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Cons: You have to remember to cock it every time you pack. It's not a big deal until you forget... Until you forget, or... The first 50 canopies you rent/pack yourself don't have a collapsible PC, then one day you rent/borrow a rig that does and a collapsible pilot chute, and you pack it just like you packed the previous 50. This almost happened to me. I've been packing a chute the doesn't have a collapsible pilot chute. Then on the last jump of the day a smaller chute that I haven't jumped yet became available. Only thing was to make the load with my group I had to pack it quick. So, I start packing it quickly just like I had the other canopies with-out a collapsible PC. .... Lucky for me the person that normally rents that rig, walked by and stopped me a said. "Hey, that chute has a collapsible PC. Let's take care of that right now." Conclusion #1: It is good to have friends looking out for each other. Conclusion #2: Living in a world full of collapsible PCs, it is better to be in the habit of packing them than to be in the habit of NOT packing them. So, as a result, I think I get one that has a collapsible PC and get in the habit of packing a chute with a collapsible PC every time right now, early in my jumping career. When I teach new jumpers how to pack the PC I always show them the "Brians method", this method is impossible with a collapsed PC. So hopefully it will trigger an alarm in their heads when/if they try to do it.

I don't recommend this. Climbing down to this position is dangerous, you can snag straps and/or pull reserve or cutaway handle. There is a video on youtube of this happening, the reserve beeing pulled while hanging on the skid. EDIT: https://youtu.be/1pg53t_HIQw?t=1m14s

It's called V6 1200m bluetooth intercom, or something like it depending on who sells it. http://m.aliexpress.com/item/726590918.html?tracelog=storedetail2mobilesitedetail I bought mine on ebay but didn't find it, on my phone now

I have tested the one I have. It's a $99 setup including shipping. It claims to have 1200 m range. We could talk when I was at 900 m and the other person on the ground. (Was not directly above either) It might have worked at a longer range but 900 m was when I was under canopy and we paired the devices. When used at more than 6-700 m the sound has a "digital sound". Usable most of the time but sometimes you can't hear. Sound was ok, little low. But mine is mounted behind the padding so there is room for improvements. There was no windnoise at all. If you didn't know it you would think the other person was on the ground or indoors. Sometimes it's hard to connect it to the other device and it needs to be turned off and then tuned on to work, but most of the times you just push a button. Used it a few times with both devices in the air and it worked fine. Nothing to complain about there. For the price, it's great. But I'm sure there are others that are better.

It's an interesting exercise that people should try... What are your priorities for an AAD? Personally, my first one is that is must not fire when it shouldn't. Second is having no unsafe failure modes. Third is firing when it should... those are mine. What are yours? One of my priorities is the ability for ME to set the activation altitude above a minimum. I can't understand why stock units are set to fire at 750 ft. The Vigil II+ can be set higher as I understand. My lowest opening was at 1200 ft way back when. That was pretty damned scary. You can set the altitude on a Cypres also. Don't know about M2.

Looking at google maps, if the main landing area is where I think it is, it's about 500 m to the river and about 1000 m to the beach. It's not impossible for a new jumper to land that much off, but because it is something you really don't want to land in I don't think it's an issue. Generally, if you have a large landing area and a large and good out landing areas students land off because they 'can'. Tighter landing areas make them more focused. Generally...

Do you have a or should we guess what article it is?

Still, it's $99 for data you can get from your digital altimeter or dytter (depending on which you have). Also, with the fantastic batterytimes the GoPro have, I bet it will last two jumps

But with this setup you will not have the same flexibility. You have to disconnect the static line/bag and connect a PC to use the rig in freefall. With a throw out SL setup you only need to disconnect the velcro and close the rig as usual. Just depends on how badly you want to do this. Anyways, I can detach and reattach my Bridal in a jiffy. The static bag is loose anyways. (You cannot really do this with normal gear, you require elastic loops on the outside flaps to keep the static line in place) Sure you can! Not sure if it's visible on the video, but we used normal student gear. You give the SL to the student and tell them, "hold this". See? We never encounterd any issues. And if the pin/static line cable got pulled it's easy to close and not as spring PCs ETA: Over here replacing the bridle is a riggerswork, which makes it even less convenient

