ChuckMartin

Have not seen any. I don't really see any huge advantage to these over what is already being used. The price is pretty nice, might be a easy way for somebody just starting to shoot or wants a few to mount around them. Its only a 100° fov so not as forgiving as the POV cameras out there.

168*.83~140 Not sure how you got 117. Also remember the size of your lines have a lot to do with it also. The mistake you are making is thinking its 17% of pack volume is equal to 17% of canopy size, and it isn't. One of my jumpers couldn't figure our why the Pilot 150 ZPX she brought was too small for the container that was made for a Pilot 150, I showed her the math on pack volume and not canopy size but still had physically to prove to her that the 150 ZPX packed as small as a stiletto 120. Hmm true, thanks for pointing that out. Until they come out and say what the pack volume is of their ZPX canopies are I think people will still not really know. No way does a 168 pack smaller then a 117. They say the material itself is 10 thinner so i'm not sure how that comes out to 17% smaller. Lines, thread, slider, reinforcement tape, and dead space in the pack job is still all the same weather it zp or zpx and that stuff comes into play in pack volume.

I know NZ Aerosports did less then a year ago. They might still have one but I am not 100% sure.

Did two jumps at around 250 on a Phantom then got a Birdman fire bird and have about 10-15 jumps on that. Just ordered a Intrudair Piranha 2. Hope to have that for a while. God I hate the way you put together the firebird. I just put it on one of my rigs and don't take it off anymore.

This looks like a photo of this guy's jump. He probably paid for the photo, so IMO, he owns it. If he grabbed it from a website that CD posted it to, then not so much. So if he buys the pic, then it's his. That's not at all how copyright works. The photo belongs to the photographer or the DZ, depending on agreements. The right to VIEW and DISPLAY the copy goes to the person in the photo. When you buy a song on iTunes, you do not own the song. You've purchased a license to listen to it whenever you want. I agree. But I submit that this is an area that is up for contention, and entirely dependent on prior agreements. Say I, as a jumper, pay you to take my picture. Now I claim that I own the pic, and even want to copyright it. If the prior agreements we made are in line with this, then it is mine, right? No there is no contention, like DSE said 99.9% of the time you do not own, or get to call the photo yours. Unless it is agreed on the buyer does not even have the right to edit the photo. If I shoot somebody for an ad or a couple for a wedding they don't get to take the image and enter into a contest saying it is their work. That might not make sense to you but it does to people that went to school for this and live off their work. You cant buy a car and say that you invented it. Even when photographers sell their rights to an image you still cant say that it is your work, just that you own the rights to it.

http://crener.com/en/ Has anybody ever used them or know people that do? Prices are good and they look nice (and that's all that really matters anyway) but I can't find any information on them. Even a search on here does not bring up much info.

Wings gives the best one that I know about.

Maybe if it started coming with all your ratings it would be worth it. Membership, PRO, and instructional rating fees all together are $100 a year, even if a lifetime membership came with everything it would still take 25 years. I'm thinking a lot of skydivers don't stick around for 25 years and even less have PRO and instructional ratings the whole time. Even at $1000 it would still take 10 years with everything.

You call the company that made your container and ask. Or ask a rigger, or a dealer, or you do a little math, or ask on here and have people do the math for you haha. http://www.performancedesigns.com/docs/packvol.pdf This might help you a little bit too.

168*.83~140 Not sure how you got 117. Also remember the size of your lines have a lot to do with it also.

Never heard of them. They are made in Spain so many they just have not gotten over here yet. There prices don't look extremely good, about average. You could get a basic Vertical or Tonfly suit for about the same cost.

It would be a lot easier for you to call the DZ and ask them. Like others have said every DZ will be different so asking on here is just going to get you a lot of answers that are not relevant to you.

http://www.flyaerodyne.com/zpx.asp They say 17% smaller.

Your only options that I know of in the US are the Optimum and the Nano. They are both tested to TSO C23D, they both passed, they are both legal to jump, and they both pack smaller. The reason you want one is kind of backwards from what most people do. You're looking for the smallest and lightest for the sake of it being the smallest and lightest. Most people want them so they can put a slightly larger reserve in their rig. PD is larger and sell more and there is a reason for that. They also test their stuff a lot and are trusted by almost everybody.

