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I know a 206 that can do that with jumpers on board.

Not at you Phillbo, just general response. Im not looking to cause an accident, and I dont mind moving over from the fast lane if someone wants to do mach asshole speed and get a ticket but sometimes there are cars in front of me and cars beside me so there is no where to go, and riding my ass is not going to make the car in front of me go any faster. If I am doing 85 in the fast lane along with every one else and you come flying up behind me and chose not to go around me to the and insist on riding my ass at 85, I have a modified version of a brake ck. Push the clutch in put it from 5 gear to 3 by then I have slowed to about 65 and dumped the clutch quickly. No brake lights for any type of warning. They usually go around after that. I wont box any body in and usually let people go if they want to speed but dont be a RICHARD CRANIUM, or I will box you behind the tractor trailer or the minivan and miss my off in order to do so for as long as possible. Its so easy to be courteous when you are driving. Like today. I am on my Harley in the HOV lanes doin 85 in the left lane and this douche nozzle rides my ass. There was a merging lane coming up so I did not want to get in the left lane. So finally this ass hat see's the light and goes around and shakes his head as he accelerates to a hundo. Guess who is half mile up the road, yep po po. He slowed down real quick.

Clinching your but cheeks is a good one,even while standing around. Do it while talking to some one and pay attention to what your hips do. A good drill to reaffirm this muscle memory is when you are at home lay down on the floor with a pillow under your thighs and a pillow under your rib cage so that the only thing touching the floor is your pecker/pelvis. Keep the pillow that is under your thighs close to your knee and dont use a big one for that area, and watch tv while doing this to force your chin up.

Good point sammielu. I always tell people, just pay it forward when I help a person, if you ever see some one struggling or you get asked for help when you are more experienced and if you dont feel comfortable passing on the knowledge your self refer them to me or some one you trust.

Hows it going. As a long time packer and teacher of packing courses to aff students I have had to come up with ways to help people UNDERSTAND what they are looking at and what they need to do to accomplish the goal. I have had to come up with new techniques often as every one learns/perceives in different ways. When you are done flaking the nose and have it between your legs, most people are able to find the manufacturers label when I ask them to. It is attached to the trailing edge or tail of the canopy. Once you have the tail in your hands(careful how you bend over to pick it up) slide one hand, and then follow with the other(no need to keep holding onto the label) one way or the other along the tail seem. You should run into one of the four steering lines. Keep sliding until you have all four steering lines in your hand. Hold those four lines out away from your body and the D lines should be the longest lines hanging down. If they are not hanging, lower your arm that is holding the four brake lines but still keep your arm straight away from your body. If you are doing the right side use your left arm to hold the brake lines, palm away from you, hand open, lines between thumb and fore finger. Keep your thumb and fore finger spread open to allow the weight of the canopy to keep tension on the lines. If you have a nine cell canopy, non elliptical(square) there will be four lines per each letter group. If you have a seven cell non elliptical there will three lines per group. Dont worry about the stabilizer lines . Just let them float on the outside of the pack job for now. They are easy to identify, they are stitched to the canopy at 2 points. Once you have the four steering lines up in your hand it is pretty easy to see the next set of lines if you hold the canopy at arms length away from you, but not up too high. The D lines should all be the same length, and the longest of all the line groups you should be able to see.Grab all four of them with your free hand and put them in the hand holding the brake lines. After that take your free hand (right hand if doing the right side)reach down inside and use the out side of your palm(palm facing your body, fingers pointing at the ground) in a "Karate chop" motion, gently move the material outwards. As you do this you will see the next set of line groups , the C lines moving. Grab all four or three with your free hand and put them up into the hand holding the brake lines and the D lines and repeat the "Karate chop" and you will see the next set of lines moving, the B group, repeat. When you flake between the B's and the A's, you will know you are done with that side because you will feel tugging on the nose you have between your legs.When you are done gently let the hand holding all of the line groups come towards your body, and down in order to keep slack out of the lines. Find the tail again(warning label) with out disturbing the pack job as best you can, and go opposite direction and find the brake lines again on the other side and repeat the process. My students have found this very easy. No need to search down inside the canopy for the A's or B's etc. It is easy to find the tail and use the seem to cheat and find the brake lines without all the material in the way. Once you find the brake lines and move your hand away from your body not much material in the way and so on every time you put the next line group in your hand and extend away. Another way to sort of cheat is when you locate the D lines, if you can not see all of the next line group moving as you Karate chop(only 3 out of 4) go back to the D's(or last line group) in your hand with the brake lines and go to the attachment point(where the line is attached to the canopy where two or more seems come together) of the D lines(or last line group you flaked in to your hand) and follow each one individually down the seem towards your body and you will find the next line for the next line group. One way to make sure you have not grabbed one of the D's or C's etc from the other side of the canopy(easy to do as they are the same length and close to each other), follow them up to the slider and all of the D's or the C's etc should be going through the same grommet(D's and C's through the grommet on the back of the slider and B's and A's through same grommet on front half of slider), not 3 out out one and one out of the grommet on the other side. I have used this method for a long time with both students and people that have their license but struggle, and it works. I can try and put up a short video of that portion in the next couple of days.