Looking at one of the videos on the page, it seems it has problems with inaccuracis on the altitude. probably it's because of the GoPro casecreating a burble where the back door lets the air in. But really? This thing only creates subtitle files, so how does it differ from the FlySight? Sure you have to match the video and FlySight data, but it's not that hard. FS can also give you more data than this thing. I don't really see the point

But with this setup you will not have the same flexibility. You have to disconnect the static line/bag and connect a PC to use the rig in freefall. With a throw out SL setup you only need to disconnect the velcro and close the rig as usual.

Heres a SL jump with a throw out. http://youtu.be/YGMaNp1lDjA

Why are you all so stuck with spring loaded PC? You can use a normal throw out with static line, we did that a few years ago when we had both AFF and static line. It was much easier to change a throw out to static line than the other way around because of the spring.

The GPS in a phone is generally rubbish. Some time ago someone posted a GPS track from his phone and it looked awful, and the "landing" was ~100 ft in the air. My advice is to get a device built for tracking skydivers. Or a external GPS device for your phone, not sure it will work as good as FlySight but it will be better than built in GPS.

You don't need to buy that stuff from Apex, you can build something like it from a old lineset that will work just as good. Even old-must-be-replaced spectra lines can be used if you only want to make one jump with it. But still, a PCA is pretty much the same as a static line. I don't think the gear and gizmos will be the issue, if you go head low in the exit your feet may tangle with the lines. And it wont matter if it's a PCA, Apex static line or home built, if it's a Baser or not. It won't be good. A head up exit, 'frankenstein', can make it safer.

I'm not sure about the drinking. If you look at 33 seconds in the video, it looks like he is faking it.

Sammie, it's not that crazy. A static line is simply another method of deploying a main parachute. If people wanted to pay a bunch of money, dropzones could even offer a static line first jump from a balloon. Look at all the pilot chute assist deployments that BASE jumpers are doing. It would be very similar to that. "skyh2omedic" is not some crazy kid trying to jump a balloon before he is ready, (although I can see how you might think that). I'm sure he will get good information before he does a static line jump from a balloon. Static line attachment points are not "approved" in the sense of their suitability for use with a static line. If a static line attachment point is "permanently" installed on an aircraft, it may need aircraft "alteration" approval and documentation. Here's an interesting question. What would the emergency procedures be for if the student got tangled in the static line and was "in tow"? Land the balloon. But the BASE jumpers do it slider down/off. I'm not sure I would want to try it with a sky main with slider. But, I don't know, it may work fine

PCA? Not that I think it's a good idea

Ok!

Was that on a memory that cost $2-3? What I mean is that usually cheap memories are slower, so comparing times with a $100 memory isn't valid.

3-10 seconds sounds low. Even with 10 MB/s writespeed that is only 100 MB file. It's possible but it's not HD and/or a short video. However you could create a "backup" that auto copy the new file created in vegas directory to the usb media, that will make the process automatic for the editor so that he/she does not have to make that extra step in the process

You could, with fast enough drives, render to the usb drive and you there is no additional wait time. But then you have no copies on your computer

Keep in mind some soccer fields have wires going around the field.

Ok, this should work. IF your webspace host accept php. And as you can see it's not that much code. The actual php code is between . But the link-tag between the head tags are very important. If you copy paste it to a html code don't forget that line of code. $URL is just as it sounds, the URL you wish to grab. $URL is all the html code from the page as one string. $text = get_Table($URL , "

I believe you need php code to grab the table. Just copying the html code will give you the code for now, but tomorrow the forecast will change, but not your page because your html code is static. Html code is like a book, each time you open it it will look the same. Weather is not the same. I'm on my phone now and can't look at the code on skydivingweather site, but most likely I have a finnished php code that can grab the stuff you want. I have also made a weatherpage that grabs data from different sources and compiles it, I'm quite sure it can be used or modified to your needs