skydiverek

Yup. Racer Tandem 2k3. Come on - they are only 100 feet from you !

How about he pictures in Skydiving Magazine a few years ago, showing a cracked red cable (in several places).

The triangular reserve is called "Delta" (PZ-81). I have one reserve ride on it... There is no freebag, reserve is "freepacked". Very light toogle pressure, not too hard landing for non ram-air canopy. The reserve PC was connected to the the "cross-connector only" (no fabric) slider to slow the deployment process. More on trangular parachutes here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=661037#661037 and here http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1521884#1521884

Please tell us about it !

Carl Boenish

Cobmined - yes.

Same in Poland. Every parachute (main and reserve) here is an "aircraft", and is included in the same registry as the Boeing 767 from Polish airlines! The rig must be taken to Warsaw, checked, go (with the owner) thru 10 steps, paperwork, beaurocracy, offices, signatures, stamps... It gets its logbook, registration, and so on. Plus, some good and well-known parachutes cannot be registered here no matter what, since the government is not familiar with them... There is a list somewhere of what can be registered... I also heard that the "paraglider with the propeller" (whatever it ois called) was NOT considered and aircraft here.... Go figure . Oh, and you are not allowed to jump (even fun jump) without medical tests here (as a Polish citizen). They used to be very strict (10 different doctors to visit in often remote clinic in a different city: dentist, family doctor, orthopedist, neurologist, cardiologist, ear-nose-throat doctor, psychologist, and some others. Even gynekologist for women!). In addition, you had to have EKG, EEG, urine and blood tests on you. If passed, the medical permission to jump lasted only 6 months, so you had to do it all over again after half a year... Now it is slightly better (after joining EU) - only one doctor to visit (who comes to the DZ), and you are cleared to jump for 2 - 5 years (depends on your age). But we still envy Americans (and some other nations) who have no medical tests at all! It still sucks, since you are responsible only for yourself (fun jumping). On the other hand, there was no medical tests to drive a car here when I checked few years ago, where you are moving a 1 ton bullet thru the crowded streets, inches from other people ... So, you can be relatively healthy, have a world-class rig and be denied jumping here (again - applies to Polish citizens). P.S. Sorry for the small hijack

If you have cut-in laterals, you might.

There was a pocture in skydiving magazine a few years ago showing two tandem pairs sit flying, facing each other and few feet from each other. Fifth skydiver was lying between them, like on a hammock. That was in Europe. As for non-belly tandem skydives, I think there are prohibited in USPA BSRs. In addition, RWS, Strong and Stunts also do not allow them (that rule came into effect after Skydiving magazine published an article about Skydive Hawaii tandem instructor who was doing head down drouge-less tandems at 300 mph). Why risk a premature opening on already complicated jump???

There was NO AAD on his reserve. Only on his main. He pulled reserve on his own.

Uhh...that's the drogue bridle. Ooops . Thank's

I don't hink so. The RSL did not work. I am pretty sure the main JM deployed main on purpose (she knew that it has been cut away), hoping that it would open the reserve. It did not happen. I am 99% sure the jump happened at Skydive Sebastian, so the RSL would have been used at such established DZ. Also, it looks like the Reserve JM was not aware of the wole mess. He just tracked away as soon as the student started decelerating. Probably that's why the Main JM decided to activate reserve via RSL - it was much faster than trying to signal what happened to the Reserve JM and "asking" him to deploy the reserve. So, what's up with that RSL?

That's what I wanted to know. Sorry to hear about your friend...

I would think they "strip" the drogue release handles and do a hop-n-pop, just like on a normal solo rig (no drouge fall). I know it's possible on Strong. Is it also technically possible on other systems? Or, maybe they static line them - what are these wide yellow tapes on some of tandem rigs here: http://www.skydivelasvegas.com/images/tandem_rigs.jpg ?

Skydive Las Vegas offers tandems from 5000 feet AGL (http://www.skydivelasvegas.com/rates.html).

How do we know that the plane and passengers ever physically existed...? Does anyone here actually KNEW the victims???

Check this out, too: http://www.amics21.com/911/pentagon.html#Main http://0911.site.voila.fr/index1.htm (movie) and http://reopen911.org/ and http://reopen911.org/pictures_and_videos.htm (movies) and http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htm and http://www.911review.org/Wget/www.nerdcities.com/guardian/Hufschmid/index.html

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Patrick De Gayardon skysurfed with a Vector 3 with belly band. So RWS would be a place to go.

400-way is coming in 8 months or so

By "risk of total mal", do you mean the risk of reserve mal, or the risk of searching for the handle till the ground? (the latter has always seemed to be more of training issue to me. If you have a floating pud, you deploy a reserve. Thats it! "Floating pud" issue seems to be more a training or psychologically related danger, rather that design danger). The pull-out is tempting me since it eliminates (ok, greatly reduces) PC-IN-TOW and HORSESHOE malfunctions. These are the two mals that a jumper may not be able to cutaway from before pulling the reserve (PC-in-tow: obvious. Horseshoe - Billy Weber's "Breakaway" horseshoe sequence, both in commercial break and in the movie). Of course, I am not saying here that I am smarter then Bill Booth, I am just deciding which deployment method to choose for my brand new Vector 3-M

Skydiving magazine ran an add a few months ago for a removable belly band add on. I can't remember the url though...

Are you talking about Gus Wing or someone else?

Tom Sanders (commercials, feature films and "How Did They Do It?"): http://www.aerialfocus.com/paraphernalia.html#commercials Troy Hartman (MTV's "Sensless Acts of Video" and commercials): http://www.troyhartman.com/videos.htm http://www.troyhartman.com/senseless_acts_of_video.htm http://www.troyhartman.com/senseless_acts_2.htm http://www.troyhartman.com/senseless_acts_3.htm http://www.troyhartman.com/commercials.htm Norman Kent (3 cool trailers - "View trailer", "Flightscape" and "Into the Artist’s Mind" links): http://www.normankent.com/store_WTF_DVD.htm Joe Jennings (all clips can be downloaded and saved to your desktop, instead of streaming): http://www.joejennings.com/onlinedemoreel.htm http://www.skydive.tv/movies2.htm http://www.skydive.tv/movies3.htm http://www.skydive.tv/movies4.htm http://www.skydive.tv/movies5.htm http://www.skydive.tv/movies6.htm There are also a few close call videos under the link below. The website is in French, but just click on an icon that looks like 'film frames' to watch it. Also, if you click on "ARCHIVES", it's gonna give you access to even more clips. Enjoy! http://www.para-net.org/paramag/archives/directlive/direct201/direct.html Your welcome

E-mail Troy Hartman - he already did it. Here is the story: http://www.troyhartman.com/highalt.htm I recall reading about someone else doing it too few years ago in Skydiving Magazine.