swoopgaz

Jump on skysurfer.com.au. Aussie skydiving forum. You'll get a better response there :)

What it the logic of dumping the reserve instad of giving drogue a chance? Both could entangle, so starting with drogue would make more sense to me. You would still have the "reserve option" left. On the side-spin DVD from Strong they lean towards going for the drogue, saying that the reserve has still a very good chance of going cleanly past the entangled (with leg/hand) drogue. Has anything changed since the time this DVD was made? If the drouge is thrown with a drouge side down side spin, it has a high chance of entangling with a part of the jumpers, you then have to fire a reserve past a drouge possibly while still in a side spin. If the reserve is deployed it is going past less body and if it does entangle you have the free bag so the reserve itself still has a very good chance of deploying. It's been quite afew years since I've seen the side spin video but from the start of the spin you have about 10 seconds before black out occurs so you don't have much time to do anything let alone trying to stop the spin. It's not an easy job on a tandem with a flailing student on the front. If in doubt dump your reserve and get a canopy out.

Looks like drogue side up to me. Correct, my bad. First time I watched I thought just throw the drouge, your drouge side up, watched it the second time not paying as much attention and thought they were drouge side down. Side spin, drouge side up throw the drouge, drouge side down du,p the reserve. Will all be avoided by a good solid exit. It only takes 10 seconds in a side spin to black out.

You DO NOT have to do a turn to land. If you are too low you can just land straight in. People have died from still trying to get a turn in.

This would have been prevented simply by the tm doing a half decent exit by presenting to the relative wind, wether its by diving out or turning out poised on exit. Also flying the exit instead of worrying about what your student is doing. Nice job though on sorting it out and getting a canopy out seen as they were drouge side down. Drouge side up its easy, just throw the drouge.

I have a lot of Navajo exits, I used to either have the students legs outside the plane and bend them underneath the plane or just get them to kneel in the doorway. As for myself I would put my left foot in the corner of the doorway and be on my right knee. As I go I would make a point of pushing out and around the corner with my left leg and ride it down the hill. I would get a very nice ' dive exit' from this.

Fracking is used in coal seem gas mining which has been done in the states for years and they are trying to start in here in Australia which we are trying to prevent. Fracking is seriously harmfull to the environment. Fracking involves pumping a shitload of chemicals into the ground which contaminates the ground and water supplies. try and get a hold of a documentary called 'GasLand', not sure wether you can find it online to download you view on youtube etc, but it will show you just how bad fracking is.

Indeed it does. Our ratings are issued by the APF (australian parachute federation) not the manufacturer. We have our own examiners that are appointed by the APF.

A little bit of topic here but to my understanding didn't Icarus in the states start making the Icarus range under licence (approval) from NZ Aerosports. NZ Aerosports is the original Icarus and now their new range the deadalus range aswel. It's a bit like Parachutes Australia here in Oz make the talon container under licence from Rigging innovations. As far as i'm concerned there is only one Icarus and thats in NZ.

Very good read. Definately info in there that everyone needs to be aware of, especially when the powers to be are so quick to ground one AAD and refuse to do anything about another that has obviously failed in the past, we all know they have. Surely airtec don't think that we as a skydiving community are actually stupid enough to believe that the cypres have a 100% succes rate because we all know that is a myth.

sounds to me like vigil are trying to cover up yet another faulty unit. When are these poorly designed, malfunctioning units going to have their problems dealt with.

The easiest and best way to fix it is to get a sigma

Ever thought that the drouge release wasn't through the end of the loop and it wasn't picked up on a pre flight check.

Do you suggest that AiraCom sue the British Parachute Association, the Australian Parachute Association, the Dutch Parachute Association, the New Zealand Parachute Industry Association, the Aeroservizi Reggio Emilia SRl, the MINI STEERSTWO INFRASTRUKTURY,and Paulo Moreira da Silva of Portugal? Sparky No I don't suggest that, but the PIA seemed to be the driving force behind everyone banning them, especially with some PIA members having a vested interest in other AAD's. Definately something underhanded happening here with the PIA sitting on top of it all, hence why sue the PIA.

