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  2. rwieder

    I'm curious as to how the instructor got shed of his seat belt after he was most likely hanging from the thing after he "attempted" to jump. I doubt there's any way he could have unsnapped his seat belt with his weight on it. Does anyone know this part?

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    Richard



    In Norway, you're required to have a knife in the plane. I don't know for certain, but I assume either he used his hook knife or someone in the plane used the knife. Or he just unhooked himself if that was possible.

    And I just want to add; the cameraguy is actually a lady, who is now an AFFI :)

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    I am looking for some advice and recommendations on WHAT TO WEAR SKYDIVING IN THE SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!
    What you northern people wear under those jumpsuits, on your hands, feet and necks..... . =)
    Thanks for the help everyone.....


    Eric
    Have FUN, BE SAFE, LIVE LEGENDARY



    I wear wool, pants, a fleece and my jumpsuit. Warm socks. Double set of gloves (I don't have any good winter gloves). I usually put my gloves inside my jumpsuit and warm my hands in my armpits if it's really cold in the plane. Then I won't have time to get cold hands when I'm jumping. Cold hands are the absolute WORST. I don't mind my feet freezing or anything else, but the hands. Bahhh. Once I jumped with summer gloves, it was about -12 C on the ground, I thought my hands were going to fall off. I actually felt sick to my stomach for a little while. And this was only a jump from 4k.

    Early spring it's about -30--35 degrees Celsius at 15k. I do the same thing then. Bloody cold though!!

  8. I know the addiction feeling, I have it too! I've done 8 hours the past 4 months.

    Well, the guys that work as instructors at my home tunnel, were trained by highly experienced tunnel instructors from other tunnels. A lot of people want a job like that, so you're not going to be the only one. Who knows, you might get lucky. Though you probably have to pay a lot of money to even get to that level where you can be an instructor ;)

    It's about $5000 for an instructor course here. Even though you do this course, you are not guaranteed a job.

  10. I only use my full face in the tunnel, haven't tried it in freefall yet. I probably will when jumping season starts again though, it's -30 degrees Celsius at 15k around that time. That makes your face pretty cold. I haven't experienced fogging yet though, so my first few jumps will probably be alone, just to make sure that I can "handle" it if it happens. I don't wanna be the person who tracks into anyone on separation because of fog (my friend almost did that to me once).

    I also believe that a full face would be more comfortable when I eventually get a foot in my face on a freefly jump :)

  11. You should not get a 140. That would give you a WL of 1.21:1,and that is too much. I think instructor number 1 is the most reasonable one, you should probably speak to him/her again. According to wingload rules here where I live, you are 1 kg from not being allowed to jump a 150, so 140 is way too small. You should also not be taking advice from anyone here, that's what instructors that know you and your canopy skills are for.

    I am about 60 kilos, and after consulting several instructors that I trust and know, I have been adviced to get a 150. My wingload is 1.06:1, a lot of people here probably think that that's too much, but I am following the handbook rules we have here and like I said, I have spoken to instructors about it, and they are confident that I have the skills to fly it.

  12. At Skydive Algarve in Portugal the age limit is 14. They have great TIs there. Skydive Spain in Sevilla has 16 as their age limit, while Empuriabrava doesn't have an age limit at all, but people under 18 need authorization from a parent or a legal guardian (which I guess is no problem for your daughter!).