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    Keep in mind that I'm not an instructor but this is what I was told to do by mine when I was doing dummy pulls. More than likely your container is already open by the time your reaching for your practice pilot chute, therefore it's not in the same place as it was on the ground. Reach lower towards your leg and slide your had upwards until you feel your handle.
    As I said before, I'm not an instructor though.



    Yeah thats good advice. I didn't have many problems with Dummy pulls, missed one, but I would spend time fumbling cos the container was opening, By putting your palm on your leg, you can slide it in behind the opening flaps, often where the dummy handle is hiding. But practice is key. It may seems stupid but standing on the ground practicing it 100 times for 20 mins or so before every jump with dummy rigs, while doing the actions and shouting as loud as you can, thats the best way forward. Me and 2 friends practiced with dummy rigs before every jump and none of us messed up a dummy pull more than once.

  5. I thought it meant you have to have an open canopy above your head by 2000ft. If the CCI thinks you've pulled low, and asks to see your protrack if you have one, I always thought if it was under 2k you were in trouble... and I thought protracks register deployment altitude when you have a pretty much inflated canopy above your head...

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    but i do have a small prayer that i say every time we're wheels up.



    Me too. I pray for the same things always:
    1. That we have a successful jump (as in turn lotsa points!)
    2. That we have fun
    3. And above all for all of us to land safely



    I do that aswell, plus the handshakes, plus checking my handles at least 3 times in the last 2-3000ft of the plane ride...

  7. I don't know much about CRW but was just interested in how competitions work. How many different ways are there you can compete in CRW, is 4 way the main way, and is it having a 4 way stack and the top person has to come to the bottom and see how many times you can do it? Or am I completely wrong... and what other ways of competing are there?

  8. The way you pack your canopy makes a big difference to how it opens. I pro pack my Sabre, no special rolls or anything and it takes about 500ft. I always thought Sabres had a reputation for opening quickly anyway? Pilots are supposed to be nice and soft I've heard. Packing can make a fair difference though.

  10. Quick question, why do cypress batteries need changing every 2 years... why not just wait until the battery power is low... I'm not questioning the 4 yr servicing at all here, I'm just wondering why it is a compulsory 2 year battery cycle on the cypress even if they're still working and no error(s) appear when turning on. I'm sure that some people use their cypress batteries way more than others, so there must be juice left in a lot of the cypress batteries that get replaced... or am I missing something here?

  12. I need some inspiration, I need to think of a superhero with a superpower for a fancy dress thing. The best I can think of was Alcomahol man, with the power to down any drink put in front of him.... might get some free drinks... probly dirty pint mixes though... give me a better idea!!

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    This is not a game you buy on a cd-rom it is a download



    Right OK, is it from the site linked at the start of this thread?

  14. Anyone know anywhere you'll be able to get it or pre-order it, preferably in the UK but I don't mindanswers in the US if thats the only place you can get it?

  18. If you're in the UK, you need an AAD till you['re B licensed anyway, so you really do need to get an AAD to use your rig in the near future anyway. I'm kinda glad that that is the rule because its making me get an AAD whereas if I didn't need one, I'd probably just leave it, and I would much rather have one than not.

  19. One thing I was wondering, will you have to deal with things like an off heading opening on a bad jump, or a PC hesitation or the like, or making jumps with other people, real (maybe through online... I'm not sure whether someone mentioned that already) or computerized jumpers. And rarely one of these computer jumpers could do something unexpected or have a bad exit etc that you might or might not have to deal with on your jump. You could do wingsuits too, if it's including skydiving, the different disciplines on that.

    I'd be happy to buy any game with skydiving or BASE in for a bit of a laugh, maybe you don't have the funding or resources for all of these options, just few ideas that could be really cool.

  22. Just out of interest, how does it work when you're going into smaller canopy sizes. In so far as if you get a container for a 170, itll take a 150 (20sq ft smaller).

    What if you get a container for a 135, it shold take a 120 fine. But then the canopy downsizes get smaller, like a 111 or 109 or 113 or something example.... that is only 22-26 sqft smaller than the canopy the container was made for. Does it become more crucial, for openings, when you get to these smaller canopy sizes to have a container that fits them properly, hence why they are designed to take a smaller sq foot range of canopys?

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    . Most containers will safely hold a main up to two sizes smaller than what it was built for. So if you start with a container built for a 190 you can likely put a main as small as a 150 in it.



    Is that actually true in so far as if it is designed to ideally take a 190 it will safely take a 150? Or do you mean it will take 1 size above and 1 size below what it was ideally designed for? I'm sure most manufacturers websites only reccomend 2 different size canopies for a container, they usually say 170-190... but I've heard from most other people I've talked to that most containers take one size above and one size below the canopy that they were deisgned to ideally take. I'm not questioning you, I'm just interested because it is different to what I've heard and I'm interested to know if what I heard was wrong.