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Technically? A walk in the park; climb to altitude, slide cockpit roof back, climb out while holding firm grip, step over flap and become unstable. You want more chalenge? Take a Piper PA 18 - 135...

Larger flashcards in small photo-cameras nowadays allow for continuous shooting (every second f.i.) while maintaining "enough pixels" to allow the making of a still that can be printed in poster-size. Anyone that does tandems with handcamvideo ("no, if you want photo's, then...") has by now learned the limitations of his trick and every cameraflyer hoping to keep doing tandems is jumping with video AND still. Maybe it is the wrong crowd here to ask and certainly not wanting to start an endless thread about the evils of my ways, but the fact remains that my customers want stills sometimes and sometimes they want them more than video. Anyone "been there, done that" and in the position to recommend a stills camera that: 1. Is small and lightweight enough to be fitted as handcam 2. Can be turned on and start shooting in continuous mode with one 8+MB still every second 3. Continues to operate for five minutes (= 300 stills) OR 4. Has easy access to switches (a lancport would be too much to ask, I guess ) ??? "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

D.S. 3,1415926535897932384626433832795 (unless it is already taken. Then there's nothing left for me than just give up my vocation...)

Seems that a lot of instructors feel that once students are in the 190-210 'first-canopy-after-student-battleship' stage, they are perfectly able to also scare themselves a bit with some 'canopy envelope exploration' "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

After wading through most of the above: Any suggestion that PD should reimburse the $250? After all - they tore the canopy which at least had survived its last opening - which remains to be seen for any of the shelve reserve canopy (since you never know with this parachuting game...) Hey @ 1000ft any day I take any substandard canopy that just has survived its opening over no canopy at all, but that's just me... Was the OP a real life character that not only paid more than the asking price for the commodity but also sent it 'to be tested' to the PD factory? While the rest of the world would have gone ahead and jumped the bloody thing - just for the heck of it? Or are "they" running a new state-of-the-art piece of artificial intelligence software, that starts discussions for the sake of the argument? Could have fooled me... "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

Is Charles von Sury still jumping? He used to have an altimeter that was neither feet nor meter but a picture of a skull with crossed bones underneath. The first bone the dail encountered was "split the formation" while the second one was "open the parachute". One of the main advantages of that particular altimeter - other than skipping feet / meter differences altogether - was that it really brought the "Black Death" aspect of the sport to the jumpers attention... "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

the video was new to me. If it has been discussed here at DZ.com before, be so kind as to put up a link where that discussion is to find. Actually, when you think of three people losing their life on a previous occasion when the camguy came to the rescue AND footage I have seen on TV where a camguy successfully rescued a tandempair it is nice to know that there is (?) a plan AND that everybody is on the same page - I would not want any heroics from MY camguy, should I screw up like that. And of course, as another TI says in his sig line "Using your drogue to gain stability" is not smart... "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

A couple of days ago a few of you were willing to chew lawyerwebb an extra one when he had a not-so-smart hickup with the right order of the handles. When you visited youtube on that occasion, did you guys see this ??? Ought to be in the TI's course material IMO... "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

One would agree, if airspace was the only thing one would have to consider. Unfortunatly, that is not the case. If you could find a chunk of airspace near a larger urban area filled with potential customers (where they tend to build large airports also), an airstrip that can accommodate the jumpship an a large piece of real estate where the skydivers can land are both necessary. The problem in Holland is that one part of the government tells the skydivers they could go elsewhere, while every other part of the government / politics says: "Fine with me - but Not In My Back Yard!"... "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

According to Dutch (proposed) regulation Jump pilots should be single engine IFR qualified whereas the trusted ol ' C182 also should be IFR qualified - packed with gizmo's that cost twice as much as the actual airplane itself. They are even planning/contemplating to mandate IFR qualification for all the jump pilots, since you could run into clouds and than you have to be guided out of them by ATC...

Close, but no cigar... According to the official report from Air Traffic Control / the Netherlands with the title "Parachuting in the Netherlands - January 2009 version 1.0" (here on my desk) in a table named "outphasing*) designated area's for skydiving from Class A aerospace" it says: Location Baarn - Class A / E current 3500ft AMSL, incidently 9000ft - Desired maximum altitude 3000ft Location Hilversum - Class A / E current FL90, incidently FL 130 - Desired maximum altitude 3000ft Location Westbroek - Class A / B/C/ E current FL 90, incidently FL 130 - Desired maximum altitude 3000ft Location Oostelijk Flevoland - Class A / F current FL 60, incidently FL 90 - Desired maximum altitude 1000ft Base, anyone...? *) I really do not know if "outphasing" exists as a proper word in English / American. In Dutch it seems to be a euphemism for putting a stop to certain activities, almost like when you want to say something blunt without sounding... well... to blunt... - telling the people involved in such a way that they do not wake up, do not find out what you are up to and do not become angry with you... "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

Well, in this case I'm only interested in what the (ICAO) rules are actually saying since the Dutch Civil aviation authorities are taking the position that ICAO has no "legal provision" in its legislation to allow ANY VFR activities in Class A airspace. In short, not what is actually HAPPENING "in the real world" but whether their are rules and regulations that allow it. From the part of US law mentioned by Riggerpaul {91.135(d)} it would logically follow that either that part of US law is in contradiction with what is laid down in the ICAO (as is the Dutch C.A.A.'s interpretation, apparently - at least that is how it is written down in a paper they sent to all the skydiving centers / clubs in the Netherlands) or it is not (and for all our other aviation laws we sort of always look up what the F.A.A. is saying...