I bought a jumpsuit from them and had A LOT of problems. The owner has been doing a lot to make up for their mistakes and fix everything. When everything is all said and done I am going to write up a review of them and their suits but I want to wait until everything is done so I give an honest review of them, but the short story so far is. -Got the suit months later then I was promised and had really bad customer service. Not getting a hold of anybody, not getting answers, ect.. -Suit finally came and it did not fit and non of the options I paid for was on it (3 options) and I had ordered it with purple thread and it came with black. Sounds kind of dumb but when you are spending $350+ on a custom suit you want what you ordered. -The owner Chris (Awesome guy and really would love to see his company do well) came, IN PERSON, to the DZ I work at to pick up the suit. He was driving from FL to Eloy and drove a few hours out of the way to come see me. -He took the suit and fixed the sizing issues but somehow forgot to add the options on it. Leg zipper, vents on the booties, and a cargo pocket. Also used pretty weak thread when he resized it and the knee ripped open after two jumps. -To make up for everything he is giving me a pretty good discount on a tunnel suit and is going to put the options on it if I send it out or bring it to him. Freefall suits are TANKS and I have had a lot of people say how good my suit looks and for the price you cant beat them but... they do have a lot of things to improve. They are not out there just to take peoples money but they are going though a lot of growing pains right now. I talked to Chris for a few hours when he was here and he really wants to provide a good product but knows he has a lot of problems right now. Needs more space, more workers, ect.. They are also in the middle of a move from Canada to Eloy so if you order something from them have patience. I promise you will get a nice suit for a good price but you might have a few hiccups a log the way.

Again why? Don't just take peoples word for it. Different DZs will have different mentalities about rigs. People get what people tell them to get so if lets say Wings takes off at a DZ everybody will say to get a Wings, another DZ everybody might like UPT's. Know why people like something not just that they like it. I don't know if there is a perfect system out there for everybody. Somethings you will like about a rig and somethings you wont start thinking about what matters to you. Like a lot of people are saying is get a good used rig for now. By the time you out grow it you will know what you want in a rig. Maybe by the time you get a new rig you really want to wingsuit and that will change what you are looking for in a rig. Maybe you get into FF, or CRW, or really want to do camera work. There is no rig that does everything perfect. Use this time when you are starting out to beat up some rental gear or something used.

Talk to people around your DZ. Ask riggers, fun jumpers and your instructors about gear. First you need to figure out what is important to you. Do you know why you are looking at a Mirage or a Javelin or is it just what somebody told you to get? Do you plan on ever freeflying? These are things you can talk to people about at your DZ and get a lot more answers faster. If it is sold by Paragear, chutingstar, or Square 1 it is not crap, no matter what anybody tells you. If you ask somebody for advise and they start talking about how X brand is horrible and only brand Y will work just walk away. They either A) have a dealership with that company or B) have no idea what they are talking about. Just take your time and learn about what YOU want in a rig not what somebody else wants in theirs.

A SLR means it uses one lens. The way that it was done for years is with a mirror and that is what people have come to think about it as. Besides a SLR there are twin lenes and rangefinders, both of which the image to the film (or digital media) and what you see can be different. The biggest advantage to a SLR is that what you see is what will be on the "film". Why they call this a SLR is because what you see though the viewfinder is what you will take a photo of. Is it really a SLR? No and yes. You do get the same image from one lens but then you could say a cell phone is a DSLR also because you only use one lens and no rangefinder on that either. Seems like its marketing more then anything.

56,142, I might not be right but you'll never be able to prove me wrong.

Stop starting a new thread for every question you have. Also many of them, like this one, has been talked about before. Use the search tool. Most people here would be happy to talk to somebody new with some questions but the way you are doing it is ticking off a few people.

Better then the T-mobile one.

Sorry didn't upload the first time.

The area can support both. I know a lot of jumpers that go out to Spaceland and westside even though they live closer to SSM. If they give those people a reason to stay around here they will. Most the people around here see it as being a good thing for both SSM and the area as long as they used this to their advantage. I have only heard maybe 4-5 people that are upset about it. Over 3 million people live within an hour of both DZ's i'm sure they both will be just fine. It doesn't make sense saying that Texas is big and it doesn't make sense to put another drop zone. You have to look at were the people are. There is a reason there is not another DZ west of here until El Paso. Look at the map I linked, most the people live around Austin-San Antonio, Dallas, or Houston and there are already DZ's there too. It would make even less sense to make a oh lets say a Skydive Big Lake Texas with a population of under 3,000.

LSPC is new, like really new, like I was on their first load ever a few hours ago. Its a nice DZ, super fun jumper friendly. They are still building things up so no real packing area as of now no cafe, gear store, bunk room ect.. But my March who knows what they are going to have.

He talks a good game and the suits he brings around with him look awesome and are made really well but in the end he can't deliver. If he is this busy and over his head it's about time to hire some more staff. His suits use 42 measurements and still can't get things right, I don't see how this is even possible. They are more then happy to take your money and in fact that is the only time I ever got quick responses to my emails. As soon as my order was in and they had my money I got treated like I didn't matter.