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No. It is an elliptical canopy and quite aggressive. You would be better served with something in the Safire/sabre 1 or 2/ pilot/ spectre styles.

A few years I landed in a field where a farmer was out tilling on his tractor. He was nice and offered me a ride back to the gate. In reality I would have preferred to hop the fence I was 10 feet away from, but I was bright enough to realize that I needed to hop on the back of his tractor and take a nice long ride back to the gate half a mile south It was kinda fun hanging on for dear life to a tractor though as we slowly crept along the field. :). Being a crwdog here for 20 years I've met practically ever neighbor within 5 miles. I've never had a problem with any of them but I've always been friendly and polite. It really matters. Our local farmers usually are nice enough to warn us when they get a new bull who is less than friendly :) We had a neighbor about half a mile away with a really old dog who wandered off and showed up at the dz. I took her home once I found out where she lived, but she figured out that there were great people at the dz who would pet and feed her so she kept coming back. She was so old she had trouble walking so I drove her home at least 20 times. Ever since then if we have a bad spot that direction I always land at their house. I figure they owe me. I return their dog,they return me :).

And any good ideas for what to do in photoshop to fix the slight fog in the pictures? I got some great shots if I can fix them!!!

I bought a rokinon 8mm fisheye lens to go to the crw boogie I'm Florida this past weekend. I loved the pictures it made but switched back to my trusty canon 10-22 because every jump had a small fog dot in the very center of the picture. It appeared softly after exit and went away between 5-6 thousand feet. My canon did not have a problem. The lens is too fisheye to put a filter on it. I think that the moisture is inside the lens unfortunately. Anyone have a clue how to get it out or solve the problem? I really like the lens and would like to play with it more. Haven't had a chance to try it in less humid Texas or in Freefall.

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Most excellent! The CRWdogs are causing a buzz in the city! http://youtu.be/69Z8BbcsNro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN6U5jqc-o0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgEvbN-N4cs

That would be a cool idea. Who out there is an iOS programmer? Being able to put malfunction photos on an iPad for showing would be very cool. And have some sort of feedback mechanism maybe.

Out here all the jumpers seem to view anything below 3k as low Maybe it's different at big dropzones but it seems that they view if they pulled as low as 2500 it scares them. Anything below 3 seems to be the new low for jumpers. You couldn't pay them to pull as low as 2. Maybe they just don't read USPa doctrine so much but the attitude of the less than 10 years in the sport out here is that below 3k they've gone low I do suspect that at big dropzones people can develop different attitudes

It's odd to me that people actually see newer jumpers pulling that low. The only people that I ever see pull at 2k are the guys who have been jumping 15-20-30 years. The rookies seem terrified to Pull below 3-3500. And they all have modern 'fun' canopies so they enjoy their canopy ride too much to hum it low. It just seems to me that 2k pulls just aren't an issue with anyone who learned in the past 10 years. Or maybe I'm just in an odd part of the skydiving world.

My student logbook :http://crwdog.servebeer.com/CRWdog/HowCRW.html My favorite entry just says lived through it again :).

Al Kruger is still out and about in California. Hasn't jumped much ( if at all ) since he was nearly killed a few years ago on a jump.

I may have fixed the problem. We were poking around trying to fix the problem this morning and one thing I did was take the lens off. Last batch of pictures came out fine. So maybe there was dust or something on one of the sensors connecting the lens to the camera?

Laugh, solution for your second problem would be just shooting in sports mode. Save $700. The camera is turned on in the plane like it always has been. Like I said, whatever is going on only started a couple of months ago. I'm using the standard conceptus bite switch. I'm not sure how it's wired but I'm not using anything non-standard.

I'm throwing together another rig and I have 2 spare reserves sitting around. I've got 4-5 jumps on Microraven 120's so I have a pretty good idea of what to expect of the mr 135 ( I.e. stall at the shoulders.). I've never jumped a cricket. The cricket seems like it would pack larger but I haven't compared the numbers and I have never jumped a cricket. The rig I will be putting this in is large enough to hold a 150 so either will fit fine. Has anyone jumped both reserves? Which flies better? I am about 140 body weight at the moment. ( and for anyone who doesn't know me, I have 8000 jumps, several thousand crw jumps, and probably 6000 jumps on 7-cell squares :). I know PDs, tempos and smarts all fly better, but this is for an extra rig and I have these 2 (free!) choices available that I already own. Anyone jumped them both and have a preference?

