Kynan1

Now that was funny..hahah Yeah, might as well get a nice freefly for your last seconds on earth, or before you hit it.

I believe you would die, unless the airplane was off and on the ground.

My Solo is set for 4500, 2000, 1500. I'm under canopy by 3,000 usually. Then of course, one front riser turn @2k and I hear a siren like the world is coming to an end..haha They should have it so you can have just one audible tone for whichever altitude you choose. Does the Solo have a volume control?

I have my ditter set to 4500, 2000, 1500. If I do a hard turn @2100, the ditter will go off. Is there a way to bypass hearing the ditter, after you're under canopy? I know you can set all the beeps to one altitude, but then it's way too loud. Any ideas?

Uhhh...so, this isn't the site to make friends who freefly with camera helmets then? haha

I go to Perris every few weekends and would like to get some footage of myself, as well as others. I fly camera and have 230 jumps. Message me if you freefly, fly camera, and jump at Perris. Preferably someone @ the same jump number or a competent sit. Thanks

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Is that where they get saying, "What are you deaf and dumb?" haha Brilliant, intentional cutaway.

Can't wait to swoop one of those. It's going to be a blast!

Unless you own a dropzone, the only money in skydiving is that of which coming out of your wallet. I think it's great to work it part time to offset fun jumping costs, but realistically, there's no money in it. Not to mention the cost of your own gear.

I was on that same jump. Hope he gets what he needs to enter the Project Walk program. Best of luck to him and his family, all of which I don't know personally.

Location? Probably number one.

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What a concept...ahaha Surprised it took so long for someone to step up to the plate. I actually want to go there now. Hopefully Perris and other big dropzones will do something on this.

Yes, certified douchebag. I love these guys, anything to avoid real work. Complete jagoff. Yeah, you want to pay me extra money for the canopy, then have me refund you $150 for the overpriced fake check...brilliant. If you're dumb enough to fall for some shit like that, you shouldn't be jumping out of a plane...haha What clown.

Unless she has DD natural rack or bigger, disregard her comments and move on. I could never see giving up something I love doing because someone can't accept the things I do. If someone loves you, they should support everything you do and who you are as a person. I think I'd laugh is some girl wanted me to stop doing something I love..ahaha Next thing you know, she'll ask you to stop masturbating. It's really up to you in the situation though, does the girl mean more to you than the freedom of living your life how you want to?

I don't see the average life being @150 jumps when the average number is 1 in 100,000 chances of a double malfunction. Even with canopy collisions, the number seems false. Regardless of what the facts are, the only time I don't feel safe, is under canopy. There aren't any real regulations when landing or some kind of grounding on a person to make a landing error (wrong way, etc). Dropzones and the USPA should wake up and do something on this. I'm the last one that is gung ho on rules and believe skydiving should be about flying free, etc. There are just too many canopy accidents to sit around waiting for the next one to occur. Graduating AFF doesn't even require any kind of canopy control or flight pattern awareness. For example: Swooping is in one area, regular landing pattern goes in a different spot. If there is only one spot, you need to do a hop n' pop to swoop, which most swoopers do anyway. If you go against the landing pattern in the main area, you are grounded for a month, etc. 2 violations within a year, you're suspended for 6 months and so on. As much as I can't stand "rules", this is on acception. It's easy to not see people in the air and accidents will always happen, but enforcing some kind of landing codes will raise a little more awareness on the dropzone. Kind of off topic, but oh well.

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I'd say 3 of 4 skydivers under the age of 35, smokes weed or drinks in excess. Coke doesn't seem to be very big in the sport today, but it's not a drug people are very accepting of, so nobody is advertising that one.

Is that a trick question? Of course it you want a solid sit fly to rely on, if your head down doesn't go well. I need to get my legs out more and straighten my back, to keep from back sliding. Working on that also and not jumping in any big groups either.

Checked out that clip. http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/uploads/crash.wmv That was pretty wild. I would never attempt a 4 way head down, unless I was pretty solid with a 2 way first. If I jump with someone on a head down exit, I let them know I'm working on it and don't have many jumps. If the head down goes quirky, I switch to a sit. At this point, I prefer jumping with only one other person.

I almost fell off my chair on that one.

I like how the stunt shown, wasn't really the same at the stunt that went wrong. The stunt on Stunt Junkies was directly through a hangar. The one that crashes was going around a door of a hangar. Both of them were pretty sick though. Almost no clearance on the top of the canopy on the Stunt Junkies one. I'll be on that show soon enough doing a cutting edge swoop on my 280, over some sharp rocks, while closing one eye!

Sorry, someone can have 400 jumps and be a horrid skydiver. There are people I know who are solid skydivers and don't come off like some skygod with a few hundred jumps. I'll probably have that number within a year. It's more experience, but nothing enormous. The funnies thing about the head down too early topic is if you look at statistics, swooping is hell more dangerous...even for someone with thousands of jumps. It's widely done, so it's no big deal. You want to make the sport safer, keep all canopies windloaded at 1:1. This is skydiving and not bowling though, so I accept someone can come slamming into me on a high performance chute. I don't go around telling people, you really shouldn't swoop, it only adds to the danger of the freefall experience...ahah It's part of the risk you take when you skydive. That's all.

Yes, great quote I made. It definitely does not apply to me skydiving though.