skydiverek

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  1. I believe Vigil could not use a 'V' shaped cutter due to Airtect patent. So they used a circular one to workr around it. On a 'V' shaped cutter, 100% of cutting force is delivered to one place in the loop, on circular cutter it is 50% delivered to two places on the loop. Also, 'V' shaped cutter allowes more room for the cut loop to escape, and not be trapped between the blade and the cutter casing. Cypres's blade is also harder that Vigil's blade.
  2. It will fire at 750 feet, if the person falls belly to earth. At headdown, it will fire at 1000 feet.
  3. Yeah, not too much margin, reserve fully open at approx 100 ft to 150 ft... One second reserve PC hesitation and game over...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcBY0OGYt2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCrvQ_xy_LA
  4. Probably to reduce the number of two-outs. Until few years ago, C and D licence holders could pull at 2000 feet. And the '750Ft' Cypres will fire at '1000 Ft' under an opening canopy (lack of burble on jumper's back). Not too much margin...!
  5. http://www.pia.com/images/rocketlauncher/PDF/SERVICE_BULLETINS/Vigil_PSB012015_5.pdf
  6. Please list mistakes : (no Facebook account or logon necessary) https://www.facebook.com/184924424877894/videos/908180672552262/
  7. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAX2fzW1RWc Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Ti2lZy2NU
  8. So, any real-life uses by now? There must be! Please share your experience and videos
  9. Is there a list of riggers for your country, somewhere on the Internet? If yes, can you post a link?
  10. Plane is Turbo Finist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTxyyG9dnaw
  11. INSIDE view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TEhzr18kOw OUTSIDE view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bz1eFX_GIw
  12. I Roger that. Read this post: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4122546#4122546
  13. Larger chord will slow down the openings.
  14. Staging/hesitator loop solves that. Kind of like on Strong Tandem, or on Sigmas now.
  15. Student AADs have much lower fire speed. Only like 29 mph for Student Cypres. Easily acheivable in descending airplane.
  16. Something must have gotten 'stuck', when it comes to processing paid ads. If you look at the main classified page, there are ZERO paid ads displayed... (such thing never happens here): http://www.dropzone.com/classifieds/ Second, I paid for the ad yesterday, my Paypal shows the money was paid, but the confirmation email (from dropzone.com) never arrived (and it always did, in the past). Also, the ad is not displayed in the "Featured" parts of the Classifieds. Could you look into this?
  17. Non-cracking case. That's it. All alarms are the same. Quattro is different alarm-wise.