cpoxon

Be aware that according to the Beer Rules:

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7. If more than one first is accomplished on a single jump, only one case of beer is required.

It was only the previous page where HH said,

"Feel free to have an opinionated but civil discussion."

and I've since had to hide a few more posts. Do you you really want to be banned from the forum over this?

cpoxon

Let's see the pilot's(?) camera on a stick picture?

Found it on the Facebook page.

I was going to ask how it was mounted but I see on Facebook. On the tail rotor guard.

Let's see the pilot's(?) camera on a stick picture?

flaperon

I was wondering the cost of the STC, not the aircraft.

How much do manuals cost?

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The STC requires no changes to the aircraft and consists of copyrighted AFM supplements.

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I have zero desire to jump out of any airplane upwind of the engine or propellor.

The angle of the picture makes it difficult to see exactly, but it doesn't look forward of the nacelle, but just underneath. Still, it would make me very uncomfortable. But damn, that's a small door! Doing tandems out of it might be tricky :-P

turtlespeed

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a "higher" body (ho ho)

[groan.....]

You mean he thought Santa regulated space flight?

No, Jeebus. Or NASA. But probably Jeebus.

And you think people get upset when one tries to open the door on a 747 mid flight,

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And, though customers won’t need space suits, the whole cabin will be pressurized in accordance with the Federal Aviation Administration’s regulations on space travel.

Wait, the FAA regulates space travel? Would've thought it would've been a "higher" body (ho ho). Oh, they do.

From the Incident Reports of the minutes of the BPA Safety and Training Committee held on the 26th of September,

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Sixteen reports had been received of ‘off landings’, including one jumper who landed into a football ground whilst a match was taking place. The jumper involved had since been grounded. The CCI concerned provided the meeting with further details of this incident and reported that further investigations were taking place.

trunk

Their Superview Mode is a method which uses the full 4:3 sensor, and then uses an algorithm to pulls and squeeze and somehow not make it look distorted. We'll see...

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4544905#4544905

Wow, Ari has 1500 hours

http://journalstar.com/news/local/skydivers-celebrate-by-jumping-burning-mortgage/article_2c879ce5-6d62-5178-bbe0-d47d83b092eb.html

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September 28, 2013 10:00 pm • By JOURDYN KAARRE / Lincoln Journal Star(0) Comments
Floating against a clear September sky, colorful parachutes swirled gently back to earth.

Those below wiggled into jumpsuits for their turn while others practiced formations, dirt diving, before the ground was thousands of feet below.

Brown’s Airport, off the highway in Weeping Water, is paid off. And that was reason to celebrate for the Lincoln Sport Parachute Club.

In honor of paying its last mortgage payment, the club hosted a “Burn the Mortgage” event. Dozens of first-time and experienced skydivers from around the region descended on the airport, jumped from 11 a.m. to sunset Saturday and joined in a bonfire, to physically burn the mortgage and to cook out in the evening.

With the last payment, the club became the first in Nebraska to own its airport, which is rare when it comes to skydiving clubs, said Chuck Crinklaw, Lincoln Sport Parachute Club’s secretary.

“Only way to keep it the way it was, was to buy it ourselves … and I think it worked out,” said Mike Janousek, one of the first club members when it formed in 1959.

Original members made their initial jump from Brown’s Airport in 1980 and never stopped. In 2004, when there was talk of selling the land, the club stepped up and purchased it, afraid their grassy clearing surrounded by stalks of corn would be transformed into something less desirable.

“It’s just fantastic how the sport has grown over the years,” Janousek said.

An Otter plane, which can hold 23 jumpers, flew in from Skydive Chicago for the event. The plane repeated its ascent and descent all afternoon, dumping jumpers and picking them up.

“It was unreal,” said first-time jumper Josh Mueller. “It was the sickest thing I’ve ever done.”

He and his wife Michelle found the event online and decided to go for it.

The free fall was quick, the adrenaline pumped and sometimes the stomach flopped on the way back to earth, with the zigging and zagging around. The whole trip lasts about 15 minutes from takeoff to landing.

“I’d absolutely want to do it again,” Mueller said.

Nowadays, said Mike Blacksher, president of the club, many people skydive to cross it off their bucket list.

But not everyone can, Crinklaw said. You’ve got to have a desire to do something others won’t.

And those who get hooked become a part of a tight-knit community, Blacksher said.

Inside the portable schoolhouse from Plattsmouth, where the club does its business, dusty photos hang on the wood-paneled walls.

Aging photos of mid-air formations. A black and white of the original jumpers standing before a plan. A photo of a younger Janousek holding a trophy hangs next to a nearly identical photo of her husband, Shorty, who died in 1992, holding the same trophy.

Shoes lost in flight pile up above a trophy case. Parachutes lay limp on the floor, waiting to be folded and tucked into a pack, with decades of memories surrounding them.

Cory McBeth, a club member since 1999 and coach, said the camaraderie keeps him coming back.

“(It’s) the relationship I have with fellow jumpers. Yes, the skydives are fun, but I enjoy hanging out with friends. It’s an escape from normal living.”

And make it searchable in the User Search?

BMFin

It seems you are mixing two totally different things together.
A)Doing this stunt with a wuffo customer
B)Doing this stunt with an experienced skydiver as a passanger

Now I would be interested to hear about a lawsuit against a manufacturer that was filed because two experienced skydivers used a piece of tandem gear in a way it wasnt ment to be used in the first place and they accepted the risks involved.

Obviously tandem gear mfgs have been sued because tandem students have been killed, but you shouldnt confuse this matter in this discussion IMO. Im sure you understand the difference

Maybe not tandem, but families of experienced skydivers have sued manufacturers before (and anyone else they could target) most likely against the deceased's wishes.

