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Or it can be a nice distraction from your day-to-day distractions..

Yes and no. If you are (for instance) a competitive swooper who is capable of this WL 1.8 at 850 jumps, you can ask for (and probably get) an exemption to the rules. The other example, if you make your 1000th jump and suddently want to go and jump something that would be unhelathy for you, the instructor is free to tell you you are not jumping. Of course, you could just grab your gear and try somewhere else, but I'm guessing that the kind of person who does this kind of stuff is on the radar way before the 1000th jump - and the Dutch Chief Instructors do communicate. That's one of the advantages of being a country with a small number of DZs. Will not happen ;)

Yea it must be terrible to have some line twists under a reserve, maybe it's even gradually turning until you get the twist out. I too rather go in at line-stretch, but no twists

Can people please stop using this way of logic? In this case he made a decision, and got away with it. Probably he made a good decision for his situation, but people also make very, very bad decisions and walk away from it. As I'm sure you know, luck is a factor in this sport, people can do really dumb shit and walk away because they were lucky I also wonder if PeteW knows how easily it is to stall your canopy on your rears, I hope he does :)

Having riser covers not open completely might look like just a inconvenient problem, but it's much, much more than that. The industry have put an insane amount of effort in developing riser covers that stay closed when needed, and open/release when needed. A delayed release of riser covers can cause incredibly hard openings, to the point of injury/death, although very rare, not pleasant. I've always found this video of John LeBlanc on hard openings very educative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVAoiLl2B6M Also: You describing the harness being on the back of your head could indicate that your leg straps were too loose.

Sounds a lot more as if you're the 100 jump wonder here, instead of the people that try to give you some advice I've had similar experiences... Brainfart, flew the wrong pattern, mirrored from what I intended. Guess what I did..? Once I realized what I was doing I aborted.

Your arguments can go both ways , really... Full face gives more protection in some respects, makes freefall much more quiet and calm, allowing for more mental focus on the jump, enables you to show facial expression to someone else, without the wind in your face etc... I agree on the mirror visors though, it's like jumping with a robot ^^ "

Every jumped a Sabre 2? Yes and in a couple of different sizes. A Sabre2 should not require any input to open. If yours does, get it checked out, linetrimm measured... I'm not talking about endcell closure here. That is pretty much normal on any canopy with a low WL. The only canopy I know of that requires some amount of rear riser input to open somewhat normal is a Skylark Scirocco. Opens fine, but slider is somewhat hesitant to come fully down. Not just with me, was more obvious with people who loaded it lightly. If a Sabre2 doesn't open naturally most of the times, and by most of the times I mean almost every time, either you need to learn how to pack it, or you need to fix it. As I said, you have a problem with it. Same as I wrote aboven, and I can assure you it wasn't packjobs. Also, sorry to disappoint you, but I didn't have any problems with it

Every jumped a Sabre 2?

Why would you get angry?

Risers are actually surprisingly easy to cut under tension, and you have only four of them. I think there´s a video of a few dudes testing plastic hook knifes on reserve risers under tension, let me see if I can dig it up.

If I see something that is attached to me (pilot, bag, reserve pilot whatever) leave the A/C, I will gtfo. If I see something that is attached to someone else flap around in the door I'll kick him/her out of the A/C. ... But getting out doesn't equal getting clear of the plane, becoming a part of the aircraft exterior is still a very real scenario. And when that happens, chances on causing structural damage are very real and increasing every second a jumper and his canopy are trailing with the plane... ps: perhaps I should be have been even more clear: jumper outside aircraft, prematured canopy outside aircraft and entangled with airframe

And even then I'd try to compensate for it, unless it's fucking hopeless, thén I'd try to find the right line to cut... The only real scenario that makes me carry hook knives is a premature reserve deployment in the door Identify if it's the reserve, if it is, I'm cutting the risers. Good luck with that. I hope you've already practised hacking thru a piece of webbing on the ground. And doing it all in .00010 seconds if your reserve has already gone out the door. I should have been more clear, I meant the scenario of having a reserve premature, resulting in an entanglement with equipment and aircraft (canopy over stabilizer)

And even then I'd try to compensate for it, unless it's fucking hopeless, thén I'd try to find the right line to cut... The only real scenario that makes me carry hook knives is a premature reserve deployment in the door Identify if it's the reserve, if it is, I'm cutting the risers.

I completely disagree on the flying head down part. No need to be able to fly HD to be good at angle... I'm pretty comfy flying angles belly or back, steep and fast, and have been for a while. Only recently started flying static HD and still learning.

If you're jumping because you get the "adrenaline rush" , chances are you haven't been around that long and don't have a decent amount of jumps under your belt. This means you have no clue what's really going on around you and should not be doing unpredictable flying like S-turns. That being said: you should never fly unpredictable. Not saying you can't have fun in your landings, you can, but in a predictable way. Want to get more out of your landings? Go work on HP/swooping. Get some coaching and start training. I don't see any reason to perform S-turns anywhere in the pattern. Not for students, not for sporties, not for tandems. If you can't fly your canopy decent enough as a TM to land next to the van or video guy, maybe work on your flying, instead of the consequences caused by the lack of skills in flying. Don't fight symptoms (S-turning), fight the cause. The cause of the 'need' to S-Turn starts way back, likely before the pattern.

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Hi :) I used to own a Altitrack and I've had this problem once or twice... It zero'd itself during ride to atitude.. Contacted L&B and they asked me to send it back to them. Received a brand new Altitrack from L&B shortly after.... No charge, only payed for the shipment of the altimeter to L&B. It's been said a lot already, but I'd like to emphasize again that L&B is awesome when it comes to their products and after-sales service.

Nice post. Maybe it's important to note that for the horizontal groups the safe zone is parallel to jumprun, instead of perpendicular like the vertical jumpers?

Had a PCIT twice. 1st one was when I had around 90 jumps. I looked when I felt nothing was happening and saw my pilot bouncing, but not resulting in a deployment. I did full EP and was under a good reserve at 2500'. Second one was earlier this year. Circumstances on the jump made me pull a bit higher then usual. I felt that the pilot wasn't doing it's job, reached back, pulled on the bridle, felt the pin pop and helped the bag out a bit with getting it out of my container. Had a fairly good opening. So yes, you can do it. The outcome can be good. Someone else said later on that he would go sitfly to get some speed and help the pilot out a bit

Congratulations, I think you just came up with a new way to kill yourself and/or someone else. :\

I have no idea what I'm talking about, this is 100% intuitive, but I think it has something to do with shifting your center of mass (and thereby shifting the center of mass of the entire system, canopy,harness,jumper). And obviously because it looks badass

Now, if you like the CONTAINER and it fits and all that just take the Argus out of the picture. Would you buy the container if the Argus wasn't involved and the price was a few hundred bucks lower? Bear in mind there is no market out there for used Cypres 2. Vigil and Cypres are almost the same price in the new market. I believe the MARS m2 is out in the North American market and could begin to put some downward pressure on prices in the near future. No reason not to buy a good container at a good price just because it's sans AAD.[/quote By this (bold text) you mean that one will have a hard time selling a Cypres 2? Because that is complete rubbish. I see adds from people selling and looking for AADs continuously, with remaining service life spanning from months up to many years... And the prices for these are always fair, since the value of these AADs (especially of a cypres 2) are very, very consistent. http://www.cypres-usa.com/usedcypres.asp

Didn't see it this morning, just reported this guy and now I see it's already been done...

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