crotalus01

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  1. SCR is Star Crest Recipient and SCS is Star Crest Soloist. The SCR is an 8 way or larger round that has to be freeflown on exit (no grips) and held for (I think) a minimum of 5 seconds. The SCS is awarded for docking 8th or later - someone please correct me if I am wrong.... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  2. My first cutaway on jump 51 I dropped both my handles. It was the sunset load on the second day of a boogie, and my first jump on my new (to me) container that I had gotten the reserve repacked into the evening before . Got my canopy and freebag back the next day, and J Scrimsher gave me a D ring reserve handle and my rigger Danny Hall gave me a cutaway handle and repacked my reserve so I could get back in the air. Thanks guys!
  3. Our best guy at recovering cutaways always marked the spot where the freebag landed, determined the windline and walked straight up and down the windline from that point. Im guessing he had a recovery rate of 96 percent plus (not including baglocks). Hop and pop might help but obviously better the sooner you could do it. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  4. The main 'should' be on the windline up or downwind from where the freebag was found. In my experience usually further downwind. Can you do a hop and pop over where the freebag was found? As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  5. It could just be the angle of the photos, but the body position between pics 6 and 7 'look' to me like he got a little bit of a smack on opening... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  6. 1. Describes your emergency procedures in the event of a malfunction? One hand on each handle, peel punch right while arching, punch left. 2. Describe your canopy checks? There, square, steerable. 3. It is important to check your parachute equipment at what times? Before and during gearup, before getting on the plane. Check of 3s before exit (3 rings 3 handles 3 attachment points). 4. You should check your deployment handles in what order? Order of use. Personally I check mine in reverse on the plane. 5. Upon canopy deployment you are facing another canopy, the fastest way to turn your parachute out of the possible collision is? Rear riser turn. 6. Your main canopy opens with line twists, your immediate response is? Check for traffic, check altitude. 7. Under canopy you find yourself at 3000ft down wind of the 2000ft or holding point. Your response should be? Not enough Information. .. 8. What is your minimum decision altitude that you should carry out your emergency procedures if you are unable to control your main parachute? I believe the student recommendation is 2500' but for me its 1500'. 9. Your left hand flight path is going to take you over the centre of the PLA below500ft, your best response will be? Not enough information... 10. Correctly list the landing priority order? Wing level, into an open area, flare and prepare to PLF. 11. Which correctly lists the deployment priority rules? Pull, pull at the correct altitude, pull stable. 12. You have ended up having to land off the PLA, your new intended landing point is in a clear paddock but the surface is on the side of a hill. The wind direction is blowing directly up the hill. What should be your landing direction? Into the wind if possible. 13. You are coming in to dock on a formation. You should never? Reach. 14. Is it possible to land your canopy on half brakes? IN half brakes. Yes. 15. On your final turn for landing you find you are traveling very fast. You look up and find you are landing down wind. Your reaction should be? Take the downwinder, or flat turn if you have the altitude. 16. The PLA is surrounded by obstacles of trees and buildings, careful flight and concentration is required to land in the PLA. The obstacles that you can’t see on first glance may well include? Turbulence, rocks, fences, holes... 17. Your equipment is fitted with an AAD that is fitted to? The container. 18. You are in the second group to leave the aircraft. You look out the door and see the first group falling directly below the aircraft as opposed to falling away on about a 45º angle from the door. This indicates to you that? That whoever came up with this test needs Kallend to explain why the 45 degree 'rule' is bullshit. 19. The correct exit order for different free fall disciplines is? Belly freefly tandems AFF wingsuiters all largest to smallest. 20. You are flying a sport canopy in a load of 20 other canopies. Who has the right of way over you? Lower canopies and reserves. 21. When is your skydive deemed to be over? When I am back in the hanger. 22. The life and performance of your skydiving equipment can be greatly reduced by ................................? Lots of things. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  7. My first one was NOT automatic- probably because I was open fairly high and had a very low speed malfunction. In fact, I had to resist the urge to keep trying to fix it. My 2nd was completely automatic - I was low and it was a high speed spinner. I chopped it so fast that I really didn't know what the problem was until we recovered the main (with 9 broken lines among other damage). My 3rd was kinda Well hell, this just became an expensive jump...oh well... I guess my point is when its high speed the decision is easy. Its the "fixable" mals that really have the potential to bite you in the ass. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  8. Why put it on under canopy? Most canopies fly better with it off (or fully loosened). Seems it would be better to focus on the task at hand (flying the canopy). As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  9. Thanks. Was just curious because I jumped an Otter at STF a couple of years ago that I thought was theirs... