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Jimmyjimjam

Hi guys, just wondering if anyone knows any places where I can jump from a hot air baloon? Particularly in Europe or Australia?

Germany, Paranodon Illertissen. Ask for Robert Trögele (DZO), his brother runs a ballooning business. Complete with balloonist babtism and shuttle service, somewhere around 90€. Great experience. Hit me up if you're interested.

Bluhdow

***nodody's slept with my mom

I hate to break the news to you buddy, but that can't possibly be the case.

the last time a woman lied about her conception some poor idiot ended up on a cross, so be carefull with what you say

DvK

***Just throwing it out there, pulling on rears (constantly, non pumping) can also 'stall' an opening, i.e. make it "snivel forever". Hard to do on big canopies, but possible.
And quite fun to do, if intentional and controlled.

I am sure this will happen anyway, but make sure a good rigger inspects your main before putting it together. Generally speaking and for the type of canopies we jump, there should be no reason to pump the rears to make a canopy open, if you need that, then you already have a problem.

Every jumped a Sabre 2?

Yes and in a couple of different sizes.
A Sabre2 should not require any input to open. If yours does, get it checked out, linetrimm measured...
I'm not talking about endcell closure here. That is pretty much normal on any canopy with a low WL.

The only canopy I know of that requires some amount of rear riser input to open somewhat normal is a Skylark Scirocco.

Wow, what a call. Hopefully PS made a good deal with the ring manufacturer.

any Idea, how many rigs in total are affected?

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Not enough information...
I'm planning on jumping my 107 since I feel I have more to learn on it.
I was thinking that in next 100 jumps I would look at another canopy

Total jumps?
750

Jumps on canopy?
170 and before 200 on a katana 120

Currency?
170 in last 12 months 2 Brian Germain canopy corses, flight 101 and 102 and a local canopy course in last 4 years

Proficiency?
I could say I hav a natural flying soul coming from other flying sports like pilot full scale ect .
I'm not landing 270 on the gound I only practice them up high.
I'm comfortable with front riser 90s and have been filmed doing them many times and it's looking good. "Safe"

Aspirations?
Maybe compete one day on a non serious level meaning I'm fine with last place :)
What's the most important to me is going home at the end of the day and not the hospital or morg

I'm bored...
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If you want to bring those 270s down someday stay on the 107 for as long as it takes you.
170 jumps a year is a bit on the low side for a Katana at even higher loadings imho, so I'd advise against any other downsizes until you manage to jump more.

Yeah, I don't actually mind the other canopy that you cleared with appropriate distance. But since everybody here was bashing you I thought I'd jump on the bandwaggon and do my share of humiliating a fellow internet user asking for an opinion

All jokes aside, you should work on your 90s. It would be pretty awkward to be able to rock those 630s but eat dirt on a simple 90, wouldn't it?


I bet you a hundred bucks that with the propper technique you could raise your initiation altitude by 200ft and still be able to come out dirty low like on this one.
The last time I started a 90 at 450ft I was still jumping a sabre2 150...

I tried to recreate your malfunction with 6 different pairs of gloves and was unable to do so on good fitting ones. Only one pair, where the fingertips are quite loose, thin and already heavily frayed and not even on my fingers anymore I could set up what you experienced. With the steering line trapping it it needed a good yank to come free.
So to avoid something like this wear a pair of good fitting gloves. But you stated you did sooo.... Air gremlins!
Would be nasty if one has to bail out of his dive and has his finger trapped in the guidering by the break line... just another reason to jump a "third riser config"

You repreatedly stated you made a low pass hop'n pop to avoid any traffic. How come in the video a biggish, non xbraced canopy lands right before you and you cross his flight path on landing? That's not exactly my definition of "no traffic"

NzA is shipping out the first pre production models of their Xf3 to chosen jumpers soon. I can't imagine PD being too far behind in their R&D.

ETA:
So what just crossed my mind is this:
The Katana is already so damn close to the Velocity, how is the new non xbraced schuman canopy going to fit into their portfolio? If it's faster than a Katana but without the hassle of crossbracing won't the Velocity be a little obsolete at least in bigger sizes? Or will they discontinue the Ka and focus only on the new canopy, not making small enough sizes so that they can't compete with the Velocity?
I really need to become a testjumper for PD, the suspense is killing me

Jumped a Ka120 at 1.75 and when it was time I didn't think twice and bought a Ka107 to load it at 1.9-2.15 with lead. Velos are nice from that point on, below I found I had more fun under my Katanas. In your place I'd start to look for a nice Ka97.

That a speed 2000 reserve packs noticable smaler than a comparable size optimum is a myth.

Lineburn occured on the top skin, as usual around the warning label.

