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the PC in tow, I feel it is important for all the instructors, at same DZ, to teach one method in the early portion of the AFF program regardless of what the instructor’s personal beliefs are. This means they are fallowing a DZ training syllabus and if your DZ does not have one develop, they should, it does make it a lot easer for the instructors to do their job with less confusion for the student when working with multiple instructors at various time. When a student are going through their ground preps for the upper level D or E jumps I introduce the second method for the PC in tow and tell them where they can get information on the Pros and Cons for either cutaway and pull reserve or pull reserve, like this web site and to ask other jumpers. Of course in the same breath I reminds them until they are A license qualified they are still students, even while they are on the coaching program, so they must fallow the DZ syllabus regarding the PC in tow. Once they are A license qualified they then can change their method.

HI, was wondering which method gets a canopy faster over a student. Been a static line I for 2 years now (PC assist). Been jumping a C182, I have has to "short line" a student before. ( do not release the slack in the static line, firm grip, to open container before a student with bad body position can flip out of control. Will a direct bag or IAD achieve this faster? opions? Thank you

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I'm not 100% sure on this, and am not a rigger, so maybe i shouldn't give advice. All I'm going to tell you is my pc launches to full bridal extension.

Well thats good to hear! Apparently we are still taking there cetificates. I had the oppertunity to jump two skyrides Saturday. They were both Laywers and I over saw them laughing at Bill Booth's video and the waiver. Skyride pay's our DZ $145 for skyrides. Our regular price is $180. They paid Skyride over $200 for their jumps. Skyride makes a nice profit. Another guy showed up and stated he wanted to become "certified". We gonna turn in his certificate as if he jumped tandem, but in exchange we gave him a FJC and 3 S/L jumps. IE....Our DZO is willing to work with Newbie's who get screwed, It not our fault! Now let look at this from an independant view. IF you as T-I goes out to a bar and gets 5 tandem jumpers to go out to your DZ. The DZO says "I don't care what you charge them as long as you give me $45 ( 2 slots + gear) how does that make you any different from Skyride? It dosen't. If your DZO isn't willing to give you that, then another will, sure the name may change but the IDEA of Skyride will always be there. Skyride is guilty of theft of pictures and email accounts this has been proven by US! They should be shut down. Others will follow! We as Instructors should form a union "The International Brotherhood of Skydiving Instructors"..... DZO'S cannot operate without us!

You SHOULD receive a briefing before jumping! This should include what NOT to do. ( reaching up or jumping up). If in doubt, fall off the strut and enjoy the lack of relitave wind!

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So Heath, how about that skyvan? where is it? Is Johnny9lives refunding everyone's registration?

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Of course I can't fly headdown but I stayed in Holiday Inn last night

I know someone who hold an Examiner rating in every one. Let me know I'll PM you his name.

I personally know of a DZ that doesn't offer "A" license as a goal. You see with an "A" comes Parachutist Magazine with all the DZ listed across the world! He will lose business to his turbine competition. Also if his student never get's an "A" they have to keep renting his gear cause they don't know they can buy/jump their own. At this very Drop Zone they do not have an AFF-I. They have two S/L-I. Their training is 5- static line jumps, then the two S/L-I's take the student up to 10k for aff jumps/training till graduation. Usually S/L training is 5-s/l jumps then 5, 10, 15, 30 second delays. Not AFF style exit with 2 S/L instructors. I will not involve myself in this because of the implecations, however I looked it up in the BSR's for shits and grins and found a very interseting paragraph regarding this. Apparently this kind of training can be done if the student takes or has taken an AFF FJC hosted by an AFF-I. BSR's 2-1 E 5.C page 7 in the 2003 SIM's

I stopped logging after 587 jumps that is when I finally acquired 6 hrs. Darn hop-n-pop! I'll log only if there was something really memorable about the jump. However I still do not have it signed. If I meet some one and I want their signature I may ask them to sign a jump I have already logged. If I want someone's email or phone number I may ask them to put in my log book. Mostly stuff like that now.

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I wondered about adjustable harnesses on tandems and how they would be affected. What do you think about appling this same design to tandems and passsenger harnesses? >>>>>>>>>>> Ditto, I am worried about this also, as a newly rated Tandem Instructor MY first objective when I arrive at the DZ tommorow afternoon is to inspect the AMLW on our Vectors with a picture of the 3 from Sunpath's SB.

When I bought mine new it was frome Sunshine Factory. It had a dead battery sitten' on the shelve.\ \

how old are u Squeak?

hi stealth, change the battery.

OK Tonto, how old are you?

I used to pull around 2.5K or 2K. I know what a risk I was taking! After I bought a Cypress2 last year I moved my pull up to 3.5K to 3k. I think one who has an AAD must adjust their survival plan. I once saw a jumper buy student gear with a big ole reserve and an FXC 1200 AAD. He put a Sabre 170 as a main. Below 2000' he pulled a 180 front riser an guess what? His two out was stable in a Bi-plane. Due to poor training, or a brain fart he cleared the breaks on the reserve and the shit hit the fan. The configuration went sloppy and he cut away, the main (cut away) entangled in the reserve suspension lines (RSL helped). It finaly cleard the reserve at about 50 ft. The jumper had time to turn into the wind(90 degrees) and land unevently. Lucky guy! The jumper stated he could feel the AAD fire, even though he could not see it happen.

Hay Jeff, I have a Neptune for a wrist mount. I have a pro ditter in my helmet, and on occasion I wear a chest mount alt. I like the chest on training jumps when I'm sit flying. The Atl. floats up in a sit and can be read with just eyes (looking down with only eyes) no movement of the head. Also with the digital age sometime it good to have that good old "analog type" altimiter just n case the batteries in the digital decide to go dead. The only cause I have with chest mounts "chest strap mount" it can block your view of your E handles. Don't blow off the dust, let the relative wind have it desert. After 23 years I'm sure its hungry! J

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I'm glad you brought this back up to the top of the page Justaman. I wanted to comment but you were cut short by others and felt I was kicking a dead horse. By posting about the "old timers" and their way of training I have in common with you. I am the only Instructor at my home DZ to hold a Coach rating. The rest were grandfathered to Instructors in from Jumpmasters. What I find helps is to start an A-license Proficiency card with the students logbook, as the student progresses they will bring their logbook to their Instructor. It will force the old school jumpmasters to LOOK at the new way of training. Soon the students will start requesting the Instructors who will assure their training is up to the ISP and the Old school JM will fade out. I'm not trying to say that all of the old timers are ignorant, they just have been doing this for so long they seem uninterested in ISP or the USPA for that mater. Personally I really hate to have to take a logbook and go through it with a 2 page pro card and start looking for the skills completed in that logbook by accident, and then returning to the student and say well " your gonna have to do this, or that to get the A-lisence" The student says usually "Why is that important? or I have already done that". To which I respond " It's a requirement in black and white (yellow) and it is not in your logbook. The students get pissed off cause they have (met the requirements of the Instructor) but not the requirements of the USPA. They also get pissed off cause they spent their money and jumps on training and they received less than they expected. They do not meet the requirements for an A

Post: Here's the list from this thread: Jacob (2 people) Chad and hopefully Veronica William Laurel Sup laurel! what the dealee-osoo. Gonna have that Kingair to boot, or just the Otter?

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