Jeff.Donohue

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  • Main Canopy Size
    210
  • Reserve Canopy Size
    193
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    Cypres 2

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    Pepperell
  • License
    C
  • License Number
    36419
  • Licensing Organization
    USPA
  • Number of Jumps
    275
  • Years in Sport
    3
  • First Choice Discipline
    Wing Suit Flying
  • First Choice Discipline Jump Total
    70
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    Freefall Photography
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    40
  1. Awww, give Justin a break, he's not used to the whole SI/metric system. Hell, he was only a mere 3.729 furlongs short of Tony.
  2. "...faster than 120mph..." Waaaaaait.... I wasn't there! The joke: I end up doing more than 120mph every time I try to backfly... Great job, guys. Sorry I missed it.
  3. 501(c)(7) status might not be available if your tandem work is too significant of a portion of your revenue. See http://www.irs.gov/charities/nonprofits/article/0,,id=96189,00.html "A section 501(c)(7) organization may receive up to 35 percent of its gross receipts, including investment income, from sources outside of its membership without losing its tax-exempt status. No more than 15 percent of this amount may be derived from the use of the club's facilities or services by the general public or from other activities not furthering social or recreational purposes for members." You can read more about it here: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p557.pdf You'd be filing a Form 1024, most likely, and you'd need a separate EIN (Tax ID number) for the club, which you may or may not have. It will take quite a while (6 to 9 months, last time I checked) before you obtain the formal designation. I second BruceT's recommendation that you talk to your University first...
  4. Now we just need to add a door and we have a perfectly safe jump plane, right?
  5. I think what he's saying is that the skyhook accelerates the deployment of the reserve, whereas if you pull your reserve handle, it will deploy the reserve normally (typically taking longer to deploy than if it had a skyhook on it, all things being equal). Having used my skyhook three times, I can tell you that a skyhook RSL is damn fast. (Thank you, Mr. Booth.) The RSL, on the other hand, should deploy the reserve no faster than if you had pulled the reserve handle at the same time. The difference with an RSL, if i understand the theory correctly, is that the reserve pin gets pulled out faster if an RSL pulls the pin since you have to move your hand(s) from right side to left... Edited to add: to Councilman's point, it doesn't do much for you in a total.
  6. Now just fill that bad boy up with Helium and see what flight times we can get... If my math is right, all we would need (at sea level and assuming temperatures and pressures are the same) are about 15kg of helium to lift a 90kg object... Of course 15kg of helium with the same pressure as the ambient air is gonna make for a pretty puffy suit...
  7. "I have never heard of the swage failing on a reserve ripcord." IIRC, there was a fatality about seven years ago at my dropzone as a result of precisely that.
  8. "O.K. now you'll be coming out here and you'll be doing a stable fall face down frog modified. Now out here comes the static line 'cause it goes like from this to here see, and then the pilot chute will open and it'll pull the bridle out and then the main canopy will be open see, 'cause they're all connected, and then you'll be down here and you'll be looking up here at the WDI indicator and you'll also going to check for Mae West and if that's not there then you need to check here for 4 panels and a hole. Then when you come down you're gonna find the piece and you're gonna land over here and you're going to get in this position - except you don't wanna do that - because that means you in trouble, so what you want to do is you wanna get right here and then you're gonna come round here and you're gonna fold up and you're gonna do a toggle and jettison and always watch the horizon O.K?.." (If this makes no sense to you, move on... Those in the know will get it.)
  9. No, that's Atmo. (I keeeeeed, I keeeeeeed.)
  10. I haven't flown an Intro, but I've flown in flocks with people who have. I'm amazed at the range the suit has (when you consider the wing isn't attached at the torso). Really neat design.
  11. Oh, man, this calls for at least three camera angles (you, me, Rick...). For the record, I don't think Lurch will crater. I think he will somehow become the first case of human spontaneous combustion while in flight.
  12. Personally, I am a fan of good skydiving karma. A lot of times, when you have a cutaway, you have a horde of people looking for it. Only one of them is going to find it, but it might be luck. One solution is to just throw a party with the money you saved. Everyone has the opportunity to benefit, and hopefully all have fun. Just a thought.
  13. My POV video from Flock U from April to early June 2008 is now up. Comments/criticism welcome. http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv=dI_luwlNXt0 Better video/audio quality at: http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=7020
  14. Instead, it just kept thwacking Rick...
  15. Hi Phil. Yeah, I always field stow (and I have a Vector3, which has the true lock toggle set up which in theory should keep the stow secure). The problem on this jump was that I think I was in a hurry -- on the jump before -- to get out of the field and get packed up (last jump of the day, running late to get home, etc.), and I don't think I stowed them quite as well as I normally do. We can see the result of being careless even once... Oh, and just clear up some confusion: what I screamed out during the flight had nothing to do with the packer (Christian was down in VA when this got packed). Nor does it have anything to do with any sort of religious conviction or faith. That's about all I'll say about it.