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ciel bleu, Saskia

1) don't put your finger in the pipe or 2) put a cork in the pipe or ducktape it shut, problem solved ciel bleu, Saskia

Go with them in the same airplane, sit in front of them, do a solo jump and get our right before them. If they have video, ask the videoflyer to film your exit too, and maybe your landing as well. Until you have >500 jumps + the permission of the TM and the videoflyer if any, that is the best you can do, and really your friends will think it's very cool to see you jump out right in front. Wave goodbye for the video and/or do a tucked frontflip out the door and they'll ooh and aah at you just as much as if you were with them in freefall

I stil have one or two of those housings, used them for swoop competitions. Might be this one, but am too lazy to go walk 7 flights of stairs to go check With a lanc-to-halfmoon converter these should work like a charm for the CX series cameras. ciel bleu, Saskia

If you're thinking of using a GPS watch for skydiving, forget it. I've tried a few for the GPS function, including some quite expensive ones. Not one of them is any good inside of an airplane. The garmin foretrex models are the only ones that (sort of) work (and they have their own thread about using one as an alti). The watches may start working (GPS) somewhere during your jump, but there are way better gps solutions for skydiving (see the wingsuit forum). As an alti, again, forget it. Prominent alti readout, meh, the numbers are small and there are too many of them for freefall, plus they update too slow they can't quite keep up with freefalling (the good models, some models do not keep up AT ALL). Some experienced jumpers use a suunto watch for an alti but for beginners no way, if you want a digitital alti buy a real digital alti. Backup altimeter? Don't jump with 2 visible altimeters that's only going to be confusing. Buy one good skydiving altimeter and leave the watch on the ground. ciel bleu, Saskia

Decent hardware/software (online) shops will sell upgrades, or you can upgrade straight from your own windows 7 hp: start > programs > Windows Anytime Upgrade. It's not very cheap though. ciel bleu, Saskia

The issue is more how it is attached. If the handle is attached by a single point, like most hackeys are, the possibility of getting interesting knots in your bridle/pc go way up when wingsuiting. For wingsuiting, I like the little plastic tube the best, provided it's firmly attached at both ends to the pc. I don't have many jumps with pillow hadles so can't comment on how good those are for wingsuiting, but hackeys are not the best choice in any case. ciel bleu, Saskia

1. Whats your name? Saskia 2. How old are you? 35 3. Why did you decide to start jumping out of airplanes? Used to love watching hanggliders off the Scottish/English coast. Later on, I had some friends who had pictues on the wall of CRW bigways and they had 2 skydiving VHS tapes, turned out they had run a DZ a while back. Did a SL course and knew I was hooked. 4. Are you single or taken? Married? Single 5. Do you have kids? no 6. What do you drive? An old mazda. Downsized from my old minivan 7. Have you ever done a kisspass? Yeah. 8. Where do you live? The Netherlands 9. Do you have any pets? 1 Norwegian Forest Cat, 2 Maine Coons, some fish. 10. How many jumps do you have? 2200+ 11. What color eyes do you have? brown 12. What is your nationality? Dutch 13. Have you ever dated someone you met off the internet? Yeah 14. Favorite Movie(s)? A fish called Wanda, Bourne, Harry Potter 15. What do you do when you aren't skydiving? Work, read, pc stuff 16. Have you ever BASE jumped? No 17. If not... do you want to? Have wanted to, but have a fear of hights 18. Do you have siblings? 1 sister 19. Where do you want to travel to the most? I like Thailand, would love to see Madagascar and New Zealand. 20. What's your favorite color? purple, maroon 21. Where was the last place you flew to (not skydiving )? Berlin ciel bleu, Saskia

Reserves usually do not come with a bridle atachment point. Unless you can buy a used demo from PD, you're going to have trouble getting your hands on an optimum (or other reserve) you can use as a main. They will open much harder than a modern canopy at terminal, so for your body it's probably not a good idea to jump a reserve as a freefall main. If you want big and slow, there are other options. Icarus makes the omega up to 259 sqft or maybe bigger if you ask, Aerodyna has Triathlon 250 and 260 so there's your modern 7cell slow canopies. You might also look into a student type canopy like an Aerodyne Solo, PD Navigator or Icarus Equinox, something like this could work, or you could even buy an accuracy canopy like a parafoil 252 or bigger for a main if you really want a 7cell (might have to put a big slider on it tho). ciel bleu, Saskia

Should I be insulted I'm not in there? ciel bleu, Saskia

What I would like and pay for is a way to mark items, like custom engraving on (metal) sunglasses, camera quick releases, hookknives, camera lenses etc. Stuff I really need to mark otherwise it's GONE. ciel bleu, Saskia

