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  2. chopchop

    from what I have seen around our dz, it is a great canopy for young jumpers with a low wing loading as well... B|



    How would the Vision-132 do for a young jumper with 45 jumps that is very current and level headed, with a wing-load of 1:1.17-1.26 (depending on if weight vest is worn)? The canopy was a gift from a very respectable former AFF/I who only put about 75 jumps on it. Still crisp/like new. And I should mention, this jumper is in no way attempting swoops. Still lands with a good, pattern on a straight in landing.

  5. What's funny, is I came up with this based on a homework assignment that Mike Wadkins gave me on teaching spotting a few days ago as part of our S/L I course. BTW, I notice your from STF. He had just been at your DZ prior to ours. Anyway, it was just an idea I had to help teach students the principle idea of spotting. Mike liked it.

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    I have an idea and need some genius (or other capable person) to help make it happen. I think it would be a handy thing. Here's the idea.

    I lot of areas of the country have winds at very different directions and speeds at different altitudes at certain times of the year. Here in southeast Texas for example, in the winter we can have ground winds from the south at 5, while the uppers at 13k are screaming 70 from the west or northwest. Complicating matters, the wind will actually change direction slowly as the altitude changes, creating a constantly changing drift direction.

    I want to have a simple way to calculate where the "perfect" spot is by using something like excel or other common application. I want to input the wind speed and direction at the commonly reported altitudes (as reported by flight service, or observed by the pilot on previous loads using GPS) like 3k, 6k, 9k, 12k, along with the exit and deployment altitudes and the type of jump (think different speeds equals different freefall times equals different amounts of drift) and have it tell me where the spot is - measured in distance from a target like the peas or center of the landing area. Kind of a high-tech way to throw a WDI, but includes freefall in the calculation. The spreadsheet figures out the cumulative drift distance and direction, then reverses that to display the distance and direction needed to exit from any given point.

    It would work for any group from headdowners to wingsuiters, and for any target location.

    Any takers?



    This is what i came up with. If you have EXCEL, feel free to put info in top form. If not, simply use the top one as an example and print it out to use when writing the info in on bottom half.

    Before you all go crazy with your "know it all BS" about glide paths, wingloading, canopy brands, etc., calculating the spot for a load of jumpers is just a 'calculated guess' with known margins of error that require the canopy pilot to have the ability to fly out of anyway.

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    Just got it assembled... a few mods have been made since the pictures (Tape to cover snag points, etc....)

    http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m41/terminalvelocity120/IMG_9301.jpg

    http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m41/terminalvelocity120/IMG_9308.jpg

    http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m41/terminalvelocity120/IMG_9299.jpg



    What brand of helmet is this? I saw one at CouchFreaks this year for the first time and thought it looked cool then, too.

  12. I just confirmed that I WILL have a HELICOPTER at Skydive Skyranch in Siloam Springs, Arkansas!! Not til Saturday at this point. I will have ChopperPimp shirts brought down as well. Come hang upside-down. That eve. will be the Playboy Bunnie Boogie. This is the only heli in the country with 4 onboard video cams to catch you from take off to hanging exit.

  17. Does anyone in Southwest Missouri area have an RV with bumper hitch, A/C, and the ability to sleep 4? Would you be willing to let me borrow it the weekend of July6-8?

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    Sonny isn't a troll...;), but he's definitely one of a kind.B|

    I don't agree with everything Shayna did, but I am not going to spend the rest of my life having any kind of anger, bitterness or unforgiveness. There's no reason to.:)



    you know you love me!!
    Love you windcatcher. miss you guys.

    by the way, you gotta tell me if there was a story behind Jeffys pic in the cop car. LMAO