AFFI

No kidding, that is why I ask so many questions cuz I am easily confuzed, I only have an 8th grade education and find it difficult to keep up with you intelligencia types. The only "pre" I know about is precum and don't give a flying witches tit about all that edjumakated stuff. One of the few things I do give a ratsass about is skydiving students getting advice outside of their instructors guidance in the particular program and gear they are learning on. But people that have no business giving guidance to skydiving students gosta feel important and talk about physics and bullshit like that. I guess individuals do not realize that they can injure or kill a student by trying to be "helpful"... By "SOLO" I meaned a non-tandem skydive. My bad - not only am I uneducated, I am also a half-breed - ya know - mixed up genitics and all that ... Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

What altitude did you exit at? Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

I agree with all that, except the "wise"crk . Mag N and Tru N? What the hell is that? But knowing the fundamentals of how the compass directions sit in relations to the LZ is a basic survival skill, it falls under 2) Land it Safely... Dontcha think? Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

She has valid points... We all have to follow our own paths. Some skydivers, no, many skydivers have really serious life issues and without skydiving for release end up in all kinds of insane situations, so skydiving is not a choice or a hobby. If you are one of us, ummmm I mean those types then freefall will call you and you will fall into line like a compass points north... Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Most def... If you cannot rent a 190 where you are then you can order a demo canopy from PD and use if for a couple weeks. Remember, the idea is to never get injured or killed skydiving, stack the odds in your favor. Congrats again on your A, that is a great accomplishment... Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

I ask because you said: Well, I can only speak for the way in which I learn. It helps for me to get the good information and see it reaffirmed by more than one person. It also helps for me to get the bad information and see it discredited by more than one person. Instructors are people too. So by your own admission you would have needed to go through a series of FJCs before you could make a decision on which set of information in which to base your first solo on no? Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

so how many FJC's with different instructors did you take before making your first solo? Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Elephant tracking trajectory...

How so? Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

That's it! I am going to start venturing into the "Womens Only" forum! I am being discriminated aginst because I was born this way! What I am trying to say is, there are different threads in the forums for different applications. This makes it seem like you agree that there is a lot of poor advice being given out there. Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

A Canadian Instructor I admire would compare it to the long ski jump body position - even though there are differences I think this is a good analogy. Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Good points to a good idea, no, a great idea. But how to include as many "qualified" individuals from all over the globe? It could just be part of a regrestration process maybe? The devil is in the details... Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

I track like a morbidly obese elephant! My idea of good seperation at deployment time is to take it down to a grand (The Scotty C. method). Hmmmm, no wonder I dont make sport jumps with belly flyers! Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

It is part of my training, but not all the instructors do that where I teach - but it is a dummed down version because I dont know all that technical mumbo jumbo... Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Only to shoot video in freefall. Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Nope... AFF is 7 jumps, the tandem progression I teach in is an 18 jump solo course after 2 tandems. Kinda like ISP with emphasis on a few details the ISP does not make. It is a totally different animal (and superior) than AFF, so I did not vote... Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

If it would save a life maybe it is worth trying. I hardly believe it would be counter productive... Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

You forgot Tandem progressions in your poll... At any rate, two handles, not altered, JAV's... Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

funny, I use nothing but the compass, it takes a litle more time but once they get it Never has a more true statement ever been made! At least not since I sat down and turned my computer on this morning... I was just talking to my DZO about this, how every one thinks their method is best and how difficult it can be sometimes to get people who are set in their ways to try a different approach sometimes. Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Congrats? What kind of canopy choice will you be making for your first one? Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

I am scarred as hell of heights and airplanes! I get vertigo on a park bench and will not fly commerically! Skydiving is not about heights or airplanes, it is about peace of mind and relationships with wonderful people... Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

You may be leaving out the most important one... Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

this is exactly why students should not get advice online... Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…

Real calculating power!

Some people like that! But not me, I don't know why thinking about it kinda arouses me, BUT NOT ME! Mykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat…