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he doesnt want your old ratty canopy you've probably used for base jumps into water

can you lose some weight, sounds like you may honestly need to anyways for your health. Less weight = lower wingloading = less prone to injury welcome back to the sport! I love jumping with skydivers that jumped early days there are always great stories

^ wyoming needs a dropzone imagine how cool it would be to wingsuit swoop the grand teton.

I got lucky early on. Then I got a boot up the ass about canopy flight before I got too far down the high performance road. Scott Miller helped pull that boot out and then teach me how to fly right. Many others followed after him. I'm not perfect and I have made mistakes, but if you've seen the stuff I said about your "window of opportunity" in regards to your turn and never trying to salvage a swoop, then you'll know that I tried to keep myself out of situations that put me in a hole. Pond water hurts, but it doesn't hurt as bad as making a divot in the grass. The point is that you can make a safer progression. Too far, too small, too soon nearly always ends in tragedy. Literally 99% of the time. That 1% that makes it typically realize the errors of their ways, backs off, gets help and starts making better choices. I feel like this forum is fortunate to have you posting here.

No, what you should do is inform yourself of the upper level winds and the speed of the aircraft on jumprun. Provided the plane is flying into the wind on jumprun, subtract the wind speed of the uppers from the airspeed of the aircraft, and you'll end up with the ground speed of the plane. Use this number to determine the exit seperation between groups. If you're planning on a dive where you anticipate sliding around the sky, factor that into your determination of exit timing. There's no guesswork invovled, just math and science. hey dave, why do you have to use math and science when you can use "looking and common sense" - ie looking at the ground to determine how fast you are moving. Crawling along, that means strong wind and you need longer separation maybe 20+ even. Really booking it, probably enough time for a climbout maybe 5 seconds.

why do you want to downsize?

That is very sad that money is not an option for you

DocPop posts in a thread about some other topic and mentions he flies a Katana. Film at 11. Not sure what "Film at 11" means, but I posted my experience with a different packing method which helped the same issue, but wanted to highlight the fact that although it was still end-cell closure it was on a different canopy. What's the problem with that? I think he is teasing you about the nature of your posts "I fly a katana" - pretty sure you do point out that in about every one of your posts. All in good fun I hope.

^ its a bit like hitting your head against a brick wall isnt it? My advice for you Chris: Just have fun in this forum and talk about what canopy is good or whatever. Don't try to have any substantive conversation its pretty much worthless. Don't you spend enough time talking to retarded people through work and life in general to get your fill? I know I do!

why not fly the no-contact formations for fun and fly the contact formations (docked) for fun+record. problem solved...man up.

Oh, you master baiter. It's not as if you can't do search and find a whole bunch of opinions on Lodi. well obviously I was banking on somebody as clever as you NOT coming in to the thread and ruining the fun

why am i watching you work out? you go a lot faster tracking when you straighten your legs

sweet! I am thinking about doing a wingsuit 3way next weekend if I am not too tired...at the end of skydiving days lately I have been tired as shit (after the work week and the heat of the day jumping). usually at the end of the day a bongrip and some loving sounds better than a skydive but now you've psyched me for it.

hey Tim do the DZ a favor and you take her position. Maybe she's still there because manifest is a piece of shit job that nobody wants to do!

nobody with any comments on Lodi? Pluses? Minuses?

wow was that really necessary?

That's what I thought about the World Trade Center... 44 haha!

what about lodi? We might be moving close to there soon.

is it real??? Whats going on???????

nobody is hoarding base jumping...the terminal antennaes around your house are swaying quietly in the night right now! They will be waiting quietly for you when you are ready - nobody is planning on taking them down (or guarding them) anytime soon.

cool!

there's a reason why she is working manifest at a skydiving dropzone for her occupation

elaborate If the OP can't navigate and land worth a ****, then it doesn't matter what he does first because he won't last long as BASE jumper whether he's wearing a wingsuit or not. Kinda funny how all the other posters totally ignore the most important part of the whole equation in favor of pontificating on jump numbers, canopy types, wing loading and which freefall skill to learn first, none of which matter if you can't walk away from the landing area -- most of which in BASE are smaller and gnarlier than even the tightest drop zones. Or as Number One Sky Monkey say... 44 i guess that totally depends on what kind of base jumps he does now doesnt it

Please do explain. This I have to hear. So my brand new Sabre2 needs new brake lines every few jumps then I suppose maybe not yours but mine was fixed with a reline

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VW5qzBQQlI I think those guys are doing a pretty good functional track away from a 4-way. Start video about 55 seconds to see their breakoff. nobody dives away everybody stays on level pretty much.