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It will work fine with only tripod screw. That strap is mostly for making you feel more secure

Got my PC1000 few weeks ago and last weekend I finally managed to jump with it. How simple can I say this? It rocks. Video quality and colors are awesome. Only 3 jumps with it and I'm already in love with it . I use Raynox HD-5005PRO 0.5x wide angle lens. I had Panasonic NV-DX100 (3ccd) before PC1000. Panasonic has also great video quality, but PC1000 rocks over it. Haven't jumped with PC350, so I can't compare 1000 and 350.

Whee, now it's done.

Bonehead Batrak, homemade box for Panasonic 3CCD NV-DX100 digital camcorder and homemade bracket for Canon 300D (Digital Rebel) with blowswitch. Only thing I need for it is money for new sight... There is hole for it already

Connect your firewire cable between the computer and camera, put your clip to the timeline, then File -> Export Timeline -> Export to Tape.

Panasonic Nv-DX100

http://www.jfmattila.com/temp/andyhook.wmv There is video of it from different angle.

Well, I have jumped with it about 15 times so far. RW, tracking and freefly, working great on every discipline. At this moment it's not the camera that sucks if something sucks... It's me Video quality is very good, still captures are worse than on PC-9 for example, but who captures stills anyway? At my DZ there is one other video and photographer, who uses the same digital camcorder with good results. Only bad things on it what comes to my mind, is that you can't use Cam-Eye on it and you have to put additional "block" to the bottom of the camera if you wan't to get video out from the camera to the screen. So if you use "base-screw?" on the helmet, it needs some work after every jump. I ask another jumper on the plane just before exit to check recording light. Works fine so far. It's easy to put camera on and recording with just feeling the buttons. If you want great video quality with no useless extra features, it works very well. I'm just starting my camera career, but I've already sold my soul to the videodemon

Panasonic NV-DX100 3CCD with 0.5x wide angle lens for video on handmade box on the top of Bonehead Optik. Box is made of aluminium. Very clean and very supportive. Me likes

1. 4500ft (breakoff on freefly jumps) 2. 3000ft (pull) 3. 2000ft (pull pull!)

My first canopy was Sabre2 135 loaded about 1.2. It was a great canopy for me. Sniff...

Photo of me swooping with my old S2 in september 2003. Photo was taken by JFM.

This is our x-mas present for all you naughty flockers out there. 6 minutes of extremely beautiful skyflying. http://192.194.28.90/~ewave/skyflying/skyflying.wmv (~30 Mb) Eero and Vesa, from the land of booze and polarbears.

Can't say anything else, but that tailwind doesn't matter. Canopy / Pilot Chute doesn't know where the wind blows cause you're "inside" of it. So your airspeed is same, if you're going towards wind or have tailwind.

The one exiting is Vesa Toropainen from Finland, vesatoro here in DZ.com. I know also the other one on the ramp... may he be mr. X EDIT: Oh yeah, Vesa 0wns

Are they banning pillow cutaway handles also? A pillow cutaway handle requires the same amount of force to peel, but isn't limited to 22 lbs (in the U.S.) to pull like the reserve handle is. Derek No, only reserve handles.

I think that's for all rigs. The safety document that came after the fatality, that grounds soft pillow handles, doesn't speak of "solo" rigs or tandem rigs. There just reads (sorry for my bad translation): "Gears with velcrofasten soft reserve handles are grounded for the present. As soon as reserve handle is switched to metal one, you can jump it" Haven't seen new safety document yet (don't know if it's published), but I know that soft handle remains banned.

If I remember correctly, investigation report of that Finnish fatality is now published. Soft pillow handles for reserves remains banned here in Finland.

You could start to learn front/back loops and cartwheels. Then try doing style sequence on sit and standup (360-360-backloop-360-360-backloop). Few of these jumps and then you can comfortable recover to sit from any position And it sure is fun

Yeah br0, can't wait for the spring

Damm... can't be true Guys at Utti jumped from 5000m yesterday, -24C

I got two handles with the suit, and both have same fabric. These what are on the suit right now, have that funky color. I think those were originally on the suit, cause the other cables hasn't been cut yet. So I will keep them as a backup. EDIT: Added pic of the handles. That red one is accually little bigger.

I got a good deal of an used BirdMan Classic about two weeks ago, so I had to buy it. This was also the suit, that I used on my very first BM-flight! Only thing that sucks, is Finnish weather. Freaking cold for a BM-flight now

Actually Spectre is not square, check also Spectre at Gear page The original Sabre is square, but Sabre2 is slightly tapered.

" And the rig looks very cool!!!" *cough* Voodoo looks like a puss* *cough* But hey, that's just me