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Student did 40-50 military static line jumps and wanted to bring his wife out for a rollercoater ride. DZO gives the lecture on why to do a tandem instead of AFF but the guy doesn't listen. He has a solid AFF jump, deployment, and canopy ride until about 150 feet. He hears his instructor tell his wife "(name) flare", and he flares. He puts his canopy into a stall and drops towards the grounds. The back corners of the canopy touch and he flies backwards towards a hangar as the canopy continues to collapse. The instructor sees this and yells, "let up on the brakes." Now at 30 ft, the canopy reinflates, surges forward into full flight, the student is at 60 degrees looking at the taxiway. He flares again and swings through the pendulum just enough to scrape hard against the taxiway. He tore through the seat of his jumpsuit and removed most of the skin from his knuckles. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I wouldn't say "prude" but naive. This sounds like something a highschool gym teacher in 1980 would have said. I've never met anyone who tried drugs to be cool. If I did, I think their obvious suck-up personality would turn me away anyway. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Again, all this great data on the physics of canopy flight.... IF YOU CAN'T GET BACK WITH 1000 FT TO SPARE THEN PLAN AHEAD AND PICK A BIG FLAT FIELD. Yes, landing out poses its own hazards. But with the time you're spending to wring every bit of performance out of your canopy and reduce drag as you crab and ebb closer to the DZ, you're passing great places to land. If you wait until 1000 ft then you're left with a limited selection. At my DZ alone there have been plenty of injuries and people landing in the brush or even the trees because they ran out of time in an effort to get back to the DZ. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

If the difference between me getting back or not is in the margin of a little input to my risers then I'm not going to even try it. What's the big deal in landing out? I'll take an out any day rather than end up over some trees and have that tail wind die on me, or reach an altitude where I'm going cross-wind. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

http://www.uaqaeroclub.com/sk.htm So, it had something like a cow catcher to just part the clouds and rain. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Any grommets on you gear with exposed lips or with nicks and burs? "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Sorry, but I have to agree with them. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Knock, Knock... "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

No need to check. That's exactly what it says. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Here's my discussion putting things in terms of overall deployment and canopy inflation time. I think canopy inflation time is the thing we should focus on. Everything else is just wasted. : How does it slow down the canopy inflation? By hiding the material farther behind the slider? So why not just ensure that the slider is more exposed across the nose? Is this a matter of the different sizes of sliders? If you slow inflation just by exposing the slider the you can eliminate the off-heading problem. How does it slow down the opening? I'd like to think of the opening in terms of overall time and inflation time. I would prefer to focus on inflation time. During this stage of deployment you are being put upright. You increase your speed and the result is that you're going faster during inflation. So, if you can lay the canopy on the ground and keep it together without rolling the tail so much (1-2 rolls) then you've accomplished your goal. What I do is to roll the tail just once or twice and as I lay it down I hold the rolled tail and the nose in my right hand and the slider tight to the grommets with the left. I use my elbows to hold the cocoon together. I use a 2" stow on the locking stow and make the rest of them as small as possible. I also leave about 2 ft of line free. If I end up at the last rubberband with what I think is too little line then I only single stow that line. I do this because I've read data confirming that nothing but the locking stows matter, since bag stripping is what you really care about. This has nothing to do with canopy inflation time and making the bands tight and stows long will only result in the bag bouncing and twisting, resulting in line twists. Can't add anything much to what UD posted and I don't know a thing about psycho packs. What I meant with the question about slider position wasn't whether it was against the grommets but how much it's exposed to the airstream. I completely expose my slider to the nose. I know a girl who actually folds the front of the slider out of the way because she said that it takes too long to open, otherwise. But, we're talking about Tri's here. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Are you talking about a specific case? What are the specifics? "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

NO! Zee dressed perfekt. Now we must DANCE!! "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

All the cool ones... You want to be cool... DON'T YOU? "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I wasn't offering anything to argue about. That was a humor piece. Anyway, the world would actually be a richer place without factory farms. A factory farm employs a few low paid people to do basic work with company owned equipment. The revenue goes to people in suits. That same quantity of livestock spread over traditional farms means more people employed at higher pay. The product is higher quality and the price is competetive. For price don't take places like Whole-Foods as an example. There you're paying more for the privelege of shopping in a place that looks like Crate and Barrell. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I see a lot of recommendations but no reasons for that voodoo. What does rolling the nose do? What does rolling the tail do? The effect of different stows? The effect of a larger slider? The effect of the position of the slider? What a psycho pack does? Why the slider grommets should be tight against the stops? On my Tri I got mixed results until I routinely began to expose the slider to the nose of the canopy. That way, it was the first thing to inflate and the result was smooth openings. But, I was still getting off heading openings. So, I quit rolling the tail. I had been doing that mostly to keep the canopy together for when I layed it down and to make sure the grommets were tight to the stops. Now, I have nothing but smooth, on heading openings. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

No, no, no....you have that all wrong. It's OK for the chickens to be in captivity because they're considered to be pets. But you can only eat eggs that they lay out in the woods. So, you have to let them out into the woods every once in a while. Hence the term free ranging eggs. Also, let the pig take about 10 steps out of the pen and !BLAMMO! you have free ranging bacon. Mmmm, bacon. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

So you're saying that in order to destoy THEM, we must destroy ourselves? I agree. I'll whip up a batch of cool-aide. HA! WE'll show THEM!! "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Yeah and feel bad for the shrews and voles too!! So, instead of just being against something, why don't you support free-range ranching with the only thing that really walks, money. Instead of saying, "don't do this" tell us how it can be done. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Actually, delete the entire computer skills section. You may as well say that you know how to use scissors. But, I'm going to sleep right now. I have some friend and family in Chi-town. I'll get back to the resume in the morning and when you're done then I'll forward it. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Doubt he did, just what kind of a jerk puts a political sign in the hands of a three-year-old and subjects her as a utensil at the rally of an opposing group? Edit to add: I do think that the guys who did this should be flogged. I recall something about freedom of speech in our .... what's the law paper thing .... oh yeah, Constitution. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Even if she did read it, she probably wouldn't want to get in the middle of something in your office. I think she'd just delete it and pretend that it didnt' happen. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I'm one of the people who has no interest in an award. In fact, I don't understand the point in the first place. What do most of these patches say that my log-book or jump-companions couldn't tell you except that I spent $15? It says nothing of my current skills, just that I did something. And what does one do with these patches and buttons? I don't even know what I was supposed to do with the golden membership card that came with my lifetime membership, but it sure does make a fine shoe-horn. I do understand that some people do like these patches and like to adorn their gear bag or log book. I'm just not one of them. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I'm told the formula is to subtract a dollar per jump on the canopy from the original price. So, that Sabre...how much are you willing to pay me to take it? "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

We used to do this to each other at the team table in college, mostly to the freshmen players. Once someone even put it in someone's eyes. He didn't mean to, he was about to get a double-tabasco-fishhook and only saw the right hand. He jerked to the left with open eyes and got the full douse of tabasco in his eye. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I made a screen shot with "print screen" and then pasted it into MS Paint and cropped it, saved it as a .jpg. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher