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  1. skydiverek
    Link?
  2. skydiverek
    OMG!!! : http://www.phoenix-fly.com/images/za_index3.jpg
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    That would suck in a 160 mph head down...
  4. skydiverek
    Same thread HERE: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=541581#541581
  5. skydiverek
    New page from Troy Hartman - all his videos and skydiving stunts in one place: http://troyhartman.com/troyhartman.htm Also, scroll up to the FIRST POST in this thread for more great videos
  6. skydiverek
    Check the footage at 04:35 - the drogue IS entangled on the instructor's foot for a brief moment !
  7. skydiverek
    Check the drogue throw at 04:30 ... : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvp82Fs39yI
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    Includes a NASTY malfunction : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vElZ_5QR5oE
  9. skydiverek
    Taken from the reviews: "Cypres Expert, which decides at 1000ft to activate at 750ft if the parameters have been met (a person who deploys at a low altitude and snivels through 1000 ft at a speed greater than 78 mph will get a reserve opening at 750ft even if their main canopy is fully deployed at 900ft).". Is this true???
  10. skydiverek
    Hi Bill, Just curious: 1. How many civilian Sigma rigs have been sold? 2. How many civilian Micro Sigma rigs have been sold? Just wondering
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    HAHA, seconds 28 to 29 look like a professional freestyle rutine
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    I'd like to hear it, too. Just plain curiousity, because it does seem kinda illogical to me... Sure. Bacically, with wider risers, there is MORE material to flip thru/release from the harness ring. In addition, every riser material takes "set" when not flexed every 30 days or so. So, you end up with more material (and possibly stiff) that has to release from the SAME size harnes ring... Ask Mark Schlatter. He shares this view. "Mark Schlatter, Director US Academy of Parachute Rigging Master Rigger BS Aeronautical Technology, Purdue University, 1987 MS Industrial Training and Technology, Purdue University, 1992 DPRE 1986-1997 Private pilot A&P 4,400+ jumps"
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    Although it is possible to have mini rings and Type 8 risers, this combination is not recommended. In the event of horseshoe malufinction, if your PC is still in pouch and you cutaway, the *wider* Type 8 webbing will not release so easily from *narrow* mini harness ring, when exposed to relative wind. Something like that was shown in Time Out commercial in the 'Breakaway' video (it is also on 'Ground Rush' tape). Billy Weber cuts away a horseshoe and ...nothing. He had to hit the risers with his hands several times in order to release them from harness rings . Same could probably happen with other low drag malufunctions, like streamer...
  14. skydiverek
    Check the "Reserve PC design: fabric to mesh ratio?" thread here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1555332#1555332
  15. skydiverek
    BTW, quite different from the Strong drogue.
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    From Bill Booth, close to the topic discussed here: "To be reasonably "stable", drogues need some sort of venting around their "equator". I tried a no-mesh drogue years ago (similar to a Vector reserve pilot chute). It orbited above me in wildly osccillating eight foot circles. It was quite a ride. The other reason all holes in our drogue are covered with mesh, is that TM's often have to dump their reserve pilot chutes past a drogue in tow, and I don't want any snag points to catch that reserve pilot chute. It is a lot of extra work to "mesh in" all drogue openings, so we only do it because we have to. We use the toughest mesh we can find, and quite often it outlasts other parts of the drogue."
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    And the skyhook .
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    What was it and where do I find it?
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    And here is WHY, since someone is probably gonna ask: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=626144#626144
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    Bill Booth once said that there is a freefly friendly version of Vector 2... it's called Vector 3
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    Skydive Las Vegas did 7,000 malfunction-free jumps in a row.
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    From Bill Booth: "I designed this RSL 25 years ago in response to problems associated with the conventional ripcord-cable-through-ring method. It is still the only RSL system that does not damage the reserve ripcord cable each time it is used. However, it was not an attempt to build in a "ripcord stop". The Velcro joint on the reserve top flap and static line lanyard, should allow the static line pin to rotate, and the reserve ripcord eye to slip off, before the pin is anywhere near the housing."
  23. skydiverek
    Parapack for body contact areas (back pad and inside of leg straps), cordura for everything else.
  24. skydiverek
    Tom Piras?
  25. skydiverek
    PATRICK DE GAYARDON, for Christ sake... You should know this...