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"light weight one more week till I'm blowing up clewiston " Damn I wish I could go !!!! Next year it's you and me setting the pace. As you say ARCH BITCHES!!!! ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

Swoop cords sound interesting. How much influence do they have on normal RW? Can they be used in tracking? or not so much, due to the forward arm position? Swoop cords really only come into play with a forward arm position. In my opinion they make it harder to fly correctly. If you reach alittle bit to far for a dock then the cord tightens and you backslide or pop up more than w/o them. They decrease your range with your arms. It really just takes getting used too. You will have more of a differance in your aerodynamics when changing your arm position relative to not having them. I always have loved no suit jumps with the bigger jumpers as I was able to move more freely and feel what my body was doing better w/o them. You will also have to get a little more leg into the air to not backslide with the cords tight. Yes baggy would be good as it will create more drag and help you slow down. Edited to add I spent alot of time adjusting my swoop cords for the most benefit versus freedom of movement. You can tighten or losen them for your comfort. tightness of the cords will determine at what point of arm stretch they start to take effect. Just be sure you can reach your risers and toggles on opening. In case you need a quick evasive manuever in the first few seconds. I looped mine around my thumb so I could easily release them under canopy. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

Nevermind I found where the checkbook was hiding. How the hell it got there I'll never know. My $50 is on the way. Good luck brother. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

What they said, I am 245lbs out the door so for me you need to speed up :) Swoop cords attach inside the suit at about the waist and connect to your hands. when you extend your arms out they tighten and create tension on the wing area of the suit and help to slow you down. They also make flying more of a challenge. (at least to me) as I fly MUCH better without them. I got some tunel time in recently in orlando with Mike coaching and was able to really slow my fall rate. He is I would guess 180 and within a very short time I was able to match him. As a big guy I would suggest that you might spend alittle time in the tunnel on fall rate before spending alot of money on a suit. At 200 lbs I think that you shouldn't have too much trouble slowing down without going with big wings and swoopcords. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

Is there a paypal account? I do everything online and can't seem to find where I hid my checkbook. If anyone here can take paypal and is going to kick in please pm me so I can also. ( I'll pay the paypal fee) ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

So can I assume that since its a kill-line PC that its a collapsable PC? Yes that is what the Kill line does. You are not a dumbass for asking questions for any means. That's how we learn, at least you are thinking and regrettably some people don't. BSBD good luck with the rig and measure twice!!! ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

Take your form and grab your instructor or a coach, Sit down with them and go over all the options and find out the advantages/disadvantages of all of them. Then buy them a jump and order the gear that fits what you want and need. It's a good thing to learn as much as you can about your gear anyway, this is a perfect opportunity to further your education. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

The shorter yoke length might explain why it seemed to me like her 3 rings were more on top of my shoulders than more towards the front like mine then right? I read it as the longer main lift web is why the 3-rings are more on top of your shoulders. My last custom container would have a large gap between my shoulders and the over the shoulder part of the rig with the large ring really high by my ears. Was this most likely due to improper measuring in the first place before ordering the rig? Yes the legstraps were tightened down well. I am saving for a new rig and that "fit" really bothered me. Wasn't afraid of falling out just was irritating, I would like to avoid this on the new gear. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

http://www.printfection.com/fallfreaks This company has some cool t-shirts might be some help. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

You might want to turn the volume up just a tad!!! ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

Losing it, FAR FROM IT! It's a very good thing to evauate what you are doing and why. You should do this everyday. We have to stay sharp and at the top of our game to survive. Asking these things is part of that process it keeps us thinking and planning for the time when we really need it. IMO if you keep thinking this way it will help you have a long career in this sport. If that's what you want to have. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

Try not to focus on what went wrong, but all the things you did right!!!! It's not the fact that it is a bitch it's how you deal with the bitch. Great job glad you kept you head and were ok. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

