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its on hulu, the episode name is Terminal Velocity. It's pretty bad all around. The stunts they were doing were equivalent to AFF level 6 maybe.

What was mentioned here on another post is to get a car, start either on e west or east coast and drive from dropzone to dropzone, you will get experience jumping in different locations and meet more people rather than parking at just one.

If you want a dedicated jump vacation, you can't go wrong with Eloy. I was there for 6 days and got 50 jumps in plus an hour in the tunnel.

I know this is an old thread, but have you thought about feeding your girlfriend? it might be easier to fatten her up

In my last session, I was being told to work more on flying different speeds instead of worrying about sit, back belly positions. So If i can fly on my feet what someone else flies on their belly etc. and better feel the air control surfaces, my learning curve might be steeper. It really helped, I was less worried about getting into any position, but more worried about flying at particular speeds and what skills i needed to do so. does any one else do it this way?

I'm fine with a Tandem mill, as long as its not a puppy mill. The way I look at it, every tandem has a chance of becoming a regular fun jumper, its a small percentage but its there. Even if it ends up at the other New England DZs with turbines. So I see it like when a fish has thousands of babies, they don't all survive, but some do and go on to do great things, maybe have fishes of our own. So go forth, tandem on and create a skydiving nursery so the rest of us have new jumpers to jump with!

One thing, this is at Eloy, there is nothing but desert for miles, no way he would have lost his canopy out there. Might make sense in a different DZ, or one over water etc. Nothing but open desert, cut away high get under a functional canopy as soon as possible

If you are dutch, you do have a tunnel close to you. http://www.indoorskydive.com you can get in there, and relatively cheaply train and get the idea of freefall, it could help you not repeat jumps early in your AFF training which in the long run could save you money. Plus it can get your fix before the winter. and of course you have to post your first attempt on here for all of us to give you great feedback.

flying 2 feet about a blender blade is just too much for me. i'm out.

get to a wind tunnel, book 10 minutes, post the videos here afterwards to receive your accolades.

I assume you know how to open the door of a skyvan?

go to a wind tunnel, tell them you got this, and to crank it up to full power, fly around on your head and feet for a few minutes, then come back and report to us the results.

I am just wondering if anyone knows where or when the phrase, "jumping from a perfectly good airplane" came from. I'm sure its hard to track down and pinpoint, but it is so widespread, it is always usually repeated verbatim, just wondering if it comes from a film or book or is it just a turn of phrase that caught on.

Has this been discussed or tried out to any success? I know its used in AFF courses for canopy piloting, I would think a good 1 or even 2 way communicative system could really help the efficiency coaching, as instead of signals you could get exact actionable feedback that you could use in that session right on the spot. I would think the costs would be low to retrofit some helmets with radio receivers and have tranmitters for the instructors. what does everyone thinks of this? Sometimers when I'm on my back, i really dont get what the instrcutor is telling me to do, it might be easier with words. Has anyone ever tried it? Pros and cons?

In terms of Obama being a secret muslim, I saw the TV show Homeland, he is a pretty crappy secret muslim and I would kick him out of the club. I think there is a better chance he is a secret christian, and in reality is agnostic/athiest but knows that he can't run as such so drapes Christianity to increase elect-ability. Which is what SO many politicians seem to do, or at least go from once a year Easter mass type people to devout Christians once election season comes up.

You can clearly see right at the 28 second mark the cutaway handle in your hand, but to the larger point. I don't really see the problem with this video, you set yourself up for a perfect swoop, you just didn't finish it. But serious congrats on the save. Plus you are now the new inspiration for the audioslave song "Cochiese"

Its hard to put a number on it, different people learn at different speeds, and some people just want a basic proficiency before moving onto another position while some people seek mastery before moving on. I would say it usually takes twice as long on a new positions as it took you for the last one. Thats the rough back of the hand math I use, so it took me about an hour to get decent on my back, I figure it will take twice as long for my sit. So if it took you 30 minutes to get decent at belly, it would be about 8 hours to be on your head.

I have 2 points on this topic. 1. There are absolutes. The tunnel while teaching someone who has 0-100 jumps can give them some overconfidence in their abilities, the vast majority of people who will be using the tunnel during their first 100 jumps, do not progress to a skill level beyond just basic belly flying competency. It is rare that someone can do head down outward facing carving 4 ways in the tunnel and have never jumped from a plane once, and do intend to do it. I would say the only people that fall into this category, are children under the age of 18, or employees of the tunnel. (there are always a few that are not jumpers or have not jumped yet). For the people with a few hundred jumps under their belt, they are experienced enough to understand what tunnel time is for and its benefits, have had enough jumps overall to develop their safety skill set. 2. The one thing I will say about the attitude, part of tunnel jumpers, is that tunnels are not in a bubble. All the tunnels I have been to have be riddled with skydivers, unless you show up at the time that they have childrens parties, but most of the time its skydivers. They are always happy to impart words of wisdom and coaching, just like at the DZ, and all this stuff that we are talking about here, gets passed on there as well. The instructors I've had in the tunnel, even the ones who have never actually made a skydive, but have hundreds of hours flying in the tunnel always seem to the be first to chime in how little they know about it. So even the few that are not jumpers but have hundreds of hours in the tunnel do not come across as arrogant or flippant of the risks, it seems the opposite because there are a million jumpers there telling them just what the risks are. I am one of these people who does have more tunnel time than freefall time, because there is a tunnel a couple miles down the road from me, and I am a new jumper, and weather and the end of the season prevented more jumping. I've been in the tunnel with jumpers who have had thousands of jumps going in there the first time and I could out "fly" them in the tunnel no problem, but no way in hell am I a better skydiver. The tunnel has differences, in freefall you control the speed, not the guy on the booth. In a 4 way, you cant use the glass to hold your position with your feet like you can in the tunnel. All the fancy running up the glass,holding onto the air returns etc, no relevance to skydiving, it might as well becirque du soleil at that point. The reason I like the tunnel is safety, is I can learn new things safely before practicing them in the sky, in terms of freefall skills (tracking and exits etc withstanding). I can't take a canopy course there though, but I most likely can find the contact of someone who teaches the course during my time at the tunnel. my 2 cents from a noob

The tunnel is great for anyone that wants to work on free-fall positions. If you want to work on RW or free flying you can learn it all in there before trying it in the sky. But you can't get overly cocky and think that because you can sitfly in the tunnel but only have 40 jumps that you know how to land anything and are anything more than a 40 jumper who has some decent freefly skills.

spend all your time in a tunnel do lots of arm and leg and core workouts go back to the tunnel, and then again to the tunnel

somewhere to keep the champagne on ice, my hands always get cold holding the bottle.

Of what? Nicaraguans But seriously I just haven't hit a boogie up yet, not sure if an international one is a good first one.

I want to go to this , but I'm a scared

I was back flying in the tunnel with a full face helmet. The fart travelled through my suit and directly into my helmet, it was horrible, like a private fart and instant karma

I found the dive exits easier, they are not as precise as the poised exits.