gomadkiwi

I visited this DZ on my way through Idaho and got totally looked after by them. It was great so I had to tell everyone. I always get looked after well when I visit any DZ but these guys were just a step above. Its a small dz but that doesn't mean it's small on fun. Check out their website and see when the king air is there, about once a month I believe.

Personally I roll the crap out of the tail. I have at probably 1000 packs like that and zero lineovers on a sport rig. I'm totally sure the tail lines migrate to the side when I do it. I tuck the tail lines in between the D lines and the slider which sticks out back. Then put stabilizers to the same place but not so far as to yank 'em around. I find rolling the tail a lot helps control the whole pack job when laying it down.

After my last post, I received an email this morning from alti-2. Sounds like pretty much everything I griped about can be changed by a field rep or the factory. Sweet as! The altitudes for speed recording can be set to whatever you want, and apparently there's an update to correct the logging funnies.

I have a neptune, I use it as an audible. Got it a few weeks ago from para-gear. I do like it, it does the job, but it does come up with some weird log data at times. I got a 490 second freefall from 14,000ft the other day! I was actually doing a CRW jump and deployed out the door, not at 2100 ft like it claimed. Here's another: exit 2900, deploy 2700, freefall 14 seconds! So I've had to delete the entire log a couple of times. Also the freefall speeds are given at 12k, 9k, 6k and 3k and are an average over the 1000ft either side. The 12k one is straight after exit and the 3k one is right about deployment so both those are totally useless! The average speed is usually pretty meaningless too and think is tied into determining freefall time because a low average seems to occur along with a longer than realistic delay.