SLIPPYBLUEKNOBE

Isn't it more responsible to give them the info?

I think that the odds are in our favor, but I also believe that the correct answer is to have a seatbelt for each person. Although I have done about 800 tandems in New Zealand, non of which had even one seatbelt in the plane. Sometimes my briefing includes, " I have your harness connected to the parachute and my harness is seat-belted to the airplane so if we crash on take off please disconnect my seat belt and drag my body out of the fire, and I will try to do the same for you."

I enjoy reading your posts Lepka they always seam well balanced. I always find it interesting to hear DZO's complaining about instructors and Instructors complaining about dzo's. It is quite often the same story, and probably with justification on both parts. This is a business relationship, the owners have invested a great deal true. The instructors have also invested a great deal as well. Not to mention that with out instructors owners would never get a return on the investment, and with out owners instructors would never have anyone to teach. So the bottom line is if your a shit owner you will probably have a hard time keeping staff, and conversely if you are a shit instructor you will probably have a hard time finding work!

Does anyone know what the price is going to be?

But how many airplane crashes have you been in during your 32 year tenure?

Have also been noticing the loop that sets the brakes getting stuck between the cats eye of the steering lines and the metal ring. I have cleared the toggles from the risers both the velcro and the buttons then the toggles from the loop and then when the steering line should slide off the loop and go into full flight nothing happens. On one jump I had gone as far as to open the velcro covers that holds the excess steering line. Still nothing it wasn't till I had pulled out on the top of the ring that the canopy went to full flight. Usually a little work with the toggle will do the trick. However I was interested to see were the problem was coming from. Having chopped from tension knots a couple times and also having opened with them to successfully clearing them a few more times. I am under the believe that if you can get to the toggles quickly you can probably save yourself or the dz a repack. Has anyone else noticed the loop hanging up?

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I was referring to replacing the dacron lines on a sigma canopy with something else. Interested to know how the openings were?

Has anyone done this?

yes me too!

Hay thanks for the reply. Here is a Quote from Jim S. on Canopypiloting.com "Re: [sidarapr] New Daedalus GLS XF! (pictures) [In reply to] Can't Post Closed leading edges, like the wing of a aircraft are the best, if they are made of rigid composites that do not bend or change shape. Because of this the closed nose configuration (Which Jyro from NZ created for the X braced design) is best for the openings. However, if we didn't need to go through the whole opening sequence then you would see Jimmy here flying a JVX all sail with the nose completly open! A more open nose has more air ramming into the canopy...at all times. More air ramming into the canopy means more pressure...at all times The more pressure you have the more rigid the parachute which is quicker to inflate...specially when you need it to. The hybrid nose gives you the best of both worlds....Open more in the center three cells and closed off on the outside three cells. The choice is yours... " I was having some trouble signing on there or I'd of just asked him, but I still kinda wanted to through it out there anyway. I was aware of the center cells being open on the glx. I thought that it was a selling point of the canopy witch is what brought up my question in the first place. Why does the glx now have a completely open nose? Or maybe its just an option?

I have been a bite confused apparently about which is more efficient? It was always my belief that the closed nose had more to do with creating a smooth surface for the air to move around the wing, (Velo, and the GLX) now it seams that its more just for slowing the Openings down. With the release of the spire? I have also just seen a newer GLX with a completely open nose. Any one else?

That was the coolest thing I have ever seen!

Born in PA. live in Wy. at the moment. I think that is a little farther then 150 miles