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  1. shayelk

    2way video

    thanks for the input :)
  2. shayelk

    2way video

    hi guys! here is a video of a training 2way from last weekend. I (orange helmet) just got my firt RW suit so it's more or less my first time working with booties. would love to read your comments as RW instruction is scarce in my area cheers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t49boS53Vo0&feature=player_embedded
  3. Why would you need to do that at all?. If you know the canopy is damaged but you are going to stick with it, all you need to do is select a safe landing area and fly conservatively till touchdown. If you look where you are going you have no need to do any hard turns. as I said- I wanted to make sure my canopy is fully useable- meaning I can do with it everything I usually can. If I can't make any hard turns I'd rather chop it.
  4. and what if I'd find my self in need to turn relatively hard later on? how would I know that the canopy can handle it? if I turned hard and bust a cell or anything when I made this turns I could still chop it- that's why I did it up high: to make sure the canopy is flying like it should
  5. Hi all! After an uneventful jump I waved at 4,000ft, and was fully deployed around 3,200ft. canopy was a Spectre 190, loaded at 1:1. When I looked up to check my canopy I saw a stripe of light on the bottom skin and figured I had a hole in my top skin (around 5 inch tear, on the tail, 1 cell away from the center cell). I decided I had enough time, so I did a control test- flared it a couple of times, did a couple of hard turns, and made sure the hole didn't get any bigger. the canopy flew as usual so I decided to land it. My process of thinking was: behind curtain number 1 I have a fully controllable canopy with a hole that isn't growing any bigger. it might get torn on landing, but it appear that it won't. Behind curtain number 2 is a reserve that is probably ok, but it might have a worse mal if it's really not my day, and then I'm stuck with a malfunctioning canopy I can't cut away. I landed just fine, but wanted to learn as much as I can from this, and ask other people for their opinion about the right course of action. so... what would you have done if you were me? just to get the thread started: I got a couple of contradicting answers from instructors in my DZ- one instructor said he agree with my thought process, but he would go land on the beach so that if the canopy did fail at landing time, he had a softer crush and a better chance to walk it off. the other said he would have cut it away because you can never know what will happen with the hole as you approach for landing and you probably have a better chance with your reserve.
  6. the way I see it, you, like most people, see skydiving as if it was a long bungy jump- just something you do for the thrill of jumping out of a plane. once you'll start jumping and learning, you'll see that skydiving is actually about flying your body. if you think that flying an airplane can be fun for more then 5 times, imagine what it would feel like without the airplane I wrote a post about it recently if you're interested. it has a focus on RW which is just one disipline in skydiving, but I think it might answer your question anyway: http://teampekedit.wordpress.com/
  7. falling rate isn't just about your weight, but about your drag too (how big a surface do you have, what jumpsuit you're wearing..). on your next jump, ask the AFFI's to give you a larger jumpsuit- it will have a bigger surface and more drag to slow you down a bit. Now that they know you fall fast, they might also match you with bigger (or more experienced) AFFI's who can fall faster, or wear some weights to match your fast fall rate. By the way- as you go along you'll learn how to control your fall rate, so don't worry about it as a long lasting problem :) I guess your instructors talked to you about it but if you can't get to read your alti why didn't you pull? it sound like for all you knew you could have been at 2000 ft. and just kept on with your dive flow... your AFFI's won't always be there to pull for you. The ground, on the other hand, will. that being said- what I wrote is only food for thought- ask your instructors about it and don't take anything people are saying online as a fact- I'm a low time jumper myself, so your instructors probably have hundreds of jumps more then I do.
  8. I wrote this post for my 4-way team's blog, but if you think it's any good you're more then welcome to share it with your friends as an answer to this question we hear every day. I'd love your comments on it (english is not my first language so feel free to comment about my grammer and spelling as well as about the content :P ) the post: http://teampekedit.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/why-we-jum/ our FB page: http://www.facebook.com/TeamPekedit Blue skies!
  9. Hi all! We just started a Facebook page for our relatively new amateurs 4-way team- Team Pekedit, and thought it would be a good time to introduce ourselves to DZ.com. So hi everyone! We're Team Pekedit and we're addicted to jumping out of airplanes and grabbing each other Can't wait for our first trip to the states to meet some of you guys!
  10. anyone have a link to the commercial we're talking about? couldn't find it in youtube
  11. well i'm not that sure- it's addictive, expansive and might kill you. some people will do practically anything for a slot. isn't that why drugs are bad? I got "what do you do if you have to pee?" which I answered with "roll over and pee up- wouldn't want to pee upwind now would I" And of course all the "are you an instructor now?" upon getting my A and "why would you do it if it isn't scary any more?" It took me a while to figure out that people think skydiving is about the fear of the jump, kinda like bunjee jumping. made some quastions a lot more reasonable (why do you need a 1000 jumps to be a TI if you're not afraid and can open your parachute?, why would you jump more then a couple of times in the same DZ?...) Blue ones
  12. I was taught if you pulled and nothing happened- tip your shoulders and look back to see what's up- still nothing? chop first, THEN deploy reserve. you chop to avoid this exact scenario
  13. I'm new to the sport so I guess I don't know all the variables to that argument (FMD vs pre set patterns). that being said, i think that FMD is not the right way to go- in my home DZ ground controll set the pattern before bording the plane. if the winds change they tell the pilot about a change of pattern and he then informs everyone onboard. the importent thing is that when you exit you already know your pattern. if the wind changes so drasticlly from the second the first man's out till the second he lands, it can also change while people are still landing. in this case downwind landings are inevitable anyway, so FMD loses it's advantage if you don't like the pattern, land elsewhere. but then everyone knows where they're going to land soon enough to plan in advance, and no one is surprised. In AFF I was tought that you need to land in a safe place (no obstacles) land straight (no low turns) and preferably land upwind
  14. Why would I want the deployment system on my slider? what are the RDS advantages over an ordinary deployment system?