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Imovie 06 has some differences. It's cool to see your transition and affects previewed in real time , It has the ability to open multiple windows and move clips from one to the other , The down side is that all of my Gee Three effects and transitions do not work .

UPS sucks ! If you are shipping 1 or 2 day service it will be stuck in customs for a day or two and there will be Brokerage charges and taxes . Fedex will buy pass customs because they do their own work at the border ,( 1 & 2 day ) anything else is subject to the same terms as UPS. The price is more but it pretty well evens out in the end, If you do not plan to insure your canopy i would ship it USPS .

Sell it and buy mine . It will fit you a lot better . Come done to the DZ and try it out or give me a call and you can try it on before making any decissions.

I was using my PC105 with a bullet cam , It also has the 10 pin connector which i now have to replace because of a bad connection . The cost is $250.00 .

I've jumped there on a few occasions , The Antinov is a huge plane that will take 8 or 10 jumpers to 11000' in about 30 min. So far the DZ is for experienced jumpers only as they do not have the structure or gear to put on o first jump course , they do not have a IB to oversee operations , This is why most of the experienced instructors have not migrated to their DZ , At $40.00 a jump I want to subsidize my jumping habit with IA, C2 ,PFF or camera loads. The DZ has lots of potential especially if they were to put their concentration into Tandems and video slots , People just love the Bi-Plane and it's size. It's just something different.

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I can help you with that small problem , What kind of canopy is it ?

Nice looking rig , The weather for this weekend is not looking good , I hope you get a chance to jump it !

I had a cobalt 120 that i put 400 jumps on , I had only 1 hard opening on that one . I then put on another 200 on it after getting an H-Mod and that really made for soft openings and an even longer dive , My next Canopy was a C/C 105 which opened even better , I never once had anything close to a hard opening on it , On both canopies i've tried different P/C's switching back and forth from a 22" and then to a 28" ," No difference" I then sold it to another jumper who immediately had one hard opening after another ,I can't explain it other than he was grabbing the risers as soon as it came off his back , this changes the opening from a 2 stage to 1 stage opening , I packed both with Pro Packs , Psycho Packs , Trash packs , Every pack job produced the same results , Nice soft openings ,

Lots of luck to you and Serge on the course , I wonder who gets to do the first Tandem once you get back in Moncton ??? Try and contact Rob Mowery , He might have his for sale .

It could be something as simple as using your brakes to bring you around the corner and leaving little to finish off your flare with .

We have seen many of our canopies (all have HMA) with well over a thousand jumps per lineset that have used soft links made from Spectra (what PD uses for Slinks) and there is no indication of any wear due to the soft link.

I received my cam and the recording showd some deforming around the edges.Quote I stopped using mine for the same reason .

I have 600 jumps on a h-mod 120 and about 60 0n a CC105 , The openings are great on both canopies but to date i can not make the CC105 swoop as far as the 120 , It is a lot faster ,it turns quicker and dives harder but i find that it is lacking in lift , Maybe i just need more time under it .

I can only speak for myself, but when my spider senses are tingling (my eyes telling me I'm too low despite what my alti says). It's time to abort.Quote That is what i was saying and was exactly what i did .

It's a good tool but you're relying on it if you NEED it to do a performance landing safely and that's not a good thing. Quote I bailed out because my eyes did not trust what my Neptune was reading , I always have an out and i used it that time . I feel that to get consistent swoops you really need to be at the same altitude and general position every time , An altimeter is generally more accurate that your eyes . The point that i was trying to make in an earlier post was that the neptune is not always an accurate or reliable tool.

measure the altitude loss with an accurate alti such as a neptuneQuote I was using my neptune to set up all of my hook turns till it froze up and i had to bail out very low . The software will need some major upgrades before l i will trust it again .

Would you advise a novice skydiver that the Stiletto is the right canopy for them as long as it is loaded light? Would you try to convince a person that has a couple of thousand skydives that a Sihlouette is a higher performance swooping canopy than a Stiletto? That, in a nutshell, is what Dan Preston is advertising. I did not say that i agreed with him just that i did not know how a lightly loaded cobalt would react , I would have to see some proof before i would agree to have a novice under one .

I know there will always be people that want to bash the Cobalt, or the company, but come on, let up a little QuoteThere are a few heavy posters here that have been bashing Atair for some time , I don't think they represent the views of most Cobalt owners , There have been a few hard opening Cobalts and i think Dan was trying to Cover up the issues On those few canopies by saying they needed to be opened in a track or by going to a smaller PC , I think that was wrong on that one , He should have just admitted that they were bad canopies and that would have been the end of it , He pissed off a few others by saying the cobalt would be a good choice for beginners under a 1.2 wing loading , I can't really say that i would agree with that but then again i have not ever loaded one that light , At that wing loading who knows , Maybe he is right . As for me , I love my H-Mod Cobalt , It opens great , Is not twitchy at all , Dives like a bitch and swoops like one too , My next Canopy will be a Competition Cobalt .

crosported from Onyx Pictures, Quote the line set proportions are the same as cobalts. perhaps they just look short from the angle ofthe picture. sincerely, dan

ya must have been one of the lucky ones to actually get a canopy that worked like that said it would. Wish my experience had been the same, and the experience of about 5 others I know Quote I have 300 + jumps 0n a Cobalt 120 and another 200 after it came back with the H-mod , I have had 1 hard opening in all those jumps , I do not dump in a track , I use the 28" P/C that came with my Mirage , and i am not the neatest packer , and i love my openings , I tried a 22" P/C but did not notice any difference, , I believe that Atair suggests dumping in a track because it does produce a softer openings at higher speeds but it is not a requirement . I bought a Cazer P/C and even he told me that i might want to order a smaller P/C due to the fact that his P/C are made out of Zero P material and that they produce more drag than conventional P/C's . My next canopy will be another Cobatl, I love them .

A good article comparing the Kodak 14n to the Canon 1d http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/14n-initial.shtml

Where did you pick up that SONY PC105 for CAN$945? The Sony store in Sackville NS

It looks like the PC105 is being discontinued also , i was able to pick one up for $945 Can. I looked at the 109 but it has a smaller chip and a 25mm filter , Since i already have .5 ,45 , and .42mm wide angle lens it made my it easy to pick the 105 .

How easy is the bullet cam to set up , with wires running through your Jump suit and connections to the helmet i would thing that it would be a pain in the ass to set up and connect , do you think it would be a durable set up . Do you use a Cam eye sport and where do you put the batteries ?