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While your post makes some points I can agree with, this discussion is on a different topic. I'm interested in facts here, not aspects of performance.

Thank you for this information. But the thing is, an experienced instructor in our community who advocates always cutting away in PCIT says just that: there are no clear cut cases where cutting away lead to trouble with modern equipment and call those who say otherwise "theorists", i.e. that arguments don't apply to reality. In discussions here on DZ.com I blindly trusted those statements that cutting away can as well lead to big trouble, but it looks like there are a bunch of incident reports where not cutting away was clearly bad, but no examples of the opposite. See, I just don't possess any information on the topic, but I want to find out as much as possible, and incident reports are unfortunate but as a source are kind of on the objective side.

Ok, I will bump this thread. I have been searching extensively and couldn't find the exact information. So I ask for links (preferably) to incident reports where cutting away in a PCIT situation clearly lead to an undesirable outcome.

Happened to me once. It's quite easy to miss the username and click on the "friend" link. And as it goes without confirmation, you can even overlook that happening. But we're all friends here, right ? So no big deal

I've just seen this someplace on the internet. [inline 998794_10201909620884168_180256668_n.jpg] What do you think?

Really, do you still have fears that you will not be able to control the canopy and land where you want or weren't you afraid of this issue on jump 1? The same on fearing the "parachute will not open" or stability issues. I simply don't see how the fear could stay exactly the same. And consequently the stress. Yes, I do feel my heart rate going up on the jumprun and I don't want to say that it's like walking down the street, but I associate it partly to the excitement, not fear.

My physical culture teacher used to hit some children when they ran in the wrong direction If they had kissed us, we wouldn't have been bothered.

1. It's not freefall maneuvers and 360 turns that kill skydivers. 2. All you've been taught on AFF is falling with your belly down and not rotating too quickly. Go visit a wind tunnel and see how "stable" you really fall.

So I didn't close the reply block, see? And it screws up the engine. In the messages you linked users were making similar mistakes, unwillingly probably. The "new" part that you noticed, i.e. making the quoted text appear as though it's part of your message vs your message appearing as quoted is just an implication of different ways to trick the engine, it's not "new bugs". Meso is fully aware of this and mostly acknowledges the error, but it's not that trivial to fix really, some thought as well as programming is needed. Yes, this is a user-friendliness issue, because users do make mistakes and the software should help us track them down and fix them. It's sometimes hard to follow the markup carefully when there's a lot of quoting/replying going on and it's quite easy to go wrong and miss a mismatched tag. Hope this helps.

Do you see what I did there? The rest of this message is what I typed in the previous one verbatim: Try replying to this one with a "Quote" button Quote

Try replying to this one with a "Quote" button Quote

It's not "The markups are screwing up again when you hit the "quote" button to reply to someone's post." They are screwed up when you reply to those specific posts that are malformed. If you wish, I could demonstrate this.

Can you provide links to the problem threads/posts? Is it reproducible for you, i.e. can you make a quote properly or is there some problem?

Much smaller reserve didn't even cross my mind. I meant much bigger reserve.

Thanks. Yes, I tried observing pitch changes during dynamic brake application and can say that it's a bit easier if you have a point of reference e.g. some clouds or canopies or even sun, because when you're up high, the ground is not that obvious of a reference. Any other suggestions on spotting the pitch change more confidently?

I heard another argument about compatibility in case of a two out. Any comments on that one?

Can you please extend on the exact procedure of practice flare. What are we looking for? Stall point, the relation the to the canopy, it moving overhead, etc? General feeling of deceleration? Something else?

Probably a wrong idea. If they said they don't teach skydiving then they probably don't. They will at least need student parachute systems to teach you, you'll not be able to safely land ones they have for themselves (if they have'em at all, looks like this is a tandem DZ?). So you should find a DZ doing AFF or static line near your location.

I was having some inconvenience reading the analog alti in the pattern during my first jumps on AFF, so I bought a Neptune 2 (was wearing two altis actually, as our DZ requires analog ones for students). Recently I finally put it into the helmet (as an audible) and bought an analog wrist mounted one. What a relief! I spend much less time staring at the altimeter during RW, it's just obvious how much time is left, no need to calculate!

Is it trolling or something? Did I mention pins, pilot chutes? For that matter, yes, the pin is one of those more difficult things. Chest strap: it's right there in front of your nose just check it, couldn't imagine a simpler thing in skydiving.

Is there an extensive explanation of the FR and harness turns? I think I understand the brake turn with the pendulum effect caused by the body weight inertia, but with FR and harness I fail to understand a bit. Hopefully, the explanation also shreds some light on the behavior described in this thread: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4518225;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread

Ok, now I am finally able to express what bothers me about this thread. The problem is: the misrouted chest strap is an obvious, simple hazard. You just have to route it, that's all! Why dedicate so much attention to it? Just route it, check a couple of times in the plane, check your friends. I feel that there are many more subtle hazards in this sport that require thought and reiteration and with Vanessa's experience it's time to dedicate more thought to those, why distract thought to this issue? I see a real problem here.

You mean, hire a professional cameraman to video 4. and 5.?

User error, right. But we users are humans, so we make mistakes. It's software's job to help us out. I understand that this is not a trivial problem, but something is better be done about it, because it makes it difficult to follow threads sometimes.

Thanks, will try and arrange this. Saw longer knives in the local shop too, but the blade in this one looks respectable