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What they mean by advance and beginners is taking in count the ability of the flyer. Some suits add the extra drag to compensate for your lack of efficiency when flying, a more advance suit will let you fly rather than suit helping you fly. For my experience and what I have hear from some world class flyers Ouragan is a pretty durable and nice suit on the pricy side. Vertical has a pretty good product as well for the price range. LiquidSKy seems to be for the cooler kids with a lot of cash (the suits seems to be pretty slick as well). Those are the ones I have experience with. If I were you, I would contact a highly reputable coach that can guide you on what you need for your skill level, the the suit they are being sponsor by since they will be able to guide you on what you'll need. I went with Ourogan because I meet with Arizona Arsenal and Sarah Curtis help us choosing the amount of drag and the type of suit we were going to need to fly in the sky and tunnel.

I think also has to do where you jumps most of times. I have spend over 15 hrs doing tunnel time and I dedicate a lot of jumps 30-40 (of 300-350 jumps a year) just doing 1 to 1 free coaching on sit fly or head down, not to mention the other zoo dives where is mostly for the other jumper but I still manage to work on my own skills as well. Now when I go away on skydiving holidays, even when I travel with my group (about 10-15 of us) I only jump with the organizers or people that are at the same level or better than me making every jump challenging hence fun. Maybe once I am a little worn out I would go and do some "fun" (every jumps is fun) jumps. Main reason to this, There is only one other person at the same level or at a higher level than me at my dz, so there is very limited time to do challenging skydives, and on this holidays I can jump with people at my level and any skydives are a challenge, so I don't want to waste it jumping with people that I can jump at home with when I can jump with more experience people.

Two weeks ago at I hit a 345ft swoop with only a 90 making the gates. You can still do some pretty decent swoops doing 90s, and I think, if you are planing doing anything bigger, doing a lot of jumps in a short period of time on a pond is a way better idea for training purpose rather than learning to do anything bigger on a solid ground within working jumps. If you think about it would be nearly impossible to learn how fly head down doing maybe 4 jumps a weekend, and there isn't a tunnel for canopy piloting. If you already have your set up for anything bigger than a 90 and that's what you do on any given jump (allowing conditions) then adding this rule would really suck and might drive you to another dropzone.

I think 1.6 should be the limit on the canopy WL (it is not recommended to go anything beyond that if you read the manufacture), I jumped a Pilot 117 loaded at 2.0 and at the end of the flare I would always stall it on high winds and no winds, the turns were quick and harness was really responsive, but still really reliable opening as this canopy is known to have. but that high of wingloading at your jump number is pretty risky and if things go wrong it would go pretty fast, and with the lack of experience you might end up burning yourself.

Thanks for the diagram. I would love an RDS eventually. Not sure I'm ready for the extra complexity right now. The RDS doesnt really add much complexity, it is as complex as closing your container, also as complex to take it off as it is to collapse it and use the skytie if not simpler. You can order the one pull release RDS where there is a string right at the middle and it releases all four corners and once is off you can either put it under your shirt or in a pocket.

Yeah at the beginning when I started doing tandem on a Cessna I would dive out and get stable right away (no front flip), then later on I saw how other TI where doing it, doing front flip and then get stable and pull the drogue, is important to be able to do both, but the front flips are a lot more relax than trying to be stable right of the hop. Still do some regulars (No front flips), but with the front flips is a lot easier.

First, and I know this is always said, take a canopy course there they will teach the why the how and when to do your front risers turns, but with that said I can give a quick answer. Get used to do a 10 second dive, what I did was hold double front for 8 second and on the last 2 I would do my 90, for my wingloading at the time, on a saber 2 170, I burned about 520 ft by the time I started to the time I level off (I know is hard on the saber 2, but at your wingloading is doable as long as you start the turn from full brakes). Do a bunch of drills up high doing this turns that will give you YOUR average altitude lost in the dive. Build the feel for the transition to rears, first know what is the stall point on rears at full on speed (to a 450 up high and then stab the rears and see how long does it take to stall or get close to stall and never forget that feeling) and then do one at low speed full flight and try to stall or get close to on rears. There are times where I might spend 1/4 second on rears and transition to toggles, just because at that time I didn't have enough power to stay on rears, where other times it felt like I was on rears forever (Yes on a saber 2 170). For the wing loading and transition to elliptical, well I would leave that up to someone that can see your landings and how you fly your wing, it is always going to be different from person to person. If you can demo a bunch of canopy and stuff, then you are golden and will be able to pick something you feel really comfortable with, but if you have limited access to different wings or is to expensive to get demos and stuff them you are kind of SOL.

