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  1. I have to disagree with you here. A riser turn with the brakes still stowed is a far superior turn for collision avoidance if you have altitude to burn (which you do because you are skydiving). The reason for this is that it responds immediately and depending on canopy, WL, how much input and whether you stall the turning half of your canopy or not, you either: -turn with very little forward movement (but more altitude loss) -pivot in place (no forward movement but more altitude loss) -back up slightly while turning (with high altitude loss) Any one of these being better than moving forward as much as you would during a toggle turn while you are trying to avoid something in front of you. Plus your whole avoidance can be done this way before you can pop your toggles. These things may not be very obvious from skydiving, but spend some time opening close to things and the ground like BASE jumpers do and you can't help but notice their effect. To further respond to your question regarding the use of risers in skydiving: Using your risers to turn your parahute off the jumprun and towards a good direction for making a safe landing before pulling your slider down etc is certainly a valid and good use of risers. Most likely you just do that on harness input given a Velo at 2.0 but consider someone on a rectangular canopy at 1.3 and risers make sense. Someone else mentioned landing on the rears with a brake-line hangup which is valid too. There is also the rare case of dropping a toggle when transitioning from rears to toggles and being able to salvage a safe landing out of it by completing the flare with the rear riser/s. I wanted to say something to the lines of front riser dive to rear riser plane out swoops are far more forgiving than toggle-hook swoops, but I can see that being a poke at a hornet's (not PISA Hornet mind you) nest due to the increase in swoop related injuries/deaths we've seen. One can argue that part of that is just due to increasing numbers of jumpers, smaller parachutes and higher WL's in general, likely risk homeostasis, etc. but it becomes hard to justify swooping given the image that these incidents have portrayed.
  2. uhm yeah i had one to many 0 in there, should be 15 000ft Did they remove the functionality to edit your own posts or just move it somewhere I am not finding it?
  3. first - updating your profile would take less time than these reactionary replies second - I own two 27s and I have jumped many more, so let's stop making assumptions about my experience to try and discredit me, thank you I can only deduce that these would be main packjobs from your posted info and how long it would take to pack that many reserves. If these are indeed main packjobs, are people cutting away your main packjobs more often on the 27s? Maybe you have something against these great parachutes and are packing them strangely? Sure sounds like it....
  4. The joke is your statement above. I am familiar with it thanks, have more jumps on em than you have jumps in total on your profile. Have a few hundred on a 21 too so maybe I can tell em apart I guess. Anyway your statement seems patently ridiculous to me. As someone who jumps a Xaos 27 and has done so for years. As Someone who has jumped a lot of other crossbraced canopies. As someone who has more saves from people chopping their 21 cell Velocities and using my reserve packjobs than from any other canopy. Maybe you would care to throw the basis for your statements in here so we can see how they compare, eh?
  5. FYI their KingAir takes 9 minutes from wheels up to exit at 18000ft with a full load. 7 Minutes for 150000ft. I did hundreds of jumps there and never felt or seen anything remotely resembling hypoxia during them.
  6. I agree with your impression that their post was a joke as obviously the statement I have quoted cannot possibly be serious!
  7. I will say it: If you have a logically placed stashbag pocket on your backpad (i.e. opening to your left side, far away from your PC, reverse if applicable for lefthand BOCs) and you fold/stow your stashbag in there properly, then you have nothing to worry about. To add experience to this, given your lack of profile info I feel somewhat confident assuming I have more BASE jumps than you have skydives, so while I see the effect of your fingers flapping on your keyboard, I tend to afford it little in the way of credibility, as I do with most blank profiles. To get back on hoodie topic, if you watched that video that was linked, you might realize that the reserve container usually has one or more topflaps that do a really good job of keeping evil hoodies away from your reserve system.
