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Might be nice on Saturday Yahoo forecast for Figueres Rained in Empuria yesterday Good luck

One of the biggest differences is the main pack tray. In the original V1 it opened up more. It's difficult to explain. It's more tradionally boxed off now. I have some pictures I took of the differences somewhere, I'll try and post them. This is the main thing I preferred on the V1 as it was more open for wingsuit deployments. The riser tuck flaps have gone through several iterations, more than just V1 and V2 at least. Between very small and quite long, they are now somewhere in the middle (with instructions to place the riser over the bottom flap). The yoke has changed. There's more definition with an extra panel. This helps prevent the reserve pin flap from riding up. The V1 had secondary riser covers which weren't really necessarry (unless you had the rediculously small riser tuck flaps which broke) and have been removed. There is now an option for a differnet eye motif, which looks more like a flame. People call these the "vagina" and whilst I can see what people mean, I don't automatically associate it when I see it, but I guess I'm biased. If anything, I think the newer pattern is worse and I actually stuck with the original pattern when the container was rebuilt (also liked the idea of mixing and matching the V1 pattern with a V2 creating something different). There must be something going on in the reserve tray because I couldn't use the freebag from the V1 with the V2 and needed a new one (may have been marked as a Voodoo freebag rather than a Talon one as with the V1?). Finally, they took the velcro mating for the bridle off the main closing flap just above the grommet on my V2?! Still, love my V2!

Much as I hate to fuel you Thomas, I've been wondering the same myself recently (not that it should concern Newbies? Perhaps your question would be better posed on BLINC if anyone there takes you seriously anymore). Layouts seem to be a preferred launch for wingsuit flyers to get them going faster...

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Seen the bugs in Scandanavia?! :-P I'm worried about the cumulative effects. With skydiving, my biggest concern is sweat (I already take precautions against UV). However, my local A has a big mosquito problem and I smother myself in DEET. I should probably worry more about the cumulative effects on my body, but with a single parachute system I like to have a good shower before I pack. MOISTURE VAPOR TRANSMISSION RATED OF SELECTED WATERPROOF/ BREATHABLE FABRICS: EFFECTS OF PERSPIRATION, STOVE FUEL, INSECT REPELLENT, AND REFURBISHMENT. R. Ernster. Design, Merchandising and Consumer Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523. Master's thesis completion 1996. B. Brandt, Advisor. Will read when I'm a bit more sober BSc. Chemistry :-S

Oh yeah, forgot to say, the other time I get 500 foot openings on my Crossfire is when I'm doing 150 mph on my belly in my rubber suit whilst flaring out for 3,000 feet after a Speed dive.

I have a Voodoo 2. I had a Voodoo 1 which RI rebuilt (put a Voodoo 2 container on my Voodoo 1 harness) because the riser tabs and main tuck flap stiffeners snapped fairly quickly and the reserve flap would ride up. I like both of them (although I preferred the main pack tray arrangement in the original - opened much wider so better for wingsuit). They are supremely comfortable. After three hundred jumps on a Voodoo I still find myself occasionally freaked out in freefall wondering if I'm wearing a rig (this might be a con for some people!) I also like it because of the way it looks. This is also a downside. I like the way it looks, but in practice it doesn't always look good. I don't know if it's because of the canopies I have in my V3 (Crossfire 149 and PdF Techno 155) but it can look rumpled. I think it looks better smaller. My girlfriend has a Voodoo V0 with a Spectre 120 (PdF Techno 128) and that's better. Also depends on how the main and more importantly the reserve is packed. The guy who packs my reserve has a lot of experience with Talons but neither he or I are totally happy with the way it looks. I'm not sure if I'd buy a Voodoo again, but only because I'd like to try something else. I love my Voodoo and I love RI's customer service and would like to patronise them again and would certainly recommend them.

