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We did have/sometimes still have separate areas for the last load of the day, which is in front of the hangar instead of on the big field. This was necessary because we got a bit too close to each other in this much smaller area and the swoopers usually land downwind and we don't and not all of the swoopers did either (!). Oops... swooping from 2 different sides was.... interesting.... Problem was, the swoopers want to wow the crowd so they get to land in front of the hangar/bar, so the rest had to land "out", cross barbed wire (sometimes live wire!) and sometimes cowpats, and walk ourselves back. We didn't altogether agree with that! We felt if you want to land any other way than into the wind YOU should be the one to walk. The regular jumpers feel the swoopers should be the ones to walk, the swoopers feel otherwise. Well not all of them, but.... Then again, so far it really hasn't been much of a problem, besides our personal vendetta ciel bleu, Saskia

I generally pull at 3.5 k or so, since I fly camera I don't like to open lower. I have no real idea why we keep bumping into each other, but we seem to do it every now and then. I do know that sometimes the AFF I's come back from a longish spot in full brakes, cut into my pattern below 1000ft and then get angry at me for being there. Or one guy seems to have trouble flying past me and getting below me when I'm in the holding area. When I fly my wingsuit solo i usually work on backflying and rolls and loops, so not a very low fallrate. I generally don't hang around in brakes unless the spot warrants it or I'm filming someone with a low wl. I really don't know, sounds like we do it on purpose ciel bleu, Saskia

And how would you find a common solution for this, pray? I get yelled at for "ruining someone's swoop" because I fly a predictable, boring pattern over our common landing area. It's just the one field. Getting yelled at for doing something that is not basically wrong doesn't help find a solution either. A lot of jumpers fly the way I do, it's just the wingsuiters that end up close to the AFF I's, who'd otherwise have the field to themselves. I asked a few other ("real") swoopers about this, they said to ignore those guys. But I still don't like getting yelled at and called names. Edit: I did try and talk to one, see if we could get a solution, I just got "You don't understand" and he walked away. Very helpful... I say, if you really want the field to yourself, do a hopnpop, although this is so common here that you WON'T get the field all to yourself actually, because we have so many swoopers/accuracy jumpers and a few regular jumpers who just like hopnpops. However generally there is never trouble during a low jumprun, it's SOME of the freefall guys who want to swoop at the end. ciel bleu, Saskia

It's just a big field, no special area for swoopers. There's the peas + tuffet, sometimes a target for swoopers/accuracy but regular jumpers land there too and generally I don't. Sometimes there's 2 flags for a swoop lane somewhere on our field, generally everyone not swooping avoids those. But it's still just one field, not divided in any way. ciel bleu, Saskia

Oh I've had that muttered/said/yelled at me a few times. Cause I fly a big-ass spectre 135 after a wingsuit jump and I fly a standard student-type pattern around the field (900 ft, 600ft, 250 ft or so, with no s-turns etc), I sometimes get "in the way" of some of our AFF instructors who want to swoop. Well boohoo. They want me to fly a much tighter (= lower) pattern because I have plenty of jumps. Well I don't want to. and I shouldn't have to. I have absolutely nothing against swoopers, hell I video most of the competitions here, but don't tell me that I need to adjust how I fly so that someone can get his swoop on. BTW other jumpers are just fine swooping with me flying around them, it's just 1 or 2 that have a problem with me. Tough luck ciel bleu, Saskia

Personally I'd chalk this up to our national rigger troubles ciel bleu, Saskia

Well yeah, but it's 900 euros to Teuge = end of cash for me. Driving anywhere is $$$$ with my van too, plus food etc. Nope, no go ciel bleu, Saskia

Why? There's mad flocking and flying in NL and Belgium every weekend.. It should take more effort to avoid other wingsuiters then having trouble finding them? Well yeah but usually I'd have to go somewhere else than Teuge, and Teuge is cheapest for me ciel bleu, Saskia

Sure. And what to do with that 1000 km? LOL I'll probably be in Norway for Extreme Week, close enough? ciel bleu, Saskia

