DougH

A "severed" reserve cable? Sorry but without pictures I have to raise the bullshit flag nice and high on this one. Were you there? Did you see it in person? The metal ball can fall of a reserve handle if it wasn't crimped right, pins can bend and break, but the only real way to have a reserve cable get severed is to cut the damn thing. This is a pretty heinous accusation to level based on a second hand story. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Something tells me this was high performance crew. Those damn whipper snapper hot shots and their tiny canopies! "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

I love Gelvenor, I jumped at the chance to get a Mamba custom made with the stuff when they found a few rolls of it hidden away in a closet or some corner in the South African factory! "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

You exposed him to a dz.com shit storm, but you also probably introduced his product to a handful of people that didn't even know it existed.

We aren't AFF students any more, we are students of the sport and our knowledge is supposed to progress. If you are bringing your slider past your toggles and behind your head it makes zero sense to do that with the canopy if full flight. Here is a simple quiz. Question 1: A square canopy flies with more forward speed with: a. stowed brakes b. released brakes in full flight. Question 2: Closing speeds between two skydivers on opposing flight paths increases as the canopies speed increases: a. True b. False Question 3: Time available to react to a possible collision decreases as closing speeds increase: a. True b. False I am not trying to over simplify this but it is rather simple. If you are going to take your slider past your toggles you are going to have to take your hands out of your toggles, period. This does not change if your brakes remain stowed, or are released to full flight. That means at that given moment you will need to respond to flying towards another jumper with your rear risers. Having your brakes stowed gives your more time to react. Slower flight is better until you have finished all of your chores. A canopy will avoid a collision course quite well using rear risers with brakes set, but more importantly it is moving through the 3d sky slower, in a more controlled manner. It doesn't change the fact that you need to avoid other canopies, and do a full control check before going through your hard deck. It is about flying the smarter way while your are doing everything in between! "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

On facebook they are now saying it may be 6:00pm by the time the otter shows up, maybe as early 4:30 but they were warning people not to count on it. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Absolutely and rightfully so! For the young jumpers out there, this vid is a good demonstration on: The jumper hits the key lesson for me. You're flying an unknown entity until you've done EVERYTHING in your flight checks. I used to leave my canopy in half brakes and float back to the dz for no particular reason other than laziness until I saw exactly the same thing happen to 2 other people... albeit under less aggressive wings. That taught me that releasing my brakes are part of my post-deployment process. Absolutely, it is not unlike hopping in the car and flooring the gas without making sure that the steering column has unlocked, and the brakes work! I have unfortunately heard with some regularity newer jumpers being told that they can leave the brakes stowed to get back from a long spot. Not only is it not the best way to get back from a long spot if you are upwind with strong uppers, but I cringe to think about a new jumper waiting until pattern to unstow their brakes only to find out that they have a knotted control line, or worse. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Loosened chest strap has nothing to do with EPs other than if you are going to loosen your strap, then knowing the likely locations of your handles is mandatory. Best bet is to LOOK for your handles before you start grabbing! I agree and disagree Pops. With small rigs, articulated harnesses, and ridiculously long chest straps your chest strap may not be part of your EP's, but it sure sure as hell needs to be a consideration in your post opening procedures. With these extra long chest straps and flexible systems it is possible to get your reserve handle and main lift web all sorts of places away from where it normally is. Absolutely agree that the EP's need to be look reach pull, but when you are spinning under a highly loaded spun up HP canopy it isn't always as smooth and easy as just looking over and saying, oh look my reserve. You need to look, especially if it is distorted out of the way, but it is much quicker to look locate and pull if it is close to where it should be, which is what the chest strap helps to ensure. I keep my chest strap moderately tight until after my controllability check. The two spinning cutaways in this configuration kept my handles right where they should have been. I really think the best procedure is to leave that chest strap properly configured until after you have gone through everything else, have cleared the brakes, and you know that no malfunctions are lurking. As far of the order of house keeping: First, open up clear airspace in the direction you need to turn to get off of the jump run line. You will eventually need to locate all of the other canopies but you will head off problems by not flying under the groups the left the plane after you. Once I have clear air I collapse the slider and pull it past the toggles. If you are putting the slider behind your head you should not unstow you brakes first in my opinion. This puts you in full flight with way more forward speed, and I don't think that is appropriate while you are distracted by your housekeeping chores. It is also much harder to get the slide properly past both toggles and behind your head if you unstow them first. Then I unstow toggles, flare to deep brakes to slow down while I track the rest of the load. Finally I let out my chest strap. I can do that with both hands in the toggles. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Need to check my email that I got, but yes 2. I think that is the time the Twin Otter is showing up. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

