megamalfunction

Don't listen to the skygods on here that talk shit about jump numbers. There are a lot of jumpers with narcissistic personality disorder that love to talk down to people. The United States Parachute Association says that you need to make a jump every 90 days to be current. So you can tell anyone that tells you otherwise to go suck a @#$%.

You'll find people that you like to jump with.

I want become pro skydiver. Will you teach me to swoop?

Scotty Bob's done that jump before. Saw that shit on youtube.

The best days of parachuting were last weekend.

lol @ riggerbob. Well, thanks for all of the replies. In 2011 I sent the canopy in to Aerodyne for a new lineset & test jump. Aerodyne said the canopy was fine when when they sent it back, and I've only put around 80 jumps on it since then. So I suppose it will be okay to jump for another 2 years until I can afford a new one.

My Triathlon 160 turns 20 next year (manufactured in 1996) and I'm wondering when I should retire it. I purchased the canopy in 2010, and in 2011 sent it to Aerodyne for a reline and a test jump. So the line set is in good shape, and the canopy flies well, but it is still about to be 20 years old. What do you guys think? *My Container/Reserve was manufactured in 2002, so I'm not worried about it quite yet.

Elliptical parachutes are sort of a dumb idea regardless of how many jumps you have. They're like those drag racing boats you're always seeing crash on "World's Wildest Fuck ups!" Why the hell would anyone ever want one of those?

This is from the Aerodyne packing manual: "WARNING: IF THE SLIDER IS NOT AGAINST THE SLIDER STOPS, THE POSSIBILITY OF A HARD OPENING AND SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH IS SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED."

You may want to reline the canopy; microline shrinks over time and can cause your canopy to open harder. Also, you might want to ask a rigger to show you how to pack. I haven't had a hard opening since going to my rigger and asking him to show me how to properly pack my main parachute. He showed me some tricks to keep the slider from coming off the stops that have been a lifesaver. The most important thing is keeping the slider on the stops. edit: Aerodyne also put a slightly larger slider on my canopy when I sent it to them for the reline.

I hate it when people open the door at 1000 ft. Can't we wait till 2 grand before we open up the door? (My AAD is set on 'PRO', but still...)

So go do some more student position you pussy!

And furthermore: Country music @#$%ing sucks Chuck Akers.

Thanks for the advice chuckakers. That reminds me of some other advice I received one time. I was jumping at a little non-uspa dropzone, and someone from the big turbine dropzone happened to be there doing tandems and told me, "you need to watch out jumping here, there's no one here to watch out for you..." Well on the next load, this person happened to eat shit on landing, and broke their passengers ankle. So maybe you need to watch it with the 'accident predictions', the next accident might be your own.

In the past few years I've been on a lot of tracking dives, and seem to keep having problems staying in close proximity with whomever I'm jumping. Either I'm too fast and high, too low and slow, too high and slow, or maybe even too low and fast. Anybody else experiencing the same problems?

The aircraft departed Jenkinsburg on a skydiving flight. The engine lost power at approx 300 feet agl. and the Caravan then banked steeply left, spiralled in a steep nose down attitude and crashed. It appeared that the fuel in the tanks was contaminated with water and foreign material with the appearance of brown algae. A milky fluid (approx 65% jet fuel and 34% water) was found in the engine fuel control, as well as iron contaminants. Dark stringy material was found in the fuel filters. The aircraft had been refuelled from 55 gallon drums which contained contaminated fuel. The drums were stored upright and rain water could leak through the filler caps. N551CC had a history of fuel contamination which on occasions caused the fuel bypass indicator to display. Reportedly, the stall warning circuit breaker had been disengaged on other occasions, so as not to startle the jumpers; however, due to damage, its preimpact position could not be verified. The plane was estimated to be 370 lbs (168 kg) over its maximum weight limit and 1 inch forward of the CG limit.

I think it's silly when "we" tell students that they failed a jump. The truth is, if you walked away from the jump, you succeeded. EDIT: If you don't pull, that is a fail however!

Don't do it! You'll end up doing the same jump over and over again for the rest of your life! Then you'll become an alcoholic and twenty years later you'll commit suicide in your shitty little DZ trailer.

+1 I think we've sort of debunked the old saying, "you're more likely to die in a car accident on the way to the dropzone..." However, the old saying isn't THAT far off. A one jump a month habit is about as dangerous as driving a car regularly.

A few years ago I tried to crunch some numbers to see how safe skydiving was compared to driving. What I came up with was that making one skydive was as dangerous as driving around 1000 miles in a car. Maybe you can see if you can replicate my "study" :)

A lot of us younger/working class folk can't afford to spend the money that it takes to become world class VRW caliber skydivers. But we also don't want to wear belly suits and turn points either. So instead... we put on our shorts and t-shirts, and try emulate Point Break - focusing on exit style, back flying, and Bodhisattva stand-fly backloops.

If Urijah Faber wants to come to Texas to try some "Full Contact Skydiving", I will straight up knock his head clean off at 198 mph!

When you're on jump run and the jump master points and asks you if you can see the headlights below, just nod, smile, and leap into the abyss.

Greatest dz.com post of all time! Yeeeeeeehaw

You collapse the slider so you don't have to listen to it go, "flappity - flappity - flappity," in the wind.