AndyMan

Nah, that's way too big. I think an extremely extreme crossbraced canopy, sized around 69 square feet would be much safer. They're easier to land, afterall. Sorry, that was mean. My best advice is just to sit back, and wait. Jump the student gear at your DZ. You're jumping an absolutely HUGE canopy right now... maybe even as big as 280 square feet. You're going to start gradually downsizing to something in a comfortable wingloading. Exactly what size you should end up with depends on how experienced you are when you buy it. The longer you can wait, the happier you'll be with your canopy in the long term. When I had 10 jumps, I was recomended to buy a 250 sqr foot monster. When I had 20 jumps, I was recomended to buy a 210 sqr foot monster. WHen I had about 40 jumps, I bought a 190 sqr foot canopy, that I actually had the skill to load relatively heavilty (1.2) and not kill myself. I kept that canopy for over 250 jumps. If I'd bought the 210, or (god forbid) the 250, I would've been selling it as soon as I could have. I'm not saying that the people that were recomending big canopies were wrong, they were absolutely right. If I had bought a canopy when I had 10 jumps, it should've been a big-assed 250 sqr foot dog... it's just that I'm glad I DIDN'T buy one then, that I had the patience to wait until I could fly a smaller one properly. You're asking about a Stileto 150, and you say you weigh about 120. With gear, you're probably about 140... So you'd loading it about .9. If you wait a while, get more training, learn how to fly HP canopies, you could probably buy one a size smaller and load it at 1.0, or maybe even 1.1 Now a word about stilettos. Obviously, you know they're very high performance canopies, but you're thinking that because you're loading it very lightly, you'd be fine. And philisophically, I agree with you. I think younger jumpers should be trained on HP canopies early in their jumping careers. However, there's a problem with the Stiletto - it simply does not do light wingloading well. At a light wingloading, the Stiletto is VERY succeptable to turbulence. You're going to bounce around a LOT, and you're constantly going to be worrying about it collapsing. It might, in fact, collapse in turbulence... and that would suck. The stiletto is not a good candidate for light wingloadings. My best advice again, is to sit back, jump the student gear at your DZ. Once you're tired of that then I'd start getting demo gear from the manufacturers. You should be able to get demo mains from an assortment of manufacturers, and get someone at the DZ to put the main into a container at the DZ... then you can see what the different canopies are like. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Binky? Are you pondering what I'm pondering? Bah, I dunno Brain, why does the toothfairy only wear pink underwear? _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Cute. But it must be cause I'm a foreigner, or something.... I just don't get one. THe hammer and tooth? WTF? Am I missing out on some big part of American innuendo? _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Congratulations. I expect cigars on my next trip to texas. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

288:05 Woohoo! _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

It would also be nice to have an option to sort by first post, not by most recent post, just in that forum. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

289 hours! WooHoo! That is all. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

I walk 4 blocks, I hop on a water taxi, and ride down the chicago river for 10 minutes. I walk another 4 blocks. It takes me about half an hour, and costs me $1.30. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

You gotta understand, this whole corruption thing started LONG before he ever ran for govenor. He was sherif of Youngstown ohio when the FBI started looking into him. They charged him, took him to court, and he won. He used that victory to sell the population on the idea that the FBI was literally out to get him, that they had a vendetta against him. He played himself as the classic "us vs. them'... and the population bought it, hook line and sinker. Even now, he's still got a huge following, people who're convinced the whole thing was a setup, because the FBI, CIA, and NSA are out to get him. Welcome to Ohio, folkes. I suspect that if he ever does run, he won't win.... but it'll be frighteningly close. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

two words: skate case. Meaning figure skates. They're hard to find, but if there's a figure skating club nearby, they'll sell them inside. A skate care is roughly one foot cubed, and will hold your helmet with the cameras mounted. Add a bit of extra foam padding to stop it from moving around. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

I grabbed a Maxtor 1394 CardBus Adapter card from 'insight.com' - it cost me $59. I also grabbed a 7500 rpm 80 gig external 1394 disk to go along with it.... _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

One question.... what the hell do you do with the hand strap? I cant' figure out how the damn thing comes off.... do people just leave it on? _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Because if he's not going to comment, at all... then they have no choice but to make assumptions based on what they do know about him. In this case, they're suggesting that because he's a convicted drug fellon, he probably doesn't follow the rules that well, and this might've contributed. One one hand we all know this is false, because we're ultimately responsible for ourselves, On ther other, I don't know SDC to have a strong sober voice saying "you probably don't want to be doing that..." _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Well, it looks like I'll be driving someone else on the thursday... omri, too... maybe. If you want to come on thursday, I could probably bring you too. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

The recomended method is to put the tuckflap in the bottom, and the bridle inbetween left and right. The logic is that an opening tuck flap won't drag out the bridle. I've never had any flaps in my 99 jav open. Like somebody else posted here, I can lift my jav by the tuck flap. I've also downsized to a 150 stileto from a 190 triathlon in the same rig, so it wasn't necesarily canopy size that did it. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Why? It certainly won't hurt... That silver plastic is constantly used in the computer and electronics industry to protect components... it does it's job well. They surely won't solve every misfire, because a misfire isn't necesarily caused by EMF (electro magnetic interference - aka radio waves). Misfires could also even be cause by a programming bug somewhere... The control unit is usually the one sheilded... anybody know how the processing unit is shielded? _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Velocity or Z1 helmet, depending on type of jump. Wiley-X sunglasses. About to add a sony pc120. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

So.... did you get me her phone number? _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

I wouldn't go that far. Their rule is 18, but will make an exception in certain cases. They made this exception because I spoke to them. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Keep in mind that if a student ever does static line from a otter where the students leaves from inside the door... its pretty common for the SL JM to "push" the student out, to help them get out cleanly. Just like most JM's won't allow a student to come back into a Cesna once they're on the strut... most JM's won't allow a student to climb back into the Otter after they're sitting in the door. But that's not what we're talking about anyways. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

There's a great little DZ called Frontier, about a 20 minute drive from the Queenston Lewiston Bridge, 20 minutes from Bufalo or Niagara Falls NY. www.skydivefrontier.com _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

There's stories going around, and I've heard them pretty consistent.... but still, rather then pass them on I'll wait for the oficial version. I was at the DZ down the road, but word spread pretty quick. _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

Nope. He's 18. That's his story and he's sticking to it (this time). _Am __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

I forgot to mention I also got to play with some of my new toys. Attached is the sun setting of the cornfields of Illinois, taken from just ouside manifest. __ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.