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  1. adamsr
    yeah, had any more dreams about the 182 recently??
  2. adamsr
    i'm the other way round, i get the fear up to 800 feet on the way up, thinking if anything happened to the plane now it'd be too low to jump. if however something really bad happened, like a wing falling off, at less than 800 feet i'd still jump and take my chances!! but if the plane is still flyable then of course i'd stay in
  3. adamsr
    i went for depends on the dive, i dont have many tailgate extis (only about 15 out of 220 total) and find it hard to launch stuff from a tailgate. i expect this would get easier with practice though. but for unlinked exits there's nothing like just running out the back of a plane
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    http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=356185&Y=336952&width=700&height=410&gride=352816&gridn=340381&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=&pc=&zm=0&scale=10000&out.x=7&out.y=10 That's tilstock, my first home DZ, kinda been a bit homless over the past few years, and gonna be moving this summer when i finish uni, so don't know where i'm gonna be
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    i voted for good idea as that is what i believe. I didn't vote for any of the statements on numbers of deaths, as although i believe (and hope) it should reduce deaths i will reserve judgement until we seelots of new jumpers graduating and progressing through the new system. It will be many years before we see any benefits. Also i do not believe it will be too hard to enforce. There are already qualifications such as IC1, FS1, FF1 and 2 that are enforced sucessfully, it shouldn't be too hard to extend the system.
  6. adamsr
    that would cause issues, but really the problem of people getting injured/killed under a perfectly good canopy can't continue. Something had to be done and these new regulations are at least a step in the right direction. I'm sure the regulations will be reviewed and refined as time goes on.
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    it's an interesting subject, and i'd be interested in knowing the fatality and injury figures for different countries. I'm in the UK and we are one of the most heavily regulated nations for skydiving, i'd be interested to see if there are any less injuries per jump than in the USA where your rules are a lot less strict. I can see the reasoning behind a lot of the rules, and more regulation has just been bought in to try and combat the injuries/fatalities while under canopy. I think these rules are a good thing, but it'll be interesting to see what affect they really have.
  8. adamsr
    gusts are bad, i've been in a situation where on finals it was really gusty, just look up and my canopy is doing a good impression of an accordian, scared the shit out of me! i went to 1/4 brakes to try and help the canopy stay inflated, and at one point seemed to be gaining altitude, or at least planing out just from the wind. I got down safely, but a couple of people on the load had hard landings due to being dropped a bit by a gust. needless to say it was called for the day after that!
  9. adamsr
    I get this as well, my sister is always saying 'haven't you done enough jumps now' and saying i should give up. Everyone outside the sport seems to think it's really dangerous and you're more likely to die than live on a jump. But it's only when you get into the sport that you realise how safe it is. All i can say is i have 220 jumps without a scratch (and hopefully many more!!) but 30 seconds ice skating and i end up with my ankle broken in 3 places, and a metal plate with 8 screws bolting it all back together. think i'll just stick to skydiving from now on
  10. adamsr
    as has been said in previous posts it's 180 degrees from the centre of the formation. also when tracking look left and right, make sure you are going into clear airspace. That way if someone else is tracking more or less the same direction as you, you will see them and can ajust the line of your track so you are on a diverging course.
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    gotta go with wendy on this one, it's an awesome jump that you'll always remember!! so just relax, remember the training that you've been given by your instructors, and have a great jump. every jump just keeps getting better and better from here!
  12. adamsr
    there is always the "it's safer to jump out of a plane than it is to drive to the DZ" quote, and although statistically you're more likely to be injured/killed in a car accident you generally spend much more time driving than you do skydiving. skydiving is undoubtedly more risky than driving, but still the risks are low, and with modern gear, and all the rules in place it's made as safe as possible. The real question is are you willing to accept the risks? even though the risks are small, skydiving is still relatively dangerous compared to most things you do in life.
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    i have 220 jumps and haven't landed off yet. I've been on 1 load where i've been the only one to land on the dz, and another couple where my group are the only ones from the plane that have landed on the dz. just been lucky with fairly good spots, and on a couple of occasions realised the spot is a bit crap so opened a bit higher to make it back. still, i'm sure there'll be a first!
  14. adamsr
    2 words - psycho pack!! I have a hornet 190 and had really inconsitent openings when pro packing, tried loads of different techniques for rolling the nose and tail but couldn't get it to open softly and on heading. I started psycho packing and it was an instant transformation, now opens really softly and on heading (most of the time!) if anything i have to pull the nose out to speed up openings!
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    gotta agree with you here, i support the new regs and think it's well overdue that something was done. It is gonna be a bit of a bitch switching over to the new system, and i hope they have grandad rights, at least for long enough for everyone to update their ratings. I do think british skydivers will benefit from less deaths under canopy in the long run though, which can never be a bad thing!!
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    i remember hearing a story about a dive like that, one guy tried to run all the way along the top of the plane and jump off the back, but lost balance on the way fell off the side and hit the tail. think he was ok, but still, you'd never be allowed to even try nowadays!!
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    can't really remember, but standups were rare for me when i was a student, i couldn't land the skymaster 290's for shit!! soon as i qualified and got my hornet 190 i stood up pretty much all of my landings without a problem!! i've jumped the skymaster 290 again since (with over 200 jumps at the time, i was waiting for a reserve pack and all the smaller hire rigs were taken) and had to take 3 wraps on the toggles just to get the canopy to the flare point, then it was easy to stand up
  18. adamsr
    a bit of spectra or dacron line line does the job great, and i'm sure there's loads of that attached to your canopy!! just taking a little bit wont hurt, your hook knife should cut it easily.......
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    lowest i have seen is about 8k, and just coz it was really hot and the plane wasn't climbing (cessna 206) not through lack of trying, but we'd already been in the air over 25 minutes
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    i'm sure you'll be fine, it's not as if you're short of experience!! I only had 80 jumps at the time so wasn't fantastic at canopy control anyway!
  21. adamsr
    i went to a boogie at a dz that was 2000 feet above sea level, and it was noticably faster, and harder to time the flare. pretty much everyone was messing up their landings a bit, but by the second or third day everyone had got used to it, and it felt normal. so it does make a difference but once you have adjusted it's fine. Just like going down a canopy size, it takes a while to adjust.
  22. adamsr
    Yeah i'd pay that and more. When i was getting warp coaching the deal was generally you pay the instructor's slot, but it's good for the progression of the dz as a whole to have warp coaches available. I've done some freefly coaching as well and paid 65 euros a jump for 5 jumps (that included my slot, the instructors slot and the instructors fee), it seems a lot of money, but i learnt more on those 5 jumps than i learnt on 30 jumps just trying to work it out myself, so works out cheaper in the long run!! If i go back to that dz i'd do more coached jumps without a second thought!
  23. adamsr
    yeah i keep hearing you're meant to drink 2 litres a day. I hate tap water, but bottled water is alright. I still never drink enough though, if i drink 2 litres i just end up going to the toilet all day... seems like a waste!!
  24. adamsr
    Think this is a bit unfair, having flown in light aircraft a lot i can tell you gliders are damn hard to spot, as someone else has said they are very skinny, and on more than one occasion a glider has just seemed to appear in front of the aircraft i'm in as it turns. Plus spotting aircraft against the backdrop of a landscape, i.e. if you are much higher than them, is almost impossible at best, especially if you are thousands of feet higher than them. In this situation it would be more the responsibility of the dz ground crew to notify the aircraft that there is an aircraft in the airspace and to suspend jumping.
  25. adamsr
    it think the word you are looking for is BLONDES