AcePilot

Hi Brian Will you bring your advanced course to Skydive Burnaby (Canada, Niagara region) next year? Live 2 Fly

Ooooooops... Live 2 Fly

100 -200 feet is a pretty friggin BIG lag when you are setting up for a 270 In the FREE FALL Under the canopy - 10-20 feet Live 2 Fly

It tells me what weather will be tomorrow. Like a barometer. Barometer log book is a good one too. (If you don't have weather forecast handy) It can tell you “Jump today, tomorrow will be crapy!” Live 2 Fly

Ouch: http://www.bigairparagliding.com/jdaoust/PG/Video/2000_05_FromTV_ManyAccidents.mpg Skydiving now-days safer than sex… But sex is still safer than paragliding Live 2 Fly

http://krisz.3gteam.hu/video/LoopsInstruction-lq.wmv Do not try it at home Live 2 Fly

http://airvisionadventures.com/media/Italy.wmv ... and I was flying this thing? Holly crap this is scary. check also topic "loops" Here is instruction wideo How To: http://krisz.3gteam.hu/video/WingOverInstruction-lq.wmv Do not try it at home http://www.bigairparagliding.com/jdaoust/PG/Video/1997_FR_Grant_RaftLZ_SebastienBourquin.mpg Live 2 Fly

I use Suunto vector I like the accuracy. It is very good for the setup, the only problem - you have to turn your head to look on your left hand (if it is left) and if you have a camera on the left of the helmet it doesn’t look nice on the video. In the free fall Suunto has little leg but it is negligible (100 – 200 fit). One more advantage (if you use it as your day to day watch) you’ll never forget your altimeter. Live 2 Fly

Sorry for misunderstanding... I was talking about jumping X-Fire forever and going to X-braced after “Forever” For the wormup after the long winter i still have my Stiletto 135 and my girlfriend's canopy. Live 2 Fly

No but I saw it done Out of the paper bag instead of D-bag. Live 2 Fly

Yes but... I have more than 12 years of paragliding and more than 120 hours of airtime on competition class paragliders. (truly elliptical X-braced wing with more than 50 cells) This experience helps a lot. (And I just got the x-fire several jumps ago, Jumped 135-stiletto about 100 jumps before that) My case is a bad example, don’t try it at home Live 2 Fly

Paraglider can do the loop or “wing over” much easier than parachute I’ve done it a couple times on my paraglider several years ago (when I was young and stupid) but after friend of my friend died in the accident doing similar loop (Christmas wrap) I’m not even trying it any more. And I will not even recommend you to try. Paraglider is 53 cells and 280 sq.f. - huge elliptical wing with completely different flying character. Live 2 Fly

I had Stiletto 135 loaded at 1.6 and it did fly better than Stiletto 150 (I had before) I tried 120 and it flies even better. But it is not only wing loading. Original designed size is important too. As far as I know Stiletto was designed as 120 and then up-scaled. Unfortunately in aerodynamics scaling doesn’t perfectly works. Usually original design is the best. It so happens that I’ve got X-Fire 119 and it is loaded at 1.8. Man this is the best! I just love it. I feel like I’ll fly it forever! (Unless it so happens and I’ll go to x-braced ) Live 2 Fly

Pilot’s body is not just one small dot of 200 lbs Pilot’s centre of mass is approximately his butt. 3 rings attached much higher If you move your butt - you move your centre of mass (centre of the gravity of the system) To reach the balance in the system centre of the gravity must be directly under the point where the lift applied to the canopy. So technically spiking you move your 3 rings forward or back under the canopy (not your butt). It affects canopy’s AoA. Live 2 Fly

I Had 2 Stilettos (150 and 135) and both of them had the same problem: Brake lines were too short. If you pull front riser – tail is affected. Canopy doesn’t like it and you can feel. It can cause end cells collapse. Not the best experience close to the ground! I’d better go with the longer brake lines but make them just long enough to fix the problem. May be you’ll need several adjustments to get it just right. Lines are getting shorter with time and number of jumps on them. To fix it you can just try to stretch your brake lines. (Brian Germain’s advice) Attach your toggle to something and pull your brake line as much as you can. Don’t worry you won’t brake it. Or just ask your rigger to make it longer. Live 2 Fly