"You can stall in any attitude at any airspeed if the angle of attack exceeds the critical angle as determined by the airfoil". Yes I mistated on that one what you say here is what I meant to say. Too early this am. "During the acceleration, the force on the riser will increase as the lift builds to balance the new airspeed. This will take only a second, give or take. At that point, the force will stabilize to be exactly that portion of your weight that is now supported by the front risers. No more. " Although I may not have said it clearly enough this is what I am saying. As the speed increases so does the lift. Now alot of people cannot support there weight pulling the risers so as this happens the pressure build is to much for them. I can get the risers down quite far and it is surely more than a second of acceleration and the building of riser pressure. I can hold this for a few hundred feet max. I don't have any kind of way to track this acceleration but in my perception when doing this it seems to take 3 to 5 seconds before reaching a new equlibrium. I think we are on the same page just not effectively communicating it to each other. That's why I really hate typing and text messages. To hard for effective communication, at least for me. I always try to learn however that's why I'm here. Blue Skies ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

Yes when you have reached a steady state the force will go unchanged. during the time of Getting to a faster airspeed the force (lift) will increase. This is why alot of people can't hold there fronts down for very long not because the get tired. the angle of attack does determine which way the canopy will fly. You can however be producing more or less lift at any angle of attack. Remember you can stall (less lift) at ANY angle of attack. As I said I am not an expert in aerodynamics but this is how I see it. Maybie there is an aeronautical engineer on here who can give us the benefit of there wisdom. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

They'll let you on the plane, nobody cares if you blow up Clewiston!!! No offense to Airglades I love the place. It will always be home ! FJC there. When your there check out the fugly looking 3 way exit poster in the student room. I'm in the white jumpsuit with red stripes. Just found out it's still there after 20 years. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

"But you said "When this canopy increases speed more lift equals more pressure" and I'm having some trouble with that. If this is true, then pulling the front risers would make you go UP? (Pull riser = more speed. More speed = more lift. More lift = flatter glide, or, apparently going UP?) " As I said I could be wrong But, As the front risers are pulled down you are effectively changing the trim of the canopy. As the canopy accelerates it will have an increase in the amount of lift. It will not go up as it is now trimed downward. The front riser pressure will increase with faster speed on very stable canopies. I suspect that a Crw type canopy is set from the factory to be more neutral as to allow as light a riser pressure as possible. Rember as an airplane flys through the air at say 80 knots you will need to trim the nose up more than the same plane at 140 knots. This is because of the differance in the amount of lift at differant airspeeds. When we front riser we change the trim and only by the speed increase do we change the amount of lift. edit to add: When we apply brakes and slow the canopy, we increase our sink rate. Why? Because at the slower airspeed we have a significant decrease in lift. Yes as we change the shape of our wing with tail input we will have an increase in lift do to the more curved shape of our wing, but that quickly dissipates as we approach the stall point. If we could simply slow the canopies airspeed without increasing our pitch angle our lift drop off would be much more dramatic ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

Ellipticals have less drag on the sides of the canopy. This in turn will make them faster and more responsive in turns. Any canopy that is built to be very stable will have more lift at the front of the canopy. Which is wear your a and b lines are therefore making front riser pressure higher. When this canopy increases speed more lift equals more pressure. This trait is determined by the trim more than anything else. A less stable canopy will have the lift positioned further back thereby relieving some of the front riser pressure and making it easier to sustain a dive longer. Doing the partial flare then going straight to front risers will help. As the canopy surges forwrd after the partial flare the riser pressure will be reduced. This will only be for a few seconds but may give you enough time to get it into a carving turn with even greater speed than a front riser dive. At least that's the way i understand it. I could be totally wrong however. probebly am. not a canopy designer. not a expert pilot. Matter of fact you might want to ignore everything I've said. Maybie Brian G. will give us his thoughts. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

Agreed. The post about cutting the slider that was so badly mis-routed just brought back memories. Call me nostalgic. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

