Bill_K 0 #1 October 20, 2008 Just a reminder for newer jumpers and in some cases some not so new jumpers. Keep your head on a dam swivel when walking in the landing area!! Low carving avoidance turns around somebody not paying attention can hurt or worse... I guess the fault is probably my own for not landing further out and taking the walk. Still though stopping and standing still when somebody is coming in on final is what I was taught and what I do. Experienced jumpers should know better. Yesterday: I had a nice clear spot and was setup perfectly to make my spot, then unexpectedly a jumper who had landed before me and had picked his gear up started walking right across my line headed for others that were on his skydive. His back and side were turned to me. At 50-75 feet I started yelling to watch out and he finally turned; but I was still forced to make an avoidance turning flare, which worked out fine. Had he not stopped and/or I not changed course I would have hit him!! It was a good reminder to me the importance of standing still and watching the traffic behind you!! I was on a wing suit jump and was last down, when I setup for that spot the only other person still in the air was the other wing suit pilot. I picked my spot while on down wind as it was a clear area... My skill bucket is a little fuller and my luck bucket a little more empty today I guess... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites millertime24 8 #2 October 20, 2008 Not to nitpick or anything, but you're saying that you perform HP landings in a crowded landing area?Muff #5048 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites yoink 321 #3 October 20, 2008 Quote I guess the fault is probably my own for not landing further out and taking the walk. Never assume people on the ground will see you before you set-up. You're the pilot - pick a safe area for swooping. You're best assuming everyone else is blind, deaf and stupid when it comes to your safety. You certainly should not be performing 'low carving turns around anybody'. Treat people as a hazard to avoid. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites wildcard451 0 #4 October 20, 2008 You're the one flying the canopy. Don't hit people when you land. You are certainly capable of making a small course correction at 100ish feet to avoid someone. However, if at 310 jumps you cannot do this, please quit jumping now as you are a danger to everyone else around you under canopy. In the same light, it is up for everyone else to remember that your skydive is not over until you are back in the hangar, since you never know when someone who does not understand how to fly a parachute may come in and hit you as they land. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites aresye 0 #5 October 20, 2008 I fail to see where you see that. He says nothing of himself doing high-performance landings into a crowded area. He mentiones the high-performance carving turns, but I think he was talking about other pilots, and the importance of keeping a good scan as you walk away from the landing area.Skydiving: You either learn from other's mistakes, or they'll learn from yours. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Bill_K 0 #6 October 20, 2008 QuoteNot to nitpick or anything, but you're saying that you perform HP landings in a crowded landing area? NO, I don't fucking swoop. I guess I should have put that in my first post. Hell it was not even a 180 or anything else. It was a standard pattern with 90 degree turns. Period!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Bill_K 0 #7 October 20, 2008 Quote You're the one flying the canopy. Don't hit people when you land. You are certainly capable of making a small course correction at 100ish feet to avoid someone. However, if at 310 jumps you cannot do this, please quit jumping now as you are a danger to everyone else around you under canopy. In the same light, it is up for everyone else to remember that your skydive is not over until you are back in the hangar, since you never know when someone who does not understand how to fly a parachute may come in and hit you as they land. Again, I was not fucking swooping. I made a flare turn, you know one of those turns where you start the turn while also starting you flare, to do exactly what I did here, avoid hitting somebody. At 310 jumps and a wing loading of 1.2 and exactly one downsize and over 200 jumps on my current canopy, my whole comment was when your in the landing area, plz watch and stand still. And for what's it worth on my next jumps I landed much further out and took the walk. Why do people ASSume that I must have been swooping... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Bill_K 0 #8 October 20, 2008 Quotebut I was still forced to make an avoidance turning flare Nowhere does it say I did a carving turn. I mentioned it, but I guess I should not have. A low flare turn is what I used to go around said jumper. I only posted to try and be a help and to serve as a reminder that the skydive is not over until your back on the packing mat and packing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites virgin-burner 1 #9 October 20, 2008 i was told in a canopy-course, if you complain about ANYTHING that might interact with your landing, take a step back.. its your OWN damn fault! “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites aresye 0 #10 October 20, 2008 Calm down a bit Bill. You know how people on DZ.com can be sometimes. As for the other comments, please read the posts, and actually READ them. Don't be so quick to criticize over a small assumption.Skydiving: You either learn from other's mistakes, or they'll learn from yours. