Recommended Posts
The111 0
Quotesome students need some help, perfect students get a smile and a thumbs up, which is a hand signal BTW.
Yup, it means raise your hips in my book. Another reason for standardization, if we're assigning different meanings to the same hand signals.
medusa 0
Cheers to you mi friend!
Salud
Get Killed or Die Trying!
Patent pending ATFK15456
QuoteI know, i just hate the jump number theories. forgive my agressivness. im kinda just trying to be funny, and poke a bit of fun...
but i really hope that guy is flying again.
no one will ever ground me. EVER. i mean that in all ways. The choice should be every skidivers for himself, maybe some students dont yet know the risks of something, and need to be told, but i will never ground or be grounded. I am a jumper, and my freinds are jumpers. I am also a jump pilot, and as long as your reserve is in date, and as long as you promise not to take the tail off my airplane, i will drop you. (and if you dont HAVE a reserve, have a talk with me, and we will work something out)
cheers, i am done with this. i wish you all a good year of jumping.
That is an amazingly cavalier post! You standing there pounding your chest and proclaiming "never" is possibly the silliest thing I have read (or heard.) If you are a wreckless jumper (or pilot), then eventually you will be censured and/or have your ratings pulled. It's as simple as that. Unbelievable.
Chuck
I've never heard anybody, BMI's and USPA included, say that. When I approached a BMCI about obtaining a BMI rating, he mentioned that I was probably already taking up students, and that was ok, but the BMI rating (and the knowledge/training inherent) would augment that experience.
Why do you think so many people pay to receive BASE FJC's from manufacturers when they could find the local Joe Schmoe tower rat and have him drag them up an antenna for free? SKILL DOES NOT NECESSARILY MAKE A GOOD TEACHER. At the same time, I am not saying it is impossible for someone skilled, without training as an instructor, to do good on their own. I'm simply saying there's something to be said for standardization, and for learning ahead of time what others have learned before, on their own.
In your last two posts you've gone from the position that the BMI program is totally unnecessary as any skilled wingsuit flyer can do their job, to complaining about many of the finer points of the BMI program. In suggesting improvements, you are implying that you support it as a positive venture. Guess what? It might need improvements. I don't know much about its history and all your claims, but I have heard that it's improved a lot over the years, and I know that it still is changing. WINGSUITS ARE NEW, it can be expected for the training program(s) to evolve with time.
So which is it? Are trained wingsuit instructors totally unnecessary (your first argument), or do you have specific problems with specific programs that exist (a different issue altogether)?
Share this post
Link to post
Share on other sites