I love my JVX, I think you should be able to do a consistent 450 on a JVX (and be at the right wing loading) before you might want to start flying this wing. The only way I would see people skipping the JVX, if it actually has better opening characteristics than the JVX. Nothing wrong with the JVX openings for either working jumps or fun jumps (if you know how to stay symmetrical, and fly the opening, etc etc), but if you can get a better performance and better openings, then it might one of the reasons that people might want to skip.

http://www.zennioptical.com/buy/707421-prescription-wind-goggles.html?_windowid=new This are the ones I have been using for the tunnel and skydiving, and they work great I have a full season and 0 preblemos and quality is awesome for a $27.00 pair of prescription goggles

whoa! hold on now! you were going great till that last little part! the risks with downsizing rapidly and getting into high performance landing are greatly increasing your chance for dying compared to trying a new trick on a snowboard or hitting a new ramp. i rode bmx(street and skateparks) for 14 years. never have i experienced a jump as high or speeds as great as one of my hp landings. you won't get hurt as often skydiving as some of the other extreme sports but you can't afford even 1% of the mistakes skydiving as compared to other sports. Related to your 1%, something I have been working on my head for a few months is the margin of safety under a parachute, to keep it short here are both extremes (-----------------------------------) Margin of safety for a jumper 100 jumps on a saber2 190 WL at 1.0 not doing any type of HP landings. (-----------------------------) Margin of safety for same jumper hung over, sleep deprived and tired. (-----------) Margin of safety for a 1000+ jumper on a High performance X-braced canopy doing HP landings and doing about 300 jumps a year (Not sure what it would be for competitors in relation to swoopers that don't compete). (----) Margin of safety for the same jumper hung over, sleep deprived and tired. So, on relation to the 1%, you can fix your mistakes on skydiving and keep a high margin of safety, but that will decreases hugely by the mental/physical conditions of the jumper. PS: I have been working on a chart to explain that idea a little bit better.

First 2 years: 1-30 Manta 288 30-120 Fury 210 next three years 120-450 Saber 2 170 1.3 WL (at about 200 jumps I took a swooping course and started doing drills and HP landings) 450-900 crossfire 2 135 1.7WL (With the crossfire I was doing 270 by 900) 900-950 Velo 111 2.0 WL (Just doing some transition to cross braced landings and stuff) 950-Current JVX 94 2.5 WL (I am still not touching front risers, having a lot fun just doing harness turns I can land this in any conditions as long as the gust difference is not 10 mph + and landing on rears

FYI: goggles can only correct up tp about -6.5 diopters. If your vision is any worse than that, like mine is? You're SOL... I am not sure on the parameters that those goggles works but this set up is like having a thin lens inside the goggle and it works like a charm.

I have been using prescription googles for the last 3 years, they are awesome and they even work in the tunnel. PM me and I will give you the info and pictures. By the way they cost about 27 bucks, and after a full season and about 6 hours in the tunnel they still look brand new.

I learned to track at Lodi during the 80s, and was taught by some of the best around. When I first got a bootie suit, it was a bit of a challenge. If you know how to track, it's not a problem. I, too, see too many younger skydivers today diving away in a track. I'm beginning to understand why all these guys want to break off at 5K... Trying to answer your question, in free fly you want break off at 5k so you have enough time to slow down and track away, and I am guessing with tracing they are breaking off at the same altitude since they reach that high speed, and some people like to open higher as well.

Two years ago I made electronic gates With a siren and an LED light. The total cost was around $800CAD. I got a board from an set up from a Alarm and safety shop. Then got two expensive sensor A sender with a custom relayed on it and a receiver then put it all together with a 12V battery and it works like a charm.

