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I didn't have any trouble getting on the RWS site when I was in Oz(until the end of April this year).

Well, so do I. I had been told not to do it. The rubberband was too loose and I was too lazy to replace it. "It'll be fine", I thought. I haven't been double-wrapping locking stows anymore and I don't recommend it to anyone else either.

I packed one for myself. Regular rubberband, double-wrapped locking stow. It did break, yes, eventually. Unfortunately by that time the spinning D-bag had twisted my lines into a very choppable mess. I've never had any trouble with tube stoes in the 400 jumps that I've been using them.

No, 98SE is also an independent installation.

I log my wingsuit time like normal freefall, and droguefall separately from normal freefall. Yes, I have two columns in my logbook; one for freefall and the other for droguefall. Yes, I'm a geek.

If you're worried about getting line-overs, I suggest you try the Wolmari-pack. It's basically a pro-pack, but instead of rolling the fabric(and steering lines!) under the cocoon it's folded over. The pictures on the site will explain it better. I've been using it for a while on my Hurricane 135 and the deployments have been at least as good as with a standard pro-pack. Your mileage may vary.

>Hmmmm take one of my spare servos and stuff it in teddy. >make attachment points for the steering lines and you got a swoopable teddy. Something like this?

Eventually, yes. My only cut-away was caused by double-wrapping a rubber band through a grommet. I was told not to do it, but I was too lazy to replace the rubber band. After I threw the pilot chute, I was surprised with the absence of the usual opening shock. Looking up, I saw my D-bag, with the canopy still inside, spinning at the end of my lines. I had time to think "hmm, that might become a problem" before the canopy got out of the bag, spun up, and put me on my back. The actual cause of the mal may have also been the fact that the tension on the double-wrapped stow was just different from the other stows. Nonetheless, I'm not doublewrapping locking stows anymore, even though I know people who keep doing it successfully.

Have you made a packboy using the no-sew method? For that matter, has anyone managed to make a packboy using that method, without the cord knotting up after a few dozen packjobs? I've made 5 packboy cords for myself in the past month. All of them started slipping and a lump formed at the point where the cord goes through itself. The last(and best) one was good for maybe 50-60 packjobs before I had to take it apart and re-fingertrap it with a few stitches to hold the fingertrap in place.

I thought low pulls while skydiving went out of fashion in the 80s.

But then again: Take two jumpers with different body weights. Give them a same kind of canopy, at a different size to give them the same WL. Now, at the same WL, at approximately the same speed, the heavier jumper will have more momentum on landing, increasing the potential for injury.

...And the licence number shouldn't be mandatory. I don't have a number on my Finnish D-licence, and I can't enter my Australian E-licence either. And I can't enter my reserve-packers rating, so I entered "Senior rigger" which isn't really true. For an international forum the profiles are awfully american. How about a choice like "Other" for the ratings and qualifications, where the user could specify the licence/rating/whatever?

"You know you're a skydiver when ... you name your dog 'Toggles' " So, how many of them are out there? The CI of my current DZ owns a silly bitch called Toggles. I'm sure there are more...

I was talking to a jumper(with a couple of hundred jumps) who is starting to get into freeflying and he seemed to think that not using your visual altimeter on a freeflying jump is a common practice and an acceptable one at that. So what do you do?

Oops. What Tonto said. It's fixed now.

On my best jumps I've had average speeds in the high 40's, most of the time I'm in the low 50's. This after about 15 jumps on my GTi. Anyway it's not the speed that matters, it's the amount of ground covered...

You think that's bad? Wait until you start packing reserves for other people...

I was circumcised when I was little. I have no problems with that. I mutilated my leg at Margate about a year ago. It's almost as good as the other one now.

Date: March 14, 2004 Aircraft: C182 Location: Lower Light, Australia Altitude: 10,000' Tandem.

For fucks sake will you people stop comparing circumcision to female genital mutilation??? Cutting off the glans would be comparable to that. I agree that given the current recommendations by doctors circumcision probably shouldn't be done as a routine procedure, but there are valid medical and religious reason for doing it. Circumcised men live their lives very much like the uncircumcised ones. Try and get some perspective before you go around yelling "MUTILATION"!!!

Yes we do.

I remember an issue with the grommets on the housing end having a sharp edge and damaging the three-ring closing loop on some Vortex2's. I think it was about a year or two ago. I never saw a rig with the problem myself, so they may have been using different housings before the problem was discovered. Here's a post on the issue

When I measured the cables I put the suit and the rig on without inserting the cables in the small pockets they have. Then I put the suit and the rig on, stretched the wings, the suit and the rig this way and that, and checked how much excess cable was showing. Then I marked the excess and cut it off and rounded the ends of the cables. Four people have jumped the suit with two different rigs with no problems, so this method should work pretty well for others, too.

And after you people read that crap, you can try these resources, among others: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/faq/faq38.htm http://www.niaid.nih.gov/newsroom/focuson/hiv00/default.htm http://www.skeptic.com/03.2.harris-aids.html Although, since they're mostly on websites maintained by "the establishment", they're all a part of the conspiracy... Sigh.

The cables on my GTI seemed too long when I got the suit, this is what Kim Pothuisje at Birdman had to say(emphasis mine): So I guess a lot of people will be trimming their cables or jumping with excessively long cables.