jsaxton

It's time that there is some requirements in this country other than you have to have your reserve repacked by a senior rigger.

Don't jump, if you jump up you could hit the tail!

What does he look like? I can't remember who he is.

This guy's in the San Francisco area, lets figure out who is is and help him understand how to act under canopy.

This site is based (with hundreds of hours of modification I'm sure) on an old Perl based forum software package called YABB. It's free. Unless you are a programmer why don't you just use yahoo groups or something like that?

The vineyards at Lodi are not very welcoming, at all. There is a hugh field right next to the grass. In addition there is the student landing area and another field to the north, those are the best outs. If you are on the wrong side of the freeway there are a couple of open fields there as well. As for the vinyards, well you can land in the grapes if you really want, but personally I would rather land on the access roads that are all over the place ;)

Okay, fair enough, but please tell me a little more about what you think I am not understanding or what I'm misinterpreting . USPA guidelines and my training and my observation have led me to really believe that it's important to make sure students understand that they are a LOT more likely to be injured making a low turn to avoid an obstacle than hitting an obstacle. I'll say right up front that I've seen students hit bad things and get hurt pretty seriously when they might have made a turn over USPA recommendations and avoided injury entirely or too a much lesser degree, but I also think that those few circumstances were the exception to the norm and that if you have to teach one thing to avoid confusing students, you have to pick what's going to work right most of the time and not what's going to work right under special conditions One of them was me on jump #12 or so, I turned low to avoid a barbed wire fence. Luckily I was on a Navigator and a PLF saved me. I turned low on a student canopy and walked away.

You teach students that landing in straight line is less of a priority than avoiding obstacles? Could you explain the reasoning behing that a little more? I teach that landing straight and level is more important than avoiding obstacles and that makes sense to me. That's also what I was trained to teach. 1. Land flying straight and level 2. Land in an open area 3. Get the toggles down to at least your hips I believe that you are misinterpreting the priorities: Priority1: Avoid other canopys Priority2: Avoid obstacles Priority3: Land in a straight line (wing level) Priority4: Land into the wind Priority5: Land in the designated area

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Lodi

Don't kid yourself, Ken is MUCH better looking.

Do all the 20ways you can. Skills used in 20way can be directly applied to BigWays. Also I believe that you can learn a LOT by watching the DVD of the bigway camp. Watch it over and over like you're an organizer. Watch everyone, pick apart their skydiving, learn to spot body positions that indicate a fall rate issue (knees wide, the "dreaded W"), bad approaches, docs that look ok but where the jumper wasn't completely stopped, ... Also watch the people that are doing a really good job, make note of EXACTLY what they are ( and sometimes more importantly not) doing.. It's kind of like dirt diving, you are preparing yourself mentally.

make sure that the handholds are NOT loops. There should be no way that anyone can get "stuck" to the inflatable, that could be VERY bad.

PLEASE get advice from someone senior who has done raft jumps before attempting this. Even with a raft it is CRITICAL to your safety how the handholds are rigged. With an air mattress I can imagine ways that it could be rigged that would be VERY dangerous.

I'm with you on that, the kid lives but the dog gotta take his chances!

huh?

Ok then, ex-lax disolved in milk

run out the back arms in front legs on ass and ARCH. 1) exit stable 2) find the base 3) intercept where the base WILL be.

If you're not replaceable, you're not promotable.

I don't see why the AC type would have anything to do with it. The same technique should work from any tailgate (except perhaps a 130).

Congratulations! Guess Florida will have to step it up next year!

So what's the word on the POPS attempts?

let your rigger do it at the next repack

A student model is designed to fire at lower descent rates.