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> I heard you're closing in on a thousand jumps. Well, I am getting closer each day! They won't be quite like yours as most of mine will be from "that famous legal span in the West". It just takes more training for us older guys.

The Twin Falls newspaper just had a story today on BASE. This is the first one this year and fairly positive. Look soon, as they don't keep things available for long. http://www.magicvalley.com/news/localstate/index.asp?StoryID=5599 ================================================= I am not invisable nor bulletproof. However, I am quite difficult to see, and have not been wounded yet. =================================================

AS for the multi, I tend to agree with those who have removed it. I made a number of 1-3 second delays with the multi and felt I was having way too many off headings, to include several 180's. I took the multi off and definately feel there was no degredation in heading and probably an improvement. There are way too many factors affecting heading performance to narrow this down, but my multi is still off and likely to stay that way.

I tend to agree on "Risers first" in most cases. Another thing to be aware of when tuning your canopy for brake settings comes to mind. I recently took another approach to adjusting brake settings, requiring no sewing. I just started to lose weight. At a point I thought I had the forward speed in DBS just about perfect, very little forward and no stall on opening. Then I went and flung myself off a relatively low cliff. 90 degree right opening towards a reasonably far off wall section - no real problem, just riser around and pop toggles. Pulled Left riser, and got RIGHT turn towards wall NOW, problem. I decided to pop toggles and get the hell out of there which I did. So, realize in really slow flight, reverse turns can occur. I now am jumping in the shallow brake setting all the time. Seems to work better.