You might be on to something there. I have staff shirts but vastly prefer to wear my own tech-type shirts (Odlo, Falke etc). ciel bleu, Saskia

A few tips for landing: - make sure you know where you want to land in time - I choose my out by 1500ft if I'm not going to or not sure I'm going to make the DZ. - don't fly over anything you do not want to land in/on low (ie, below 1000ft). - aim for the middle of the field, ie give yourself room on ALL sides: room in front of you and behind you to deal with more or less wind than expected, plus be able to go left or right to avoid someone/something should that be necessary. - look at where you want to land, not where you do not want to land. ciel bleu, Saskia

Um I actually have some somewhere , but I prefer someone ELSE taking the pictures they end up much nicer ciel bleu, Saskia

Still not jumping, so shot some pics instead ciel bleu, Saskia

I have one, haven't jumped it yet due to health problems. Only reason to get it IMO is indeed, cloud cover. We have 2 people jumping here who always use one. One loves it, the other wouldn't buy it again. It's a lot of hassle with having to set the GPS each jump, zeroing the alti, watching the battery level and it's not that good an alti in any case. I wouldn't recommend it for a freefall alti, unless maybe you're a tandemmaster where you have all the time in the world to watch your alti or tandem videoflyer where you don't have to, much. I only got mine because I very rarely look at my alti in freefall anyway, being mostly a (tandem) camera flyer, and I will probably use my neptune as the alti with the foretrex purely as a GPS. ciel bleu, Saskia

Stop doing tandems. A solo rig will fit better than a tandem harness and give you less problems with bloodflow etc. If you really need to do another tandem, be sure to tell your tandemmaster you keep having this issue, maybe they can adjust the harness/fit you differently. ciel bleu, Saskia

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For your reserve canopy, you want a wingload of maximum 1:1. Meaning if you weigh 165 lbl that's 190 lbs with gear, so you want a 190 sqft reserve canopy AT THE SMALLEST. If you meant you're very very lightweight and the 165 lbs is including your rig, then it's a 170 sqft reserve AT THE SMALLEST. So, which of those containers will accomodate that 190 sqft reserve? Until jump 100 or more, you shouldn't be loading a main canopy more than 1:1 either, so a 190 would be a good choice to keep jumping. If you're very good with the 190 you've been jumping now, meaning you can land it comfortably downwind/crosswind/uphill/downhill and all that into someone's backyard, a 170 main canopy wouldn't be out of the question a bit sooner than 100 jumps. Anything smaller than a 170 main and a 190 reserve for your first 200 jumps or so would be bordering on seriously stupid though. ciel bleu, Saskia

Get a 2nd hand Canon EOS DSLR camera if you want to get a camera for skydiving. Forget about all the compacts (there are one or two options but these need modding) and really forget about the superzooms as those are as good as useless for skydiving. There are a few options with the newer mirror-less dslr-like cameras like sony nex but those are not cheap and need modding too. Again, get a 2nd hand Canon EOS DSLR camera if you want to get a camera for skydiving. ciel bleu, Saskia

soft loop. ciel bleu, Saskia

I couldn't exactly afford it but I bought it, my first freefly suit. In fact, my first brand-new custom suit ever. Black, with purple flares. Disappeared from my gear bag after only having done a couple jumps on it. I was fairly beaten up about it and kept going through lost-and-found bins, for-sale ads etc everywhere for over a year but no luck. Bought an el-cheapo 2nd hand suit in between as I couldn't afford anything else. Over a year later, I saw something purple sticking out between one of the H-beams in our hangar and a kitchen cabinet someone had recently put up. Pulled on it. Pulled on it some more as it was really really stuck. Hello old/new suit ciel bleu, Saskia

I do know one guy got his wingsuit rating (the in-air part of it) off Brento: he'd shown he could fly his suit and catch a student ciel bleu, Saskia

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Yeah, I archive my raw files too and can usually dig them up again, would have to re-do the video edit most likely though so could never reproduce 100% the same video. However most of our staff deletes the files after, whenever the memory card is full or something, so with these videoflyers doing a remake is not an option. We tell the customers to make backup copies of both discs before playing them at home. We do get a few calls for remakes due to "scratched or broken-in-half dvds", but since we started asking them for the original dvd back before making a new one (and sending it to them for free), demands for new dvds have dropped significantly Occasionally we have a dvd that won't play at home when it played at our DZ, those are a slightly bigger issue since we only have one type printed dvd, but these calls are getting rarer luckily. ciel bleu, Saskia