DougH

The problem is that the reserve is overloaded and too small. The problem is that even if you can shoe horn the main in there is is oversized and will stress out the flaps, stiffiners, etc. And the final problem is that the rig cost to bloody much! "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Rest assured that you don't have to have 1k jumps, or 10 years in the sport to take the final comment as a big FU. I took it as a bit of a slap in the face. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Maybe see a PT so you can get a brace and some exercises? "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Isn't that where you sit on your hand until it gets numb and then... "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

I would vote for you too, if the USPA promised to keep you away from extension cords and power outlets. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

I will never think of the resturant "Surf Taco" the same way again. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

End of august is my busy season at work... I will be busy being an XXXXXTreEEEEmEEEme cubicle jockey. Sorry. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Awesome video!

Bingo, I agree 100%. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Totally untrue. If you have a decent bike that can go through some shit then you can usually go places a cop car could never get to. And for cops who think they can outrun me on a bicycle.... Well I'd be willing to bet I can go faster through the woods on my bike then you can on foot. Now if you get caught by a bike cop then good luck. Those guys are pretty damn good riders with better bikes then mine (at least here anyway). DUUUUUUDE!!! That so XtreeEEeeeeemMmeeeee! R0X0R! "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

"I can't afford my own life style... what makes you think I want to introduce a sponge into it!!" That normally gets a shocked look, and less prying in the future. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Bullshit. If he was a good guy, and you have "repeatedly" talked to him then he would have changed his ways. Either you haven't told him the right way, or he is just a dangerous asshole. Either way I would be glad to see him go, and I would call the surrounding dz's to let them know he is coming. You correct his behavior by laying down the law. Ban him for a day the first time, then ban him for a weekend, then ban him for a month... then for the season. Sounds like your S&TA and DZO, as well as your fellow jumpers really needs to man up. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

GREEEEEEEEEEEEN LIGHT GREEEEEEEEEEEEEN LIGHT.... JUMP JUMP JUMP GOOOOOOO GET OUT.... GREEEEEEN LIGHT GET OUT.... GOOOOOOOO. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Grow some cojones and tell him. "Listen dude if you don't change the way you are doing things you are going to kill yourself or some one else. Either you knock it off or you can find some other dz to kill yourself at" I like the idea of adressing each of the dangerous things he does seperately sounds like a pretty constructive way to get your point across. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

x2... find a good local mechanic. A good local mechanic should have refrences of people that will be happy to tell you about the great services they have recieved in the past. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Every one knows that you need Shoe-view to get proper sky god self portraits. Thanks for the laugh. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

It is allways a good idea to turn 90' degrees from jump run after opening, do this if you see people or if you do not. It is never a good idea to be flying up or down the line of flight under canopy, good for you for realizing this on your own at 12 jumps.

Too bad I have to rebuy in on my poker stars account if I want to join. I play toooooo loose. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Hackman is saying that when you pull you really pull it kid. He ripped the ripcord out, despite the black death ripcord stop if my memory is right. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

If you read the search results for the searches that you claim to have made then you should realize that there is no real anwser to this question. The topic is highly oppinionated and very subjective. I won't jump Vigils because I think that they way they have handled previous problems just plain sucks. No AAD out there is perfect, and they all have misfires and other problems. I just think the Cypres has better over all quality control, it has more time under its belt, and most importantly to me I think the company the makes it back it up better. Oh, and Chevy's suck; Fords all the way. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

I agree with you Billvon, I think we only differ on the use of the word briefing. I was not talking about the 5 minute speach that I have heard before that is mainly made up of "do some practice flares up high". Maybe I should have said lesson, or coaching session instead. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

25 to 13.5k, 15 to 4-6k from a C206. 18 to 9k, 12 to 4k from our C182. I would be happy to just do hop and pops all day from the 182. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Take a good look at the system, watch it being packed. The closing loop is keeping the main container closed AND it is keeping the drogue anchored at the chimney. If the main container opens the chimney is also released as well. The saftey pin doesn't anchor anything... it only keeps the main pin from being pulled by either drogue release when it is properly seated through the eyelet of the main pin and its respective grommet on the container. http://www.unitedparachutetechnologies.com/PDF/Support/Manual/SIGMA-MANUAL.zip "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

I don't believe that aerodyne makes a 200 Pilot. I thought that the upper sizing is 210, 188, 168... Let me don my flame suit for this! Nick this post is more directed at you, do you really think we should have students flying sky barges for 50+ jumps? Looking at all of the latest canopy fatalities and injuries and it points to experinced jumpers with tiny little canopies, that are mostly current, with large numbers of jumps. I am not an instructor, but I don't find a Pilot loaded at .85 (estimating using an exit weight of 180 under a pilot 210) isn't an overly aggresive canopy selection if it is paired with a proper briefing. They are docile canopies with short recovery arcs, although technically they are semi elipticals. I flew one early in my student progression. It may have been to early for this jumper, but I don't think that you can keep new jumpers on large student canopies for 50 jumps. And if you do what is the benifit? They develop poor canopy habits and they have less ability to transition to the canopies that they will ultimately end up jumping. I came from a dropzone that traditionally was more agressive with canopy selection, we also had a tight landing area that demanded good canopy flight. There was a noticable difference in canopy skills of the students who learned there, versus some of the dropzones where I jump that keep their students on radio for a long time, have them fly very large very lightly loaded canopies, into very large landing areas that do not demand accuracy on every jump. What I see lacking here is instructors properly explaining that the canopy needs to be flown differently then the sky barges you have jumped before. You need to build into a deep toggle turn slowly, Brian goes over this in his book and I bet in his seminar. When you yank down a toggle fast the canopy can get ahead of your body and spin up as you experinced. If you gradually apply the toggle pressure and build into a hard turn the canopy you reduce the risk of turning yourself into line twists. Of course you can allways give too much input and stall out that side of the canopy, which is why if you want to play and spiral you need to do it high enough to cutaway, out of the pattern, and away from other canopies. Keep line tension, in canopy flight it is life; don't go around yanking the toggles around like a monkey you are flying a wing after all. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

No they wouldn't have to both happen, unless my understanding of the system is wrong? If the close loop breaks then there is nothing keeping the main container closed so that could result in an out of sequence deployment. It doesn't matter if the release was pulled in this case. If the pin is not seated properly the drouge release can be pulled before drougue throw. This would release the closing loop, opening the main container, and once again might lead to an out of sequence deployment. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P