I have a Canon T1i with a 10-22 lens. I've had this for a couple of years, always shooting in TV mode. Recently the pictures I take in TV mode are always coming out washed out, but if I put it in Sports mode they come out fine. I've tried speeds of 1/400-1/640 with no difference. Tried with/without UV/Polarizer lenses. No difference. Moving the exposure compensation down a couple of notches helps a little but its still washed out. I've got Auto ISO, currently on Auto White Balance (though I used to use cloudy). Setting is Standard, Ai Servo, Evalutative metering, continuous shooting. AF Point selection is automatic. I'm out of ideas on why it suddenly started overexposing in TV mode but being fine in Sports Mode. I just hate trying to take landing shots in sports mode because its hard to get it to focus.. This is what the Inspector says for a good shot in Sports Mode: Aperture Value: 5 Color Space: sRGB Components Configuration: 1, 2, 3, 0 Custom Rendered: Normal process Date Time Digitized: 2012:01:14 13:20:17 Date Time Original: 2012:01:14 13:20:17 Exif Version: 2.2.1 Exposure Bias Value: 0 Exposure Mode: Auto exposure Exposure Program: Action program Exposure Time: 1 / 499 Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode FlashPix Version: 1.0 FNumber: 5.6 Focal Length: 15 Focal Plane Resolution Unit: inches Focal Plane X Resolution: 5,315.436 Focal Plane Y Resolution: 5,342.327 ISO Speed Ratings: 100 Max Aperture Value: 4 Metering Mode: Pattern Pixel X Dimension: 4,752 Pixel Y Dimension: 3,168 Scene Capture Type: Standard Shutter Speed Value: 9 Sub-second Time: 11 Sub-second Time Digitized: 11 Sub-second Time Original: 11 White Balance: Auto white balance AFInfo: 0.2227294, 0.473139, 0.02691947, 0.05372191, f, 0.3287687, 0.5858497, 0.02691947, 0.05372191, f, 0.3287687, 0.3604284, 0.02691947, 0.05372191, f, 0.4810393, 0.6932935, 0.03792135, 0.03686798, f, 0.4765918, 0.4650632, 0.04681648, 0.06987359, F, 0.4810393, 0.2698385, 0.03792135, 0.03686798, f, 0.6443118, 0.5858497, 0.02691947, 0.05372191, f, 0.6443118, 0.3604284, 0.02691947, 0.05372191, f, 0.7503511, 0.473139, 0.02691947, 0.05372191, F Firmware: Firmware Version 1.1.0 Flash Compensation: 0 Focus Mode: 1 ImageStabilization: 3 Lens ID: 235 Lens Info: 10, 22, 0, 0 Lens Model: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Serial Number: 620,103,638 This is what inspector says for an overexposed shot in TV mode. Aperture Value: 5.375 Color Space: sRGB Components Configuration: 1, 2, 3, 0 Custom Rendered: Normal process Date Time Digitized: 2012:01:14 09:48:10 Date Time Original: 2012:01:14 09:48:10 Exif Version: 2.2.1 Exposure Bias Value: 0 Exposure Mode: Auto exposure Exposure Program: Shutter priority Exposure Time: 1 / 499 Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode FlashPix Version: 1.0 FNumber: 6.3 Focal Length: 15 Focal Plane Resolution Unit: inches Focal Plane X Resolution: 5,315.436 Focal Plane Y Resolution: 5,342.327 ISO Speed Ratings: 100 Max Aperture Value: 4 Metering Mode: Pattern Pixel X Dimension: 4,752 Pixel Y Dimension: 3,168 Scene Capture Type: Standard Shutter Speed Value: 8.625 Sub-second Time: 05 Sub-second Time Digitized: 05 Sub-second Time Original: 05 White Balance: Auto white balance AFInfo: 0.2227294, 0.473139, 0.02691947, 0.05372191, f, 0.3287687, 0.5858497, 0.02691947, 0.05372191, f, 0.3287687, 0.3604284, 0.02691947, 0.05372191, f, 0.4810393, 0.6932935, 0.03792135, 0.03686798, f, 0.4765918, 0.4650632, 0.04681648, 0.06987359, F, 0.4810393, 0.2698385, 0.03792135, 0.03686798, f, 0.6443118, 0.5858497, 0.02691947, 0.05372191, f, 0.6443118, 0.3604284, 0.02691947, 0.05372191, f, 0.7503511, 0.473139, 0.02691947, 0.05372191, F Firmware: Firmware Version 1.1.0 Flash Compensation: 0 Focus Mode: 1 ImageStabilization: 3 Lens ID: 235 Lens Info: 10, 22, 0, 0 Lens Model: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Serial Number: 620,103,638 I'm out of ideas. Anyone have any?

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Without massive modifications you would not want to take a lightning to terminal velocity - it's not a canopy you can Freefall with. I'd look for something else.

I completely agree. I have a pd 150 loaded at 1.1. Probably has 400 or so jumps on it. I love the thing. In no wind sunset loads ts my favorite canopy when I'm tired cuz I can just look up and tell it to fly me home and it lands me in the peas. Has a great flare still - I can pop it up and get lift and it's so trivially simple to land I love it. It does land different from zp but very much like a reserve. The only reason I don't jump it more is that I'm usually videoing a tandem or talking down an AFF and I'm trying to come down faster. But it's a beautiful flying canopy. It's my go to canopy when I am tired after a long day because it practically lands itself.

There aren't a lot of crw folks reading this forum. Most of them hang out on the crw email list ( mike included). If you go to groups.google.com and search for crwdogs you can sign up for that email list. There are definitely some of the old Tampa guys on that list.

I posted your question on the crwdogs email list and got this answer. http://books.google.com/books?id=2PopFBjLZV8C&lpg=PA164&ots=ldoTDauWbW&dq=Para-Flite%20Pursuit&pg=PA164#v=onepage&q=Para-Flite%20Pursuit&f=false

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I need some advice. Pm me please!

People use the storm for competition, but not for big ways. Most people using it for competition are also jumping it at much higher wing loadings as well than is standard for lightnings. Pretty much all big way events in the us are still done on lightnings. The storm is extremely more sinky/nose down than the lightning which is also not the best for big ways because it would limit working time. So if you want a Canopy for 2-way competition the storm is a good choice. But you won't be able to use it for the vast majority of big ways

I like the concept but hate the thought that it can release one reserve riser of a good main. That killed the one tandem pair and the one Chicago student lived through dumb luck. I hasn't heard though that if installed backwards it could keep your reserve from coming out. That's scary. They are complex as f&$@ to rig though I've seen. I can easily see a mistake being made I'm more a fan of the KISS principle - the more complex a system is the easier it is to screw up. I am curious about th infinity system as well as what any other manufacturer may be coming up with. I don't know anything about them but if they were a simpler setup I would be more interested