RichM

Lots of similar fun to be found here.

All canopies will return to their natural glide path after a swoop. My xfire does this without any natural inbuilt plane out, so it requires gentle input from toggles or rear risers. But this is just gentle input to find the "sweet" spot where the canopy can be held while surfing long distances. Rear risers deflect more of the canopy so requiring much less input and therefore creating less drag - aka they are better for swoop distance but they are also more risky - a canopy will stall much quicker and more easily on rear risers than toggles. You also need to concentrate on the transition point from rears to toggles as you move from the surf to the shutdown phase.

I may be wrong but it sounds to me like you are not finding the sweet spot in the surf and are just transitioning straight to shutdown at the bottom of the recovery arc. You should be able to surf your canopy well in excess of 100ft with just a little inout from the toggles.

Yup, thats an "awfully" calm sea.

Our old banger was stolen and taken for a joyride, presumably by some kids. They tried unsuccessfully to wrench a worthless 1970's radio from the dashboard, and failing that they stole the ashtray! Go figure. 2 months later, with a sheet of soft plastic in the drivers window keeping out the rain after the first theft, some other dude broke the back window to get in and take it for a joyride. I ended up with a note in the window saying "I am unlocked and I need no key, but please don't hurt me"

Hey, we made team 57 already

Rich M

Great one. Form U R SCR00D rofl

Haha Or the Jet Ranger, forced out at 100mph by a fart - always creates a Watermelon

And the very rare broom handle - so stiff and long it just won't go round the bend no matter how often you flush.

That's brilliant :) Thanks for sharing it

DNTTOTMWFRI .... no wonder they changed it to RTFM!

For a bargain £510. Well I think its a bargain anyway Now all I need is an amp, some speakers, some interconnects and speaker cable to match. Hmmmm, anyone lend me some money please ?

Linn Genki

32C and clear blue skies, and I'm stuck in the office fighting with my flipping quarterly VAT return

{{{{{UK Vibes}}}}}} Heal well and fast and fly again.

Woooosh. Nice one Paul, well done.

NIce one Bill, you rock!

How could you prove it is a lousy pack job? There are a few errors that can easily be spotted after a bounce, but please accept that even with the most careful packing, sometimes in this sport *shit happens*, and it's not anyone's fault. We all know the risks we take when we skydive, so my take is that if you can't deal with the consequences then take up fishing instead.

I watched him at the TT many times, he was awesome. Blue skies and dry tarmac Steve.

Doesn't that result in a pretty ugly trap with the free end jutting out at 90 degrees to the core/outer combo?

I'm grounded at the moment due to having too large a sense of humour I'll be jumping next week when the summer comes baxck (allegedly)

Lol, read my previous comment again HPC and I are having a bit of a personality clash at the moment.

I haven't been there in a while, but recent events may bring me back more often. I want to find a swoop friendly dz and I know Sibson is good.

Yesterday a Turbolet with 15 jumpers flew to the 100 acre Bewl Bridge Reservoir and we all got out. The wind was about 10 knots and I setup a 90 into a downwind swoop. I got the altitude and swoop just right and came howling across the water next to the recovery boat. I started to extend my left foot to toe drag the water and I can only assume my foot hit a wavelet, becuase my face followed a millisecond after. Like a skimming stone I bounced up and got my feet caught in my lines, I couldn't see the water so I guess I was upside down. And about 3 seconds later I skidded across the top of the water and splashdown.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The at the end of the day I pushed the (dry) dz controller into 2ft of water for a laugh and got grounded for a week.

Hohum

Sabres are rock solid canopies normally, yours sounds wrong. Please explain your problems to your local rigger and get him to do a full inspection.

With snap riser turns I would support your argument, but I use carving approaches so I can continually reassess the dive and adjust it. For this reason I prefer canopies with a long dive as they allow greater flexibility to adjust the dive so that I can bring the canopy to a comfortable plane at ground level.

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A bonus of a long dive is that you start the swoop higher, you have longer in the dive to assess your accuracy and tune the dive rate to suit, and longer to realise you fucked it up. The downside is a long diving canopy will pick up more speed, so if you have royally fucked it up it will hurt you more when you bounce.

The bonus to the long dive is that you build up more momentum. I don't know how much you've flown a divey canopy, but they are NOT easy to dig out. A canopy that likes to dive takes a LOT more effort to plane out quickly than one that likes to plane out on its own. Not that it's impossible or anything, it happens all the time. But, a stiletto turned 30 feet too low will be much easier to flatten out quickly than a Velocity turned 30 feet too low, based simply on the momentum behind the dive. More momentum, more speed, more distance needed to stop.

I jump a xfire1 and have a number of jumps on a velocity, so I'm no expert. Would you think that if you turn a Sabre 30ft too low at 200ft and realise halfway through the dive you only have 100ft left to dig it out, but if you trun a Velocity 30ft too low at 500ft and realise halfway through you have 250ft to dig it out - with 250ft left you could probably just tweak the dive to suit, with only 100ft you are more likely to need to dig it out. But my thrust was to reinforce that pilot skill skill is the biggest determining factor by far.