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That's one of the reasons why I bought my rig before I ever jumped, because I knew if I let that deal go by, it might be some time before another one that matched so closely to what I wanted would come around. BW

I tried extending the lagging arm that way. I ended up going so fast that it was hard to stop before running into the other side of the tunnel. Also, it's hard to extend your other arm that way to stop in a like fashion for the same reason unless you only want to slide two feet at a time. Cheers, BW

Are there standard pressures for these altitudes as well? BW

Take a canopy course. I took Scott Miller's course right after AFF, and I'm still am far away from mastering the accuracy techniques he presented 50 jumps later. He did say it would take 200-300 jumps before you could get good with them.

If your flying Mantis, you all ready have your arm at such an angle that you elbow is pointing some down from your hand. The reason that raising the right elbow is prefered to lowering the left, to turn or slide left, is that you will loose lift if you futher lower your left elbow. This will affect, increase, your fall rate. In RW you want to maintain a steady fall rate, so of course, you stay with everybody else. BW That's called carving. He's sliding faster with his legs than with his arms, so he moves in an arc. It's all practice. I got two words for that: Tunnel time.

Since you mentioned F-111 ribs, I'll go for that. Do you think the ribs should be ZP too? BW

As I have been told, the Navigator is a beef up version of a Silhouette, for student training. They're both based on the same design. The 240 Navigator is thus the heavy duty student equivalent of a 230 Silhouette. Before I learned about this, I thought I want to buy a Navigator, and called up some places looking for prices. I was told only DZOs buy them because they cost more than a regular consumer canopy. Why buy a canopy that will stand up to 5000 jumps, if you're only going to put 200-300 jumps on it before getting a smaller one? Cheers, BW

You still feel good three days later.

Are you saying I got ADD?! Wow, that's kinda presumptios of you, aye? ... Say, anybody want to get a beer?

This is a pic of two people locking legs to create a down plane. But the same thing can happen with you main and reserve both out. BW

I usually sleep in my bed. Sometimes, I sleep in my car. I have at least on one occasion woke up in my bathtub, full clothed I might add. And, I have been known to sleep seated in my desk chair. Cheers, BW

Raise the lagging elbow and drop the leading knee. That's how I do it, works like a charm. So, to slide left: Raise right elbow and drop left knee. This actually took a lot of practice, hours, to get to the point where I have a quick response, good speed, and go accross without leading with either the upper or lower body. Best regards, BW

Come to think of it, limiting quantity would be a bad idea, because you'd have people creating multiple free accounts to get around it. Just limit speed to something reasonable. Cheers, BW

Dave: How about seting up a premium service tier, like they got here. Just limit down loading speeds and quantities per monty for the free users. Even if you charged some really low price like one dollar a year for unlimited speed and quantity you'd only need about 1 percent of your users to subscribe. I've uploaded a few short clips, and I'd gladly pay that. Doing it for free is philanthropic of you, but unless your rich, it's a burden. Cheers, BW

One abdominal operation, 4" scar. Cut open fingers stitched up 4 times. 8 staples in scalp from a fight. BW

That how I make lemonaid: Squeeze half a lemon into a tall glass of ice water and enjoy. BW

My first instructor told me,"When your in the door, take a moment, if you want, to take a deep breath and look around." It's a beautiful sight hanging there on the side of the plane two and a half miles up in the sky. It's a view only birds got to enjoy. Here's a good thread on dealing with anxiety: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1326776;search_string=fear%20abatement;#1326776 Cheers, BW

It might have been. I asked a few people about why my flares were continuing to be inconsistant, before I got this answer. For some reason, I seem to remember vividly what was said rather then who said it, prehaps because it worked. Although, it was over a year ago.

Done. Let me know the results, aye. BW

I missed out on getting into the big labs, with the big toys. Maybe, I should go back to college too. Hmm... BW

Yea, that beyond anything I've ever done. What was that semiconductor fabrication? I tend to stick more to the theoretical side of things, and what I can do on my own. BW

For any of the electronics or mechanical engineering I deal with usually 4 is plenty. When I delve into sub atomic stuff, binding energies and mass differentials relating to atomic decay and isotopic mutations, then the constants get longer, but even then I have yet to have any practical need for greater accuracy than 1:1000. And, the bonus is after an EMP they'll still work BW Gee, did I just sound like a geek or what? Back to the original topic of this thread, when I first made acquantance with a word processor, that's exactly what I thought, how did anybody ever write without one. It was plain torture. I did a forty page sociology paper on a typewriter, and a mechanical one at that. It took me months, of typing over and over and... arg!

Slide rules and logarithms rock. I mean really, do we actually need 10+ digits of precision for any practal purpose. BW

There are some good articles here on canopy control. In general: http://www.dropzone.com/content/Detailed/42.html Specifically related to flaring, this post helped me alot: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1721904;search_string=%26quot%3Bdynamic%20flare%26quot%3B;#1721904 And in my own words: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1730265;search_string=%26quot%3Bdynamic%20flare%26quot%3B;#1730265 Looking forward also helped, although it seemed like the wrong thing to do. Scott Miller taught me that one, had me stand up on a chair and jump down twice, once looking at where I was going to land, and once straigt out horizontally. The point he was making was that your mind will do the calculations of how far you are off the ground while you are looking forward, you just have to become aware of how to preceive it. I also did a little thing that helped, I think, called escalator training. Basically you find an escalator in a mall, and judge from the bottom about where 12' is, then run down the steps with you hands in the air, and start to bring them down when you hit the 12' point, finishing when you reach the bottom of the escalator. This gives you a rough mental picture of what starting to flair at 12' looks like. Just ignore your spectators. I only made one girl bust out laughing I have just started my second season, and have recently found out that the judging of distance is a perishable skill. After about 10 jumps now, it's just comming back from last year. Cheers, BW

When I first started diving out after another jumper that I want to dock with I waited a good 2-3 seconds thinking it was suppose to be vertical seperation. This made it very difficult for me to catch up to them(I'm a slow faller). So, when I started asking what I was doing wrong, everybody said I was waiting way to long, and that one second would be plenty to give the required seperation. Cheers, BW