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thanks, but can't make it this weekend. Maitland unwilling to take over my AFF training, gotta do it somewhere else.

The two nearest DZs to Newcastle are Elderslie and Maitland, I've done till AFF6 at Picton but need a closer DZ due to travelling, time constraints and stuff. (:

Dude, you jump at Maitland? I'm looking for a DZ in Newcastle

No wonder why they always emphasise twist the body to 'check' your pilot chute. So do you actually bring your knees in or arch?

Thanks for the reply. I didn't know aircraft incidents are so common, thought they were rare ...

But this site shows that it is 370 sq ft. http://www.parachuteshop.com/mc4_military_parachute_system.htm Even with 60 pounds of equipment, and 200 pounds of weight, that's still pretty lightly loaded. Or is it used for tandems?

On a different note (since I don't know who to reply to) I wonder why nobody's mentioned the fact that in Australia you only need(?) 100 jumps for a camera. For a 'nanny state', why are the regulations so vastly different? For those who push for the 200 jumps so strongly, are you prepared to basically tell the APF that they're doing something wrong, and if so, what is it.

I have to 'friend' him to like his photo right? Lastly where do all the skydiving vs bowling references come from?

Thanks for the reply. I'm here to learn, and it's good to know that this can be avoided by staying safe.

So where does "bad judgement" come in, as no one has 100% judgement. How about low turns to avoid crosswind or an AFF-I who chases the student too low? Does it fall under something we should have anticipated, because all the flyers know they're taking a risk, or does it fall under they could not have anticipated it because they wouldn't know things would turn out so badly.

Sorry, what's TO?

So after all this discussion what caused the malfunction? Is it a packing error? What can we learn from this?

I'm curious, but are people (sport jumpers) jumping the MC-4? I don't see why someone would wanna jump something so lightly loaded, or are they just doing it for like just a fun jump, to say they've used military equipment.

I'm not worrying. Whatever high-speed malfunction I'm going through is MUCH more likely to kill me and MUCH more difficult to fix than a reserve pilot chute hesitation. I just like to understand better how my equipment works.

But how about pilot chute in tow, will that tip your body position, though I'm starting to see the practicality of a reserve ripcord.

Sorry for whuffo question as I'm still a student, but in a D-bag lock won't you still be belly to earth and launching the pilot chute into your own burble?

Thanks for the reply. But in the cases of high speed mals, if I pull red then silver, should I be worried that I would get a pilot chute hesitation? It seems less reliable than my main pilot chute (which gets thrown to the side).

So are pilot chute hesitations a realistic problem for reserves? When people say reserves "are more reliable", they are not referring to the pilot chute hesitations?

Thanks for the explanation. Maybe we can do simple math problems in CAPTCHAs? I don't think these guys that spam our forums will be motivated enough to use a different cracking algorithm that what is commonly used.

I'm curious, but how can machine learning crack CAPTCHAs? They change everytime you enter a wrong response right? I thought spammers have to manually enter the CAPTCHA though the bot does the rest?

All the best in your journey!

Great to hear what you guys are doing

Actually I agree with you, because jumping out of a turbine aircraft, one is much more likely to focus on the relatively wind. I personally also felt the stomach drop has gone away significantly over the course of 5 jumps.

Yes. I have made 5 jumps from a caravan, and I do feel Zero G when I exit the door, very similar to the top of a roller coaster. Have you considered the components of vectors that I mentioned earlier yet?

Ahh I get what you mean. It's true that there's always forces on your body, it's just the direction that changes. Also, the other thing is that Zero-G isn't defined well. If it's truly weightless feeling (floating), you won't even experience it on a balloon jump as there's a force acting downwards the moment you jump out. edit: Well if you define weightlessness by force of support, you're technically weightless the moment you jump out of an otter, 182 or balloon. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/mechanics/hump.html