matt1215

Carpe Diem my friend!! Why not make the most of this summer and make what jumps you can. Even if you do get your A-license this summer, you'll still run into recurrency by not jumping for 9 or 10 months. Will it be that hard for you to get out at least once a month to skydive?

Thanks for the info guys. You're right, there are a lot of optical effects that come into play. That was my 27th jump and my inexperienced eye can't begin to estimate distances accurately, but he looked really damn far under me. He actually did look like he was at about tree-level when he was open. We had a fair amount of horizontal separation as I was downwind of the landing area, along with the 3 other fun-jumpers who jumped before me. The 4 of us spent most our canopy flights on a long final but the tandems/video had plenty of ground for a standard approach. They looked a lot closer than that when they dumped. Thanks

On one of my jumps yesterday, I pulled a little lower than I intended to (4250 +/-, intended to pull around 5k). I was last out before 3 tandems with video, and watched all 6 canopies open after mine at around eye-level. One of the videographers pulled at what looked like a little lower than I. He had a really long snivel and my heart stopped for a second as I thought I was about to watch him go in. Looked to me like he wouldn't have had enough time for his reserve to open had his main been bad. He found himself under a good canopy and swooping to the ground at what had to have been less than 2k. Do a lot of videographers die this way? I realize they're pulling low so they can video the tandem deployment, but DAMN!!!

Rocks?

I’ve been doing some shopping online, trying to decide what I want for my first harness/container. I’m about 5 months/25 jumps into the sport so still pretty green. I have a Cypres and canopies (Spectre-210 & Tempo-210, to be loaded @ .9), and am leaning toward the Wings container. No real reason in particular, I’ve just read good things about their product and it’s within my budget, particularly with their 50% military discount (is that standard-fare in this industry?). I’m curious what people have to say about this product. How it packs, how it feels, durability. Why I might be better with another product, say a G4 or Odyssey.