RW Book

[DA50 0]

Does anybody know where I can find a book that describes RW formations? You know, 4 way 6 way, 8 way … dives. I’m looking at all the popular skydiving suppliers and I don’t see it.

[hukturn 0]

There used to ba a dive pool simulator available a while back. I believe it was the programming of Tim Wagner. Visit him at omniskore.com and ask if he still has it.
Of course, there are probably a ton of them out there. Or, you could just start engineering, which is much more fun. If you are interested in organizing, try to stick with symmetrical formations. It makes for good video which makes the skydive appealing for the particpants.

[sdctlc 0]

Thre are a few copies of "Freefalling Together" and "Blocking Together" from the late 80's early 90's that were great in providing formation ideas. I have a copy of both that I pull out now and then for orgainising. Great ideas in there.. I searched and pulled this pic http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=38466; from a previous thread showing a couple of pages from the book.

Went out of print years ago and they are very hard to come by now. I feel lucky i have my copies..

Scott

"He who Hesitates Shall Inherit the Earth!"

[jeremy_o 0]

I printed all my stuff of from http://teamfastrax.com and made a nice 3 ring binder. all free too

http://planetskydive.net/ - An online aggregation of skydiver's blogs.

[MakeItHappen 15]

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Does anybody know where I can find a book that describes RW formations? You know, 4 way 6 way, 8 way … dives. I’m looking at all the popular skydiving suppliers and I don’t see it.

DiveMaker.com has some stuff to help you learn the formations.

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[philly51 0]

Check out the store on skydivingmagazine.com for Freefalling Together I and II.

Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, Shouting "...holy shit...what a ride!"

[DA50 0]

Hey Steve!

It's me. Matt. Thanks for the info. I got one on order.