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Hey all this will get better exposure here; The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) "Screaming Eagles" Parachute Demonstration Team at Ft. Campbell Kentucky has 2 opennings on its 2005 Demonstration Team. Interested soldiers in the Army need to be either assigned to or on orders for Ft. Campbell, obtain a letter of release from their battalion, and pass the 2 week selection to begin the 90 day probation. On the Team jumpers will make 400 to 600 jumps annually. 50 of those jumps will be Demonstrations in LEVEL 2/Stadium landing sights. Jumpers will have the opertunity to earn the Freefall Coach Rating, Static Line Instructor Rating, Tandem instructor Rating and the PRO Demonstrator Rating. Jumpers will jump from; C-182's, UH-60's, CH-47's, C-130's, C-141's, C-17's and all other civilian skydiving aircraft. Jumpers will be issued all equipment to perform their duties, this equipment can be used by the jumper on off time at any USPA DZ in the country. Essentially you will be given almost $6000.00 of skydiving gear toi use on your own as a member of the Team. Any one interested in being on the team should contact SGT Dewey Vinaya at (270) 798-4410 or by e-mail [email protected] to arrange interviews. An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

B2, This probaly came up already but Skydive AZ could help her out wit ha deal and it would be better for all concerned the positive word of mouth for your DZ would be equal to the Bad word of mouth for Skyride. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I may be wrong but I feel your a UN supporter. So I will use the internationally legal example. On paper the war in Iraq is legal, weather you agree or not, the US has a UN security council authorization. If your not a UN supporter I do appalogize. But the war is legal as far as the UN is concerned and the 2 trials I have heard about in the tirbunal have agreed. (I read about them while i was in Iraq but can't remember if it was Time, or US news and Worl Report but it was a real small blurb in a magazine like that, almost like the ydidn't want you or I to know, but still quilify them selves as fair and unbiased by reporting all sides of the news). Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Colledge money can be spent while on active dut yor after it is up to the individual on how he or she works it. He should have to pay it all back(the collegde fund) and since he is in breach of contract pay back all he earned (base pay, jump pay, Housing, Basic allowence for food, Clothing allowence, and any other money he got for him and his family) at least from whe nhe "claimed" his new status. Didn't this same fellow already go to Afganistan, then desert? As a soldier all I keep thinknig about is the 30 other soldiers in his platoon who had counted on him to help watvh their backs and had to deploy with out him and hope his replacement was able to meet the task (he watched their backs against the taliban). Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

As an S&TA, I require the Time to be up to date. That is what I learned as a student. So far most of all my Students have become my team mates and are shooting for AFF, which my understanding is you will need an up to date free fall log since you need a minimum amount of time as a pre rec to the course. I have found that an up todate log book helps to resolve issue rather quickly. This is usually with the FAA since my job has me working with them near daily. The occasional DZ conflict has been resolved by log books too, in my experience. But remember it is only my experience and opinion for getting all the jumps logged and signed. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

A rigger can correct me if I am wrong here, but a gear maker told me the risers "should" stretch during some really hard opennings to avoid damage to the harness and more damage to the jumper. The stretch will of course pop stiches but the riser did its job buy not transering all the openning shock to the harness, if the harness breaks we would have bigger issues. I think Bill Booth actually made his original design and subsequent improvements with the stretch in mind. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I have a Michigan suit that has lasted 8 years mostly from careful care but a large part from the shoe goo protecting the whole toe area while crawling around the cessna and sliding in with tandems (oh ok the occasional oops on the zp landing too!) Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

When I bought a new cypress I looked at is as a 12 year investment. To me, throwing away a device that is good for 4 more years is not economical. If I threw some thing away at 8 years with 1/3 its life still left then every 16 years I would through 1 whole device away. An easier way for me was to look at the device lasting 12 years, that is 2 in 24 years. But if i through it away after 8 years that is 3 in 24 years and that is a $1000.00 expendature I do not have. Just an opinion of a "frugal" skydiver. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Paul and Betty have been partnersfor a while now and you can expect nothing buut greatness from the Florida Skydiving Center in the future. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I went back and looked at the older waiver tape (#5 i think) and it does have a "aff" style exit in it I do not have new waiver tape to compare right now. My examinor didn't metin any thing there during the Instructor course (july '99) additionally 2 years ago when I went through the RWS examinor course I do not remember being told not to do that but do remember handle checks being stressed a lot. but it is probably my fualt as and don't remeber as I was told I was heading over seas during the class and was trying to "multi taks" and do more than 1 thing at a time. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Dave, Is this some thing new? The waiver tape used to show Bill doing that exact exit (unless I am not correct in the exut being discussed) Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I have jumped both and would go with the wings. It may be a bit more expensive but it sounds "newer" and could last longer if it is. Maybe you could get to a few of the boogies around that have demo rigs and try out the various ones on the market. I personnally jump a wings and thus a bit partial.

