aidanjames1

Have you got it checked out by a rigger? It's your first canopy?? Start praying.

This is what the Australian Parachute Federation says about jumping through cloud: http://www.apf.asn.au/Members/Cloud-Jumping/About-Cloud-Jumping/default.aspx

Couple people went out first, then us. They were lots of clouds in random places. I wouldn't of been able to predict we were going to go through the cloud. Thanks for the advice, I'm usually pretty good at dive exits but it was a bit hard for me with another person there.

Just done 2 today. B-Rel 3 Fail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXhWNFg4WFU B-Rel 3 Pass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSE1Vnq_9pI

Thanks! Yeah, I'm going to start practicing those exits so I get better at them.

Did my first 2 B-Rels yesterday. I found out that float exits are hard. In stage 2 my goggles nearly fell off. Stage 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB0j2Brufhg Stage 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt6EvNwuzXk Mind the facial expressions. Enjoy!

He said he's taking a "selfie" but he's filming?

LAS VEGAS (AP) ‚ Authorities say a dispute about a recreational vehicle in a Las Vegas-area skydiving landing zone preceded an armed confrontation and police shooting that left a man dead during the weekend. Police Capt. Matt McCarthy tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal (http://bit.ly/OvJC8K ) a skydiving company employee summoned police Sunday morning after a man in an RV wielded a rifle and refused to leave a drop zone near Jean Airport. McCarthy says the man barricaded himself in the RV and was shot dead after he pointed a rifle at SWAT officers. No one else was hurt. http://elkodaily.com/news/state-and-regional/skydiving-site-dispute-preceded-police-shooting/article_ef756a04-adee-11e3-ac8a-0019bb2963f4.html Does anyone have any other info on this.

Short video of my AFF Stage 8, editing done with Cineform Studio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnSAnxcjHbU&feature=youtu.be

Passed my AFF Course today and never had to repeat any stages

My first solo landing/landing pattern was horrible. Second was perfect.

Yeah, I haven't found a dropzone that does them.

It would be cool to do a sunrise load, because, as you said, a sunset jump can quickly turn into a night jump. So if you do a sunrise load, it would be safe and would just turn into a normal day.

This was helpful, thank you. Oh yeah, to everyone else saying the height to wave off was a little low. It says in my AFF Book, wave offs are at 4000ft. My instructor changed the wave offs to 4,500ft.

My Parachute's usually open by 3000ft, so I do my checks then some big fast turns.

I like that it saves my life Although since I'm a Student I love usually being the last one in the sky. I like landing, that's pretty fun for me.

Decision Altitude: 2000ft I didn't look at the parachute after kicking out the line twists, (big mistake) maybe the slider was still up. Parachute rig did seem kind of old. I think all the parachutes I used where the same kind. Next time I will do the two practice flares and then cutaway.

That is possible, and thank you.

Kind of reply I wanted.

Well today I was doing my AFF Stage 6 (My second solo landing). It was awesome by the way. But.......I deployed my Parachute, (wave offs were at 4000ft) kicked out some line twists I had, then did my practice flare. The Instructors tell you "if you have a low speed malfunction, 2 practice flares. If by then it's not fixed, check alti then cut away." 3000ft: 1st practice flare: Parachute did not slow down at all. 2nd practice flare: Slowed down a very tiny bit. Done a turn, parachute turned very slowly. Let's go for a 3rd practice flare: Ok, good, parachutes working pretty well now, not perfectly but good). 2400ft: Tested the rear risers, (Turns out I'm not confident landing with rear risers.) Maybe I should cutaway. Just another very quick flare, it's working ok. It wasn't that I was scared of cutting away, (Although I was a bit ) Believe me if I got down to around 2200ft and it wasn't working properly, I would've cutaway with no hesitation. But I'm interested what you think, should I of cutaway after those 2 first practice flares? I had a perfect landing by the way. -Aidan

Just as the title says. Personally I would prefer a hackey.

Is this anyone's main drop zone or has anyone been here? Just want to know.

Great man, I'm still yet to go for my AFF How is it scary or hard?

I read that you slightly push downward on upper arm. Is this true?