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Basically I want to send my aad from england
Get it back and get Colin to pack it with my reserve.
But i dont particularly want to pay a rigger in uk to open it take my aad out and do a reserve pack just for colin to have to redo it 5 weeks later! I wont be jumping in between

I dont fancy jumping without an AAD, I just want to send it off and then get Colin at empuria to do my reserve pack!

Cheers

Hi guys, my 4 year cypres service is due. I live in england, but am jumping in spain in six weeks.
Is it possible to remove a cypres oneself(i have no rigger qualifications) and send it and then get just the one reserve pack. Or do i have to pay a rigger to take it out pack my reserve, and then pay another six weeks later to put it in again??

thanks

Might leave it til late April then?
Thanks

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Bring a sweatshirt and a rain jacket. And shorts and flip flops.

Yep, you might need one set at Elsinore and the other at Perris or vice versa. January is a crap shoot.

What about early April?

Hi, Can anyone tell me what I could expect weather wise later march/april in Perris. Is it usually dry, and is it hot, or just warm?
Many thanks

P.S Is it generally hotter at skydive san diego?
Thanks again

Has anyone used it?
Are the alarms under canopy accurate?

I appreciate some first hand info, as it sounds potentially a nice bit of kit.

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The 45 degree rule lives on

It does. The largest DZ in Europe generally uses it as their guide for exit seperation...

Cool. Now it's been established that they are wrong.

Where's that? Empuria?

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From where do you get those numbers? PD seems to be very secret about pack volumes. My understanding is that an Optimum packs about one and a half size smaller than the same sized conventional reserves from PD.

Thanks for the reply , but what I would want is the opinion of someone that has actually tried. Nothing beats empirical data you know.

/Martin

http://www.performancedesigns.com/docs/OptimumFAQ.PDF .......will tell you what size your optimum replaces.



http://www.performancedesigns.com/docs/Reserve_manual.pdf .........will give you ALL the pack volumes, including woth different line sets (VERY SECRETIVE) and the rest.

All of the pd website my friend, just trying to help, obviously as i don't jump an optimum 126 I won't bother next time

http://www.unitedparachutetechnologies.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24

PD state that as ageneral rule, optimum replaces the next size down in pd reserve. So it should replace a 113.
For your container u should be looking at a 106 PD reserve/113 optimum, might be tight???

Pack volume for PD 106 is 249
Pack volume of Optimum126 is 271

Si

looks like florida again then!!!

N/A

I went ot california in march once, it rained for most of the week??

Hi, we fly from England every March to florida, aas the weather's great, with plenty of bars and hooters!

Maybe we change destination this March.
Anyone reccomend a country or place, with great weather (IN MARCH)!, nice dz's, nice planes, and plenty of bars, that's not florida???

Many thanks

Dude, everyone is clapping you on the back for 'staying alive' !

Sorry to be harsh, but the only reason your alive is luck ...that your downplane wasn't fatal, downplanes have killed many.

Jumping with a solid cloud base at 1500ft

Audible Alti not working correctly

Chest strap not done

No Altitude awareness demonstrated (If it wasn't for your AAD you'd be a statistic)

No Awareness of 2 canopy out management (with a downplane configuration, - chop the main immediately)

We all make mistakes and I'm no expert, but I'd consider preparing for the sport a bit better.

http://www.pauljcooper.co.uk/videos/Stall1.wmv
Inside plane footage

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I'm not a pilot, but on the uk thread, it seems the new USA pilot, has stated pilot error 100%!!
Anytakers?

http://www.ukskydiver.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=5785&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

I think you may be confused. DiverDriverUS (Chris) is not the new American pilot at Dunkeswell (Ed).

No Craig
I'm not confused, its not what i said. I quote from uk forum:

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The plane is 110% safe to jump out of - given the correct pilot which we now have. Ed has been flown in from the states to fly the King and is also in agreement that it was caused by pilot error when he evaluated the footage.

I was interested why pilots including Chris think COG is the main culprit, yet the new USA pilot says pilot error.

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This footage from several different people throughout the plane and the footage from outside the plane has been shown to pilots from Hinton, Langar and other pilots at Dunkeswell and all the pilots are in total agreement that it was pilot error, I quote they said "100% pilot error " They say this incident had nothing to do with CoG (Center of gravity)

Also the weekend before an 8 way freefly group was the first group out. I was 4th out the door and this did not cause any problems!!! The 3 people in the freefly group could not of caused this especially as noone moved in the plane prior to it stalling.