  8. Quite the sweeping statement you have there. I wish you had some profile info, because if you have any significant number of skydives and you are flying something smaller and less docile/forgiving than modern student canopies (Navigator, Solo, etc) at about a 0.75 - 1.0 wingloading, you are adding risk for no real benefit. While I agree with your statement if safety was your number one priority, I will paraphrase it a bit to make my point: Bottom line: If it provides no benefit to jump, and it isn't necessary to jump, then there's no point in adding the risk, however small that might be. So if you are doing any skydive following a non-emergency exit, you are adding unnecessary risk. You might however be benefiting from that choice to jump with any of the following: -money -fun -personal development -relaxation -skill development People who add hoodies to their skydive are gaining the possible benefits of: -comfort -style -less dressing/undressing -no strutting around in a smelly nylon suit all day long So while the benefits you could gain from jumping seem a little more important, you are still risking your life for what are essentially unimportant things. So your position on hoodies and your sweeping statement is just your line in the sand. The key to realize is that the hoodie wearers have a line in the sand too and criticizing their line from behind your line makes me think of that parable involving removing a log from one's own eye before helping your neighbour with the splinter in theirs... That said, I do not actually know anything about your choices in skydiving, so please accept my sincere apology if you are jumping because you have no choice or if you are indeed sticking to student appropriate canopies your whole skydiving career. sincerely Sam
  9. 1 so far for sure. I say for sure because I did handcam and my standard question after landing is: So what was your favourite part of that skydive? her answer was priceless
  10. eh? The only reason to get the 21 over the 27 is because it is a slightly better wingsuit canopy. I've had 21-100 for around 400 jumps, many of which in a V2, now I have 27-94 and 27-86. I happily jump my 27-94 with my V3. YMMV I guess
  11. OMG so many naysayers! a quick look on B and H produced this: standards converter it stands to reason that you could use your current NTSC camcorder and setup, do the edit as normal, feeding the output into the converter and having the converter set to output PAL then you just need a PAL DVD recorder you can get some models, I know Panasonic made one, that records in NTSC or PAL, whatever the input signal is having said that, I have never actually used a device like the converter linked, but I cannot see why it would not work for you, maybe someone else can cya
  12. Your posts about this are pretty scary. There is far more variability in the altitude used during a freefall parachute deployment than there is in the plane-out altitude of a modern swoop when executed by a competent canopy pilot. The difference is that the variability on the swoop is very much affected by the performance (competence) of the canopy pilot, whereas the actions of the person under a deploying canopy have little to no effect on the altitude used during the vast majority of deployments. Quoting BASE jumping as proof of your point of view just suggests that you have not realized the variability is still there in BASE jumping too. Just do enough BASE jumps and you will eventually see it.
  13. You may actually be thinking of HMA, as Strong now make SETs with HMA lines. The one we got earlier this year looked like Vectran at first, but on closer inspection and given new info, it is HMA. Compared to the other SET400s, it seems to keep a little more forward speed and is easier to pack due to smaller line bulk. Not much in it though. The biggest plus is it is much easier to pick up the canopy when you carry it back as the lines are so thin and it's lighter too. cya
  14. try: Skydive Burnaby (Twin Otter, awesome scenery, 14 500 ft, regular wingsuiters) Parachute School of Toronto(Caravan, good scenery) Skydive Toronto(Caravan) Swoop(Cessnas, regular wingsuiters) Niagara Skydive(Cessna, good scenery) I prefer Burnaby due to the awesome scene and scenery, Twin Otter and altitude. There's nothing quite like leaving the Otter late, flying out over Lake Erie for a while before turning back and heading for shore! You should be able to find some wingsuit jumpers at all the above though and they are all good places to visit. cya sam
  15. wrong. Cypres activation speed is 35m/sec = 78mph. That is approx 70% of terminal, which is what most people refer to as freefall speed. same as above, not freefall speed, but 78 mph.
