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Sounds to me like the poor bastard was trying to avoid someone NOT trying to swoop. There is a difference. You ought to learn it before you get caught in the same situation and do the same thing. Brake, flat turn, flare... it could save your life one day.
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Val: I saw your first cutaway that was definitly more dangerous than driving :) On another note. It seems like people aren't taking economics into consideration here. In other words while skydiving people take very few risks relative to driving. Ie when have you been drunk skydiving, eaten lunch, changed the radio station, or just down right not paid attention? In driving because of the relative safety of it they have more incentive to take extra risks. It does of course end in deaths but not near as much per capita as all the people who can't learn to do flat turns.
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Maybe because its much harder to get access where you can jump like skydiving? I did 100 base jumps last year and that was solely because i took frequent trips where I didn't have to run after I landed and could crank out more than 4 a day (and if at a certain S in idaho) 8 a day. If there were BASE dzs around you'd likely see people with that many. We push our limits just like skydivers do. When comfortable with something we move on, but not everyone does. Add gainers, go lower, jump tighter landing areas. You can make it as safe as you want. Yes there is always a risk but its up to you how big that risk is.
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Not yet but I could do it soon or up it a week or two.
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Anyone going there on these dates? Was thinking about it myself and am looking for someone to split bulk time with then do a few jumps. Anyone else interested?
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With everything that has being said. It basically seems that if you can already safely rear riser land you are ahead of the game. Seems like the same stuff applies to in a swoop as to that as rear riser flares in general stall much easier. Right?
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What makes you so sure you could? I seriously need to practice my standard rear landings. what happens if you break a steering line in a dive?
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Well now that I know that it seems like it would be less prone to stall due to air speed increase. Not that I'm going to try it yet but what is going on aerodynamically?
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*Cringe*
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After talking to LaBlanc about a month or two ago. They way Icarus gets around it is by manufacturing over seas and more or less illegally importing. That seemed to me to be the case, but I could be wrong.
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In that article on swooping in Parachutist this month it mentioned using rear risers to help with reducing drag. Anyone know what it meant? I use them a lot but not during the swoop (unless the steering line broke).
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I have been recently toying with the idea of getting my aff rating. I have the BIC done and was wondering any special considerations I should be having. I only have 600 jumps, but quite a bit of wind tunnel time. Are there any instructors that pass the cert with that few jumps? I'm going to take the pre course and do my proficiency card and all that. Is there anything else to consider?
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I have been recently toying with the idea of getting my aff rating. I have the BIC done and was wondering any special considerations I should be having. I only have 600 jumps, but quite a bit of wind tunnel time. Are there any instructors that pass the cert with that few jumps? I'm going to take the pre course and do my proficiency card and all that.
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You're probably right that on a case to case basis a lot of stuff is more dangerous than skydiving. There is always going to be something missing though... Intensity. In skydiving and other parachuting activities There is always some degree of pressure, so when the times comes to deal with a problem you are more apt to deal with it. Anyway that's why I'll always skydive and do other parachuting activities. So in short you get the view of all the other aviation activities and you have the intensity too.
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I think the main difference between BASE in bungee is responsibility. In Bungee (if you set it up) you get to think, "oh shit did i hook this up right" and in BASE "oh shit did i hook this up right, is it packed right". Also YOU have to deploy the parachute and YOU have to land safely. A bungee you can relax after you step off--in BASE its not over till your feet hit the ground. Not to mention correcting for 180s or other nasties. Despite the intensity of it you need complete control...
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To Cutaway or Not Cutaway, that is the question
base698 replied to LawnDart21's topic in The Bonfire
I've been examining the feasibility of doing that. You must really really like tandems to do it--you are going to be stuck doing just that EVERY load with little time for fun jumping. Some people enjoy that though. My current plan of attack seems to be to amass enough money to do some sort of coaching/organizing. That seems to be the best and most fun thing to do. Who knows though? :shrug: