nicknitro71

Yes and I did a LOT of reseach. That is why I went with LasEk instead. Memento Audere Semper 903

Still no. Steeper means more difference between line groups. I agree it's not the best term. A canopy with high angle of incidence (steeper) will usually open faster than one with a shallower angle of incidence, all other variables being equal. BASE manufactures concentrate their canopy design around the opening characteristics first. They then work the detail of the flare and glide. Memento Audere Semper 903

A little before your time Memento Audere Semper 903

No, for the most part. They just look so because of their light WL. Let me give you an example. PD used to make a BASE canopy for Vertigo called the Dragon. It was a PD Reserve trimmed like a Lightning, much steeper. Memento Audere Semper 903

There is nothing wrong with Tempos. You are loading yours 1.0. Keep it. Memento Audere Semper 903

As someone mentioned the DBS could have played a role in this accident, although it is hard to tell with all the variables in this particular jump. Anyhow, there is a lot of info about the DBS, here, on blink, and via CR. To summarize what the DBS accomplishes is a faster inflation, less surge, and above all a canopy that will fly very mushy with little forward speed. The latter will help in case of an off heading opening by giving the pilot a bit more time to react. I personally would not jump a solid object without DBS. Adam wrote a nice article on how to properly set the DBS: http://www.crmojo.com/adobepdf/dbsinsert.pdf It is critical that you skydive your canopy with the DBS few times to find out if it is set correctly. Also you should take it off a S few times before attempting an E or B with it. A properly set DBS can be a life saver but please take the time to fully explore it. The canopy will open differently and feel much different. In BASE knowing your gear is IMO priority number one. You can throw gainers like an Olympic gold medalist diver, fly your WS like Robi, but if you don’t fully know your gear those skills will not save your life. There are tons of tests every one should do off a S beside jumping and landing. That’s why the best BASE jumpers keep going back to the S to sharpen their skills and try new things. Memento Audere Semper 903

Do you know what that means? Your canopy was tested at 198 LBS and has a Max. Suspended Wt. of 160. You are overloading the Max. suspended weight by 40 LBS and you are 1 LBS over the tested max weight. Good luck deploying that thing at terminal. Memento Audere Semper 903

Are you suggetsing a WS jump? Memento Audere Semper 903

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Do you mind to share... Memento Audere Semper 903

Same here in 1996 but did not get cought Any way here is the definition (again): As Chad said we are not delivering anything that is not already there. I don't understand how a good attorney is not able to have the charge dismissed. Memento Audere Semper 903

If you are referring to your jav it is my recommendation that you send it out due to its construction. Other rigs, like the Wings for instance, are easily modified by your rigger. Memento Audere Semper 903

Given your canopy size I would not use anything smaller than a z-po 30" PC. Also a 9' bridle and cut corners help a lot. I had few line twists in the past. Ever since I put a longer bridle, opened up the corners, and put a small wing on the d-bag no more twist. But I also got a bit better flying the suit and more stable at pull time so it's hard to tell. Memento Audere Semper 903

I used PD approved slinks on my reserves and I make my own one for mains, and d-bags. Memento Audere Semper 903

We should have full moon. Memento Audere Semper 903

I might have to bring some night vision goggles Memento Audere Semper 903

Oh, I'll be coming alone so if anybody is interested in sharing a room and possibly a car please PM me. I'll be arriving in SLC on the 24, I think around 11 PM. Memento Audere Semper 903

24-29 jumping the 25-28 here. As for the winds it looks like night jumps Memento Audere Semper 903

My wife is still a student and she jumps at 0.55. Beside taking forever to get down she does not back up on final and lands just dandy. Few times she got cought up in thermals and did not lose any altitude but nothing below 1000'. I hope this helps. Memento Audere Semper 903

Updates: I just talked to him. He's at St. Marie's in Grand Junction, CO. His back surgery was 6.5 hours long. He had a piece of bone that broke from L1 in the spinal canal. They had to remove it and use a piece of hip bone to reconstruct the vertebra. It's my understanding they braced L1 laterally with two other vertebrae, but I don't know the exact details. Luckily he has no nerve damage. He might get released in 10 days-two weeks. He is in good spirit and sedated heavily. His mom and girlfriend flew there. About the jump he told me the winds were gusty. There were five people on the jump. Three jumped, he was the fourth, and the last one did not jump. According to him, his canopy opened on-heading but felt mushy and start veering to one side. He did not know what was wrong with it, thought he had a line-over, so he released the toggles and landed on his butt with rears. It took the ambulance over two hours to arrive and then he was airlifted to his current location. Memento Audere Semper 903

Hi guys, I know few more details about this jump. Three friends of mine from the NE were in Moab this week. The guy who got hurt really had 2 BASE jumps he made at BD 2004 and 2003, one each year. He has about 300 skydives. He and I were supposed to go to the potato bridge in two weeks so he could gain some experience. He did not tell me he was going to Moab probably because he knew I was going to bitch at him for even thinking about going off a cliff with no experience. It was a last minute decision he made. Anyway I am the rigger who put the DBS, the tailgate, and the tail pocket on his Raven IV. He was jumping it with a brand new Apex Vertex 2 that he had never used before. By the way I am not mentoring this guy. I was just making sure he was not going to do anything stupid and supervise his pack jobs and gear. The guy only skydived the canopy once after me bitching at him for months to test fly it. After the mods were done I told him to skydive it first but he said it was OK and he was going to test jump it off the potato bridge. This guy although very, very nice, he is extremely impulsive and known to make poor decisions especially under peer pressure. I just heard the he was the one who got hurt this morning and I still can't believe what happened. He should have not been allowed to jump off that cliff or any cliff for that matter especially with those winds. Nobody with two BASE jumps (slider up), not many skydives, and poor canopy control skills, has any business off any cliff. The good news is that he does not have spinal cord injury, the surgery went well, and he will recover. Please guys learn from this and watch out for the people who you care for and who cannot make good judgment on their own. Memento Audere Semper 903

I am not a bird so I am always device dependent: I always depend on my harness and my reserve (or BASE canopy) even though I know they can fail. I would not do a skydive without a parachute system, so I am very device dependent. Memento Audere Semper 903

What's even better is the old Tri with the added 5th control line like the 4.0 BUT with the most outboard still in place, kinda like a BASE canopy. It opens and flares like a 4.0 but turns like the old one... Memento Audere Semper 903

Out of curiosity, which year is the tri? What fabric is it made of and does it have the 4.0 mod? I am asking because I am a big fan of Galvanor fabric and not a big fan of the 4.0 mod. Memento Audere Semper 903

In skydiving it only takes one to be out. Memento Audere Semper 903