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Atempting freeflying before having an A license
MarkM replied to Foursprouts's topic in Safety and Training
I practiced full body turns, side siding and tracking(talk to an instructor before you do a track jump on a load, you can endanger other people easily). Then before starting freefly I learned how to fly on my hands and knees in a stable almost balled position. That got me used to flying in unstable positions and made it more natural to revert into a ball if things went bad on a freefly. Also did a lot of fun exists, cannon balls, spirals, jackknifes. You should really do some jumps with other people on RW though. Doing that will tell you if you're sliding and let you practice height control. -
The only problem I've seen with tandems is that the TMs are often so busy rushing from load to load that they don't have time to recruit potential students.
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Yep! Graduate past the jumps where you hang from the strut I got them too, it's caused by your body flapping up and down from the relative wind/prop blast, bruising the arms against the strut. Wear them with honor.
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The thing of it is, it is a lot of fun and doing a tandem is a lot less dangerous than most whuffos think it is. And 99% of the people that do a tandem won't go past that one jump anyway.
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I love perl, makes my life so much easier. Just did a move of 150 websites to another ISP(we sold off our unit) and used perl everywhere to automate the transition. No idea what Unix admins did before perl. Maybe they had to actually do work or something.
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Why not find out when the next boogie is going to happen at ZHills and ask whoever's organizing it if you can help out? See how it's done a few times then you can try one of your own.
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I wonder if tandeming has gotten more pervasive over the last 6 years. I know the 2 small little DZs I used to jump in Indiana back in 2000 didn't do tandeming, but they do now. Skydiving is such an easy sport to try out. DZs are everywhere and it only takes about 15 mins "training" to be cargo for a TM. Plus you can get the photos and video to prove you did it.
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If I had been loading my Tri 160 at 1.2 I wouldn't have walked away from jump 90 last summer. It still very easy to get in over your head no matter what the canopy.
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I'm a Miami/Sebastian kid. Actually carpool up to Seb with peacefuljeffrey. He's a good guy to jump with.
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Dropzone rental gear may also be the student rigs, so that would be a reason to switch from normal to novice modes.
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You don't have to be Guy Manos to know that a newbie jumper under a 1.2 load is a bad idea. I jumped a Tri 160 off of student status, I weighed 15-20lbs less than this guy at the time, and I think it'd be a bad idea for him to jump that 160.
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Yeah, but if you made the tandem mode switch different than the student/pro mode, then you're opening up another possibly route for a flaw to hit the system.
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I have a Mirage M3 G3 and first put a Triathlon 160 in it. It was a complete bitch to pack. Talking with Mirage they said the M3 should fit a Sabre2 170 and the container itself listed it'd fit a Spectre 170, so maybe my Triathlon was just "bulky". I now have a Hornet 150 and it's still a little tight, but no where near the PITA that my 160 was. The thing with canopies is that a 170 isn't a 170 isn't a 170, they vary in bulk. So you might get lucky and it'll fit okay, you might have to struggle like I did with bleeding fingers to get it in or it might not fit at all. But I wouldn't recommend it. Being a newbie packer is hard enough without having to jump up and down on your D-bag just so you can close it.
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The length of the tolerable drive depends on how close she lives to a dropzone. "Hey baby, mind if I crash at your place up in Sebastian this weekend?"
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How are they comparing the two? 1 jump compared to 1 mile in a car? 1 jump(plane ride, freefall, canopy time) compared to a half hour of driving? edit: "So we're 17 times safer than a dead guy?" Lol, yeah, those crazy skydivers.
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I get rushes every now and then still. Got a rush when I nailed down smooth barrel rolling in a track over the weekend(was screaming my head off after doing each one) and got a nice mental high when I spread my legs out on a sit fly and felt my legs take control of my movement instead of my arms.
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Sounds like you're under instructor control with this, so don't sweat what any of us jumped. He knows you and your skills, we don't. Besides, a lot of DZ.commers probably jumped stuff on their first container several years back that would be frowned on today. It's not how well you stand up the good landings that matters, it's how well you crash the bad ones
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1-813-891-6300 will have the latest price for a reline and can answer your rigger question. Think it was something like 200 or 225 to reline my Triathlon three years ago when I sent it off to them.
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Was at a 1.08 with a Triathlon 160 and had a couple instances where I was really pushing my limits. One was an off landing next to a road crosswind that I was just barely able to keep from landing on the road(jump 30-ish) and the other time I just barely PLF'd out of a landing gone real bad(around jump 90). People were shocked I didn't break anything when I slammed into the ground on that one and so was I. Oh and for most of my AFF I was on Triathlons, so going from a 240 -> 220 -> 190 -> 160 was my progression. I have a lot of friends that have gone 1.1 past student status, but I don't think any of them had to deal with bad situations. I was good at putting myself in bad places and it sucks being under a canopy that's at your skill limit when the Bad Things(tm) happen.
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You could always ship the rig to your dad beforehand.
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Sebastian is fine for noobs. They have a large landing area and a lot of good outs(the golf course nearby seems to be the favorite).
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Depends when I'd die. If you said 20 years from now, I could quit and take up acrobatic hang gliding and die from that in 1 year. You're gonna die eventually anyway, so what are you going to do about it?
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Well hey. http://img.penny-arcade.com/2004/20041103l.jpg
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Dude, that profile pic is just wrong.
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Well shoot, and here I've just been measuring from top base to tip and adding 3 inches.