I think they are closed today, opening tomorrow at 2pm. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

I just realized that this is for a GoPro3, but still awesome. I only have one Hero2 of my own right now, and the DZ has more Hero2's and some lack luster gloves. I know chuting star still has some of your original 2 camera gopro 2 gloves, but this design is just so slick. Guess I just have to wait for the next latest and greatest gopro to push down the resale value on the 3! "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Yes that one exactly.

Yeah... Sure... Recommend to a guy with 70 jumps to do rear riser landings. Sometimes I wish our moderators in this forum would act more like S&TA's and give time outs to people giving stupid advice to new jumpers. I would tell some one to STFU if I saw them telling that to one of my newer jumpers at my regular dropzone. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Damn! 63 views and no one remembers what the hell I am talking about. I must have been hallucinating! "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Bruno, Can you please post the footage with the wide angle? I am curious how it looked. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

There was a really nice two gopro handycam setup that was posted on here a few weeks/months back. I just can't seem to get the forum software to bring up that thread. I am getting posts as old as several years back, but not the one I am looking for. It was a machined plastic housing for the two cameras, looked very clean and well designed. What I remember is that the protype was machined maybe out of white plastic, but the overall design quality is what made it memorable! Does this ring a bell to anyone? Thanks! "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Those are absolutely gorgeous! There are a handful of them on there that I would love. Maybe a 30th birthday present for myself! "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Ewww Billy. Why in the world would you take something as perfect as a good ribeye, and soak it in marinade over night?!! Salt pepper, hot ass chunk charcoal. Sear and done! "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

That would be my uneducated guess. I think it had some heavy cargo like vehicles. I wonder if something broke free and rolled all the way aft in the cargo bay. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

15:*:2 I need to think about the notable events part, they were all pretty fun.

Besides employer sponsored health insurance what insurance do you think a jumper should have: I have life through work. Short term & long term disability. Business please insurance - not sure if that would do much. Going to be signing up for long term care insurance too. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

I would like to think that most of us can recognize the dividing line between arguing and being a pain in the ass to each other on the internet, and real life. But considering we are just a slice of the overall population, we probably have our own share of people with their heads that aren't screwed on straight too. Either way, you can mother fuck me on the internet, and I won't try to frame you for a ricin attack, OK Andy? "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

Some peoples heads aren't screwed on straight. I would shake hands, share a drink, and be thrilled to meet anyone on here or my other forums for my hobbies. So what if we disagree on things online? "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

I don't disagree with you Bill. Which is why I think we need to circle back around and really take a hard look at this. We need to consider that in the heat of the moment all the other rules can and will be cast aside, and we need to come back to some bedrock principles that are respected no matter what. What if this was ten terrorists in ten cities. What if they were attacking civilians and police actively. I can only imagine the disruption to everyday life, and I think the biggest disruption would be from our response. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P

You don't think that police departments have written procedure and policy books that cover: Fugitive searches. Hostage scenarios. Terrorist attacks. Procedures on search and seizures. They had to make a new procedure book for this instance, but I am sure that it had stuff that conflicted with restrictions on all of their other ones! "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P