BobMoore

I thought leaning back while coming in fast was done just because chicks dig it and it looks cool on camera.

With all my many jumps I know I am still just an okay canopy pilot and I am impressed with what these guys can do with a parachute. On the other hand I know a little about physics and I can't imagine leaning back in a harness with two attachment points has any effect whatsoever.

I've been wrong before though. It was in summer of 1979 if I recall correctly.

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Speaking as a S/L student jumping square canopies, I wouldn't jump without an altimeter. I'm constantly being told about the need to fly a safe pattern and to make turns at certain altitudes (set up for landing pattern at 1000ft, crosswind leg at 500ft, final into wind leg at 300ft) and would find it hard to judge visually at this stage in my jumping career.

Just my 2c worth.

You're absolutely right. But at some dropzones they talk the student in with radios. With that technique the student can get a sight image and visualize how far the ground should look at the different positions in the pattern. Of course you also can get that image for yourself while checking the altitudes on your altimeter.

With radios an altimeter is isn't necessary, that is until they stop working.

I was told that he'd been Il for most of his life.

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As far as moms go, I must say she was pretty cool though: she never called me out on either of the two issues...

Elvisio "James Bond of love, I ain't" Rodriguez

She was probably relieved that you weren't into boys.

I'm a tiny dancer, with apologies to Elton John.

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The tandem pair is stable (in the relative wind of the hill), head high, and starting that transition down the hill into a stable belly to earth orientation. If you throw the drogue at that moment however, you are basically setting the drogue directly above you in relation to the ground, but also directly into the relative wind that blows the drogue behind you, right into your burble.

It can be the "perfect" burble in that it's your "down the hill" burble as you transition from the horizontal rel wind to vertical rel wind, keeping the drogue on your back throughout that entire transition down the hill, and can stay there quite a long time if you don't break up the airflow over your back.

I can't get my head clear on what you're saying here. Whether you're "on the hill" or not the drogue throw should be the same, out to the side and then up behind you.

Am I missing something here?

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Or it could be, according to Google:

http://www.eatfud.com/

Yes, I saw that and had to laugh. I learn something new every day.

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What is FUD?

A two second search on google.com says FUD is short for "fear, uncertainty, and doubt".

Google search is great. Use it.

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Would you ever through a student out without a altimiter. Most would scream no - very lowed I think - this is a next step topic - so treat it like a test -

No, and I wouldn't throw a student out without an altimeter either.

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So does this mean you're attending? Hope, Hope.
You could maybe the first jumper to dock 4th on a stack in two central american countries.

madjohn

Yep. I bought my tickets (on American - they just declared bankruptcy) and Mr. Grimm has my money. I can't wait to be warm again. Damn New York weather.

I haven't heard that we will be making any water jumps so my gutter gear will stay at home. If I have the pleasure of doing CRW with you again it will be with my Pilot instead of the Stiletto.

Counting down the days.

I have to try this wingsuit thing.

"The difference is that the wingsuit will give you extra surface area that gives your body life, ..."

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Jocularity! Jocularity !

that was Father Mulcahey

That was Col. Potter imitating Father Mulcahy during movie night.

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I'll be as nice to you as you are to me ...

Wow. This is going to be fun. I can be REAL nice. Touchy, feely nice.

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When I learned to pack it was on DC-5's with about 5000 jumps a piece on them, so at least for me it was more akin to stuffing a giant and grumpy - but sluggish - octopus into a suitcase.

Now with the modern ZP canopies it is like stuffing a slippery eel into a tube sock.

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Maintain right flat turn until you pop out the bottom. The reason for doing this would be the same as in free fall: maintain position within your own "column" of air.

How do you know that your own column of air does not intersect with your neighbors' own column of air? If you both are doing right flat turns you could run into each other, which is why several people in this thread say that's not a good idea. After your canopy opens in a cloud fly straight (don't pull on the toggles) and hope you are still heading away from the center of the formation, because no matter what others might say, if you can't see you can't see and you won't know when to turn onto final for landing until you can see the ground.

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Solo dives are the best.

You may think so now but very soon you will want to jump and see another person in the sky with you. Flying relative to another person will show you what effect moving your arms and legs does to move closer or further from your partner. That's why it is called "relative work", forget the current politically correct term "formation skydiving".

It's just what you did during your AFF training but now the pressure to perform will not be present. You can screw up a skydive and still have a blast in the air. Just remember to look at your altimeter and have fun, and think about what it must be like to have seven(!) other people in the air with you.

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I'm willing to bet that the majority of people with questionable sexual ethics might not be the most 'reliable' of people....

I'm VERY reliable.

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If you want to work on her though you had better know one end of a spanner from the other.
Luckily it never breaks

gomoto? That's a new one for me. Never heard of it. Is it South African?

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So far, none of the women who have 'stepped forward' with claims of sexual harrassment are not the most 'reliable' of people.

Is a double negative the same as a positive?

It doesn't matter to me if the women are lying or not. The issue is how Cain has reacted to it. I want a chief executive who is better at thinking on his feet.

Wow! I didn't know his forward speed was that fast.

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If you want to fly an airplane you can not get a "daytime only" pilots license, It does not work that way. Why should we be any different?

Actually it does work that way. If you get a Sport Pilot license you are restricted to "daytime only" flying, along with a few other restrictions. If you have a normal unrestricted pilots license but don't have a current medical you can fly a Light Sport aircraft but must fly in the "daytime only", along with a few other restrictions.

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I'm sorry you feel that way. The bike came that way, and I don't go out of my way to rev my engine more I have to, but I do like the fact that people can hear me...as in it makes me noticeable, as in less likely be invisible if they decide to change lanes on a whim.

Sorry if I came off sounding like a prick. There's a busy road in my backyard and even if I was in a coma I'd know it was Saturday due to the loud bikes going by.

By the way, I love your profile picture.

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I love this thing! It has Samson pipes on it, which make it LOUD!! Nice to know that if people can't see me, they sure can hear me

You just stay in urban AZ. Whenever I hear a bike with LOUD pipes I want to swerve my car into them and shove them into the nearest tree, not that I would ever do that, but I'd sure like to.

p.s. I've been riding bikes for 40 years.

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sorry, forgot to include the plane type.

I don't know much about planes so yes the handrail is part of the wing. It might be a cessna plane.

The problem I am having is that the winds are too strong that it takes all my strength just to get out. I nearly slipped from the strut on my third jump( the winds were very strong even on the ground ) and I really wish there was a way to get out without being bothered by the winds much.

All of us who learned to jump using a Cessna 182 (I assume that's what you're using) have had the same problem. It's not that you are not strong enough, virtually everybody has the strength to pull themselves out. The issue is that it is an unusual force you are facing. As you continue in your training it will become a non-issue and you will look back on this time and wonder what you thought was so difficult about it.

But don't take our word for it. Tell your instructors the difficulty you're having and they will work with you to ease your struggle out of the plane.

Oh, I forgot to add - the wind blast during your climb out of the plane is going to be the same on every jump, regardless what the winds are doing on the ground.

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Good cartoon again, you are making good progress....

Thanks. I'm afraid I'll have to downgrade "good progress" to mediocre progress- as yesterday I learned, somewhat belatedly, that I was supposed to take and pass oral quizzes corresponding to each jump level.

I only have level "A" signed off! D'oh! Feeling rather stupid about that...

That's not something for you to feel stupid about. An oral quiz takes two people. Your instructor has to initiate the test. Why didn't he?