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Jason,
We gathered around your camper last night and had a good time remembering you and all that you brought with you. You are missed by many.
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There is a common misconception that you need to "downsize for safety".
Not disagreeing with you, just adding that I think forward penetration is often misused as an excuse to downsize.
Skydivers need to think locally...a jumper on a square with a 1:1 loading at a DZ with 15 - 20mph and surrounded by soy beans is one thing...going backwards and landing off is not likely to be a big deal. That same jumper and conditions at a DZ surrounded by trees, buildings, powerlines, and bull fields with only a couple of outs is where more penetration can be helpful to give the jumper more options of where they can land.
....and there is always the option to stay on the ground.
People often discuss the merits of downsizing or not, but rarely do I see it summed up as "a smaller canopy gives the pilot a smaller margin for error". To me that is what it comes down to. Whether we are talking about being able to fly a precise pattern, get enough landing separation or to survive a low turn or a no-flare landing, it's all going to be easier on a larger, slower canopy.
Just this weekend I saw a whole bunch of landings where jumpers flared asymmetrically. No great problem on a Navigator loaded at 0.75, but potentially career ending on a Velocity @ 2.7.
Smaller canopies can be more fun, but they bite much harder and faster.
Absolutely!
When I say downsize, I mean a sensible downsize. -
QuoteQuoteSkydivers need to think locally...a jumper on a square with a 1:1 loading at a DZ with 15 - 20mph and surrounded by soy beans is one thing...going backwards and landing off is not likely to be a big deal. That same jumper and conditions at a DZ surrounded by trees, buildings, powerlines, and bull fields with only a couple of outs is where more penetration can be helpful to give the jumper more options of where they can land.
The jumper that is in a bad area needs to stay on the ground, not get a higher performance canopy.
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There is a common misconception that you need to "downsize for safety".
Not disagreeing with you, just adding that I think forward penetration is often misused as an excuse to downsize.
Skydivers need to think locally...a jumper on a square with a 1:1 loading at a DZ with 15 - 20mph and surrounded by soy beans is one thing...going backwards and landing off is not likely to be a big deal. That same jumper and conditions at a DZ surrounded by trees, buildings, powerlines, and bull fields with only a couple of outs is where more penetration can be helpful to give the jumper more options of where they can land. -
Not so huge. In fact, barest tip of the iceberg.
While true that it is the barest tip of the iceberg, accomplishments are relative, someone going from nothing to an A has often just completed something extradinary, relative to their life up to that point.
QuoteWhen someone of legal age gets hurt it looks bad on the sport becuase some crazy person did something stupid.
When a 16-17 year old gets hurt doing the same exact thing, it is a HUGE news story that makes our sport look TERRIBLE! Who would let her jump a that age?, that poor child should never have been doing that!, why would those people allow this to happen? , etc.
It is always a huge black eye to the sport when someone "young" gets hurt more so than when someone that is an "adult" does.
I'm with you on this one...
I'm certain many children could learn to skydive and do it safely, but skydiving has unknowns that no amount of skill can prevent, and those unknowns present liability issues to other people. We never skydive alone. Skydiving requires pilots, instructors, ground crew, investors, private businesses.
Can laws in the US truly protect everyone involved in a child skydiving fatality to the same degree they would protect them if that child were an adult? My understanding is No, they do not.
Sure...we deal with children doing dangerous things all the time...playing football, driving cars, joining the military. My issue is one of liability.
QuoteNifty little lead thrower.
I'd been thinking about an LCP, but I'm reconsidering.
Good luck finding ammo.
.380 is almost impossible to find and very pricey when you can find it.
You don't need shelves of ammo for it to be useful.
However, once you get to California, be sure to be humble and take time to learn any differences between the two DZs.
Also, using YouTube to distribute the videos vs. hosting them locally probably reduces the overall costs for running dropzone.com as they aren't paying the bandwidth to stream all those videos. Or maybe their ISP costs are fixed, in which case its just a matter of performance.
QuoteKlaatu was used on 'The day the earth stood still'
If I'm not mistaken it was the name of Keanu Reeves
It also was used by Bruce Campbell on 'Army of Darkness'
It is also written as a banner and hanging in a cubicle in the movie Tron
Quotein reply to "I never cease to be amazed by our sport and the new group of people entering it. "
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Airmanship seems to have taken a serious plunge in a negative direction.
We used to dodge people that needed to wear a hard-hat in free-fall cause it showed how freakin' dangerous they were.
Now it's the opposite.
Any -one silly enough not to wear a hard-hat on a mixed rel load needs reminding how dangerous all those little ground hungry buzz bombs can be.
I'm blaming the tunnel...makes people with few jumps better freefall fliers which allows them to be on bigger/better/more complicated skydives. Creates problems at breakoff altitude, poor tracking, or just simply flying a pattern with all that traffic they just jumped with.
Not hatin' the tunnel or folks who put the time money and effort to learn this way.
As someone else posted, never get over the raft. Very dangerous.
Quotehow can he re-gain the trust of his jumpers?
Admit the mistake, take the lashes, move on.
Delivery and timing...sounds like you bombed on stage.
Consider talking to the DZO when things are quiet and they've got some time, and maybe you'll get more info on why he was so upset at that moment. A comment that may be funny to seasoned skydivers could be horrifying to an AFF level 1.
QuoteI must bump until Airwarto posts another Captain story!
Captain!
When I first jumped it I was using risers to fly on heading during deployment and got spun up badly once, and nearly a couple other times. Reading the Katana manual I found that PD has a recommendation here:
"...will get the best results by keeping your shoulders level as the deployment bag lifts off of your back and keeping your weight even in the harness until the slider comes down. "Steering" with the risers before the slider comes down or allowing your weight to shift excessively can actually cause or exaggerate off-heading openings"
The fact that i'm on a bigger canopy may be a key difference, tho the PD manual says nothing different about the Katana sizes and things like openings. The 150 has mesh along two sides of the slider which is not on the smaller sizes.
Hope it all works out
I had a steering line disconnect in my hand when I had about 50 jumps. Big student canopy, 210 or so. I had no significant turns with the good break unstowed, so I practiced rear riser flares until I entered the landing pattern. Aimed for soft grass, PLF'd the landing like I was taught. No big deal other than some grass stains.
It had been a while since the last huge thread on this worn topic. I was wondering what was going on
Here's an attempt...instead of telling them they've been doing it wrong for years and years, show them the new method and why it has advantages.
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