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larger reserves! I know you can get custom-custom-made containers which fit large reserves and small mains, usually these designs cost some extra dough and since jumpers are cheap everybody sticks with the 1:1 main-reservesize ratio. It would be great if that option would be more common The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

you may have noticed that Cypres made it possible for jumpers to offset the activation alti permanently and that is because there are documented "delays and hesitations" in reserve deployments based exactly on the things airtwardo wrote about, haven't you? one of the most vocal people about raising activation alti is the guy with the long beard who's selling one of the aforementioned gadgets everybody is so happy about.... strange coincidence, ain't it? The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

sorry to disagree and to go with chuck 100%. the net is full of cool videos of cool people doing cool stunts. and the cooles of cool is WS-BASE-proximity. That is the visual drug that brings many people to the DZ's wanting instant gratification... If they are not veering off to to BASE right after AFF/A-License they get the biggest suits on the market, sold to them by people who openly commit they are money-sharks just to kill themselves Personally I think most skydivers do not have any clue how lucky they are to survive long enough to make eductated decisions on how not to kill oneself. so bringon the bad news and the gore as for "giving the sport a bad name and driving people off" - you do not believe in that for real? The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

normally the halflife of a thread in bonfire in about six ours. this one is exceptional in many ways and I think the op (KawiZX900) who started this one in 2002 (a time when "bonfire" was named "talkback" - speaking about hanging around in the forums longer then expected...) never thought that it would outlast his posting life hereabout.... The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

Puling ratings works only in environment where the possession of a rating is a) controlled by some official body (that doesn't even work in the U.S. with the USPA as governing body for skydivers.....) b) vital for working as a TI c) more than a piece of paper that you show once and then never again. How to handle the problem in a professional way? DZO's should step up and ban the "TI" in question. IF they are not involved in allowing and encouraging such behaviour in the first place..... The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

it never ceases to maze me that - despite of knowing the possible disastrous outcomes - "TI"'s are still pulling this ridiculously stupid stunt.... and: I keep wondering what kind of penalty one would have to come up with to stop this from happening over and over again The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

THX thats good news and I can keep it if I decide to go back to business shooting video with something else than a GoPro The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

just found my old cam eye II - since dv-cameras are out of date and I stopped shooting video some years ago I am wondering if there is any use for that gimmick (other than throwing it in the garbage). The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

a young mother enters a greyhound bus with her baby on the arm. bus driver says: Jeeezuz f****** christ - that's the ugliest baby I've ever seen!" very upset she finds her place and tells the story to her neighbor. he says: you better go back to the driver. he definitly owes you an apology. Meanwhile I'll hold your monkey" conversation in the morning after a one-night-stand she: what are you doing for a living? him: I am an anesthetist she: thought so, didn't feel anything last night A Doctor was addressing a large audience in Tampa, Florida. "The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining." "Chinese food is loaded with MSG," he continued. "High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?" After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said, "Wedding Cake." edit 4 2nd & 3rd joke The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

An elephant asks a camel: " why are your boobies on your back ?" "Well" says the camel, "I think it is a strange question from somebody who's willy is on his face" The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

as you only start posts about yourself I think it is time you quit adding your name in the thread(s) title(s) The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

thanks for the answers guys and the "insights on ringsights"

just sifted through old pics and vids. what struck me was how many people used ringsights just a few years ago and that they seem to be completly gone... on a personal side: I bought one when I felt taht I had to own one. never liked it though and sold it shortly after installing. are they really outdated or does anyone still use one? The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

i guess we know a lot of jumpers who don't even know what kind of maintenance that would be The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

1 year for most gear. As a general observation, many jumpers do not know their gear enough to go back to the rigger before the year, should the gear need it. and thats the most important point at least in my book some years down the road we had the same discussion in austria. repack-cycle used to be 180 days for all parachutes = skydiving-gear, tandems + pilots bailout rigs. the reasoning behind going for 1 year ran along following lines • short season - if you are lucky, start early and end late, you'll get something like 6 months. so why pack a rig that rests half a ear in the closet twice a year? well nobody forces you to keep an in-date-rig if you are not jumping - keeping with 180 would have been just fine • repacking reserves puts unnecesary stress & wear on F111 fabric. yeah. if you handle your reservepackjob (floor, no mat, no table, greasy hands etc) like shit it surely does and ruins a reserve in the 40 or so packings in gets in 20 years. any other f111-cabopy can be packed and jumped approx 400 times.... • they also have a year in germany - let's have it the same way killer arguement - everybody else does it..... • packing twice a year is expensive anybody not willing to pay a rigger twice a year a bargain price for I+R should take up another hobby. chess maybe... the whole thing became quite heated (I was pretty good in stirring the pot back then) but things went how they did and we ended up with 1 year repack-cycle... as nicholas said: most jumpers don't know shit about the gear they jump and don't care. and there's some areas you simply do not se into unless you open the rig like reserveloops once they disappear between the flaps. gets interesting if you jump a lot in desert conditions. arizona anyone? beach landings? threads can brake, housings can become loose... any rigger can tell tons of stories I bet... and if jumpers hardly know much about their gear, there's a group probably knowing even less, and that would be the pilots. and they fall under the 1-year-rule as well. I think you can guess the outcome edit 4 markup The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