I personally stow the excess lanyard in a designated pocket (just an open flap) on my semistowless bag and didn't have problems with lineburn so far.
But after I saw so many other canopies with burn marks and holes in them I feared for my own canopies.

Conclusion for me so far:
Avoiding lineburn is a combination of neat packing and a little luck ...
Amirite?

seven different thread colours
Six packing manuals
Five Lead Seals
Four Closing Loops
Three T Bodkins
2 Pull up Cords
and a Pack Opening Band Tool

I really, really wanted to buy this camcorder for quite a few month now as an overdue step up from my Gopro3+/ CX115 setup but always hesitated when faced with the price tags. As I expect those to drop a little after christmas I fear I can't hold myself back any longer.

For those of you that made the decision before me and already have a bit of experience with it in the skydiving environment:

Does the cacorder hold up to your expectations?
Any drawbacks other than no hypeeye?
How does the optical stabilisation hold up? It's great, yeah but is it durable enough to withstand a good thousand jumps? Heard of a bit of quality problems connected to the IS.
Auto fokus seems to work really well, any issues with it?
ND filter is a given but would I really need a wide angle lense for it considering my intended use, which is mostly 4way and tandem filming? Have seen a few test videos without one and I got the impression that the FoV is already more than great.
For wide angles I'd still have my gopro?!

Please enlighten me with your wisdom, is it any good?
And if not, why?

thanks in advance =)

Jumped a 107 Katana with a wl of 2.15
270s from 950 ft, wasn't enough to trigger my expert cypres but on good runs I came relatively close (within 10 km/h).
For 450s I didn't bother turning it on as those were hopnpops only.
Might have fired, might not have...

Changed to the speed version when I got my first Velo.

Keep in mind a Speed Cypres is not suitable for wingsuit flights or even tracking suits.

if you're 190 out the door your wl on the 107 is around 1,77.
the 1.89 figure is with lead?

the katana is a blast and a swoop monster in the right hands, have fun with yours and don't hook low =)

I think it was great that you posted your idea and made this discussion possible.
After all you now know, that your design is flawed in its core and not significantly better than the original mount.

Mathrick is right, though. You've shown a lack of understanding on how different types of snags can and will occur.
Just because you can't cope with well meaned and substantiated sarcasm doesn't mean he is wrong and dz.com is bad in general.

I've seen better stiching work from total newbies
If the whole packjob was done that sloppy I'd seriously consider getting another rigger!


you can actually solve it on your own by using a very sharp and pointed knife or alike. Cut through the stiching between the last and second to last puncture where the kill line is trapped. Pull the severed thread out and gently move the Kill line, it should come free quite easily. Use a lighter to melt the new stiching ends so that they don't fray or come loose.

If you have calm and steady hands this is a no brainer and potentially safes you some mileage.


a question to those more experienced:

I usually just do one line of stiching on each side, overlapping a bit and that's it. Is there any reason to sew it 2 times and make a few strokes back and forth at the ends like shown in the picture besides being bored? Doesn't it actually damage the plastic pad of the velcro too much?

If you're 210 lbs nacked you're well above 240 out the door. For sturdy people like you they built 300 sq ft Navigators.
I'd definitelly ask for a bigger canopy. I'm actually surprised they let you jump a 230 at your exit weight.
I started at a 260 and was probably close to 200 out the door. If your DZ doesn't have those sizes search for another one.

Practice your PLFs. They can be done safely and repeatedly from heighs above 3 meters without a parachute above your head to slow you down.
For a tandem-like slide in landing you'd need a bit of forward momentum and a perfectly judged flare. Otherwise you're risking injuring your spine. So better get that out of your head, it's not going to help you now.

Talk to your instructors about flare techniques to cope with a misjudged (too high) flare. Sadly landing can only be practised while landing. Having a good theoretical skillset will help you to get over the hill faster, though.

I'm really no sure if another tandem will help you but as I've never done a tandem myself I don't have any experience regarding this.

I wish you a speedy recovery!

I wouldn't recommend this combination at all!

But its definitelly possible...
My girlfriend put a few jumps on exactly this config. Brand new 306, brand new demo Safire2 129 and an Opt126.

She's a rigger and packer with 20k+ packjobs.
She was able to close the container without breaking a sweat. She actually likes tight fitting things but admitted she would refuse packing something this tight for any customer. Keep in mind you can also damage the container with too much pressure applied. Sadly we didn't have a chance to measure reserve extraction force with that config, though.
Right now she jumps a fairly used Spectre 135 and its tight but not uncomfortable.

So if you by chance find a 1000+ jumps old Safire you might be ok. A broken in 7-cell canopy in that size would still be a better choice packvolumevise. But still definitelly on the very tight side!!


