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same problem with the image stabilisation but go right ahead, you seem to know everything better anyhow ciel bleu, Saskia

Our biggest (bigger than Nationals) yearly FS competition is the Tomscat Trophy, a memorial for the 2 Dutch jumpers, half of an up and coming FS4 team called Tomscat, that died in that crash. I have competed in the Tomscat but didn't know all that much of the history behind it. This would be an inspiring movie. I copied your post to the Dutch and Belgian skydive forums. ciel bleu, Saskia

Canon? Image stabilized? Yeah right... I'd do WHOLE lot of research first if I were you ciel bleu, Saskia

I like my first alti, I have smallish hand too. I got a Barigo because it is very lightweight and I then got an elastic handstrap for it which I still like the best of all mounts. Don't know what these are called but it is 2 straps of elastic which form a V over your palm, nothing on the wrist and nothing on the fingers and it stays PUT. Don't like anything with a ring around my finger and I can't use wristmounts when wingsuiting and cameraflying with big wings. I still need to find a way to make me a handmount like that for my neptune though so I can get rid of the normal hand mount with the o-ring ciel bleu, Saskia

A Diablo packs up pretty big due to the fabric used. Not sure about numbers but it packs up bigger than a spectre, sabre, safire and springo of the same size (I've had them all LOL). It also is a high performance canopy, meaning suitable for ~400 jumps and up. It is very twitchy on opening and very easy to hurt yourself with toggle turns. Unless you have way more than 100 jumps, I'd pass on that one even if it would fit. ciel bleu, Saskia

Mine is made of 2 softlinks - ones with metal ring's on 'em. So I only sit on a softlink, much nicer to sit on than an rsl shackle Pretty easy to do and un-do. It doesn't stretch so this design needs some work if you're freeflying with it (I hardly ever do) than the tension on the legstrap padding/tape can get a bit much. Should be easy though to adapt the design a bit and include a bungee - maybe a small loop on both ends with the 2 softlinks in the middle. For now, mine are just sown to the legstrap tape. Been jumping like that for 200 jumps or so, seems to hold up alright and it works pretty neat

Huh wonder why I got a totally different response ciel bleu, Saskia

You need a complete rig instead of just the main canopy. Spend a day or 2 at the DZ and pack pack pack, you'll get it. Then when you buy your own gear you get to take it home so you can practice packing if you want, if you buy a new and/or a big-for-the-rig canopy you may very well want to ciel bleu, Saskia

Retractable + bag = holes in your topskin if you're not very careful packing. Also a retractable bridle can knot up in interesting (and not always immediately obvious) ways. You can jump a retractable for freefall but it may be a good idea to jump a normal bridle for freefall. I thought PD didn't put rings on spectres anyway? You may be better off buying a hybrid triathlon or storm than modifying your spectre. ciel bleu, Saskia

But I always jump with EIS turned OFF. It shouldn´t be doing anything anymore ciel bleu, Saskia

my guess is the same thing (element) that moves to allow you to focus... I have seen a PC9, a HC96, a PC1000 and the HC5 exhibit blurriness during deployments, which coincides with high accellerations/decellerations. It's more prevelant in BASE jumping due to the higher forces of BASE canopy deployment than a skydiving canopy deployment. just my theory I know what you mean but it´s not the same effect. Might have the same cause though but it looks quite different. Next time it happens I´ll save the video ciel bleu, Saskia

True, but the wobble still happens. SOMETHING seems to be moving Although it´s not that big of a deal really. ciel bleu, Saskia

Why No wonder there is a difference in stability. If you turn it off on both the footage improves, the only thing i notice that if i happen to look down a bit on opening sometimes the world wobbles/waves slightly for a bit with my HC5. Don't think that happens on the A1 and HC1 we have at the DZ but saw the same on another HC5. Besides that, no difference with image stabilization with these 3 cameras. ciel bleu, Saskia

You want to try pulling your slider down over your risers when you have your toggles unstowed already? Good luck with that. If you happen to have triple risers it gets really interesting if you have to unstow your brakes first. For a student, yeah sure, unstow brakes quickly, but they usually do not have collapsible sliders and definitely not sliders that you pull down to your neck. Later on in your skydiving career some things change ciel bleu, Saskia

12 inches is ridiculous Someone messed up somewhere. Both my spectres and a friend's I setup came with short (too short for frontrisering) default settings. And we're both girls with short arms too. Too short is easier to catch than too long though, esp with our A/B license frontriser exercises: canopy starts to buck? Need longer steeringlines ciel bleu, Saskia

That's not a quote from my post ciel bleu, Saskia

lotsa pics Direct link doesn't work so please click "zaterdag 11 en zondag 12 oktober 2008 -> algemeen" ciel bleu, Saskia

I managed to do that but got the knot around my wrist, kinda hurt from the tension and of course it was a borrowed canopy during a mega demo: 960 skydivers into Bangkok airport Got triple riser and brakeline and my toggle flapping around and a cameraguy who was wondering why I wasn't flying the plan. Since it was a spectre and it flew fine I grabbed the toggle in my hand in case the knot would come undone and I landed it like that, flaring with my arm out Landed out too of course because we got dropped too far and flying in full brakes to get back hurt and I'd lost too much alti trying to undo the damn knot. Couldn't get the knot free until after landing. Got my picture though ciel bleu, Saskia

In a new canopy you set the lower brakeline length yourself. The only canopies I know that are deliberately set to prevent stalling are (most) student canopies. Manufacturers provide you with a preferred setting which can be short to start with - spectres f.i. are set pretty short by default while f.i. safires are not. But the user doesn't have to set the default. You are then responsible to check your own brakelines every once in a while to see when they need replacing, usually the middle steeringlines get replaced a few hundred jumps before the entire lineset, because they shrink the fastest/get damaged the fastest and they are cheap to replace with a lot of gain. The lower steeringline is sometimes replaced too if worn by velcro or too short. ciel bleu, Saskia

That's very vey rare. Most canopies have their brakelines set too short (can't use frontrisers without breaking at the same time) or even way too short (canopy is in slight brake all the time). Eh, no. You just have to flare all the way. A lot of people do not. ciel bleu, Saskia

I think experienced jumpers go more easy on newbies staying on the plane than other newbies do. Because we've seen what can happen when you jump anyway even if something is off or seems off. I've seen a girl jump because basically her boyfriend made her and she was very afraid to jump, broke her back on landing then showed up 9 months later to jump again, even more scared than before. I've seen a jumper get out at 2500 ft when she wasn't ready for it and had no idea what altitude she was at, then fly across the plane at 800ft and not realise THAT either. I've jumped myself in too-high winds and got dragged into shrubbery for my trouble. I did a sunset load as a newbie and couldn't see much so flipped over like 6 times on landing, at least it felt that way I jumped when I had a cold, broke my eardrum. Ouch. I've seen a tandempassenger who sorta got shanghied (sp?) into jumping refuse to jump on jumprun because by then she had time to THINK and didn't want to. All of these times it would've been better to stay on the ground or not get out of the plane once up there. You live and learn, and it takes more guts to stay in the plane when something's not right than to just jump when you don't want to. Maybe next time you won't even get in the plane in similar conditions (high winds, sunset, ...) because you learned something ciel bleu, Saskia

So, jumpers that were unsuccessful with a cut-away situation need not apply? ciel bleu, Saskia

Hate to burst your bubble, but most rodeo riders are girls for some reason Unless it's you who wants to play horsey of course ciel bleu, Saskia

LOL thanks but I'm the girl in that pic. No other pics but here's a rodeo jump I filmed though clicky ciel bleu, Saskia

Become a packer ciel bleu, Saskia