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I would say yes. On my first ballonjump the feeling was insane. My body was screaming! On my second ballon jump, there was less of this feeling. On the third, I feelt nothing. Or very little And the same thing when I BASE, I feel something of a falling but not anything close to the feeling of my first ballon. I think you can get used to the feeling

You can read about it in Anton Westman's report. It's a few years old now, but it's still a good read. I believe there is a thread about his work too.

Maybe he is thinking of pitching the canopy with 1/4 to 1/2 brakes? Not flying the pattern with brakes

Not entirely true. You will be insured, but you have to pay for it yourself.

Parachutless cords!!! ...even better. That sounds like a bad malfunction

Cordless parachutes?

Please, do explain. We go slower than others and our wings have less internal pressure. So we have more squishy wings. That and it would just be another cool thing to have. You had me at "squishy" You would probably be equally excited to have Louieloops and a bellyband :) And full RDS

That's one reason this idea went out of style a decade or so ago. Another reason is that it can damage the canopy. How exactly? im not real sure i agree with this, every time i pack my base rig the nose gets rolled and stuffed in the centercell, everytime! and we base-tards like onheading openings and not damaging our gear on every jump. but what do i know? I also don't understand how this should wear out the canopy. You roll the tail of the canopy on every jump, if this rolling would cause wear you should see it on all canopys at the tail after just a few hundred jumps. But if we are talking about just friction, the having a canopy that is streamin in the opening (as Sabre 2 for example) would wear out the canopy really fast as bottom/ribs and topskin keeps rubbing during the inflation. The way I see it, stuffing the endcells in the center makes sure the centercell gets inflated first, thus setting the heading of the canopy. Once this cell is inflated (or during the inflation) the endcells unroll. When the endcells are out the can start inflating and get the slider to move down the lines. But if you roll the endcells too tight and jump a canopy without crossports you can end up with endcell closure, as I noticed But when I pack my BASEcanopy (slider on/off) I roll them in and place them behind the centercell, and then open the centercell as much as possible and hiding the other cells behind it.

sorry, I meant at like 4000 feet, not right before landing. Student gear should not with normal "use" stall. But if you force it to stall, meaning pulling the steeringtoggles down to your feet or so, the canopy will inflate again once you lift the toggles. This video shows a stall, and moving past the stall, making the canopy fly backwards (DO NOT DO THIS!). The canopy used is much more stable in a stall than the average skydiving canopy. And you see when I lift the toggles, the canopy surges forward, and almost "hits" the horizon. That means the canopy is flying down, as in vertically down, for a brief moment. A few seconds later my body swings under the canopy again and we return to normal flight. The reinflation from stall to "open wing" might be a tad quicker on this canopy compared to a normal skydive canopy, but not that much. So, short answer, no problem if you do it at 4000 feet. But below 300 feet, your pushing your luck. http://youtu.be/1twC8F2ptmU

I read the quick version, and skimmed trough the long version. Your training should make it easier. You should feel confident about the gear and your abillities before you make the first jump.

I was going to say it was rather impressive video, until he exited A fullface helmet would probably be better as it would keep the glasses still but then you might get foging issues. And I'm not sure about the 75 degree field of view.

*Cough* Bodyposition *Cough* If the canopy is slippery it can unroll itself while you are bagging the canopy. My BT Pro is not slippery at all. But if I don't roll the nose, it will give me horrible openings. I had one opening a few weeks ago, It seriously feelt like a slider off jump. I don't know what I did wrong when I packed the canopy, but something was not right.

I roll my nose very tight and stuff it in to the center cell. As inside the cell.

Do 50 jumps first, then I can tell you. There is no reason for you to know this. Trust the DZ, the staff, instructors, pilot and other jumpers to help you. If we tell you signs what to look for, you will "see" things. You will get affraid for no reason, not a good start on a first jump

Yes, it can. But the strenght of the wind is not the only factor. But the short answer is, you won't jump in those conditions anyway on your AFF.

You can.. But because you have to attach it under the reserve flap you are "messing with the reserve". I think your rigger won't like it. But just cut the elastic and loop it under the flap, and hand tack it. But if you want to remain friend with your rigger you could ask him to stitch it on to the top of the rigg instead. Listen to Terry, I was just about to post the same thing he said when I scrolled down and saw he said it. I'd MUCH rather someone ask me to install it during a repack than to find someone tacked one down afterwords. Is that not what I said too?

You can.. But because you have to attach it under the reserve flap you are "messing with the reserve". I think your rigger won't like it. But just cut the elastic and loop it under the flap, and hand tack it. But if you want to remain friend with your rigger you could ask him to stitch it on to the top of the rigg instead.

The reason for buying the canopy could actually be that she needed a bulkier canopy. If you have to choose between buying everything new (or used) in a smaler size, or to buy a smaler but bulkier canopy that still "fits" the container. To me that makes sense. But then again I don't jump those kind of WL or canopies.

More tension = higher friction. Just think about that. The poptop RPC will pull the loop ( non siliconized ) trough the entire reserve without any problem. Why? Because there's not much tension left in the flaps under the spring. Of course I might be wrong, but this is how I see it. Thats how I see it too. And looking at the video you see how the flaps bend as the PC trys to get out. If thats not friction keeping the PC inside the tray. Please enlighten me! A spectra line going trough a grommet will create much less friction then a ~1 foot diameter PC pushing against flaps. And the Poptop is probably a far superior design in that aspect

Exactly. So the cut 'tail' on Javelin is even longer than on Vector! But to be fair, on Javelins you have less flaps to push. The PC on a Javelin only have two flaps, not four as on the rig on the video. Right?

Yes. I use the data from the flysight. You have velN and velE, velH can then be calculated with pythagoras theorem. Just place the cursor in one of the cells and you can see the calculation in the fx-bar in Excel. Once you have the horizontal and the fallrate you can callculate the "3D speed".

OK. But I'm not as good as you are. This jump was with a RW suit with booties

No, I don't change them each weekend. But I do change them in time. And I don't feel the need for a alti during most skydives. But if I would do a solojump without my protrack from high altitude, that would probably make me think.

I did not belive there was people beeing that dumb. If they really need the alti to make a skydive they should have replaced the batteries several weeks ago when the low battery warning first appeared. If they feel they don't need the alti (and therefor does not change the batteries) why do they get upset when it dies. Odd people. Thanks for sharing.

Not answering your question But how secure is the data? Is it only stored on the phone? I've been through the pain of losing a log book and it would be nice to have a backup.