riggerrob

My favourite technique is similar to rigger lees. IOW make the last stitch in the edge of the Cordura. Slowly hand feed the wheel forward and stop just before the needle tips touch the tape again. Roll the wheel BACKWARDS just past top-dead-centre. This completes the last stitch and allows enough slack after you turn the corner.

Sort of ....... You actually end up with two (right-outboard row) stitches in almost the same hole. The last (right/outboard) stitch becomes the axis of rotation (axle) for the turn. You need a keen eye and a few years of practice to make the turn around that last stitch consistently. The secret is using a steel tool (Cypres screw-driver, dental pick or soldering tool) to clamp the work to the table. The tip of the tool becomes the pivot for the turn. The (left) inboard row contains one BACKSTITCH. The next challenge is catching the (45 degree) folded edge with the second or third stitch (left/inboard row).

.... You go and jump at Hawaii for solid two month. You do your straight in approach and see what happens. While you are going to get thumped time to time, all the other ti that are doing 180 and 270s are standing their student up. ....................................................................................... More than a decade ago, we debated this subject on a solo canopy forum and agreed that if straight in approaches do not produce consistent soft landings, you are jumping the wrong canopy. IOW If you NEED to hook turn a canopy, you bought the wrong canopy.

.... 3 of the 4 round pilot emergency parachute companies now offer the C 9 with 4 line release. I have only seen the C-9's in seat packs. ... . ................................................................................... I have packed C9 canopies into back, chest and seat packs made by a wide variety of civilian and MIL SPEC factories. Butler, Para-Phernalia and Strong sell C9s to the warbirds market because C9 is one of the few canopies certified for more than 254 pounds at 150 knots. The reason that you often see C9s in seat packs is because they are going into military surplus fighters and trainers that have deep seat pans specifically designed for bulky MIL SPEC seat packs. IOW if you don't sit on a bulky seat pack, your eyes will be below the window sills. Hah! Hah!

............................................................................................ Some religious fanatics would perceive an Ebola epidemic as God's wrath punishing sinful humans. This perception is the same as when God punished (blood, frogs, gnats, death of the animals, hail, locusts and darkness) ancient Egyptians for their (slave beating) sins until they quit sinning against the ancient tribes of Israel. For more details read about the trials and tribulations of the prophet Moses in the Talmud, Bible (Exodus chapter 7) or Koran.

............................................................................. Insightful analysis of human nature.

... I was bullshiting and trolling about extended drogue-less tandem jumps, just to get on someone's nerve. ... ................................................................................... You succeeded. Sadly, your (sarcastic) sense of humour does not transmit well over the internet. We fear that some junior TI will follow your (sarcastic advice) and hook turn himself into the hospital. The only thing worse would be for a lawyer to quote your sarcastic humour in a courtroom. Warning, picking arguments will get you banned from other forums.

***What of Mr. Poutine wanted to assert his control of the Arctic Ocean floor below the North Pole, but had to return to Moscow for a dinner date .............................................................................. Just answered my own question. The sea bed is more than 4 kilometers below the North Pole. Mr. Poutine is the only man on the planet strong enough to do that trip in one day ... shirt-less, riding a polar bear, passing Chuck Norris, Hah! Hah!

...... I've seen un-inflated drogue in tow after going terminal. The tandem pair opened up normal, except the d-bag really slowly snaked out of ti's back. ........................................................................... I tried jumping a drogue that never inflated (experimental packing method). I immediately noticed that we were not decelerating, so I mentally reviewed the manual ... "Strong says to pull the drogue release" I pulled the drogue release above normal opening altitude and before we reached tandem terminal. Main opened HARD because we were going so fast. After that I became a really NAZI about packing drogues according to the manual.

***6000 jumps in 32 years is pretty weak sauce. I've done that in less than 10 years. But yeah, you are still jumping and I've quit skydiving so more power to ya bro. ................................................................................... More incorrect assumptions Mr. stayhigh, I am sitting out this summer because of knee surgery. I started jumping back when round parachutes were fashionable. I did my first jump in October shortly before the first snowstorm of the year. I worked in parachute factories for a few years. I spent a lot of sunny weekend afternoons repacking some-one else's reserve so they could get back in the air. I lectured at several Parachute Industry Symposia. I wrote a few reserve manuals. I trained a few dozen riggers. I trained a dozen or so TIs. I trained hundreds of IAD and S/L students. I graduated from a couple of military jump schools.

........ My ti rating is gone, my uspa membership is done. All I got left is talking shit on dorkzone.com. Was I trolling well enough? ..................................................................................... Yes

................................................................................. Breaking a closing loop is only one of many ways to open reserves. You can also open a reserve by: wiggling pins loose inside airplane, jamming pins in door frame, trapping reserve ripcord between your biceps and your pectoral muscle, scaring AAD, TI pulling reserve ripcord, student pulling reserve ripcord, RSL pulling reserve ripcord during a cutaway, stupid student pulling your RSL, instructor pulling RSL, etc. Again, please limit your bragging to subjects that you understand. Again, I will respect your opinions more after you complete your profile.

