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In my training one of the partial malfuctions I was breifed on was a stuck slider. The course of action to be taken was to pump the brakes twice all of the way (and prepare to chop if this doesnt work). In the example picture I was show the parachute was very slightly inflated, with maybe an eighth of the square footage exposed to the wind and the slider nearly to the top. Botom line is that we are still falling pretty fast. My question is what to do with the toggles when the slider starts sliding and the canopy opens. I think most canopys are designed to open with the brakes set to 50%, but I find it hard to believe that it would possible to hold them ther under opening shock. Full flight seems like a bad idea to me since I think the canopy will surge foward rapidly. Full brakes seem like a bad idea too. What gives? /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

I'm sorry to invade upon the instructor forum but I think this is the best place. What has been your ovservations involving AFF students who have a significant ammout of tunnel time; specifically those who are resonably capable of the six directions of movement in the tunnel before doing AFF. What techniques/habits learned in the tunnel are bad for AFF? Which ones are good? Does relaxation ability in the tunnel lead to the same in the sky? How much of an impact does the large & heavy student rig have on stability & body position? /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

You know the drill: Vote on your favorite hot sauce. I posted only common supermarket brands since this list could get hideously long. If those choices aren't sufficient, please feel free to post a list of what you like most ranging from mildest to WMD. I love to try different hot sauces (I'm sure other freaks in here do too) so please give recommendations. Here's my list - (This list is nowhere near complete but it is reflective of what I like) Mild: Pickapepper sauce (Not really hot) Mae Ploy Sweet Chili (freaking awesome) Huy Fong Sriracha Garlic Hot Sauce Medium: Gator Sauce - (The best fucking wing sauce ever created in my opinion) Tabasco chipotle Tabasco Garlic Yucatan Sunshine Habañero Pepper Sauce Hotter: Tabasco (I eat about 3 gallons of this stuff a year) Tabasco Habañero Pain is Good - Batch #37 Garlic Hot Sauce Lethal Gator (Hotter version of the aforementioned Gator Sauce) Daves Insanity Line Fuck me in the goat ass Hot: (I Don’t really enjoy these but I own them) Endorphin Rush Da Bomb - Final Answer (Beware of this mother) /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

I never said to apply a delay of four seconds at 750 ft. The four second delay migh be appropriate if the Dbag came out at 1500 though. My point is the delay diminishes to zero as the dbag extraction tends toward the 750 ft floor. Anyway there have been good points opposing this idea mainly centered aroud the loss of concrete predictable behavior and rigging complexity. I,m tending toward thinking this is a bad idea too. I'll consider it an experiment in curiosty and chalk it up as another dumb one (They Happen) /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

Heres my thinking 180 ft/sec Scenerio 1: *Diver pulls at 1200 *Dbag out at 1000 (this is where we shedule 2 sec) *snivelling at 750 What is best now; fire or wait a second more? With a two second delay after dbag removal this changes the cypres fire to at least 640 ft (assuming we dont speed up: most likely we will be going slower) Scenario 2: *Diver pulls at 1000 *Dbag out at 800 (schedule 1.5 second delay) *750 comes what is best here?? fire reseve or not With a 1.5 second delay we may have the main open before 700; if not we deply reserve at ~650 ish Senario 3: *Diver pulls at 800 (good luck) *AAD wil not get fancy with this one, it will fire @ 750 regardless. The equations are much more favorable/managable for the tandem version. The rigging requirement would involve looping a tiny wire around a small loop in the Dbag when it is placed in the container. If this is done incorrectly then the AAD works as it did without this crazy idea PS, Im not trying to argue with anyone. I know I am less experienced and probably in the wrong here. I just like technical debate.

The tandem versions activate at 1900 feet. /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

Agreed. A form of this may not be suitable for the expert Cypres. At higher altitudes I think it may be another story. If a deployment initiation was JUST detected it seems to me that the chances of the main deploying correctly alone are better than the main and reserve deploying together/simultaneously. Given that a not known to be malfunctioning main that was JUST deployed is better than a guaranteed two out or possible entanglement, it may help. /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

I am a just a newbie but I thought of a possibly valuable feature which could be incorporated into an AAD without much additional cost.. Considering many of the reports of two out scenarios caused by an AAD firing while the main is sniveling or when the jumper deploys too low, I reasond that the AAD should be aware of these situations. With a simple sensor to detect a main's bridal being extracted or possibly the D-bag being withdrawn (probably better) the AAD could be aware that an attempt is being made to deploy a parachute. If the AAD was a little smarter it could allow for an additional three/four seconds for things to become corrected before firing. I believe it's true that if your main's PC or D-bag is out already, your main has a latency advantage over your reserve which will surely deploy (buy maybe not inflate) at a later time if it does at all. If the AAD were to give a three or four second (or possibly some alltitude unit) extension to its programmed deadlines the instant the deployment is detected, I think it could save more people than it could hurt. The system would use a simple conduction loop to indicate the instant of deployment and if that were to malfunction in any way the system would just act like a run-of-the mill AAD as it would never detect the deployment condition and hence insert no delay. Maybe this is an old idea and I am beating a dead horse. Maybe it is idiotic. Let me know, and don't hesitate to criticize with a good point. Thanks /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-760820435866344019&pl=true WTF? This has to take the fun out of eventually. /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

Do you jump at AA Clewiston? I'm asking beacause I saw the almost exact same rig on the foor there on Saturday. I was admiring heavily /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

Me & my wife out Bass fishing on lake Okeechobee.

