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  1. Hellis
    Why take a new pass 2000 feet lower? The clouds was at ~3500-5000 feet, and making a pass that is still higher than the clouds would do what? See the clouds from a new angle and little closer? Those clouds look big and wet and would not go away in the extra 5 min flighttime to drop 2000 feet.
  2. Hellis
    Isn't it time to show them the video?
  3. Hellis
    That is kind of what lots of people think here. I don't agree. If I had to choose between jumping with a analog or without, I would jump without. But thats me
  4. Hellis
    Not being able to find/operate your main handle is a total malfunction. Yes? But that is not what I'm saying, is it? I will try to keep it simple for you! You grab the PC handle. You pull it. During the pull you loose grip of it. One of these three things can happen. 1. The PC catches air and you have a canopy 2. The PC stays in behind you for a second or two and then inflates -> canopy. 3. The PC is still in your pouch, and you can grab it again -> canopy. As I was saying, for a student/low jump person the scenario above might be a problem, but for everyone else it should not.
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    Why is this discussion turning in to a GoPro discussion? This video is clearly NOT a GoPro video. There is not much wideangle on the video. The camera has autofocus. When he passes trough the cloud you can see water, indicating a"large" lens. Under canopy it apears he has a sidemount camera. The sound on the video is clearly not GoPro sound. It does not matter to the incident, but for Eff sake stop saying GoPro and other smal cameras are the biggest problem ever. This incident is a canopycollision with a big format camera. Maybe we should have a thread for those incidents too?
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    Have you put any thought into trying something else? I mean, it essentially sounds like you purposefully pack you PC to be a hard pull.... Not hard pull as in I need muscles to get it out, but yes it is harder to get than a hackey. It has worked great the last 178 times (according to my Cypres), and I have no worries about it. Having a handle that stand out is scary to me. same has been said by many dead people, just a thought.... Lots of people worry about walking across the street, and they also die. So whats your point? Dropping/losing your handle is not a malfunction in a throw out rig with a competent skydiver. However if the same happend to a student, it would be worse.
  7. Hellis
    Ahhh... I see. Thanks for the advice!
  8. Hellis
    Have you put any thought into trying something else? I mean, it essentially sounds like you purposefully pack you PC to be a hard pull.... Not hard pull as in I need muscles to get it out, but yes it is harder to get than a hackey. It has worked great the last 178 times (according to my Cypres), and I have no worries about it. Having a handle that stand out is scary to me.
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    What I find the most surprising is that even after his collision, there was no headmovement. If I had a canopy collision I would make sure (the best I could) that it did not happen again. But this guy just keeps looking straight forward all the way down. Most people would be happy to be alive, but this guy just "meeh... I can do it again"
  10. Hellis
    Yes they do. But does that make it safer? It seems you are saying that fashion = good, safe, correct. And I do not agree with that.
  11. Hellis
    Dude!!! You're in the wrong sport! You should be BASE jumping. In Skydiving the questions should be more like, "Uhhhmmm.... My rigger tells me...." My PC is 75 cm ~29.5 inches. So I guess 29 or 30. It's F111 and pulls out a BT Pro 140 from a Javelin container made for a 150 sqf parachute.
  12. Hellis
    Just pull lower and you don't need to worry about beeing uncomfortable under canopy I would say it's worth it.
  13. Hellis
    I have a canopy here (not mine) that has a home made pull out system.... with a curved pin I have the free fly pud, and it is really hard to grab sometimes. However, I would not want any other. Hackys and monkeyfist are out of the question as they are bad in freefly. Plastic tube would work, but my expirience is that they creep out little from the BOC, and I don't like that. I usually push in the freefly pud so that it stays secure in the BOC, but that also means that it is hard to grab, I usually have to grab it with one finger on top and one at the bottom (short ends of it). That has lead to me losing the handle a few times but I don't think it is much of a problem.
  14. Hellis
    When people help these TV-shows and movies to make skydive scenes, why don't they say no to dorky stuff like this? Seriously, if they would ask me to hold a cutaway handle in my left hand and throw my PC with my right hand I would say "You're an idiot, right?". I bet the only ones that noticed the cutaway handle is skydivers, everyone else only saw a parachute deploy. So what was the point of the handle? The rest of the episode is kind of out of the skydivers control, but atleast make the freefall part "ok". If they went to UK and wanted to make a episode about soccer without hooligans they would get the royal beating. It's time to make skydiving realistic on TV too!
  15. Hellis
    Isn't that Vista? XP had a gray start button?
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    And if your OS is Win vista or newer, you have Snipping tool installed. It's very handy when you only want a small part of the screen copied.
  17. Hellis
    It's softer on the hands
  18. Hellis
    Clever way so solve a "problem".
  19. Hellis
    I think it's something like that in the video "Simon Bones wins a cypres" or something like that. Just a few seconds of video of it
  20. Hellis
    Use the correct tool
  21. Hellis
    Depends. If someone needs one/wants one it can be worth 'some'. But if nobody needs it, then it has 0 value. It depends on the demand. With that said, I bought one a few days ago for ~40 euro.
  22. Hellis
    You still have the risers sticking out and lots of knives, thats usually enough
  23. Hellis
    What?? That Should be easy! I get my Lightning 160 in my Javelin 150 rig too. Sure, sometimes I have little fabric outside, but most of the time it's not bad at all. Usually the first two packjobs of the day looks bad but after that it looks ok better
  24. Hellis
    Ok... So that prepairs you for what? There is not going to be any wires to save your butt in skydiving. But if it does prepair you, I guess if I spend a few hours in this I would be a pilot?
  25. Hellis
    This one?