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Bill_K 0 #11 October 20, 2008 Quote i was told in a canopy-course, if you complain about ANYTHING that might interact with your landing, take a step back.. its your OWN damn fault! Well hell then, lets let anybody and everybody run willy nilly around the landing area. Then if somebody gets hit, well shit it had to be the canopy pilots fault. I took responsibility in the first post and said I should have picked a spot further out. I also said that I learned or was reminded of my mistake on subsequent jumps as well. Oh and in two canopy course that I've taken so far I was taught this little tool called a flare turn. I used it here and it worked out fine, stood the landing up and turned and asked the guy if he saw me. To which he responded yes. I'd say that my video says otherwise though. But your right it was 100% my fault. I should have picked a different spot... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Bill_K 0 #12 October 20, 2008 Quote Calm down a bit Bill. You know how people on DZ.com can be sometimes. As for the other comments, please read the posts, and actually READ them. Don't be so quick to criticize over a small assumption. Yes, you are right. I over reacted a bit. I thought I was bringing up a good reminder, but I guess that only set myself up to get cracked on. No biggy, lesson learned. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites danielcroft 2 #13 October 20, 2008 I had a fun landing like that once. I was coming in on final, probably about 60ft up and was on course to land on someone (maybe 60 jumps at that stage, not saying I'm perfect here) I made a very small course correction to avoid that person only to find that there was someone else right in my way (again, not perfect). I realize I'm too low to make any drastic turns to avoid but that I'm lined up almost perfectly with his canopy, not him. I target fixate a little (you know, just for laughs) on his canopy on the ground, flare a bit too low (which I know) so I flare hard. I took one step & jumped over his canopy, finished my flare & landed in the peas standing up. Most hilarious landing ever! Could have been bad and I didn't exactly do the best job but I didn't hurt anyone else or myself. I learned something too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites micduran 0 #14 October 20, 2008 I was standing still in the landing area one time. I was stowing my brakes when an asshat couldn't decide where she wanted to land. She decided to fly right into me from behind. Broke my arm and everything. In that case it was HER fault! However, I learned to keep my head on swivel and watch landing canopies a lot more closely. I'll be ready to get the hell out of the way if I have to in the future. We all need to take responsibility here.Be patient with the faults of others; they have to be patient with yours. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Bill_K 0 #15 October 20, 2008 Quote I was standing still in the landing area one time. I was stowing my brakes when an asshat couldn't decide where she wanted to land. She decided to fly right into me from behind. Broke my arm and everything. In that case it was HER fault! However, I learned to keep my head on swivel and watch landing canopies a lot more closely. I'll be ready to get the hell out of the way if I have to in the future. We all need to take responsibility here. Ouch. I've watched my own video three or four times and I may post it here. I was fine until he started walking and I never saw him look up until I yelled down to look out, which point he did stop until I'd finished landing... I do think had he been looking he would not have started walking in the first place though. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites peregrinerose 0 #16 October 20, 2008 As you turned on to final, were you watching the guy walking across your path? If so, is it possible that you had a bit of target fixation and realized it too late to simply adjust your flight path? This isn't a rip on you.... I did the exact same thing around 350 jumps, was staring at someone on the ground as I was landing, and where one looks, one goes. The only thing that kept us both in one piece was exactly the same landing you had. But it was my fault for not picking a clear area, away from other jumpers, and attending to that clear area rather than the other jumpers. Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Bill_K 0 #17 October 20, 2008 QuoteAs you turned on to final, were you watching the guy walking across your path? If so, is it possible that you had a bit of target fixation and realized it too late to simply adjust your flight path? This isn't a rip on you.... I did the exact same thing around 350 jumps, was staring at someone on the ground as I was landing, and where one looks, one goes. The only thing that kept us both in one piece was exactly the same landing you had. But it was my fault for not picking a clear area, away from other jumpers, and attending to that clear area rather than the other jumpers. I need to post the video I guess. My head is moving a good deal to include a couple more looks at the closest wind sock even after I turn on final. I suppose it's possible that I was fixated, however the video pretty clearly shows him standing still and a nice opening where I was going, and then he unexpectedly starts walking. He did not start moving until well after my final was established however! