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wind tunnel = currency?

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No.



I disagree. How was your dive plan, exit and canopy separation, and landing?



You disagree with Pops?

I am 100% behind him on this.
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I hope this isn't a dumb question, but does wind tunnel time count toward currency guidelines?



Maybe and thats final:ph34r:

After the additional tunnel time you would be a current tunnel flyer:ph34r:

Then when you went to the DZ and made a currency jump you would be current jumper:ph34r:

Don't you want to do both? It's only money:ph34r:
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does wind tunnel time count toward currency guidelines?



Keep in mind that the wind tunnel only helps you with freefall skills. Currency has nothing (very little) to do with freefall skills. Nobody is worried about how many points you can turn, as long as you can arch and pull, the freefall portion is cool.

The currency is more about your safety and the safety of others. Proper gear checks, proper behavior in/around the airplane, exit seperation, traffic management under canopy, landing patterns and a safe landing are what the real concern is, and the tunnel is not going to help you with those things.

Yes, being a better freefaller might give you more of an opportunity to focus on the safety related aspects, but that's a stretch, and I wouldn't count on it. Even if you're razor-sharp in the tunnel, if you become an un-current skydiver make sure you think of yourself as an un-current skydiver until you do the work to get current.

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disregard females, acquire currency.



Dude! Do you realize what drastic limitations you are putting on most of us? Disregard women? REALLY?
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