faulknerwn

+3 Once you go Mac you'll never go back.

The big ones have noticably more float than the little ones.

It turns faster - but its forward speed is not faster.. CRW guys use this as a basis for building big-ways. Just like in RW, you want a fast base in CRW. We all load our Lightnings at 1.3-1.375 for the big-ways. But the top of the formations are all 193's and 218's - not only because they are faster than the small ones, but they are also floatier. For the outside of the formation - which we want going slower than the center so that the formation doesn't funnel - we use all 113's and 126's. Our canopies are naturally slower because the lines and bodies are more drag proportionately... I've flown my 113 besides 193's and 218's at the same wing-loading many a time - they leave me in the dust! They outrun and outfloat me... The funniest was one time we were doing 2-way rotations and I was underneath a guy who was on a 193 I think. He did an aggressive turn in and my end cells ended up touching behind me. My poor little canopy couldn't keep up! Once he slowed down my canopy reinflated and we docked. It was highly amusing.. Course there was the day they had me piloting a 16-way on my 113.. That was scary since everyone in the formation was faster than me! It was not exactly healthy!

They're very impressive. Every rig (Racer and Vector) I've seen with them they've worked very well...

And there's also a choice to let them decide. Power Racers are only for tiny canopies, and its not bad to let them choose based on your measurements and your canopies...

Actually you can go to the apple website, and if you have the new version of imovie installed on your computer, you can download the old version (the good one) for free. Its way more powerful than the newest version...

Not sure if this is a Rickerby (got it used) but it could be... (ooops added the attachment)

They were in a 182 however. That should hold 4 jumpers no problem.

Death maybe but I bet there are a lot more injuries you might not hear about. Case in point. 4-5 years ago, I went to a Monday morning meeting at my old company. Another guy who I barely knew was the first one to show up besides me. He had his arm in a cast and his chest was wrapped. I asked what happened. Turned out he had gone tandem that weekend at another local dz, and he described in whuffo ways being hooked into the pea pit. He had video and I asked to see it but I never did. He described pretty much a low turn and hitting the ground extremely fast. He had a broken arm and broken ribs. I know I always wince when I see people hooking tandems in.. Passengers don't need that risk..

I am using a cameye, and its set on auto-exposure but manual focus..

I have a PC330 set up and something odd has started happening. If I am in record mode, I will have it in manual focus/infinity (mountain on the screen.) If I just change it to playback mode and then back to record mode, the mountain completely disappears. If I turn it off and back on at this point, the focus is in some middle range - not infinity. Its rather bizarre because this is 100% replicable even on the ground. Any clue what to do about it? I like to keep my focus ring gaffered tape so it doesn't move but this makes it hard because I'm having to re-focus a lot...

You must have a lot longer arms than me! I'm 5'1 but can just barely touch the drogue on our Strong rigs - definitely not enough to pull it! And toggle pressure is something you would have to work out to get used to. I've been a passenger a handful of times and I'm always surprised at the toggle pressure...

I've seen that at lots of drop zones. You may not even know they're doing that - they may just look at a manifest sheet or talk to manifest on the radio. But then the people from the 10-way will be tracking on top of other canopies. That could be extremely dangerous - a freefall/canopy collision is very often not survivable. That was always part of student training where I have jumped. I know that when discussing exit separation as part of the A license test for my students I always talk about that. (And I'm at a Cessna dz but I know my students will travel.)

I've landed one and chopped one... I have tertiary rings on several rigs of mine, and one Saturday summer afternoon a few years back, we hooked up a nice 375 square foot canopy to my tertiary rings and up I went. Well somehow between the time we packed the canopy and when I jumped it, the risers had gotten reversed.. On this jump (I weighed 130) I planned to just spend the afternoon under canopy :-) I had a couple beverages packed, a sandwich and a radio. I hopped out of the plane, deployed and looked up at the backwards canopy. and went huh.. It was 375 square feet after all, so I decided to have a drink (of diet coke of course) while I contemplated this... About 5000 feet I unstowed the toggles and started playing around trying to see if I could land this. The fact that I had to pull a toggle to my ankle to initiate a slow turn made me think I could. Did a nice stand up landing several miles off the dz going backwards.... (Was doing a minor correction into the wind at 30 feet with a toggle at my hip thinking this should kill me on my canopy but man was this thing slow!) 5 years later - to this day I have no explanation of how it happened - one no-wind Friday afternoon I opened to a Triathlon 99 backwards. Landing the 375 backwards was challenging enough that I did not even blink an eye at chopping! No way in hell was I gonna try that!!!

I think there's definitely a market. Especially with how crazy the RIAA is getting with music. A wide variety of music is best. The type of music you might put on an 18 year male's tandem video is probably not the same type that you would put on your grandmothers... And to me words are important - the songs need to be "topical." I loved the songs on Norm Kent's From Wings Came Flight video. Great lyrics...

I have both cats and dogs, and personality traits from both sets of descriptions.. My cats demand attention but its on their terms. The dog just lavishes it on me cuz she loves me...

The way I see it is - I always try and schedule my doctor/dentist appts at 8-9 AM. That way I'm sure they are not backed up. Practically every time I had an afternoon appointment, I waited for what seemed like forever because things had gotten backed up. So if that place does appointments for AFF (mine doesn't), make the appointment for 9 AM. You're far more likely to get to go quickly.

Have you grown since the last time I saw you? If not you qualify for one of the midget slots :-)

I always tell students as well - show up first thing in the morning. I know its hard to drag yourself out of bed, but my dz is often really slow in the morning and its easy to get students out (and that's when the winds are slowest.) Tandems always seem to get craziest and backed up mid-day, and that's when all the AFFs like to show up. So my hint of the day to frustrated AFF students - get out of bed early before the mad crush of people arrives!

I've got ~18 reserve rides these days.. Probably 8 on Tempo 120's, probably 6-7 standups (all soft landings.) Probably 6 on MicroRavens - 4 standups (other 2 soft). 2 on a PD 126, 1 on a PD 143 - 2/3 standups. 1 23' round - now that one hurt. I own a bunch of rigs with various reserves. I'm comfortable landing any of them. I'd rather see someone load a PD reserve at 1.5 than a MicroRaven sure, but I'd rather see no one load a reserve that high...

Its perfectly usable as long as people are used to flying 7-cells. I own multiple MicroRaven 120s and have 5-6 jumps on them. I load them at about 1.3 but I've stood up most of the landings (tho definitely biffed a couple too.) But I have thousands of jumps on small 7-cells. I wouldn't sell it overloaded to a rookie, but if folks know what they're getting into its not a problem...

(And no this doesn't need to be in speaker's corner :) And it is safe for work... http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=46832&altf=Xfoez&altl=Gbvmlofs

When I was in Empuriabrava last, the AAD rule was waived for CRWdogs.. So if ya wanna go do CRW you might be ok!

I love it! Course the freefall part is true - when I had my crazy CRW camp, we were gonna do the CRW stack, 2 way in freefall, and then a 2 stack - there was only one person there besides me who felt comfortable enough in freefall that they thought they could actually make a freefall 2-way!

Absolutely! Last month I emailed them with my sob story - I was on back to back loads so I asked my dzo to swap batteries that were dead in my Viso. He unfortunately doesn't notice the battery compartment and pries off the back! 2 jumps later I was left with a nice wrist strap and nothing else... It was replaced quickly and for free! No wonder when (thru my own fault) I lost my Solo a couple weeks later I didn't even dream of replacing it with anything but another Solo...