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You can, yes, provided of course you have a suitable (biggish) skydiving rig at your disposal. Though I wouldn't jump it terminal I think, and only do a few jumps with it. ciel bleu, Saskia

Why is that a serious issue? I like the improvement, a lot. In fact, I would really like a smaller profile reserve handle myself on my (older) Icon BTW the Aerodyne website doesn't list other types or sizes of reserve ripcords as an option for the student icon. ciel bleu, Saskia

The Aerodyne gear links all go to a wrong website. Needs to be http://www.flyaerodyne.com/ ciel bleu, Saskia

You were talking about staticline, not just military static line. Most of our (civ) SL jumps are with squares, which I think has a lot of ground in common with sport freefall jumping. Even our military does square SL sometimes, I've seen them, so again, lots of stuff in common. I've never jumped a round, but since that is popular here with couple of civ groups even that has merit for some But on the whole I suppose real military SL are another kettle of fish yes. ciel bleu, Saskia

Use recovery software, like the cd that comes with a lot of (the more expensive) Sandisk cards. ciel bleu, Saskia

No, that's a (very good) argument for better selection on who should BE on bigways. ciel bleu, Saskia

Any rig that has that type of pin, ie PdF Atoms with factory RSL, our tandem rigs (vectors, sigma?) have double 9-shaped pins too. ciel bleu, Saskia

Safire 119, spectre 135, these days a pilot 124. I also have a fusion 120 which might be usuable but it is much more twitchy than the pilot. Also did a few wingsuit jumps using a vengeance 135, went ok but not my first choice ciel bleu, Saskia

Let me guess, you never did a staticline jump did you? No skill building? For squares you learn the exact same reserve procedure, canopy control, landing circuit and landing skills as for AFF. The only thing you do not learn during SL jumps is freefall stuff, that comes later. The canopy stuff is more important anyway as this is what gets most people in trouble/killed. For rounds, ours still learn how to steer and land and roll, and pack, otherwise their skills are less relevant to sport skydiving but they still have my respect, even though these jumps do not count in our license system (freefall jumps only). ciel bleu, Saskia

It's not just the size of the canopy, it's the model (bet this one is a different model) and age and lineset also play a part. If you're having trouble with this canopy, try and get someone to video your landings and get a good debrief on that, you'll learn tons and on video it's usually easy to see what you need to work on. ciel bleu, Saskia

Apparently not. ciel bleu, Saskia

Why has nobody mentioned this before? Because it's common sense? ciel bleu, Saskia

An older style Softie? ciel bleu, Saskia

I tend to lose mine a lot more often than that (people keep "borrowing" them...) so I switched to these. Cheap so I don't care if/when I lose one, but they work fine. ciel bleu, Saskia

Seeing your wide angle lens roll by you on jumprun next to the open door. Didn't happen to me but I got to re-attachit, real quick Getting a bolt thingie on the floor pointed out by your tandempassenger: "Hey something just dropped out of your helmet..." on jumprun with no clue if you're still gonna have a helmet + cameras when you land (happened to me last weekend). ciel bleu, Saskia

Nothing flies docile in a downplane In our FJC we teach: - canopies flying after each other: GENTLY steer with canopy in front, preferably leaving the toggles stowed and using your rearrisers, prepare for a PLF landing, do NOT flare. - canopies flying next to each other: GENTLY steer with main canopy, preferably leaving the toggles stowed and using your rearrisers, prepare for a PLF landing, do NOT flare. An advanced option might be to steer this configuration into a downplane and cut away the main. - canopies both flying down (downplane): cut away the main after sufficient separation is achieved (over 45 degrees) regardless of altitude, it is preferable to disconnect your RSL if you have it (but not absolutely necessary so do not waste time if you don't have any). And trust me, I've had my own personal downplane once, if it happens you'll know what to do Ways to get a 2 out include: an AAD that fires when it shouldn't (happened to me @ 2.5k... FXC), a snagged reserve handle or disloged reserve pin, a "real" AAD fire when you were just pulling your main or were going too fast (student AAD, FXC), you pulling the reserve should you find yourself with a damaged/malfunctioning canopy below 1000ft. ciel bleu, Saskia

A big problem with mounting cameras to a fullface helmet like the Z1 is the inability to install a single point cutaway on such a helmet. This makes it a more dangerous camera helmet to jump, and is simply not allowed in various countries/DZs. ciel bleu, Saskia

A screw? Better ask questions like this in the video forum though. ciel bleu, Saskia

I went through several biteswitches and tongueswitches before trying a blowswitch which I didn't like, I love my current pro-mouth switch and so far it has lasted me a couple hundred jumps. ciel bleu, Saskia

Yup, like I said in the 3rd post in this thread ciel bleu, Saskia

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If you are not using firewire you are downloading very compressed video yes. Always use firewire for miniDV cameras! Just cut the usb cable in half ciel bleu, Saskia

Ditto. A WL of 1.2 for your first reserve is too much, you should really be looking for a 180 sqft (or bigger) reserve. ciel bleu, Saskia

Sure about that? A pulse will pack about a size smaller than a sabre2, so can your container safely hold a 150? ciel bleu, Saskia

No, I'd strongly suggest reading a photography book FIRST (or take a class) and to forget sports mode altogether. Especially if you're shooting for money (tandems, students) you should know what you're doing and know when to change settings to accomodate different situations. Sports mode for skydiving is very dicey, and you also will not learn anything from any of the "fun" settings (the ones with the pictures...), rather turn the dial the other way, at least read your manual and have at it. ciel bleu, Saskia