ChuckMartin

Yup its because they got a little backed up and had to do some work with the II+. I think they are about 10 weeks or so behind right now.

Your math is right. 10,000 jumps or 500 a year for the life of the product. Or $65 a year, $5.41 a month, $1.35 a week, $.019 a day. When you look at how much they really cost over its life I still don't get why anybody that is not a world class swooper only doing hop and pops would not jump with one. Yeah yeah I get it. You have to pay for it all at once and skydiving costs a lot of money and blah blah blah. If you are jumping a rig from the 1960's and you say money is an issue ok. But if you have all brand new gear or even gear that is not falling apart that is not a good reason. You want to save $1300 and not buy an AAD? Why not save another $1300 and buy used? Or another $1300 off that and get something old? Or another $1300 and get something super old. I have a 1988 rig I use to get reserve pack numbers for my rigger ticket i'll sell it for $400 when i'm done. PD 210 and a 26 year old reserve. How about I take out the main and build you one in my garage? I'll even take off $100.

The idea with CRW guys is they open high so if something does go wrong they have way more time to deal with it. Also the chance of them being knocked out with nothing out is a lot less then other disciplines. Having one doesn't hurt just most people feel there is less of a need for one. Are you asking what is the danger of a AAD fire on a swoop? Or just the danger of an AAD fire with nothing out?

That's nice. So can you send me a unit in the post? I'll be generous and pay you 20c for every jump i do. Ok if i pay you at the end of every month or would you rather i pay you weekly for the jumps i do? Deal you just have to pre pay for the first 4,500 jumps. Then $0.20 a jump paid at the end of the month.

wht is the chance I'll need it? I don't know if you really want I could do the statistical math on it for you but i'll need some information from you. I'v seen people saved by them I know people that would probably be here today if they did have one. I am sure that everybody that ever made the decision not to jump one and went in said "What is the chance i'll need it?" too. Odds are you will never need it but for a few cents a jump I think it is the cheapest insurance policy I have ever bought. About a month ago I was on a load with a guy that would not be here if he didn't have an AAD. I bet he thinks they are a good idea. It's a free country and nobody (except for DZO's) can make you use one. If you don't want to don't. I just don't see why 99% of people that don't use one make the choice not to.

It is a cost-benefit analysis, you're right. I just did the math and it cost me $0.13 per jump for my Vigil and now that I have a M2 in one of my rigs (I'm a dealer for them so my cost is less) the same jump numbers would have came out to be $0.10 per jump to have an AAD in my rigs. If a 10-15 cents a jump is to much to pay I want to know what IS worth the money. USPA says the average membership over the last 3 years has 34,215. I know some members have more then one rig but just as many members don't have a rig so it works out in the end. A new Vigil AAD with a 20 year life span is $1300.00 To buy every USPA member a brand new Vigil 2+ would cost $44,479,500. That comes out to $2,223,975 per year of service for all 34,000+ members. Vigil alone has AT LEAST 186 saves in the last 11 years they have been selling AAD's. Looks like about 3/4 of them (140) are in the US so lets say 126 of them are USPA members. (about 90% of DZ's in the US are USPA, so 126) That is $24,463,725 worth of service life that would have been used up in those 11 years. So the average about of money spent per life saved is about $194,156.54. If you think your life is worth less then that, don't buy an AAD. I personally think my life is worth more then my house. I know that the math and numbers can be picked apart all day but lets say the price per save is 5X as much as I came up with. That is still less then a million dollars a save. What is your life worth???

Rookie skydivers are the some of the people that need one the most Every AAD fire I have seen (except one when a AFFI was chasing down a student and they both had one) was students or new jumpers. There is a small minority of skydivers that would be safer without one but most people should have one. The FAA does not mandate us as much as other countries version of it does to them because with the USPA we are self regulating but that can change real fast. Maybe they should be required but you can get a S&TA waiver if you are one of the few people that has a reason not to jump with one.

https://www.facebook.com/AdrenalineGear/photos/a.213993905477947.1073741829.213981648812506/252050455005625/?type=1&theater Found out its going to look a little different. Guess the plan is not to show the carbon fiber in the middle.

