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I pulled mine out of my Dolphin myself, after asking the same question in this forum... it was pretty easy to remove... main thing that someone recommended to me, was to make sure to not pull anything out by any of the cables... so I didn't. I was able to gently push the cutter and display unit back thru their protective channel (that covers the cables in the container)... no problem. "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

I saw Petty in concert a couple of years ago, in an outdoor venue, on an absolutely glorious October evening... it was totally awesome! If you ever get the chance to see him live, take it! It was one of the best shows I've ever seen, the man just f'ing rocks! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Downloading the latest DirectX drivers won't fix it... ID uses OpenGL for video (OpenGL and DirectX are both graphics subsystems) on all their games... you need drivers and a video card that support OpenGL... know what kind of video card is in your computer? They list this in the system requirements on their website... * 3-D Hardware Accelerator (with 16MB VRAM with full OpenGL® support "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

hehehe... 17 years... "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Here's a list of them... www.ground-rush.com/stores.htm#USED and a couple that weren't mentioned yet... www.cousindave.com www.skykat.com/usedgear2.htm Good luck! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

I'm with flyangel2... I started so long ago (1978) that S/L progression was the only way people were trained... I didn't get stuck until 15 second delay's though... I made a bunch of them, most of 'em spinning like a top! I jumped just long enough the first time (1978-1983) to actually make some AFF jumps as a jumpmaster! I think the current availability of a variety of training programs is a good thing for our sport!!! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Well, it's all relative, but people like you and I (also freshly off Newbie status) will likely never be able to compete with the real post whores, they just have too big a head start!!! It is good to get rid of that Newbie status though, isn't it? Congrats, and Merry Christmas! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Well, it's better than sex with my ex-wife was... But it's not better than the best sex I've ever had! Skydiving's a damn close second though! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

a little over a million years ago, I was a static line jumpmaster... I jumpmastered lots and lots of students, on and off over a 5 year span, and only had one student refuse to jump. She wouldn't get near the door, or I could have... you know... helped her out onto the step. She and I rode down with the plane, and she came back several weeks later, went up with a different JM, and did the same thing! We never saw her again after that. I have an old friend that has video of one of the jumps he made as a tandem master, and on the video, you can clearly hear the student saying "No No No", and you can clearly hear the videographer tell the tandem master, "she says Go Go Go"... they went. "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

I had a Norelco rotary for about 18 years (longer than I had my now ex-wife, in fact my g/f before my now ex-wife bougt if to me for X-mas one year) and loved it... When it died recently, my kids bought me a new electric razor for Fathers Day, a Remington 'screen' type, a three head model (TCT3 I think)... don't tell the kids, but I liked my rotary a lot better. So my vote goes to the Norelco rotary... although I do agree with SkyMonkeyOne, no electric shaves as close as a real razor. "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Sweet deal, count me in! I have this same deal with a friend of mine, only it's with houses... if I win, I pay off her house, and if she wins, she buys me a house... I could use a new rig... "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

I made over 500 jumps from 1978-1983, long before the Cypres was invented... the only AAD's available at the time were simply not reliable enough for experienced jumpers to use while doing RW, so almost no one used them back them... In Jan. of 2000, when I started jumping again after a 17 year layoff, I bought gear, and I did put a used Cypres in it... not because I thought I needed it, but because a reliable solution was available now, and it seemed to make sense to me... I also bought an audible altimeter (never had one before), again because the technology was available, and it seemed to make sense. Keep in mind that most fairly current harness and containers (made in the last 6-8 years) will be 'Cypres ready', and that you can always add a Cypres to your rig at any time, as long as it's been designed to accommodate it. "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Very nice analysis of opening sequence Hook! I started jumping back in 1978, and jumped thru about 1983 or so, and don't remember hard openings being such a hot topic back then... oh, canopies varied in deployment speed, sure, but I don't recall people having openings so hard it hurt them (other than my now ex-wife, who used to get some horrific inner thigh bruises from the Starlite she jumped!). But lots has changed since then... canopy fabric and line materials are different, freefall speeds are way up (even for belly flying!), and I wonder if those changes aren't at least in part responsible for the tendency towards hard openings? It's interesting to note that I have a copy of SDU's Basic Body Flight Video, and if you watched the openings that are part of the video (it's old, I think they're all Sabres they're jumping, as PD was a sponsor), the openings range from one that is sweet as candy, to one that looked like it had to hurt! A very night and day difference between the two, but I don't have the experience to really analyze why they vary so much (and not sure if you could slow the video down enough anyway)... Thanks, I'll try having my rigger shrink that lip down in size (it's prolly at least 2 - 2.5 inches right now), and see what that does to my openings). I know everybody thinks the old Sabres are boats, but it's all relative... loaded 1.2ish, it's the smallest , highest performance canopy that I've ever jumped! And other than the too long snive on openingl, I like the thing... "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Velcro on the nose, huh? I'm not just arguing for the sake of arguing... I have a Sabre that sombody else (the previous owner) put a pocketed slider on it, and I don't know whether it was knee-jerk reaction to a hard opening, or what, but it was on there when I purchased the canopy, and I know of at least two experienced canopy pilots that post here that have recommended that to people (does that make them crazy?). But if you read my thread in Gear and Rigging, you'd know that I'm not happy with the openings on my Sabre, I think the thing snivels way too long, and suspect that it's related to the pocketed slider. I also wonder if the pocketed slider is really even necessary, or if a big standard slider would be fine (and I will likely find out). Hell, any canopy can open hard, with line dump and premature slider drop (before the canopy actually inflates and forces it down the lines) being the two biggest culprits. PD's stance (I talked to Scott Miller at PD before I bought the canopy), is that the Sabre is very "unforgiving" of the kinds of packing "sloppines" that cause hard openings in general, thus their reputation for hard openings. I do agree that you have to draw the line somewhere, I just don't think that adding a lip to the slider is inherently any crazier than requiring a certain size pilot chute, or a larger slider... But velcro on the nose, now that's crazy! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