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites aresye 0 #18 October 20, 2008 There was a situation about 2 months ago, when I was coming out of a 90 degree front onto my final. A person walked right into the path of my surf. Luckily I had practiced up high on high-speed avoidance turns, or else I would have hit him. It was my fault in the first place. I lacked the situational awareness to spot the problem higher up, and have thus sense dropped high performance landings, and continue to improve my standard approaches since.Skydiving: You either learn from other's mistakes, or they'll learn from yours. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites heavydude 0 #19 October 20, 2008 Was this in SD ? I remember seeing an identical incident yesterday. Quote Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Bill_K 0 #20 October 20, 2008 QuoteWas this in SD ? I remember seeing an identical incident yesterday. Quote no Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites mjosparky 4 #21 October 20, 2008 QuoteI thought I was bringing up a good reminder, but I guess that only set myself up to get cracked on. And you did bring up something that people tend to forget. The landing area is not for setting your brakes, bullshiting about the dive or trying to pick up chicks, it is for landing parachutes. Once you land turn and look behind you for other canopies. Move 90 degrees right or left and move out of the area. But on the other hand I think you learned it take 2 to have a collision in the air or on the ground. It only takes one to avoid one. If you hit a jumper doing a normal landing you fucked up. SparkyMy idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites danielcroft 2 #22 October 20, 2008 Does this look familiar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-6QURrgvp4 A friend of mine was taken out in the landing area (video is not of my friend), luckily nothing broken but her shoulder was pretty sore for a while. Fortunately for "the assassin", my friend is a doctor and set the assassin's broken nose before it started hurting. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites millertime24 8 #23 October 20, 2008 QuoteQuoteNot to nitpick or anything, but you're saying that you perform HP landings in a crowded landing area? NO, I don't fucking swoop. I guess I should have put that in my first post. Hell it was not even a 180 or anything else. It was a standard pattern with 90 degree turns. Period!! Normally when I'm flying my pattern and get on final with about 40-50' agl I mostly always let out a loud WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!! It usually gets people to look up at you and maybe even notice other canopy traffic and its just fun to do (for me at least). Its just something I do that maybe you might want to try sometime. Argumentative part deleted.Muff #5048 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Chubba 0 #24 October 20, 2008 I stand completely still until they are on final and I know exactly where they are going. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Bill_K 0 #25 October 21, 2008 Ok here ya go. You can see how bad it wasn't!! The pattern was left hand and we were landing hanger on the right but flying it off set corner to corner. The wind socks are up top center when I'm on final and in the right center while on final over close to the hanger, but still in the grass. There is some crab on final because the winds were a little funky. I was nice about it on the ground too. 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millertime24 8 #2 October 20, 2008 Not to nitpick or anything, but you're saying that you perform HP landings in a crowded landing area?Muff #5048 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yoink 321 #3 October 20, 2008 Quote I guess the fault is probably my own for not landing further out and taking the walk. Never assume people on the ground will see you before you set-up. You're the pilot - pick a safe area for swooping. You're best assuming everyone else is blind, deaf and stupid when it comes to your safety. You certainly should not be performing 'low carving turns around anybody'. Treat people as a hazard to avoid. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildcard451 0 #4 October 20, 2008 You're the one flying the canopy. Don't hit people when you land. You are certainly capable of making a small course correction at 100ish feet to avoid someone. However, if at 310 jumps you cannot do this, please quit jumping now as you are a danger to everyone else around you under canopy. In the same light, it is up for everyone else to remember that your skydive is not over until you are back in the hangar, since you never know when someone who does not understand how to fly a parachute may come in and hit you as they land. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aresye 0 #5 October 20, 2008 I fail to see where you see that. He says nothing of himself doing high-performance landings into a crowded area. He mentiones the high-performance carving turns, but I think he was talking about other pilots, and the importance of keeping a good scan as you walk away from the landing area.Skydiving: You either learn from other's mistakes, or they'll learn from yours. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill_K 0 #6 October 20, 2008 QuoteNot to nitpick or anything, but you're saying that you perform HP landings in a crowded landing area? NO, I don't fucking swoop. I guess I should have put that in my first post. Hell it was not even a 180 or anything else. It was a standard pattern with 90 degree turns. Period!