Since a search didn't turn up anything: Is it true that due to ICAO regulation which stipulate that in Class A Airspace only IFR flights are permitted and VFR flights are not allowed in that type of Airspace an appropriate authority – like the local equivalent of the F.A.A. - has no possibility to put into place differing provisions locally. (i.e. Allow VFR flying into Class A Airspace under certain conditions)? Diverdriver, Airtwardo, Anyone? "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

Well in fact it is you who is reposting the fact that the subject came up earlier in other threads... I knew that already, from previous posters in this one. Then again with almost 20000 threads started and 3,5 million posts chances are that people occasionally start to talk about subjects that have been discussed before...

You could not have been more wrong than with that statement... As far as I know the rule chance that brought the Netherlands towards 1000 jumps minimum for tandem instructors was derived from ONE actual incident and some worries about ONE other person. Analysis of statistical data from around the world? This was a policy and as usual that is not something where there is any real thought proces involved! Needles to say that several years later some guy who was well "within the new margins" (+2200 jumps if memory serves correct) also dropped the ball in the eyes of the powers that be... Now THAT was an incident / anecdotal evidence, of course... Nowadays (with everybody screaming for TI's at every DZ - the ones that are still open that is) voices can be heard to somehow reverse the situation and go back to the 500 jumps minimum that seems to work so well year after year in the USA, a country where there are serious legal issues if you want to have a prosperous business in jumping out of airplanes with "2 jumpers / 1 parachute" and do it with less than qualified staff... The problem we are confronted with is that young and eager skydivers could be starting with a camera somewhere in their second or third season (say 200 jumps) then make a whole bunch of jumps that are paid for by others and after two intense seasons like that they could start with tandem - at least if they enjoy being barfed upon, having sweaty grown up males sitting on their lap and lifting refrigerators to the top floor of a building - just for the exercise...

You could marry... Your mom is beyond help, I'm afraid. What's the penalty for treason again? "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

Though I doubt that this is true, I cannot rule it out either, since I found it on the internet, which is as good as appeared in print. (As you all know, anything that is printed is true - everybody knows that...) SO any legal parachuting mind from the great state of Florida who can educate me authoritatively on the following subject: 9. In Florida, unmarried women who parachute on Sundays can be jailed. source... "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

1. Don't second guess your instructor by seeking advice on the internet for you have no way of knowing the quality of the advice you will get. 2. When you are in a bar and it is "closing time gents" - do you look at your wallet when you pull it out of your pocket? Right now, when sitting @ the computer reading this, can you feel with your fingers if your wallet is in your pocket or do you have to look? "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

You mean something like some clever dutchman from Rotterdam wrote for Skydive Rotterdam but that also works for al the Dutch DZ's, a website / gizmo that fully automatically takes the general aviation forecast into the equasion and works with google earth images? Yeah, smart idea... OTOH we could start dropping widi's again... In the left upper corner of "mijndropzone.nl" you find a pull down menu called "WEERGAVE". If you click on it you see all the places in Holland where there is a DZ. Everyone can select his own DZ and see where the spot is and what a left hand circuit ought to be.... These kids with their computers... djeessszsss... "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

This what happened? http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

Barefoot, kneedeep in snow and always, always uphill?

Perfectly reasonable. Just inform them that in order to protect your financial interests on all rigs you pack for them, you are going to tack all the cut-away pads to the main lift webbing and secure all ripcords with a tie rib. Tell us how they responded.

Being outside the US legal system, I'm game for $5000, provided that I can select the participants and check the gear. (I've done shit that was way more stupid for less money... )

Since "safe" and "unsafe" are all relative notions I find it not so strange that people "expect to survive" when they jump with a qualified tandem instructor. Though I avoid the word "safe" in my advertisement I wouldn't want them to think jumping at my place is the same as some form of Russian roulette... That said, it places a burden on me and my fellow instructors to at least bring our passengers home in one piece. That is why we are getting paid IMHO... (As one of my colleagues once stated: "They pay me for the first and the last 10 seconds of the skydive - the rest is hobby and for fun...") "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...

While there is good reason to give every student the toggles prior to the last stage before landing, there is even better reason to have them let go of the toggles shortly before landing. Anyone of you ever tried to flare a tandem main canopy with a strong and muscular male student that turned deaf in an instant and held on to the toggles with his armes "frozen" and stretched way up? Interesting, don't you think? (Just like with other students who screw up, tandempassengers also seem to come in two "flavors", i.e. the ones that screw up during the falling part and the others that screw up during the landing part. I don't know why that is but consider it to be a fact, based on MY experience...) If you are unable to flare the canopy by yourself maybe you are making one tandemjump too many today... OTOH if you don't particularly enjoy being barfed upon, it is a good habit to INSIST that your student / passenger helps you steer above 500 ft. It is no guarantee, but people who steer / help steering anticipate the movements of the canopy and don't get sick that easely. Besides, while saving your strenght for the landing, you'll also have your camerahand free and the image doesn't shake that much... YMMV "Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci A thousand words...