nigel99

Quite often the good skydivers are 'humble' and not out there tooting their own horn. To quote the bible 'you can tell a tree by its fruit'. What type of people are learning from someone and extolling them as an expert? The cowboys or the conservatives? * but maybe you should disregard me, as I take advice and guidance from squeak! Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

+1 Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

First off I'd be at the front of the queue for topless pics of Nataly. But while what you say is technically correct and probably true, the sheer number of people in the western world mean the chances of a random woman being recognised is pretty small. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Hi Rob, My packerA (allowed to pack reserves in Oz), renewed his A 8 week's ago. The system here requires a retest/check every 2 year's. He's been packing reserves for about 15 years but has slowed down a lot, only packing about 10 reserves a year at the moment. He's never been to a PIA event,but is closely connected to one of the PISA staff (mutual friend of ours). Being that my reserve is a Tempo, between them I can't get much better advice on the reserve. I'm painfully aware that my reserve is only 1 part of my system. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I suggest you contact the USPA membership department. My experience has always been positive. Certainly the US accepted my USPA membership without a problem (think squeak had the same experience). Spain would have accepted my USPA membership (cancelled my trip to Empubravia) but spoke to them first. Just be aware of temporary membership restrictions. For example here in Australia, you are only allowed a short term membership once or twice a year. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Pretty certain that she jumped based on a news article. I must say that I have a huge amount of respect for the police, ambulance and rail staff. For all the bitching that goes on about our local rail. They were extremely professional. My heart bleeds for the driver you could hear that he was in severe shock. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

U I may be wrong, but I don't think there's any altimeter out there that will show you this information while in freefall, and I'd argue that even if you could, staring at an altimeter to gauge your fall rate is probably not the most effective way to work on fall rate. Instead, go do two-way jumps with someone and work on flying relative to that person. Ask them to fall at a steady rate, and work on slow/fast techniques to see where you end up relative. Or ask them to fall slower, and work to get up to them (or faster, and work to get down). The Viso has a light, logs jumps that CAN'T be uploaded to a pc. It does have a speed mode that provides realtime indication of fallrate, but in that mode you don't have altitude indication. It doesn't tick all the boxes, but is a good alti. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Damn base jumpers interrupting traffic. seems a kid either was playing on track or jumped. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Tried to get into work early and my train has had an accident. Strongly suspect someone's jumped off the bridge onto the tracks. Whatever the driver sounds very stressed. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

She nailed it. She went with Mark. Backflip done by 11k, couple of tracks and actually saw the ground for the first time in freefall. Think she'll be back next weekend. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Yesterday the boys came along to watch mom do a jump. We don't normally take them to the DZ as they prefer to stay with friends. Last load of the day and a couple of guys did a CReW downplane. I've seen them before, but these guys did it right over where we were lying down watching! The boys just about shit themselves as the canopies came screaming towards them (altitude of breakoff withheld ) There is so much on my skydiving to do list and I'm really happy that this DZ has a strong CRW contingent. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Firstly congratulations! Secondly I am extremely impressed with a couple of things. For someone with very few jumps you've portrayed things very clearly and accurately. You seem to have been very aware on your jumps - I wish I was half as aware as you on my early jumps. Finally I am VERY impressed that the school gave you a free AFF rejump and the way they have handled your learning to date. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I haven't done any of that either and I've had great times and met a lot of nice people at many, many boogies. No matter what's going on you can just grab a beer and watch. Meh I'm socialy inept too, But he does have a small point. I dont get shunned in the jumping areas of boogies, but being a non-drinker / non-druggie, I also dont get invited to the "party pit". (nor do i stand on the side drinking beer watching) The saving grace is that I don't give fat rats arse about it any ways, and Im not sick or hung over in the morning I thought it was just because you were old that you went to bed at 7pm Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Here's some things you could learn: - Any FF body position is NOT the desired body position for AFF. It is a skill that should be used ONLY if absolutely necessary...and then you ask yourself a question....Why are my belly skills and/or judgement skill so lacking that I needed the FF on that AFF jump? - It's always best to refrain from giving advice and commenting on things you know little to nothing about. - Know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. so when the jump is happening going into a fast kneefly or sit to catch a student is a skill you'd use if all else fails? It doesnt matter if you beat yourself up for not wearing some lead about it later...cypres can fail better do whatever it takes... why need an AFFI rating to talk about this its common sense? It's best to listen to seasoned instructors and learn. You don't need an instructorrating to ask questions, but sure as heck do to dispense advice on how the jump 'should' be done. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

