SkymonkeyONE

My monkey brother Jack just made a very valid point. That said, when I went looking for a canopy more manageable than my Velocity 79 for all my BirdMan flights, I chose the Sabre 2. Both open very straight and smooth, but the Sabre 2 will give you a bit longer swoop if that is what you are after. Chuck Blue A performance designs factory pilot who jumps pretty much every canopy in the PD inventory on a regular basis.

There are plenty. The Flight Concepts Rage looks a LOT like a Crossfire 2. Also included are the Competition Cobalt and the Fandango.

I am going to totally disagree with this for the following reason: trying a PLF while going downwind at 20 mph will likely injure you very badly. I teach sliding landings as the preferred option when caught, for whatever reason, in that fast downwind situation. That said, I also beat into my students that flaring too high and attempting to slide can potentially injure you just as badly. The single most common landing problem today is flaring too HIGH. I am not talking just students here; that's all jumpers. Stalling your parachute too high, then attempting to run out landings while still carrying forward speed is not the hot ticket. I have seen far too many people land "feet, knees, face" to recommend PLF's in an unintentional downwind landing, so now I preach flaring at the correct altitude no matter which direction you are landing. One where you land much like getting off a swing at the playground. If you "come around the corner" at the correct altitude, then you will have VERY little possibility of incurring a spinal injury as you transition your weight from the soles of your sliding feet to your butt. Arbitrarily telling someone that sliding is bad in all instances may work on your dropzone, but that is absolutely not the view at my dropzone. PLF's are still taught as the primary survival skill for too-high flares as, generally, there is not sufficient altitude to regain your natural glide before impact. In those instances they are absolutely needed. To land safely, a parachutist must either cancel his/her horizontal speed, vertical descent, or, preferably, both. I have, even with two-way radios on every student, many, many instances of people flaring too high. PLF's have helped prevent a lot of injuries in that respect. Likewise, a butt-slide halfway across the dropzone has saved just as many. Chuck Blue D-12501 AFF/SL/TM/BM-I, PRO, S&TA Manager, Raeford Parachute Center School

Does your suit fit properly? Were your knees far enough apart? Chuck

It just stopped raining I have a lot of tandems I want to swoop now

Sky ONE

What the hell is Mouth doing in Perris again? That girl ain't right!

A tighter, more manageable crowd it will be then. That said, I talked to my boy Rixter Neely in Mississippi last night and he is coming for sure and will arrive on the 1st. Come and meet the monkey that used to hook turn ParaFoils! I am telling you, the boy ain't right. Chuck

you disconnect the RSL because you don't want that foot-long piece of webbing with a metal ring on the end whipping around and entangling on your reserve parachute as you chop the main. Chuck

Yes, I still have that original, first edition Classic as well as a GTi and my smacky-booty SF3. I got the Classic from Bobby when he went into the army. Bobby ruled in that suit. Chuck

Pull the pads out, tape the holes from the inside, then paint it. Very simple.

Oaky. All day long. We have a LOT of Paul Oakenfold on our network.

I own a suit with that logo, jackass.

Come on, Steve. What are you trying to say? Chuckie

Watch your six down in the barrios. Have fun.

Stilletto 97 in a V1 vector II made for a 120. Loose, but never a problem. Competition Cobalt 65 in a Javelin RS. Once again, a bit loose, but never a problem. Chuck

what up monkey lip? this thread is going nowhere you are a flunky

..breaking up J.T.'s every-other-post in this thread as well.

Just poking in to break up J.T.'s every-other-post run. Geez, get a life, brother. And you, Sea Bass, go make some damn money. Chuckie

what yo name is, fool get yo ass on the airplane I'm going to sleep

Duece is a fricken monkey lip! The boy ain't right!

I am simply a squirrel living your world! As for the packahos, we are lacking badly. Interested packers should read the classifieds on this site. Chuck

Katie hit the nail on the head. The best example of this restriction I can think of is the one that has long been in place for USAJFKSWC students. They are absolutely prohibited to skydive or scuba dive while assigned as students anywhere in the schoohouse. Does is still happen on a regular basis? You bet it does, but the second you get injured to the point that you miss class or can't meet any physical requirements, you are done. The system has been in place on Fort Bragg since at least back when I went to the Q-course in 1984, but as a rated instructor, the only member of my cadre who ever ran into me on the dropzone never ratted me out. In the end, big boy rules apply. If this police officer was in fact under such constraints as written in his contract with the city, then I guess he is paying the price. Without knowing that for sure, we can complain about it all we like, but if he was in fact restricted by such a contract he ought not bitch. Chuck

Here is the link to the article. Chuck

I just got back to the dropzone and heard that Ian Bellis, formerly of PD and now a principle at the newly redone Aerodyne was killed by a car while crossing the street with or on his bike. I was told it happened yesterday. Very unfortunate. No other details. Chuck