Women scientists/engineers make me randy.

There is something awesome to be said about going that fast in an old mucle car. I think you feel the speed/ontheedgeness much more. /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

I eat avacados daily. And olives fairly often, too. Yummy! And SO good for anti-aging and gorgeous skin. LOL.. My parents are Avocado farmers - It shall be my duty to convert you.. As far as the healthy skin/hair goes, all of our dogs used to eat the ones that fell to the ground - people always asked why our dogs had such beautiful coats. /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

Do you have the Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin installed? This is very notorious problem when it is and you have previously opened a pdf in that session. You may have some other rouge plugin hosing you as well. Check for other unruly plugins. If not try to run add remove programs/windows components and reinstall IE. /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

I'll totally lay the smackdown on some Tijuana Mamas (Those gas-station pickled sausages). http://www.junkfoodblog.com/2006/06/tijuana-mama-pickled-sausage.html I don't do sweets at all. /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

I'd do it as long as there was no filming. That cold air is bound to cause "swimming pool" style shrinkage that I do not want documented. As far as the breasts go: They were simply not designed for high aerodynamic performance - and I dont want to see any that are

Just curious as to how many people have experienced the rush of a high performance car or bike ride. How did it compare to the rush of skydiving? Plane takeoffs/landings don't count Me?: 165 car, 172 crotch rocket. edit(srewed up on the gerater than symbol @120, dont know how to fix) /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

Only if the "opportunity" was a life or death ultimatum. Hopefully the A1 would be among my supplies /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

Hehe. I have to totally agree with you. I just wish I had 800k to afford a home there. /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

I took up skydiving with my spare time after gutting & remodeling due to Wilma last year. I grew up here and understand the tradeoff, but the Saturday Sunday rhythm is killing me. /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

Yet another weekend jump opportunity ruined by these piles of shit coming from the ocean. Two weeks ago it was Alberto, this weekend it is the unnamed "take a steaming dump on my weekend" depression. All week it was absolutely beautiful blue skies in every direction - Saturday comes and it looks like something out of The Lord Of The Fucking Rings. It was the same thing two weeks ago. I was hoping to knock out the rest of my AFF levels this weekend but it looks like I should just buy a bottle of Wild Turkey and play with my Legos. Sorry to bring negativity to the BF but I am fucking fretting. I'm thinking about asking my employer if I could switch to a Thursday-Monday schedule. Anybody else feel this way? /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

Thank you for the different angles.

Absolutely! I listen to my instructors and attempt to apply the rules & procedures exatly how they lay them out regardless of what I read recreationally. I'm not going to pretend that I can understand procedures or decision criteria which is meant for people with far greater skill. My EPs are the the ones appropriate for my level and approved by my instructors WITHOUT exception - as are all of the thing I plan to do on my dives. /* This is my rig... There are many like it, but this one is mine. */

Hello Everyone. I'm new to Skydiving. First Jump was about two months ago and I am currently scheduled to do my third AFF jump next weekend. Every jump I have made has gone very well up to this point, and I have had a great time on every one of them. I love this sport and I can't imagine ever giving it up. My problem appears to be that I have read so much into the technical & training side of the sport that I end up making myself terrified before every jump. From my experience the training material tends to revolve around how not to buy the farm and that tends to shift my focus from enjoying the sport to surviving it (an obvious thing). The fear only lasts up to the point where I approach the door and then it all goes away and my focus takes over. I have never felt scared or paranoid at the door or after an exit. I have been ultra conservative with my progression. Before my first AFF jump I flew five minutes in a tunnel, and after my second I flew fifteen. I have read and understood almost the entire SIM and many of the safety articles on this website (canopy skills, turbulence, exit separation etc...). I even watched every mal video I could find just to get a better idea of what a real one looks like in the sky and how more experience skydivers deal with them. All of my instructors say things are going well but I end up biting my nails all week. I know this is a dangerous sport and I completely accept and understand the risks and consequences that go with it. I just want to become an educated skydiver without fraying my nerves.Am I doing more harm than good by trying to learn too much? Should I put the books & articles down & just focus on what my instructors have to say? Is being way too analytical a bad trait in this sport? (I can't help it I'm an Engineer) and if so: Fuck!! If anybody else has experienced this dilemma please give me some advice. Rock On and Thanks