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Coupla thoughts... With today's tech...why not add a BlueTooth component to the AAD that allows the user to put their iPhone or Droid on the mudflap, with an app to control opening altitude on the AAD. Might as well put a visual altimeter in the smartphone. That way folks can see their altitude, listen to their tunes, answer their phones, and control the AAD from one device. Obviously, I'm kidding. However...what downside would there be for manufacturers if users had the option to shift the opening altitude in an upward-only direction, with a 14 hour reset (when the unit powers down)?

I've seen two attempts. Neither worked well.

Search offers a lot of answers. Laszlo also offers a solution.

Son...this is shit, this is Shinola. Don't trust Whitey See a doctor and get rid of it.

rarely kids, no dogs at Elsinore....Beer parties get a little crazy on some of the Sat nights...

The last pic is a good one. Everytime he looks at it, it'll remind him to check altitude. Very thoughtful of you to do this for all your students.

That's not quite the case, Bill. Vegas, Canopus, Premiere, SpeedEdit, even shitty ole' Ulead Media Studio Pro (now gone), Pinnacle Liquid (gone), Avid Media Composer...all have/have had realtime, no render view. For Apple acolytes to act as though this is some kind of big deal is ridiculously ignorant. There isn't a single new feature in the app collection that other tools haven't been providing for years. It's not a Sony/Apple thing. It's a "pull your head out of the sand and understand why you don't see FCP in broadcast houses very often (KTLA is in the process of deciding to abandon a fortune spent on the slowness of the editor, due to lack of K2 and MediaPool compliance that Apple promised years ago), and recognize that even Adobe Premiere (parent of FCP) now running on the Apple side is a significantly better choice. You still can't import VBR AVCHD without conforming, so it destroys the value of file-based. Additionally, metatags are lost. Metadata is what makes file-based workflows "work." A simple industry-standard overwrite is a major PITA compared to everyone else, too. Simple stuff. It's awesome you can do frame matchback; it's the only matchback alternative to Avid. I'm sure all 11 of those guys out there shooting 16, super 16, and 35mm, editing in FCP, and then printing a neg really appreciate this ability. I'd challenge you to find any pro editor that will work with FCPX, as even Apple suggests it's not ready for prime time. Use what you will, but please don't continue to serve the koolaid if you don't know what other tools actually do. It is kinda cool that every soccer mom that has a MacBook can now afford the same software that Walter Murch and Billy Goldenberg used to use. At the end of the day, it's about what makes you happy making media. But...to perpetuate myths or to act as though real-time color correction preview is a great thing... I suppose it is. Just like realizing that a turbine prop plane is really exciting compared to the 182 you've been jumping out of for years, having never been to another DZ.

it's so exciting that even Apple's #1 guys like Rich Harrington and Jeff Greenberg are panning it, saying "This is not usable in a professional environment." i've had it on my machine for about 10 hours now, and find it to be just as kludgy as ever. That said...Vegas and Canopus users have enjoyed realtime, renderless processing (of all formats including AVCHD) for about oh...a decade now. now if Apple just gives us editing off the card like everyone else, they might make it up to par. Seriously Bill...why do you think the price dropped to nothing? 50.00 for Motion and compressor? They're *finally* realizing how poor they are in the market.

just realized the S series doesn't have the i7, it's i5. Ooops. my error.

just got a VAIO SSeries (not yet released); I'll share my experience with you in a few days. So far, heat has't been an issue, but it does have a dissipation plate that can be removed, too.

Been around as an announced product for a while...it has some sweet benefits for post.

Flying with wings or not? Sidemount or top mount?

Since no BSR was broken, there isn't much that *can* be done, except for the world to know the guy is one of "those guys" that shouldn't be an AFFI, and that he's one of "those guys" that should be avoided. USPA can only keep racking up the "stupids" for so long before they'll allow us to begin helping ourselves.

Ouch, that's a recipe for broken discs and broken dvd players. For a CD, it's marginally OK to stick on a label. Or was, until printed DVD's became so much cheaper. Now, I wouldn't accept it anymore (we stopped using those years ago). For a DVD, please don't stick anything at all on the discs If the sticker is put on wrong or later on let's loose a bit you get an unbalanced disc, which isn't good for disc + player. Plus the glue will damage the disc in a couple years time. Stick with pre-printed DVD's, or print your own using white discs or lightscribe. Please get rid of stickers in theory, this may be true. In practice, it's not. At least 3 major DZ's I've worked with have been using DVD Stomper for at least 5 years +, and no returns or complaints due to stickers coming off, damaging, or other sticker-related issue. Stickers that are misapplied certainly can throw a disc off balance, but using a tool like Stomper works just fine. I've personally delivered several hundred Stomped discs in the broadcast world, and never once had a callback. However... if the cost is nearly the same, I can't imagine why anyone would undertake the labor and time vs pre-printed discs. for both dZ and my personal business, we have pre-prints with blank slots for Sharpie writing.

Great post. My minimum is 75 jumps or so. Coincidental this came up like this, only this morning were we having a conversation, as one of our locals wanted to take someone for their 26th skydive. Pre-A student on a rodeo? That's just fucked up.

That may be the CYA statement... but they are being used out of aircraft.

most everyone around here is jumping LS, and they rave about customer service.

Gemini in SLC does em' for .80. Just found a place online for .61... These are silkscreened, not printed. You also might negotiate. We order 1K at a time. well worth it

I'd settle for trim and a massage too.

Don't count on it....she's owed me a spankin' for years.

wow...seriously old thread revive.

I couldn't say. Haven't jumped either one with Dacron, I believe someone else was talking about Dacron on a Spectre?

Those are some killer colors!

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/252437_10150313618143362_532883361_9720972_4868181_n.jpg End of story.

I've been jumping a Pulse for the past week, and am really impressed with how soft it opens. Plus...it lands itself. it's a canopy for folks that just wanna enjoy a casual flight down to the ground (or for those that have torn their ACL's), and is not a super sporty canopy. Having 1K jumps on a Silhouette and 1K + jumps on the Storms, and a few hundred jumps on a wide variety of canopies...I'd look at the Pulse. Gonna really hate sending this one back.