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Consider the possibility that losing your goggles may have made you very nervous and caused most of your problems. Get the goggles issues fixed, even if it means purchasing your own (the type with strong elastics). Perhaps all your jumps will go much better after that. Of course tunnel time never hurts.
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All of that is almost exactly what I teach, with the addition of telling the student that there may be some situations that may call for them using their judgement and doing something slightly different. For example, a hot day with thermals, or a windy day with obstacles, might turn a side-by-side into a downplane very low to the ground. There might be times when the additional risk of releasing the main might be worth it.
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The attached photo, seen on Facebook, from the Redemption Boogie this last weekend. The instructor is Jason Jasnos from Iowa. His comments: "Was training him to pull and had to put the ripcord in a place that would be realistic for him to expect to go for it." I think it is a nice piece of work, not only giving your student an altimeter and training them to pull, but finding an impromptu training aid to make it more realistic.
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I wasn't going to say anything, and try to surprise you all when I get there.
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Some people are just not very mechanically inclined! That radio looks large enough to have a decent speaker in it and probably a decent audio circuit too, so I don't know why it wouldn't work well on the student's chest strap. Some of the cheaper radios, like the ones used in the FRS band, have weak audio and would be better placed on the helmet over the ear. Bu the one in the picture doesn't even look like it is over the ear! Strange. Oh, well, duct tape is strong. What could possibly go wrong?
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Recent successful Mr Bill jump with a pretty good video.
peek replied to AHoyThere's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Hey, I know some of you guys. Mr. Bill plus CRW too. Nice video. The "hand signals" were special too. -
Remember that you can do things with the cell dividers too, an example is attached. (Edit: Something is changing my graphic, it looks much better in my program.)
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Some of these answers might be in the USPA SIM, but some of them might require the USPA IRM, which unfortunately is not on-line in its entirety. The "IRM Essentials" is, and you might find some answers there. Or you could trust the answers you might get here. I suggest the former. It will give you a head start toward the day you might get an instructional rating.
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At this point I don't think the info in the patents is much like what the software inside them is like. And I can't think of much reason to have an accelerometer in an AAD. It doesn't give you that much more useful information over what a pressure sensor gives you. But it was a good idea to move the discussion here.
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Kelvin, this is the first I've heard of this, although it is possible that it has been discussed. Tell me more. skymama, you might want to move this thread. We've hijacked Tammy's thread pretty bad haven't we?
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My idea: I made one of these a long time ago, after seeing one used by another instructor. It has gotten a lot of use. See the attached picture of the plastic bin. Add wheels and it becomes an "elevated creeper". (Not 4 feet high, but high enough for the instructor to not need to bend their back much to operate.) It doesn't rotate as well as something with a ball-bearing swivel, but if you get big enough wheels it is pretty good. Get one of the larger ones, like 3 feet long. Some of these already have a place to put the wheels because they assume people will want to do that. A padded thing on top would be nice for your student. Plus, it doubles as storage for your other training gear.
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I think about that technique too, and have talked to others in the industry about their recent thoughts on it, (but I don't remember who!). I think - - the reason that it is not used is that most of the time people manage to stow their sliders well enough, and also, I think the manufacturers are reluctant to add another feature that can be misunderstood and misrigged. - this technique will be reconsidered where enough people have hard openings and it is "proven" that the reason for them is the misplacement of the slider. - many experienced jumpers assume this misplacement of the slider is a rookie packer kind of thing, so they assume it will improve when people learn to pack better.
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http://www.pcprg.com/hardop.htm All the measurements I did were across the middle of the slider, although I never noticed much difference from the middle to the edges.
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You know that feeling you get on certain days? You know that you should be remembering something. Today is the day! 31 years ago my friend suggested that we make a parachute jump, and being wild and crazy 20 something year old guys, we did it. Round parachutes and all. I may not get 31 more years, but I'm going to go until they make me stop. It has been very rewarding. Should I admit to the concept of "lifestyle"? :) I have had this on a web page for quite a while, but (for your amusement) I guess today would be a good day to introduce it to those of you who have never seen it. Man, I'm glad we have ram-air parachutes now. 6/13/81, Sparta, IL, Archway Skydiving Centre: http://www.skydivestlouisarea.com/peekfjc.htm The parent page: http://www.skydivestlouisarea.com/peeksa.htm
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Where did that graphic come from? I find it hard to believe that the Cypres is the only AAD that takes pressure sample readings often enough to compensate for changes in the weather. That is one of the most basic functions, to determine ground level before a jump.
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Now I may be a bit late to the party of knowledge about Car Surfing, but the news article showing the young girl that got seriously hurt just amazes me. Is there something about falling off a car while moving that does not alert a person to the possibility of getting hurt really bad? Or is it a YouTube thing? Equally amazing is the videos I have seen of two people on a motorcycle doing a wheelie, (and flipping over backward!) I can see doing one yourself, but trusting your buddy up front to keep balance for both of you? And not wearing helmets? Whew... Damn, they might as well jump out of an airplane.
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Like Sparky says, crepe paper is just so easy, cheap, and safe (as in breaking if it catches on something.) I built a bag that attaches to my chest strap and has a strap that connects around my body to stow many rolls of crepe paper (ask a rigger or experienced demo jumper before doing something like this.) 5 or so rolls of 80 foot long (the typical party size available at WalMart) crepe paper looks pretty good, and you can give it to the kids when you land.
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That's OK, you wouldn't know that with so few jumps. I have seen a number of first jump students do that too while practicing in a harness. Any harshness in that RTFM statement would be directed at a rig owner that didn't know after many jumps.
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What a coincidence, I don't know what I'm looking at either when I see that video. The reserve handle is installed backwards. It is interesting to note that I find more people all the time that think the small side gets inserted into the webbing. Inserting the large side is very snug, so they insert the side that is easy. It's like they don't understand the concept of it being more resistant to being snagged with the small side out. I had a rather experienced jumper several years ago that always installed his backwards, and told me that the manufacturer (or perhaps a gear dealer) told him that was the correct way. I did my own contacting of the manufacturer and cleared that up! Does anyone RTFM? Or look at the pictures in them?
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If we would simply better follow some established rules it would help. Read the following and think about how these rules would read when applied to canopy flight. They really match up quite well, plus, they have been in existance for many years. http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=navRulesContent Search for FAR 91.113. (Part of it is in the Appendix of the USPA SIM). Skydivers are simply ignoring these very well thought out and beneficial rules.
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That would be a good idea. You might need to get a rigger to fix you something up like that, but the advantage would be that a number of people could use it to learn more about reserves. However, I would not put more that "a few" jumps on a reserve. You might find that riggers will not want to pack it as a reserve with that many jumps on it. Another possibility if you are going to only make a few jumps on it is to use a regular deployment bag, hand-deploy pilot chute, and closing pin on the bridle, and expect to have to go fetch the bag and pilot chute each jump because it will not be connected to the canopy.
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I'll second that.
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That's it! Enjoy.
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I would not argue vigorously against you about the term. Indeed, in the 2 pictures we have seen, there appears to be both things happening. "Out of sequence" would probably be a good generic term. I hope that the people that own those rigs have corrected the problem by now.
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Thank you very much for posting that. I have been trying to find a true line-dump photo for a long time, because it is my contention that true line-dumps seldom if ever happen, especially on non-tandem gear, while many people describe their hard opening as being caused by a line-dump. Edited: I guess I need to modify that a bit for tandems. I would hate to think this is happening very often. Now, as to the cause of the line-dump in the photo... Let the thread begin!