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  10. Maybe a silly question but.... Went to Skydive Alabama last weekend and jumped an Otter from Skydive Spaceland. In the Otter was an overhead map for Skydive the Farm, AND Bruce from Skydive the Farm was the pilot. What gives? As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  11. It never spun up on me, just always opened briskly and in a diving turn every time. The turn was never enough to throw it into linetwists as long as I flew through it with the rears. I really didnt find it to be particularly twitchy either - but the trim was extremely steep and it was faster than I needed (or wanted). At any rate I was told by a few people that the opening issues were caused by the airlock design (I was not the only person to have issues with this canopys openings). As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  12. I was told by a rigger and a couple of other 5k+ jumpers that the opening spin was a problem inherent to the airlock design of the time (on some canopies more than others, even within the same canopy type) - one side would partially pressurize before the other during the snivel and then you were off to the races. I know one time on a solo high pull I got on the rears to keep it from spinning up and waited to see if it would correct itself. It took about 4 360s before it planed out and started flying straight (about 1100'). Once it was flying straight it was awesome. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  13. I had a Vengeance 170 that I put about 20 jumps on. I got rid of it because it was way too high performance for me - but honestly a big deciding factor in that decision was the openings. It flew great and I never had problems landing it, but every single opening on it was pucker factor 5.0+. It would take off in a spin every time. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  14. Never forget when using a packer - you pay for the packjob, not the opening... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  15. I jumped with a girl that had a Batwing 135 (ish - in that range anyways) and she never set her brakes. Said it helped with the openings. I guess it tended to open hard? Never thought to ask her.... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  16. Not sure about the "snap motion" part, but stalling the canopy removes the tension and can allow a tension knot to clear. Total crapshoot but not a bad idea if you have altitude IMO. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  17. You may be right about most, if not all, of what you claim. You may never lose altitude awareness and forget where you are (even though its happened to people with 1000s of jumps). You might never get confused by a two button camera and forget gear checks (even though its happened to people with 1000s of jumps). You might always notice a problem with your altimeter. Do you really think thats the only way to die? Lets say you get out on a solo and your altimeter takes a shit - what are you going to do? Can you eyeball what 3500' looks like with 15 jumps over however many years you've been jumping? Lets say everything is working fine - how do you know you are falling down the tube and not backsliding all over the sky, potentially putting you directly on top of any number of groups that left before or after you? Thats just 2 very real possibilities out of a damn near endless list of potential issues. I personally do not agree with all the rules we have, but they are there for a reason - and YOU are one of those reasons! If you got a seperate pass on every jump with noone else in the sky I suspect the majority here could care less if it had been 2 years since your last jump because you are right - odds are great that you're going to pull and be just fine. The problem comes with the fact that you are sharing the sky with others, and odds are decent that you are gonna fuck up and take out or injure me or one of my friends! Read the Incident Reports sometimes- they are chock FULL of people with hundreds and thousands of jumps who are DEAD...but yeah, you are better, and more altitude aware, and less distractable, and safer than all those dead folks. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  18. I usually pull either right at 2500' or between 2500' and 2000', but my canopy is typically open in +/- 500'. I like that little bit extra seperation I get from tracking a bit longer and pulling a bit lower. FWIW I think its a mistake to enact a BSR that may well cause the next generation of skydivers to be in panic mode just because they find themselves in freefall at or below 2500'... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  19. I'm not at all in favor of this new BSR, but honestly - unless someone is consistently pulling at 2K or under is anyone really going to notice? And IF they did how hard is it to excuse the action? Hard pull, floating hacky, someone above me in freefall, PC in tow etc. The biggest issues I can see are to Demo teams and low cloud days where a 2500' (or lower) hop and pop is no longer doable.... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  20. A similar (or possibly the same) picture is on the cover of Skies Call 2 (I think the cover but it may just be on the inside ). As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  21. You might want to get tested for it - one more thing to scratch off the list if it's negative. FWIW rash does not always present in Lyme, and your other symptoms match. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  22. I have one threaded onto each legstrap on the topside of my thigh pretty close to where my pockets would be if I was wearing pants. I keep a third in the inner I pocket of my jumpsuit. Drop the first one, break the second one, third times a charm! As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  23. Have you ever been tested for Lyme disease? As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  24. What are you, a doctor or something?? As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...
  25. Theres a picture out there of a guy that hit the wing of a largeish bird with his face. IIRC it broke his nose and gave him some lacerations, and killed the bird. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...