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Hahaha! Thanks for your responses guys, now it makes more sense to me... Get ready, the next question will be on how do I attach the handheld computer and telemetry system with accurate windspeed information for each part of the canopy Thanks!

Hi all. I am a newbie. I have 6 jumps now and I am fascinated with my new sport! However, I´m still worried about safety. In my introductory course I was told that it may take 4 seconds for an advanced skydiver to detect a problem, break away and pull reserve, open the reserve. While thinking about it, I imagined myself having a malfunction and I couldn´t see what was wrong and was running out of altitude quickly. So given this scenario where the time to detect the malfunction is the longest of all the process, I thought that it could help to have a convex mirror on the right hand, to actually SEE what´s wrong and save the head turning time. I also thought that it could help advanced skydivers to differentiate more quickly and precisely a snivel from a streamer for example. I´d like to hear your thoughts about it. 1) Is this sound or I´m FREAKING NUTS? 2) What are the reasons nobody uses one? 3) Is it hazardous to have a mirror on the deploying hand? 4) Would it help as I think it might? Thanks guys for keeping up this wonderful forum! It´s just great!

So far I made my first tandem jump on this dropzone. I met a lot of very nice and fun people willing to make your experience of of the best of your life!. Very well equipped, comfortable facility. Felt like home. Give it a try! The scenery is beautiful

Now that I read what I wrote, I understand why the advice came. What I wanted to say was that once I get registered at my local dropzone and taken the lessons under supervision of my instructor I would do it. Thank you very much for the "unsolicited advice". Now I have more evidence of the excellent camaraderie of this sport!

This issue of the 2 parachutes not opening and not beign able to solve it was one of my big concerns, and now has been cleared. Thank you so much for your answers guys! now it makes sense to me.

Hehe that's why I was asking

Hello, my name is Guillermo, I'm from Uruguay and new to skydiving. Recently, I have been reading a lot on the subject but haven't jumped yet but willing to once I learned A LOT. This sport punishes mistakes too hard so I want to make sure I have the best information available, and muscular memory trained. Most of what I learned came from this site, Dan Poynter's Skydiver's handbook and Brian Germain's Transcending fear. Great books In my country there are 2 or 3 popular dropzones which can be seen at: http://www.paracaidismo.us/english/zonas.php

Hello, I am new to skydiving, and have been reading a lot about it but haven't jumped yet. What I've read is the Dan Poynter's skydiving handbook which is great and some articles and fatalities DB here at dropzone.com which btw it's an amazing site! The question that concerns me has to do with front mounted containers. Why are back containers used instead of front containers? I think some of the fatalities could have been prevented using a front container. The upsides that I (think I) see are these: 1) If you pull and doesnt open, you can solve it with your hands in a blink. 2) You could closely monitor the opening sequence and act upon any deployment problem 3) Gives you more stability because of the increased arch and weight distribution (bellyflying) 4) You may prevent a double opening It just seems illogical to me to BE JUST THERE and can't do anything to open up the damn parachute in case of malfunction. It's kinda dumb, but it's still happening. Thanks in advance to anyone willinghelp me with this newbie question