Skydive_volker

hello, i had lasik done about 5 years ago. I am s skydiving instructor. My Doc said I could go back to work after 5-7 days...I waited 10 days just to be safe and I have don about 3-4t thousand jumps after the surgery since then..no problems whatsoever....also you will be using goggles so you shouldn't worry.

I have a GoPro on a Simon Wade cx100 glove. It works great. I have the gopro (the original hard housing that comes with the gopro) mounted on the side (outside) this works really great. i used standard gopro mounts/ angles... It is completely out of the way (no worries reaching handles) and the best: it gives me more reach...meaning "my arm gets longer" as the camera is on the outside so I can get the entire tandem in frame. I'll post a pic one of these days.

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Hello I have received the "supposedly new" design with the stiffer top part of the toggle. I do not think that there is any change....is is stiff on the top but is gets flimsy by the grommet. Thanks for posting skydiveoc . Interesting to hear that we are not the only DZ with that problem. it would be such an easy fix to extend the stiffener down. @ Rodger "I added a really stiff material across the toogle just above the grommet to prevent the brake line coming to far.the brake line gets snagged around the lip where it is folded back below the grommet. When i get back to the loft later in the afternoon, i will try to upload a couple pictures. Rodger " This sounds great! Could you please post a pic.

@alex Hi Alex, no it's not that the loops are too short...on the contrary a shorter loop would prevent this scenario. The toggle moves up to far. So the loop is down where the toggle in not stiff anymore and "ties up" the flimsy part. So when you try to release you are pulling the brake toggles down to release the brakes..the stiff part gets locked up by the loop see this VERY amateur drawing. The solution would be to have the stiff part go down further (like on Strong System toggles) Again: UPT says the the new ones are that way.

thanks rodger. could you post a photo of this? I just spoke with Mike @ UPT. They have new risers where the stiff part extends further down....I have ordere a set and will post if it solves the problem.

That sounds like it might work. has anybody else done this. Could there be any downsides to that?

thanks guys ...and sorry for the spelling mistake. of course I mean BRAKE toggles

The lines are spectra, and the openings are normal, very soft actually , Canopy HOP 330

Hello could we please get some input on this. We have Micro Sigmas 2 years old 400 jumps on them and a few older Sigmas..all well maintained. We seem to keep getting the break toggles stuck. When setting the breaks , when you stick the "rigid" top of the toggle through the retainer loop we seem to be getting the toggle up through the loop a tiny bit too much. So the loop is below the rigid part of the toggle and locks up where the toggle is flimsy, it ties of the rigid part so when we try to release we cannot pull it out. This seems to only happen at 2 rigs. It happened 3 times to me . I was able to " climb" up there and get it out..but yesterday we had 2 (!) cut-aways due to that (after not having had any other cut-aways in more than a year) I don't blame the instructor because when I had these incidences before I had to work all the way to my hard deck to get them released. and I had been very close to "giving up" and chopping... Side note We kept jumping them after my expereinces because we thought it was "just a packing issue" that we had addressed by not sticking them up too far. Side note: We do normally used the snaps but some instructors don't like them Any thoughts on how to prevent this. Are there any toggles out there where the rigid top bit of the toggle extends down further. (I believe when I worked in new Zealand our toggles were way more rigid and further down (Strong Tandems there) Any input would be appreciated.

i've done more than 1500 tandems on hops and before that a lot on icarus. lots of them were done in very turbulent conditions. i like the hop but i have to disagree with what was said earlier. do NOT fly them with any breaks in turbulence! you wanna be in full drive especially before landing. avoid flying with a tailwind when low because this increases the risk of collapses severely. so set up in a way that you can side crab your approach before going straight on final. (this is all in strong turbulent wind) this canopy is prone to collapses in turbulent wind condition especially with light passengers so you wanna make sure you avoid doing anything that might cause them close to the ground. without turbulence this is a great canopy. great performance low price. hope this helps. volk QuoteQuote

QuoteI, myself, don't often slide in on my butt. But my passenger gets sat down on their butt 95+% of the time. I slide in on my feet and support their wieght until we've come to a complete and total stop. I'm not saying that I can't stand most of my--end of quote --- hi aironscott, i didn't get this. where are your feet? do you have them wide on the side of the passenger or do you have them under the passenger? how does it work if you stand up and the passenger sits??? or did i get you wrong? i just started doing tandems end of last season and only have about 80 tandems. since i use different canopy types and sizes on almost all of my tandems (club gears in germany) i have not really gotten used to any canopy yet. i prefer slight-in-landings (95%), where i have the passenger lift up their legs and i support their legs with mine(if neccessary) to lift them up even higher. worked out well every time but once... i have also seen some other ti falling over their passengers while trying to stand up. i don't think it is woth it... however, it happened to me the other day that the passenger did not have his legs up far enough. i tried to support him and apparently did not get my feet up high enough--so i got caught in the grass and i twisted my ankle. any suggestions how to prevent anything like this? any inputs are appreciated! Volker