Future swooping plans

[dove 0]

Oh yeah, baby! Swoop, swoop a doop!!!!! Wheeeeeeeee!!!!!! Heal leg, HEAL!!!!!!! I can't wait to swoop... but I will. I'm gonna ease my sweet tibia back in with some nice tiptoes and then when she is fully healed, we'll play..... :)
dove

[Iflyme 0]

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I have no plans to be a handkerchief pilot.

That said, I still LOVE to be agressive under my big canopy, and I get a nice little surf when I haul down both my front risers on final...
"There's nothing new under the sun"

[freeflyguy 0]

I'll give you my perspective.
I started in June 2, years ago. When I first saw Andy Farrington falling out of the sky on a Velocity 96, it scared me, I thought he was dead. Then I heard his parachute was a third the size of the one I was learning one. I couldn't comprehend doing that. I figured it would take years and years and 6,000 jumps, like him, to fly something like that.
Now, I am not quite to that size, I fly a 98, and it doesn't SEEM that small. I am new on it, and don't claim to know what he does. But it is interesting how a point of view can change with a bit of experience, knowledge, training and time.

[rhino 0]

very true...
Semper Fi .....
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[prost 0]

jump it sure, but not land it. I heard of a guy jumping a kite with a cutaway rig. I would like to jump something rediculously small just to see how it feels and then cut it away at about 5 grand. The guy that i met that jumped the kite had one problem though. He did not change the angle of attack and the thing flew between his legs because a kite is trimmed much differently than a parachute.
William

[weid14 0]

It's all in the pack method, I jumped a Velocity and Xfire on alternate jumps all weekend (not a couple of jumps either), the Velocity opened, in some cases, slower than the Xfire. I'll give you the Xfire is more forgiving of sloppy packing, but the Velocity is a fine opening canopy also.

[prost 0]

I lot of the opening issues with cross braced canolpies are solved by using different packing techniques. I have got to where my FX opens as good as my Crossfire did.
William

[weid14 0]

I know, that was my point, I even packed the original pack job (and didn't slam myslef to bad either)

[prost 0]

I was actually responding to the earlier posts. Sorry. I have also noticed that getting big to slow down ust before opening helps a lot.
William

[weid14 0]

some people will argue with that (slow down before deployment), I dont' have an opinion either way. I did have an interesting observation this weekend, Rickster Powell was filming us (4 way), and he like to play around and film deployments, so everyone was getting turns at getting their deployments on tape. I noticed that everyone was dearching at pull time, I even tried not to, and on the video, there was a slight de-arch. weird.

[prost 0]

It seams to help with my FX. Never tried it before I got the FX.
William

[skycat 0]

Well boys what is the technique? I'm willing to make Derek try anything so he isn't in pain every weekend. Well almost anything other than rolling the nose or psycho packing. The VX60 is way to touchy for that kind of stuff.
Actually now that I think about it, nevermind. He comes out of the sky so fast that he needs every little bit of altitude he can get just to make it back to the DZ and set up to land.

[skyhawk 2]

im defently gunna jump a pilot chute sized main :) but thats a while off now
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