HardEight

I had my chest strap replaced on my G3 and the new stitching made the pocket very tight, after a jump the bottom part of the handle would be pushed out from the material movement. I took it back to the rigger and they moved the bottom reserve handle stitch lower to make the handle pocket a little larger and it fixed the problem the velcro keeps the handle as it should be.

Kooralbyn is Great they have a Beaver (quick to 14,000, but tight fit) out their almost all the time (sometimes has to go to Sydney). The people are really nice and the regulars are out their almost every weekend the Beaver is. The best part is Most of the regulars have between 50-300 jumps so I love going out with people that you can learn together with. Of course their are still plenty of Tandem Masters and Camera flyers with thousands of jumps that give excellent dirt diving instruction. They do tandems all week, you would just have to call in the mourning and find out the iterneray. Look forward to seeing you out there! Hey RiggerRob, Small world I was the Canadian living in Australia that visited your DZ end of August. Pacific Skydivers was AWESOME (King-Air kills the Beaver) and I look forward to visiting again in December for some winter jumps... Shit that's going to be reallly COLD! Thank Andreas for me, for the sit flying lesson I've almost mastered it. Later

I bought my gear off Ebay and originally just had the gear shipped by UPS and $3000 Insurance. BIG mistake. Customs billed me with $526 of GST. I then went through the long process of trying to get this money back... Paid $120 AUD to get the customs amount reevaluated, had the sender get me a reciept stating that the gear was previously mine and he was just returning it to me. Then had to fill out a Govt form for "Unaccompanied goods" basically giving my passport number and saying that I left the US and had some of my personal items shipped to me. This worked and I got $460 back, but only because I am on a student Visa. POSSIBLE Solution: If you have a friend from the US have the gear sent to him as goods unaccompying him you can find the forms and Info here: http://www.customs.gov.au/site/text_only.cfm?area_id=5&nav_id=177 BETTER solution: My Drop Zone recommended that you claim on the declaration form Repaired parachute $120. Therefore they can't charge you the GST because you can claim the goods where already in Australia and you paid the taxes already this could get messy and you may need someone here to forge a receipt. The biggest problem is Customs charges you based on the Insured amount, so it's risky but you could just claim Parachute $200, and end up paying less then $20 GST. At the same time if anything happens in shipment your SOL. Hope this helps, and Good luck

I use a Digitude Pro and like it better for the memory aspect. Because my brain has processed the number I can remember all the different parts of the jump very easily. It only takes microseconds for your brain to actually process the numbers, for both the digital and clock style... Unless your slow? But when you read a digital it says exactly where you are 2800, 2700 etc. I like that assurance and not rounding or guessing, plus it's VERY easy to read. http://altitudeconcepts.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/page2.html