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  7. ledballoon

    Yo Bro send me a GoPro

    I have a bunch of other expenses going out the door at the moment so have temporarily sold my gear. saddens me deeply so I've been spending my time winding you bunch of **** *** **** ****'s up instead

    I could land this parachute on one leg with my eyes closed. I could jump with my helemt on backwards covering my eyes and soar gracefully over the ground like a flying fish on crack. If Bats and Luke Skywalker can do it, so can I. when I come back I expect to see a sweepstake for the next 200 jumps with ME being the beneficiary when I succeed

    no where's my reach around?



    I will send you a go pro, once you post video of some awesome swoops across the pond on this canopy.
    Clearly, you may need to borrow video until that time ;)

  8. ClippedWings

    One more thing. You might say that you're not going to do anything radical with that canopy and that you will "tame" it over time, but let's be honest with ourselves, you didn't buy a velocity to fly it like a navigator, you bought it to fly it like a high performance wing that it is.

    With your level of experience / skill and that type of unforgiving wing sooner or later you will do something that you do not have the skill to properly execute and there are 3 possible outcomes:

    1) You break yourself to a point where you can still recover, get scared and rethink your choices.
    2) You get crippled and never jump again.
    3) You die and never do anything again.

    Screwing yourself is one thing, but always remember others, people like your family and how they might feel when you cripple or kill yourself and for what? That extra bit of fun / pride that you can still have in the long run if you do it correctly? It's all about patience..

    I wish you reflect on this and act wisely, don't be a dumbass like me, life's already hard, it's harder when you're dumb :P



    Kudos Sanghi. great post.

    Its only sad that you weren't this thoughtful before you steamed in! However you didn't fulfill option 3 by truly good fortune so you did kind of do pretty well overall...although I am sure it doesn't always seem so..

    To the 400 jump velo poster. Im sure you won't let it be said and probably won't listen to our advise about upsizing to something like a sabre 2 150...

    BUT, if not, please have video on at all times and post the footage on to the SOFPIDARF FB group.

    go steady

  10. Bit of a strange one guys as I need to put some kind of a lock on the end of a pull through cable for a car project I am working on.
    It currently has a lead ball on the end of it to stop it pulling through the end stop. But I need to shorten the cable and recrimp it. I was hoping some advice from riggers about how reserve cable ends are crimped to stop them pulling through the reserve handle. The cable I am working with is not quite as beefy as a reserve cable, but I am hoping to use the same approach if I can do it pretty cheaply!! thanks

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    Thanks man.....finally a constructive comment....thanks.
    I will demo for sure.....I almost did last weekend and got too lazy to unhook my canopy...lol
    Thats what I heard....Katana is a good transition....I will try them all.
    I wish I could switch in flight between canopies to feel the difference in real time.



    katana is far more agressive than a safire 2, way more ground hungry, especially if you are downsizing at the same time. Might be an idea to put a CF 2 109 in there for some jumps and then move over to the Katana from that.

    Less chance for leaving your femurs embedded in the PLA :S

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    www.itv.com/news/meridian/2012-05-23/gary-falls-to-earth/

    WOW, the video from the Helicopter exit towards the bottom of this link (Other jumper using a parachute) is amazing.. DAMN the landing pile of Boxes looks SMALL......... You can see exactly where Gary landed in the boxes.. :o

    Scott C.

    Found a video shot of it from the side as well. There is not much room for error at all... HUGE BALLS OF STEEL..

    http://youtu.be/LOw3nyso90c



    That lower video link on the ITV page shows this was total commitment with zero room for error or having a bad day.

    Got to give the guy huge props and agree he has balls of steel!!! awesome.

    To the poster who says 'any decent wingsuit pilot could make the target'...

    Thats not strictly true considering Gary is the only person who has deliberately aimed for a small area on the ground, and hit it perfectly.

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    this the same guy??



