Hubsu

Please, read the whole thread. There's a greedy middleman somewhere: Don't blame Sunrise riggings for someone else being overly greedy.

3100m/10000+ft from a 172 570m/1900ft. diving exit, demo from a 172.

Here here! I have had Diabetes for 18 years now and jumping more or less from 1996. I'm very carefull about my bloodsugar when I'm jumping, but other from that, I really don't care about the disease. Drinking has not been ever a problem for me. I just drink Here in Finland jumping with diabetes type 1 was a big no no, but nowadays I know 2 other diabetic jumpers. It's pretty much allowed if you get a go from your personal doctor and you seem fit otherwise. I tell about my condition to jumpers whom I jump with. I think it's safer for me and them if I do that.

Clint, I hope you don't host the site at your own home computer. The fact that I get whopping 800 bytes/sec as dl speed and the address where it stays indicates so. Well, 6 more hours to go...

All I was after for was that line! It makes a lot more sense than my version of "braking canopies & braking human bodies". Thank you! Now I understand why the canopy planes out when I pull the toggles. I'm just too drunk to translate all the jibberish going thru my brain at the moment to english

If speed equals lift, then braking the canopy should make it sink, not swoop, when you pull the toggles.

Yup Spizzzarko, that's the simple answer, I've figured that far by myself also I haven't found any websites yet to explain it more fundamental way tho.

Can't access Parachutist here in Finland, as it's offseason. I found the first article from that series from a French page, but it didn't answer my guestion.

I've wondered, why does the canopy plane out the dive when you yank the toggles? I tried to reason this myself, and came to something like this : "when you pull the toggles, your canopy slows down quicker than you do under the canopy. This changes the alpha of the canopy, so it tries to climb. You control the climbing by adjusting your toggles, so your altitude relative to earth is a constant. Your canopy d(alphachange)/d(t) is always positive and less at the beginning of the swoop and increasing logarithmic to the end of the swoop." Am I even close to the real thing? And if not, what makes the canopy swoop then

I jump with 2 knives, just in case.

Doesn't say in your post, but are you an AFF or a static liner? This line makes me wonder if youre an AFF afterall, but in S/L jumpings the twists are almost MANDATORY

You could always use a very old f111 canopy. I've jumped 2 Mavericks with high jump numbers, and both falls to category: "if it doesn't snivel at least 1500 feet, it's a slammer for that canopy"

Get yourself softlinks so you can stow your slider down. I jump a sabre 150 loaded at 1.15, and after I changed softlinks and started to roll the slider down, all those nasty bumps doesn't make me feel like "oh sh*t!" under my canopy. The canopy feels much more sturdy under turbulent conditions than before.

High: Getting more drunk every moment. Low: Found out that our jumplane got broken. Fix it!