Exactly. My husband swoops his Spectre almost every time he jumps it. Heck, he got in trouble at Nationals one year for swooping a Lightning. And he gets more out of his Spectre than many guys get out of their Katanas You can indeed swoop anything out there...hell I have swooped a manta.. It was the most spectacular 10 ft swoop of my life..., but if you are planing on Canopy piloting then you are way better off getting parachutes with characteristic that are meant for HP landings, Such as longer recovery arch, good on rear risers, less front riser pressure. I know a guy that have been swooping the stiletto for a long time and that's fine, but I wouldn't recommend him to used the stiletto sight picture to transfer to a Katana or Crossfire.

Not sure what are the USPA BSRs on this, but with CSPA You have to be 2 years seizure free and with an AAD.

I enver flown a Pulse , but there I think if you were with a saber 120 at 1.4 WL, if it isn't to hard try to get a saber loaded at 1.6-1.7 and do a few hundred HP landings on that and if you are still interested to move on the HP then (Depending on what canopy ultimately are you trying to fly) get a Katana or a Crossfire 2.

This concept kind of help me to understand what I am looking for when doing rotations. Imaging a barbers pole with a wide top and narrower bottom. now to do a proper 270, what I was doing is add 2 seconds per every 90 I do. For a 450 I would a 10s dive starting with double fronts. so for a 270 I would start with a 4 s double front and 6 s dive. To improve your technique and safety I would recommend you doing a lot of drills up high so you can become effective and consistent with your turn and also knowing you are reaching your max speed for the turn you are making. I am pretty sure this doesn't answer your question, but if nones actually gives you an image ill make one tomorrow.

Ya, we plan using a reserve and AAD for worst case scenario hence, unconscious. Any canopy loaded 1.8 or higher from 135 sq f under is going to dive you to the ground killing you either way. Unless you can guaranteed that when you are unconscious you are symmetrical, I don't think having a small reserve is to different from not having an AAD. The chances of having 2 outs is pretty slim and on how canopy behave now days. Lets say you have a Velo 89 and a reserve of same size or even a bit bigger they are not going to like each other because of how different both wings are, I think... (Please correct of I am wrong on that assumption, that thought just pooped in my head and decided to share it) Excuse my grammar

Lol, I guess you really cant believed everything the internet says... I guess the only time you could feel zero G, it would be the half a second you spend after you leave the airplane, on the transition of going up and then down/forward (same feeling you get if you do a jump right now on the ground on the moment where you are changing direction from going up to go down) If you for any reason decided to jump up while exiting the plane. Reason why blood doesn't rush to your head, is because your blood is falling at the same speed as your skin. It also accelerates at more or less the same speed. Why your blood rushes to your feet when you spiral on your canopy?? Because in this case scenario your blood is rushing to your feet but your skin is not moving.

because your blood is accelerating at the same speed as the your frame of reference hence your skin. Now if it is either in the tunnel or in the sky your frame of reference and blood are both falling relative to the wind, but in the tunnel relative to everywhere else you are not moving and in the sky you are losing altitude. Now when you are head down on the ground, your frame of reference isn't moving, but your blood is rushing to your head because of gravity. Thats what pretty much I came up with. there is probably other people out there with a more specific way of explaining it.

Funny, we survived quite nicely for decades without anyone ever touching a riser - front or rear, and I can't think of a single situation I've ever been in that required the use of front risers because someone was in front of me or any other scenario. I'm not implying that there's anything wrong with exploring/learning/mastering all that a canopy is capable of, but the use of risers is not a necessary component of safe flight. Sorry I guess I shouldn't have said hook turn, but low turns. I am glad you haven't have to experience that, I haven't either (profile is off by a little), but I know many people that have been jumping since the 70s and don't use any risers and one of them four years ago lost a leg because of a low turn scenario. I am sure people still injured them self landing back in the days, just in a lower proportion than now days.

Just remember that just because you are flying a conservative canopy and not doing any hook turns on landing doesn't mean you are not going to them at some point in your career (someone in front of you or to avoid an obstacle). You can do a bunch of drills on your current canopy on how to dig out of turns and how to turn violently with a minimum amount of altitude lost up high. The ground doesn't care what wingloading or what canopy you are flying, if you are going fast enough you are going to get hurt.

So far I have about 150 FF jumps (plus my team mate who has double that) on the Curve and never had an issue. If you were referring to that