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  1. dragon2
    Sjeesh you guys are wusses clicky ciel bleu, Saskia
  2. dragon2
    You can do something like that by contacting a mod and have them post the incident. ciel bleu, Saskia
  3. dragon2
    Not sure I qualify as "light people" anymore but the Blade is a bit harder to fly with student type jumps, at least for me it's harder to exactly match fallrate and forward speed with student/rodeo type jumps. With the S3S I can relax more while flying scrunched-up (clicky), with the blade on a low-forward speed jump I have to work way harder to stay in my slot. Might just be me though sometimes I'm lazy ciel bleu, Saskia
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    You can generally keep up with a trackpantz/FS suit with booties, but if you fly camera (esp. a full camera helmet) you need a bit extra. I'm thinking my Blade wouldn't work very well but my S3S works like a charm. ciel bleu, Saskia
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    If it's cheap, you need a belly rig and fits you and your canopies, why not? CRW can be done with most rigs, actually newer isn't always better for CRW (f.i. secondary risercovers aren't used). I would ask a rigger to put a CRW flap on any rig that doesn't have a tuck-away reserve flap (like vector 2), whether you do CRW or not that's a great little mod that improves safety. CRW canopies tend to pack up big (a ZP Lightning packs up about 2 sizes bigger than say a Sabre) so make sure the rig fits the sizes you need for both freefall and CRW if you want to use it for both. ciel bleu, Saskia
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    You do know how a mirror reflex camera works, right? So for dust/hair you see while using the camera, cleaning the sensor like you're doing is going to do you no good at all as this is the one part you DON'T see. So if it doesn't show up in pics, it's probably not on the lens, but on or in the viewfinder or camera housing (not sure if that's the right translation). Clean the viewfinder outside and use a blower inside the camera housing WITHOUT flipping up the mirror. Hold camera upside down while doing this, use a good quality blower without a brush and don't touch anything. If this doesn't help it is out of your reach But most likely it's easily clean-able. BTW the auto dust shake function is more of a sales thing than a useful thing, you'll have to clean your sensor every now and then anyway. ciel bleu, Saskia
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    I must say the CX105 sounds tempting, gimme some footage to play with when you have it? ciel bleu, Saskia
  8. dragon2
    For tape, I like Premiere Pro (or Elements). Don't like Pinnacle and Ulead. Can't remember what I thought about Magix. Haven't tried Vegas. ciel bleu, Saskia
  9. dragon2
    They're mostly used for BASE. If you want to get into wingsuiting spend your money on JUMPS not a tracksuit. Get a few hundred jumps in in a short time, do group belly dives for most of those, learn to take docks and dive to groups, try some sitflying too (so you'll get unstable a lot and learn to deal), that course'll prepare you for wingsuiting way more than some suit. ciel bleu, Saskia
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    Cause Jarno says it does. ciel bleu, Saskia
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    I wouldn't order anything new from PdF either, but since we have plenty of spare parts in our country and atoms are good rigs and there are plenty of them here, I wouldn't say no to a good 2nd hand atom, in fact I jump one ciel bleu, Saskia
  12. dragon2
    Ask Jarno about that, I don't have a CX. Yeah, which is why for now I'll stick with my HC5s. Changing over to another editing package would cost me time to learn and to create all new templates and I can do 8 tandemvids a day this way comfortably, so don't need to change. ciel bleu, Saskia
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    I rewind the camera during the short ride back to the DZ, I film about 7 mins (I use the time it takes to dub this to copy the photos to laptop, cut out any pics of sports jumpers and turn the pics 180o as my camera is upside down), editing time is close to zero as I have my templates and am pretty quick, then burn to dvd (use this time to burn photos to cd and film intro for next video), end product with slo-mo's is about 9 mins. So for me 15 mins works, 20 mins is easier on me, if I get 30 or more I can pack for myself if I have to, but usually I don't. Occasionally the dvd hasn't finished burning yet in time, then I ask one of our packers to give it to the tandem student. edit: I film HD but output SD 16:9. ciel bleu, Saskia
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    Might change when I switch to CS4 but right now with CS2 and CS3 AVCHD is no good. The CX105 might work for me but I´ll stick with my HC5 as long as there´s flutter with backflying, wingsuiting. ciel bleu, Saskia
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    Our official KNVvL comps are now all judged using standalone dvd burners, so if you use a camera without firewire you´ll have to dub using composite thereby losing quality, so it´s very much preferred you jump a miniDV camera, last nationals a CX7 was only accepted as backup camera if it all. For now, locally, it´s best to jump tape. Not sure how this is done in other countries. ciel bleu, Saskia
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    Something to consider is if you´re going to compete. Not all (for me locally, practically NON) competitions can handle non-tape cameras as of yet. ciel bleu, Saskia
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    That totally depends on how you fly (quite a few backflyers at our DZ) and your workflow (I usually have 15 minutes sometimes less to edit and burn a DVD on my pc/laptop, can´t yet do that with AVCHD, one camera flyer here does jump a CX6 but he only uses the composite so for him it doesn´t matter if it´s tape or AVCHD). For more than half of our local tandem camera flyers a CX6-7-11-12 is no good at all, so don´t see why you´d label it the current best choice for tandems. ciel bleu, Saskia
  18. dragon2
    HC5. Beats everything else that´s currently available, for skydiving. ciel bleu, Saskia
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    It comes with a CAZER KILL-LINE ZP PILOT CHUTE w/hackey, you do have to specify BOC or pullout. Dbags don´t have any options usually. ciel bleu, Saskia
  20. dragon2
    It depends on your wingsuit instructor. I prefer my students to be well rounded, ie can take docks on belly, won't dive through a formation, have experienced the unstable-ness of learning to freefly, CRW tends to help with holding a heading, tracking jumps I actually don't care so much about. When I did my first WS jump my BMI had me do some 20 freefly jumps first as all I'd been doing was CRW for some time. ciel bleu, Saskia
  21. dragon2
    The main should come with lines, slider and 4 links on the lines. Same for the reserve. Everything else belongs to the rig. ciel bleu, Saskia
  22. dragon2
    Our version of the SIM says that for the first 25 jumps the student's AAD needs to be the student version if the manufacturer has one, so an FXC or student cypres or an Argus/Vigil set in student mode are all OK. ciel bleu, Saskia
  23. dragon2
    Luckily, current temps @ Teuge aren't a problem for everyone ciel bleu, Saskia
  24. dragon2
    Yeah Jumping in any preticipation isn't fun, think hitting rain/hail/snow/ice at 120mhp. Ouch. We tend to avoid that! However the canopy will open fine don't worry. In most countries the repack date is 6 months, some even have 1 year, so yeah the reserve is considered good to go for whatever the time limit is in your country (6 months now in the States). You do not pack your own reserve though, a rigger does that. ciel bleu, Saskia
  25. dragon2
    I kinda agree, as i've had some skydivers do inapproppriate things like make rude or sexual jokes at them/around them, get in my video when I don't want them, distract students at inappropriate times, stuff like that. But mostly our sport jumpers behave and I do feel that their talking with the students etc is cool as long as you don't say anything not so smart and stay out of the instructor's and vidiot's way. Sometimes we have tandems students who have to wait a long time due to weather or stuff, keeping them entertained seems all good to me, and sometimes the tandem student will show an interest in packing or the pics on the wall or the video that's showing, I think those people are very worth talking to