Marc11

Well I'm willing to bet what fell out was your total lack of understanding of how your gear works and how to hook it up the right way. I'm also willing to bet that you didn't ask a rigger to look at your work or who ever "hook it up" for you and their work. And with out so much of a basic understanding how it works or what the fuck your doing in rigging your gear the right way you went out and jumped it assuming everything was done right......Till it failed to do so and then you assume that it had to be something that "fell out" and not your fucked up'ed rigging work. If you continue down this path & way of thinking you will be dead one day! A lot of way more experianced people have died from a simple "little" mistake in rigging, read up on Patrick De Gayardon's death for one example, there are many more to choose from. First of all no need to be such a dick. Can you not address the situation in a reasonable manner like everyone else did? Secondly, the first thing I did when I bought my rig (used) was get an I&R on not only the reserve, but the main as well. Due to my lack of knowledge of how every component works, I didn't know if he had skipped anything in the inspection or whatnot. That being said, this probably could have all been avoided by me knowing more about how my rig works. I will take this as not only a learning experience, but a kick in the ass telling me to gain a better understanding of how the components of my rig work before something little that could have been avoided goes wrong again.

Ahhh thanks Indyz that cleared things up!

I've been looking for a user's manual on the Wings website to see what the problem is but I haven't been able to find one. Anyone have the link to one or know where I could find it?

It was something that fell out in between jumps because my pilot chute cocked fine for the previous 2 jumps. I looked up what a rapid link is and if you look in picture 002, it looks as if the rapid link is right there (kinda on the left side of the picture). However, there is a ring just to the left of the rapid link that doesn't seem to be doing much. Is there something that is supposed to attached to that ring that maybe fell off between jumps?

Ok thanks for the help! By the way, I LOVE that quote you have!! After seeing the edited version of that movie, my friend and I would always be like "do you see what happens Larry? do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the alps?!" and we didn't think anyone thought the editing job in that part of the movie was as hilarious as we did! haha

Ok I don't know much about how the kill-line PC works, but this is what happened today and what is wrong with my PC: I was packing my rig and I cocked my pilot chute but it felt a little weird when I cocked it because the bridle would scrunch up really easily. So I let go of the pilot chute a few feet over the ground to see if it would catch air and it did so I figured it would be fine and finished packing and hopped on the plane. Come time to pull, I pitched the PC and nothing happened so I looked behind me and it looked like I had a PC in tow. I'm guessing something happened which made my pilot chute un-cock itself between when I was packing and when it was behind me (maybe the wind caused it to un-cock instead of catch the air and pull the D-bag out?). So I grabbed my bridle and gave it a good yank to get the D bag out of the container. Besides the ridiculously hard opening with line twists (which I'm assuming happened due to the weird deployment), everything was fine. As of right now, I still can't cock my pilot chute normally and I'm wondering what is wrong with the bridle/d-bag/pilot chute that would cause the cocking stuff to be messed up? Or should I just take it to my rigger and have him look at it? I attached a couple pictures of the system in case any of you can spot what is wrong and it is a quick, easy fix that would allow me to avoid having to take it to my rigger. The first pic is just the bridle with me pointing at something that looks like it is in the wrong place and the second pic of my D-bag. Thanks and once again, sorry for my lack of knowledge with the whole kill-line PC system! EDIT: If the pictures are unclear and you need any more, please let me know!

I've actually had a few. The first two just consisted of me opening rediculously low and somehow surviving even though my canopy hadn't even fully deployed by the time I hit the ground. My most recent dream was the craziest though. I had just gone on a bunch of tracking dives that day and I had a dream I was tracking. But I was tracking so well that I managed to track back to my house (about 100 miles away from the DZ), and track down to the ground with such a low fall rate that I just landed on the median of a long road near my house with no parachte. After landing on my belly, my horizontal speed was so great that I deployed my parachute after skidding for a while just to slow myself down (like drag cars do after they finish their quarter mile if you have ever seen them) ....I have some wack ass dreams EDIT: After reading about some of these dreams (especially the guy right above me), I realized that my dreams aren't really that wack.

They definately haven't. Either it's a bad typo or he's BSing cuz I just got my A about a month ago and it was 4 54157. Not even in the hundreds of thousands...

First of all, as mentioned above, for the amount of work done and the level of education of most military members, they are underpaid. I know some Lt Cols with their PHD making just over $60K a year base pay. Second, a "usual worker" doesn't risk getting deployed to a location where his life is at risk every day. Just got a briefing from an Air Force logistics officer (typically non-combative job) who got shot in the leg because the driver of his convoy took a wrong turn in Baghdad. So most companies appreciate the fact that military members are willing to risk their lives so citizens of the US can be guaranteed their freedom. They're just doing a good deed!

I've always been told that karma plays a huge role in skydiving. So if you lie about something, it will come back to bite you in the butt. In this case, all I can say is to expect many bad things to occur to this rigger because of what he did

So I finally got to jump my new used rig which is the first rig I've owned! The canopy is a Spectre 170 and it opens/flies great. One thing I did notice, however, was whenever I grabbed the front risers to practice front riser dives (with my break toggles in my hand, of course), my canopy starts freaking out and waving all over the place like it's under intense turbulance, even though the air was very still. I asked my rigger about it and he said that it is most likely the fact that my brake lines are a little too short, so when I pull my front riser handles down, I am also pulling my brake lines down, to which the canopy reacts unfavorably, to say the least. I was wondering if anyone has run into this same problem? Also, if this is indeed the problem, is there a relatively cheap way to extend brake lines without having to completely replace them? Or another way around this problem? Thanks, Marc

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Hi everyone! I'm pretty new to skydiving and I just purchased my first rig recently, which was used. I noticed it has the freefly handle rather than the hackey. I've been asking around my DZ and haven't gotten a definite answer on what difference the freefly handle makes besides the different feeling when pulling. More specifically, how does the freefly handle affect freeflying enough to call it so? Not like I'm going to be freeflying any time soon, I was just curious! Thanks! Blue skies

Yes I agree with this statement very much lol. I'm sure you more experienced people know this already, but I just discovered this weekend when I went to dock on my coach that whenever I reached out to grab him, I just went backwards and got really frustrated! When I tried to compensate for the back sliding by extending my legs, my fall rate decreased and he ended up slightly below me! So definately DON'T reach out for whoever you are docking on lol.

I went to skyventure colorado and I believe they charged the normal person $12/hour but since we had a legit instructor he dropped the price a little bit to $11/hour. Our instructor was actually our AFF instructor at our DZ the next day and didn't even work as an employee at this wind tunnel. However, since he brought so many students to the windtunnel, they only charged him about $6-$7/hour and he kept the difference between what we paid him and the price he was being charged.