mgattini

In response to: The charts are great, we know that the quality is lost. But then why do people comment on how great and sharp the HD footage looks, even with the loss of quality (especially in the corners), compared to their SD footage They are delusional. They are trying to rationalize why having spent the money was worth it. They don’t know what they are talking about….

Does anyone have any information on the Texas CPC, so far all I can find is info on the Florida Leugue (they seem to be much more organized then anyone else), thanks....

The one who is having the most fun is the best....

So you are saying that the guys on CK1 only do 180 turns?

Skydive Dallas: Main Landing area- Left hand no more then 180, no carving and into the wind Everywhere else you can do whatever you want.

3.5:1, Vx55

All turns are done to the right, the second swooper should of done a right 270, entering the area on his crosswind leg facing west, IMHO

Off-field landing, phat 450 downwind(my normal landing direction) was able to make it under the barbwire fence with only a cut on my pants. Velo 90.....

That sucks I would have participated if their would have been one at SDD. I wonder why the O desided not to it, maybe because their is no pond, or maybe he was afraid of the competition.....

Skydive Dallas will be open thursday and it only takes 5 to fly the otter.

He doesn't have the STC on it yet and has been working on it for years....

I don't have enough experience on gliders to be able to explain why it is, but genarally speaking people are able to do much more dynamic maneuvers (acro)on gliders then on canopies. They are designed to creat much more lift and so I they can convert that into allowing them to do things like: loops, flat spins, SAT and some pretty wicked stalls.....

Wouldn't a loop be on the lateral axis, and perhaps a spin on a vertical axis.

Yes on paragliding wings it is possible but IMHO it is not even remotely possible on a skydiving wing.

Talk to Jeff Hindman up at SDD, they are Gatorz dealers....

The shadow you describe is sometimes known as a glory, an optical phenomenon produced by light backscattered, a combination of reflection and refraction.....

I'll find a field near by and land there, they can't tell me what to do when I am landing off.

You can go to your local map store and get a BLM map of your area. Anything that is BLM is fair game for GL or paragliding.....

The camber of a wing will increase if you pull on your rear risers and even more so with your brakes. I am not certain about front risers.

Hi, abvousely there are some links between skydiving canopies and pg, they are both ram air airfoils.. Pg was actually started by using skydiving wings. Because of the high aspect ratio, the low wing loading and the way pg are trimmed to be able to gain lift they are more unstable then skydiving canopies. There is though a system to measure how long it will take a pg to recover from a stall (and also other flight characteristics) called the DHV.A DHV 1 will recover most of the time with no pilot input and will due it very rapidly, conversly a DHV 3 is more unstable and a recovery will require pilot input thus making it a more high performance wing used mostly for cross country competition and by the more experienced pilots. Most smart pg pilots use a reserve, typically a PDA ( pulled down apex) round. Just like skydiving the FAA does not require you to have a federal certificate do fly them in the USA and just like USPA there is the USHGPA ( sp?) which is a association for paragliders and hangliders alike. To fly most of the really good known sites in the US you will need a rating from them, just like you would need one from USPA to jump and the nicest DZ. The ratings are P-1,P-2,P-3 , H-1, H-2....P-2 is what you will want to get. It typically will cost you around $1500 to get it and around $2500-$5000 for gear, for used or new, respectively. In PG most of the time the objective, aside from having a good time,is to stay aloft and go as far as possible ( you can do aerobatics but it would be something you start doing much later on in you flying much like swooping). With GL the canpoies are much more stableand the objective is usually to stay close to the ground and go fast, you can also ridge soar but it is quit week compred to what you can do in a PG. Kiting is a basic skill for both GL and PG. Kiting a skydiving canopy is easer then a PG and so it might be a good idea to start doing that first and once you get good move on to kiting a PG. Ojovolador.com is proabably the best website for PG and has links to all the other PG in the world. Jim Slaton runs a good operation out in California for GL but i think if you first become a PG ground launching can be self taught, although I would strongly recomend talking to Jim and making sure you know what you are doing before getting hurt. Pagen( do not remember his first name ) makes a good book and PG and is also and expert on micrometerology and would also be another book to pick up and learn for what you want to do. PG generally launch between 2-12 knot winds while Gl is typically between 5-25 knot and so knowing how to do both will get you the best of both worlds and you won't have to wait at a site for the winds to pick up or go down. Wow this is a really long post and I am not going to spell check it all, sorry Cheers......

It has been posted here for a few days, in " best swooping canopy" and also you can hear all about it in Jim's website....

I know how it is to be a pilot at a busy drop zone and did not say that I would turn a pilot in for having a drunk on the a/c. I stated that if the Pilot knew a person to be intoxicated and let him jump anyway then he should be turned in.

A pilot letting an intoxicated jumper jump.

Had the same thing happen to me Vx 69 at 2.7 and Vx 55 at +3.0.

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