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  • Main Canopy Size
    190
  • Reserve Canopy Size
    176
  • AAD
    Cypres

Jump Profile

  • Home DZ
    The Ranch
  • License
    B
  • License Number
    31162
  • Licensing Organization
    USPA
  • Number of Jumps
    218
  • Years in Sport
    4
  • First Choice Discipline
    Formation Skydiving
  • First Choice Discipline Jump Total
    100
  • Second Choice Discipline
    Freeflying
  • Second Choice Discipline Jump Total
    95
  1. Like my bb curve on verizon. Typing this on it now, drunk in a cab on the way home from the bar :-) _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006
  2. I went to SkyVenture NH and did two sessions of 15 minutes. Each was like $200 or thereabouts (including coaching). They rotate you with other flyers, so you do that time in smaller chunks and rest/think in between. It's a lot of fun - I highly recommend it! _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006
  3. I figure that I'm slow at packing, don't really enjoy it very much, and the packers at my DZ have been excellent. I'm happy to pay for the service, and like to contribute to the "DZ economy". _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006
  4. Tandem jumps are statistically safer than sport jumps. reference: Tom Buchanan's excellent article on skydiving risk. _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006
  5. I'm not sure it's good to boil it all down to wing loading and jump numbers, since at the end there's a lot of judgement (and advice from an instructor who understands your canopy skills) that needs to go into it, but here's my personal experience: I tip the scales at ~195 w/o gear, ~220 with gear. 1-8: Navigator 280 - .79:1 9-31: Navigator 220 - 1:1 32-now: Sabre2 190 - 1.16:1 I bought a 190 new and plan to jump it for quite a while until I can fly the s@!t out of it. _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006
  6. One big component of personal responsibility is not blaming others or making excuses for things you can control. If I pay a packer and have a mal, that's my responsibility - I chose to jump the packjob. If there's a problem with the spot, I could have stayed in the plane, etc. I think too many people these days blame others, or "bad luck" when things go poorly - that's not personal responsibility. You've got to admit your mistakes to learn from them. I find skydivers tend to be very good at being honest with themselves and others about their screw-ups. That certainly hasn't been my experience in the corporate world! Blue Skies _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006
  7. I stubbed my toe on landing once, got some minor bruises too. Other than that, nothing so far. Trying to keep it that way! _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006
  8. lol - same experience here. My canopy is very new and some of the best openings I've had so far have been after wrestling with the damm thing and stuffing it into the bag. Not on heading, but buttery soft. (mine's a 190, loaded at ~1.15:1) _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006
  9. Congratuiations! Quite a feeling, isn't it?! Have fun and be safe _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006
  10. Airtec supplies a card which shows what the Cypres looks like installed in a rig through an x-ray machine. The idea is, you can give it to the screener and it will explain what they are seeing on their monitor. Mine's not quite as big a bitch (a G3 with a 190 main and 176R in it), but it fit easily in the somewhat small bin on the MD-80. I was expecting problems too - so I showed up at the airport 2 hours ahead - I ended up breezing through security in 5 minutes and surfing dropzone.com for an hour and a half before boarding the plane. Hopefully it'll go as smoothly for you as it did for me. Blue Skies _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006
  11. Yeah - I'm with you completely on that one. I can't stand Trading Spaces (sometimes I think I'm the only one!) or American Chopper. I actually like motor making shows - like Horsepower TV on Spike TV, but American Chopper is more like a soap opera for guys - all that damm whining and arguing is so annoying. Just shut up and build the dammed bike! There's good stuff on the Science Channel and Discovery Wings, but most of their shows are pathetically old reruns. I've seen almost everything on Wings 10 times over. I've ended up watching more of the National Geographic channel, History Channel and Court TV (Forensic Files rocks!). _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006
  12. My experience (YMMV) I was traveling to Rantoul two weeks ago and put my new G3 with Cypres2 installed in a gear bag, and put it right on the x-ray machine at LaGuardia Airport - the TSA guy didn't even bat an eye - not even a secondary screening, and he didn't ask to see my cypres card (I did have it, and a printout of the TSA page on parachutes just in case). On the way home at Champagne airport, they obviously had seen plenty of rigs come through - no cypres card needed there either. I carried it on both times. It fit easily in the MD-80 overhead bin, but not in the RJ, so I used the "valet" gate-check service. I didn't want to let it out of my sight for too long. _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006
  13. I was there - mostly hanging out at tent three. Did my 100th jump too! Here's a pic of me, after getting tossed into the swoop pond for my 100th on Saturday night (after the marshmallow fight). I'm the one in the black sweat shirt, looking like a drowned rat! _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006
  14. 5:5:0 5 packjobs on my nearly new sabre2 - some of the sloppiest ever, yet some of the best openings I've had. Go figure! 5 jumps - including 2 where I went way low. Aargh! Some nice exits, all the jumpswere fun with great landings every time. No firsts, but B license coming soon once I do water training. _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006
  15. Check this out - sectional charts are public domain, and you can download any of them from this URL http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA/sectionals/current/ Our tax dollars at work (for the charts, not the scanning and web hosting) _______________________________ 30005KT 10SM SKC 23/05 A3006