There is nothing wrong with the King air nor anything wrong with them jumping out in groups etc. For a plane that weighs so much a mear 3 skydivers in the door weighing approximently 200 Kg is not going to cause a stall.

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I've seen the video of the King Air stall in the UK. I believe that having jumpers in the tail of the aircraft while other jumpers moved out to floating positions very strongly contributed to that stall. What the actual speed of the jump run was I don't know. What did the pilot say he was flying at and what had he been told to fly at? What power settings was he told to fly at and what did he actually fly at?

But most certainly the one jumper in the tail who grabbed another jumper when he felt the stall coming on actually exacerbated the situation by pulling the jumper TO THE REAR OF THE AIRCRAFT. Not good. He certainly knew something was coming on and was trying to signal to the jumpers on the outside to go and go quickly. However, it seems they were waiting for their group member to join them in the door. Jumpers should be reminded not to get tunnel vision. That's easier said then done though. You're not expecting someone not in your group to start wildly waiving their arm. A more obvious and situation altering action like leaving the plane himself instead of grabbing the other jumper would have caused the group to possibly go earlier and keep the situation from getting out of hand.

If you are climbing on the outside of the plane and you suddenly feel some buffeting or you feel light on your feet this may be your only warning of the onset of a stall. It may require you to immediately leave the aircraft. If you are going to have rear floaters you MUST first get people out of the rear cabin area aft of the door so that the total CG shift is first FORWARD then AFT. This climb out the CG just kept getting more and more aft with dead weight (two jumpers in the far tail) still inside.

That's my opinion.

I also read on the UK boards that the video shows that the plane never leveled off and was still nose up. How do they suppose that? I couldn't say that from the one POV video uploaded to the skydiving video website. Just because you can see the top of the horizontal stabilizer doesn't mean he's still in a climb attitude. It means the jumper wearing the camera is tall enough to see over the horizontal stab. That's all. There are clouds in the background and no horizon is really discernable until fully into the stall and the jumpers fall off the aircraft.

I am really interested in hearing what the pilot was trained to do and what he says he actually flew during that run. Maybe the training needs to be looked at. Maybe the pilot did mess up. But I believe there's a bit of blame to go around.

I'm not a pilot, but on the uk thread, it seems the new USA pilot, has stated pilot error 100%!!
Anytakers?

http://www.ukskydiver.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=5785&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Anyone taken their rig to USA form england as hand luggage recently? I've always done it, but just wanted to check it was still okay?

Apologies if this has been up.
Englands new national stadium gets jumped
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,11021-2006410749,00.html?channel=Sun%20Exclusive&clipID=1347_SUN1389

Hi, was thinking about going to Florida in Late March, which may be a bit dodgy with the weather perhaps.

Eloy looks good, but can anyone tell me how isolated it is? i.E are there places to drink nearby, Hoooters etc, orare u pretty much stuck at the dz?

Thanks

Thanks, i didn't know that.
What is the main small alternative now that sony hc aren't being made with central lens? I'm not sure I want this big Sony z3 on top of my helmet

Hi, i know this question has been asked (but not for a while) and I have searched, but there is soi much stuff its very confusing.
What is the current camera to buy for normal helmet use (side of a 2K etc).
I'm looking for something reasonably priced, and very light, that I can also use at home for my baby girl.
Are Hard drive cameras now in? Reason I ask is I don't want to buy, and then find its outdated in 2 years and everyone has HD's?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

There seemed to be a pilot chute issue, which has been resolved now ?
http://www.bpa.org.uk/safetydocs/Safety%20Notices/S%20INFO%201-06.doc

http://www.bpa.org.uk/forms/council/STC%20Minutes%20-%201%20June%202006.doc

Section 3

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Don't quote me on this, but although your correct, having a real lose band/stow, even though its the first one, could mean lines becoming unstowed as the bag leaves, and potentially the bag could turn through the lines causing a malfunction. I think its unlikely that a regular band on a double stow will cause a bag lock however.

Do you know how many line stows a reserve has?
2 locking only.

Yes I did know that. what has that got to do with this? PD reccomends ALL stows be tight, rather than lose to avoid line dump, or the above. That was my observation.