Why couldn't you google it? ciel bleu, Saskia

Well quite often I am too. Wanna bond? ciel bleu, Saskia

Flock more! Duh ciel bleu, Saskia

That's what the reefing line was for? I thought it was an older design before the slider was perfected, or something. Why would you jump an accuracy canopy with >120 mph speed? Style? I had no clue how to pack all that bridle I just sent the rig fieldpacked to the buyer Last guy to jump it during a competition here didn't know how to pack it either Presto, reserve! ciel bleu, Saskia

did you look 3 threads down? ciel bleu, Saskia

Why it's a scam: Will only pick it up himself, you don't need to send it even though you're in another country. That is very very weird. Further down the road, it'll get to a bigger check than needed, with you sending the difference back. They do not want the gear they just want the money hence the "no shipping required". The check is of course bad so you're out the difference you paid the "buyer" plus your bank will be mad at you for cashing a bad check. This email is better composed than most, usually the english is quite bad (although that alone is not a reason to discount a buyer, not everyone writes good english) and this guy pretends to live in Scotland so he should KNOW english right?! Also his own home city was spelled wrong. Usually it's more obvious that the mail is a template, you get: I'm interested in (......). Fill in the blanks with add item type of thing. Next item: they ALWAYS seem to want photos even though you posted pics with the add. There's probably more but I'm at work and can't type too long Anyway if you've seen a few of these scam mails it becomes real easy to see which ones are fake buyers. ciel bleu, Saskia

Whaddayamean "thanx Sangiro", I was the one that reported it. If all of you got the same email, why didn't you report it??? That's how this forum gets it's "hits". It's obvious it's a scam isn't it. ciel bleu, Saskia

You mean the company that keeps spamming me with copies of other company's products? Why would you even want to deal with a company like that?!? ciel bleu, Saskia

Eh? Phree just answered your question didn't he? ciel bleu, Saskia

I was thinking more along the lines of "how old is the design for that canopy". One older precision jumping canopies I sold had a reefing line, easy enough to convert the canopy to a normal slider if you want (and you want LOL). Maybe the grommet is a leftover from that and they didn't change the design all the way? Just guessing here ciel bleu, Saskia

Only canopies I know of that had a hole there had it for a reefing line. ciel bleu, Saskia

If the bit you want to type isn't that long, I'd do it this way: create title with black to cover video (you seem to want a black background?), put on video track 2, stretch title for as long as you need the animation to be create transparant title with first letter, this one goes on track 3, stretch this one too create transparant title with 2nd letter, let this one start a bit later than the first two, on track 4 you now have 3 titles stacked on top of each other plus the video on track 1 if you have any so you need to create a few extra video tracks by now create another transparant title, with 3rd letter, start a bit later than the 2nd letter, on track 5 etc etc etc make sure they all end together when done. For the sound you need just one "typewriter" soundfile, trim it if necessary so the start of the file makes the noise, copy that onto the timeline a few times and line them up with the start of each new transparant title. Can't think of an easier way to do it with premiere.... PS you cant copy a title using only premiere, if you have premiere pro 1 or 1.5 you could copy in file explorer, doesn't work for 2.0 though. Otherwise just copy the last letter and paste that into a new title and work from there. Make sure you set the cursor on the timeline each time so all the letters show, easier that way to reposition the last letter if needed. ciel bleu, Saskia

Do a search, this has been talked about quite a few times ciel bleu, Saskia

What´s so abnormal about that, you should be replacing your lines in about that time anyway ciel bleu, Saskia

From newbies (not my students though ) I've seen: landing way way way out, hitting the plane on exit, unstable tumbles out of the door that last a few tumbles too many, nearly hitting a canopy in freefall. ciel bleu, Saskia

I know it can save your neck, trust me I see the merits of that, esp after being in the hospital after a hard opening. But don't tell me you can't see the difference in quality compared to a regular miniDV camera. It depends on what you're using it for I suppose. For debriefing, novelty video (taped to your shoe etc), it's fine. But it is nowhere near dvd quality let alone DV. This is because the lens is so small (that's the whole point of the things) and because of the interface (usually if not always VHS, are there any SVSH or DV around?). Which is a pity otherwise I'd jump one probably. ciel bleu, Saskia