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momentum schmomentum, unless there is some very compelling advantage to using a ZP reserve, i want no part of trying to pack it as one. It's bad enough pacjing new ZP as a main, and i'm likely to let a hell of a lot more slide in a main packjob than i am a reserve pack. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

i have a bevsuit and a DaKine suit, each with many hundreds of jumps on them. The only thing that's been a problem is knees (from packing in them, doh! ) and the butt of my bef suit from sliding in tandems (it was a freefly suit originally. I beat the hell out of my suits, but they're lasted a combined 1600 jumps with mothing more than a couple of patches in the aforementioned areas. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

well, i DO want the slider coming down, and the bumpers and links are small enough to allow that, but the nature of the demo could have me sending it off at any time. As such i was reluctant to put it on my own risers or buy another pair of slinks for a demo. My mistake. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

And this, boys & girls, is why we should not put off simple gear maintenance. I have a demo canopy (extended demo) that came on risers with Rapide links and silicone slider bumpers. One of these bumpers is quite worn, and has a crack in it. Occasionally this slider bumper, when pulling the slider off the risers and over the links for packing, would slide off the link. As i'm generally heads-up and always do my own packing i considered this as more of a gear-nuissance that i'd get to when i wasn't on a call. Then of course the end of the day would come and it wouldn't happen that time and would therefore slip my mind. Until now. Backup to july 4th weekend. As it happens, sunset jump ran into dinner one night, so we all dropped our gear and ate... then the fireworks started, then fightnight began and soon we were looking at a large pile of nylon that got stashed away until morning, when some charitable soul packed my main for me. Fastforward to the following friday. I went out for a funjump which was, as advertised, quite fun. Normal skydive until i opened. It seems that my benevolent packer was not quite as heads-up at the same time that the bumper decided to come off the link again. It followed the slider all they way up to the canopy and was not to be seen again until i looked to see why the left side of my nose wouldn't fully inflate. Turns out the slider bumper only made it about 12" down the lines, and was preventing the lines from separating to allow full canopy spread and inflation. I fought with this for a while, trying to get the thing to slide down, but in the end i had to chop it. Lesson learned: little 'gear nuissances' can turn into full-on problems when you don't expect it. Sure, the person who packed should have been more heads-up, but they're rightly sharing the blame with me for allowing such a situation. now, congratulate me on my first save, i packed that reserve Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

it can be done at both ends.... the diagram shows feeding the losoe end through the double-line, but it can also be accomplished by feeding the loop end through the double-line. It's a little tougher to get through (especially with dacron brakeline... i gave up), but it ends up the same way. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

a rigger friend of mine had pull-test done on it and the weak spot was in the same place as a regular finger-trap, where the fingertrap ends and goes back to single line... the 'knot' is NOT the weak link. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

really? PD recomments at least 8lb of pull-force to get a stow to come out, that's enough to lift the bag of most modern sport canopies by the lines. How do you suggest achieving proper tension w/o double-wrapping? thousands upon thousands of test jumps with double stowing, even the locking stows, and not an issue. hm. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

I cringe when I see that, sure folks have done it for years, but IMHO you're just asking to get lines caught up. If you get the "lucky" band that nice and strong, that doesn't break, then there you are a bag lock. Atleast you can cut-away from a bag lock, you may not be able to cut away from a bag-strip opening. You may be too hurt to actually do it. so which is it? you seem to argue both sides here... personally i'd rather a baglock than a killer opening. i say that having had a high-speed mal before. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

Sheesh, what's with all the redhead bashing lately?? We need a coalition. As a life-long redhead lover, i'll gladly head the coalition. now.. as for the prescription.... when are are you coming to visit?? Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

indeed... HMA can have a couple hundres jumps on it, look like brand new, and snap. This has been shown repeatedly in labratory line-wear tests and i've heard of incident such as this in the field. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

more safe? what's that based on? Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

IF you make it a couple of years in this sport, it'll be interesting to see what kind of advice you're giving people after a couple of broken bones, or seeing some friends bounce, or both. Neat thing about this forum is that it keeps everything. We can't read what ron was really like when he was in your stage, but i'm sure we'll all get some good laughs out of how you used to be if you live that long. Good, luck, and i'll make sure when i visit SGC that i can keep my camera on for your landings... REALTV pays. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

