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  1. Under what circumstances do you propose it is permissible to complete a high performance landing on a freefall load? I agree with Tonto is his evaluation of when the time is right (after an AFF Load, wing suit, or hop n pop).

    I have to train with hop n pops, I try to take a page out of the RW crowd. Plan the skydive, mental rehearsal (over and over again), then skydive the plan. I have found this to be the most effective, safe and therefore most economical method of training. Granted I started high performance landings at a King Air dz, moved to a large dz where I found the traffic to be a definite challenge. However, after I started committed swooping I lost the enjoyment of holding other men's hands in freefall.:)

  2. I hope that these types of rules become unnecessary some day. However, this problem is simply not going to go away by our small community hoping that people stop having mid-air collisions, resulting in the administration of such rules. I think we can all agree on the causality of the problem as we have all read\ debated over the past months as these incidents continue to occur. Being able to recognize the source of the problem is half of the solution.

    Now that March 10th (Safety Day) has come and gone, what have we done as community to improve/ promote proper landing pattern procedures? Have we tried to change the education, and enforcement of such procedures at the dropzones that we so fondly call "home"? Or are we destine to continue discussing the problems on these forums, but make no attempt change our own environment, essentially leading us down an inevitable path. That being said; what solutions specific or general do people propose we do at our "home" dropzones to rectify this? Did your dropzone address this issue at safety day?

    Of the four causalities Grant listed we can only ever eliminate one. People are going to continue to fuck up, with global growth rates at ~1% the skies are simply going to become more crowded, if they take away the fast canopies...well fuck it, I'll quit then. ;)

  3. I don't know if it will drive out the pilots as I would assume that most the revenue generated for these instructors is from freeflying.

    As to a remedy for the problem, definitely not. No more than a 180, says "I can do a 180 turn." So we are faced with the same situation of converging flight patterns. Instead of a right and left hand pattern converging, now it is up and down wind.

    I think Grant has hit it exactly on this one, the big uglies; Litigation, and Liability.

    Education, restraint, and active piloting is the only solution to this problem.

  5. Here are the Results for the first SoCal CPC event at by Perris Valley. This event had people travel in from Arizona, Utah and and as far as England. Thanks to all the competitors, and volunteers this event went very smoothly with only a couple of bumps along the way.

    The speed rounds started the event and were dominated by David Hatfield that had a speed of 2.53 followed by a 2.50. After this the distance rounds began and so did the wind. The wind appeared to be handled well by all competitors, but was shifting from a cross to head wind. Travis Mills and David Hatfield shared the honors in this event with runs of 337 and 354 respectively. Zone Accuracy proved to the challenging event of the day, as we saw only 6 competitors score in both rounds. By this time the crosswind was predominant and may have been a factor to some. Patrick Kaye was victorious in both ZA events scoring a 76 in each round. At the end of the Day; Danny Koon scored well in every round and took home first place!!

    The next event will be held April 7th at Perris Valley at the pond, first load will be at 8:00am that day. Hope to see you all out there!!


    Rank Name

    1 Danny Koon
    2 David Hatfield
    3 Travis Mills
    4 Patrick Kaye
    5 Jeromy Payne
    6 Kai Wolf
    7 Adam Durbiani
    8 Luis Hermosillo
    9 Gonzalo Sanudo
    10 Keith Colwick
    11 Brian Stroup
    12 Nick Blackshore
    13 Noam Ktalav
    14 Jeff Calesa
    15 Reg Green
    16 Shane Murphey
    17 Steve Albright
    18 Richard Bishop
    Curt Swanson (Guest)
    Bundy Taylor (Guest)
    Greg Chopiuk (Guest)

  8. Bundy Taylor has been working his ass off promoting the events locally and ensuring the pond is tip top shape for competition. He had all three courses set up one week prior to the event which allowed people to get some practice well in advance. This was particularly important as we had a Saturday comp. More details will follow...again the results will be up shortly.

  11. As per Bundy Taylor's request; here is the information for the 2007 SoCal district competitions:

    March 10th Perris Valley
    April 7th Perris Valley
    May 5th Perris Valley
    June 2nd Perris Valley
    July 14th Perris Valley

    Competitions will be held on Saturday, and the Sunday of that weekend will be used for a weather day if needed. Competition will commence at 7:30am and will be held at the Perris Valley pond. Good luck to all competitors and I hope to see you there.

    Greg

  12. This brings up a very valid point. Recall; accuracy describes the nearness of a measurement to the standard or true value. Precision is the degree to which several measurements provide answers very close to each other. So the more important concern is the precision of the instrument; so with a precise instrument we can truly determine if a technique improves or hinders the dive speed. Also does anyone know the operational limitations of the Viso, in regards to decent rate? This type of info should be in the owners manual.

  16. I am looking for Patrick Niederberger originally from Switzerland lived in Canada from 99 to 2001 then moved to France and returned to Switzerland in 2005 (I think). He is an old team mate of mine that I have lost contact with. So if anyone knows him and/or has his contact info. if you PM me it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
    Greg

  21. After completing a superman I got my legs underneath my torso and planted my left foot on the ground. My foot placement was less then optimal to say the least as I placed it in a sprinkler indentation.

    The end result was a spiral fracture of the fibula, a bimaleolar fracture of the tibia, and a torn piece of cartilage/ bone from on the talus at the tibia/talus junction. Resulting in 7 screws and a plate in the posterior fibula, a vertical screw in the tibia to reconnect the medial malleolus, and a glucose pin in the talus. Total surgery time = 4hrs

    I spent 6 weeks post-op in a non-weight bearing cast, I was suppose to be in a boot for month (lasted about a week). I am currently attending PT 3 times a week.

    Lesson learned: Examine your landing on a regular bases, know where all the potential landing hazards are no mater how small.

    Date; Oct 2K6
    Location: Perris
    Wing: Velocity 84
    WL: 2.2 lbs/ft^2
    Turn: 450
    Altitude ~1K
    1000+ jumps on that canopy

    Expenses:
    Ambulance, 7mg of morphine, 3X-Rays in emergency, 2 shots of dilaten = $2000
    Surgery = ?
    post-op care =?

    Cost me $35.00