If you're serious about jumping and don't like the UK prices, go to the US during boogie season and rack up a bunch of exotic jumps. St Patrick's boogie had balloon jumps (from this thread you might not be welcomed onto the balloon though!! Just remember a low time jumper dodging rules is normally the most likely person to end up dead. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

If they can't match fall rate of their students why are they AFFI???? Fine to play a guessing game but shouldnt body position be able to give the AFFI enough range to catch a fast-faller. if you fall slow as an AFFI wouldnt you think you'd learn to knee-fly??? You need to bear in mind that the only side of the story we have heard has been from a person with a single AFF jump. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Is that approved? What about altitude awareness, tracking and canopy skills, for example? Seems like a helluva shortcut to me. Meh, if you've got boobies you don't need canopy skills. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Perhaps a gratis rejump would be justified. He also did a great exit, good arch, looked for the instructors. To Sharksblood - How tall are you? A really hard arch is good for students, but as you will find out later if you keep jumping, those of us well endowed with copious amounts of gravitational attraction (heavy), usually don't need or want to have a hard arch. That doesn't apply to you yet, as the arch gives you more stability, and faster fall rate, than you would have if you weren't arching so hard. Later, when stability is natural, you won't arch as much as you do as a student. But of course, everything you get from the internet should be considered wrong, just listen to your instructors. This is a really strange one. I'm very wary of judging peoples actions over the internet. I do think that someone really trustworthy should have a chat with this guy and possibly not from the DZ. Someone reputable from this site, may be OK, otherwise a suitable safety and training person from whoever his national skydiving body is. It could be that the dz is being really nice, but offering a free AFF jump, comes across as an admission that the instructors weren't up to the task. It seems like they did a good job on the ground schooling as he sounds like he was quite alert/aware of what the procedures were. Without creating a witchhunt it would be useful to know which DZ the jump happened at, their reputation good or bad would help. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Wow that is quite a story and it sounds like you did well. I'm not sure where you jump? There are a couple of people who post on this site who are very good AFF instructors. The only one I personally know is popsjumper. I would suggest that you engage with someone like him in private messages and get an opinion on how the AFF instructors performed on this jump. One thing I'm not entirely clear on - did the reserve side instructor deploy your main or your reserve? Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

If it is the same incident, our local news said she tried turning off the engine and disengaging the gears. It was a KIA in the incident we heard about. We discussed it and decided it is possible that modern cars with keyless ignition (push button style) may not allow you to turn it off as it might be a software feature, same with the gears. It's a scary thought if that is the case and its certainly feasible. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Didn't the analog alti have the yellow and red warning bands? Yes red only though, but I brain locked. I still think the red is what saved my life as I can pretty clearly remember the terror when it 'clicked' that I was deep in the red. It was chest mounted on top of a belly reserve and I watched the alti through deployment. End result was a face full of altimeter resulting in lots of blood. Before it clicked I was just waiting for 1 on the dial. It's still one of the things I don't like about digital altimeters is the lack of in your face danger zone indication. The red zone serves a useful purpose. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

When I was looking I spoke to a couple of altitron owners and they hated them. The Viso is nice BUT be careful as a newbie. A few weeks ago I noticed during takeoff that I had switched my viso to speed mode, end result was no useable alti. It took a while with the manual to put it back into normal mode. I think this is an unspoken danger with digital altimeters, you can end up in metric or some other mode without realising it. Many years ago I dumped at 1000ft because I switched from an alti in meters to feet.. it was pre aad days and I was jumping a C9 so it was 'just' a low pull. I probably had 60 jumps at the time. My situation was an analog alti, but it could easily trip you up. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

No experience in transitioning, but I have jumped at a club (first few years of jumping) and then at commercial dz's. For a club to work you'll need a good proportion of fun jumpers, rather than being a student/tandem dz from what I have seen. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I don't know if you know the history of your canopy? I've come across a fairly new rental main that I jumped before and after it spent 3 weeks in the woods after a cutaway. After its stay in the woods it stunk badly. It might be worth getting a rigger to check it over, in case it has spent time outdoors like that. Can't help on the smell though. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Have you really ever jumped? Because that is a whuffo statement if I ever saw one. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.