mickb

A few more
Zack and Kara

So we have two new additions to the family.
Hard to decide which one is the cutest.
Zack my German shepherd puppy aged nine weeks or my new bike Suzuki GSX1400 aged three

Welcome to rip off britain B.P.A. £111.00=$208.802
U.S.P.A. overseas $58.00 = £30.87
U.S.P.A.= worldwide cover
B.P.A.= England if your lucky.
At least Dick Turpin had the decency to point a gun at your head while he was committing highway robbery.

Nothing on the diary of events for that weekend.
and its my weekend on at work
just turn up and see H he will sort you out with someone to jump with.
enjoy the G92 and 15,000ft and the party after

Ok do a search for spider its a freebie and effective
if you don't have any luck pm me
and i'll send you a copy

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I suggested this, but someone told me that the BPA has the sole permission from the CAA to carry out parachuting operations in UK mainland airspace. So even if no-one renewed BPA membership, we still couldn't demand to jump under USPA rules.

Has anyone checked this with the C.A.A. ?
I know there was a couple of dz's running under uspa
some years back

What’s with the price hike U.S.P.A. next year for overseas is only $58.00 or £32.00
As quite a few of us have U.S.P.A. membership (necessary as B.P.A. only cover this country not worldwide)
Maybe its time to bin the B.P.A.
£105 is a lot for 6 mags and insurance just to jump in this country.

No problems if you need a lift pm me
we can always pick you up on the way down

Yep will be heading out around 3pm you need a lift ?
only me and my other half in the car at the moment
meeting everyone else down there

Well just managed to get a room for sat night so me my other half my out of order daughter and a sh*t load of hardcore party ppl
See you all there

Yes I bought one earlier this year for my pc120.
very low profile only sticks out about 10mm
from my FFX.
and yes no vignette (black corners)
The service from flyers-pit is excellent.
three days from posting to it landing on my doorstep
you can always zoom in a little if you think its too wide.

The advice from Wendy is spot on you will learn more from watching a video of your landings than anything else.
also ask to wear a radio and get your instructers
to talk you through the landing.
The big student canopys are so forgiving its easy to land them without a proper flare.
the same mistakes on a smaller canopy hurt.

Hib gets my vote every time
turn up manifest and your on a lift within 20 mins
friendly DZ and the bar rocks
superb accommodation and free showers
went over midweek at the start of the season
and only three people showed up to jump
(it was bloody freezing)
they got the turbo finnest out and took us up
three people in a ten place aircraft
quote from swalty (you turned up to jump its not your fault no one else is here)
how many other dz's would have done that

Good point about the cutaway ring.
although its a soft rubber O ring and if i rotate the sping clip it sits flush with the strap.
Only on the mark one version at the moment I have still the excess post to remove from the ring sight mount now that its set up
that should remove another snag point.
Now if only the weather behaves

Finally got around to finishing my ffx
made the ring sight mount out of machined stainless
(helps being an engineer in a food factory)
also machined the cutaway pin from a solid bar
flush mounted the cam eye just above the audible pockets.
and just got an e mail from Toraji at flyers-pit.com
my 0.3 lens is on its way
now if only the weather improves just checked the DZ
20mph winds and gusts to 35mph
British weather sucks big time

I felt the need to jump in here after reading the other thread about tension knots.
About twelve years back at Brunton I had my canopy open with tension knots on the right hand side.
No sweat it had happened before and I had landed it ok.
control check ok inbuilt turn but quarter brakes and it flew straight.
No radical maneuvers just set up and land it.
My wife was out on the cross with the camera for a landing shot.
just under a thousand feet I flew over the runway
Hot day and we had thermals coming off the runway
I flew into what i can only describe as a large front loading spin dryer
I felt the canopy drop and looking up saw the entire right side collapse and fold under and through the lines.
I seemed to swing forward and was almost on my back when I chopped.
Hard arch and punched out the reserve as I came over.
It seemed to take forever slow motion and all that.
when we found the main the reserve free bag was wrapped inside.
quick check of alti and was about six hundred ft
set up and landed the reserve ok.
My wife got the landing shot as well just not the one she was expecting.
To this day she will not pick up a camera if i'm in the air.
Would the main have reinflated ?
at that height I had no intention of waiting to find out.
But I never want to chop that low again.

12 here would have been 13 but a local jumper turned up
she had been to langar and hadn't jumped
because of the weather so i gave her my slot
I must admit i didn't realy fancy packing again anyway

Now you know how we feel in rain swept england.
Only its 83f blue skies and sunshine here.
Looks like the rain gods took a wrong turning

like hell they don't we once had to throw one girl out at 3500ft.
It was so bad the pilot gave us the option throw her out or i'm taking it back down.
and the door was off at the time.

Yes you know who i'm talking about Janet.

just talking to some guys at work may be able to get a swap for my first few days
got to work sunday am but may just get thurs to sat
off got to wait and see

I suppose you'd like the new sony pc 120 as well come to think of it still got a shit load of hib jump tickets and a brand new odessy with a samuria in it.

And to make matters worse my new 2k composites ffx helmet has arrived.
21st june before i get a weekend free

B*llocks just checked my shifts thursday-sunday
12hr days this working for a living is sh*t.
i'd be tempted to throw a sicky if i hadn't just had 9 weeks off.
balloon & jet ranger as well.
b*llocks b*llocks b*llocks

Hi and welcome did a lot of jumps at brunton myself
great place great people

6:1:1

six weeks since i tore my ac ligament in a f*cked up landing.
one more trip to the physio before i can jump again.
one long walk through sherwood forest today instead
of jumping.
spring time in the forest the damp grass underfoot
the sun streaming through the branches overhead.
almost as good as jumping