Rooky

Hi, I love the cut in laterals of my new wings. Maybe it's heavily dependant of body shape (I'm the 5'11" more skinny type) if they improve the fit. My old rig without them was a pain in back flying cause it shifted sideways affecting a stable body position. The new one with the cut in's moves nowhere

Hmm, for me, it looks like a line over. A complete one over the whole canopy down the opposite side lines. With one or more lines, hard to tell from the video. But there are a few twists in the right line group as well, so there might be more than the lineover. Greez, Martin

Was the rig really equipped with a skyhook (or a regular RSL)? I thought a skyhook only releases the reserve pin when both risers are "gone". Am I wrong here? EDIT: It seems I was wrong. The skyhook releases the left riser's cutaway cable, if the right riser detaches first. So this scenario is also possible with the skyhook. ...and with a standard RSL fitted on the right riser. Martin

Although it's possible, it is yet unusual: The lower steering lines are not routed through the guide rings on the rear risers (for stowing breaks).

Thanks, very nice clip! Now I'm even more impressed by Bill and his achievments. But Bill, I was quiet astonished to see that "the man of skydiving himself" flys his seaplane without a parachute on his back. Martin

Hi Dave, that supports the theory of some models with built in desire to turn away. It would suck to get such an exemplar. But ok, unless you are doing biggerways, I think it's acceptable. Occasionally hard openings would suck much more. Is there a difference between harness and rears to steer the opening? My current canopy reacts nearly zero to harness but I grab the rears after line stretch, wise or not. Rooky

Thanks Deyan. I have a few jumps on sabre2 and on the pilot. I didn't like the pilot somehow and I have to find someone with a safire2 yet. My sabre2 jumps were nice and on heading, except one (sporty 120 left). But I doubt body position on that one. Maybe it was due to packing. Greetz, Rooky

Hi there, This poll goes to Sabre2-jumpers. I want to replace my current square with a new canopy. My current favorite is the Sabre2. The only black spot seems to be the opening direction capabilities. And I'm used to on heading openings... Some say the Sabre2 "never" opens on heading, others say the opposite. Maybe it's body position, maybe there are single ones (or most) more prone to off heading openings. So, how went your Sabre2 jumps?

These two show canopy transfers. First one at 10sec and slowmo at 24sec, just before it gets blurry. Video quality not the best. Second one is a good example of "reserve is more horizontal" ...and loss of altitude awareness http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=search&search=do&string=canopy%20transfer&searchtype=allwords&click=1&sortby=datedesc Martin

According to your website the "Putting in the free bag" up to "Paperwork" part is done twice. That's absolutely much work for 40, ehm 50$ (edit - spelling)

The manuals of containers and/or reserve canopies describe the process of reserve packing, usually with a picture each step. You can download these manuals from most of the manufacturer websites. If you don't have your own container yet, here's the UPT Vector 3 for exapmle: http://www.unitedparachutetechnologies.com/PDF/Support/Manual/09354(V3_Manual).pdf Hope I could help. Martin

The 2nd article you quoted (high wind landings by Jan Meyer) says The picture shows D as width of obstacle accordingly. Is this a different "theory" or simply a mistake? I was always told "10 to 12 times of obstacles hight". Never heard this one. Could someone explain, please? Thnx, Martin

Wow, respect! Great work (both video and helmet)

ieks, hope you recover fast don't be so hard to yourself, because not plf'ing. i'm sure, next time you need it, your instinct motions are more like plf. although noone wants such a situation, i think you will learn a lot from that (or already learned). my bet is nasty gust or dust devil , too. as others mentioned already, theres not much you can do to fully recover your canopy from those conditions. i think your early flare made the situation worse. not a big deal in no-wind, but here? something i remember from brian germains article "Collapses and Turbulence" (link still on dz.com main page) is, your best weapon against turbulence is forward speed. right at the moment the gust hits your canopy, your forward speed was nerly zero. imagine an perfect flare situation. now if the gust had hit you at the same altitude, the effect on the canopy were less critical, because of more forward speed (canopy passes the gust quicker and your toggle inputs have more effect with more forward speed). if the gust had hit you at the same "nearly zero forward speed" in that perfect flare scenario, than the result would be same as it happend to you, but your fall would have been much lower, because you had reached the ground already (at least with your feet). just my 2 cents. oh, and sorry for weird write up, english is not my first language. i hope that makes any sense. and to all the expierienced guys, please correct me if my thought were totally bullshit! hope, you will come out of it even stronger

You can see him flaring after the 180 before completing the 360 and twisting the risers. I think the tricky part ist timing and correct toggle input at the right moment (flying backwards too). No additional corrections possible after that, I assume. Definetly a "wow"-one