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill_K 0 #7 October 20, 2008 Quote You're the one flying the canopy. Don't hit people when you land. You are certainly capable of making a small course correction at 100ish feet to avoid someone. However, if at 310 jumps you cannot do this, please quit jumping now as you are a danger to everyone else around you under canopy. In the same light, it is up for everyone else to remember that your skydive is not over until you are back in the hangar, since you never know when someone who does not understand how to fly a parachute may come in and hit you as they land. Again, I was not fucking swooping. I made a flare turn, you know one of those turns where you start the turn while also starting you flare, to do exactly what I did here, avoid hitting somebody. At 310 jumps and a wing loading of 1.2 and exactly one downsize and over 200 jumps on my current canopy, my whole comment was when your in the landing area, plz watch and stand still. And for what's it worth on my next jumps I landed much further out and took the walk. Why do people ASSume that I must have been swooping... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill_K 0 #8 October 20, 2008 Quotebut I was still forced to make an avoidance turning flare Nowhere does it say I did a carving turn. I mentioned it, but I guess I should not have. A low flare turn is what I used to go around said jumper. I only posted to try and be a help and to serve as a reminder that the skydive is not over until your back on the packing mat and packing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
virgin-burner 1 #9 October 20, 2008 i was told in a canopy-course, if you complain about ANYTHING that might interact with your landing, take a step back.. its your OWN damn fault! “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aresye 0 #10 October 20, 2008 Calm down a bit Bill. You know how people on DZ.com can be sometimes. As for the other comments, please read the posts, and actually READ them. Don't be so quick to criticize over a small assumption.Skydiving: You either learn from other's mistakes, or they'll learn from yours. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill_K 0 #11 October 20, 2008 Quote i was told in a canopy-course, if you complain about ANYTHING that might interact with your landing, take a step back.. its your OWN damn fault! Well hell then, lets let anybody and everybody run willy nilly around the landing area. Then if somebody gets hit, well shit it had to be the canopy pilots fault. I took responsibility in the first post and said I should have picked a spot further out. I also said that I learned or was reminded of my mistake on subsequent jumps as well. Oh and in two canopy course that I've taken so far I was taught this little tool called a flare turn. I used it here and it worked out fine, stood the landing up and turned and asked the guy if he saw me. To which he responded yes. I'd say that my video says otherwise though. But your right it was 100% my fault. I should have picked a different spot... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill_K 0 #12 October 20, 2008 Quote Calm down a bit Bill. You know how people on DZ.com can be sometimes. As for the other comments, please read the posts, and actually READ them. Don't be so quick to criticize over a small assumption. Yes, you are right. I over reacted a bit. I thought I was bringing up a good reminder, but I guess that only set myself up to get cracked on. No biggy, lesson learned. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
danielcroft 2 #13 October 20, 2008 I had a fun landing like that once. I was coming in on final, probably about 60ft up and was on course to land on someone (maybe 60 jumps at that stage, not saying I'm perfect here) I made a very small course correction to avoid that person only to find that there was someone else right in my way (again, not perfect). I realize I'm too low to make any drastic turns to avoid but that I'm lined up almost perfectly with his canopy, not him. I target fixate a little (you know, just for laughs) on his canopy on the ground, flare a bit too low (which I know) so I flare hard. I took one step & jumped over his canopy, finished my flare & landed in the peas standing up. Most hilarious landing ever! Could have been bad and I didn't exactly do the best job but I didn't hurt anyone else or myself. I learned something too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
micduran 0 #14 October 20, 2008 I was standing still in the landing area one time. I was stowing my brakes when an asshat couldn't decide where she wanted to land. She decided to fly right into me from behind. Broke my arm and everything. In that case it was HER fault! However, I learned to keep my head on swivel and watch landing canopies a lot more closely. I'll be ready to get the hell out of the way if I have to in the future. We all need to take responsibility here.Be patient with the faults of others; they have to be patient with yours. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill_K 0 #15 October 20, 2008 Quote I was standing still in the landing area one time. I was stowing my brakes when an asshat couldn't decide where she wanted to land. She decided to fly right into me from behind. Broke my arm and everything. In that case it was HER fault! However, I learned to keep my head on swivel and watch landing canopies a lot more closely. I'll be ready to get the hell out of the way if I have to in the future. We all need to take responsibility here. Ouch. I've watched my own video three or four times and I may post it here. I was fine until he started walking and I never saw him look up until I yelled down to look out, which point he did stop until I'd finished landing... I do think had he been looking he would not have started walking in the first place though. