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Trouble pulling toggles/ complete flare
lekstrom10k replied to BelskyBlueEyes's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Consider what you are jumoing, a very de tuned canopy. look up and see how much slack is in the steering lines. If there is a big bow and takes 6 or 8 inches to make them taut maybe take wraps around your hands to take uo some of it.Your arms as is might not be long onough for a good flare from full up position.They were set that way so Mr Macho cant impress his instructor with how far down he can pull. the only impression is the one he makes on the ground Once you are beyond half brakes and the canopy slows down the rest should be easie.r -
My son and I got ride one after the Shrine Circus was over. I heard you could ride them before it started too. You just went around the ring. not like a safari. I never saw that at Ringling Brothers when they were in town. This was in the Detroit area so check to see when the next circus is coming to town.
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Being a doctor he has to golf wether he likes it or not. Ask him if he has a death wish too being around un coordinated jerks drunk and on golf carts wacking balls in any direction . Then ask him if he hunts being around staggering drunks with high powered rifles, safety off taking sound shots.( heard a sound and shot in that direction ). I'll take my chances in the sky with my friends and my para chute. A reply from the little old lady about flying " If God wanted us to fly we would have been born with wings. I am going to stay home and watch TV like God intended. Just dont tell me I am wrong because I dont have a Wayne Newton greatest hits CD like they do .enough said bye-bye
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I totally agree with this reasoning. They know they are responsible for their actions.There wont be any Mommy or Daddy save me during a malfunction. Just as in a drivers ed course they are taught what can happen and how to deak with it. Mommy may pay their tickets, but cant take away the points.As earlier stated maturity has a lot to do with it and attention span. I take some Tandems I will be glad when its over walking to the plane types.
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If you get a Para Gear catalogue there is an ad for the Hat Shoppe . It has a chart to determine your head size. Also colors and how to gat printing on the cloth over the rubber tubes. Mine came as my 60th birthday present with my SOS number on it, 727, for my 727 jumps.After having one for 20 years plus I found a way to wash them .I pull the cloth inside out at the kitchen sink under the faucet . I just use liquid Tide or so and scrub it with a brush rinse and wring it out and dry over night.
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The last time I saw one of those torches it was part of a portable soldering kit from Radio Shack. It seems to me you could take the soldering tip off and use it as a torch, and as you said it was refillable If you want to read a short story about what you will be doing try {To start a fire by Jack London}. The dog was no dummy. As for the magnesium , Once it starts you cant put it out similar to phophrus so be careful.As kid we used to take wooden matches and dip them in hot parafine and make our own waterproof matches, they also burned longer and more wind proof, Also consider a magnifying glass as a back up
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I want you to think about this who is taking who for a ride you or your parachute. Keep your toggles full up right into a building or tree because your instructor says so. If you cant land your canopy were you want to you will never be able to land it where you want to when you have to . Off airport landings or reserve landings . If you turn final and find you have more drive than expected, check around you. Because you are asking I assume you are a low timer. Put on some brakes to see where you stop forward travel until you feel comfortable your not blowing over let up until your scared and do it again. The main thing to remember is not going from deep brakes full toggles up to flare low because of the pendulum affect, Hurts like hell to be on the down swing which is what you instructers are trying to avoid.
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I have a copy of the book I got at a garage sale for $3 . It has a great line I will attempt to quote. "The sky divers in their brightly costumes were landing with the grace and dignity of a clown falling out of a tree". There is a scene where the hero hears a plane [J-3] passing over the top . He looks to see a girl get out and knows she is in trouble sky diving. He and the pilot drag a C-172 out of the hangar and he puts on a rig in the plane. they climb above her he jumps out and he catches her. they land MR BILL style as always just in the nick of time. Bob Sinclair can also help on any back ground info.