Lee are you a independent rigger or work for a DZ around here. I live in Austin and about 1/2 way into getting my ticket but the guy that was teaching me is moving on the 1st. Want a new friend?

The FX helmets form Square1 are really nice for the price also.

They also just came out with the Barracuda. https://www.facebook.com/AdrenalineGear/photos/a.213993905477947.1073741829.213981648812506/234997406710930/?type=1&theater Shameless plug for my store. Not much about it yet. All I have from them so far is a Pirahna2. So I can't tell you much about the Shark or Manta from a personal standpoint. Would just be repeating stuff I heard from others.

https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/10368993_786912394665763_8076431315731671616_o.png 10-15% for Icarus canopies now. Also I think Aerodyne's is back. I just got a new Pilot and got a little off of it.

Jump 26 right off my A license was a 16 way track at a new DZ and a new plane I had never seen before. Looking back now it was really dumb but did not know any better and nobody told me otherwise. First 20 way was sat 128. I was just glad I wasn't the one that took it out.

Same I have only jumped a nano set up as a main. Flew pretty well and lander nicer then I thought it would. I'v never jumped a Optimum but from talking to people that have seems like they have similar qualities. Its what I just bought for my next rig i'm putting together now.

It comes from the FAA. FAR 105.45 "Has a minimum of 3 years of experience in parachuting, and must provide documentation that the parachutist....." Even that does not really say what it is. "Parachuting" could be a lot of things. First tandem, first BASE jump, using a paramotor ect.. Every IE you ask will say something different so it comes downs to who is teaching the course. I just did my AFF/SL/IAD courses and was told then it was from your first jump, any jump. Putting a blanket 3 year time frame on it is kind of useless anyway.

Would be cool if you could put different opening altitudes for all the jumpers. Thanks for this.

Damn, that cut away at 13:25.

I have had one the the bonehead ones on my rig for about 350-400 jumps now and love it. No problems with it so far but it has not taken to many hits either.

Not really sure what you are asking. There is a lot that goes into how a rig fits and not every company has stock sizes and build custom to the person. Also you might want to look at that torso measurement again. 19" is seems pretty long for somebody 5'6".

Yup they are moving around right now. I just became a dealer for them and I was waiting a few days in between emails.

Because on here he will get the rules and what the book says from the manufacturers and the USPA. He will also get weather on not people think it is a good idea or not. What he wont get is a real answer. Is it a good idea? No. Has it happened and does it still happen all the time? Yes. In the end it will be up to the DZ and the TI. Just like when people ask about cameras, wingsuits, and swooping on here. You should wait but a lot of people don't. Think about it this was too. If you are not in place your friend might spend the whole jump looking around for you and not enjoying himself. So unless for some reason you waited until you had over 500 jumps to get your B just try to be on the plane with him and meet him up on the ground. Also him you do decide to go and the DZ and TI let you remember you are putting a lot of people at risk. People have lost ratings for stuff like this.

Took me 173 jumps. I could not turn right for a long time.

Depends on what is said in the model release. If I keep all creative rights to it there is not much you could do with it. Lets say I take a photo at a wedding and a wedding magazine wants to run it they still have to get my permission to do so. At the least they have to try and if not have to give credit. A lot of time if a shoot a model for something we both get rights to it, if we used a make up artist and a wardrobe stylist them too. But I don't think I ever gave permission to edit the photo. So it is part theirs but again there are some things they can and can't do with it. Lets say the make up artist takes it and makes it look like crap with some bad editing I now look bad. This is always a little different because it is basically a contract between you and the artist. You could talk about this stuff all day because you could talk about stock photos and other thing but something like what happened on natgeo is in NO WAY okay.

Elsinore is always a good bet. Nice weather, busy dz, and a WS school there. Also SD Chicago would be good but would be my 2nd choice. DSE would be the guy to talk to on here, I have a feeling he would say Elsinore too. haha

Somebody asked this same question a few months ago I think the answer he got from most people was something along the line of "if you have to ask, you shouldn't". If you want to open a DZ you either have been around long enough to know how to or have enough money to pay somebody that does.