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Here ya go: ciel bleu, Saskia
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Cool huh? Took me quite a while to get rid of my SL, but after the first freefall jump I was up at 12k in one weekend! After being stuck at 3.5k for so long ciel bleu, Saskia
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Difference from a 280 down to a 170?
dragon2 replied to artistcalledian's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Good luck. Seriously, don't go to the 170 in one step from the 280. Try renting, borrowing, demoing, begging a 230 and a 190 in between and put a number of jumps on both. Depending on your wingload, the 170 will be pretty fast, and a pilot will handle a lot faster than a student canopy as well. ciel bleu, Saskia -
Yeah, if it's no bigger than 10 mb you can mail it to me. ciel bleu, Saskia
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These rigs are not used for AFF only, also for solos after AFF or SL. Usually at least for the first 25 jumps. Then you just pay rent for the gear which isn't that much. ciel bleu, Saskia
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Sounds like half an eagle? But starting flat. ciel bleu, Saskia
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No true, besides the canopy, the pilotchute, bridle, bag and risers are also gone. Also you can lose the freebag and both handles. That's a lot of money, about USD 3000 if everything is new. Also you need to factor in the maintenance costs: repacks, checks, repairs. Don't know what the number of jumps will come to but it's way more than 35 jumps a rig. ciel bleu, Saskia
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At our DZ, if you rent student gear you don't have to pay for a repack/lost/damaged stuff. If you rent one of the demo rigs or rent from the gear shop, you do have to pay is something happens to the gear. I think the gear shop makes you pay half the costs but not sure on that. ciel bleu, Saskia
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You got it the wrong way round. A video is not public domain just because somebody put it on the net, with or without copyright notice. YOU have to prove you've got permision to host it. Also, anyone can re-edit a video that DID have credits/copyright notices before too. ciel bleu, Saskia
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Bits of the English site are in French, but if I translate this right: Ouvert 7j/7 du levé au couché de soleil de février à fin novembre it's open from february to end of november. The unique climate of the high Alps making it the sunniest area of France (over 300 days of sunshine) can only make you take advantage of the beautiful surrounding Mountains where all activities can be found. Till april you can finish you jump sessions with a down hill skiing afternoon in one of the surrounding Ski stations. Less than an hour away from Serre-Chevalier (The biggest Skiing Complex in the High Alps) and other ski stations (Les Orres, Orcières-Merlette...). And of course all year long you can practise any of the numerous other activities such as climbing, hiking, horse riding, rafting, canyonning, glider... SENSATIONS GUARANTEED! ciel bleu, Saskia
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The only time I had a problem like that was when I accidentally used an NTSC project for PAL footage. The avi was okay, but no matter how I made the dvd, it looked funny. Usually I don't interlace anything besides stills, unless I'm converting between NTSC and PAL. ciel bleu, Saskia
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Nah I mean he had one of the first kodak's, pre-production even, and it still needed a lot of tweaking. Correction for color shifts etc. Also it had its buffer enlarged. For some reason his camera works fine, although apperantly it does show a tiny little bit of the problems we (or rather, Henny) were having with 2 later models when taking pics in freefall: color shifts from magenta to green, plain out-of-focus shots and a milky white discoloration on some shots. Then other shots were great. Shoot me My un-educated opinion is that the chip is bouncing around in the camera, and the seperate layers of the chip too. Or something like that Then again, my laptop doesn't mind so much, the 13+ MP RAW pics were kinda much ciel bleu, Saskia
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We're not allowed to! Because the risers fall under the yearly check, you can't touch them. Technically you can't even change your main canopy without a new repack and year check, because you have to fiddle with the links on risers and bridle, but a lot of people do this anyway, it's kind of a grey area. But any change in the opening system, harness/container, AAD and/or the reserve warrants a new check ($$$). ciel bleu, Saskia
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I'm always afraid staying with a spinning canopy too long might make me too dizzy/make the g-forces too high. I do a lot of hopnpops from 12k, although not with xbraced canopies. I guess it depends, but if I'm on my back (Safire 126) or the canopy is horizontal with linetwists (Spectre 135!), so far I've always chopped it. Although in these cases it was more than just linetwist, I didn't even try to kick out... Both cases were after normal freefall jumps though. I've handled diving Vengeance's and also a Stiletto with linetwists fine, but those were not diving linetwists. I wonder if I wouldn't just chop at altitude, and then spend the rest of the day looking for the canopy I don't know how high the g-forces can become with a lightly loaded vengeance 120, and I don't think I want to find out Let alone on a tiny xbraced. Or am I just being a wuss? ciel bleu, Saskia
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That's a Kodak: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Kodak/kodak_dcsslrn.asp His has been modified a few times I believe (there's also at least 4 different versions of this camera), he makes it work in freefall. We couldn't ciel bleu, Saskia
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Easy, cheap: Pinnacle studio (USD 49 and up), comes with selected camera's and other video products. Harder to learn, more expensive, but better: Premiere. Premiere Elements actually isn't that expensive (USD 149) and comes with selected camera's too. Premiere Pro is more expensive (USD 699) but you prolly don't need the extra features, but it's easy to step up to later if you want. ciel bleu, Saskia
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What are your Canopy Handling rules? ciel bleu, Saskia
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If you do a search, you'll dig up a fair number of threads about 7 and 9 cell canopies. ciel bleu, Saskia
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No it's not strange really. There's no rule saying you should be able to stall your canopy with toggles Actually NOT being able to stall them sounds better to me, because you can't do it by accident (esp students) and you're brake lines are probably long enough that you can use your front risers without braking at the same time. As long as you can flare the canopy to a standstill on a no-wind day, your breaklines are not too long
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What advice for student canopies? I'm just telling you that if you want to stall your canopy, student canopy or not, using toggles, taking a wrap or 2 will do it. ciel bleu, Saskia
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Gap, France ciel bleu, Saskia
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Pictures of white top/white bottom/colored ribs canopies
dragon2 replied to katzurki's topic in Gear and Rigging
Here are some... red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black ciel bleu, Saskia -
we have a lady bird at our dz that jumps a vigil and also sorta uses it as her logbook. She claims to have 2 recorded jumps for each wingsuit jump, so she has to delete one of those, and she's not even that good a wingsuiter (I think she goes 65-70 mph or so). ciel bleu, Saskia
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Check out the search function, there are a couple good digi reflex camera's that people use, some having more drawbacks than others (price, how to rig the remote, error99). ciel bleu, Saskia
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Well the end result of those regulations was a 2 out for Jonathan I thought the French rules funny anyway: during the world championships in Gap, I was taking exit photo's, not jumping out. During the walk from the boarding area to the porter I had to have my cypres on, then turn if off when I got to the plane, after the plane had touched down I had to turn my cypres back ON again and walk back! Regulations are fine and all, but sometimes i think you have to be a little more flexible. ciel bleu, Saskia