I hope argus go ahead with their $10 mil lawsuit getting every cent out of the PIA. Definately something fowl in the air regarding the PIA. Lets see if this post gets deleted bahahahaha (moon)

I've been using a core now for a couple months. And previous suuntos for about the prior 7 years. never had a problem yet with the core. Seems pretty acurate

Got myself a nice new core, love it, i can actually read the numbers on this one.

After using a Suunto vector for a couple thousand jumps and absolutely loving it, I deciding to upgrade to a xlander. The display on the xlander never worked properly from day one and in certain cases (when the watch is hot) the display doesn't work at all. After trying to get something done about my watch, all i got told from suunto is to just send it somewhere to get fixed, i've decided i need a new watch and suunto can go jump of a bridge. So my question, has anyone out there used any other type of alti watch, in particular casio for example, and how do they compare to the alti function of a suunto and do you like using them for skydiving. Thanks

I Disagree, a Canopy is a tool (in this case) to get a pair of individuals, safely to the ground. A 330 may be good for one wing loading and a 400 good for another. A T-I should be picking the right tool for the job and adjusting to every individual students needs. Matt I love the 285 and the 300, but i do believe the 330 is the best all round work horse. The 364's come in handy occasionally but anything bigger than that is too big i reckon. Keep in mind the bigger the canopy the more it will be affected by turbulence, and a big canopy lightly loaded is more likely do injure someone than a smaller canopy heavilly loaded. Remember the more forward speed the better the performance and landing

sounds to me like you have an old pesonal dislike for the tm in question here. Is that because you were never quite as good as him, or was it because he was able to acheive what you never could??????

my first rig was a dolphin, absolutely great rig, loved it and did everything with it

QuoteQuoteIf he had did this with one of my friends or relatives. I would have them sue him for everything he is worth. SUE SUE SUE, SUE HIM FOR EVERYTHING. Gotta love that attitude hey Harden the fuck up and preach somewhere else

Gday Mate, Do your AFF, learn how to skydive properly, enjoy skydiving and use skydiving gear. Hang out at the DZ and talk to the other jumpers. You'll get alot more useful info about gear etc from doing that than in an internet forum. There are plenty of base jumpers at DZ in OZ so talk to them about base and base equipment. Don't be in a rush to get into BASE. Find yourself a mentor who will be a never ending resource on things like what gear to purchase etc for a first BAse rig. Than when your ready to jump of your first object, by all means do a hop n pop on the base canopy to see how it handles, then use it for base jumping. If you spend enough time under a skydiving canopy, really learning how to fly it a BASE canopy will be easy. But like i said talk to people at the DZ and don't be in a rush. Base jumping will still be there in 5 years time etc.

You have got to love internet forums don't you. A place where people who can't do, make themselves feel better by bagging out the people who can do and try to tell people what they can and can't do. Its funny reading through everyones comments here, all which are based on assumption. "This is definately a first time passenger, i can tell by the body position.", is it really, who told you that. Well what do you know, its not a first timer and the body position looks pretty bloody good to me in the pic. "The TM should loose his ratings for doing this.", why should he. He knows exactly what he is doing and it is not like he put the suit on his student and then got in the plane without any prior planning, training etc. The TM in question would have more tandems than anyone else here has jumps i reckon, and thats not including all his other jumps. Who here was bagging out Patrick De Gayardon, RIP, when he was doing the tandem skysufing, bet no one said back then he should loose his ratings. The TM here in question is a highly skilled skydiver who can do what most of you could probably never do or are too scared to do/try.

sorry mate b ut you haven't got a fu#$%n clue. I did my first jump at 15 and had over 500 by the time i was 18. Also taken people 14 and above for tandems who have been very switched on, mature people. Age has nothing to do with a persons mentality and ability to cope with situations. Age has nothing to do with a persons ability to cope in situations