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    Yes, that's the one. http://www.parachutes-de-france.com/us/parachutes/catalogue/cont_axis.htm
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    phobia

    ernokaikkonen replied to homer's topic in The Bonfire

    >And get very irritable in large crowds, especially when >I’m trying to get somewhere and everyone else is dawdling Ha! Same here! And the worst part is when, in a store for example, some slowly moving person suddenly decides to stop in the middle of the aisle blocking my way! Grrr! Wait a minute, this should go to the "Pet peeve"-thread... Oh yeah, phobias... hmmm.... I don't like heights, but will climb a ladder if I have to. I don't like swimming(it's dangerous you know, you could drown) unless I'm drunk and there's a lake next to the sauna... I guess I don't really have a phobia. >This is not a phobia, but I have a strong aversion to yellow. Gee, how can you use the smilies then?
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    I jumped one S/L jump a little over a year ago just gor fun. Man that Navigator 220 swoops like a monster when you hook it hard!
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    Same here, very much Finnish... On my mother's side they've got information about our family all the way to the 16th century! The church books have my great-great-great-great(you get the point)-grandfather's birth date somewhere around 1560 if I recall correctly... Nice to see some of the forum regulars have some Finnish blood in them... I noticed Jessica and Fallingwoman at least.
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    Well damn. I tried but I guess I was just too dumb to use the archive...
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    >No the major factor is the design of the wing, I have to disagree with that one, did you read my post?
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    Isn't that what I said?
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    >Is wing loading the KEY factor in a canopies flight and or fligh >characteristics,speed(forward) rate of descent.ect ?? IMO, yes. A student could jump a fully elliptical canopy @ Does the make or design of a canopy have anything to do >with the Wing loading (excluding cross braced)ie elliptical >and semi-elliptical ?? I'm not sure I understand the question. Wingloading is calculated from the jumpers weight and the surface area of the canopy. Ie 200lbs:200sqft=1.0 lbs/sqft wingloading(1.0:1). The shape of the canopy has no effect on the wingloading. Elliptical canopies tend to have design charasteristics that allow them to be flown at higher wingloadings.
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    >The question wasn't "what does it mean?", it was >"why do people make the mistake?" Because some people can't spell worth a shit?
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    Nope, Lauri got it right. That's the Wolmari-pack I know.
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    I wouldn't think so, Parachutes de France offers chest rings as an option to their "Axis" model harness. Erno
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    The guy who developed the packing style says that it actually noticeably decreases the possibility of a line-over. Unfortunately his site which explains the method in detail has been offline for a while now.
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    With questions like this, useful information to provide includes(but is not limited to): - Your operating system (Linux/OS2/MacOS/Windows95/98/Me/2000/XP/something else) - Your browser (IE/Netscape/Opera/something else) - Your browser version(select "About" from the "Help" menu on most browsers to find out)
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    >My son (who has about 50 prenatal jumps) was going to >make one for his 18th birthday. So is he going to start logging his jumps from #51?
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    ...And when you get tired of doing that, you might want to install a better browser. >I finally made a repack cycle, now what? I dunno, go for two in a row?
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    Works fine here too.
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    >What would really be valuable to me is to know WHAT >exactly i did wrong. was it either of the two possibilities >I mentioned in the original post? The easiest way of hooking up a canopy backwards is indeed connecting the left riser on the right-side D-ring and vice-versa. Like I said, learning the line continuity check will save you from this happening again, and from a bunch of other things that can go wrong while hooking up a canopy. I'll say it again: Do not pack a canopy (that you just hooked up) before checking it's connected correctly! Erno
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    Sounds like an incident to me... Although not a very serious one. PDS: Get a rigger to show you how to do a line-continuity check. It's really quite easy once you know how to do it. Always do this check after your canopy has been detached from your harness-container. I'm just wondering if I'm feeding a troll here...
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    Axl Rose

    ernokaikkonen replied to phatcat's topic in The Bonfire

    >GnR Lies was sort of "eh". Yeah, but I got the double "Lies" / "Live like a suicide". The other half rocked! And the "Lies"-bit was good stuff to practise playing the guitar...
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    I did a cross-country once where we got out over the DZ and just flew as far downwind as we could. From 3000m we got about 10km away I think. We of course studied the winds beforehand and checked the map for an approximate landing area. We also had a pickup car ready, and all of us had cellphones with us. The six of us landed in four different places though if I recall correctly... I landed on a medium-sized clearing in the woods, and had to hike through a km of thick woods and shrubbery, with an open canopy...
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    >I'd also like to know when the hook knife is used, so >far all i have heard is that it's for the reserve That's the one situation everyone should carry one for. Serious CRW(intentional or unintentional) would be another reason...
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    >How is it able to account for the pressure difference in these >two positions in knowing when to fire? The short answer: It can't. If you fall back-to-earth for a long time, a Cypres will fire ~300ft higher than normally. The long answer can be found here. And more reading about Cypres than most people will ever read: on the same site
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    BIG FONT take lot of room on hard drive small font - take little room on hard drive
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    Ok, I checked out the tag board thingie. Nice, but I'm not paying $20 to use their enchanced version cause I can make one myself.
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    Will do!