  16. Hi These shots are from a tandem exiting a C205, but it's the same exit that works for a C182. I use a FTP, HC5 with Century 0.5 Converter and 20D with Sigma 15mm all mounted side-by side on top. Hanging from the strut and backflying is how I do it. The tandem will fall straighter down than you, so leave with them, track up the hill to stay near them, then figure out how you like to transition back to belly to earth. I do a slow somewhat inverted barrell roll to get belly to earth, which allows me to match the tandem's fallrate by slowing my roll and staying more headdown if they take longer to throw the drogue, before completing the roll to be flat again. With some practice this exit allows you to stay in the TM's view the whole time as long as they stay on heading. Note: picture no.5 had to be rotated 180 degrees as I am actually inverted at that point. cya sam
  17. Different AAD's have different parameters for firing. It's important to know what combination of freefall speed and altitude causes your specific model to fire. True I am only speaking about Cypres units which is the only kind I jump with. According to SSK last time I spoke to them, you are wrong. They said something like more than 80% of Cypres fires occurs ABOVE 750 ft. It works like this, if you are exceeding the arming speed at or below 1150ft, then the unit will 'arm' which is to say, it gets in a different mode and ready to fire the cutter. Once it is armed, it will fire when it calculates it is at 750ft OR IF THERE IS A SUDDEN AND SIGNIFICANT PRESSURE CHANGE. Such as the change you can expect from your body orientation changing from belly to the relative wind, to standing up/sitting in the harness, as this changes the pressure situation on your back (where the AAD is located) significantly. Inconveniently, this is exactly what happens as a parachute deploys... So working it backwards for anyone with an AAD who wants a sensible hard deck: you want a fully open main ABOVE 1200ft or you are entering the region of most Cypres fires. So if you have a very slow opening main, at a subterminal exit it might take as much as 600ft-700ft to open, so 1800ft - 1900ft should be where you go reserve instead to avoid your AAD firing as your main sits you upright (below 1150 but well above 750ft!!!!!!!) Conveniently the Cypres manual does not tell you this whole story, so just call SSK and ask them if you want to check. Also, in at least one mode, the Vigil adds 260ft to it's stated firing altitude, as it apparently compensates for some sort of expected error.
  18. I'm trying to help you out, but you are not listening. Do not take the camera off the helmet unless you absolutely have to, i.e. editing on PC and need to use docking station for firewire. Learn to do your other shots with the camera on the helmet, it saves hassle, means you will not be that guy in the plane without his camera screw and keeps your camera lined up. That's my tip based on 600+ tandem videos using an FF2. Keep the camera on for everything but tape changes. Make sense?
  19. What's a pain about the FF2? Could just be how you have it set up. I used to have an FF2 and found it quite easy going to do tandem video with. I did however: -have the DZUs 90 degree twist fastener to close the box. -Make the cutout inside the helmet big enough to access the A/V port from inside. This allowed me to always leave the camera (used PC105, PC9, PC330 and PC100 in it) mounted to the plate, just removing to change tapes. hope that helps
  20. well, whoop-de-fuckin-doo! 21 people to 13500 in 14 mins? How is that impressive? OK for a Caravan maybe, but methinks you have probaly not been in a real fast jumpship yet... I reccommend a ride in something like the KingAir at Skydive Spacecenter in Titusville Florida. That baby does 15 (or 16) people to 15 000ft in 7 mins, or 15 people to 18 000 ft in 9 mins. It's faster with a light load and I can guarantee you it's on the ground before even the most determined tandems. but on the other hand, I enjoy turbines that are slow enough that I can eat my lunch on the climb
  21. 980

    Rigger List

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  22. 980

    Sensei

    I think you will find that the majority of early adopters of the Sensei are dyed-in-the-wool Germainians. That is to say, skydivers who have gone directly from a Samurai to a Sensei without ever even trying other crossbraced canopies. So I think it will be a while before you get some useful replies to your questions.
  23. this has been discussed before in other threads the issue is a dropped frame due to the compression system used on HDV where a dropped frame can result in losing 8 frames if you drop the right (or wrong) frame, dropped frames become far more noticeable the compression on DV is different in that as far as I know the compression is only one frame at a time compressed, whereas HDV compresses several (I think 8) frames together according to DSE, your best shot is to use higher grade tape, as that minimizes the chances of dropped frames the first tape I shot on my HC5 was one of the more expensive Sony HD tapes and I don't think I dropped any frames on that one subsequently I have been using the blue wrapper Sony tapes and in 25 - 30 tapes that I have recorded on 3 HC5s I have seen dropped frames less than 10 times So I would say try a better grade of tape. I was under the impression that for competition jumps the serious guys always use 2 camcorders, so I would think the odds of having a dropped frame at the same time on both camcorders would be negligible? hope that helps
  24. I am curious to know if there are any DZs out there using the ALS bag as designed instead of sewing the velcro sections closed? I have not seen a DZ that doesn't sew them yet...