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  7. evh


    Actually this is not so bad, I have a pair of X3000's mounted on my G3. Since the lens is higher on the camera than a GoPro, you can mount it very far to the back without getting the helmet or the visor in the camera's view. I can get my visor almost al the way open.


    Are you using 2 for 3D? 360? Different angles?

    Which mount are you using? Since you're mounting further back, is the viewing angle elevated much?

  18. grantunderland

    Because the Viso was too complicated for him, so he bashes them whenever he can. Facts are meaningless, just check his thread about getting rid of USPA



    You're the one saying complicated, I'm just not stuck in the 80's.
    Looks like USPA is too complicated for you to grasp, you're the perfect lemming they feed off of. I'll give them kudos for that.

    To the OP, salesman who sold me one said 19k ft trying to upsell the N3, so apologies for getting it wrong and thx for the corrections from others.

  20. What probably helped in your case was using a student/rental chute that was a lot larger than what you'd jump later on. But there was still a higher risk of the chute losing stability over the course of descent as you go through turns, turbulence, etc. Going to a stable reserve would drastically cut down the odds of that. As others mentioned, 4 jumps is very little experience to judge.

    When I was a student, the wing loading was ~0.65-0.75 (Your weight with rig divided by main canopy size in sq ft).

    Without the extra size, the speed may have caused injury so you do want to cut away if it's not "there and square", which esp as a student should mean looking only 1 way except for minor line twists.

    It's true that instructors aren't infallible but I'd roll the dice with their odds until you have way more experience.

  22. peek


    By all means, tell us more! I have never heard anything about that before. You would not think that companies like Groupon would be concerned about anything like that.


    Told to me by a DZO. You can survey your DZO for more info, I'm not an O myself.

  24. grimmie

    First of all, show me where Ed Scott lied to the media after the Lodi incident. In direct quotes please.



    I see the brown noser roll call has started. It's in the news and on video. I've gotten multiple PM's about why you bend over for them but I'll let you share yourself.

  25. Firstly, apologies to the visitors of the US and other professionals who reluctantly put up with this wannabe mob for their vocation. They were around before most of u.s. started jumping and we were corralled into it. It seemed innocuous enough but incidents like this executive wannabe Ed Scott lying to the media to run this racket crosses the line of decency.

    It has no official authority and we can make a difference at our DZ's, who need jumpers first and foremost. Drop group membership, drop individual membership, and let'em know you're no pushover.

    One excuse I hear of feeding the racket is that deal sites like Groupon look for group membership. To that end, I've reached out to contacts at Groupon (and potential tandem tourists) to educate them about the charade of a faux-authority managed by non-current jumpers. It may or may not do any good but it's time to stop the charade of misinformation.

    I certainly don't speak for all as there are plenty of brown noses out there, plenty of those who leech off of you, but we are what keeps the planes going and the doors open.