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yep, kind of... However, he was on my right and the left side went away. There were at least one and a half meters of good canopy between him and the problem... I get it what caused the problem in the video but I still don't understand mine... But it looked exactly the same way, much more aggresive of course... Thanks for your help!

I don't know what happened to you, but you might want to improve your safety margin. After all, shit happens. Getting wrapped up under velos at that altitude might not be a pleasant experience. :) What you describe sounds a bit like a wing dock coming in with too much upward momentum. Can you describe the nature of the contact? What part of his body contacted what part (nose, top skin, lines, &c) of your outer cells? Were you still on rears and rising? Did your canopy turn left or right? I was still on my rears, but with only a very little input. The other skydiver's lower leg had contact with my top skin, not to hard or to much either. After a second or so I had the problem on my left and the canopy turned left....

I hope you could help me to understand what happened to me yesterday. A friend of mine (Velo 84, loaded WL 2:3) and I (Velo 96, WL 2:25) flew together at around 600 m above ground, we had a constant headwind at that time. He was to my right and a little bit above me. I went into my rears slightly to reduce the distance between him and my canopy. I am used to landing and flying with the rears and felt really comfortable. The upper flyer had slight contact with my outer RIGHT 2 cells. Suddenly I had a frontstall at my LEFT side and almost half of the canopy went away and began spinning. I was able to get it back after 450 or so degrees, however, I was a little bit shocked. We discussed this yesterday at our dz, however, we haven't found a reasonable explanation for the incident. Further, you if you loose on side of your canopy, you should bring your weight on the other side and help the canopy to reinlafte, however, there was now way to do so due to the G-forces.... Any idea what has happened? Thanks for your help!

Hi.. i have now around 200 swoops (270s)under my velo 96 and i am looking for an electronic device that helps me in getting infos about speed and so on... to help me to analyze my turns... thanks for your help...

hi.. we are planing to buy new suits on our dropzone (Austria) for the tandem instructors... does anyone have a good tip for a good suit at a fair price? Thanks...

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Hello... I an using a Sony cx105 in a waycool handcamglove. during the time under the canopy the sound of the wind is so loud that you can`t hear the students voice if you straighten the arm. i posted a video on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky1tk7jXxRg Maybe there is anyone who could give me some tips. I cut my videos with magix deluxe 16. thanks! Heimo

Hello, i am from Austria. I jump since 2004 and do tandems since 2007. I have now total 1400 jumps, 300 are tandems and around 150 are video jumps or digital stills. I would like to improve my english. I would like to go to the states for 6-9 weeks and work there as a TI or videographer. is this possible? what would i need? where should i ask? where are possible dropzones? I have an austrian vector/sigma rating. thanks for the infos

hy... could anyone tell me some facts about the comp velocity?? the infos on the pd-hp are very rare.... thanks heimo

Hello, i need some help from some experienced TI... i want to buy a sigma tandem system with a precision 365 main. are there any differences between the precision and the icarus 365 tandem main. i know that precision aerodynamics formaly produced the tandem main. but are they still the same? on our dropzone we have icarus 365 and i am very happy with them.... so thanks for your help HEIMO