skHIjunky

Thank you for this chart. If all dropzones had this chart posted on a board with the winds at alltitude, maybe this wouldn't be an issue. I know I was not being slammed, and obviously safety is on everyones mind or else we would be chatting in the low pullers forum. Thanks for the input, web pages and most of all the better methods.

Bill, are you searching for ways to slam what people have to say (RE: First words BECAUSE IT DOESN'T WORK). I hear what you are saying and I was simply trying share the news that would have prevented me from ever comming close to hitting my friend at 120mph. There has to be a little common since used in the factoring of course, and if the winds are in fact blowing at 60mph at alltitude, you could wait all day and never see the 45 degree angle. Also, a person with very low jump numbers may not even be able to tell when they are over the dropzone, and most likely wouldn't even be able to tell that a thousand ground feet has passed. My reasoning is simply this, if the people or person who exited before you are at a fourty five degree angle, then your sure not going to be on top of them at any point....... You must be dead to be a God, don't be a Skygod

Bill, are you searching for ways to slam what people have to say (RE: First words BECAUSE IT DOESN'T WORK). I hear what you are saying and I was simply trying share the news that would have prevented me from ever comming close to hitting my friend at 120mph. There has to be a little common since used in the factoring of course, and if the winds are in fact blowing at 60mph at alltitude, you could wait all day and never see the 45 degree angle. Also, a person with very low jump numbers may not even be able to tell when they are over the dropzone, and most likely wouldn't even be able to tell that a thousand ground feet has passed. My reasoning is simply this, if the people or person who exited before you are at a fourty five degree angle, then your sure not going to be on top of them at any point....... You must be dead to be a God, don't be a Skygod

Just this last weekend I ended a most beautiful 5-way sit with a normal pull at 3,000, and as always my Stiletto sniveled me down to about 2,100-2,200. Imediately after recieving a most beautiful fully open canopy another jumper that was not on our dive, still in freefall and no more than twenty feet away, nearly took me out. So, needless to say I was just a little pissed off. As pissed as I was, I approached this jumper in a calm manner and asked, "what was that"? Well when in the presence of a descent human being you expect to hear an appology, instead this SKYGOD proceeded to question how many jumps I have (405), and then he had the odasity to weasel his way into denying any fault in the matter. FAULT.....Giving the the group ahead (us) four seconds out the door, and just to make sure he almost killed someone, this moron deploys at 2,000 feet. At some point probably 130 jumps ago I was in a similar situation to this except for coming close to a open canopy scared the crap out of me. As soon as my feet hit the ground I was already on my way to spew out an overly appolagetic appologie. MY POINT.... My point is this. The day this happened to me was the day that I learned to watch the group that exited in front of me. Watch I do, and after almost killing one of my now good friends I was told by her, and everyone who saw the video tape of me sniveling away fourty feet infront of her.....WATCH THE GROUP, OR PERSON EXITING BEFORE YOU UNTIL THEY ARE AT A FOURTY FIVE DEGREE ANGLE FROM THE PLANE. Seven seconds can be more than enough seperation, and also can be just enough to exit about 800 ft. directly above fellow skydivers. I have given twenty five seconds inbetween exits and proceeded to climb out about one half a mile north of the dropzone and deployed a half of a mile south of the dropzone. The question that enters my head is this. As a new jumper I had accumulated about 275 jumps and was not once told to watch for the 45 degree angle, why didn't anyone tell me this? My plea is this..... Please fellow jumpers, please, tell everyone that you can about watching for the fourty five degree angle. Going out of your way and spending twenty seconds telling that new jumper this, and other safety tips may save their life, or even yours. You must be dead to be a God, don't be a Skygod

Just this last weekend I ended a most beautiful 5-way sit with a normal pull at 3,000, and as always my Stiletto sniveled me down to about 2,100-2,200. Imediately after recieving a most beautiful fully open canopy another jumper that was not on our dive, still in freefall and no more than twenty feet away, nearly took me out. So, needless to say I was just a little pissed off. As pissed as I was, I approached this jumper in a calm manner and asked, "what was that"? Well when in the presence of a descent human being you expect to hear an appology, instead this SKYGOD proceeded to question how many jumps I have (405), and then he had the odasity to weasel his way into denying any fault in the matter. FAULT.....Giving the the group ahead (us) four seconds out the door, and just to make sure he almost killed someone, this moron deploys at 2,000 feet. At some point probably 130 jumps ago I was in a similar situation to this except for coming close to a open canopy scared the crap out of me. As soon as my feet hit the ground I was already on my way to spew out an overly appolagetic appologie. MY POINT.... My point is this. The day this happened to me was the day that I learned to watch the group that exited in front of me. Watch I do, and after almost killing one of my now good friends I was told by her, and everyone who saw the video tape of me sniveling away fourty feet infront of her.....WATCH THE GROUP, OR PERSON EXITING BEFORE YOU UNTIL THEY ARE AT A FOURTY FIVE DEGREE ANGLE FROM THE PLANE. Seven seconds can be more than enough seperation, and also can be just enough to exit about 800 ft. directly above fellow skydivers. I have given twenty five seconds inbetween exits and proceeded to climb out about one half a mile north of the dropzone and deployed a half of a mile south of the dropzone. The question that enters my head is this. As a new jumper I had accumulated about 275 jumps and was not once told to watch for the 45 degree angle, why didn't anyone tell me this? My plea is this..... Please fellow jumpers, please, tell everyone that you can about watching for the fourty five degree angle. Going out of your way and spending twenty seconds telling that new jumper this, and other safety tips may save their life, or even yours. You must be dead to be a God, don't be a Skygod