No No, I don't have a very FF friendly rig, it's a Dolphin 2000! Honestly, I wish I had spent the extra money on something more FF friendly... after I really learn to fly on my belly again, I may venture over to the "dark side"! If I get a freeflyer to video me, won't all my video be upside down? "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Ha! One of the things that Michele forgot to mention was, that I made most of my jumps soooooooo long ago, that the camera hadn't yet been invented! hehehe... lifelong dream? Well, I did tell her that I couldn't quit jumping yet, that I was planning yet another comeback (long story!), at least in part because I don't have any video! For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of talking to Michele, you should call her and pretend to be interested in real estate! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Why is this fix any worse than the suggestion of a smaller pilot chute, or a larger slider, to tame hard openings? If I call PD and tell them my Sabre opens hard, and they provide a bigger slider (or someone calls Atair about a Cobalt, and they suggest a smaller pilot chute), and it corrects the openings, is that a bad thing?!? "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Geez, bikerbabe, take that thing to your rigger, or send it back to RWS, and have that stuff replaced! That's even potentially dangerous for belly flying, unless you guys never ever funnel. That's why nobody's using velcro anymore, it's not that it doesn't work, it's that it's too high maintenance!!! It degrades gradually over time, with each and every peeling and unpeeling, and requires vigilant maintenance to perform the duties for which it was intended. "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

I have velcro, because I was too big to find a used rig (6' 3", 230lbs) that fit me, and I bought a Dolphin because it was a good, safe (for belly flying anyway, and that's almost all I do) rig that I could afford. A good used rig would have been somewhat older, and likely would have still had velcro anyway... That said, I'll have the risers covers converted to tuck tab the first time the velcro needs to be replaced, instead of having the velcro replaced. "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Very good points Erno! I've only made about 50 jumps on the canopy, but the openings have been pretty consistent, in that they all took a long time! (actually, inflation is not that slow, it just snivels for a long time before it starts really inflating...) I have debated the merits of doing nothing to the canopy, and just living with it (as I have been), but I'd like the openings better if I could speed them up just a little... if the only options were worrying about getting spanked with a regular slider, or living with the snivel with my pocketed slider, I'd stay with the current setup. I checked the trim when I first bought the canopy, and it was well within the specs PD gave me... I'll have them recheck it while they put new control lines on it (it's got about 300 jumps total) next month. "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

I wondered that too... I'm going to talk to my longtime friend and rigger about this, but I thought I'd throw a quick post up and see what people thought... I know there's been lots of discussion regarding ways to slow openings down, but I've never seen any regarding speeding openings up... I also wonder if just pulling the slider away from the nose while packing would help... I just quarter it now... "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

So you see, I have this big Sabre, and the previous owner installed a pocketed slider on it, and it does slow the openings down on it... a little too much! I don't roll the nose at all, and roll the tail just enough to control the pack job, and it still snivels for what seems like forever (and it's not my imagination, a videographer on a 4 way jump once told me he was sure he was going to see a cutaway, I told him, nah, it always opens like that!)... So, short of replacing the pocketed slider (and subsequently having to worry about it spanking me!), is there any way to speed up the openings just a little bit??? "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

I didn't realize WEP was that weak... my bad! I don't run any wireless at work, so my real life experience with it is limited. I did know that they were working on a more secure version, but hey, isn't security one of the hottest topics in IT these days? I love the forums here, you can learn so much! Phree, what excatly would you be doing with all those wireless access points that you're hacking??? "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Not if he's got it properly secured using WEP (a wireless security protocol)... if he hadn't been smart enough to do that, yes, he'd be sharing the connection with anybody within range... Ever hear of 'war driving'? People with properly set up laptops driving around just looking for unsecured wireless access points. "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Boobies!!! There, I hijacked my first thread! And while I might be too old to really be fixating on boobies, I'm old enough (and wise enough) not to join in on an emotionally charged discussion regarding the merits of a persons sexual orientation. C'mon guys, can't we just play nice? I'm going back to thinking about Skymama chained to that desk... hmmmm... how many chains are used? "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."