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peregrinerose 0 #16 October 20, 2008 As you turned on to final, were you watching the guy walking across your path? If so, is it possible that you had a bit of target fixation and realized it too late to simply adjust your flight path? This isn't a rip on you.... I did the exact same thing around 350 jumps, was staring at someone on the ground as I was landing, and where one looks, one goes. The only thing that kept us both in one piece was exactly the same landing you had. But it was my fault for not picking a clear area, away from other jumpers, and attending to that clear area rather than the other jumpers. Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill_K 0 #17 October 20, 2008 QuoteAs you turned on to final, were you watching the guy walking across your path? If so, is it possible that you had a bit of target fixation and realized it too late to simply adjust your flight path? This isn't a rip on you.... I did the exact same thing around 350 jumps, was staring at someone on the ground as I was landing, and where one looks, one goes. The only thing that kept us both in one piece was exactly the same landing you had. But it was my fault for not picking a clear area, away from other jumpers, and attending to that clear area rather than the other jumpers. I need to post the video I guess. My head is moving a good deal to include a couple more looks at the closest wind sock even after I turn on final. I suppose it's possible that I was fixated, however the video pretty clearly shows him standing still and a nice opening where I was going, and then he unexpectedly starts walking. He did not start moving until well after my final was established however! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aresye 0 #18 October 20, 2008 There was a situation about 2 months ago, when I was coming out of a 90 degree front onto my final. A person walked right into the path of my surf. Luckily I had practiced up high on high-speed avoidance turns, or else I would have hit him. It was my fault in the first place. I lacked the situational awareness to spot the problem higher up, and have thus sense dropped high performance landings, and continue to improve my standard approaches since.Skydiving: You either learn from other's mistakes, or they'll learn from yours. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
heavydude 0 #19 October 20, 2008 Was this in SD ? I remember seeing an identical incident yesterday. Quote Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Bill_K 0 #20 October 20, 2008 QuoteWas this in SD ? I remember seeing an identical incident yesterday. Quote no Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites mjosparky 4 #21 October 20, 2008 QuoteI thought I was bringing up a good reminder, but I guess that only set myself up to get cracked on. And you did bring up something that people tend to forget. The landing area is not for setting your brakes, bullshiting about the dive or trying to pick up chicks, it is for landing parachutes. Once you land turn and look behind you for other canopies. Move 90 degrees right or left and move out of the area. But on the other hand I think you learned it take 2 to have a collision in the air or on the ground. It only takes one to avoid one. If you hit a jumper doing a normal landing you fucked up. SparkyMy idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites danielcroft 2 #22 October 20, 2008 Does this look familiar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-6QURrgvp4 A friend of mine was taken out in the landing area (video is not of my friend), luckily nothing broken but her shoulder was pretty sore for a while. Fortunately for "the assassin", my friend is a doctor and set the assassin's broken nose before it started hurting. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites millertime24 8 #23 October 20, 2008 QuoteQuoteNot to nitpick or anything, but you're saying that you perform HP landings in a crowded landing area? NO, I don't fucking swoop. I guess I should have put that in my first post. Hell it was not even a 180 or anything else. It was a standard pattern with 90 degree turns. Period!! Normally when I'm flying my pattern and get on final with about 40-50' agl I mostly always let out a loud WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!! It usually gets people to look up at you and maybe even notice other canopy traffic and its just fun to do (for me at least). Its just something I do that maybe you might want to try sometime. Argumentative part deleted.Muff #5048 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Chubba 0 #24 October 20, 2008 I stand completely still until they are on final and I know exactly where they are going. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Bill_K 0 #25 October 21, 2008 Ok here ya go. You can see how bad it wasn't!! The pattern was left hand and we were landing hanger on the right but flying it off set corner to corner. The wind socks are up top center when I'm on final and in the right center while on final over close to the hanger, but still in the grass. There is some crab on final because the winds were a little funky. I was nice about it on the ground too. Enjoy, and go easy on me. clicky Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 3 4 Next Page 1 of 4 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Only 75 emoji are allowed. × Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead × Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor × You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL. Insert image from URL × Desktop Tablet Phone Submit Reply 0 Go To Topic Listing