USPA D 16286 FAI-Licenses: D 322, E 135, F 86, G 49 Jumps 6600 including more than 600 Tandems On August 3rd Eli Hofmann lost her longtime battle against cancer. Eli started jumping 1985, 1989 she started working fulltime on a DZ. in 1991 she got her AFF-rating in the U.S. and openend the first professional rigging-loft in Vienna (Eli's Fallschirmshop), she earned her Masterrigger in 2006, As the owner of a rigging-loft she had contacts to all major manufacturers worldwide Among the many accomplishments she made were a vice-worldchampion in skysurf (1979 in Efes/Turkey), cameraflier for Dale Stuart plus she was the first and in fact the only long-time female TI in Austria (first Vector, later Strong only). Eli is sorely missed. eternal blue skies! Pic 1: Eli Hofmann & Dieter Ritter in Efes (1st & 2nd left side) Pic 2 & 3: Skysurfing over Arizona Pic 4: Freeflying over Arizona with Rolf Brombach Pic 5: Eli on her last jump, Dec 29th, 2012 The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

actually Rob has proven long enough that he knows what he's talking about... and I think that he just doesn't want get get in yet another angry arguement with you and I guess that is one of the problems in general: anytime I read one of your posts the message - no matter if valid, wellthought, totally true or else - is completely lost because of the tone of your posts. Note: this is not intended as an attack, just an observation from more than 10 years on these forums. and one of the reasons I don't post very often anymore... The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

I would want to make a different wording: Skydiving has loads of inherent risks - which can, to some degree, be dealt with so that the sport becomes (and is for the most part) survivable. the only time it gets downright dangerous/way beyond being "risky" is when people forget how to make clean, right, thoughtfull decisions before entering (or even being right on the edge of) the danger zone. examples for a good start taking a break? • how many times have you boarded a plane when you were not sure about winds & weatherconditions? • how many times have you boarded a plane in the morning after some heavy partying the night before? • how many times were you one of the TI's that went on a tandemload just because everyone else on schedule went and you didn't want to be the only one making objections (or loose your job just because...)? • how many time DID you ride the plane down ON PURPOSE because the conditions were against jumping? • how many time did you abort a planned swoop/hp-landing just because your gutfeeling told you not to? • how many times did you really step off a load because the plans for the dive were to sketchy or you felt uneasy about the people on the dive? zoo-load anybody? • how many times have you found yourself way below break-off-altitude or under your hard-deck? •how many times did you come back from a jump, put your gear down and thought: phew, that could have turned out real nasty because I fucked up? These are just a few examples coming to my mind, some from my own experience, some of the I witnessed. Bottom line: I think that to often we miss/skip the chance to take a break and re-evaluate our decisions. if the decision sould be a no-go then stick to it. other than missing a load or loosing a day of juming this break could mean that your last jump is still far in the future and not 20 minutes ahead The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

brilliant pic indeed. no suit (not even a hint of usefull legprotection/fabric) for the "TI", no suit for pax.... thats more than enough for starters..... I still can't get that mindset The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

BUMP any news? The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

even if you have an older model of cypres - dz offset mode allows you to set a different firing mode for ONE jump that is. biut as john sherman said: why would you think that this feature solves more problems than it will creata in the long(er) run???? The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

not directed at you, but meant as a note to all people questioning airtec's ethics and standards. I have no idea if you (the general you that is) know, what inspired helmut cloth to develop the cypres unit and through what lenghts he went just to develop this device. how meticulous every (and I mean every!) part of the unit is tested thoroughly before, during and after assembly... I do not know if you know, that each and every unit is (basically) disassembled and rebuilt during maintenance so that you get a practically new unit every 4 years... could you say the same about the other competitors on the market? one brand became famous for changing the manual every time a glitch/issue became known... they are still here. another brand just went out of the market after i became known that a vital/essential part of quality testing/manangement never happened. now how's that for "customer service"????? since you asked for CE-labels and testing: you can rest assured that airtec has set and follows higher internal testing standards than CE and other norms. This is my last contribution to a thread that (I think) should have went to the recycle-bin right after it came to surface. this is really dz.com at it's worst. The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

this whole thread is a prime example for the dz.com kangaroo-court at it's worst. The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

I've seen that done as a Safety Day activity at dropzones - a handful of rigs are "rigged" with problems, and the Safety Day participants list as many as they can then check to see if they caught everything. If you've got 50+ people participating in a Safety Day event, taking the time and effort to set something like that up can be very worthwhile and it gets everyone (including those well past student status whose gear checks may be on "auto-pilot" to focus on the topic). Of course, it's even more fun to put one perfect rig in there (fun to watch everyone struggle to find what is "wrong" with that one. ) So, maybe suggest that (or even help organize) for your dropzone next Safety Day. One way to make it easy to do is to use rigs that are already in the loft for repacks (with the owners' permission, of course). that used to be our safety day programm for quite some time - and it always was amazing to see how many of the "rigging-errors" were not found... bottom line: to many jumpers (low- and longtimers!) don't know how their shit works to the OP: keep your attitude and learn as much as you can about (your personal) gear The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666

and that would rid you and every other TI/TM of 90% of all passengers The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666