GreggB

Scratch that positive note then, thanks for correcting the rumor.

He jumped at Deland for fun when filming Days of Thunder. Missed seeing him there but heard everyone loved it as he had catering delivered to the DZ.

Want to feel good about your USPA membership? Join USHPA(hang + paragliders) 3 times the price, seems 3 times the BS. To be fair, I could be off on that, I don't pay attention to what the orgs do anymore. The SSA(sailplanes) is in the middle $, best run. All of them play the insurance extortion game which irks me, so I only join when I want to go play somewhere that has group insurance.

Search out info on Ozone XXXlite, Niviuk Skin, and Air Design UFO. All recent single surface paragliders. They talk about the volume of air they don't have and how that affects handling. Seen specific numbers but can't remember where.

Starting people on Stilettos sounds like the old skydiver start students on surplus rounds cause Para Commanders are too hot for students argument.

http://www.apcoaviation.com/DL/magnetic_GoPro/ Magnets are the usual PG solution. No idea about slider interference/camera staying on through deployment.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152486355123157 It is changing pretty fast. Paragliders have a nearly instant recovery arc, so much so it is annoying. You'll see. Speedwings inherited this to a lesser degree but they are now designing them to dive longer. A handful of speedwing pilots on small wings fly with rears but speedwings are *shame* designed to be flown by a toggle monkey.

Pack up the speedwing as small as possible. Put it in a reversible mountain harness. Put the backpack on backwards on your chest, then put your skydive rig on normal. Lots of potential for cluttering up handles and trapping bridles but if ya gotta do it. Other possibility is some folks make cutaway risers for chopping PG/SW from a rig with hip rings. If you can find a set and your skydiving rig has hip rings you could jump a small speedwing bagged and stuffed down a jumpsuit(again check for handle interference.) Then fly it with your skydive harness. Shoot and post video.

Thanks. Played with a measured piece of string it won't work. There is a PG version made by Sup'air(30 bucks for 2 instead of 4.) Cheers G

Curious if anyone has one handy and can post the length. Looking to switch out the carabiners on my paraglider gear, need to see if the slinks are long enough to make it through the harness webbing. Thanks G

Then you re not speed flying , are you! Au Contraire. It is speedflying and a Stiletto can't do it.

That is disingenuous. The reason that doesn't work on speedwings/PGs is the cascades run spanwise(opposite of parachutes) pulling front riser on SW/PG is pulling all A's. Around here we use SWs for high wind dune soaring. There is no way a Stiletto would work, even if could stay considering the recovery arc you couldn't turn around.

I used to full stall my PD210(9 cell F111) and fly it backwards to the dz held in a fullstall horseshoe without incident. my friends would do the same with similar canopies. They always recovered fine. Once you start playing with football shaped parachutes the game changes. I keep wanting to find an old parachute like that and ride the stall for a couple thousand feet so the folks on the ground can laugh at all the newbies getting excited, thinking they are watching something scary.

Hey all those bandit jumps out of flying milkcrates are practice for the future. When bandit jumps out of flying milkcrates is all there is...

Throw in the towel and fun jump. You might have to switch DZs. Not permanently but if someplace is work then it is a workplace. Besides if you are still on the books you will get asked to do just 'one' when it is busy.