    Thanks for posting that link, it's a fun video. I always get a kick out of newbies who jump out of the plane and then check their altimeter 2 seconds out of the door. News flash pal, you're 100 ft lower than when you jumped 2 seconds ago.

    It's also fun to watch the rapid-fire alti checks right down to pull altitude. I guess if you can't figure out that you have a few sconds and then pull, you could just 'lock on' to the thing and wait for your pull altitude to come up, but I'll never understand the need to look, turn it away, look again, turn it away, look again, turn it away, and then pull.

    Beyond that, if a simple brake fire is going to force the guy to chop and dump his reserve on his back, he has no business jumping a Velo. Of course, having 300 jumps, and lying to the DZO is aslo a good sign he might be in over his head.



    Bit of a stupid thing to be suggesting that he shouldn't have cut away from a 'simple' brake fire.. He didnt have a great deal of height left and under a spining main (regardless off why the spin was caused), armchair quarterbacking his decision will lead other newish jumpers to think 'well Im not meant to chop a brakefire or I will get teased'...

    Even if he had cleared the other brake the canopy might have been spinning too hard with twists to salvage it before he impacted the ground.
    So I say he made totally the right decision as he walked away from it.

    Whether he will walk away from jumping a velo at 2:1 with 300 jumps.... maybe for a while. But as has been said his bell is gonna get rung for sure.

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    I've hot fueled hundreds of times myself.
    Scares me to death.
    Every time.
    I like that it does. I respect it.
    Hopefully I always will.



    Poor kid, I dont know what the pilot was thinking letting her deplane with the prop still going and no experienced supervision.

    in the UK TIs HAVE to hold on to the tandem passenger while boarding the plane

  18. holy sh*t.
    thats really nasty.... its easy to armchair critic such a scary video but as a few others have said, I WOULD have got up those lines to increase material or gone in trying.

    Whats going on at 2:39 in the video? theres a green canopy above his head, that looks a hell of a lot better than what he ends up with... :(

    Kudos for the injured jumper uploading this, quadraplegia is a terribly sad result for him.

  19. What are peoples thoughts on this then at the current time?
    Ive currently got a matter suit, which I love but I need a new custom one.

    Choices are

    Vertical
    Boogieman
    Liquid Sky


    ANyone got any input please ;)

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    >Okay, now, should I have any particular reaction to it? I can't stop him,
    >he already did it.

    Right. Now he says he's going to do it again and he asks if it's OK. What do you say to him?



    Asks if it is okay - of course it is not.

    But, so what?

    You don't really think anyone is going to ask?

    Don't twist the question.

    After the fact I discover a rig penciled with my id.

    Is really anything to do?

    Riggers - what do YOU do?



    flag them up to the Safety and training officer and DZO for every dz in the us!

    Its their business if they are using a non existant ID and number to pencil pack, but as soon as your (or another riggers) identity is stolen it goes up a notch in my book.

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    Are we watching the same video?

    A main suspension line was snagged on something (a container flap, according to the description). You can see it quite clearly.

    Main risers disconnected on cutaway, but the main was still attached by the snagged line.



    hmm. where in the video did you saw that?


    This jumper did everything right in my eyes , and lived to tell the tale somehow. Its not a horseshoe and is as mentioned , because of a container issue that caused the main to get snagged and not depart when the cutaway was done.

    this is some hero sh*t right here :)

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    The battery of my ditter has been dead for 2 years and I still haven't changed it yet. I realised these gadgets are not necessary. Most people rely too much on them which is a bad habit. If you're worried about your hearing, don't use it. My two cents.


    Yeah, just try to do a little serious RW without audible and let me know how it goes....:)


    or if everyone on a head down jump never wore audibles, things would definately get interesting sometimes in my lrelatively limited experience.

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    If anyone could inform me why a dolphin with tuck tabs is not freefly friendly, or is different in any way from a javelin or a wings, please educate me. And yes, my container has bridle protection.



    Thats a bit like saying ' a skodas just like a bmw'
    they are both cars with 4 wheels....