I know, waiting for UPT to shit out a new Vector has led a few people to go bananas. But ordering a new rig in the hopes of beeing ready for that size when it finally arrives might backfire.
So much can happen in 9 month ;) How far away of that goal are you right now?

If this is signed by the EU officials it would solve some major problems regarding certification of new foreign parachute equipment here in Germany.
The so called 'Musterprüfstelle' is out of service since around 2011.

Right now jumping stuff like the valkyrie, Leia and other relatively new things is a bit of a problem insurencewise as they lack german certification.

obviously looking forward to the european approval but please keep the rest of the TTIP bullshit in the US, ok?

Squeak

***Pretty sure this is Jeffro P. Cool stuff
http://nvda.ly/UGP8P

Joe, Trunks, Curtis, Jeffro, the usual Eloy crew for lobbing shit outa Skyvans C 130

FIFY

Skyhook gets your reserve out, not necessarily twist free. It depends on many factors, one of them symmetrie during reserve inflation.

It might not even have been a skyhook deployment. Were the main and freebag found still connected?

I'm in no way a cypres fanboy nor am I sponsored by anybody (sad but true)
But I wouldn't buy anything else either. My decision was purely based on my own first hand experience with both cypres and vigil.
On the dropzones in my area most people jump Cypres of course. There are however also quite a number of Vigils around. During the last 4 years I have experienced and heard of literally zero problems with any of the Cypres AADs. They work flawlessly.
With the Vigils around it's a completely different story. I can't recall one month in that period of time were we didn't have at least one or two Vigils with faulty control units, different types of errors shown at the screen, missfires (non user error) cutter problems and recalls, units that needed 4 attempts to get turned on without shutting themselves off in the progress, some that simply froze and didn't respond to any input, some that just didn't turn off no matter what ect ect, you name it...

I'd trust my life on a fully funktional Vigil and I have on many jumps.

But when I book a $6000 jumping holiday in a remote area the last thing I want to have is a faulty AAD. They should be nobrainers and, at least in my experience, Vigils just aren't.
Problems occured from Vigil 1s up to recent Vigil 2+ models.

So 5 weeks ago we sent another crazy behaving unit back to Vigil as we were told by them. We have neither heard or received anything back yet. The same postman carried my Cypres that needed to become a Speed version. Needless to say that I got it back within 2 weeks just as promised and advertised.

YMMV and I truly hope so because I like competition and to have a choice. I don't really see one in that market, though.

Maybe this is the better section for such a question, sorry for the repost.

Have only ever jumped and owned Lookma RDS systems that use quite thick unprotected dacron lanyards to connect POD and slider. Those are very soft, slippery (like dacron on tandem reserves, not the stiff, protected dacron for normal use) and in quite a number of jumps haven't caused lineburn on any of my canopies.
Never terminal, always used an extra pocket on my POD to stow the excess lanyard.

Recently I got my hands on a Comp Velo with PD RDS. They used vectran for their lanyard. The previous owner also used a pocket on the POD to stow the lanyard away and exclusively used the canopy for non terminal competition runs. The canopy shows heavy lineburns after 270 jumps.

Same with a JVX from a friend of mine, that also shows several signs of lineburn. Not sure, what material the JVX lanyard is made of but its also quite stiff and high-friction, like the one from PD.

What are your experiences regarding this? What is the ultimate way to avoid lineburn and friction holes due to full RDS systems?! What material are other manufactures using? UPT, Chupacabra and the like?!
Does it make any difference at all?
Have I just been lucky so far?

Have only ever jumped and owned Lookma RDS systems that use quite thick unprotected dacron lanyards to connect POD and slider. Those are very soft, slippery (like dacron on tandem reserves, not the stiff, protected dacron for normal use) and in quite a number of jumps haven't caused lineburn on any of my canopies.
Never terminal, always used an extra pocket on my POD to stow the excess lanyard.

Recently I got my hands on a Comp Velo with PD RDS. They used vectran lines for their lanyard. The previous owner also used a pocket on the POD to stow the lanyard away and exclusively used the canopy for non terminal competition jumps. The canopy shows heavy lineburns after 270 jumps.

Same with a JVX from a friend of mine, that also shows several signs of lineburn. Not sure, what material the JVX lanyard is made of but its also quite stiff and high-friction, like the one from PD.

Am I lucky or have I found something important?

As far as my admittedly limited experience with selfis goes, this is a frame grab from an outside video.
Also possible is a selfi stick with a wide angle cam mounted but that would connote that the TM was ok with it in the first place.

The first one is the most likely which would imply that either you got trolled or we