bluetwo

Hi. You're awesome!!

Welcome back!! You can do it!! Woo hoo!!

Amazing story of recovery... keep it up and good luck!!

Hahahahahahaha......

no, I can only do one thing at a time.

Yep, that makes sense too. I know what pops is getting at but I'm not really having a line twist problem. Out of my 70 jumps I've had like 4 or 5 with line twists and I don't think that's too far above average.

I do know if I go down a size sometime soon I'll be a lot more cautious and quick to assess and fix the situation if at all possible. That's what I was getting at.

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Can you think of any other things that could cause line twists besides packing?

The only thing I can come up with is body position. Dropping a shoulder or being sideways?....

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Feel free to burn me up now pops

OK....nowhere did you mention checking your altitude while trying to fix the twists.

How's that?


May I suggest that if you are having repeated line twists that there is something going on? Probably something that you could change and eliminate the problem?

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I'm not so new that I haven't seen someone cut away because of severe line twists

My first cutaway on a square was severe line twists.

We had a guy here this past weekend who had his first cutaway ever....after over 13,000 jumps. Yes, you read that correctly. I believe it was line twists IIRC.

Things seem to always happen at the most inopportune times.

haha... yeah nice point. I was at 4500 when I pitched so not super low really.

These were all different parachutes too, rentals. The one with crazy twists was a Spectre 190 which I thought was unexpected and it was totally smooth every other jump, unlike the Sabre 2's that seemed a little temperamental to me to be honest. I guess the packer got in a hurry on that one.

I borrowed a friend of mines Altitrack once and loved it... not that the analog part was any different than other analogs but after the jump my buddy showed me the digital data and that part was really interesting.

I feel like the more data you can get the better a pilot you'll be, even if it isn't 1000% correct.

Making free coffee would be nice...

I feel like they've probably already thought about everything, like literally every aspect of the project.

For a while after my first line twist incident I thought it was no big deal, in fact I had remained calm enough the first time to look up and realize the lines were coming undone by themselves, because of the state of riser tension in that configuration, so I just let that one come undone by itself and carried on with my jump.

I kept letting line twists undo themselves for the next few times after that, until I got an opening with what must have been like 6 to 8 twists. I realized this wasn't going to fix itself when I saw it so I pulled like hell on the risers but even then I seemed to still be spinning the wrong way but eventually get the right rotation and came out of it. I wish I had counted how many times I spun.

The point is I learned to fix even a seemingly harmless situation immediately instead of experimenting and while I realize I'm still pretty much too new to be recommending anything I definitely recommend fixing line twists immediately. I'm not so new that I haven't seen someone cut away because of severe line twists and I know I was fortunate with the crazy twists opening I had in that my canopy was there, square and flyable.

Feel free to burn me up now pops

What's up and welcome!!

Wait... It's the kind of pain everyone should want to NOT experience. Although I only know what this pain is like from having to fly with a serious sinus blockage I'm thinking it's about the same on a skydive.

It's frikin horrible!! Your head feels like it'll explode and the worst part is you could mess yourself up to the point that you can't jump, or so I've heard. Even if that last part isn't true it's still not worth it. No cold medicine in the world can save you once your head gets out of whack... sorry, but I don't know the medical term for it.

What up? Welcome!!

Cheers.

I would have made a clicky but it's a pain with my iPad..... I think I would start here if I was you:

http://london.usembassy.gov/visas.html

I think it might be just as easy to get a green card but honestly I can't say I have any experience with this stuff.

Good luck man

One thing I think a hanging harness can do is really make it clear to students just how important the chest strap is. Yes that's completely obvious to anyone with more than one jump...

I know that info was put out in my SL course but apparently it isn't being briefed in all student courses.

Hi.

Trust me when I say I am RIGHT there with you and I know that 6 months is forever in a way.

I'm just finishing up a year long tour in Afghanistan with the military and it's been 145 days since my last jump.

I did 16 jumps at the half way mark and I was in heaven but I still have over 30 days before I can jump again and I definitely plan to move to an area where jumping is an every day thing.

My advice is, first, do what will be good for you in the long run but after that, it's all about location, location, location.

Whassup monkey? Nice screenname by the way...

I can't give you any advice on becoming a videographer but I can say you could get a lot of overall experience if you become a roadie so to speak.

Make friends with a CReW team and play the part of packer at Nationals or other similar competitions and you might have to pay your own way, a decent part of the gas and/or buy a lot of beer but it would be well worth it.

I'm planning to do just that myself and I think it'll be awesome in a relatively beginnerish sort of way. As with any advise you read on this forum it's up to you to decide with your big boy pants on and it wouldn't surprise me if like 200 other people disagree but whatever.

That's my 2 cents worth....

WELCOME!!

Glad to have you back....

I've been doing it longer than you have but I'm still newer than you. In jumps and license anyway.

I would spend a lot more time jumping but this whole job that keeps me in Afghanistan for years at a time isn't helping anything.

Great another Jason.... Just kidding.

Welcome to the forums and feel free to ask questions about whatever.

What's up old timer? Welcome to the forums sir.

And thanks for sharing. I have got to check those threads out...

Welcome to the forums

Cheers!!

Utterly Awesome Brian. Thank you, sincerely, for taking the time to give back to the community like that.

I'm gonna print this and carry it around Afghanistan with me for the meantime. I have a few other things I can add it to. Great reading!! haha

Right, right thank you. I almost forgot to account for that planes capabilities.

I do kind of wish we had a Brian Germain's exit order ...recommendation, or just something that could be used like a set of guidelines along with the logic behind each scenario and possibly even some alternatives that would work in different types of conditions.

The Brian Germain's downsizing chart certainly gets a lot of respect and regard and probably a few people who say meh, but at their own risk

Just my 2 cents worth,
Jason Yergin

Brian, I gotta admit I'm pretty new without a lot of jumps but out of my 60-ish jumps only a few of the exit points had anything to do with any input from me.

It seems like things get a little crazy with the different groups and sometimes we even have pretty big differences in the exit order. I know there's a logic to it all. Maybe it would help to put it all on a chart, I don't know, but with the different opinions on exit order and the different logic it gets pretty confusing to someone who doesn't get to jump every weekend.

I was on a set of canopy course jumps where Pilatus Porter loads were getting out at 12 second intervals, on a 12+ MPH wind day. I mean that seems like a huge difference between the first jumper and the last one and yet everyone made it right back without any issues at all.