Bartje

How more people try to defend there thing, how more unsure they feel about their choise. Once the human kind choose for something, here a suit, people are not giving up easy or are open minded for again something new. When the new thing is comming from someone they know from the past, it is a human thing to bitch it because it does not justefy their choise. Keep it in mind when you try be a frontierwalker. A FreeFly Gypsy

And I still have to make my first ws jump. It was witch suit that I had on in Deland? When are you at Z'Hills? Greetz Nervous Bartje A FreeFly Gypsy

Here we go again. ok, Elvis is in charge but those pigs? I do not belive that. A FreeFly Gypsy

I know, a Fx need a minimum wing load from 1.8 before you can get real good fun with it. Even the differance from 0.06wl can make the differance. I prefer the Fx at 2.0, than you can have real good fun with it. A FreeFly Gypsy

Yezzz, Cruising the blue skies with a Velo, I can not think a better thing to do in the weekend. A FreeFly Gypsy

for swooping: 9 cell for opening: 7 cell for fun: you name it.. A FreeFly Gypsy

show them you can handle your canopy and it will not be a problem I think. They just cleaned the gear from last weekend A FreeFly Gypsy

How can somebody translate it to the skydive world? Any sugestions? A FreeFly Gypsy

It all in the chief instructers hands. How many jumps you've got now? 100? It can be a problem to jump it. A FreeFly Gypsy

Yeps, Dominique hasalway to travel for doing his thing. I just did hear that France has changed the chart a little bit. Like Fab wrote in his post it is like that. A FreeFly Gypsy

How far can you go with rules? A FreeFly Gypsy

The PAC like they call it, the first jump is with 2 instructors, from the 2th to the 6 jump is with one instructor. Often I did see students doing the first solo after 6 jumps. I did jump often at Maubeuge, north of France, the fact that swoop competitions are is forbitten they do not allow at the dz that you do practice jumps for this. This is a rule that makes it impossible to make skydiving safer. There have to be basic safety rules, do they have to be so strict like in France? Too much rules have the opposite effect on safety I think. A FreeFly Gypsy

Saskia, for the Netherlands he's on the limit, In France he can not jump it before 500 jumps. By the way, even swoopingcompetition in france is forbitten. the thing I try to say is that in all contries I did jump there all have diffrrant perspective at safety. An instructor in the states will have an other perspective than an instructor from Belgium or South Africa. For me it is more than enough prove that safety is beween the ears and difficult to put in rules. We do need more attention in instructerformation than what it is now. When you read the forum there are skydivers giving advice about things were no do not know nothing about. They claim more than 1000 jumps in a dissipline and give advice for something they are not doing. It s......ks, it's dangerous. A FreeFly Gypsy

After reading the forum, what is safety, Everybody has is own safety perspective. What can see unsafe for someone is for an other safe. Most instructors are safe at their field, what I did see at the forums is that experienced skydivers , and instructors, start talking about things what they do not know. That is not safe. You have to realize that you can hurt people with bad advice. Sounds like sense but I did see it happen. When you trying to make things safer you have to start with your own and than you can look to others. Your perspective can be different than someone others perspective. Please, stay open for it before you judge others. I do not say that a newbie with 200 jumps is safe but his, or her, idea can be safe and just need some guidance. Can you put it into a rule? I do not think so because we all have different perspectives about things. You can search for a rule what is as average as possible but it will never help all of us. The best example I can think of at the moment is canopy choice. This winter there was a newbie with 28 jumps, 75kg and 179cm tall asking his chief instructor what kind of canopy he should buy. The chief instructor (it was not me) said he should buy a Pilot 170 and he did buy one. This was in Belgium. The same newbie can not jumps his canopy in the Netherlands or France. In Germany he can. What do I see? In Belgium, with +/- 1000 skydivers, there was in 2004 not any canopy fatality. In France it was a disaster, the Netherlands did have some accidents. Is it possible that when you make big rules that people are trying to avoid them and do stupid things? I do think so, I’m afraid when you try to put everything in rules that you have the opposite effect. Not only in canopy but skydiving in general. How to make thing safer in our beautiful skydiving world? Not with big rules, we need rules but they have to be easy to interpret. We need: -good instructor training for every discipline, -good 1 jumps training with a big part aerodynamics as well (often forgotten and very important). -a good understanding what you want to do as a newbie, you are playing with gravity and gravity can kill. -psychological course / training for chief instructors and staff. -common sense A FreeFly Gypsy

At Johannesburg skydidive club I did some landings with a Fx89. dz is at 5000ft, more speed but no longer swoop. I did not go 100% but I was impressed by the speed already. It's Tonto's homezone, he has to know more. A FreeFly Gypsy

is it not the model for the logo from JSC? The man left in the pic? A FreeFly Gypsy

Next step is buying your own Velo. Velo Rules A FreeFly Gypsy

never forget your hook knife, With a line over in the reservecanopy you will need it, Did you see that there was no tension on the lines from the reserve canopy? Jassus, A FreeFly Gypsy

Only the openings, héhé Velo rules A FreeFly Gypsy

It will get better, the Velo is and stays a little nervous canopy who needs sometimes attention. Hugh it once a day and it will love you back. A FreeFly Gypsy

You already have the good attitude for me, Brian Germains book is a very good start, do not forget that only with books you do not get there, you need also the feeling and that you can get only with jumps. A lot of jumps, Be cool and stay safe. A FreeFly Gypsy

Velo rules. A FreeFly Gypsy

And, does it feel good or are you not happy with the job. A FreeFly Gypsy

freedom means learning, who are we to decide that others can not jump a canopy if we know when we are sure that they have common sense. Common sense like they are people who wants to put it in a chart and make it a rule.When there is common sense than there is no problem, the problem is when an instructor makes a miscall at somebody. Should we not be more give more attention to the instructors course for those instructors who are giving canopycourses? I think this can help to turn the statistics in the other direction. Of corse you need students whith a good state of mind but I'm sure that you can do 50% better than now. The statistics do not show the mentality from those people who did have an accident. You can use those statistics for what yiu want , I realize that the result is there, but you can put it in a context like you want. We need good instructerscourses to start with, after that we can start to give courses at people who want's to learn but this will take years. Everybody has the solution, it's in between your ears. Start with a positive mind when you skydive, canopy is not more dagerous as you make it. A FreeFly Gypsy

I'm I lucky? I have 1000 swoops with x-brace canopies and not did hurt myself. I was lucky one time. After i asked my rigger to change my half brake point with 5 cm (for the openings on my Fx89) he did not keep the same lenght in the steering lines, they were 11cm longer than the previous lines. Can you imagine the landing? I walked away after a crash with only a stif nek for two day's. It did hurt but no injuries. A FreeFly Gypsy