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  1. You're really proposing that pre-A license students do this?? How many jumps for an A license these days? 50? 100? YES. And don't tell me that it's too dangerous because that's nonsense. Hell, they don't even need CRW canopies to do it. Just a compatible canopy with whoever is instructing them. Hell, they don't even need non-cascading lines or collapsible PCs. Please tell us what DZ you jump so the sane people in here can avoid you. You sir, as ALL your posts indicate, just don't get it. Piss off
  2. Weeell wooeee Danny boah, if I'da dun nown it wuz dat eazy I'da dun it looong ago! Hot diggitty dangit!!!
  3. why can they drive a car, shoot a gun or fly a plane on their own .. and not be a passenger on a parachute dual system. +1 Why???
  4. I never said that the landing direction has to be the same for the whole day. The set landingdirection is still according the general winddirection. It can change from load to load, but once the canopies are open, we do not change the direction till everybody has landed. And I am very sorry if someone cannot land in those conditions (very light winds) downwind. In that case they have made a wrong canopy choice. BTW our landingdirection indicator is an orange arrow, very visible and "updated" before each drop. Since you put it that way...
  5. As someone else who quit for a long time and came back, I'll say that the big difference is the range of speeds -- that's part of what makes it a much more complex problem than it used to be. Used to be that everyone drove reasonably sedate canopies; one or two hot dogs might do hook turns, but the majority of the people did straight-in landings with no induced speed, on canopies that would be considered fairly docile now. The canopies around you were probably going roughly the same speed forward and down. Yup. Dead on accurate. Yup.
  6. It is called "Chasing the windsock". Specialy in light windconditions the winddirection can change quite a lot (at our DZ). So you see people landing in all directions and everybody was landing against the wind, because they follow the windsock. It is much more important to land in the same direction than to land against the wind. To follow a predictable landingpattern, the landingdirection also has to be predictable. Hanging at 1000 ft ready to land in a certain direction and some @&à*$ ... chooses to land in an other direction, is not good for the predictable landing pattern. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3274519;search_string=landing%20priority;#3274519 I know what "chasing the windsock" is. And I'll agree that once you're on final, the chasing is over. But I'll disagree with you all day long on everyone landing the same direction... all day long, regardless of the wind direction. And I'm familiar with swirling winds. Ever hear of the Raeford wind dragon??? I know it well. The problem with your M.O. is SOME people are not gonna follow others off a cliff. They're gonna land upwind even if you don't. And I'm likely to be one of them. I broke my wrist landing my 220 sq ft F-111 7 cell on a NO WIND day. I call that experience. And my experience tells me landing down wind just because somebody else did is STUPID. I'm gonna take a look at the wind sock at 1000 ft and start my downwind and base. I'll be watching it all the way to about 500 ft and make a decision for my final... which at that point is pretty much made anyway.
  7. Yikes... at 25 jumps most of the students I see are still worried about setting up a proper landing pattern. Great time to take a student for a "ride" in a bi-plane and actually show 'em how.
  8. I guess all of this talk of canopy collisions has me a bit baffled. I understand that parachutes are a lot faster these days but the fundamentals of flying and landing a parachute haven't changed from when I jumped in the late 80's. In fact they haven't changed... EVER! Have people just become complacent at how to read a wind sock??? It's not that hard!! And I don't remember any canopy collisions back then. So who is really to blame? Is it students? How about 100 jump wonders experimenting with the joys of swooping?? Experienced hotshot skygods ignoring the winds, then cutting off and screwing everyone else up? I mean... what's the deal here? Gear has become so good, there really should be less than a dozen fatalities per year, globally! It just doesn't make sense.
  9. Ah well, I can't say I'm not suprised it's 18 in the US. Home of the "not as free as we think" and subject to the wimpers of the "not so brave". Oi! http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb117/Fishmonger_707/NSLF72.jpg
  10. That's what it used to be but I thought the jump number requirements went up. I saw somewhere a D was 500 when it used to be 200. 25 ain't bad if the person they're doing CRW with is qualified to teach them. They can start sooner than that. 2 way CRW is simply is not that dangerous.
  11. How young can a tandem passenger be? With parental consent of course.
  12. moi? educate myself? hi my name is kettle, you must be pot. just to be clear, so i know exactly what your saying. you believe that the only athletes in the sporting world that can run farther than a wide receiver or a tight end in one burst/go/attempt are marathon runners? do you understand the terms aerobic fitness and anarobic fitness? do you understand the difference between the two and how, in general, an improvement in one is to the detrement of the other? do you understand that sprinting, ducking and diving around defenders etc is an anarobic activity wereas running for more than 90 seconds is aerobic? because if you dont, and it dosnt appear as if you do, then im not the one who needs an edumacation Oh you are totally misquoting me. And you can't say "edumacation". That's my line.
  13. Well, you said nobody and there was somebody. Draw your own conclusions. I will never understand because you're talking nonsense. You are spouting absolute bare naked bollocks. Can you even get Football on TV over there in Fantasy Land? We get football every Sunday from early September thru the first week of February... and sometimes Thursdays or Saturdays. College football is on Saturdays also. SOCCER on the other hand... I think some of the Mexican channels show that. I don't tune in. I'm not into games for children and girls. lol That's not what I said. But I would put up our wide receivers against any soccer or rugby player in an endurance race any day of the week.
  14. You're really proposing that pre-A license students do this?? How many jumps for an A license these days? 50? 100? YES. And don't tell me that it's too dangerous because that's nonsense. Hell, they don't even need CRW canopies to do it. Just a compatible canopy with whoever is instructing them. Hell, they don't even need non-cascading lines or collapsible PCs.