..... Of course being such a old school tandem instructor or UPT trained instructor, you'll never see that possibility. ..... I've never been to the dz where they use anything besides Vector reserve. I would hate to use Precision reserve. Even their tandem main sucked ass. I would never even want to find out how Precision Tandem reserve fly. Are they like oversized Ravens? ............................................................................... Holy hypocrite! Mr. stayhigh, You start out by accusing old TIs of being narrow-minded and then you brag about how narrow-minded you are about canopies. Please limit your arrogance to subjects that you understand. Some of your readers have jumped: Parachutes de France Galaxy 400; Icarus 330, 360; Jump Shack Thunderbolt 396, 400, 500; PD 360, 421; Pioneer Hi-Lifter 370; Strong 366, 400, 425, 520, etc. Some of your readers have packed reserve canopies made by: Jump Shack, Next, PD, Pioneer, Precision, Strong, etc. Again, I will respect your opinions more after you complete your profile.

***... I can for sure say that I'll never get into a side spin. Like some of you that knows how to fly only on belly can get into. ........................................................ ................................................................................... May I suggest watching the Strong Tandem Side Spin video again? UPT also encourages their TIs to watch it. Your arrogance about your skills is irrelevant, because most tandem side spins are caused by students doing stupid body positions. I have only done one side spin in over 4,000 tandems. The student never did anything vaguely resembling an arch. It amazed me how fast we accelerated through the first 90 degrees. I promptly drove my heels into the tops of his knees. As soon as our bellies were pointed towards the planet, I tossed the rogue. After patting all my handles, I caught my breath and wondered why we were "potato-chipping" under the drogue. His knees were sagging again. By this time I had lost all patience with his foolishness. I jammed my knees into the tops of his knees again and maintained that leg lock until after opening. I did not care if he landed with bruises on his knees, I just wanted to survive. Yes, I will admit my recovery technique did not exactly match Strong's training ... but I did it before they published a recovery technique. I am also alive to share my learning experience.

Mr. Stayhigh, Please open your mouth and change feet. You completely missed the original motivation to avoid tandem terminal: avoiding tandem terminal reserve openings. I have suffered two tandem terminal reserve openings. Both hurt. The second time my chin slammed into my sternum so hard that I knew that I had torn neck muscles before the canopy finished inflating. I needed ten days and a massage therapist to straighten my neck. Bottom line, tandem reserves open painfully hard at terminal velocity.

What of Mr. Poutine wanted to assert his control of the Arctic Ocean floor below the North Pole, but had to return to Moscow for a dinner date How deep is the sea bed under the North Pole. How long does it take to fly from the North Pole to Moscow in an IL-76 jet transport? Does that provide enough hours to gentle oh de-compress? Though My first thoughts were of a de-compression chamber small enough to fit in a Twin Otter or Sikorsky Sea King helicopter.

NASA tried undersea hotels back during the 1960s. The concept never took off.

Can we start by agreeing that aircraft can only lift light-weight pressure hulls? That limits our submarine to shallow dives. What if you kept the "soft" hull pressurized during the flight back to the resort? What if the primary goal was to avoid "bending" wealthy tourists by very slowly decompressing them? Their time is far too valuable to waste during decompression stops, hanging unto a rope ten metres below the boat. They have more important things to do, people to meet, deals to seal, coke to snort, hookers to blow ?????? .... or is it the other way round?

I believe this is already possible with sea planes. ............................................................................. Any peasant can climb from a boat into a float-plane/helicopter but they get DAMP in the process! Ick! Ewwwww! The challenge is keep wealthy, arthritic customers dry on their way back to the resort.

Time to think outside the box (boat?) boys and girls Can you dream up a profitable civilian mission for a flying submarine? Delivery is easy ...... SEALS do it every day. The challenge is taking off at the end of the mission .... sure, the USNavy launches cruise missiles from submarines every day .... Ho hum You can launch anything with enough rockets. The challenge in launching a civilian submarine is taking off gradually enough that you do not break the passengers' necks. After a hard day of touring the Great Barrier Reef how do you return a submarine full of wealthy tourists to the beach-side resort for sunset cocktails?

Careful what you say on the internet Not every extremist shares your sense of humour If they take you seriously, they might treat you the same way they treated that Danish cartoonist Can you run faster than Al Queda/ISIS/Taliban/Front de Liberation du Quebec/KKK/Crimson Jihad/Bruderbund fanatic trying to drive a truck bomb up your @$$?

That jump can be done safely, but it needs the right jumper and proper planning. That's all.

When aggressive, young male tandem students demand "flips and shit," I do my most aggressive exit, throwing their bellies into the wind. I aggressively toss the drogue as I fall past the rudder trim tab. Then I dig in a knee and an elbow and do a few really fast turns while still on the hill. Students see "blue, green, blue, green" and believe that they did "flips and shit" on exit. Only one student angrily complained that we did not do "flips and shit" on exit. I shrugged my shoulders and wandered off. He did not know that I had already thought thru the next few steps of the confrontation. If he had pressed the issue I would have told him to "take your complaint to manifest." "Sorry sir, but flips and shit are not part of our normal procedures" Manifest had a copy of Strong's TI Manual on the shelf. Manifest had also warned a couple TIs that any more deliberately unstable exits would get them fired!

What about Leif (airline pilot who lives in Bergen and has done several courses at the USAcademy of Parachute Rigging in Eloy, Arizona)?

What? When did my ex-wife start doing demo jumps?