A good lesson in observation. First time I watched it, I didn't notice the seatbelt. Watching again, it is very obvious and could have been easily caught by the video guy. It's easy to get wrapped up in your own job and not notice the bigger pigger.

I respect your experience and your opinion Chuck and understand what your saying. I'm appalled by the number a fatalities recently from failing to cutaway but I still think it is a grey area and your use of the phrase "fucking with it" implies a futility that may not always be there.

I had spinning line twists on my highly-loaded cross-braced canopy after a 4-way and cleared it just above my hard deck. I fought it because it felt like I could recover it, and I did, but I knew where I was and was about to cut it away as I cleared it (yes, I know, "felt like" and "about to". I hope it doesn't appear in an incident report about me one day. I am also mindful of the phrase, "You are not that good".).

I had another spinning line twist on a hop and pop recently from about 8k, that I knew I couldn't recover (I guess the risers were more uneven than the previous example) and I felt I was making no progress in recovering it so I was under my reserve well above 6k. Not wanting to spin down six thousand feet was part of my decision making process during that one.

I do trust my reserve, but I don't want to use it unless I really have to. And I can think of at least a couple more times I've recovered line twists that would've been reserve rides if I'd given up after "two" goes.

As Jim said, it's not true for all people. I'm mindful as an instructor, that my advice to students and lower experienced jumper, is not to mess around with stuff, but that's to simplify things until they have more experience to re-evaluate.

The guy in the original video (is the team Hairspeed?) works it a lot and still has the wherewithal and ability to cutaway after it (above what I would consider to be a hard deck). Maybe the fact that he got the canopy to level out for a but, or at least stop turning, gave him some respite. Yes, he could've got entangled with it, but I've heard of people getting hands trapped in risers when they put their hands straight up to start sorting out twists. Should they have not even bothered?

I understand you've rested your case, so I expect no response, but I do think it's a grey area.

chuckakers

Aw c'mon, Squeak. We're jus' havin' a little fun.

12 pointless posts in a serious thread in a topical forum, contrary to site rules. Doesn't really assist the discourse, does it?

airtwardo

In other words - no one has ever been trained to dick with a malfunction for 1/2 a minute, and if they think doing so is ok then their judgement is in question.

How long are we trained to dick with malfunctions for? We are trained to altitudes by which we should have a landable canopy above our head.

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Large Formation Sequential

The record performance for the large formation sequential is the number of persons (not less
than 25% (rounded up) of the size of the largest formation record at the time the sequential
record is performed and for VFS only subject to a minimum number of 24) to complete a
sequence of two or more formations, giving a separate record performance for the total
number of formations completed.

One written plan describing the formations and the transitions to be attempted and the
personnel involved must be submitted in advance to the judges. The formations and the
transitions must be completed as described with all named personnel in the formations.

All persons in the completed formations must either

(a) have at least one hand grip on another person or
(b) have another person have at least one hand grip on them.

In the transition from one formation to the next, at least 35% of the persons in the first
formation must

(a) release all of their hand grips and all hand grips on them must also be released, or
(b) be a member of a released sub-group. A released sub-group may comprise no more
than four persons.

None of the released grips included in this 35% may be retaken in the next formation.
Simultaneous separation during the transition is not required.

monkycndo

I'm not fond of the chest strap thread through style. Not stable enough.

I bought the official GoPro Chesty mount, took all the elasticated strapping off, enlarged one of the holes on the plate slightly since the chest strap wouldn't go through it, and threaded my chest strap through that. The larger footprint of the chesty plate makes it much more stable.

Here's a video. Could probably do with angling down slightly, but you get the idea.

Stadium is very close to a DZ

http://www.ukskydiver.co.uk/cms/topic/17402-skydiving-in-print/page-6#entry233174

KathyGrant

I was totally reassured and relaxed by being tightly strapped to an experienced instructor who had over 9,000 jumps under his belt.

I'm sure it is only a turn of phrase on your part, especially with such an experienced instructor but harnesses can be too tight.

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But I DO suffer with sea sickness and also cannot go on fairground rides, so I think it was purely motion sickness, hence my desire for an effective anti-emetic.

Sounds like it, and you are moving around in 3 dimensions. The effects can be minimised but at some point you do have to turn. Did you get to help with the steering? I liken it to being a passenger in a car; people who drive often suffer from motion sickness when they are not in control due to the disconnect between what your eyes and ears are telling you, without you being the one giving the commands to have those effects take place. If you are part of the process by steering it can help your brain to understand more of whats going on. Or maybe it just distracts with something to think about. I dunno :-)

Depending on the student harness being used and how it is fitted, one other thing that can be done, is once the parachute is open, the leg straps can be shifted down (actually up, as the knee needs to be lifted to achieve it) the leg, so that you are sitting more in the harness rather than hanging. This takes the pressure off the femoral artery and allows the blood to circulate more freely which reduces sickness I find.

My next question is staffing. I wonder if they are going to train up staff that are already employed on the ships (entertainment staff?) who may multi-task in other roles or whether they are going to recruit from the pool of tunnel instructors that are already trained to work in the "regular" tunnels.

Trafficdiver

***Just a general comment - Beer in the US has become much better than the "Sex in a canoe" crap it used to be. Or should I say, the craft breweries have become much more common and mainstream.

From memory I have tried the ballast point, the elysian and something from stone I think but not that one. I can't remember the individual beers but I do remember that I didn't have a bad one in 3 weeks of travelling down the west coast!

Thanks for being the first Aussie who I have ever heard compliment US craft brews!

We have come a long way!

Ha ha! Stumpy is a Brit living in New Zealand!