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It clearly states in the report that it was a moderate spiral. Not an HP turn. While that may be how it is designed, it is NOT desirable behaviour. Remember this is not an up-jumper using the gear, but a NOVICE, using equipment designed for a NOVICE. Yeah - misfire is an emotive word. It is not a 'save' and it is not at face value, user error, why should a novice have to use an EXPERT device? Please remember that many people are taught no radical manoeuvres below 500 foot. There is no indication this was a radical manoeuvre anyway. So personally I have no quarrel with the students behaviour from what is in the report. If you read the reports they are usually pretty hard on the user. Student cypres, vigil student mode, argus student mode, FXC: they all fire at 13 m/s or faster. Know your gear. If you call this a misfire, you need some education and better procedures. Even with novice canopies you can and will reach this speed quite easily. This is one reason not to allow that students spiral at altitudes lower than 1500 ft. Another reason is that at this altitude they should enter into a landing pattern and fly predictable.

Uncocked pc. Not enough force to pull the pin out. When the reserve is out of the container, the pc can pull the pin due to the fact that the main has more room now in the container

If the wings fall of the plane, you have a better chance to jump at 670 ft from it than when you stay in the plane. During my ground school I was tought that if there is a malfunction with the airplane under 1,500 then we are not allowed to bail. Normaly you stay with the plane and you make an emergency landing. This should give you the highest chance of survival. But if an emergency landing is not possible, staying in the plane is a (almost) certain death and the pilot keeps yelling "get out" ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft_(1960%E2%80%931974) 1963 - 26 June A BAF Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar, CP45, c/n 246, en route to RAF Gütersloh, crashes near Detmold, Germany after being accidentally hit by a British mortar bomb over the Sennelager Range. 5 crewmen and 33 paratroopers died, while 9 paratroopers managed to jump to safety using their parachutes.[101 PS The survivors got out very low.

If the wings fall of the plane, you have a better chance to jump at 670 ft from it than when you stay in the plane.

Proof of skydiving insurrance (more specific third party liability). Travelinsurance, but check that they do not exclude skydiving.

It also do happen that student tandeminstructors forget to set the drogue and never or to late realise their mistake. (Hint, if you see the videoman in headdown in front of you, ...).

Ship it to a rigger in Belgium, Spain, ... for repack

http://www.pia.com/piapubs/TSDocuments/TS-104CanopyVolume.pdf

My old PC9 did that ok.

Mostly Aerodyne Icon and aerodyne solo or pilots. Only a few paratec rigs and canopies, no javelins or 7 cells. Zwartberg is 15' further from Brussels than Schaffen, but still some prefer to drive those extra 15'.

Why? Jumped them for years. Liked the light togglepresure and possibility to flare with my hands not next to my body. Stopped using them when I started using the rearrisers.

10 hpa = + 80 m at sealevel. It is not a very normal variation. You have to switch the VIGIL off before traveling, because it will not switch off when it detects a variation in your altitude. Cypres switches off after 14 hours, during freefall, in the ride to altitude … It is what you call “can handle it”. Last jump of the day, somebody grabs a rig, switches the AAD on and jumps it. Next morning, student grabs gear, get inspected before boarding (AAD is on) and a second time before jumping, AAD is off this time. Somebody switched on her AAD at home (Cypres) and drives to the DZ (DZ was at a higher altitude). Incident was on this forum and happend at Chicago, I forgot the year. So it is safe to conclude that you better switch it on at the DZ and to mention this in the manual. Strait from the cypres manual

Did not knew this. Happend only very very recent than I presume.

Not the one's I saw. Several wingsuiters I know jump intrudair wingsuits (skydive, base).

Do know that 30 sec exposure to 115 db noise can/will damage your hearing. More than 8 hr at 85 db will damage your hearing. +3 db = twice as much noise or half the exposure time before you damage your hearing. To calculate the time you have to take also the time in account that you are sitting in the plane, listening to loud music ...

Maybe that battery is also empty. Happened to me.

10 direct bag jumps, 7 nice twists.

have you checked this link? (from the maker of the mpod) http://www.pgasus.be/start.php?pg=text&item=mPOD to tired for the moment to see if you made a mistake or not.

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But be carefull. Be sure that the passenger's chute does not open during the freefall when he is still attached to the TI. Watch out for the hooks from passengerharnas after disconnecting them so that they do not catch your main.

Zwartberg, Belgium, 120 km, (jumpprices are lower than in Germany, only open during weekends and Belgian holidays. http://www.pcv.be/en/info/Zwartberg/ AAD is mandatory, bring your logbook (, licence) and proof of insurance.

Jos De Visser, now 76, competed every year in the Belgian nationals FS 4, except last year (due to an old injury)

And that explains it all

I understand the Pulse, but I would not choose the spectre for a nice and easy flare. It is a good canopy, but other canopies have more flare (Pulse, Storm, Pilot, Sabre 2 ...)