Kat1221

Hey Steve!!! Congratulations! Weren't you just doing your 500th under a yellow reserve a few months ago?! Thats awesome... About the 666 jump... just get some cute skychick to dress in red and do a reverse rodeo. Preferably dressed in a red bikini or something, maybe with little devil horns or something... at least make it not PG rated. And get good video! You should be able to get extra altitude with that. Some guy a while back at my DZ jumped with the a plastic devil pitchfork too... Well, have fun and let us know what you do.

Hey - we were jumping from altitude in November and opened again in February. December and January had too many of us in Eloy! Just wear tons of layers, gloves and liners. I've jumped when its been -26 degree celcius at the top... no clue what that translates to for Americans! So, if you're crazy enough you can jump through Alberta winters.

Yeah - I'm in the same situation. Small DZ with no packers, so everyone has to pack. It was kind of weird the first time in Eloy, when I landed and was like 'lets do that again! I'll put us on a 15 minute call.' and a few people were like 'I think that packers are pretty busy - they'll need more than 15 minutes to pack my rig.' Just in case anyone didn't see my edit - this was to ask if you know how to pack... doesn't matter if you use packers or not

Close - but Kyla is Calgary - I'm from Edmonton, even further north! Its good here - warming up, and we've been jumping every weekend since February now. I have this in another thread... but come back to Canada! heehee To answer my own question - I can pack pretty well everything, cuz we have a bunch of CReW dogs with Lightenings here. But, of course, thats just until I have multiple rigs and lots of money. (I'm open to donations...)

Hey! Nothing wrong with Canada.... if you don't mind Cessna's and snow! Well, if you do have to move back you know Kyla and I are always here for tracking dives.... and I'm thinking road trip to Eloy next Christmas. See? It won't be so bad! To answer the question - I don't see myself doing Tandems, at least not for a LONG time because I small... but I can definitely see myself doing most other things - I already manifest sometimes (when the girl who is actually good at it is away!), pack, and edit video... Subliminal messaging: Come back Canuck.... we need more people so we can get bigger planes....

It seems that more and more jumpers don't know how to pack, or learn just enough to get their licence and then forget. Just wondering how many people actually know hown to pack. I don't think I could afford to jump if I didn't know!

Interesting post... when I was first buying gear I had a huge split in people's opinions - some said go to a 150, or even 135 because I'm a small girl and would still be under 1:1. All the others said that anything under a 190 isn't a 'first' canopy. I had one older guy say that "well, my first main was a Fury 220 - those are good starter canopies... you should get one." Kind of funny, because I think he'd be loading the Fury about the same as me under my Sabre 150. So I guess there are quite a few people out there that still have the mindset of nothing under 200!

Umm.... I really think that you'd want it packed with the slider up.... but by all means try it both ways and see which works better! To answer your question (serious now!) I personally would define anyone experienced enough to check where the chopped main was going, help look for it, and basically take responsibility as anyone licenced. So anyone with 25-50 jumps should be getting to that point... and yeah, there are a lot of what ifs, and cases of people with hundreds of jumps and no licence, but I think basically after 25-50 jumps you should have been around enough to know that you might want to get that back! Do you think at 37 jumps if you had a mal you would help find the main and maybe if you had time under the reserve, take a look at where it (the main) was going towards? I think anyone who has their own gear and is renting for some reason should treat it like it was theirs, and replace anything they lose. And IMHO I think people with their own gear should know how to pack it... but thats just my opinion.

I'm not sure if this was meant as a reply to my post, but nothing in my post disagrees with what you wrote. My point was that it is entirely different to not hold a student at fault for any lost gear. An experienced jumper should be heads up enough to look out for the main / freebag, should help search for the missing gear, and should pay for any gear that is not found - same as they would if it were their own rig they were jumping!

Oops, sorry I guess I didn't realize what you were asking. I'd have to say go with the weird answers - thats what I do! Good luck

I think thats entirely different - at my DZ we don't expect students to pay for anything if they have a mal, and I don't think many DZ's would. This is a case of a DZ renting a rig to a licenced jumper, so I'm assuming the rig wouldn't be used for student with 25 or under jumps - it was probably a smaller main used for more experienced jumpers as transition gear. And a licenced jumper should have the presence of mind to look for the main / freebag to see where it was heading. Other people on the load should have helped out too - there was a thread on this a while back about following people who land out, and most agreed that one person follows the main, one the free bag and one the jumper is he/she is landing off... if its safe. But I agree with the poster who said that two cutaways on 'student' rigs is a lot....

For the second question, just find the second derivative to that equation. In the regions where the second derivative is positive, the function is concave up, and in the regions where the second derivative is negative then the funtion is concave down.

I think its too late, but anyways.... I did it really quickly, so check for simple calculation errors. And you can simplify it by multiplying a lot of stuff out: (4(x+3)(x+3)^8 + ((x+3)^2 + x(2(X+3))(8(x+3)^7)) / (X+3)^8 And yeah - just wait for integration!

We sell t-shirts with this on them at our DZ. The Skydiving better than sex list is on the front, and on the back is ten reasons why sex is better than skydiving. It includes: you can still have sex if you don't have money, it doesn't cost thousands of dollars to have fun, you can have sex when its raining, windy etc. I can't remember all of them.

I'm pretty sure your slider was collapsable - the velcro is just old technology, but it came like that when it was new - it wasn't added on. I jumped a monarch that had the same velcro on the slider. Really annoying!