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  1. Chubba
    I should post less I'll wait till I'm B-licensed
  2. Chubba
    I'm not struggling to get stable now, I just typically do a dive exit and read my alti down to 3ish, by the time I've opened it's 2500 and I'm under canopy 2+ so I don't see it as much of a problem. More fun to flip out the door then do the poised exit and try to deploy straight away
  3. Chubba
    I deploy by 3500 on terminal jumps, I just feel a lot more comfortable deploying stable between 3000 - 2500 on hop n pops. My first hop n pop (AFF9) I did a 3 second delay and the opening was so shit I nearly had a cutaway so I burn a little bit more altitude and it's working good. 15 jumps to B license, so don't get too mad
  4. Chubba
    Oh really, I've never seen a reserve unpacked. If you were to jump a reserve as a main would you change the slider or just deploy sub terminal?
  5. Chubba
    Just keep with it, you will be suprised how much you will improve from your initial jumps
  6. Chubba
    I did this multiple times with very large student canopies, you can still get hurt. Best to assume a PLF if you're stalling 30ft+ above the ground.
  7. Chubba
    I trust everyone basically, pretty much the same 10 people at our dropzone every week. Gear check on the ground by me, gear check by prior to boarding, gear check from someone in the Cessna prior to door. I guess I would feel unsafe asking a random
  8. Chubba
    IMO I think the scariest part is jump run, when they open the door and you all start shuffling up. I agree though, freefall isn't scary, the moment I've left the plane all is good
  9. Chubba
    Don't worry about your height, I'm 6'4" (though 130 pounds
  10. Chubba
    I love dogs
  11. Chubba
    I was under the impression that for a swooper to cause a Cypres fire they would have to be doing multiple 360's, so they would reach that speed well above 130ft anyway.
  12. Chubba
    So you have no problem with someone getting onto a 1.0 when they get their A?
  13. Chubba
    3 tandems then onto static line? You're going to have an absolute ball I kind of envy the SL students, their training looks like a completely different type of fun compared to AFF students.
  14. Chubba
    Welcome to DZ.com
  15. Chubba
    Welcome to DZ.com
  16. Chubba
    No way, we had an older lady hang out for 2 MONTHS before she did her FJC. We're a nice group of people, just call up your local DZO and meet the crew
  17. Chubba
    I think you trust your fellow skydivers far too much
  18. Chubba
    Oh, so that's how you do it. I was thinking I have to sit naked in 182 on the way up.. so just put boxers over my legstraps :) What did you do when you land (the bad part). Perhaps it's possible to take off the boxers and stuff them in your helmet, so when you land you can put them back on. I know I definitely wouldn't walk into a hangar with 60 guys having suffered the most brutal shrinkage possible.
  19. Chubba
    One of the jumpers at our small C182 dropzone reached a 100 jumps a few weeks ago. A few of the instructors and the S&TA organized a 5 way for him from 10,000ft. They did a standard AFF exit with a few extra people, the 100th jump wonder in the middle student position... the moment they left the plane, they pulled his pilot chute The look on his face on the video is priceless... this is a busy airport with very controlled airspace and I've never seen a high altitude H/P done, CI/DZO arranged it especially for him.
  20. Chubba
    Government sponsored skydiving ftw
  21. Chubba
    It stops me from starting threads here... I run everything pass my CI, but sometimes I wish people would play around a bit when I ask a question. Fair enough tell me to ask my instructors in depth and be wary of "internet people", but whats the harm in people discussing it... I don't think anyones going to go yanking there front riser down till they bounce because someone on the internet told them to. I don't mind lurking around though, I learn a lot by just reading.
  22. Chubba
    Welcome to the forums
  23. Chubba
    You're evil bigway
  24. Chubba
    So in regards to a very light student on a large canopy where would this apply? No wind, crosswind/downwind? So the idea is to generate just enough lift through the flare so you're flying horizontally bleeding off the speed? THEN you stall/pop it up when you're running out of speed? Is that right? Is that a dynamic flare/2 stage flare? Really curious, I've never experienced this so I never asked. I'm 150lbs exit, so under a 230 with wind I basically float directly downwards, I even remember going BACKWARDS under a 270. Good thread, hope the OP doesn't mind me asking Q's.
  25. Chubba
    +1 I'm only a student but I had that problem also on the FJC 270, once I moved onto the intermediate student canopy 230 I would actually pop up and stall it significantly above the ground because I wasn't used to the more responsive flare. The flare just isn't making it to the sweet spot where vertical speed is zero IMO... the flare is basically just slowing you down a bit, but you're still landing with vertical speed... try flaring up high really hard and see if you can feel it provide lift and "pop up" under your straps? Then again, I'm a noob