windswooper

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Gear

  • Main Canopy Other
    79 X-VX, 84 X-FX
  • Reserve Canopy Other
    Tempo 120, PD 113
  • AAD
    Cypres

Jump Profile

  • License
    D
  • Licensing Organization
    USPA
  • Number of Jumps
    5300
  • Years in Sport
    12
  • First Choice Discipline
    Freeflying
  • Second Choice Discipline
    Swooping

Ratings and Rigging

  • AFF
    Instructor
  • Tandem
    Instructor
  • Pro Rating
    Yes
  • Rigging Back
    Senior Rigger
  • Rigging Seat
    Senior Rigger
  1. Had a girl start puking on takeoff(she told me later she got extremely motion sick.. thanks for the heads up). I got a pastic bag from the pilot. She puked all the way to altitude. I asked if she still wanted to jump and she was all about it. She put the bag in her jumpsuit, didn't puke in freefall but as soon as the canopy opened, started again and puked all the way to landing. A plastic bag doesn't work very well under canopy...
  2. 92658 + 6100 = 98758 184 + 17 = 201 98758/201 = 491
  3. It didn't fly very well???? It flew great! better than one made of zp. And the canopies for powered parachutes really out performed zp canopies as well. It was strange to pack but it opened and flew very well. It just cost a lot! John
  4. I'm pretty sure I'm not the product of inbreeding but I was born in Boonsboro so I could be wrong about that too. John H (edited because I can't spell)
  5. Yes Simon, I am uneducated and ignorant. But I have witnessed three bag locks first hand that involved tube stows. Yes I know, you will say it would have still happened with rubber bands. Have you ever tested tube stows to see how strong they are? I can consistently break rubber bands in the situation where one stow is locked by another going through it with 28 lbs of force using a calibrated scale. Try this with a tube stow and you may be surprised at how much force it takes. I know I was. I've also witnessed a bag lock where a rubber band was involved but I've seen enough broken rubber bands on my own equipment and while packing others to see a pattern here. I love tube stows because I hate changing rubber bands but I also hate looking for a parachute still packed in a black bag somewhere out in the woods. Its hard enough trying to find one that was fully inflated before it was cut away. But bag locks are infrequent and if you are careful with putting your bag in the container you should be okay. Just my two cents but what the heck would I know? John H
  6. Hey hair farmer.... just wanted to say thank you for all the pack jobs... and the six cutaways. And no.. it wasn't body position! I think all those pack jobs paid for your AFF. Oh.. and thank the packing fairy for me to. John H