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  1. Hooknswoop
    True. You have to depend on your harness and reserve. You do not have to depend on your Cypres, RSL, altimeter, etc. You can lower your risk by relying only on your harness, main, and and reserve if the main fails and having other gear as back ups. You can increase your risk level by relying on your harness, main, reserve if your main fails, your altimeter, your Cypres, your RSL, etc. Yes, they can. I have been saved by my senses more times than I can count. Derek
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    I'll break it down to make it easier to understand: 1) Your harness is unlikely to fail, trust in yourself to deploy your main and execute emergency procedures if necessary. 2) Do not rely on back up devices, especially don't rely on back up devices 100%, i.e. wait for the Cypres to fire to save you. 3) Your harness and reserve system can fail though it is rare. Derek
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    I have no idea where you jump and don't really care. I took the way you phrased your question to mean if it wasn't you pictures that were stolen, what's your problem with it? I wasn't the only one that read your post that way. That is why I responded how I did, not because of where you or don't jump. I didn't check your profile. Derek
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    And all that matters is money, not following the law? You means top pointing out how Skyride is breaking the law? Getting screwed over by Skyrides tends to take the fun you describe out of the experience. I noticed you completly ignored the posts pointing out that Skyride is involved in illegal practices. Why don't you commet on that? Derek
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    Really? How did I survive all those skydives with nothing but a jumpsuit, a rig and a helmet and no AAD,RSL, Altimeter, etc? Correct, which is my point, rely on yourself to deploy your parachute, not your AAD. Use your eyes to determine altitude, do die because your altimeter fails. Why not? It can be and is done safely all the time. Derek
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    Does it make it OK if it wasn't Kallend photos that were stolen? Stealing is stealing. Funny how ASC jumpers try to defend illegal business practices. Derek
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    Decide if you make the skydive as if you don't have a Cypres. Be prepared for your altimeter, either audible or visual and either mechanical or bettery operated, to fail. Depend on your senses first, your altimeter(s) second. Derek
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    "Welcome to Colorado's # 1 Skydiving Center!" Says who? "MILE-HI SKYDIVING CENTER is the Rocky Mountain region's TOP-RANKED and largest skydiving facility." Really, who ranked it #1? "We are the only school within 100 miles of the Denver-Boulder area" Hmm, there is another DZ within 100 miles and when Brush was open, two within 100 miles. "Also we are the only school in Colorado to use the most sophisticated safety equipment available on ALL of our parachute equipment!" Really? What does Mile Hi have everyone else doesn't? "The KingAir is an 1100 hp., twin engine, jet-prop aircraft. It is our full-time year-round aircraft. It is the nicest skydiving KingAir in the country." I think Mr. Mullins would disagree. "The Mile-Hi elevators are a De Havilland Twin Otter" Is the TO flying jumpers? "Oxygen is available for jumpers in all aircraft." LOL! Seems to me Mile Hi's website is right up there in the "inaccurate web site" catagory with everyone else. Derek
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    Good luck getting people to touch this one with a ten foot pole. Saying anything negative about a DZ, evenif it is true, will likely get you banned from that DZ. Derek
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    Think of it as a blank .22 round with a sharp wedge shaped bullet that fires electrically across the hole where the closing loop passes through. Derek
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    Ya, if they are out of synch it makes a world of difference to get them back in synch and would explain the idle rpm range instead of smoothly idling. Of couse fuel injection solves that problem nicely. Derek
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    Synching the carbs will often make the engine run much smoother and requires a special tool. Spark plugs are easy, but it is best to let them just do everything in one shot. It would suck to tear something apart and either damage it or not be able to put it back together. That would end up costing more in the long run. I find that either getting all the tools, book, etc and diving into something or paying an expert to do it is the way to go. Sounds like you aren't into bike maint, just saving money. It will probably cost you more in the long run to do it yourself. Derek
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    Sounds like a project right up my alley. I'll give it a shot Derek
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    I got a PM from the rigger. It was an isolated incident. Rigs and seal threads have been checked and are OK. I didn't think the seals are listed in the FAA's database? Derek
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    Neat, but the reserve can be opened, re-closed, and sealed with the original seal. The tacking to keep the seal away from the grommet makes this method cumbersome. Derek
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    They are very similar in appearance. You would have to be looking very hard to notice the difference. Seal thread comes off a plastic covered roll. "E" thread comes off a huge spool, very difference sources. I have been trying to figure how someone could have used "E" thread instead of seal thread and I remembered I found 2, 16-inch +/- pieces of red "E" thread in the reserve when I inspected it. I'm thinking maybe the thread was picked up off the packing room floor next to the rig when it was closed and used to seal the reserve. That is the only scenario I can come up with for "E" thread being used instead of seal thread. Derek
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    OK, I got a hold of the rigger and he said he is going to cjheck into it. Derek
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    People also describe how to do high performance landings. Anyone can read that too. As the disclaimer thread at the top of forum says, be aware of advice given. It is a perfectly valid method of resolving a potentionaly dangerous malfunction. A skydiver should be aware of their limitations before simply reading something here and going out to the DZ and giving it a shot. Should I not post it even though there are people that will/could find value in it because someone of little experience can read it too? If I shouldn't, then there is a lot (probably the vast majority) of threads that should be removed because they are too advanced for new jumpers. Derek
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    The PC was inflated (I never had a collapsed PC in tow), but it was too small to pull the pin. Once I would reach back and pull the pin, the main deployed normally. With the advent of very well protected pins, it can take more force to pull the pin than it takes to deploy the main. In this case it was a very small main that didn't require a lot of drag from the PC to deploy it. Like Bill said, don;t spend the rest of your life trying to pull the pin. Also, if you have a collasped PC in to (cock your PC!) pulling the pin will probably make things worse, not better. Derek
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    I am working on it. Another rigger brought the rig to me to pack because they were swamped, so I don't know the owner. The other rigger is going to talk to the owner and find out who the rigger was and then contact me. I will contact the rigger, hopefully today. I don't know how to go any faster than that beyond putting their seal code here and I am not going to do that. Derek
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    I took the pic after trying to break the seal by hand and then putting 30+ pounds of pull force on the handle. The pin moved until the seal stopped it. I took the pics and then put the rig on and pulled the handle. It took a bit of doing, but I was able to pull the reserve. The seal thread did not break, it slipped through the seal. Derek
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    Anything is possible, but I found it easy on about 20 occasions to reach back and pull the pin without a problem. (I was experiemnting with small PC sizes). Yes, it does. It is a trade between taking a bit of time, which if you pulled at a resonable altitude you should have the time, and avoiding the risk of a main/reserve entanglement if you are forced to deploy the reserve. No perfect answer, each option has advantages and disadvantages. One may work well once and cause a problem the next time. Because of this, avoiding the problem is the best answer. Most PC's in tow were avoidable. Derek
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    Well the mains hould open at that point. If it does, then no need for EP's. If it doesn't, you are back at square one with a PC in tow. Like it has been said twice now, prevention is easy and the way to go. How many people know 1) that spectra kill lines shrink with use and eventually will cause a PC in tow and 2) how to check if their kill line PC is a) correctly built and b) has the correct length kill line? Derek
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    I would be VERY interested to learn more about this method. Derek
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    Pilot chute in tow procedure 3: Reach back and pull the pin. Then figure out what caused the PC in tow and fix it before jumping the rig again. Derek