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Anyone know the current turnaround time? My rigger sent my Cypres 2 in on August 25th and still no word back. Their phone number is an answering machine, I left a message and will hopefully hear back.

What is the song called? I can't find a copy of it anywhere. It's also in a French base video called.. Trollspiret I think.

Zorbing is dangerous! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKEuQ__9rmk

Tandem standing seems pretty dumb but the chin camera, that is GREAT! No hazard of shit getting snagged on top of your helmet, unless you deploy on your back. For some reason with the various jokes in here I couldn't stop laughing for 5 minutes That was quite the interesting skydive would be even more so if the link worked. Link works for me. It shows a mr bill tandemjump with drogue-rider and some other jumpers (2 of which never even come close), plus the most interesting way of mounting 3 camera's on your chin (?) I've ever seen

***No room? That looks like a pretty densely-packed airport property. There is more then enough compliant areas on that field, for some licensed and TDM's, students would be really tight. It's my understanding they were told no they couldn't land on that federal funded airport because of the sailplanes and UL traffic and they choose to go off airport to be nice and accommodating to the other airport users. Now the county is going to be forcing the business owner and the City of Boulder into a tight spot... I think in the near future there will an airport access case with lawyers involved, I base that on research, not just what I think. If they win and I'm sure they can with enough $$$, then Kim Gibbs can bitch all she likes about the noise and there won't be shit she can do about it, nor the county denial of landing on an airport as a land use issue. I think this would be an optimal solution in that we wouldn't have to drive back. But there is a lot of traffic at the airport with gliders, UL's etc. I would be concerned about hitting one under canopy. I want to jump here again

If you don't do up your chest strap, I hear it is not easy to do up in free-fall. I have also heard of putting your arm across and grabbing the main lift web on the other side, while pulling your PC with other hand. Truth to this?

What can I do to help? I live in Boulder. The letters weren't enough I take it?

I want to get it to coach skydiving club students, and not as a job, I probably won't charge them. I don't currently work in skydiving. I am a grad student and money is an issue, second time I'm considering the course. I guess I'm somewhat annoyed to have to pay more than anywhere else (I checked 2 other places offering the course. edit: no jumps included for $350, it's two evenings (3.5hr/evening) + practical jumps on a weekend.

Insightful replies, everyone. I will decide if its worth it to me. I am interested in teaching students occasionally but not as a job, on some weekends. It is a uspa, no jumps included. There may be a second instructor, which would make sense. I appreciate the post about not making financial decisions based on what they make.. it might be worth it to me. I checked a few other places and its definitely the most expensive.. the joys of still being a student.

23MPH maybe 5-6mph gusts max.

Lots of views and no replies.. come on

I realize these posts were a while ago, but I am looking at: $350 coach course fee $55 book with shipping $112 at least in jumping $35 USPA Rating Fee ------ $552 Edit: Inflation isin't this much. Is that the going rate? Should I go elsewhere?

I signed up for a coach course and the "fee" is $350. It seems like with a class of 8, the instructor makes a killing on it. I even pay for my own materials, they get the space for free... they are making $2800 for 2 nights and 8 hours' work? Am I missing something here? I have seen another coach course at Snohomish for $175... half the price. Is it completely arbitrary / how much robbery the rating giver wants to commit? I'm talking about the USPA coach course.. Canada is even worse don't get me started. Thoughts?

Well, I did 2 jumps out of an R44 in Moab last weekend, then came across this thread today I definitely wouldn't want to practice getting out of the chopper on the ground,looked like a good way to get your head chopped off! We were warned not to push off the chopper, rather just fall off. The pilot didn't say anything about not standing on the strut, and I stood on it both times. The R44 seemed fine at altitude, it shook the same there as on the ground. The pilot even gave us a cool canyon tour before we went to altitude, buzzing rock formations! Overall a good experience for me. I would do it again... it didn't seem to sketchy. Just don't catch your stuff on anything on the way out. One thing the pilot did do was remove all the doors except for his door. And he did not have a parachute!

