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  5. IMO:

    Arguably, Atmogear makes the best H/Cs, followed by Parazone and Paraavis, followed by Zvezda.

    Canopy-wise, that would be Skylark (on par with Western counterparts, and then some), followed by Paraavis (mediocre), followed by Zvezda (downright terrible).

    I am more familiar with BASE-gear from said manufacturers, but I would not hesitate to buy an Atmogear skydiving H/C and a Skylark canopy, and I would not buy anything from Zvezda, period (other than their accuracy canopy and then only if you can get it for a song).

    No TSO on any of the above though, and no plans of obtaining one.

  7. I had good experience with Aerodyne as a company and bad with one of their products. Aerodyne was good about everything, including a new (improved) lineset free of charge, because my Vision was behaving like crap with the older specs lineset. There was some fairly extensive canopy repair included later on which took an unexpected 3 months and I had to remind about it a couple times to get a status update.

    Overall, I'd rate my experience with Aerodyne 8/10 for how they handled the canopy repair issue, and 9/10 for how they handled a potentially faulty product issue.

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    Spiderman does Kathmner is the "getting stucked in the talus video" and sikretssjefen is a REAL carnage video!!!!!



    That was a low freefall into what looks to be a strong headwind with a lineover and a 4 second canopy ride. Does anybody know the canopy used and the number of UCL, and if there was a tailgate?

  9. It was the best we got until just recently ago when some new cliffs were discovered. This is still one of the highest cliffs available locally, of the few avaiable locally at all.

  11. Skylark canopies are generally well received on the Russian market for their quality. Dmitri Lukh, the owner and canopy designer of Skylark, plies his trade well. To the best of my knowledge there have been no recalls, bulletins, or unwanted behavior so far (unlike, say, Paraavis).

  12. Take a Troll 265 from pre-2006, and take a recent production DW Troll 265. Are they going to match in size? I've heard varying opinions.

    What is the borderline date when sizes start to mismatch? I presume around the time when the Troll became DW?

    (According to Stane the DW is a slightly different, slower airfoil. Do you notice it as being slower?

    Stane hasn't replied to any of my recent emails, btw. Maybe I got a wrong address though it worked a year ago. Maybe he's busy.)

  13. Is there a more profound reason for not having a slider-down packed, ram-air reserve as well as a cutawayable paraglider wing (cutaway RSL'ed to the reserve) than the lack of skydiving training in many paraglider pilots?

  14. It was about 800 ft, so I didn't really get that cold. I had the baddest whiplash from opening shock though because you can't really launch stable off that thing. They wouldn't let me jump at the dz because I was in a walking cast, and I was getting pretty desperate. Talked a pilot friend into letting me make use of his paraglider thingy.

    That looks like a BAD place to break at, does your xray.B| Kudos on not giving up.

  17. So far I found two scams that originated from Premier users. One is todbalon. In conversation both appeared fairly knowledgeable about their gear, which leads me to believe they are, or he is, a skydiver. The IP was next to identical for both, an AOL ip pool range, so that might be one person.

    The todbalon guy went so far as to send me a (badly) Photoshopped Fedex Air Waybill.

    I reported both to [email protected] and once to Sangiro via pm, but got no response in either case. It finally bothered me enough that I made a post about it.

    What bothers me is that it seems to be someone who skydives and that they go to the expense of setting up a Premier account. Fortunately these scams were fairly obvious as being too good of a deal (plus the little discrepancies add up -- say he says he is in the UK, but his IP is American).

    I think we might benefit from a feedback system similar to Ebay's. As an overseas buyer options like COD are not available to me.

    I am sorry that the original poster lost the money.:(

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    I feel for him. Anybody know the location and Date of jump in the vid. ?



    The jump took place on May 1, and it's a cliff in the Crimea around 1000 ft high (Foros Kant), the one that claimed #61 and #97.