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I remembered one, I just did again this week end. After reviewing some previous posts about camera persons . When your passenger is being interviewed on the flight up pick invisible bugs around you and pretend to eat them.They never know until they see it at the DZ, or at home. Some of the reactions are priceless
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i AGREE WITH THE DESCRIPTION ABOVE ME .iTS RELATIVE TO MUSIC. THE ACTUAL FIRST SKYDIVING BOOGIE AT RICHMOND IN 1972 WAS MISSPELLED ON THE T_SHIRTS AS BOGGIE. IT WAS A COLLECTORS ITEM MY WIFE THREW AWAY. SHE SAID IT WAS WORN OUT. IT WAS WORN OUT BECAUSE IT WAS A COLLECTORS ITEM. I WILL NEVER FORGIVE HER FOR THAT.THE BOOGIE MAN WAS FROM A LAUREL AND HARDY MOVIE.'THE MARCH OF THE TIN SOLDIERS' IN1936 OR SO.ONE OF THE FEW MOVIES OLDER THAN ME. BT THE WAY I WAS AT EVERY ONE AT RICHMOND, ALL FREAKPORT .MISSED ONE AT QUINCY BUT MADE EVERY RANTOUL.THANKS FOR ASKING
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I always had fun with " For a dollar I'll tell you what you said going out the door ,for two bucks I wont tell anybody" If you promise and then dont pay I'll tell your friends you screamed like a little girl. It usually starts them off in a good mood even before you get in the plane.I am sometimes asked in the inflight" How are you doing Larry?" I will reply Who my names is Bob ,isnt this the bus to the Euchere tournament at the senior citizens hall. The camera guy will usually say OH OH he is in one of his many personalities, Hope he gets back to the skydiver one before you exit.Have fun I always did
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Being a Michigan winter jumper for 36 of the last 39 years I found neoprene Ice Fishing gloves have worked well for me. Kame-Aparts {K-Marts} sold them in alot of sizes. I found a snug undersized than normal worked best. My hands would almost sweat Making other jumpers upset. They were only $8, If you got them at a large Chain sporting goods store with a velcro strap {unnecessary} for $13. They also worked well if you had to chop out frozen eaves troughs like mine.I tried all kinds but had my best luck with them
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The patch you were refering to was the SCR patch. It was supposed to have been designed with a plate , a saucer, and a shot glass. Dont remember the straight edge though. Something appropriate in a rainy day bar situation no doubt.Any way thats how I heard it a few beers ago. or years either way
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Why do reserves never go out of date on Monday. Why you still speed with your wipers going full blast on the way to the DZ. Why your wife wants to talk to you about your 4 year old sons college education the day your Parachutist or Skydiving arrives, just cant give you 15 minutes.Why the worst student comes back and the natural doesnt Why the weather goes to hell the weekend before the airplane payment is due. Just a few of my wonderings
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When I was in the Army in the 1961to1964 On the east coast/ I collected Beer can openers from all the different beers I drank.After going to Germany I kept the Beer Platz [coasters] Each Gast Haus had their own beer it also served as your tab . They would count the lines for each beer and "X" for food .I. still have many boxes to look through. My main collection is Boogie T-Shirts ,I have them back to 1969 And an original BOGGIE from Richmond . I also have over150 Various degree of disgusting ones that were given to me because the donor didnt have the guts to wear it themselves.My favorite is one with a girls boobs and fantastic body painted on it. To watch the reactions from it is priceless.
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Years ago a person I knew was driving home New Years morning still under the influance from the party. He plowed into a cop car waiting at the stop light. When the officer tapped on his window he said " Boy it didnt take you guys long to get here". Needles to say he didnt get to watch any football games that day from his cell.