I did the B-Rels and they were kind of a pain in the ass. It was hard to get people to jump with you (doing that kind of thing), and hard to organize the four-way at the end. I went to Australia with 30 jumps, and left with about 85.. I did my last B-rel with a cool bloke.. Pricey I think. At Picton, I didn't have any trouble finding people to jump with, although we mostly did tons of atmo. Just get with a group and jump with them all day. I remember some fun fairly big atmo jumps, rows of people jumping backwards out the skyvan

I thought I was the only person that thought this... I pount it with other jumpers before getting out But I agree, people are always trying to high five or pound when I'm getting my goggles on or trying to do my handle check before exit. Also, a variation - pound-slap-explode (fist to open hand)

With enough wind...maybe yea... I think for both wingsuits and trackingsuits, people have a bit of a skewed view of GPS scores in competitions and actual glide-ratios and how big the influence of a preceding dive and flare is combined with wind. For sure both tracksuits and wingsuits fly far. But not always in the extremes some people are quoting. Hey Jarno, I agree. But they are getting pretty good, compared to the 1st generation Phoenix Fly pants, the latest generation is really a step up don't you think? I believe 1.7:1 steady-state has been achieved. To quote an experienced base-jumper, "if you fly first you will always fly farther" - in the long run, diving doesn't help? I see flylikebrick in your signature and I wish wingsuitnews was back PS did you really lift off that platform and tethered fly in the tunnel?

Used please!

The extra surface area of a bootie might help, but it is negligible when you can cinch your tracking pants down to the lowest lace on your shoes. This way, you can still walk without having material to trip on under your feet.. a major advantage of the pure tracksuit in my opinion. All the tracksuits.. Presurized, Phoenix Fly, S-Fly, Intrudair, are all morphing towards the same design. It's really time for some innovation here... soon the 2.0:1 glide ratio will be broken in a tracksuit.

I looked at the vids versus Tube 3, it seems to be about the same performance but with backfly inlets. These could come to the Tube soon, though.. don't think they are the only ones innovating The phoenix fly has a little less glide than the tube, seems to be easier to fly though.

Unfortunately it is custom. Its not uncomfortable, just undurable. I would give up comfort for durability, actually. Hi Rob, thanks for the advice. I will ask the local rigger to do this. Do you mean the sidewinder container made in Canada? I hear everyone saying it'll be fine for 1000's of jumps, but in this case, it's not. Guaranteed in 100 jumps it will be twice as bad. Maybe it's just how it fits me but I'll try and get a picture. Hmm. I will take a look at the hip ring stitching to see if there's any sharp points. This might be causing it. I have also thought it could be rubbing on my tracking pants. New, DOM Oct 2011, about 80 jumps on it, only. If I come across a good deal, I will sell it in an instant and get a V3. The other thing I have noticed is the wings toggles really shread your brake line loops.. they are very abrasive. Thanks everyone for the replies, I really just want to find a practical solution.. I'm going to try Rob's idea. I hear everyone giving rave reviews for Wings.. I like mine but some things like this are really annoying. Maybe it's just my harness design. I have heard other cases of leg straps needing replacement from too much walking (+ rubbing at the rings), I have been very careful not to let it rub while walking.

Since I can't edit from my phone, I'll add that frankly the wings hip rings are an inferior design, unlike vectors where the leg strap webbing is separate from the other webbing loops at the hip ring. I think its time for wings to wake up and switch to the D ring hip ring design. Other than selling my rig, I'm not sure there's anything I can do.

The webbing on my hip rings is rubbing together and getting fuzzy. I mean, where the webbing from the leg straps, laterals, and MLW come together at the ring. This is the second time I've dealt with this on a wings container. Any idea how to mitigate it or put some sacrificial material in there to reduce the problem? I try not to walk in the harness but its almost impossible to prevent.

So what do you do if you test your cypress by the button push and it doesn't blink? Reset it? Is it safe? Take it out and jump without? I hate to think that I've been jumping three years with a possibly faulty Cypress. Especially where I'm jumping now it's dry with tons of static. C'mon Airtec, stand up and volunteer to fix our units. If this problem is commonplace I see it being real bad for students renting gear.. they might not all know.

Here is a quick calculation I did for what I thought was the full-flight part of your jump So avg 1.19 glide - without a tracking suit, this is very good!