OK here goes, "size doesn't matter" (that will start a debate i am sure in the wrong direction). But in my opinion; confidence, capability and experience matters. At 5'8" 180lbs I have jumped a varied size range in the 600 tandems i have done. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

on T-10's there are no such lower vents nor 4 line releases. Not that that actually applies to the explanation. the maker said to me (during a few test jumps to work on replacing the current round design for the military) while i was an instructor for the airborne school in Ft. Benning, His explanation was that if the canopy had a solid design (no apex vent) the canpopy would act like a cup full of air, eventually the canopy would have to tilt to relase air as it would start to ride a "bubble" and begin to wobble which would lead to oscilations. It made sense to me at the time as i had 140 + round jumps and had made 5 during the test to that point. But maybe my experience that the maker's explanation only applied to that type of round. The MC-1 (stearable round) has an apex and the rear ports for control. But the apex design is a bit different as it has a skirt that helps to make it smaller. just my experience is all. I am not a maker nor master rigger who has actually studied it in design nor aplication, just a joe who has jumped a few. Blue ones! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Yes it is to avoid oscilations wich whe nyou land in one hurts like hell! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I know a team from Ft. Campbell that would use it every other month (as long aswe are not "out of town") And a bunch of others who would make the road trip too! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I run a small Demonstration Team that uses "Wings" rigs for its Student Training, Relative Work, Demonstration Jumps with smoke and for its camera jumpers. We have Large 7 cell demonstration canopies in most of our rigs, but we do have several smaller ones holding zero-p canopies for the camera jumpers. The system is tough, they take some serious abuse from our students and the smoke, but still look good after the 3 years we have had them. I have been offered a free rig for my personnal use by a competeing maker but chose to buy one from Sunrise instead.

I agree with chuck and aggie dave. Any canopy can do what your's did in turbulance. My opinion is that the flatter faster gliding canpies will be effected by turbulance at or neer the same flight level as a canopy to its front where in the old days we would usually onloy have that problem slightly above and to the rear. I have a few jumps on the Rage (a 130 loaded at 1.46) and have flown behind , above and in front of several other models trying to get film, I have only had 1 complaint, it opens pretty slow. But at my age a slow soft openning may be good for the old back. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

In the FAR's, (para phrased) you may use your reserve as a Main once, then placed back as a reserve (for a test jump to ensure brake setting and to have experience under the parachute). Any jump (other than as a reserve ride) beyond 1 makes the reserve a main only canopy. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

GQ, Thank You for the support. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I jump Michigan suits and have done so for 8 years. I put 500 (+ or-) jumps a year on mine and like them a lot. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

This is what I did; I got the Type 8 with large rings, I can always put a mini riser demo canopy on and switch to a large ring demo if I jump one, but I could not put a large ring type 8 riser on a mini ring type rig. I have several riser set ups and the large ring allows me to switch through all of them. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I havejumped them all (18 years active duty and still going). A funny moment was watching to fellows jumping out of a C-17 who planned on a CRW jump. They each stood at the opasite corner of the ramp and poised out together. The plan was hit the wind and base would then deploy as the bag cleared the pin would deploy. WHAT HAPPENED WAS, as they exited the slip stream sent them across the ramp into each other at 135kts! They actually pulled a pretty sweet verticle move and deployed as planned only reversed from the original plan. My frist freefall was as a Tendem Student out of a C-141, 14,000" over Fryar Field in Alabama (yep the Ft. Benning GA DZ is actually over the border in Alabama. Now I have done the same as a Tandem Examinor! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

If you think that was bad you should have heard the Rap artist called Orion! Not only can he not sing his own songs but he really embarassed himself! An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Billy, You did the right thing! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!