skydiverek

That's what I have: wide (Type 8) risers, Reserve Slinks, and Slink Covers. No problem with reserve slinks length. I don't know if shorter main Slinks would be long enought to wrap around all of this.

There was a fatality in the past few years when someone who had used a shoe lace for a pack job had the plastic tip (the "aglet") come off the shoe lace and get jammed in the closing loop. Horseshoe malfuntion was the end result.

You can check "Dacron" option on the PD Reserve form. The new PD Optimum reserve comes only with microline. On the side note - be aware of this Slinks vs Dacron_LONG_lines incompatibility: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3329652#3329652

The zpX option costs $200. It is an option.

If that is true, we have a winner!: http://www.flyaerodyne.com/fly/products/zpx.asp

23'' then.

The RAX system does not have that 'flaw'. See the video, time 0:47 - 1:06 sec.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqxjHOSKTT0&fmt=18

Just remember, that when you pull in emergency, you pull with a "running start", so the force needed is lower. Something on the topic from Bill Booth: "Years ago, we mounted a High priced (1000 samples a second) digital scale on a the back of a harness, and connected it to a ripcord. From the standard reserve ripcord position, everyone could pull over 85 pounds with both hands...hell, one girl pulled over 100 pounds, and a few guys pulled over 150 pounds. "Soft" reserve handles generated forces nearly identical to metal handles. These numbers are from memory, but are probably pretty close. From other tests with the same scale, I have learned that if you pull "quickly", from a "running start" (slack in the cable), the pull force necessary to open the same reserve container is up to 300% lower than if you apply the force gradually to the handle. Most riggers only have a spring loaded fish scale, and therefore must apply pull forces gradually in order to read the scale. So, what reads 30 pounds on the fish scale in the loft, will only be around 10 pounds when you actually pull your reserve in an emergency, because I don't know of anyone who applies ripcord pull force "gradually" while falling rapidly toward the earth."

USPA already gave him a D number. D-20000 it was.

There was an accident on OMEGA rig, similar to what you are descrbing. A line snagged at the point where the plastic part ends in the main flap. Check the links on THIS page: http://www.sky-adventures.de/Unfall/index.html

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J_zE3eFdw&fmt=18

Read here: http://www.ukskydiver.co.uk/cms/forums/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=17045&sid=2f227001a8c2c2162fd3dced0819b998

I did it. Unfortunately, I did it before reading your warning here ...

Not solved on all types of lines! Read here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3328005#3328005 and http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3329652#3329652

Check the hesitation at 1:33 sec.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep5S77uSAug&fmt=18

I didn't mind the velcro and it was cheap to get changed but I think the magnets are more secure and (from others) should not wear out. Of course the advantage of magnets (and velcro) over tuck tabs is well known. Check here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSVRSIicQDk

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh5hnkW2K-Q&fmt=18

Jay has about 18,000 jumps.

You can send the CYPRES back to Airtec/SSK and they will change it to a swoop mode one for you if that is what you need. For free!

Yup, he has the most. 38,000 jumps: http://www.dkellner.info/DonKellner.html

See the attached picture and Bill Booth's comments below: "This picture confused all of us who looked at it in context with all the other pictures. First, it is difficult, if not impossible to wrap anything around the Skyhook while it is under tension, either from the reserve pilot chute, or the red Skyhook lanyard...and the Skyhook is in tension from one of these sources from the time it is pulled from the #2 reserve flap, until the canopy is out of the bag. Secondly, there are no burn marks on either the freebag bridle or the lines involved. There isn't even any significant "scrunching" of the freebag bridle. This indicates that this "entanglement" was never under significant tension, as it would have been at tandem terminal (170 mph). Thirdly, there was no twisting (or barber polling) of the reserve lines, either with themselves, or with the reserve bridle. There should have been literally dozens. These, and several other facts, led us to the conclusion that this "entanglement" happened after impact, not thousands of feet in the air."

Why does it fire at zero vertical speed?

+4! Five years, and my Alti-5 works great!

This is one BIG reserve handle (loop)... I would not calll it 'SuperFly', as in 'FreeFly'...

The 'Donations' link has always been here: http://www.dropzone.com/pub/donations.shtml The PayPal link DOES work. The CC does not.