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my first rig....affraid for sabre's hard openings
Chubba replied to darren71's topic in Gear and Rigging
Ewwww. I like my 800ft openings on my Sabre2, like butter. No wonder all the guys with Sabre1's basically hit terminal on hop n pops, 300ft, ouch. -
Australian AFF is 9 stages. Main guidelines for the A license, 10 unassisted landings within 25m of target + packing your main chute. Most students at my DZ I've seen stay on radio till at least jump 7 so that's ~17 jumps to A license if you ace everything.
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It's never too soon to start mastering the "accuracy trick"
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I got really bad knee's/ankles. A good landing is literally softer then walking. Believe me though, you WILL make mistakes and you WILL land hard, this is where a pristine PLF comes in.
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I like Germains chart, the PD chart seems super conservative. Looking at the PD chart, when I bought my Sabre2 170 @ 24 jumps (still a "student"), exit weight ~160 in full kit, I've already exceeded the maximum weight in the "student" AND the "novice" categories, closing in on the maximum "intermediate" weight. This set off a lot of alarm bells in my head. In reality after I bought it, I'm loading the canopy under 1:1 and jumping at sea level and it flies quite docile and is treating me extremely well. I like Germains material Buying under 1:1 seems like a good bet for most jumpers, our CI enforces this and I haven't seen a serious injury yet.
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Definitely demo the Sabre2. Soft openings and a very powerful flare. I load my 170 similar to your WLing, under 1:1 and it flies/lands great.
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Have a search around DZ.com about various mains, there's a lot of great threads on f1-11 vs zero-p, 7-cell vs 9-cell, semi-elliptical designs or not and everything in between, look for characteristics that you find desirable like soft openings, landing flare etc. and then talk to your instructor or local gear store about possibly demoing said canopies. There's a whole heap of threads about wingloadings for first rigs around that will give you a general idea. Brian Germains material provides a good reference regarding canopy size. Some of the designs you will try/buy will fly differently to the student canopies so don't go too small too fast. One thing I do recommend though is getting a freefly friendly container if your budget permits, just because It's reassuring at thi[:s stage when you want to try a few new things.
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+1 Like I said above, my first set of gear the rigger found a TINY (couldn't even see it, had to be felt) scratch on one of the 3 rings that was gradually cutting into the white loop. Seller didn't know about it, rigger rang the seller and told him to send me new/different risers which he did very promptly... everyones happy I won't be doing a single transaction in the future without it going through him.
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I sprained my ankle 3 times (among other injuries) during my student jumps, putting me out for weeks or months at a time. Despite the past 25 jumps being soft standups on my Sabre2 170 it's still the worst part of every single jump for me. Busting up your lower limbs really impacts every part of your life, it's very nerve wrecking.
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+1 for rigger as middle man. dropzone.com seller sent a $6500 rig interstate to my rigger with no money upfront. Got to check everything out, the rigger got me some new risers (small damage 3 rings on the infinity ones sent with it) and everybody got there money with absolutely no chance for either party to get screwed. A lot of riggers are sellers for the major brands, I assume you can just give them a call to verify how legit they are. I know bigway (karnage krew) from this site was always happy to give references from aerodyne etc.
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For gods sake beat that PLF into your head. I got away with soo many butt landings/slides during my student jumps on extremely large PD f1-11 canopies. Only took me 1 non-PLF on a smaller canopy to realise that this is probably the easiest way to break your back and end up paralyzed.
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I throw @ 4000ft with my Sabre2. It really is a pain in the ass getting everyone that dumps at 2500ft to bump there breakoff up to 5000ft+, I feel like the party police.
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I love it I'm getting ~700-800ft openings on my Sabre2, I just sit there staring at the snivel for a few seconds before it usually goes offheading
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I found the Sabre2 significantly better in every single aspect compared to the Falcon I had jumped as rental gear. I didn't respond very well to F1-11 canopies, I stood up maybe 2 or 3 jumps in my first 20, many caused injury. I've got 25 jumps on my Sabre2 170 now and all 25 have been soft standups in a variety of wind conditions. The Spectre I enjoyed, beautiful openings but it definitely was harder to land (for me) compared to the Sabre2, that being said I did stand up the landings, just not gracefully You couldn't pay me to go back to F1-11 canopies. I see students/jumpers on rental gear every week touching down softly on the same canopies I hammered in on, bugger me what the problem is
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Jump Tickets, how high before you quit?
Chubba replied to CMiller's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
At my current jump numbers, I would pay up to $100 AUD, that's taking into account a decent amount of time elasped/financial crisis and a large oil prices. They're $40 to 10k, $45 to 14k at the moment. I'll pay whats fair. Fuel prices are down over 1/3rd in the past few months, I would like the prices to drop. -
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That's damn close @ 4:25 onwards
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Funky is good I didn't have the opportunity to jump Silhouette, haven't even seen one yet
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Cool video The footage on the potato bridge is intense, "like this?", "no don't do that".. great words to hear when you're about to jump off a bridge Don't want to throw anything off topic, but people are talking about flying smaller suits to learn faster. If larger folks that buy Vampires straight off should be learning on a Phantom etc., does that mean smaller blokes should buy/fly the hell out of something like a Prodigy/Intro? Or are they right to do there first flight on a beginner suit then fly a Phantom which ultimately is appropriate to flock with for a small weight?
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Have a crack of the Sabre2/Safire2 (haven't jumped the Pilot) in the 190 range, you might find that designs are a lot of fun even when lightly loaded. I'm getting a massive kick out of landing my Sabre2 on zero wind days and it's loaded under 1:1. I jumped PD f1-11 canopies though prior to my transition to ZP so the change was huge, the Silhouette is probably a pretty funky canopy.
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I'm 150lbs and I ended up going the Sabre2 170 despite most jumpers telling me to get a 150. I'm very happy with it, flies great
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A well maintained reserve ripcord is a good system and I would trust it 100x over before I put any faith into my AAD. I trust, hopefully that Cypres have figured out all the problems that cause accidential misfires, so if it does manage to work at the proper altitude/speed, that's good. I don't put any thought into it though, switch it on, always be ready for a malfunction, do your EP's as taught. As far as I know, NO FJC teaches students to wait for the Cypres to fire, so there is the answer.
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You could have a chop your very next jump. One of the guys are our DZ jumps a Sabre2 135 loaded ~1.2, when had a ride on his Airforce 140 reserve he hammered it in. He has 400 jumps total. Small f1-11 / 7-cell reserve canopies (apparently) fly quite differently.
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If he goes ass over head, at least he's knows he was dearched Probably best to try it out on a solo.
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At your weight the majority of people are going to recommend a 210 or larger. Try out a variety of designs, you will quickly find out what type you prefer. Try out different 7-cells/9-cells and definitely talk to your instructors about ZP canopies, a lot of newer jumpers respond very nicely to lightly loaded modern designs rather then going the f1-11 route.