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Well I haven't ever flown a Spectre but I sure do own a Tri 175 loaded at 1:1. It's very easy to pack, has flown very well through winds a bit on the high side and turbulant,opens great never had a hard one,off field landings have been safe and great, getting back from a long spot hasn't been difficult. Doesn't surf much but I guess with 105 jumps I'm more interested in getting my technique right first and then I'll worry about distance. Flown it in slow too and it landed fine. Over all I don't have any issue with it at the moment.

I'm no expert on the subject but I'll take a guess here anyway. My feeling is if he had an RSL he probably wouldn't have flipped from that stand up position. Reason being the loss in drag from the departing main bag would be replaced by the reserve bag coming out. As a result the force acting on the shoulders and anchoring them so that you reamin vertical will continue to exist. It's just that the source will be different. Does this make sense to those who like to dwell over the dynamics of deployment. Just a thought.

I'm assuming you are already talking to your instructor about this and are here for more opinions. If that's the case then it's excellent because this sport is built on acquiring knowledge and analyzing it for yourself. If not, GO TO YOUR INSTRUCTOR NOW ! ... your end decision should be based on what you discuss with him. Anything you hear here should be treated as purely academic and just something that gets you thinking in more than one direction. For making your final decisions at this stage rely on your instructors experience. If you don't agree with him find yourself another one at the DZ and get a second opinion from him. With that said, let's get back to your question. At 150 you'll be 1:1. Going by your judgement ( and Instructor's ) on your skill level I think 1:1 should be fine. It's pretty docile in the conditions that you should be flying in, at this level. As for coming down from 288 to 150, well, you'll definitely experience a change in performace that might be a bit intense to do it in one shot. If you don't have that many options available atleast do a few ( quite a few ) jumps on a 190, and ask your instructor to talk to you about a few drills that you can try out to get a feel for the canopy, specially with regards to it's diving ( in a turn ) flaring and stalling.

Didn't turn out to be what I expected. It's too elementary even for those too new to the sport. I've learn't more about two canopys out, line twists, spinners, canopy piloting techiques, turbulance, RW, free fly safety, exit orders etc out here in these forums. Even off student status you don't need a book to tell you what a horse shoe mal is. You already know it. What you need is the opinions from others, their experiences, options, what they did, how they did it etc. May be if someone compiles all the info that's shared here into a book it'll make an excellent survival guide. This book didn't add much value to what I already knew at 20 jumps into skydiving. I think dropzone.com if far ritcher in information than that book. On one of my jumps my canopy decided to dive a bit to the right due to turbulance about 50 feet from the ground. What came to my mind at that point was someone's own experience that they had posted here. I forget who it was but he'd written quite a bit on the dynamics of canopy flight in turbulance and the steps he had taken. It was the debate that it had resulted in and all the info that came out of it that really amounted to survival skills. If you read that book what it talks about turbulance can pretty much be summed up into "turbulance is bad". Of AFF status I already knew that. For $14 dollars it might me ok to read once or twice but in my opinion if you are really looking for a survival guide that get's you thinking and makes you understand more of what you are doing then thats not the book you are looking for.

thanks.

A lot of people have posted there experiences and thoughts on carrying Skydiving gear in airlines. Can someone please point me to some of these posts. Can't seem to find them. There was something on the USPA site too that's no more there. Help would be appreciated.

thanks.

check this site out too. It has some good research articles on the distribution of forces with some very cool graphs plus some other stuff too. http://www.pcprg.com/skydive.htm

he might be forcing himself to look down and as a result bending down at his waist or something causing him to dearch. Anyway, whatever it is, like everyone here has said a nice arch with the head up looking at the plane should fix it.

I suggest you do practice them lower than that to get a feel for it because one day you might need to and that won't be the right time to be surprised by how it feels turning that close to the ground when the environment you are doing so is not really your usual.

same difference between risk taking and recklessness ____________________________________________________ But then again, recklessness is not something that is relative to risk taking. It's absolute. What I mean is: Learning hook turns with enough experience under the canopy and a good training regimen amounts to risk taking, even though it is a calculated one. Same thing with 50 jumps under your belt is outright recklessness by any definition.

Excellent job. I don't know what could have caused it but you definitely did what was required of you. Thats the important thing.

Ask him if he would stick his dick in some hooker with AIDS, with no condom, "only once, to see what it's like." ____________________________________________________________ If this doesn't drive home the point nothing can.

Dude if you mean that for real, what makes you the authority in determining whether the 45 would have made a good skydiver or not. May be, if you hadn't been such an ass he might have made a great skydiver. By the way, for your little knowledge you don't need to be hard to be a Skydiver. You just meed passion to be one and I think you probably ruined it for someone who had that. As for negative reinforcement, first develop your skills doing it the possitive way or you might land up killing somebody. Students out on the strut are scared and your idea of negative reinforcement doesn't help them overcome their fear it just makes them more fearful and some jump that fear. One of them might not be able to overcome it in time to deal with an emergency one of these days.

ISO 9001 certified doesn't really mean that it's certified for high quality. What ISO 9001 does is that it certifies that the processes that are producing a certain quality right now and the services that you offer will remain consistent. For example if you are producing 'A' grade quality you'll continue to be consistent in doing so and if you are producing 'B' grade right then your processes are geared to do so in the future too. In a nut shell, it certifies that whatever you are doing you'll continue to do it consistently.

is there a size, number or anyother specification to which one they are.

where does one get that little washer that sits between the closing loop knot and the grommet on the flap.

With the amount of experience I see you have I suggest you stop playing with that ball for now and gain some experience in other aspects of Skydiving. Playing with the ball with such little experience is like playing with a loaded gun. You might just land up hurting yourself or someone else. It's not time for it yet. Keep it for sometime later in the future.

$17.50 at Skys The Limit, NJ for 13.5K

any idea if OXFORD covers it too ?

Wanted to know if the various medical insurances that are out there actually cover skydiving injuries or not, and if not how do you afford the cost of the more serious injuries.

HELLLP! I'm falling at terminal and scared to pull cause it might hurt (again) ____________________________________________________________ If you don't pull it's gonna hurt even more !

well you look wonderful in your picture anyway. I don't think you need to be 15 years younger.

I have a question regarding how tandems deal with emergency exits. From what I see tandems aren't hooked on to the TM until just short of jumps run. Then there's that whole process of pulling the straps together. Now what would happen if at 2000 feet the plane is in a dive and the pilot wants you to get out. Wouldn't trying to hook up tandems at that point cause a few precious seconds for the jumpers at the back of the plane. Shouldn't all tandems be kept hooked until some an altitude is reached which will have room for rehooking them on.

this question is slightly off this topic but since the point that I want to explore a bit is mentioned here I'll go ahead and ask. Riggerrob you said half your canopy was collapsed. Was it half the volume collapsed but evenly across the canopy or did one side collapse in. If it was the first case why didn't you just let it fly in full flight just in case it reinflated again. If it was the second case why didn't you apply a toggle input on just one side to keep it from diving may be and rather go for 3/4 brakes. I'm not challenging you or anything. I know you have a ton of experience and I want to hear your comments on how to react when parachutes partially collapse this close to the ground. I remember someone posting here that if the chute collapses this close to the ground just let it fly until it reinflates. Applying breaks will not help. I understand that your case might have been totally different but again some insight would be appreciated.