Not bad but some unnecessary steps and even with editing and some of the video sped up a little bit it still took over 8 minutes. davnuk also wanted to try to try and shave some time off his pack time without sacrificing safety or quality. Some of the techniques in the video in my experience are not necessary IMHO. 4 sport rigs on a 20 min call, or two tandems in 15 min call.

Like I have said before, more or less guns is not going to change the problems in our society with people choosing violence to express their anger for what ever reason, hate, revenge, or just off their meds. If people do choose to act out with violence they will find a way whether it be with a bomb through the mail system(unibomber), a ryder truck filled with basic everyday chemicals(timothy mcveigh killed 186), poison in asprin bottles... etc. Inforce the laws on the books, do better job at weeding out people who shouldnt own fire arms and even then your going to get some that make through the filters.Even if you remove all guns from us legal gun totting folk, what about the criminal element, ya they will follow the rules. The people like this jack ass in Florida is not going to give a rat ass about any law on the books. He dont give a f*%k! The government should fear the people not the people fear the government. If you like the laws in another place so much better feel free to move there!

Ya I could but my internet skilz are far less accomplished than my packing skilz. Not sure I could get it posted. I shot a video for a friend so he could watch it/practice when he was out of town, but in my opinion I would like to just do it with out trying to explain as I pack , but try to explain afterwards and let you see the differences between what I do, you do, and the video that was posted here. I also teach the packing course for aff and have broken it down to make sense and keep it simple.

While I was in Sweden for the summer of 2011 an idiot acquired a gun, a riffle not sure if it was auto or semi auto and went out onto an island in Norway and MURDERED a bunch of kids(40 if I member correct and a couple of adults) at camp. Norway is pretty strict with they fire arm policies. Thats just off the top of my head. Im sure there are more like this. There are other places with people who can not control their emotions,and firearms are not readily available, and they commit violence through other means,knives are popular in the UK, machetes, people have been hacked to death. Most of your posts are pretty scathing towards Americans, even going as far as to cal us mentally retarded this time. So stay in Canada eh where your safe.

I agree with Hackish. I have been a packer for a long time and am known for on heading and easy openings. I recently packed for a person on a poker run with me and some friends to 5 different dz's on a canopy she had not jumped in a while and loved all 5 openings and made a point to tell me so. I also have packed for the sos record attempts several times and my customers love my openings, they are easy on the old bones they say. It is difficult to tell you all the techniques on this electronic box, but is better shown in person. There are ways to simplify/shorten the pack job with out sacrificing safety or quality. I have often had some people tell me the opening took a little to long of a snivel can I speed it up just a lil bit. If you ever visit the west coast(so cal) shoot me pm ahead of time and I can spend about a hour with you, that should help a lot.

Welcome back. Glad you gave it another try even with your fears. as Wendy said yes the leg strap discomfort gets better with better gear. Have faith the gear is reliable when maintained properly. I noticed your last name. It is the same as mine. It is not a common last name so when I found out there are two others with the same last name at my home DZ I was surprised. And now a third person with the same last name in our small community, wow.

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Some of the best advice is not what you want to hear, but our awesome sport is an expensive one. You might have to take a break until you obtain employment that allows you to afford to skydive. How ever if you want it bad enough there are ways to be creative and stay current at least. I was on unenjoyment for a couple of months and in order to continue to jump I talked to the DZO and he came up with an Idea. I would drive the tractor with the mower attachment out in the landing area, which is quite large at my home DZ and groom/mow the grass/weeds during the week for two days and he would put 5 jumps for each day of 8-10 hours of mowing on my account. As I gained more experience I would pretrain the tandem students on saturday and also get 5 jumps on my account. Then I started packing to make actual cash but that takes time and experience. Talk to your DZO and ask if you can help harness tandem students up, or help wash the plane at the end of the day, if your DZ is busy enough on the week ends and the TI's do turn loads pick up the rigs left in the landing area and bring them in to the packers, get creative. You say its a passion. What is it worth to you?

