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it has a USB port, but the only remote activation that i have found is an IR remote. Is it possible to control the shutter with the USB?

How do i get one? I have an Olympus E500 and have trying to figure out a way to use it!

Funny, the only experience I have had with only having one tuck tab come open on deployment was on sigmas, and it's usually good for taking a bite out of your neck. As far as the lines going slack when the tuck tabs open evenly and allowing the canopy to retreat from the slider? I think the relative wind might have something to say about keeping it up against the slider stops. Sounds a bit like picking fly shit out of pepper.

Does this mean the "Big" swoop event is going to be the Ranch pond swooping nationals again?

Hey Tara, I think there will be a few Snohomies there this weekend too!

Thanks.

nope, your moving faster through the air as well. Airplanes have a higher stall speed at altitude, stall speed is only measured in air speed, and ground speed is irrelevant. Air is liquid. think of it this way, if air was molasses your canopy would have a harder time pushing through it. now if it was water it would move through it faster (less viscosity) with the same amount of energy being put in to the system. The amount of energy (gravity) being put in will be the same, but because the atmosphere is thinner, you will be moving faster through it. The phenomenon that you describe sounds like the difference between landing into the wind and landing downwind. the column of air that the canopy operates in is stationary in relation to the pilot, but moving in relation to the earth, thats why the amount of air you feel on your face (air speed) is the same if you point your canopy into the wind, or if your are running with it, but you will have a very different ground speed. I can assure you the two are unrelated.

no, less atmosphere does not = less velocity. A fixed foil (canopy, wing, rotor, etc.) requires "X" unit volume of Earth's atmosphere flowing to remain in flight, and since air density (volume of Earth's atmosphere) decreases with increasing altitude, the only way to maintain the required volume is to increase velocity (air speed). You have the same volume of air flowing over your wing at a given altitude, but at a higher velocity. This is why your canopy will have a higher stall speed at higher elevations.

??? Your kidding right?

Oh ya! With the Infinity freestow bag I went like six months before I borke a rubber band. Seriously.

Two locking stows and the rest in the free stow pocket.

I had a little skip last weekend too, that when replayed in my head was a series of small errors in judgement that added up to a sore hip, knee, foot and compression fractured T5 vertebrae. Sounds like, as was my case, it could have been alot worse and you have learned from it. I am happy to have walked away and greatful to have learned a lesson without too serious of consequence. Heal fast, Craig

Thanks JP.

I am trying to remember in the IRM what it said about at what point during a students progression can an instructors rating cross over from a different method. i.e., a static line or IAD instructor can instruct a AFF student, or vice versa. If I remember correctly it was after all of the method specific jumps were done. (after griped exits for AFF, or after the student is off static line, clear and pulls) If someone has an IRM handy please refresh my memory. Thanks, Craig

I am trying to remember in the IRM what it said about at what point during a students progression can an instructors rating cross over from a different method. i.e., a static line or IAD instructor can instruct a AFF student, or vice versa. If I remember correctly it was after all of the method specific jumps were done. (after griped exits for AFF, or after the student is off static line, clear and pulls) If someone has an IRM handy please refresh my memory. Thanks, Craig

Count me n' April in!

The funny thing is I had six students in a row tip $20 each this weekend and that was AWESOME but I kept thinking "Damn i wish I had a Sammich!"

the tandem master is pretty much pushing you out all ready. as long as you are not grabbing things like a cat about to be pushed in a tub of water you will be out the door before you know it. I have run into a lot of situations like this and found that most people go, and if you don't It usually doesn't bother me because I get paid the same either way.

One thing you might also try is pushing your students hips from side to side under your hips. If you shift them under yourself you can use then like a rudder. Its a pretty effortless way to turn. In the long run it is a lot better to just let the student do what they do and fly yourself.

I started jumping Xbraced canopys safely at about 350 or 400 jumps. Fortunately for me I didn't have to learn the hard way (knock on wood), and I certainly would not recommend it! I am sure that I would be a lot better off now had I taken more time with each step.

I would really like to thank all of the people (Josh, Todd, Tom, Jeff, Luke, Karen, Bryan, Stu, Tyson) that told me that I was a F*&%ING IDIOT and I was going to kill myself when I was a 2 or 300 jump wonder. And especially those that would take the time to teach the right way to learn. Yer the reason I am here today! (Ha ha, jokes on you guys!) I don't know how many times it's been said, but here's one more. THERE ARE NO SHORT CUTS IN LEARNING TO SWOOP!

I thought you might like that one.

Hummm. If I am envisioning this correctly in my minds eye, the throw doesn't change (unless the lines are so long that the tail deflects up) Your hand position of the risers is the same, the only thing changing is you now have an unobstructed grasp on the rears. The distance your hands have to travel in order to input the brakes when you transition is the same, therefore the time from release of rears to input of brakes (in theory) is the same.

So wouldn't the "pop" be more a function of staying on rears longer than maybe you should as opposed to where the ring is? I could see brake line length contributing, (i.e. too long) but not location of the ring.