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The only part that is any different is the very end when you are about to put it in the bag. Get all the air out, and do it just like you would with F-111 BUT move quickly while keeping control of everything. Keep the stack between and your knees and sort of under your thighs while you get the bag in position. Move both knees on top of the stack, then shift your weight a little to the left while you pull the bag over the right side of the canopy. Now grab the whole left front corner of the stack with your left hand and shift your weight to the right while you push that corner all the way into the bottom corner of the bag. Once you have it in there, stand the bag upright, pull the top closed as best you can, and put your knee on the whole bag while you spin around to stow the lines. This will drive more air out and allow you to pull the grommet to the rubber band attachment point. Watch people with tons of zero-p pack jobs to see how they move quickly and smoothly while always keeping a little weight on the canopy. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

You will be sucking until Wedensday, when I start jumping. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I just want to remind everyone that drakeshelby and I will not be arrving at WFFC until late Tuesday night, so kindly refrain from having anything fun occur until Wednesday morning. On Wednesday, you can all make up for lost time. Thanks. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

A baglock is a partial malfunction. Cut it away and pull your reserve. There is room for discussion about whether a PC in tow is a partial malfunction or a total malfunction. I consider it a partial malfunction because I have deployed a portion of my main system. Others will call it a total because the pin is still in. At some point this is really just semantics. There are two schools of thought on PC in tow - go straight to reserve or cutaway and pull reserve. Both have their potential drawbacks. Personally, I'm cutting away and pulling my reserve. It is possible that after I do that, others will post in the incidents forum that they told me so. A PC in tow is a nasty situation that should be carefully avoided by cocking your pilot chute and routing your bridle correctly. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>I only know one emergency procedure: feet together, arch, look red, grab red, look silver, grab silver, pull red, pull silver, arch, check.

>>i was later told to close the horizontal gap first and then the vertical (go into a track right out the door and once i'm above the group, drop down to them)-- that's worked great for me.

>>Coach dives may be free at hillbilly DZs, but debriefs will be brief - if they debrief you at all.

So here's my only NSTIWITIWGTD story: Jump 358. Wings container, Hornet 190 at 1.2, Tempo 210. After a 9-way RW jump with an ambitious plan that might as well have had 9 AFF students on it (in actual fact, it had a total of about 15K jumps on it and two world record holders, but we still managed to screw the pooch), breakoff at 5,000 feet. Track, wave off and deploy. My Hornet opened in a diving turn to the left with the slider stopped a good 3/4 of the way up the lines. I grabbed both rears to pump the slider down, which did nothing, then I pulled just the right rear to try to stop the turn, which did not do nearly enough. The slider was square, but way up the lines. I really think I could see the excess brake line on both sides, because I told myself that both brakes were still stowed. I was turning pretty hard, but not on my back or any crap like that. Still, I did not want to land that. Then I noticed that I had a somewhat familiar feeling that I could not quite identify. The feeling was not tandem in the door scared, nor was it AFF Level 3 why the hell did you guys let me go scared, but it was similar. I quickly realized that I was first cutaway scared. Identifying the feeling made things seem a little easier, so I gave up on the risers and lookredgrabredlooksilvergrabsilverpullredSNICKgirlyscreampullsilver. As I was waving off, I was just below 3. I saw that I was a good bit below 2 while I was pulling on the risers. I am guessing that I pulled the cutaway handle at 1500. I was saddled out under my reserve at 1200. Landing was uneventful. All my sh!t landed on the dropzone; more specifically, on the runway. When I thanked Mullins for the spot, he said that he used to spot cutaways for the peas, but other people kept stepping on the cutaway mains, so now he puts them on the runway. Good to see that he was able to keep his sense of humor about my littering his runway while he was on final. Examination of the canopy once recovered revealed that the left brake was unstowed. I really think I did this when I was trying to work with the rears, since having the left brake unstowed would actually cause a right, rather than left, turn. The Tempo 210 had a pretty good right hand turn built in. My rigger is taking it home to measure the lines and see if the turn was due to a trim problem. Loaded at 1.0, however, the landing was a gentle standup despite the fact that I had a very weak flare due to having the left toggle below my nipples to fly straight. Thanks to Chris and Judy for teaching me EPs, thanks to Danny Hall for the reserve pack job, thanks to Dane Justice for retrieving my gear from the runway, thanks to Mike Mullins for the ride up and the kind spot, thanks to Steph and Kevin for calming me down and untangling my main after I landed, and thanks to all the folks who expressed their happiness that I did not die after I landed. Your beer is coming. In order to do another jump that day, I borrowed a brand new student Mirage with a Tri 260 and got on another load. This was by far the most comfortable student rig I have ever worn. I am 6' 6" tall, so it was a little short on me even all the way out, but it was WAY better than the older student rigs at WTS. I have worn Javelin and Telesis student rigs in the past, and I have to say that for comfort, the Mirage wins hands down when I am shoehorned into it. Just a little unsolicited plug for a student container that really did impress me. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

What a bummer. Come to Memphis, where they are free. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>I think three years of "time in sport" should be the criteria for ANY Instructor rating.

You can add jlmiracle, chriswelker, and lisadowdy to the Memphis clan. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I was all pumped to do it while I was down in FL, but my b!tch ex-gf made us do something else - like go to the mall or something. I think it looks awesome. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I voted for rig1. I notice rig3 is ahead, but all the rig 3 voters really should know that pink is your favorite color. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>What TSO catagory is it rated under? (I know.)

That its placarded weight and speed are essentially the same as others. The initial question was whether anyone rates their gear to a higher speed than anyone else. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

A friend of mine just bought a Precision r-Max 168. Its data panel lists a max operating weight and speed of 205 pounds and 150 knots. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

1. See the sticky at the top of the page. Every time I have e-mailed Wings, they have responded within a few hours. 2. Mine is a little higher. 3. Mine overlap. My Wings was made to my measurements. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I think all the negatives on APS are H negatives. The C or P is just a piece of data on the negative that tells how to crop it for printing. The camera does not actually mask any of the negative. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Because your film is 24mm not 35mm, you are going to have a crop factor like on DSLRs, so you will probably want to go wider than you think. A 24mm lens on your 24mm film will be the same as a 35mm lens on 35mm film. Much of the vignetting associated with very wide lenses will be cropped out, however, so you should be able to get away with crappier 3rd party wide angles. Borrow a lens from someone who has a 10D and see how the angle of view works out and go from there. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>Weapons that can incapacitate crowds of people by sweeping a lightning-like beam of electricity across them are being readied for sale to military and police forces in the US and Europe.

>>Isn't it interesting how the Lefties attitudes towards terrorists have changed since Sept. 11?

>> It has very little in common with the Hornet

Since you are using EOS gear, try using Tv or Av mode (your choice) with a little negative exposure compensation to underexpose the background a bit, then let E-TTL expose the subject correctly with the flash. I think the flash helped, but it would have been great if you had taken another shot right after this one (before the flash recharged) so we could see the difference. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I'm 6' 6" tall and weigh 195 pounds. My used gear choices were slim (get it? slim! yuk yuk yuk). ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>What is it that you don't understand?>If the canopy says safe to 150 KEAS and 254 pounds exit weight it means 150 KEAS 254 pounds exit weight. Why is this so difficult to understand?>Looking for a loop hole will not change the fact that exceeding these figures is foolish if not down right stupid.