Yeah, you're right. I'm sure this movie will be 100% accurate with no speech taken out of context nor crafty editing just like all of his other accurate movies. What was I thinking. doesn't seem to matter, does it... you seem to have made your decision already. did you even READ the post you replied to? he never made a claim to it being 100% accurate, so what was your point again? Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

thanks man..... have a demo samurai 136 in there at the moment... once brian makes my new 136 to match the rig (my matching 150 won't fit), it'll be schweet Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

a'ight.. fonally got my new rig assembled, packed (my second reserve packjob), and have a color-corrected picture. i dunno why, but it looks blue in photos.. i know some of it is a white-balance issue, which helps if resoveld, but still.. hmmm.. anyway.. here's my new baby Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

3:10:1 beer for my first reserve pack, and it's mine. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

have a knowlegable rigger take a look at it (not just an instructor, there are plenty who are clueless about gear other than their own) and do a porosity check. An F111 canopy with 700 jumps on it may be reaching the end of its life. It may be bleeding enough air to really degrade performance. The PD 9cell is what came before the sabre. Yes, it's older technology, but it's much mroe current than a lot of the other "great deals" out there. good luck Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

got my rig... i'll post pics (with proper colour fidelity) once i get the reserve in the thing..... schweet! Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

hmm.. that's my rig, though it looks royal blue in the pictures, kelly swears to me that it's purple, as i asked for.... hmmmm guess i'll find out in a week :) ciao Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

the problem is that there's SO much more to it than that... jsut a few off the the top of my head -inertia of the txtra air inside the larger wing will make it react slower -extra drag of the bigger surface area of the larger wing will affect it differently (it's a square thing not a linear thing IIRC) -how much air the deflected portion of the tail actually moves -13% shorter lines does not necessarily correspond to how much less input one needs to give the canopy, it will be different, but i don't beleive it's as relative as you're making it out to be bottom line is that the two different sizes are really 2 different wings, just ask kallend about how well the laws of aerodynamics scale... they don't. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

thanks everybody!! sorry for my absense, haven't been online much what with the stuff and everything...... *blink* So yes, i had a great day, spen it with Heidi and Leni cooked us a great dinner (yes heather, it was served about 11:30)... was a good time.. thanks you thank you thankyou

really? so we should give that 90 lb girl a 120 once she has her A? she's under 1:1 after all. I took a bunch of stuff away from John Lenblanc's seminar that makes a lot of sense in Kallend's world... one of them is that size is MORE important than WL, especially when it comes to smaller people at lower experiences. Even more important than either is frame of reference -- if a person has only been flying a 210, they don't belong on a 120 no matter how much they weigh, it's too big of a step, whereas someone having a bunch of jumps on a 135, even at a higher WL, is more equipped to hit the 120. Remember, increasing WL increases speed, not responsiveness. Dropping 15 sqft of canopy is NOT the same thing as strapping on 15 lbs of lead.. a smaller wing is a different wing and will fly differently, even at the same WL. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

i still say wingloading schmingloading... I don't see a 1:1 wingloading on a 126 that's tuned for snappy toggle response as a good idea for someone with low jumps either. a lightnight does NOT equal a PDR.. if they did we'd all be using 'em for CRW cause the cost half as much. No, it's trimmed steeper and has shorters lines (among other things), which means it's gonna go faster for a given wingloading and it's gonna turn & dive more quickly no matter that the wingloading. I'll bed you'd have a far harder time putting a reserve underneath you than a lightning. And bubbles, see how much effort it takes to put yourself above your 160 when you get back in the sky. Can it be done? sure. Is it more easily done on a small canopy? definitely. Like i said in another thread, it you need to meet the WL #s, it's safer to put on weight. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

got a link? FYI.. zhills finally changed the exit order to flat-fliers out first... course now all the freefliers are mad cause they don't get to sit by the door and there's traffic in their way of the pond.... poor babies. Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time

k... time to chime in here with mine... the last 2 are idea for my new one if i don't get tiedye.... feedback? Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time