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.

It is funny because it is true. Being retired from the sport for about ten years I had to laugh when I saw VRW and flocking. I knew they would do that to both but it was still funny and sad to see happen. Screw up the performance of a wingsuit to get a little mutual appreciation, seems a crime against efficient flight. We don't fly gliders around opening the dive brakes so we can look into the dreamy eyes of other pilots...

Early 90's there was an article in Skydiving or Parachutist about someone that had a hybrid PG/parachute built. And did a little deploy-> soaring. I think there was some harebrained scheme to jump and soar across Canada. I recall it didn't work well. Of course stuff has gotten alot better since so I don't know what could be built now.

Thanks. I'll look into local PG courses.

about 3,000 skydives most under a stiletto 135, jumped a 107. then a vengance 107 before taking a multiyear break. A couple hundred BASE jumps. Most jumps were made in the 90's. Was AFF/TM JM. Haven't jumped much in the last 9 years. If taking a PG course is the right way to go any recommendations for an instructor in the Northeast? Thanks

So what is the best way for an experienced skydiver to learn how to ground launch and fly something like a Bobcat? Thanks

I haven't heard from him in years. If you find Steve tell him Gregg From Fly by Night said hi.

Anyone know where I can find one preferably online. I'm a retired jumper ex. AFF&T instructor. Currently flying gliders. My fellow glider pilots are woefully ignorant of their expensive seat cushions and I'm going to put on a FJC for pilots. Having a FJC syllabus to start from would be very helpful. Thanks

That reflects USPA's less than honest reporting. 110,000 is all of the people who made a jump in the US in that year. For comparison 20,000 is about right for the total number of licensed sailplane pilots in the US. Also USPA doesn't count aircraft accidents on the way up, whereas the soaring society counts dead tow pilots(average about 1 year) in their numbers.

Kudos to the ranch for reviving and expanding bounce bingo, although I do prefer the original real estate based version. I guess the rumours of a PC thug takeover of that place were unfounded. Maybe I'll visit sometime. As to the original question as someone surmised earlier gambling is I believe legal in NYS provided there is no 'house' taking a cut.

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7429/1459?maxtoshow=&eaf Sorry if this has been posted before.