Hellis

One thing you can try is to fly your downwind, base and half of the upwind at half brakes. This gives you the option to speed up or slow down. You should always be in full flight before you flare. Best glideratio depends on the canopy and wingloading as far as I have noticed. But full flight is not best glide, it can be half brakes, or quater brakes or riserinput. But 20 m accuracy is not bad at all with your expirience. Good job EDIT: Tell a instructor on the ground what your plan is if you are going to try this.

In a store? My suggestion is thick leather gloves. Have used mine for several years and have never had cold hands. But always keep in mind thick gloves might be a problem with handles

2000 feet scubadiving before equalizing? YOU'RE THE MAN!!

Is your profile correct? If it is, I think a 1 pin is best for your vector. Unless it has been modified. But I think you could ask your rigger, he is the one who will install it anyways.

A Suunto does, if you can all them altimeters. I do not recommend them for the use the OP asks for, but they have 3 feet accuracy I believe. Still, I do not recommend them.

I believe he was talking about US. I mean thats all that matters isn't it? The number 3.2 million jumps made me think it was US only, because otherwise that sounds low. But I guess it all comes down to how you define high performance landing. But still 1/6 landings beeing high performance hookturns sounds high. Anyways it doesn't matter.

Not the past couple years. And where are your numbers to support this? Well I didn't actually check the numbers but instead used my gut feeling based on the fact that even though there were a lot of ws-base fatalities last year, they weren't all proxy. And I guesstimated the swooping deaths by ~30 fatalities in north America / per year, which accounts to roughly 50% of global, and about 40% being swooping giving higher numbers. But now that I checked the numbers it was as far as I can tell 15 proxy WS vs. 14 swoop deaths. So I was wrong for last year, but right for every other year before that. 14 swoop deaths or some swoop deaths and some low turn deaths? also as stated by wasatchrider above, the amount of swooping that happens each year compared to the number of proxy jumps each year hurts your comparison. Dead is dead, doesn't matter how many attempts it takes to get there. maybe this will help you see. 3.2 million skydives made last year, let's say 500,000(low balling it) where high performance landings, and only 14 deaths. on the base side we can't get exact numbers but my guess is it was less than 50,000(high balling it) proxy ws flights and 15 deaths. when you do the numbers dead isn't just dead. 500,000 high performance landings? Really? Thats 1/6 of the jumps that would be high performance landing? What is your definition of high performance landing? Any HP parachute landing or actual hookturns? In my opinion it sounds high. I mean you have tandems, students, beginners, average jumpers and those who choose to not hookturn on the loads too? But maybe not where you are?

Two things that come to mind reading this. I do not have any knowledge of the prior incidents you speak of but it would seem odd to cutaway in a head low position from a bag lock in the first place? I had a bag lock where the bag never got out if the first or second stow(tight tube stows) as I remember it and while it didn't cause the drag I have seen on videos I tried to sit up and get it to release for a second before getting rid of it. I guess I don't know why one would go head low before cutaway when if anything it would seem inclined to try the opposite. But forget that for a second because it apparently has happened per the incidents you mentioned. Just seems odd on a sport jump to me The adding a step in emergency procedures to release rsl during one particular malfunction seems questionable to me. While some jumpers may be able to adapt to the complexity of that I do not see the entire population as a whole handling that well at all. My bag lock didn't even sit me up but regardless it is always an extremely high speed malfunction. I believe it took me an extra second to realize it was not a pilot chute hesitation(again I had very low drag) before I reached up and shook risers quick before a bang bang on the pillows. If anything perhaps just sitting up before cutaway if that will solve the problem you mentioned of the Velcro not releasing in a head low position? Does anyone else recommend teaching this extra rsl release step to sky-hook sport jumpers for emergency procedures? I don't know the incident either, but if you have a uncocked PC and baglock maybe it creates so little drag that you could end up head low? Also I'm thinking of baglocks on tandems? Does that create a head low position? With the drouge collapsing before the bag opens. Or maybe that is not on all tandemrigs?

Wouldn't a shrivelflap work on the RSL? But I guess in a true headdown there will still be an angle that a shrivelflap might struggle with.

I knew you would be back. This is not a 'Aussie forum', I believe it's a South African forum. But you were correct on the south hemisphere. All your posts has been Skyhook related.

I have heard if you don't push the toggles all the way up in the pocket the force the toggle beeing pulled up with can damage the pocket. But there seems to be damage on the lower pocket too?

I'm thinking of a 'thumbs up/down' in the incidents forum to filter out all the noise. Generally threads go on and on without much progress unitl 6 pages in there is a description of what happened. The idea is that users would 'thumb up' this desription and any other relevant posts or questions in the thread and then you can filter the thread when you read it. There is always something for someone to learn from each incident but because of the low S/N ratio it's painfull to read every post that adds very little value.

