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    $200 a day? What a shit hole. I've seen people adverage $700 a day on the weekends and top $1000 on a good long day.

    Lee


    You can pack 58 tandems in one day? At 10 minutes a tandem packjob (which would be sloppy imo) that would be 9.677 hours of continous packing with no break for eating, drinking, peeing, pooping, waiting for an unpacked rig, resting.

    B U L L S H I T

  2. what I've found...if you can walk onto a DZ with no reptuation as being a dependable reliable person/packer and get a job, then its probably not a place you WANT to pack at (DZO is a dick, the business is low, whatever).

    This is not always true, but mostly true I have found.

    The great packing jobs are usually coveted positions as the packer makes 200+ USD/day which is good wages for unskilled labor.

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    For the most part I see smokers acting like inconsiderate fucks.



    I agree with this. I'm just not sure saying they are increasing my risk of dying by their second hand smoke in an outdoor environment. Hell - I'm a skydiver - I am taking much greater risks than standing near a smoker.

    Second hand smoke can be a health risk. Exposing children to a heavy smoker in an automobile or small room is unacceptable. Smoking outside in an area where they shouldn't is being a douchebag.


    Its a quality of life issue. I like the farting in somebody's face analogy. Nobody wants to smell nasty gas from somebody's colon. Likewise we dont want to smell your nasty smoke that is coming from your lungs.

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    thats called a PC in tow (your pic)



    Not if the bridle is wrapped around your leg, but the solution is the same either way.

    what would you call it then? I would call it a bridle wrap resulting in a PC in tow.

    The second little guy is what I would call a horseshoe.

    semantics,

    namaste :)

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    [how will you 'wave off' in a track to let jumpers above you know you are deploying?

    barrel roll and shout "PULL"


    cool I was hoping you had thought about that awesome strategy - never can be too sure on this site...also you never can be too cool come pull time in skydiving.

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    wouldnt dumping in a track just be the same as dumping from a wingsuit jump? i would also think it could be good training for me untill i hit that lucky number 200 jump and can do a auctual wingsuit jump. how do people deploy from a tracking suit jump r they going belly to earth or do they just contine the track all the way thru deployment?


    how will you 'wave off' in a track to let jumpers above you know you are deploying?

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    I think its not really worthwhile to get this type of suit as well because you only get to learn it on base jumps, where as all other suits you can get the feel of them out of a plane before taking it to the mountain. Although I must admit the last 3 suits ive owned I base jumped them before skydiving them


    maybe not all people are abiding by the FAA (ie different country or just using private non-commercial aircraft)?

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    I think it was Mads Larsen who had a sugar glider type suit with integrated rig back in 2003/2004. VKB also jumped several tracking/wingsuit hybrid setups way before the fusion or core.



    It was Niels Brusgaard, who came up with the idea, and a local Danish rigger from my DZ who created it for him. the suit looked more like a Skyflyer with bigger wings and the the integrated rig was integrated using zippers


    got any pics of that setup???

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    Its not the malfunctions you need to worry about. Most wingsuiters have more vertical speed when deploying then the average tracker has and they don't have massive amounts of malfunctions.

    However deploying with a lot of forward speed can give you really rough openings.


    its not so much the forward speed or the vertical speed you have to worry about - but the combination (or vector).

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    I dont want to get a suit I will be bored with in 5 jumps.



    If you're bored after five jumps it's you, not the suit. Look into the Shadow/Phantom or I-Bird/T-Bird.


    I think this is bad advice. I started on an I-Bird and then transitioned to a Vampire 2 after a few jumps. The vampire 2 flew significantly further than the I-bird and was significantly easier to pilot.

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    Sitting through a first jump course with canopy control, emergency procedures (three ring release, two ram air out, etc.) basic canopy control etc might not be a bad idea.


    You talk as if a dropzone maybe would allow this guy NOT to sit in on a first jump course and get properly trained. That would be a fucking shit dropzone if they would allow him to skip a FJC.

  23. If somebody blindsides you and runs into you on the road in a vehicle and dies as a result of the crash, then you were a factor in the event. You are clearly not responsible for their death and shouldn't be held responsible morally. It would be a terrible psychological tragedy if you held yourself responsible for their death. Likewise, if you sell a canopy to somebody and they use it at their dropzone under their S&TA, DZO's supervision and kill themselves, you should not be held responsible.

    Your argument is based on this (false) conditional as follows "if you are a factor in an event, then you are responsible for that event".

    By the way, selling canopies freely to whomever regardless of experience is consistent with very tight regulation at the local dropzone level.

    Keep it local!

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    i sold my velo to someone without ANY experience.

    Why bother even asking someone who can actually fly it. Chances are if you are to ask for experience, it will be very hard to sell something smaller than 84.

    If you are 18+ and can sign a check, you are old enought to make a decision.


    I agree with you. For all I know they might want to kite your velo 79? Its up to them, their S&TA, rigger, and DZO to determine if its an appropriate canopy to jump at the dropzone.

    Until then you are selling a chunk of nylon and shouldnt short change yourself, especially when you have medical bills to pay!!!!:ph34r:

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    Apologies for me sticking my hypothetical oar in, but is there any point where a bigger canopy makes things more difficult? I would say that I found it more difficult to time the flare on a Manta or Skymaster 290 loaded at 0.55 than I did a Balance 210 loaded at 0.76. Are there any skills which are easier to learn on a smaller canopy?


    you can underload a canopy so much so that it will not get good penetration into the wind. I am 150lb and my first jump was on a manta 288...that sucka barely moved forward in a headwind for me :D