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Pretty sure the FAI license is just for competing. You still need the license from your national organisation and when you go to Australia the APF will give you the equivalent APF license, in the US the USPA will give you their equivalent and so on.

I haven't flown a CF2 but is it really that much shorter than the 3? I start my 90s on my CF3 (129) at 360 ft but with my Katana 120 I'm starting at 500ft. I love the CF3 but it still has a pretty quick recovery arc.

Standing but bent at the waist so he's on his feet, the student is sitting on the floor but because the TI is bent over, he's essentially bending over the student. Difficult to explain but it's super awkward and IMO could easily end in tears one day. I don't like it at all

I’ve seen a TI who makes a perfect stand up landing every single time. The problem is the passenger is always bent in half in front of him. Asking for a spinal one of these days.

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For many people, perhaps, but I see very few people swooping small crossbraced canopies trying to stand up their landings.

While I’m waiting for the Jav to be sorted, I swapped my Cypres back over to my old Vector yesterday and today I end up under a spinning mal. Previously went 1170 jumps between reserve rides and this time lasted 8 jumps. Really not my week.

By the sounds of things, Sun Path can send me out some MLW and my guy here can fit them rather than having to ship the whole rig back.

Nah, tight to my back. If I have it on with no leg straps, I have no problem with the handle while on my belly. As soon as the leg straps go on, they pull my MLW down and my rig goes up my back. Pretty sure an extra inch and a half on the MLW will fix it.

Cool, thanks mate

Nah, haven’t jumped a BASE rig in 17 years but I jump a vector built for the same size canopies and I’ve jumped the same size Javs with no issue. After speaking with Sun Path about where the hip rings should sit, the MLW is at least an inch and a half short so either I’ve provided bad measurements or someone’s fat fingered then into the system. Probably the former but we’ll see.

Unsure mate. My slider was made by a local rigger rather than coming from NZA.

Hello comrades. I have a removable slider to VFX2 specs (75cm wide by 64cm deep) on my Crossfire 3 129 which was off-the-recordish recommended by NZA but I’d like to use it on my Katana 120. Anyone tried this? The Katana specs are 80cm by 52cm so slightly wider by shallower and about 15% smaller overall. Based on past experience with custom Sabre sliders, I’d imagine the extra depth would slow the openings down but it could also provide for less predictable openings - something the Katana already provides in spades lol. My assumptions may be wrong. I’ll get my test pilot on by doing some hop and pops initially anyway but just interested if anyone has any experience with this?

Bumping a Logan Paul thread 3 years later? Really?

Cheers Rob. Let's hope it's not the yoke. It's C yoke and I'm not a big guy.

I did dude. Called them 11pm on Friday night (9am NC time) but they are closed on Fridays. Called them 11pm yesterday which was the first time they were back in the office. In the meantime, I thought I'd ask for some advice from other people who may have some.

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Had a chat with the guys over at Sun Path and sounds like we could be able to get it sorted. I'll get some pictures over to them towards the end of the week but, chatting through where the hip rings should be sitting, at the very least the rings are definitely a bit high. In past experience they've always had great customer service so I'm sure we'll get it sorted.

For sure. I meant I'll get on the AFF table for photos. Hopefully I don't need to send it back.

Good call Wendy, I'll give it a shot. Sadly not that easy to ship back to North Carolina from Sydney but if it has to happen, it has to happen.

Negative, abnormally short :) I'm 5'4" although I have a relatively long torso for that height. It is a short container but it's almost like I can reach high enough but can't reach in far enough when wearing the rig like something is restricting the movement. I tried on several TJNKs before ordering, all with C-17 harness sizes which felt perfect but the one I've got has C-16 harness and just feels super tight vertically which is why I'm thinking MLW is the issue.

When I say my flexibility isn't great, I don't mean it's horrendous. I'm not disabled and I can easily reach the middle of my back and can reach round and check under my main flap to check my pin before jumping for example but there's something about this particular rig that is restricting my mobility to the BoC more than usual. It's super weird. Left handed BoC may be an option although it's much more complex than just resowing the pouch as the bridle protection runs down the bottom flap on a Jav so that would need to be changed to the other side somehow. I'm not sure it would make that much of a difference though as my left arm only reaches slightly higher. As a freeflyer, it's certainly not an option going on the leg. If I can't work out why this rig is causing an issue I'll just ditch the rig and get another one. Out of dozens of rigs I've jumped over the last 25 years, this is the only one that's causing an issue.

Greetings fellow humans. I recently received my new custom built Javelin (TJNK), got it all packed up, tried it on and thought "Hmm, my pilot chute handle seems difficult to reach". I spent an hour and a half that night doing practice pulls and felt it wasn't the most comfortable but I was confident it was fine. The next morning, I went for a jump and could not get my handle at all resulting in a slammer of a terminal reserve opening, uneventful flight to the ground, a trip to the rigger for a second reserve repack in 24 hours and a trip to the bottlo for 2 cases of beer (first jump on a new rig and a chop). My rigger said that my reserve (a tight fit) was potentially causing the rig to sit up on my back so I've swapped it out for a smaller reserve but the handle is still very difficult to get to when lying on the ground so I'm worried to go up for another jump with potentially the same result which would be pretty embarrassing. I don't have the best flexibility in my shoulder but I've never had an issue with any other rig, including ones for the same sized mains and it's just not a mal I've ever considered to be a possible outcome and I think I'm going to have to swap my Cypres back over to my old Vector until I can figure out what's wrong with the new one and rectify it. It's been a long time since I last bought a custom rig (also a Jav TJN) so I can't fully remember how it fit me back then but I thought I had a bit of play in the shoulders and, when I'm wearing the new rig with leg straps done up properly, the yoke is pretty solidly pulling against my shoulders. Could this indicate the main lift web being a bit short and could that make it difficult to reach the pud? Any other things I should look at that could be the problem? Cheers

Sadly wasn't that way for me. I had to do the exact timing: 1 thousand - Exit 2 thousand - Reach 3 thousand - Pull If it wasn't done in 3 seconds it was a fail.