Yes it's widely used. But as cameras has become smaler some people believe it's not needed. I do not support that idea. The helmets you liked too can probably be modified to have a cutaway, but you will probably have to build it yourself from scratch. I have a helmet with a homemade cutaway that has a similar construction as the ones you linked too. Some skiihelmets (I guess that was skiihelemts you liked too) have a "pocket" you can place a dytter in. Or can be modified to have a pocket.

You mean as strong and about as close as the magnets many rigs have on the risercovers? A few centimeters from the magnets you don't feel anything from the magnets, I seriously doubt that if you can't feel the magnets with a nail or something that should be attracted to it, the electronics in the AAD is fine. I also recall Booth saying something about the magnetic risercovers and AADs a few years ago. I could be wrong but I believe it was him. There is a small difference though. The magnets in the riser covers are always there, far away from the AAD electronics. The AAD electronic unit in most containers is on the bottom of the reserve tray, isn't it? At least in mine it is there. Meaning that it is very close to the main tray. When you put the bag inside the container the magnets can be momentarily very close to the AAD. I believe it shouldn't be a problem with a properly designed electromagnetic shield, but I am not sure if this is really the case (see Cypres SB http://www.cypres-usa.com/SB_31012013_eng.pdf). If static electricity from packing can become a problem, relatively strong changes in a magnetic field might be a problem too. I'm not saying it is the case, I'm just saying that it might be a possibility. It might be advisable to contact the AAD manufacturers and hear what they have to say. The magnetic bag that I have the magnets placed by the BOC/closingflap. That's not very close in my opinion. But you are correct that the risercovers stay in place, if we only talk about one rig. Never seen a packingmat full of rigs, some stacked on top eachoter? Or a trunk full of rigs? I still believe the magnets are "harmless" in normal use.

You mean as strong and about as close as the magnets many rigs have on the risercovers? A few centimeters from the magnets you don't feel anything from the magnets, I seriously doubt that if you can't feel the magnets with a nail or something that should be attracted to it, the electronics in the AAD is fine. I also recall Booth saying something about the magnetic risercovers and AADs a few years ago. I could be wrong but I believe it was him.

I'm kind of ruined when it comes to the regular D-bags that I used for 20 years. I got my first semi-stowless from UPT and can see absolutely no reason to go back. None. My openings are better. Packing it is a breeze and I only have to replace two rubber bands (the locking stows) as opposed to the rest of them which only broke if I left my stash of them in the car. I was kind of nervous about line dump or... SOMETHING because we had done it the same way for so long. This change felt strange but after a couple of months I was totally over it. The problem wasn't the gear. It was my mindset. I probably wouldn't go for a completely stowless bag. Those two stows keep everything nice and neat until the lines are at full extension. I have not seen the one from R I in person but I saw the pictures. It looks pretty slick! I have a completly magnetic bag and the reason I bought it was mainly because I hate replacing rubberbands. What I never thought I would be packing quicker because of this bag, but it has really speed up the packing. And I'm not a slow packer. I regulary pack my canopy in about 6-7 minutes neatly. I can make a rushpack in probably 5 and still be very happy with it but knowing it will open harder. With this bag it has made the packing quicker. I only thought it would make a difference when/if a rubberband needed to be replaced.

forgot to mention. I also have my RSL connected. BUT I don't see a GoPro as a low profile camera and I have done what I can to prevent snags. Meaning I don't have the standard mount.

Low profile GoPro. I guess they sell smaler GoPros in france than in the rest of the world. What would happen if your camera snags a line/riser and breaks/jerks your neck enough to make you unconcious? Or just temporary unconcious for a few/ten seconds?

I sure hope both the tandemrig and the cameramans helmet had skyhook

First it would be nice to know what you spent $5000 at on a dz. And if you did spend all that money on one dz and they still banned you the only logical reason is that the "money" you hinder his buisness is more than those $5000 and what he expect you give his buisness. That says a lot.

If there only was a way to test it......

That video is intense. Certainly has made me think twice about ever trying base, and even getting into it in the future. I'll try it once eventually, but that's all I'll need. I don't like when people say things like that. BASE is not something you "try once". A tandemjump is something you can try once. Skydiving requries dedication. And BASE much more. So either you work really hard untill you have all the skills and knowledge or don't "try it once". Just my opinion.

I believe he is talking about the Tube (1). The thread is ~9 years old

Some ski-helmets actually have dytterpockets too. My girlfriend has a skiing helmet with "pads" covering the ears. These pads was filled with foam and could be opened with a zipper.

Are you sure that is because of a hard opening? The housing for the cutaway cable is generally not a loadbearing part of the risers