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It's great. The only problem is I don't have much upper body strength and if I keep doing rear float on the 8 ways I'm going to end up looking like this. I can certainly feel it today... Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I tend to agree with Chris. Very hard to make a jump trip 'fun for a 6 year old and partner. However it might be possible to part ways for some of the holiday. So you spend3 days jumping while they do girly stuff. At the right dz, you just get dropped off and they take the car. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Just finished a weekend with a top rw coach. Definitely the most memorable jump was leaving the caravan last and seeing the formation hundreds of feet below, but still getting my slot for 2 points on a 12 way :) Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I was expecting a dirty old man post. I'm surprised I thought pops liked her for her boobies, not her music Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I love chatting to them on the ground. Often tandem pax have interesting stories about why they want to jump. If I've chatted on the ground and am in the plane, a big thumbs up and smile during the 'fist bumping' ritual is usually returned with a big grin. One thing I noticed on the review of another local dz, was a customer had been offended by someone saying " get the tandems out the way first". I've used.that phrase myself, but shave since stopped when you realize how it sounds from the tandems perspective. Something else, tandems come from different backgrounds and are often older, it can really offend when profanities and explicit sexual conversations. If in ear shot it really helps to tone things down. Keep the stories about drunkenly blowing your dog for the beer light... Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

My Neptune shows freefall speeds I believe but not descent once under canopy that I am aware of. Does the Viso 2 show descent rate under canopy? If it is set to display speed, then it certainly shows the descent rate under canopy in real time. It stores your maximum speed under canopy and it is one of the parameters displayed. The Viso 2 has a replay mode that is advertised as from exit to landing, but I've never bothered to play with it. BTW - I use my Viso on my hand, which goes against the L&B advice for accurate speed readings. In fact my speeds are all garbage (800MPh etc), but I suspect a quick email to confirm with L&B would tell you where a good place to mount it is. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I don't know if it is accurate enough to be safe, but the Viso 2 altimeters can play back your vertical speeds after your jump. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Thanks I am all sorted for now. My UK drivers license etc are all correct and there is basically a 5 day delay. So other than the fact that I'm going to have to do some heavy negotiating with the wife, to be let off the leash to jump next weekend, all is looking good. I tried to put the passport right, but as the UK is funding the national deficit via a $5 a minute premium rate help line, I will wait the 18 months till the passport expires and then fix it. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I'm going to get my passport fixed. Then the fun will be that the Ozzies say that I never entered the country Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Now, who's fault is it really? JerryBaumchen Actually the really dumb thing was not getting it fixed when i saw it. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

6 years ago some wanker made a spelling mistake on one of my passport details. It is a minor details (middle name) and I didn't notice for years, as nobody else had picked up on it I ignored it. Big mistake, settlement was due on my house tomorrow and someone picked up that my ID didn't quite match. Well lets see how this pans out, but rental runs out on Tuesday. On the lighter side of life, the dude next to me on the train is on his way to 'gay bingo' who knew there was such a thing...funny what you overhear on trains. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Truck on back to your nanny state with that nonsense. That has been working just fine for 40 years, and it's the same process that created the instructors that taught you. Considering that at least one of the instructors that originally taught me, would smoke dope prior to the load with students on that probably isn't the best example to set As to the person who taught me recurrency under the USPA system (popsjumper), well you know what he's like Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Passing out is not typical, I would get a full medical checkup and also make full disclosure to any dz. I would also probably do a couple of tandems. Being passed out and unable to land a canopy could kill you. Something like this the internet is not the right place to find the answer, it might help you find where to get a good answer though. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I did an apprenticeship originally and got a trade certificate as an electrical technician, before 'moving up' the system. The screwed up salary structure here in WA has got me seriously thinking about working on the mines - to the extent that I converted my original trade cert to an Ozzie cert. Whether I follow through with the change or not is another matter - I quite like using my brain I want my boys to do apprenticeships, neither of them are very academic and the way I see it there is always time to do a degree when you REALLY know what you want to do. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Hey Squeak, I bought a Fuji XP20 from Dick Smith for about $120 that is waterproof to 5m. If you want to have a play with it, I'll bring it out to the dz. It has digital zoom but not optical. They don't appear to be on the website, but it was only about 6 weeks ago. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

It is funny people get all upset when the sport is portayed as 'almost unregulated' and pretty much every attempt to introduce regulation meets a large amount of resistnace. I hadn't looked at the BSR's for a while, but this incident made me revisit them. Sorry but when the sporting body (USPA) regulations are so lax that a student off AFF level 7 no longer needs supervison by an instructor the system is broken. Once a student has proven their ability to regain stability within 5 seconds the USPA cuts them loose. Sorry the guy may be an arsehole, but he did nothing outside the rules. In fact from a USPA point of view he could take 20 of his buddies with shitty gear, go pros and 10 jumps each and attempt a head down bigway, and the jump wouldn't breach a single BSR. If you want to have "the wild west" with no rules, fine, but then be grown up enough to tell the media to fuck off because you are big boys who don't need them. Don't go bitching that the media got it wrong... Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Hi, Just to be awkward, Cypres in their own documentation regarding ESD state that significant levels of static are generated DURING deployment. In fact in their article that Peter posted, not once do they mention static on a packing mat. It does seem that since 2004, they have substantially changed their views, and the views posted in the SB, directly contradict their own published paper. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

The blocks PDF is to big to upload. Drop me your email in a PM and I'll send it to you. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

True confession, I sat on a plane with a 3 ring like that on a tandem rig. Jumper across the aisle caught it. It's now part of my self check routine. Lesson learned. As a new Strong TI, I had someone point out the same thing when I was waiting to walk out... Eye openner as to how easy it is to get that on a Tandem rig (now sure why... I've rarely seen it on a non-tandem rig...) JW I was told that it tends to occur when the canopy lands in front of you. I also assume mini rings are slightly less susceptible to it. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

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IIRC he has around 10 seconds of freefall before the premature opening. What is the normal jumping altitude over there ?

IIRC he has around 10 seconds of freefall before the premature opening. What is the normal jumping altitude over there ?

why would an employer have any valid input on skydiving safety? Unless of course you work in the industry. It seems to me that should be the last consideration when assessing the saftey of a jump... Second thought - maybe you work for Durex, a used blow up doll and safe sex is more of a concern than the jump :) Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

In the interests of learning. AFF is sometimes called 'harness hold'. I believe the instructors hold the legstrap, but where do they take the high grip? Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

As parts of his message was an attempt to prove that a Cypres could fire at any time of a jump and that Airtec has no clue whats going on, it is not hard to see that people could misinterpret that as a statement that an AAD makes your skydive more dangerous instead of safer. I don't mind him being a disappointed customer, however, the issue is taken far out of proportion. Do the math and you will see how silly this entire discussion is. (Silly as in how all of a sudden people think that their Cypres II turned into a paper weight overnight) Just remember context. I'm not sure how widespread AAD acceptance was when you started jumping, but when I started people were very sceptical. When an AAD has a flaw or problem, many people will rightly be extremely worried about the potential impact. After all it is not possible to do a physical inspection, in the same way that you can for a reserve handle fault (for example). Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.