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I would caution you about just memorizing test questions...I sat in on a meeting last year concerning the written test and how some of the questions had no correct answers. There were several FAA guys from AFS involved that actually write the test questions. They were very open to correcting the issues the test had, but they also stated that the days of the FAA publishing the majority of their test questions for the applicants just to memorize were coming to an end. It will probably take a fairly significant amount of time for them to phase out all the questions that are already published, but that process is under way. Studying the available questions is no doubt still a good way to study, I would just caution you to not focus all your studying on one source of information Good Luck!!!

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Fun jumper in the area for a day, it was freaking cold outside, no tandems were scheduled but we still managed to do 3 loads. Jim to DZO is great, really makes you feel welcome. Facilities are really nice, indoor, heated hangar. Great place to come hang out even if not much jumping is going on.

Thanks to all for the suggestions. We will go over everything again this weekend. @Lou: It's a TJN so max airlocked is 120, I've got a 136 in it...but it doesn't really seem like an overly tight rig. Grommets still line up. @Irish: I try to make sure the risers are not wrapped around the reserve. Because of the thick dive loops, I stack them vertically and try to make sure they stay to the outside of the pack tray @Parachutist: Did you go to a diff size wing afterwards? Or was it specific to the type wing not the size? @Timmy: The friction lines are the ones that come into direct contact with the slider as it travels down the lines. @a.n.: Openings are great on this canopy. I have yet to have anything remotely resembling a slammer I'll throw this out there, idk if it makes a diff, but I have an mPod d-bag that I use in this rig. I don't see how it would affect the risers, but just to throw it out there. If you don't know what it is, just search it here on the forums.

no, it is at the opposite end of the riser, near the dive loop. Also, we have looked over the rig and there is no damage anywhere else, so I guess that means the friction is not coming from there

So I was looking at my risers the other day and this is what I found. Symmetrically on the front of both front risers, there is an area about an inch long by a quarter inch wide that looks like its been slightly cauterized. Both Mel and my rigger were kinda scratching their heads over it until they thought because of how symmetrical it is, it must be the heat of the slider grommets that are basically flash melting the nylon. There was no other friction damage anywhere else on the rig. I jump a Samurai with Germain's Vectran and Spectra combo lineset. Where the friction lines are vectran and the rest are spectra. My rigger inspected the lines very closely and cannot find any damage on them. The concerninng thing is that I jumped a loaner pair of risers after I grounded these and after about 15 jumps they are already showing the same deterioration. Just for shitz and giggles I went back and looked at my videos of openings and the way the slider sits on the slinks before I collapse it and stow it behind my head is actually up and away from the risers. The grommets are only touching the slinks, which also show no damage. There is also zero damage on the risers where the slider sits after it is stowed. My question is, why is there such significant damage being done on the part of the riser where the grommets only instantaneously touch while I'm stowing it, and no damage at all where the grommets actually sit for the duration of the flight? Attached is a pic, it's kinda hard to tell because of quality but it's the shiny area in kind of a half moon shape at the bottom of the riser. These are 24in type 13 risers with Louie Loops and trulocks. I'm getting a new set on and since we don't really know whats happening, I'm just gonna jump the new set and after every jump my rigger and I will look at them. I kinda dislike this look and see approach cause we don't really know where the damage is coming from, so anybody who has seen this before I'd appreciate some advise. Matt

Hey Dudes...another dude here preachin' the dudeiness in G-vegas, SC DS 1017 if thats good

Ok, here's what I got: a CX100 sidemounted on a RAWA. My dilemma is I'd like to preserve the HD with the appropriate lense, but most of the HD lenses are monsters. I'm not as much set on it being zoomable, but I would like an HD .3 lens. Does anybody have this setup with an Opteka .3 done in a way where its somewhat protected from the riser? Or is it just one of those things where you can either have a lowprofie SD lense on a sidemount or you can have the HD lense on a top mount? Thanks and Blues

Great, that was it thanks.

Ok, I've spent the majority of the day looking for this one post which I know is on here but can't find anymore. I'm fairly certain it was on a post where someone was having issues with sit position. But somebody put up like 4 or 5 links to a website that split sitflying into 3 diff categories and explained more complex moves in each of them and it did the same for hd. PLEASE somebody help Blues Matt

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