That's scary! It does bring up a question though. In one of the posts someone brings up cutting the slider, which from the pics looks like a good idea. My question is what ever happened to split sliders? We collapse them pull them down behind our heads, we used to just split them. Just curious, haven't seen one in along time. Edit to ad. never mind found it. Pain in the arse to put back together. I have to agree, however being a big guy I'm not comfortable with mini-risers. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

I have spent the last 25 years handling people with spinal injuries ( and every other kind). Try this: sit upright in a chair and have a buddy push down on the top of your head simulating the g forces during opening. You'll feel the push and maybie alittle compression but thats about it. Now put your head in your opening position and have him push on the back of your head. What do you feel now? ( i wouldn't let him push hard as he could possible severly injure you) Hold a dumbell in your hand right against your shoulder. now move your arm out to full extension. The dumbell feels heavier, not because it is because it's moment of force is further away. Same thing with having your head forward its moment of force will want to tear it off of the spine. Head over your shoulders will compress in the natural way that your spine is meant to handle it. Remember an object in motion will stay in motion. In this case that would be straight down. Any extremely hard opening can hurt your whole body. Putting your head out in front is really not a good idea. I don't want to see you on my table someday. Take my advice or don't, but I do have the education and method of injury experience to give good advice in this matter. Be safe in whatever you decide works for you. BSBD ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

Hi HO Hi HO its off to work I go To get some gear I can't stay here Hi HO Hi HO. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

If the gear was written off on the dealers taxes, he will have to do two things. 1 he will have to claim a profit in the amount of the current value of the gear upon getting it returned. As it was filed as a loss previously. 2 he will have to claim a profit for the subsequent sale of the gear for the price of the sale. Lets say (just using round numbers) the wholesale value of the gear now is $2500.00 and he sells it for $4000.00 he willl have to show a business profit of $6500.00 for this gear. This is something (depending on his tax situation) that he may not fully want to do. It would probebly be in his best interest to work it out with Eric to get a little money from his canopies and he has the aad to sell. Eric should pay a SMALL amount of money to obtain full rights to the gear. That way everyone wins as best as is possible in a bad situation for both parties. This kind of thing chaps my ass. there is no excuss for the people that committed this fraud. Now there are two innocent victoms. If the dealer will work out some sort of SMALL payment with Eric I myself as well as others have said will pitch in. I am gearless now and can't currently jump. I'll eventually save enough to get back. I can't however stand by and let Eric lose his gear and money if I can help in any way. Eric I don't know you, but you are a brother in this sport. If you need a hand shoot me a PM and I'll be glad to help. Mike ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

That's what I said in earlier post. Now I'm asking SStewart to confirm what the dealer did to recover his loss. I'm also sure he did something other than just say oh well. I would love for the dealer in question to post his side of the story on here. I believe that he was paid by the card company or the Insurance company and now is trying to double dip. I also agree that this property may indeed not be defined as stolen goods. Not trying to insult anyones integrity here, just stating my gut feeling. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

Did the dealer file a claim with his insurance company? Did they write it of as a loss on there taxes? If anything like that has happened then the dealer will have to undo the above if they get there gear back, or the gear belongs to whomever paid the claim. Once the dealer accepts a claim or takes a write off it is my understanding that they release there rights to the merchandise. Then again I could be wrong. Can't believe we dont have any lawyers on this forum that are willing to enlighten us to the basic laws in this situation. It really sucks for both parties. I hope there is a good resolution to this for both. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!

Original Poster If you are scared of a horseshoe mal then watch Brian Germains Pilot-chute packing video on you tube. It may not prevent one but it possibly could help clear one in process. Thereby breaking the chain that causes one in the first place. Yes any high speed mal scares me alittle also. practice your EPs and stay aware anytime you are anywhere near this sport. ATTACK LIFE ! IT'S GOING TO KILL YOU ANYWAY!!!!