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Exactly

Another point: a tracker exits first, tracks 5 secs or whatever perpendicular, then turns up the jump run and tracks the rest. He is a slower faller than belly even. What if a larger group exits after him and during break-off one of the better trackers in that group ends up crossing the path of the tracker that exited first? What don't I understand here? Also, the tracker from the groups has some advantage due to the fact he tracks at the bottom, so he has achieved the terminal velocity by then (the first man tracked somewhat off the hill, not sure how significant that is though).

I see deleted posts

Isn't restricting and banning appropriate for this kind of behavior in S&T forum? I'm a FNG here, but this seems weird to me.

It would be nice, wouldn't it? Yes, it will not work 100% of the time, but a simple regex for trivial links will be very helpful.

I would say that sitting up brings the main bridle closer to the reserve, no?

Another important thing is that I don't want solid representative "X" to "Y" ratio, I would want the ratio between negative and positive results on "X", and that is much harder to acquire. I will try asking S&TA at our not too little DZ for the information.

So in English a PCIT is not considered a total? Then the title and the question should've been about PCIT specifically.

Ok, I kind of get that direct comparison to the RSL debate is incorrect, because the probabilities differ by an order of magnitude if not more, just wanted to know the statistic.

I was taught of my FJC to cutaway every malfunction, including PCIT. Now after absorbing some information I'm thinking about reconsidering this. I've read a recent discussion on "why I'm not hooking up my RSL" and I agree with the argument to statistics: so far it's more likely saves you than kills you. But the OP of that thread argued that when RSL decides to kill you, there's really not much you can do (AC snag following a reserve destruction scenario). But similar logic applies to main/reserve entanglement with respect to cutaway decision vs straight for the reserve: if you cutaway, you're giving yourself less control over what happens next, but is it statistically justified not to cutaway? I mean, how often do mains in the bag present problems in the cutaway scenario?

I jump for evolutionary reasons. People were not designed to fall from the f'ing sky, yet they can achieve that and someone just has to do it. I try to contribute a little bit to make the world a weirder place.

A friend of mine once went with me to the DZ, made a tandem jump. The fact is, the guy at the moment has never landed in plane in his life

Subj. Again, this is not reproduced 100% of the time. But I've run into this a couple of times already. I read a couple of topics from one computer, then all the messages are still unread on another one. Started happening with the latest template upgrades.

Also, it can in fact reduce visibility behind you, which is quite important.

Do you measure altitude in ft?

Didn't practice that in a real jump, although I have some experience landing a round (a reserve even) from a couple of years back, so I know a bit about PLF, just not drilled it in every situation on a ram air, going to fill that gap. POPS is right, it's not mandatory here.

Yes, definitely more arbitrary at least at my level at least at our DZ. An instructor recently asked for my weight "in trunks", then said "ok, 170 would do at your experience", I said "thanks, I weighed myself in gear and my exit weight is 99kgs, which is nearly 218 lbs, so I don't want to rush to near 1.3 wingload", he was like "O_o mkay, you have a point". On the other hand I once heard the S&TA said to a visiting jumper "I cannot allow you to jump a canopy at this wingloading at the DZ". So maybe starting at some level they do pay attention to exact numbers. Buddies mostly don't know their WL and I often have to remind them that they're flying their 170s at approx the same WL as I fly my 190 so they shouldn't tell me how easy it's to land a 170 and how soon I should be jumping the same As the sizes of the canopies go, we use sq.ft. everywhere for ram air (yes, rounds that are manufactured in Russia are still in m^2). Won't speak for everyone, but for me yes, 190 is just a number, however now I will convert it and try to remember it in metric system just in case.

Yes, that was my concern too, I hit with my legs and only then with my butt, but still, should practice it more thoroughly. Somehow I'm not ready for PLF in some scenarios, I used it during student training a couple of times successfully. Something to do with controlling the canopy and preparing to PLF at the same time, will give at a good thought

I did a near-to-big mistake on one of my last jumps. It was a wonderful freefall and for the last say 30 jumps I was consistent with my accuracy and was working on that (since the snow came off and the target became visible). And on this jump I felt that I could score a "zero" and held in half brakes for too long, probably started going to full flight about 40ft above the ground, realized that immediately, stabbed the brakes, landed on my butt quite softly, but still This is just an example, however I consider this a serious mistake for myself. We all make mistakes, but my question is: how do you deal with them personally and practically? What exactly should we take from those mistakes? I mean, I surely knew that I have to go into full flight at least at 150ft (in clear area), but still I did _this_. I met those people who said "Today I caught a steering line excess around my finger, couldn't get free of it and landed that way, now I will always check where I put my fingers through" and I thought "Well, why does everyone have to do this to themselves to start looking?".

Oh, interesting But I'm pretty sure he was writing about being happy to see his spit falling near him (Because I was like "Man, it would be AWESOME") Maybe it's just some Chinese whispers in that newspaper I bought in a train. Or maybe it's just not that I finally learned something :)

Now I started remembering things. I once read an article about skydiving where the guy with thousands of jumps said you never remember the moment of exiting the airplane and something about spitting in freefall to check if you reached the terminal velocity. And that pretty girl that told me she went snowboard-base some day (having a jump on a round). I thought I loved her, you know!

Is it really that difficult to learn how to close a door?

Can someone comment on what does "container opening" mean? Does it mean the altitude at which the d-bag leaves? Because on our DZ in Russia we're constantly told that we have to have a "square, stable and steerable" (not just the d-bag leaving) at 2500ft AGL (800m) and the decision altitude is at 1800ft (600m) To have d-bad leaving at 2500ft feels a bit too low for me. Can someone clear things up? This is mostly a USPA rules question, not a S&T question :)

verified for me, works fine

It's nice to be in Russia and the only one in the house with decent English so no one even suspects just what they hear (non limited to SR)