JBecker

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  1. Well, there's deployment, and then there's deployment, right? Cat A FJC (page 23): 4. Parachute opening occurs in three stages: a. Activation—Deployment of the parachute begins once the container is opened (activated) in one of three ways: (1) pulling the ripcord (2) throwing the pilot chute (3) static line b. Deployment—The parachute comes out of the backpack. c. Inflation—The canopy fills with air. Which deployment ends freefall? Of interest to this conversation, the Safety & Training Committee is also discussing this topic. From page 17 of the Feb 2019 BOD minutes: Discussed defining “freefall skydive” for the purposes for the A license at IAD and SL drop zones, possibly eliminating the word “freefall.” Discussion tabled.
  2. Clarity is always better. Getting in the weeds here, but as was alluded to before, by literal interpretation of "freefall" as defined in the SIM glossary (from exit to deployment) even IAD & SL have SOME amount of freefall.
  3. Copied out of current SIM (2019-2020, Winter 2019 BOD implemented version) glossary: FREEFALL: The portion of a parachute jump or drop between aircraft exit and parachute deployment in which the parachute is activated manually by the parachutist at the parachutist’s discretion or automatically, or, in the case of an object, is activated automatically. (FAR 105 definition) and then... DEPLOYMENT: After activation, extraction of the parachute from the container and full extension of the system prior to inflation.
  4. Interestingly enough, I put in a call to UPT's main office a couple days ago (before I saw this thread) and asked why the change. They told me the change was cosmetic/aesthetic only and not functional. I find it strange that they still have not addressed the change in their published V3M/Micron O&M online.
  5. So the new BSR opening minimums come into affect with the 2014-2015 SIM, which is supposed to release sometime next month (Sept. 2013). Any guesses on how long after that the AAD manufacturers change their activation defaults? And any guesses on what that new default may be? With the Jan 2013 CYPRES software, a user (or instructor or S&TA) can see/confirm the activation altitude has been raised by looking at the display. When the AAD’s change their defaults, it could be confusing to differentiate old vs. new units (unless they roll out the new defaults with a CYPRES 3).
  6. I was wondering about that. If you pause the video at 1:51, it appears as though he was trying to give some right toggle input to counter the spin. Looks like it just wasn’t enough to be effective. You can see the tail deflection on the right side isn’t as much as the left side. Then the very next second, we see the effort abandoned as his right toggle is all the way up at the guide ring.
  7. The HUD idea is interesting... but I wonder if ADD types like me would be too distracted by having that in my constant field of view when I should be focusing on other things? Maybe have a setting that gives the option to instead have some sort of perimeter-framed graphic that conveys your altitude but is not in your center field of view. I'm envisioning something along the lines of what you see in the video game Halo (the red framed outline seen when you are getting shot up). It could go from green (or clear) to yellow to red like the graduations on a standard analog altimeter.
  8. I don't think it's right to hold this against the DZ. Sounds like an isolated person incident. +1 This isolated incident should bear no reflection on the people that jump there. (Monroe is my home DZ)