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I am also a fan of the Javelin system. Easy to pack, less flaps covering the reserve, and is compatible with the skyhook.

Try what I suggested. I am sure it will help. The way to get the tail tighter on a psyco pack is to cross the edge of the tail pretty tight just below the slider grommets. Then cross the rest of the canopy while holding the previously crossed part with your knee. The bottom edge of the canopy should cross entirely across your canopy. As long as it doesn't pull your lines out.

Plenty of reasons to psyco pack. Better control of opening, staged inflation, and more on heading openings are all good reasons.

I pack a lot. Sport rigs constantly. When you are rolling the nose roll the 4 cells on either side of the nose three times to the outside/down/away from you. Whatever way makes it easier to understand. This should make it so you can put your hand on the seam of either side of the center cell and slide your hand outwards and not unroll the nose. The tighter you make the rolls the slower it opens. I usually do three loose ones. For the nose keep it out. You want that to be the fist thing to catch air. make a little pyramid shape. So the same thing with the front of the slider. It will make the chute open is a even staged manner.

I missed the point in your rambling, or missed your sarcasm.

Lol does it really matter? Someone could come up with a new sanctioning body if they really wanted to. With FAI doing it you get all the backing of the FAI. The FAI is also about air sports and aeronautics. Flying your body around in air kinda falls under their jurisdiction.

1. Don't close your visor until you are about to climb out. 2. Open your visor once under canopy. That should solve your problem. However if at any point you put water on your visor and wiped it off while wet you ruined the factory anti-fog coating and need to add an after market one. Never wipe out wet visors/goggles. If you have the GoPro mount that attaches to the vents it can also cause fogging. You can also try the Factory helmet piece that separates your mouth from the visor.

I was taught something that is know to many to be incorrect, yes. I researched it found this thread, learned what was wrong, and haven't used it since. As for your second two "questions", not worth it, you missed what I was saying.

Lol not lost, that was just a shitty question. I could go into the physics of why it's a shit question but I will spare everyone. The advice I'm giving, use the counting method to determine exit separation. Don't use the 45 method.

So basically the winds are 180 MPH in your face? Assuming that the original 80 Knots was ground speed. Or was that supposed to be essentially zero ground speed? Rephrase your question so it's not crap. There are so many variables that it is unanswerable. I have never experienced uppers that strong so If I was aware of them I would ask an instructor before we even left the ground. Billvon- of course there will always be situations that contradict some statement. We are speaking generally here.

I have learned so many things that I was later told to forget because we have a better way of doing it that I would not of been able to accomplish as easily. This goes for life not just skydiving. Math and sciences are a good example of that. Not all people are equal, or try to learn new things.

Apparently my reply never went through yesterday. I say usually because I can't guarantee that they counted. Also its a 182 so it doesn't compare to big DZ where the exit timing is way more important. aka We don't have big ways with horizontal drift. Jumpers aren't going to reach 45 degrees. I don't use it because it has been shown not to work. Now I'm not going to say that the method doesn't work at all. I will say that it does not work as it appears on the surface. We can all agree that more separation is better than less. The 45 method makes students get used to waiting. Since as we know the previous jumper is not going to reach 45 they should wait all day but they won't. It is also likely that they will rush their count if told to wait X amount of time. Once people get a little experience ( like 15 ish jumps) they become better at counting. When this happens they can be introduced to the counting system. Thats pretty much what happen to me. Along with all the other things that fall under the category of (not a student anymore so we do it differently). So do I think it works as a method to get proper exit separation? No. Do I think it's a way to manipulate student into waiting longer? Yes.

lol, what? The menu is easy as shit. If you want canopy alarms don't buy a protrack, buy an optima or quattro. You already have a viso that logs jumps. Did it break because you hit it on something? In the tech world I would say you sound high maintenance with user error.

Mark, Basically just waiting till the previous jumper was horizontally at 45 away from the plane. I don't use it, I count and everyone on the load usually does.

Winner winner chicken dinner.

14 seconds should have been plenty of time, unless there were real strong upper winds? Thats what I was thinking. If 45 degrees gave your 14 seconds I would say that supports it. I was taught the 45 rule as measured away from the tail but that would take forever.

On lookers right of the helmet near the faster buckle there is a little red tab stuffed under the padding. If you move the tab further towards the end of the line it will loosen up.

Yay! Information from 2012! How about you get something more relevant and then get back to us.

that is some fucked up logic right there It's actually math. If you have a 5% chance of something going wrong and do it once. You have a 95% chance of getting away with it. If you do the same thing 10 times while maintaining the 5% risk you have a 60% change of getting away with it every time. If you do it 100 times while remaining at a 5% risk factor you have a .5% change of getting away with it every time. But the more you jump the risk factor goes down because the experience factor goes up. I have no clue what the statistic is for 'camera incidents/camera jumps' is so I can't give you detailed numbers but I can safely say that it is far less than 5%.

Care to elaborate?

From my experience the shake comes from the furthest away person to let the counter know everyone is ready. Then it's a ready, set, go with whatever appendage if free for that exit formation.

Sentence one: filming was not on my mind after exit. Sentence two: here is a thought I had about filming while in freefall. Context, but nice try. You even added words I never wrote. To keep Billvon happy I will even explain. Someone does not have to actively participate in something to acknowledge it's happening. To make it even easier to understand, acknowledging the camera is recording something is different than actively trying to film something. At no point did I focus on completing a task that was not jump specific.

Show the video. The one from your coach's camera. No thanks. Don't worry I won't start trolling this thread again.

Lol, no. I actually hesitated for a few seconds to decided if I was going to. Lets be honest If I wanted to I would have put one on around 100 jumps. Not really bragging, can't exactly brag about something that basically everyone can/will/has done. I also never said that. Read what I said and the words I used carefully. I use them for a reason. Knowing you probably won't do that ill just tell you. I said that worrying about the communities reaction to an incident made me nervous way more than the camera or filming. But that all left when the door open. I would make sure they acknowledged the risks involved. If I had personally jumped with them I could give them more specific advice. After that I would tell them to talk to the DZO or lead instructor because they are the ones who decide that stuff. Why? Because I'm not authorized to give people permission to do such things.

Not at all. I didn't really prove anyone wrong because no one was saying I will have an incident if I jump a camera. Besides it's calculated risk. I'm less experienced so there is a higher chance of something going wrong on each jump which could lead to a camera snag. By only doing it once I keep the risk lower. When I have more experience the risk will be lower on each jump so I can jump a camera more while maintaining the same or lower risk factor. Anyway I actually came back to say that many of the things people said in here helped and that the camera ended up making me nervous for entirely different reasons. i.e. not the filming or the physicality. Something you can add to the list of possible issues to tell new people jumpers. I'm done trolling. It got a bit out of hand. Yes, I would like a cookie. I love cookies. My logic is pretty solid. It just goes against the norm. My coach was wearing my Gopro I figured it would be rude to say no when he asked me to wear his. I wasn't worried, my DZ wasn't worried, and still don't think it was a big deal. But now that I jumped a camera I think I'm ready for a Vilo at 2.0! Kidding, kidding, I like being alive, not paralyzed, and walking. I'll be sticking to my docile canopy for a long while.