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QuoteHey... that was my costume for this year too! Quote Ya, but on yours you were in front!
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What if they are a well intentioned self proclaimed CANOPY nazi? Do they have to change their name to wingloading wermacht?
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We would have gotten a call from the terror outfits propaganda guy claiming reponsability by now.
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looking forward to it. But Phree has a valid concern.
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Finally "Walking the Talk"...A fresh new approach
VectorBoy replied to eeneR's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Don't forget Jack and Lynn. They help put the "nice" in the canopy nazi, not like the old days of bang'n her head on the office desk after a call. Now thats somebody elses job. You guys want the old number? -
QuoteBut I guess we're a back woods inbred Kentucky DZ... still writing manifest on paper and working out of a run down trailer. Quote Bet yaw'l got d'baest stomp liquer d'eber wuz! Can I play?
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What's your favorite HP 9 cell?
VectorBoy replied to Professor's topic in Swooping and Canopy Control
200+ jumps on a Cobalt made for a nice canopy. Its a little more docile then some of the other stuff but it was a good responsive canopy none the less. Careful someone might interpret that you are endorsing this canopy for beginners, say someone with under 200 jumps of experience. -
I thought of exactly this, getting the idea from competition water ballasted sailplanes. Some can dump their ballast to land lighter. Something like a flexible water jug placed below swoopers waist with a quick acting dump or metered drain valve. It would be awkward and big because of the weight of water . It might look like someone sitting on a flexible 5 gallon campers water bladder. Activate it how I don't know. Crazy huh.
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If its too hot your not flying forward fast enough! Hooyahh!
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Some of the bigger DZs are Eloy in arizona, perris and elsinore in so cali, many in florida, Deland comes to mind. Come on florida skydivers fess up whats the dealio? Skydive chicago, the ranch in new york. Epuria brava in spain, vichy , lapalisse, Gap france. Some of the european visitors I've talked to say some of these stand out but I'm not sure if its year around or just during boogies. What do you consider big? Two turbine aircraft? Three? four plus a helicopter? Most have websites so you can check on available services and other facilities like indoor packing and bunk house options.
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>sorry but they were FOS Somehow I knew somebody would say this. >Have you never flown a really(loaded) HP >crossbraced canopy? No I've never flown any crossbraced canopy. I know that some are trimmed to a pitch down steady flight compared to most canopys though. > And the X-braced was in deep brakes while the >others were in full flight? No the x-braced ( velocity )was in rear risers but not that much. Velocity @ 2:1, x-fire @ 1.8, ( Both 90 something square footish), Cobalt @1.6, spectre @ 1.3 ( both canopys 120 sqft.)
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Hey Manbird hows the weather at the end of november at SDO? Will be in the Portland area.
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I almost got zapped with one of those by the hot blonde female argentinian vendor when I asked her "does it weld stainless thicker than 3/16 ths"? at an enforcement hardware convention not too long ago.
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Dave Jazz bands do heroine, blues bands drink JD.
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It think Kim griffen said that the Herc was about twenty bucks back in the 2002 boogie.
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I love anything aviation. Gliding is different, it may not be as much of a rush but it has its own challenges. It can be more like canopy flight but it depends on how you fly your ship. Its all good
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AFF @ Perris vs. S/L @ Lodi HELP
VectorBoy replied to StearmanR985's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
I would avoid the static line method, been there done that. Although I did mine back in 85. Things have changed but probably not that much. I was very impressed with the AFF recurrency I did in 2000. All of the dropzones available to you feature good weather. I personally would try to do it in as short a period of time instead of spreading it out over weeks or many months if you could afford it. Ask the people that have done it this way for their input but there seems to be less overlap and loss of skills if you don't spread them out too much. Remember your will be building skills on the previous jumps learned skills. Like Rosa said, some DZs have bunk houses that you can stay at for dirt cheap so you can complete it in a few days. If possible you may want to do it during the mid week so you have less canopy traffic to deal with and can concentrate on YOUR canopy skills. This is assuming you go to a big DZ to do this. -
Perris does have all of the facilities but one place were it does come up short is having a nice turbine single or even a piston single for those rare few days when even Perris doesn't have enough jumpers to send an otter up. Its no fun waiting around with six other jumpers for the next walk on tandem. Its been dicussed but a Porter ( too expensive due to rarity compared to another otter ). Or maybe a Caravan. The PAC will probably be very expensive "new" purchase. A couple of perfect for skydiving but privately owned 182s could be pressed into service but the last time that happened jumpers had to get naked. Shame.... shame I wasn't there to see the nakedness, but i heard there is video.
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Yup, what they said
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Alti will fix it! They are very small and sensative movements in that instrument. Partical infiltration and corrosion from moisture can cause many problems. Home remedy repairs or the use of lubricants and cleaners also create more problems. Alti has their own ulrasonic cleaning solution an aircraft quality test station and ready to install parts. Let them rehab it! Don't wait until you are cruzin thru you hard deck with a frozen needle. Let them do it up for you right so you can be boasting about their great customer service .
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The brakes provide gradual change from anice ammount of lift to enough drag to slow you down to a tippy toe landing. When used a little bit they provide more lift but when you go deeper into brakes you end up with tons more drag than lift and this is very noticable if you are downwind and trying to "penetrate" and get back up wind to the DZ. Rear risers flatten your glide without the too much induced drag but if are trying to penetrate a headwind there is a point in hanging in rears that you will be paying a penalty in distance covered over the ground. To maintain this you need a certain extra forward speed for the relative amount of "headwind". Hanging in rears will be more tiring as you are pulling down the entire trailing edge of your canopy as opposed to a smaller percentage of the trailing edge that the brakes effect. If you are up wind it doesn't matter what method you use.
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One of the canopy manufactuers rep said here on dropzone that the difference in steady state airspeed between one canopy and another of a similar size isn't that great, even if they are of vastly different designs. I forget who it was, sorry. The design parameters like line trim that control what pitch ( and speed ) the canopy flies at and others that effect how fast it turns, what altitude is lost in a turn and the speed during and following the turn could be very different. Just as how far and deep a canopy dives and how it recovers from a dive that define a design. I have flown in tight formations ( no contact crew )made up of docile 7-cells, HP 9-cell ellipticals and ground hungry x-braced of similar but not exacting size and once we were at steady state similar glide paths the airspeeds were very close. Our jumpsuits were having a noticable effect on the varing airspeeds. Whether one of us was wearing a baggy freefly suit or a tight fitting RW suit or just shorts and a tee.
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What'd da gimp order?
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Could you find your forward speed from a wind meter?
VectorBoy replied to TALONSKY's topic in Wing Suit Flying
If the plane is in a descent to stay parallel with you they would out fly you in speed unless they are in beta or had some drag inducing device , beta is something the twin engine craft are unwilling to do for fear of an unsymmetrical transition. Dehavilland lost one of the test flight craft this way. A single engine would do nicely as flying back into a porter from a matched descent has allready been done. Or maybe a heavy forward slip will do. -
Is jake flying a demo GTI or the classic 2?