Hellis
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You can find it in this thread. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4598207;page=unread#unread
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Excel is a great tool for this in my opinion. You can have it count down the days to repack/Cypres service and alert you when you need to remind the owner. Or Excel can email the owner and do it for you. +1 for backup!
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In that case you have a tool called 'snipping tool'. Click on start and type "snipping" and it should pop up as a suggested file. Just have th pdf open and open snipping tool, the screen will go greyish. Use the mouse and left mousebutton to draw a rectangle over the drawing. The area selected will be shown in the snipping tool and here you can go to file -> save as.
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If you use Adobe Reader I think you can rightclick on the image and copy it. Then you can paste it in any 'paint' software and save it. Or if you don't know any of those softwares you can use MS Word and paste it there and use Word to save it as a jpeg.
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Use ankle braces/support and you can just laugh when your friend docks hard on you. Without them you won't be laughing
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There is no tension there. You lay the lines flat and they are 'just lines'. You can create tension in a line by pulling it on both sides, or with rubberband and keeping the rubberband stretched, etc. But laying lines on the ground is not tension. When you drag rig across the floor (and puting wear on it) there is tension in the lines, but when you lay the lines there is no tension. Thus, how do you "maintain" the tension? As you said. You can get the same "tension" (if thats what you want to call it) by moving the bag to the rig and grabing the lines with both hands and pull it tight. Quicker, easier, and no wear on the rig. You can pack however you want, but there is no tension in tailpockets/no stow bags.
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I prefer pulling the container towards the bag while spooling the lines, to maintain tension. How do you maintain the tension when you grab the next loop of lines? I know it's easier to keep the lines even and get good looking loops but it should not make any difference. (unless you over do it sloppy)
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Funny because there are cars without handle on the hand brake, they are electronic. Just sayin
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Depends. What type of camera? Mounted on side or top? Mounted how? On what helmet? Etc.. My opinion when I bought my rig was that a skyhook would be a waste of money since I was going to jump with camera and have the RSL unhooked. Now I regret not buying a skyhook because I have the RSL attached all (most) of the time anyway. I spent time on making a etanglement less likely with better mounting options. My advice is to try to 'eliminate' snags and then try to create a snag on the ground. Then decide if you use RSL or not.
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Don't know for sure how the legal system works for you, but if you win the lawsuit here you have no or very few fees to pay. The big difference between 3 rings and 'new anti fog system' is size of market as you might understand. Not all jumpers use fullface helmets, and only a few of them will buy a Square1 helmet, even fewer will buy the new Kiss helmet. Regarding patentfees. Here in Sweden a patent for only Sweden will cost you about 20-25000 the first year. And thats only a national patent. International costs a bit more But this is only rough numbers that I recently looked in too.
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Possible - yes. Is there enough sales to pay back the patent fees and make a profit - maybe if you raise the price a tad. Sure, the patent can be used on feature helmets too but in my opinion... If someone wants to use your patented technology they will find a way to do it.
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According to the link in the first post: I guess Square1 and some anti fog ventilation
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And because there is such smal market nobody would ever try and patent a piece of the design coz' it would never pay of. Ohh... Wait...
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If I was making such a target I would buy two tarps in different colour and cut out circles in one of them and glue them on to the other (or sew them). I think paint will fall of if/when you bend it.
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It does look quicker than some other canopies, but it doesn't look bad. If the second video is the promotion video of zulu, I'm surprised they couldn't find a video where the slider 'works' as it should when colapsing it Thanks for the videos!
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Do you have video of the openings? I like quick openings and that leaves me with pretty much only older canopies. My current canopy is about to take it's last breath soon.
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A few years ago I did a test on a spectra 725 (?) line with a E-thread bartack. The line broke before the bartack. So I'm not sure what you read is correct.
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I used to have a old student rig for my 160. I'm not sure what size rig it was but it had a 218 reserve, so my guess is that it was a 240 main rig. It was a loose fit, not dangerously loose. It was easy to pack in any weather loose. And it had a large reserve
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Collapsible slider creates less wear on the lines. So in my opinion, it's worth it. Not sure about the kill-line PC if that has any other advantages other than performance. Perhaps less wear on the topskin on the parachute? But either way, I still think it's worth it. The habbit of pulling the PC when packing and making sure it catches air is a good habbit. If he/she buys other gear this habbit might save them a repack. Less changes when you jump new gear is generally a safer transission, so having no kill-line and non collapsible slider as your first rig can give you 'bad' habbits. I believe most rigs have those two features as standard on new rigs so why change it?
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psst.. https://www.google.se/search?q=Hannah&rlz=1C1LENP_enSE598SE598&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=lrgRVNzuBMjmyQPwwICYAQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=911&bih=445#imgdii=_ Hannah is a female name
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Mal - mmmm - what would you have done different ?
Hellis replied to shorehambeach's topic in Safety and Training
He chosed to drop the toggles instead after landing so that the velcro can fuzz his reserve lines. It has to look used if it has been used -
I found a tutorial on youtube that explains how to do it. I still have problems myself, but it does explain it quite good. At work now and using my phone so I can't find the link now.
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The picture does not say Windows, it says PC. It only has the Win logo. So you are actually both correct.
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Over here the card says what date the first component becomes not valid for jumping. So rig and reserve needs to be inspected (not repacked) after 6 months, but if your AAD needs maintnence or your rig and/or reserve becomes 20+ years old that date is filled in the field instead. It works overe here. Only need to look at one date to determin if the rig is 'ok'.
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We have some "airplane" issues, and I have not been able to jump for a while. The bug was last known with the previous stable version of the FlySight software. Don't know if it still happens. It's not on every jump. But it has happened a few times for me. It has not happened yet to my new FlySight. But ave not used it much