Yep +1. To answer your question of how to fix it, you did, EPs and look at it on the ground. Good decision making. Good execution. There are other options when you have mad experience, but stick to your ep's for now and dont focus on in flight rigging.

I was pretty lucky. My dad was a skydiver in the 70's and being a single parent he decided to become an instructor in the mid 70's. So we were at the dz either with his students or when he wanted to attend a boogie at one of the popular so cal DZ's. He bought some property and 2 planes(small cessna's) and owned/ran his own DZ for a couple of years in the early 80's. I made my first 2 jumps at 16 with dad as my instructor on a static line with a Russian PC. in the mid 80's. The first 2 were free then he wanted me to pay for them. Not knowing the opportunity I had in front of me a I did not stick with it. Got back into it in 2002 and have not stopped since.

There are not many "malfunctions" you are going to be able to "fix" while hurdling towards the planet at break neck speed. Cutaway/reserve deployment is the procedure("fix") you should be worried about doing, and find out why and what happened and how to prevent it from happening again when you are safe on the ground. In flight rigging more often then not doesnt end well, and even if you figure out whats F*ed up its too late to do anything about. Like a previous poster said,learn your EP's from your resident instructors and practice them. Fabric over your head, then rigging.

Yes it is, and that satelite pic is old. Perris has added a second strip of grass to the landing area, and now have 3 skyvans, and neither is visible on the pic you attached.

Yes it is I jumped there last weekend.

There are many answers to this minor issue. It has happened to me on a couple of occasions. Just look at the altimeter of the person on your other arm. If he/she is not wearing one visible to you as long as people are still docked and still in a formation, chances are its not break off time. If you see everyone turn and trac then thats a good indication you should to. One day while I was organizing a jumper with less than 100 jumps noticed their altimeter not working on the plane on the way to altitude. I let them use mine. I also where an audible as a back up but was doing a 8 way and would have other peoples altimeters I could glance at. I dont recommend this or make it a habit but in this situation I was more comfortable with the low time jumper having a working altimeter. Another solution is when someone docks on the arm you wear your altimeter on dont let them grab you, make sure you take the dock. If you need to, cover who will take who in the dirt dive with out going into details unless some one asks, and in the dirt dive make sure to take the grip on that side. Because of the style of altimeter I wear moving it further up my arm is not an option so this is how I work around it. So not a big deal but good question for the forums.Good thing you have a back up in an audible.

I agree Peek. When I had my risers built for my tri 135 I asked for velcro keepers for the toggles and the brake excess. I am mind full when setting my brakes and keep the lines off the hook,and will have the same done for my cross fire ll 119 when they are ready for risers. When I replaced my lowers I had put 900 jumps on them and they were not frayed it was just time.

Awesome! Cant play the video but good to hear 1-5 are out of the way.

Good deal. Its there in front of you go get it. Just a thought from one of your latest post about building money weekly at the DZ on your account until you have a big chunk,not needed. I became unemployed on my level 5 for 3 months. You only need to make 1 skydive every 30 days to remain current. So I only had to come up with 150 bucks a month to make my 1 jump and stay current, and even unemployed(unenjoyment benefits) combined with side work at the DZ I was able to almost finish my AFF( got back to work at jump 20). As you get further along(solos/coach jumps) they get cheaper.Keep this in mind, dont look at the whole pizza, look at one piece.

Congrats on the baby. Thoughts and prayers for you and your wife.To answer your question, yes 3, but always new I would be back.Like someone said gravity will all ways suck! Growing up on a DZ, it is part of my fabric. The first lay off was after my first 2 jumps(s/l 1985) at 16, dad was JM, he wanted me to start paying for them,the nerve.First lay off. Fast forward to 2000 making good money, and dads old partner is hired to re-open the DZ in 29 palms. I laid insulation for 6 months in his hangar to lesson the price of my aff program. After 4 weekends and 5 jumps not enough business to stay open.Layoff #2 2003 I show up at Elsinore, which has been my home DZ since, but I took about a 1 year layoff in 2013 until I could get an AAD in my rig. You can always stop by your DZ just to say hi and show off the baby. Best wishes to you and your family.

Good to hear.