ianmdrennan

You can do the layout with your legs extended through out the whole manuever (unless this is freestyle this is not the way IMHO to do freeflying transitions - I never did like those CAT tests anyway

Break the manuever down into pieces. Begin the transition, tuck up your legs, extend your legs just past the 180 degree mark into sit then stand (accelerated obviously). Hard one to explain, but it's not as difficult as you think. Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Different country, different requirements. Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

USPA are working on a wingloading BSR. Whether it'll be recomendations or rule I have no idea at this point. Obviously they feel this is a problem too, or else they wouldn't bother. Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

we break off at 5000 at our dz. That gives us enough time to turn 180 check for traffic behind us and track away on our back. Even jumping in small groups it's a good habit to get into so it becomes one less new thing to learn on bigger groups. Bigger than 5 ways we typically start breaking off anywhere from 5500 to 6000 feet and stagger the breakoff. Much like larger RW groups. Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

I think you're getting HMA and Vectran confused. I can see the wear on my vectran lines quite clearly, on the other hand the HMA line sets at our dz appear to be in better condition (visibly) but the pilots are saying that it's time for a re-line. Either way I feel that the industry needs to better educate us on exactly what to look for. It seems that there is nothing clearly defining exactly what it is we need to look for on these line types. Blue skies Performance Designs Factory Team

I'd make wings level the number 1 priority. In fact that's whats taught on our first jump 1) Wings Level 2) Avoid obstacles 3) Land into the wind Not too long ago we had a jumper avoid an obstacle and hook himself into the ground (low time jumper new from another dz) because he thought it would be better to hook in than hit the obstacle. I really wish he hadn't done that but at least he's alive to talk about it. Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

I can't speak for the VX, but the FX's I've jumped have been ridiculously high. The Velocity on the other hand is bliss, only time I find the pressure getting too high is after a long carving 270. I believe the XAOS also has light front riser pressure. Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Fair enough. I just believe 1200 is a pretty cheap price to pay for something that could save my life one day. I like to think of it as an additional insurance policy I hope I never have to collect on. Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

That put a smile on my face

Hi Folks, I have a velo 96 that I'm considering selling (exactly 254 jumps on it). By the time I actually get around to selling it I'd expect it to have about 300 jumps on it. What do you think would be a fair asking price (perfect condition except the lines will probably be nearing replacement time by then I'd think)? Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Enjoy the velo. My purchase of one was,by far, one of the best decisions I made regarding gear. She sure is a beauty. Just, as always, be careful...don't let her lull you into a false sense of security. Blue skies and safe swoops Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Info Hope to see you guys there. Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Dave Brown will be coming to Jumptown Friday afternoon, September 5th, Saturday, September 6th and Sunday, September 7th . Dave will be doing individual and group coaching on Friday afternoon. The price for individual coaching will be $45 plus your slot. If you want to divide that between 2 or 3 people the price goes down accordingly. Please contact Diane Pond [email protected] if you want individual coaching so he is not overbooked for the weekend. Friday night at 7:00 PM Dave will hold a seminar on Hybrid dives, etc. The price will be $10 per person. Saturday will be dedicated to doing safe, fun hybrid dives. The price will be $5 per person for each hybrid dive you are on with Dave. You can't beat the price for the quality instruction. If you ever want to do hybrid dives, this is one of the people you should be learning from. On Sunday Dave will divide the day between hybrid dives and coaching - he is there to help you out so you just have to let him know what you are looking for. Take advantage of Dave's skills. He is an awesome coach. Hope to see you there. Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Agreed. Every day (normally twice) the pilot updates the upper wind information next to our aerial photo for 3, 6, 9 and 12g's. Makes all the difference in planning the jump run, exit times, etc. Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Depends on my altitude. I prefer not to use both, but if I need to start my 270 higher than I planned I use both, then ease up a little on one side to do a slow carving turn to eat up as much alt as I can. Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

awesome man. Thanks for the credit

Actually it was a FreeFall jump, last I checked following you on a speed dive was still considered freefall . Monkey See you this weekend. Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

thx

No matter how angry I may be at someone I try to take a few minutes to calm down before approaching them. I've never seen any good come from the type of scene you described no matter how "correct" the person may/may not have been. These types of things should be dealt with quietly and calmly. The lessons learned should be stated publically IMO. I do have a question though, was this a jumper from the same group or a jumper from a previous group? Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Movement is all in the hips. By pushing your hips forward you lay your back out into the relative wind which creates forward movement, or backward movement if you pull your hips back which pulls your chest into the relative wind. The trick is that you create drag whenever you create movement so you have to push your legs down more (all relative to the amount of drive you're trying to create) to compensate and stay on levels. A lot of folks learning to sit have a tendency to lean forward and sweep their arms back. This can allow you to fall down the tube, but severly limits your ability to move around the sky. You do not want to be dependant on your arms, instead you want them free to take whatever grips you choose. The 3 most common things I see in students are: 1) Chest forward 2) Knees high (they think they're at 90 degrees but they are higher) 3) Legs together. Work on keeping your torso straight, your legs nice and wide and your knees slightly below 90 degrees and you are on your way to a great sit. Blue skies and good luck, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

I'll be sending an email to alti-2 containing this info, but first of all let me say that I love the product and have been using it for performance landings on a Velocity 84 all weekend with incredible success. That said I did have 1 weird thing happen to me. After FF I chased down (spiraled from 4 to 2 g's) another canopy (all pre-planned) but I guess the Velo 84 had enough speed to trick the neptune into thinking I was back in FF again. This seemed to overwrite my dive log statistics as the neptune said that I had an exit altitude of 2500 feet and an opening of 500 ft!! Definately not the case

I may have missed it in the documentation but how long is the battery expected to last? Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

mine will be here tomorrow. Will post my feedback after a weekend of testing it. Specifically on high performance landings. Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

I don't disagree about velocity, but I'd still rather have a whole load land downwind that have people flying towards one another (you can do the v^2 calc on that one for yourself). At our dz we seem to have the most success predetermining a landing direction on the plane. If the jumper does not like the landing direction, we have other areas they can land in for that load or until it's changed to suit them better. Blue skies Ian Performance Designs Factory Team