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getting stable arch on S/L sitting exit
lekstrom10k replied to gravitywhore's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
You sound like you're trying to get out of a U206. We started using one for static-line in 1969. We would have the student sit as far out on the door frame as comfortable, their J/M kneeling forward in the back of the door. When they got the go their hands were,both on the bottom door frame. . They would raise themselves up slightly, hop a turn to the front out the door while raising their arm up thumbs even with their ears. It still works today . Hope this helps -
I would definitely go on AN-2 .It was actually the most widely produced air plane in the world, 8 communist bloc countrys and China. There is one at Ray community airport north of Selfridge Air Force Base north of Detroit. It was set up for jumping, the pilot ground looped it without damage, but scared off any potential jumpers a few years ago. Its still sitting. I jumped the one at Quincy as it escaped to Missouri. With the floater bar and steps it was really really really breezy to crawl out side worth every penny though. It is a true 40 - 40 -40 plane took off cruised and landed at 40.
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I agree with you , the brake setting is governed by the the finger trapped loop , its relative to high the lowest steering line is to the "A" line attachment. Mine is 8 inches only to my canopy. The toggle location is your personal thing. A student canopy usually has a big bow full toggles up to trailing edge. so it cant be stalled . If you were jumping Demos or Accuracy and needed to sink, you might even have it tucking the tail slightly. Or a person with short arms that never thought they got a good flare. You could just out a temporary toggle knot until its comfortable. The amount of drive lost is so minimal you would never know. At your state of jumping you want to take your canopy for a ride not it take you.Hope this helps,
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As you can see by the years in the sport I have been around a few. We would take the old frenchy jump boots ,put goggles around the ankles. Then put a helmet down over the boot tops with gloves coming down from under the ear cover portion with just fingers mostly showing . We would sometimes put a ripcord in the glove . It looked a very short person with a pretty bad mal . it would freak out whuffos until thet realized it was only a joke
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I have gotten it Binsons in the Detroit area.They sell wheel chairs ,bath tub adapters and railings , etc etc. I wanted tubing to replace goggle bands for our tandems . It didnt come in decorator colors but they sure had enough. A friend said at his hospital they had actual inserting tools too.Maybe some doctor jumpers could line all of us up . there is always asking the local junkie where he gats his for shooting up. So its not that hard to find ,I just looked in my phone book and was surprised at how many stores there were, Hope this helps
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I have had 13 since I started in85 out of 2500 .I had back to back only once. If you have a large person no wind hot you know all the bestthings. I found you can have them put their hands in the reserve toggles. You can then put your hands over the top with the lines between your middle and ring fingers and push down together. We have PD tandem reserves they are great. the HI Lifter was a nuisance. I only had one guy go beserk all the otherssaid wow I got two freefalls attitude.I hope this helps..
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Seems to me Roger Nelson had a system like that at Ottowa before they moved to the new place on the north side of the expressway. So time wise they have been around .I am sure they will help because thats how they are. I also recall they had separate frequencies so more than one AFF could be on the same plane Hope this helps
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I would give them practice "Three two one flare" in the air and see how well they responded Then adjust. there is a DZ about 23 miles away that had a no flare injury because he was a judge. His response while moaning and groaning was "You dont tell ajudge what to do" Heard he lost the suit too. We had an egotistical AFF-I that thought he was the only one capable of talking anyone down .He would pull after his part fly down to a radio and then try to salvage where the student drifted to.. Another place I flew at had you call in before student drops so some one was always ready. So much for the ego method.
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Best Cessna launch for a "Track the Cat"
lekstrom10k replied to Zoso's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
You can add one thing if you plane doesnt have a flap gap kit . Ask your pilot to give you 10 degrees flaps that way you can have you first guy at the strur root and reach for the flaps too . your second guy can hold on left handed to the strut and point guy t all facing out third guy the same fourth can get one foot on the step. get grips and signal the go up the line . It can also be used to launch a diamond with right guy gripped left foot on andright hand on the flap.Left guy gripped right foot on the step left hand in the strut . last one picks both grips signals go Its fun to dive it out barrel roll and loop it .You can even cheat and have the pilot drop the right wing on your count. I am now editing a few hours later once the point gets the strut and the flap the two and three guys can drop their strut grip and pick up the leg quickly and go.. Ask how to roll a four way tube of the step sometime