on the plane) so you mainly only have to move forward, rather than sideways out first, helped me. punch out aggressively and upwards - we were told to try touch the wing (a case of beer offered to anyone who actually could, but of course no-one did) and swing out with your hips. I have had quite a few people tell me the arch is in the hips, but confess it took quite a few of those exits before I really understood how to do it. Good luck! I also felt quite disheartened with those exits at first but when you get it, it's really great! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

From some of the stuff that I've read here, that seems to be an accurate description of skydiving in the 80s Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

fwiw, this would be illegal in terms of the SA BSRs. Head-down flying is only permitted after the successful completion of the Category III test and it being signed off in the student’s logbook by the CI. • Furthermore, students need to be approved by their Artistic Events Coach for Head-Down before attempting 2-way Head-downs with anybody other than a coach. edited to add for clarification: Your Cat III in Artistic Events should be attainable (after many solo practice jumps) by 75 – 100 Artistic Events free falls. On completion of this test the coach should be satisfied that the student can fly in any 3 dimensional direction on his feet, as well as being able to perform basic transitions. One must master the feet down position before attempting head-down, so as to always be able to recover on this, your more natural orientation, to avoid the dangers of corking. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

It also occurs to me that if this is "throwing down" on someone, bwnco is not gonna like these forums much! DGIT is a throwdown... but if you get it you probably deserve it, right? Anyway, is there any FJC that doesn't show you how the deployment sequence works? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

I desperately hope that wasn't in reference to mjosparky (who I know is well respected on these forums and has been very helpful to this newbie in the past.) Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

So, I did both SL and AFF so maybe have some insight. Firstly, I'm also used to picking things up quicky and struggled a bit at first with jumping. In some ways I think it was the challenge that kept me going at it: I knew I could do this, if I kept trying. I did SL till first freefall (a textbook, perfect jump), then switched to AFF cos the SL progression would have taken too long, especially over winter. You know what? I HATED my first AFF jump. It was also a textbook jump - but I just didn't enjoy it. I honestly have no idea what made me go back, but I finished AFF a few days later. Accidents? Well, I broke myself on jump #62. Apart from beating myself up over how dumb I'd been, I remember sitting on the ground and thinking, "well, I always knew I was going to break an ankle in this sport" (I actually broke both of them.) Yes, that accident was a lot less serious than the ones I presume you refer to. The incidents forum here has made me aware of a couple of things, principally that skydiving is not "safe", and that if I want to continue in it I must be as safe as I can be and learn as much as I can. This is skydiving, shit happens, and you have to accept the risks if you want to go on. Not sure how long since your last jump but if you are still thinking about skydiving constantly, I reckon you'll regret not going back, whichever option you end up doing. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Has a reputation for being nasty but in my short time in the sport May has been good!! and who needs road trips when you have a bunch of low cost airlines in a price war??!! btw Peej, Gauteng is not South Africa - there are large parts that are winter rainfall! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

There is a DZ in Witbank, see www.dropzone.co.za You really should try come down to CT to get the most magnificent views though Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

ditto! happened to me a couple of times - i'd practice the moves on a solo, do it perfectly and stuff up with the coach. One of my coaches has invented an in air signal which means "relax"!! i did much better on my coach jumps once i stopped treating them as "tests". Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Indeed. As long as you're upfront about your skills and currency, they know exactly what they're getting into. Trust me, it can be a hell of a lot of fun to do a jump with a lowtimer. Honest. Hey Yossarian.. I know those feelings. But I have been amazed at the people prepared to jump with lowtimers and even more when they say what Bob said, even if you feel like you really wasted altitude! And you know what is also really cool - is getting that look afterwards that says "you flew a lot better than I expected"

definitely planning to come to the show! I'm sure I fall far short of the licence requirements to jump there though, but I will be watching the skydives! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

The best one for (of) me, in my short career so far, was on one of my first fun 2-ways. I had this ear-to-ear grin on the exit - and the first time I realised i had been smiling was when I saw the video!! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

that is just SO cool was that at the Virginia Airshow? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

is there a banthreaddrift.com website somewhere too? Didja seffrikans catch Airborne the other night - with Mark Horning flying apparently the 2nd-biggest flag in the world?! (not to take any of GF's achievement away..) Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Just thought that bore repeating!! --& from someone who broke a couple of bones during a conservative downsizing progression on the intermediate size - I can tell you I am very happy I didn't go directly to the "right" size or more would have been broken... Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

If that's really so, it's appalling As a student we were taught for emergency exits, if you exit below 3000' you go to straight to silver. I would extrapolate that to any other instance of being low. But even more than that was drummed into us to be altitude aware and pull at the right altitude... Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.