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Thanks for posting this. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

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ping more than a year of pending for the new PDOptimum. What can possibly explain this situation? As long as it makes sense and it's probable, feel free to speculate. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

> time slows down I'm doing speedish 40 km/h downhill longboard on bamboo bords. A couple of times I've felt the same in downhill longboard. Spoke about it with different people and apparently that's the flow effect. From the words of Ayrton Senna: In my longboard progression I've used the rush avoidance at all costs and it worked really nice. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Not sure where to put this one. It's mostly for swoopers. I have friends that have "begin" swooping (directly to 90 degree turns) and live under the impression that the groundrush is normal thing. I feel that groundrush, or just the fact that something is rushing at you translates to out-of-confort-zone/un-familiar speeds and I tend to stay away from it. Do you swoopers still get the ground rush? I'm looking into extending a bit the no wind/light downwind landings feel, but not swooping (90+ turns) per se and I'm considering using the "avoid the ground rush" as personal limit. Cons or advices? Regards, Jean-Arthur Deda. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

I've really liked the old format of www.skydivingmovies.com. If someone wants to make a site exactly like the old one (simple, clear, focused on material and not so much on the cool interface) please do it because I'm searching for one like that

I'm just going to put this out there and see how it compares with other people experience. To me it seems that S2 characteristics (open, fly and landing) are less affected by out of trim. For instance, I had a Spectre that was out of trim (8 cm difference between the outer A4 lines) and was opening in a stall and had a small build it turn. A friend of mine has a higher difference between the A5 lines on a S2-150 and it seems to work fine. Any thoughts? And another thing that me, personally, I would be interested to know is: how sensitive is S2 to turbulence, compared with the other canopies from the same class (Safire, Safire2, Sabre1)? Regards, Jean-Arthur Deda. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Great work Mat!!!! Looking forward to fly with you man! Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

... quick fool soul, you'll have to go buddhist monk to find your god. Mr-T shaves his head to not become a pussy .. and is it "your" or "you're"? choose deep sun! ya know what I mean Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Thanks guys! Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Hey Bro, I use active ankle for 1 year after my unpleasent landing. http://www.activeankle.com/ The mind will clear with more jumps or tunnel or kite (traction kite). See you on flip side! Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Thanks for this info. I know more

> Because if bureaucrats are the cause of this (monster) delay than this case alone speaks volumes on their influence on skydiving as a a sport. I think that us (the clients who want this product) are at the merci of an idiot in a high position who shouldn't be there. I've order an Optimum 196 since April 2009. I find that PD is being transparent from their end but from there up there's only speculations = no real information (check the words that I've underlined from PD website). FAA should explain why it takes them so much time to approve this. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Just wondering what your preferred method for getting more lift in sit? - popping the hip. Is like getting flatter on an axis oriented at 45 degree or better is like moving a bit from a neutral sit position to something that looks from the side like this "/". I find this method verry efficient but harder to do. - pointing your legs outside. Moving your legs from a parallel position like "| |" to something like this "/ \". - anything else? Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Hey Bill, Canada loves you man! Be happy to be yourself and happy birthday man! Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Skydiving, for me, is immersing and discovering in a honest new world, to which I connect in different way that this one and I share this new world with friends and a friend is not someone who flies well in sit but someone who knows why s-he's there, just like me. ... and I can go a lot more into the details of this world

Right engine failed. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

I was not in the plane when it happen, my roomate was there and jumped out. The DZ is Parachutism Adrenaline from St-Jerome (a very nice place with great people) and the pilot can give you more information. I've 1st jumped from Navajo at parachutism Victoriaville 2 years ago. I sugest contacting them too. A bunch of nice people

I have like 50 jumps out of Navajo. It's a great plane. Is not your usual easy-to-lunch-4ways airplane like the twin otter or the caravan, you'll need to put a bit more attention in the exit but is great just because is not boring. There's a lot more wind speed at exit (100 knots) and this gives more control in the 1st sec (if you're ready for it ) Tracking jumps out of navajo are fun. We never had any problem with the horizontal stabilizer but we don't have so many wingsuits pilot there (they might be more affected). Inside is a very comfortable plane, climbs fast, descents not as fast as a twin or a caravan but fast enough to give 30 min back to back. My DZ started with Cessnas, then they bought a Navajo, this year a 2nd one and the business bloomed a lot. We also had an engine failure at 1500 feet which finished OK for everybody. IAD exit for students and bail out for regulars. Plane landed OK with 1 engine back to the LZ

Time has passed and now I'm in a state where I'm puting my attention into the future, into fixing this instead of understanding why. I'll buy soon a pillow reserve handle. I don't want this all back and forth and back and forth, I just want to fly my sabre2. Things didn't work out smoothly maybe because of me, maybe not but the only thing that I can now do to help someone else is to tell wings about this and give up on the metal handle. I'm focusing on my main parachute my sabre2. I know that there are different risks with pillow I don't know them all and probably nobody does but still there are people out there who get along fine with pillows. My appologies to everybody who felt bad from my actions and thanks to everybody who put time into this thread. Regards, Jean-Arthur Deda. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Hi Terry, I will not do that

Great Idea, I'll do this tomorrow

OK, I see, the free fabric is there by design. For me, this doesn't change the fact the the expected behavior (secure the reserve handle) is not there. I mean even if everything is OK according to the manual/design but it doesn't do what was suppose to do there's still a problem (an error), right? If the next rigger tells me this is OK according to the design so there's nothing he can do, I will put an elastic band around the MLW and reserve handle, paint it in ways that makes it hard to be noticed and jump it like that. I will make sure that the elastic band breaks at forces close to what is needed on Javelin and I'll prefer my ugly rigging than an official approved rigging that doesn't work. Anyway, maybe my logic has flaws but ... thanks for listening and thanks for the advices. Edit to add a section of the rc pocket: Black MLW Blue Velcro Orange Extra web Green reserve handle - around 1 cm diameter, low profile reserve handle. Only with velcro on velcro the force needed to peel the velcro is the same as on the cutaway handle. When I put the handle inside (all the way inside) the force needed to detach the reserve handle when pulled from the lower part is significantly lower than when pulled from the higher part. Maybe the handle is the problem? Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Hi Everybody

> But you should have to push a bit to get the handle in the pocket. Not at all. It slides in really easy. I'll try on my friends rig. Thank you RiggerPaul you should contact the manufacturer and your dealer to see if they can help. That's the thing I've tried to avoid thinking that is going to take too much time. Funny how life showed me that shortcuts are not really working. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!