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  1. I got rid of my original elastic butt strap - reconnecting it each time was taking about 10 minutes as it was never designed to be undone. I have a made-to-measure rig with hip rings and it is necessary when sit flying.

    I got hold of three of the velcroed loops that are used to hold the power lead of laptop power supplies. One round each leg strap and one to hold them together.

    Very simple, total cost £0.00 (even at the current exchange rate that's still $0.00) and it works.


    Jules

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    With all the buzz going around, how many of you are actually going to buy a Vampire V-1 within 2 months?



    Yes - been waiting for this to come out for months now.

    Would be nice if it arrived in time for Christman at the GC Boogie...


    Jules

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    I've heard that some people are routing their bridle from the centre of the of the pack job in-between the pin placement



    Tom A showed me this at the potato bridge and I did about 12 with it - it works!! They were all stowed so it was middle-top-bottom.

    Looks better with no loop hanging out the top. The slack from the bridle attachment to the first pin is huge so that's not an issue.

    There is more slack floating around under the flap to make me paranoid but it stays where it is when you close the flap.

    For some unaccountable reason, the thought of doing it middle-bottom-top for hand-held is scaring me at the moment - it should work just the same?


    Jules

  4. I take it Tom's having a long lie-in this morning. Get out of bed and lock this thread!

    I wonder if any of the UK's night-vision-impaired jumpers are reading this?

    Jules

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    I have seen this recommendation in other posts regarding hackey handles in the base environment, but what about the skydiving environment?



    My skydiving PC has a reasonably heavy hackey and I have always liked the peace of mind when wingsuiting of being able to chuck the thing out sideways very hard and feeling that its mass is going to keep it going sideways so it clears my burble almost instantly.

    The same logic would suggest I use something similar in BASE but I think I'm going to be scared enough when I get to the exit point.


    Jules

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    The UK BASE Board and server has been hacked!



    BASE is getting very mainstream - we've been hacked! Would explain this charming message.

    "un-root crew ownz "

    Watch out - DZ.com next - then what would we do all day?

    Jules

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    It's not really to keep the lines taut.



    I knew I'd get it wrong. Whatever Ron's motivation, a useful by-product of his (anally) neat tail flaking and masking tape is 2 little loops of extra control line held firmly in place above the masking tape and taut lines below.

    On my Troll when I pack these inside the tailgate they start held up but slip a bit as the pack job progresses.

    Ron's don't move and as he takes at least 2 fag breaks (English sense!) per packjob they have plenty of time to migrate. If I ever jump the Troll slider up I'll tape it.

    Jules

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    Also if you use masking tape why don't you just go with the tailgate?



    In Norway this summer I saw masking tape being used very creatively on the longer control lines of a 5 control-line canopy to keep them taut - much better than a tailgate would.

    I also saw some very experienced and knowledgeable jumpers using direct and indirect slider control, a fine mesh slider and a tailgate with 4 wraps of the bungee - terminal only!

    You probably don't want to use a tailgate with a large mesh slider so for subterminal slider-up delays the tape is the way to go. And WLO toggles.

    Jules

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    I would estimate 1 in 10,000 is a better ratio for fatalities.



    Which would only make us ~10 x riskier than the figure quoted for skydiving (where did that come from?)

    I guess the (78 x 1000) argument is flawed as we are probably (hopefully) a lot safer now having learnt from the early accidents.

    I know Craig is enjoying Moscow at the moment but are you getting enough data from basenumbers.org to be able to estimate how many jumps are being made worldwide each year these days?

    Jules

  19. 78 deaths gives 78,000 total BASE jumps ever, call it 100,000.

    Some of us have over 1000, some have a lot less.

    How far out is it? An order of magnitude? Have there been more than a million base jumps yet?

    Nick and Craig, over to you.



    Jules

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    Use a floating handle. It works great. I'm not sure if anyone is making them standard, but I bet Marty at Asylum will make you one custom if you ask.



    Marty seems to be making them as standard. I just got 3 new AV PCs from Asylum and the 38" has a floating handle - confused the hell out of me at first! Haven't had a chance to jump it yet but it packs, grips and pulls out fine.

    Jules

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    Get well.. it only gets better.



    Don't worry about Mac - I just spoke to him on the phone and he's found a different bit of sofa to lie on and a new patch of wall to stare at so he's sorted for at least another week!

    Jules

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    When you order the biteswitch, make sure you get the one with the stereo plug!

    The mono plug slows down the camera considerably, since it won't "release" the shutter fully and this makes that the camera doesn't start writing to the CF card untill the buffer is full (4 pictures)



    Found this in a mail from back in Feb; it explains why the switch that worked fantasically with my EOS300 is not working properly with my new EOS300D, but none of the adverts I have been looking at make the distinction between stereo/mono. Anyone got any suggestions and, even better, any of them for stores in the UK?

    Cheers,
    Jules