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yes.

At a lot of DZ's they solve that very problem by having a default landing direction for light and variable conditions.

What does that mean? This post (and the rest of that thread) may help explain it. Eule Thats the funniest thing I have ever seen!

Luckyyyyy.

Ya, and NOOOOOBODY speeds, right?

Is it Honda's responsibility to teach people to drive? Maybe Nike should teach people to walk.

Dusty will be leaving soon. After spending a week there, I witnessed at least two close calls, three times where people were landing the wrong direction after the pattern had been set (into the wind) and one person doing 360's in the pattern. The new policy has done nothing to increase safety. If anything it has made it harder to predict what people are doing in the pattern. FYI only one of the instances that I saw was a swooper contributing to the problem.

I hooked it up today and made a few jumps. I really liked it. I was concerned that it might cause tail flutter, but it wasn't affected.

I have even jumped a VX 68 at over 3.0. Light is a very relative term.

Jump a Xaos at 2.6 and you might change your mind on the riser pressure.

I have had five or six xaos's now and i don't do anything out of the ordinary. Just a clean pack job. I also use a free stow bag ( only two locking stows and a pouch to stow the extra line after that ) so I don't think it makes much difference how much left over line you leave. The "bowtie" issue is a five minute fix, just set the brakes about an inch deeper and problem solved.

Damn. Yer right.

No man. Groung launching is week. last week. SPEED FLYING is where it's AT! even though speed flying WAS ground launching last week.

Pissssssssh. Swooping is like so last year. It's so played out it's about as obscure as that freak flying all those young punks used to do. Don't you know?

A "D" license is an "expert" license, if one wishes to be considered an "expert" than they have to prove proficiency in many different areas, not just in ideal conditions. Besides, with proper training and preparation they can be performed very safely and are a lot of fun!

only on Tuesdays

Correct me if i am wrong, but I thought i read that it had more to do with two jumpers flying their base legs at each other, one flying a canopy that could be difficult to see because of the color, and the other flying towards the setting sun (impairing vision). I thought the early reports of 360s in the pattern were erroneous. "On Saturday at 5 PM in a jumping exercise Ed, nearing the end of the jump, was making a right turn at the same time as another jumper was making a left turn, both turning into the sun which hampered their vision. They collided at about 200 feet."

having a tiny grass landing area surrounded by dessert that gets all over you and inside your canopy and full of obstacles is kinda setting all those people that pay for facilities to skydive at up for disaster. preach all you want about being able to land any where but if you can afford multiple million dollar plus aircraft and jets for toys you should be able to afford a little bit more water. everyone is making apologies and rationalizing SDA's behaviour when they aren't bothering too. they do not want high performance landings at their dropzone. they aren't going to expand facilitites to cater to all types because they simply do not want to. they think their landing area is perfectly acceptable if you do not have high performance turns in the mix. i think they are taking a stand and don't give a shit. i think they are short sighted in their behavious but recognize that they run a dropzone so they can as they see fit. im the customer, i will spend my $$ where i see fit. it all works out. Thank you. My point exactly. I have no problem with them not wanting the swooping clientel. I do, however, have a problem with them saying that they will let you out on a hop n pop to swoop, but then saying that they do not encourage it. Just tell it like it is. you don't want swooping there. cool. no I am serious, I have no proplem with that.

Planed on doing that too. All part of training.

Ian, thanks for being the voice of reason.

I'll be there next month, I'll let ya know.

They have been pretty explicit in stating economical validity of low passes. (if you want to do a 270 or more just get on a low pass) good luck with that. I'll bet low passes at Eloy now are as rare as a virgin on prom night!

BINGO! The biggest common denominator here is too many people trying to land in the same area at the same time. Maybe Eloys landing area is too small to handel parallel jump runs. anyone have any thoughts?

QuoteYou get just as much canopy time in 15 AFF/ISP jumps as you do in 15 static line (or IAD... why does anybody still do static line?) jumps. No reason the same things can't be learned using either method.[reply/] you might get as much canopy time with both methods, but the time you get is fruitful for learning canopy skills with S/L than AFF. It is the same manor as hop n pop being more beneficial to learn canopy skills than after an altitude skydive. less adrenaline, less task saturation, more ability to focus on flying the canopy as opposed to just using it to get you to the ground so you can go learn some more about freefall.

Um, Steve has a Pro card.