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In [URL http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1093182;search_string=line%20stow%20pounds;#1093182]This post[/URL] someone says someone printed 8-12 pounds. I personally do it "not too loose, not too tight." -=-=-=-=- Pull.

You rarely ever see anyone doing this on gear at all, or rarely ever see instructors do it on students' gear? At my DZ they taught us this as part of the gear checks, and it's near the end of my packing ritual. (Although, I don't actually pull on the cable, I push it up inside the (D-ring) handle and watch it flow out the housing end by the pin. Then I let the cable go and cable flex returns it to its normal position, and I call it good.) -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Can you reexamine the profiles you looked at and see how jump numbers play into this? I can't just say "people below 150 square feet have lots of experience" because that doesn't necessarily hold true for very light people. But I think if you look at jump numbers and reserve vs. main size, you may find similar results to what you saw above, and that might tell you something. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

http://www.cypres.cc/Downloads/6_2_Users_Guides/6-2-1-1%20CYPRES_Users_guide_english.pdf Page 50, "12. Technical Data". +63 to -20 centigrade working temperature. Note it's page 50 of the manual, which is page 51 of the PDF. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Very droll. I think it's a good argument for a trustworthy ripcord. I get grumpy if a piece of equipment contains three parts and can't be made properly! -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I understand rounds are nice and quiet. Did you find your round was quiet enough you could hear the bullets crack by? Or were you still hearing the plane? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I was concerned about this as a student, myself. It's because I'm technical and anal about some things. I believe Dan Poynter's parachute manual (vol 1) describes what swaging balls and pins to cables does, and what are the expected strengths for different kinds of balls. Personally, I preferred to jump the student rigs where the swaged ripcord end was a ball with an extended tubular neck, because I knew the swaging strength on these was about double the strength of the ball-only style.

My finger never got stuck in a plastic pipe (the handle on all the BOC ripcord student rigs where I learned) but it was normal for me to find I had a bleeding cuticle on one of my right-hand fingers when I got to the ground. See, when I pull, I send the iron-fingered gorilla hand back to the PC pocket to get the job done , and preserving my manicure is not a priority. I guess the way I curl my fingers in the iron-fingered gorilla hand prevents them getting stuck in anything. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Yes you will. Talk to your instructors about it... Skydiving training tends to cause fear. That's why you have instructors. Once I had about two hundred jumps (emphasis for student readers) I found minimum-altitude hop-and-pops really helped me with my exits and body position at pull time. I concentrated because I was very interested in doing it right.

I haven't been in the sport long enough to decide if this is the case, but I assume it is. I'd like to point out that two-outs are a replacement for no-outs. A no-out will be fatal almost every time. A two-out might be fatal, and we see a lot of times they aren't. The increase in two-outs that can be attributed to AADs is probably larger than the decrease in no-outs. This net difference is mostly caused by AAD misconfiguration or low pulling. It is certainly worth comparing the increase in two-outs attributable to AADs to the fatality rate of two-outs. Depending on the fatality % of a two-out, this increase could move the overall fatality rate up, down, or not at all. Thankfully, AAD-assisted two-outs are very avoidable. We all know about a couple of instances where high-performance landings caused deadly or potentially-deadly reserve opening at low altitude. But other than that, hasn't every AAD-assisted two-out been the result of jumper error? A footnote: I would like to exclude from my definition of "AAD-assisted two-outs" any case where the jumper could not open the main due to an equipment problem such as a hard main pull, and then the AAD opens the reserve, and then the main deploys due to the container stress changing. While it's true the AAD contributed to the two-out in that situation, it did so in the same way manual deployment of the reserve at that same time would have, so I think excluding these from any statistics would provide the best comparative picture. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

In wind like that, when I was on student canopies, I would always let go of one toggle and use both hands to reel in the other toggle all the way - until I basically had canopy fabric at my riser. The way you describe the canopy turning around on the ground sounds like you've got the brake line pulled in a ways, but not far enough to turn the canopy inside out. Once one side of the tail reaches the risers, I don't think the wind will fill the canopy anymore. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

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Ask your instructors to help you jump both types, once you are ready to jump the transition rental rigs at your DZ. (If there are any.) Really, the best way is just to try them and find out what you like. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I say jump it and see if you like it, and change it if you don't. (Or be lazy and get used to it. ) If I were ever worried about a handle's grabbability, I'd just hop-and-pop it and hold it out the door.

Where do you get an MC4 on the cheap? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I was also afraid of going higher. Seriously, I almost freaked out when we started going to 6k instead of 5k. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Wait, was this part a change? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I think the average demo recipient can be better-trusted to hook up a bag and PC (often a single french link) correctly than to hook up four riser ends and two toggles with 22 lines correctly. Way less possibility to snarl everything up. And a lot less time investment. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

And did she leave her number on the reserve data card? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I got used to the (sometimes weird) openings on my old Sabre2 150 and then I liked them. I think my new 170 doesn't do that, but I haven't jumped it enough to remember (everyone is always renting it from me so I don't get to jump it). How many jumps are on all these weird-opening Sabre2 linesets? I believe the Sabre2 150 I was jumping had 700 jumps with no replacement and everything had shrunk all wonky. Now when my canopy (Hornet 190 - wants to be a Sabre2 when it grows up) is spinning right after inflation I check for closed end-cells and give it a full 360 before I start to worry. Meanwhile I'm looking around for the rest of my load, of course. Usually it just wants to fly a little on its own before I take over. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I agree that teaching by example is a good thing. We're all monkeys, and that means we tend to do what we see. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I'll start with the Safire 189 (which I understand compares to a 175); I'm comfy with that size. I broke something skipping the 170 size once before; I don't want to repeat that. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Should I stop in at this guy's house and talk to him? It's local. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I am now 170 when I dance nekkid in front of the windows. I should be just under 200 out the door. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

No worries. I saw it coming as soon as I said I liked to do S-turns on Final. I don't take it personally. Basically when I'm doing my S-turns you can assume I have an entire landing airspace to myself. At least for the rest of Winter in Snohomish. When it's Summer and things are different, or when I'm at another DZ, I'm all about the predictability. Sometimes this means straight flight patterns, sometimes it means front riser stuff to increase my descent speed and avoid slowing up people behind me. And I think the S-turns (or sashays, if you prefer; I don't move _that_ far off my approach line