Bill_K 0 #20 October 20, 2008 QuoteWas this in SD ? I remember seeing an identical incident yesterday. Quote no Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites mjosparky 4 #21 October 20, 2008 QuoteI thought I was bringing up a good reminder, but I guess that only set myself up to get cracked on. And you did bring up something that people tend to forget. The landing area is not for setting your brakes, bullshiting about the dive or trying to pick up chicks, it is for landing parachutes. Once you land turn and look behind you for other canopies. Move 90 degrees right or left and move out of the area. But on the other hand I think you learned it take 2 to have a collision in the air or on the ground. It only takes one to avoid one. If you hit a jumper doing a normal landing you fucked up. SparkyMy idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites danielcroft 2 #22 October 20, 2008 Does this look familiar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-6QURrgvp4 A friend of mine was taken out in the landing area (video is not of my friend), luckily nothing broken but her shoulder was pretty sore for a while. Fortunately for "the assassin", my friend is a doctor and set the assassin's broken nose before it started hurting. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites millertime24 8 #23 October 20, 2008 QuoteQuoteNot to nitpick or anything, but you're saying that you perform HP landings in a crowded landing area? NO, I don't fucking swoop. I guess I should have put that in my first post. Hell it was not even a 180 or anything else. It was a standard pattern with 90 degree turns. Period!! Normally when I'm flying my pattern and get on final with about 40-50' agl I mostly always let out a loud WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!! It usually gets people to look up at you and maybe even notice other canopy traffic and its just fun to do (for me at least). Its just something I do that maybe you might want to try sometime. Argumentative part deleted.Muff #5048 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Chubba 0 #24 October 20, 2008 I stand completely still until they are on final and I know exactly where they are going. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Bill_K 0 #25 October 21, 2008 Ok here ya go. You can see how bad it wasn't!! The pattern was left hand and we were landing hanger on the right but flying it off set corner to corner. The wind socks are up top center when I'm on final and in the right center while on final over close to the hanger, but still in the grass. There is some crab on final because the winds were a little funky. I was nice about it on the ground too. Enjoy, and go easy on me. clicky Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 3 4 Next Page 1 of 4 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Only 75 emoji are allowed. × Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead × Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor × You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL. Insert image from URL × Desktop Tablet Phone Submit Reply 0
mjosparky 4 #21 October 20, 2008 QuoteI thought I was bringing up a good reminder, but I guess that only set myself up to get cracked on. And you did bring up something that people tend to forget. The landing area is not for setting your brakes, bullshiting about the dive or trying to pick up chicks, it is for landing parachutes. Once you land turn and look behind you for other canopies. Move 90 degrees right or left and move out of the area. But on the other hand I think you learned it take 2 to have a collision in the air or on the ground. It only takes one to avoid one. If you hit a jumper doing a normal landing you fucked up. SparkyMy idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
danielcroft 2 #22 October 20, 2008 Does this look familiar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-6QURrgvp4 A friend of mine was taken out in the landing area (video is not of my friend), luckily nothing broken but her shoulder was pretty sore for a while. Fortunately for "the assassin", my friend is a doctor and set the assassin's broken nose before it started hurting. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
millertime24 8 #23 October 20, 2008 QuoteQuoteNot to nitpick or anything, but you're saying that you perform HP landings in a crowded landing area? NO, I don't fucking swoop. I guess I should have put that in my first post. Hell it was not even a 180 or anything else. It was a standard pattern with 90 degree turns. Period!! Normally when I'm flying my pattern and get on final with about 40-50' agl I mostly always let out a loud WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!! It usually gets people to look up at you and maybe even notice other canopy traffic and its just fun to do (for me at least). Its just something I do that maybe you might want to try sometime. Argumentative part deleted.Muff #5048 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chubba 0 #24 October 20, 2008 I stand completely still until they are on final and I know exactly where they are going. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill_K 0 #25 October 21, 2008 Ok here ya go. You can see how bad it wasn't!! The pattern was left hand and we were landing hanger on the right but flying it off set corner to corner. The wind socks are up top center when I'm on final and in the right center while on final over close to the hanger, but still in the grass. There is some crab on final because the winds were a little funky. I was nice about it on the ground too. Enjoy, and go easy on me. clicky Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
