skydiverek

How do you compare it to your flying at the UK Bedford Bodyflight tunnel?

Are you gonna fight the American freedom of speech?

Correct, by Mike Fury: http://www.altico.com/about.htm

Similar chutless jump here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB4uLm2wKNg

Why does the reserve have a SAD face, as opposed to SMILE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV-Z1HbP4Ng

Direct link?

Can you do this on skydiving canopy??? Check the wrap starting at 1:16 sec. : http://video.google.pl/videoplay?docid=-4855549279617698375&q and this Tandem : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEGITQEfRmg

Correct

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramvAaCkdMQ

Were the reserves the same color as the mains?

Hey Tom - what are the news on the new ELAN rig? I have been hearing about it for the last four years.

First reserve malfunctioned???

I have seen this MANY times in the past.

From Bill Booth: "Static line guide rings are a relic from the days of pin-through-cone main static line rigs, where they were absolutely necessary. The pin the Vector RSL pulls directly is a "curved" pin in a soft loop, so no guide ring is necessary. I just put it there so I wouldn't have to explain why I didn't put it there. Before the Skyhook, the RSL guide ring did no harm. But with the Skyhook, there is a chance some careless rigger would run the Skyhook lanyard (as well as the ripcord) through the guide ring. The Skyhook would then try to pull the entire bagged reserve canopy through that tiny little ring, resulting in a broken Skyhook lanyard (but an otherwise normal reserve deployment). That's why I removed it on Skyhook installations. " Form Kelly F. from VSE: "Keep in mind that when an RSL gets used, you will generally be suspended from the main risers (a bag lock would at the most still have you face to earth), so the likelyhood of the RSL pulling more than perpendicular to the path of the pin is pretty slim. Then add in the fact that most reserve pincover flaps have tuck tabs on the side of the flap that will help direct the RSL and you can see that the guide rings may actually be unnecessary. We still install one on our rigs, though."

Possible death. Check here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1834550#1834550

Direct bag (here: sleeve) deployment. Static line AND sleeve TIED to the airplane. Canopy NOT tied to the sleeve or static line. We once had the guy tie the wrong thing... Ended up being towed behind the AN-2. No cutaway system (that's right). Used his knive (10 inches long) to cut risers and deployed the reserve. I saw it all from 200 feet, on level (I was the one out of the airplene right before him). That order was decided 2 minutes before the exit. Had it been an original plan and had I exited AFTER him... - well, you can imagine the collision happening. Scary...

Here is a video of this accident from deceased camera. Don't be afraid - nothing graphic, it was shown on National TV at 5 pm, back in 1988: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER0d4wcYfL0

Similar thread here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=184572;search_string=pay;#184572

It stil does not find all posts. How do I know? If I go to the the search page and put "Only show posts made by: skydiverek" it returns 1122 posts. But in threads, under my avatar, it says "Posts: 1216".

What happened to 'Gear check', unreal. Here is a video of this accident from deceased camera. Don't be afraid - nothing graphic, it was shown on National TV at 5 pm, back in 1988: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER0d4wcYfL0

Here is a video of this accident from deceased camera. Don't be afraid - nothing graphic, it was shown on National TV at 5 pm, back in 1988: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER0d4wcYfL0

Like Voodoo

I always thought Dyneema = Spectra = Microline.

You can download a 129 MB DEMO here: http://www.rip-cord.co.uk/~basejump/base-demo.exe Enjoy!