Rich, Chris's suggestion in the canopy seminar was to pop a break on opening to see how it would react, not to pack it that way! ;-P My experiences are similar to Rich's. I jump a modded 149 @ 1.5:1. I always to deploy at 3,000 minimum to ensure I'm open by 2,000. I have a bad habit of trying to control the opening with the risers, which does nothing for the opening, rather than steering it with my body. Like Rich, I'll be working on that. The 'best' (i.e. on-heading and within 500 feet) opening are with my wingsuit. I've done one jump on a later (i..e no mod requried) 139 and bizarrely that was a very quick, hard opening but I think that can be discounted. Hoping to try a Crossfire 2 at the Empuria Christmas boogie to see if I stay with Icarus for my next canopy purchase.

Perhaps some guidelines (similar to those on the Inicidents forum) should be given on the Post New page for this forum with information such as this? Edit: I see Erno has already made this suggestion in the Suggestions and Feedback forum.

From the minutes of the Safety & Training Committee, British Parachute Association, 28th November 2002 Are you familiar with probes? Several military display teams use them to alleviate pressure when building three- and four-by-sides. The probe has a carabiner on each end which the jumper attaches to a ring on the harness and is handed to another jumper to clip onto a ring on their harness. The carabiners are connected by webbing with a 3-ring in the middle. The 3-ring has two handles, two lolon cables and two loops enabling the probe to be cutaway from either end. If it's who I think it is, these guys are very experienced CRW and demo jumpers. I've used these probes myself and I though I find it difficult to see how they were confused (cutaway on chest vs. cutaway to the side of you), it just goes to show anyone can make a mistake? Be familiar with your drills and your gear.

Err, I think you've got it. That's it. It's a short video produced for the Swedish Film Festival. In fact, it won four out of the five categories.

Public opinion in a forum for skydivers thinking about BASE jumping?

There used to be Under WATERLANDINGS: I wonder why it isn't in the cuurent flight manual? The information still sounds valid to me.

Any of it worth ripping and uploading? :-)

I saw a guy on the Jubilee line (between Finchley Road and Baker Street) last week wearing US Nationals t-shirt from Deland (when and how often have the Nationals been held at Deland) Indeed! It's against the law to talk to stangers on the tube unless your foreign or a tourist so I didn'. Humbug.

A Fistfull of F1-11 is highly recommended. Looking forward to what Fast Al comes up with this year. Check out the videos for sale on Blinc

The difference between www.skydivingfatalities.com (Barry and Eric's site and www.skydivingfatalities.info (my site) is explained on the front page. Briefly though, a lot of the data on my site came from Barry's when I first made a queryable version, but I've been keeping it more uptodate recently, and adding other information such as Governing body findings, the names of the deceased. I also intend to add more historical information pre-dating Barry's I'm suprised this thread has been allowed to stay here. Expect it to be moved now I've made a fuss.

Or do you mean his weight during his progression as he can't have always been 205 lbs? Thought the time/jumps breakdown wsa a long shot! I'd assume he's always been 205 lbs even though he may have been less.

JC's been in the sport coming up for ten years. Does anyone know when he went professional, in both both time and number of jumps. Also, do you know how that jump/canopy progression breaks down by time.

Robert has done 1 minute from the big, legal, terminal wall in Northern Italy and that's only 4,000 feet. With regards to the place where Lukas did the jump in the video, I've not been there either but I found this from Jim Jennings' review of the Birdman Pantz: and this is a post from Blinc when the talus was first out-tracked: Saying that you'd hit the water at Kjerag after less time would imply that it's lower (depends on the exit point?) but I reckon there's a bigger motivation at K to have a more efficient track with more visual feedback!

Airspeed vs. Altitude

It's not so bad these days. Two (at least, to my knowledge) of the current Council (equivalent of the USPA BOD) of nine are jumpers (one of whom I believe was there when "Frank was pushed"?). It's still a bit of a grey area. Officially, the two sports have nothing to do with each other but as a lot of fixed-object jumpers are also skydivers in the UK (and therefore a member of the BPA) they are technically at the mercy of the Council if in their opinions they have bought the sport "into disrepute".

Can't post attachments at the moment so it's on my site Tandem Malfunction Flowchart I got it from Bill Booths Sigma Safety Features Power Point, which he presented at the PIA and the BPA AGM last year (and probably other places too!). It is 28 MB so I hope Bill won't mind me grabbing the chart. In another slide, Bill attributes drogue problems to the number of handles: