skyshrink

the plane is actually making a complete 180 degree uturn and dumping the second load of jumpers downwilnd on top of the other jumpers. these haven't been planned, so no one on the ground talks about it. so, the tandem video guys are opening while the first group is already under canopy. most of the videographers open low because they are in a hurry to get to the ground to video the tandems landing. the problems lie in 1. no one knows whether or not the plane will do a go around 2. when a go around is done, only those on the plane no about it and the go around is 180 degree uturn on top of already existing jumpers. 3. there is a huge discrepancy b/n the oopening of the tandems and their videographers. 6.000 vs, 3.500. so changing the order of the tandems wouldn't help much. 4. videographers are not aware that they are opening on top of an already existing canopy pilot. (both videographers said they didn't see the canopy pilot) Mistakes-It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

I overheard one of my fellow jumpers describe an incident while she was flying under canopy, perpendicular to the line of flight, upwind, another jumper opened between 50 to 100 feet in front of her. The other jumper was one of the camera flyers for our tandems. So, he was one of the last to leave the plane. Apparently, the plane made a go-around at 180 degrees to the original line of flight. therefore, the initial jumper was flying perpendicular to the second line of flight. this same scenario happened to me about a month and a half prior to this incident. I've looked throughout the sims to see what it says about where to fly in perspective to the line of flight. it may be somewhere in the sims, but I had a hell of a time finding any info about flying the line of flight. The initial jumpers have no way of knowing whether or not the pilot has had to fly a go-around. Neither of the second flyers were aware that a canopy was headed towards them as they opened. Both of the former pilots were flying canopies at about 2500 agl at the time when they (nearly) crossed paths with the other jumpers. at our dz, the order out the door is belly flyers(big group to solo), free flyers(big group to solo), students with coaches, student solo, tandems with video, tandems. we make adjustments for high pullers. We're very good about discussing pull altitude and landing aproaches prior to boarding the plane. I'm perplexed as to how to solve this problem of near miss free-faller/canopy collision. I'd like some input. Any advice? do we change exit order? or should the pilot change patterns of flight? Mistakes-It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

milky bar, what is your dominant hand? left or right? generally, ones dominant hand is also his dominant foot. if you are left hand dominant, you may prefer to place your dominant foot (left) forward. skyshrink

The Vibe at the Ranch is always humming. Jumping or not people hang out, socialize, do stupid human tricks, etc. After a hard day of summer jumping the fire is roaring and the beer flowing. Weather holds people stick around watch movies on the big screen TV, play ping pong, poker or anyother game you care to bring along [Donna's a mean Scrabble player]. A couple of local jumpers put together End of Year Movies with lots of great action in the air and on the ground. This is the place to come for Fun, fun and more fun. Shawanga

My rig is far prettier than that ugly thing. I'm right out of the 80's. Quote Mistakes-It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.