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  1. Canuck
    Perfect - that's exactly what I was hoping for. Canuck
  2. Canuck
    Anybody know if Lodi has someone doing freefly coaching (at reasonable rates)? I'm going to be in the Nor Cal area for about a week in July, and am trying to decide where to spend my time. Canuck
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    Can pilots build up their hours in a flight simulator? Freefall time is only one dimension of skydiving "experience." So is CRW. Opening and landing, however, happen on every jump. Everything else is just filler. Canuck
  4. Canuck
    I just got back from Eloy. First off, 180s suck!! I asked Jeffro about cascaded linesets for Xaos canopies. He said he had one last year and hated what it did to the canopy - shorter recovery arc and a much narrower window in which to throw an effective turn. The team is all back on the standard factory set now, with no plans of going back.
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    I'd had a bad day at work. Canuck
  6. Canuck
    I was talking with another friend, today, who has spent a good part of the winter in Eloy. He also said, that following the Christmas Boogie fatalities, that for most of January, turns were limited to 180 in the main area, 90 in the alternate. He said that over the last couple months it got stretched back out a bit at a time, and by the beginning of March everyone was back to their regular approaches. So, the question is, will it stick this time? Canuck
  7. Canuck
    That's good to hear. It never made sense to me that the Onyx had spectra lines. Is the technora the skinny stuff? Canuck
  8. Canuck
    From what I understand, big turns are still allowed on hop 'n pop loads, with management approval. Presumably, for Nationals, management would approve. The guy I am heading to Eloy with tomorrow tells me that when he was in Eloy in January they already had this rule in place. He said nothing over 180 in the main, and nothing over 90 in the alternate. Anybody else know anything about that? Canuck
  9. Canuck
    Line type? Aspect ratio? Canuck
  10. Canuck
    Dude, how are you telling me how I track best? Efficient is pretty simple to me in terms of tracking - go far and fast sideways, and not far and fast down. I'm telling you that I achieve this best in a more wide position. If you want to track with your legs together and your toes pointed, have at her. Canuck
  11. Canuck
    That sucks. I get on a plane in three days to head to Eloy, and have always really enjoyed landings there. Oh well, this trip is all about freeflying anyway. It's going to be pretty funny watching guys like Fruitcake and Jeffro trying to keep their turns to 180. Canuck
  12. Canuck
    Your points are all well taken, Bill. I just hope mine are too. Canuck
  13. Canuck
    Pulling at 2000 feet is stupid. It was, perhaps, less stupid when canopies were big and opened faster, and with a spinning mal you had time to sort shit out. Lots of people are calling for changes with respect to landing patterns/areas/turns etc. How about bringing minimum deployment altitudes up a little so those of us that want to pull at 3500 feet, or *gasp* maybe even 4000 feet don't require a seperate pass, or get told we can't pull that high unless we're doing a hop n pop. Maybe that extra bit of canopy time would also help to sort out some of the shit in the pattern and landing area too. Canuck
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    I agree with everything you're saying, same for JP, Bill, etc. But I still believe it would be the wrong course of action to blame recent events on canopy choice rather than pilot error. Something else to consider. For the last 3 seasons, I've done between 350 and 450 jumps per year, pretty much all on Velo 96s. I feel nice and current on the canopy, have taken it on several demos, jumped at a pile of DZs, landed out, competed under it, etc. The huge majority of the jumps I use it for each year, however, are not hop 'n pops intended just for swooping. If I start using a different canopy for AFF jumps, tandem videos, group skydives, etc. instead of having 400 Velo landings a year, I'm going to have 50 to 100. And I'm not the only one who would be in that boat. Scary. I've said since I started jumping Velos that I would quit as soon as I'm not doing a minimum of 300 jumps a year. Canuck
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    Yes, I agree that there are better choices in terms of openings on big-ways, but I'm pretty sure, in light of recent events, the point of this poll has more to do with landing in heavy traffic. Same goes for tight spots, demos, etc. My point is that I think it creates a false sense of security to say that we wouldn't have canopy collisions over the landing area if people up-sized their mains. It's not the parachutes, it's how people are flying them. And sure we can say that there were fewer canopy collisions near landing 20 years ago when most canopies were 200+ square feet, but I attribute that to the fact that almost everyone with 300 jumps now consider themselves swoopers, and pull some kind of turn on landing. Canuck
  16. Canuck
    Agreed. You don't need a slow canopy to fly slow. I prefer the way my Velo lands straight to the way a Manta does. Big slow canopies can cause collisions just as well as small fast ones. Nobody was flying small shit in the latest Eloy incident. No offense to the poster in another thread who said he puts away his fast canopies for bigways and pulls out his Stiletto, but that makes no sense to me. Can't you fly a Xaos in brakes and land it straight in? Canopies aren't the problem. People flyig them shitty is the problem. Canuck
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    If Jim was allowed on this site, he would pipe up that it's not a fair comparison because of blah blah blah. But I've seen several people buy a JVX, put a handful of jumps on it, and sell it to get one 10 sq. ft. smaller. Anybody compared a VX and JVX? You've got one of those too, right? Canuck
  18. Canuck
    After seeing Steve Curtis on a few tracking dives flying in his favorite slot (a couple feet above and ahead of the leader, and videoing back between his legs) I started playing with a wider legs and arms tracking position, and am fairly certain that it's a more efficient position (for me anyway - ymmv). Canuck
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    How many years had the R-max been on the market when you started jumping one of those? Canuck
  20. Canuck
    My suggestion would be to get a camera helmet. You want something more specific than that, then take 2 minutes and update your profile. Seriously, unless you can give a little more information, like what you plan to video, it's pretty hard to give you much advice. Canuck
  21. Canuck
    Question - are the Team Xaos and/or other Precision sponsored guys using a different lineset, i.e. a cascaded one to reduce drag? Can you get a "competition" lineset for a Xaos? Canuck
  22. Canuck
    You're going to use an aftermarket line on your JVXs? Do you prefer Mel's blue lines to the 300 HMA that comes from the Daedalus factory? Canuck
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    And don't even get me started on the greedy cocksuckers at Eloy that charge more for canopies over 100 sq. ft. Canuck
  24. Canuck
    Fuck packers. Seriously. I'd love to the reaction if I told a tandem passenger to edit their own video, or a Level 1 AFF student to gear themselves up and/or fill out and sign their own log book. If you're going to do a job, do the fucking job start to finish. Especially when it's the highest paying job on the DZ. Fuck packers. I refuse to use them based entirely on this "do half the job yourself" shit. Canuck
  25. Canuck
    Most, if not all, 4-way teams do 4-way in a tunnel. When I wrote that (all the way back in 2004) tunnels were mostly 10 footers, and very few teams were actually spinning 4-way in them - especially not blocks. For sure the 12 footers (and bigger) have changed that. Canuck