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  1. Clip the shackle around a hard housing as well as tucking it away. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  2. cpoxon

    My new V4!

    How was it? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  3. Intrudair http://intrudair.hu/Wingsuit/WingSuit_Manta.html Shark Manta Piranha Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  4. August (2011) Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  5. Not related, but came up on the feeds recently about the recovery of Lake Wales after the Hurricane destruction. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  6. We generally only allow one post on a topic and since you have another thread in the Instructors forum, I'm going to lock this one. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  7. Having been in an aircraft crash in pretty similar circumstances where nobody talked to the pilot, I would say at some point just before minimum bail out altitude (depends on many variables i.e. type of jump, size of aircraft, equipment in use, personal hard deck etc.) Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  8. How about, "Ask the pilot"? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zBj7x6-gRg Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  10. Whilst worth while drawing attention to it, as usual, let's try to keep discussion in one thread. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  11. Oh, I don't know, this one's not bad! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  12. Skydive Toronto according to the front page of their website Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  13. http://www.basejumper.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2940053#2940053 Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  14. North London Skydiving Centre in the UK use their own system for lower-quality stills (high-quality are given on a CD the same day) http://www.ukskydiving.com/myskydive/ The Army Parachute Association at Netheravon have their own WatchMySkydive site for video that is also used by Dunkeswell I believe. And of course, there's the original RealXstream for video. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  15. Actually in the last few years we've had at least two skydiver aircraft collisions NOT related to a botched exit. One was Gus Wing a camera flyer, and the jumpship he had exited from earlier. He was under parachute and the A/C clipped and killed him. The other I can think of was a pilot doing a sunset load flyby, and managed to put an Otter wing through a guys parachute at about 60 feet. He lived. Also, Michele Thibaudeau, Skydive San Marcos, 27th May 2001. http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20010601X01046&key=1 Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  16. one thread only please. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  17. Well, the BASE forum on here moved and there is discussion of tandem BASE over there. Did you guys know they are offering to tandem freefall 10 whuffos at Bridge Day this year? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  18. B Certificate (50 Jumps, Jumpmaster and Canopy Handling Grade2) and CCI's permission. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  19. dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4101386;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread Lets stick to one thread. At least they seem focused on discussing it in S&T rather than the pointless one liners here so far. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  20. Rules are clear. The pilot is called Pilot In Command for some reason. If he says during an emergency that you have to leave the plane, you go. When he says to stay, you have to stay. If you jump when he's says to stay in the plane ... There is a third option. Talk to the pilot. Communication works both ways. Yes, he's busy but it may be that he's so overloaded he's forgotten about the people in the back. I've been in two aircraft emergencies. The first was a tandem load. With a couple of thousand jumps I was the least experienced on the load, all the others had more ranging from 3-9,000 jumps. One of the two engines failed at 10,000 feet. None of us thought to ask the pilot if we should get out on not. We assumed the pilot, who was also an experienced skydiver with several thousand jumps, would tell us to get out if he wanted us too. Trouble was he was so busy dealing with the aircraft, he forgot about us. We easily had time to get out. The plane landed with everyone on board and the weight contributed to the aircraft overruning the relatively short runway, over a small ditch causing the nosewheel to collapse. Fortunately there were only a couple of minor injuries. The second was when the Skyvan had the double engine failure at the 200-ways in Eloy last year. Not to say that the pilot in this case wouldn't have given us the option to get out, but we were also very fortunate to have an experienced test pilot on board sitting near the pilot who liased with him to ensure we all left in the most efficient and safe way. Being at 18k when the first engine failed and having plenty of altitude also helped. The point being, don't just bail out if the pilot isn't talking to you, they might be a bit busy. Try and communicate with them before you decide to leave! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
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  22. Also banned throught the UK now. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  23. Saskia will now know this but he says it's for snowboarding. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live
  24. cpoxon

    iFly Singapore

    From http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_652761.html Full story requires subscription access. 5m = 16.4 ft Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live