Brian has a Skydive Allegan jersey on. I started my AFF there and finished at Skydive Grand Haven. It's sad to see Allegan shut down this year. Much appreciation to Dennis for making Allegan a great place to jump and learn.
I wish you would be at the DZ i go to you are so informative about this and im in my aff courses now yes ive been to the tunnel plenty of times but when it comes to flying the canopy after deployment and landing safely. I've watched a lot of your videos, and you just have that calm down and relax to think. And i know you wouldn't just be helping me but other jumpers.. much appreciated for everything 🙏🏼 ❤
Never jump in high winds. Its just no fun when you can't fly your canopy like you want too. I hate just trying to get back to the DZ if its a bad spot. We called an out of DZ landing in our log books TFFTM, To fu*king far to measure. My drop zone was do much fun. We could whatever we wanted..none of this AFF jumping, if you screwed up in free fall when i was jumping you were done. And i was one of the first jumpers to use the tandem system back in 1985. No drogue chute was used at the time. Opening at 200 mph was rough,to say the least...i really had no intructor per say, i had to count seconds in my mind to judge my altitude while in free fall. Best time of my life though. I miss it.😢
Landing in a DZ unknown - I am averaging about 2% of my jumps as landing in a DZ unknown. Every one of these are for different reasons. No one on the plane spotted the exit as we trusted the pilot and he trusted his instruments - which put us a few thousand feet to the right of the jump run (in one case), a track dive that did not reverse course in time (in another case), strong uppers and mids with a higher pull on a new canopy as well as some bad habits very early on that caused a rapid descent (spiraling like I saw others do except I did not look to see where I was until I was nearly dizzy). Needless to say that habit is long gone. Also, jumping at Calhan and Mile High I've experienced elevator landings several times.
I had a jump in high winds last week and opened in some line twists. By the time I fixed it around 2500 feet I was VERY FAR from the dz and barely made it back even with getting small, getting on rears etc. In hindsight I should have probably opened a bit higher or adjusted my decision altitude
@@sivonparansun in this case, stay small, add a little rear risers, and optimize your crab angle. In no winds, 60-70% of the rear riser input is the best true glide. In other words, a little more than halfway down to the stall point. However since you are facing the wind (mostly), less rear risers will be better, as you still want to keep your airspeed high.
Brian has a Skydive Allegan jersey on. I started my AFF there and finished at Skydive Grand Haven. It's sad to see Allegan shut down this year. Much appreciation to Dennis for making Allegan a great place to jump and learn.
I wish you would be at the DZ i go to you are so informative about this and im in my aff courses now yes ive been to the tunnel plenty of times but when it comes to flying the canopy after deployment and landing safely. I've watched a lot of your videos, and you just have that calm down and relax to think. And i know you wouldn't just be helping me but other jumpers.. much appreciated for everything 🙏🏼 ❤
Nice one! Lots of well presented, useful info in a small video! 👏🙏
Never jump in high winds. Its just no fun when you can't fly your canopy like you want too. I hate just trying to get back to the DZ if its a bad spot. We called an out of DZ landing in our log books TFFTM, To fu*king far to measure. My drop zone was do much fun. We could whatever we wanted..none of this AFF jumping, if you screwed up in free fall when i was jumping you were done. And i was one of the first jumpers to use the tandem system back in 1985. No drogue chute was used at the time. Opening at 200 mph was rough,to say the least...i really had no intructor per say, i had to count seconds in my mind to judge my altitude while in free fall. Best time of my life though. I miss it.😢
Landing in a DZ unknown - I am averaging about 2% of my jumps as landing in a DZ unknown. Every one of these are for different reasons. No one on the plane spotted the exit as we trusted the pilot and he trusted his instruments - which put us a few thousand feet to the right of the jump run (in one case), a track dive that did not reverse course in time (in another case), strong uppers and mids with a higher pull on a new canopy as well as some bad habits very early on that caused a rapid descent (spiraling like I saw others do except I did not look to see where I was until I was nearly dizzy). Needless to say that habit is long gone. Also, jumping at Calhan and Mile High I've experienced elevator landings several times.
Great Info!!! We had high winds at our Boogie 2 weeks ago I ended up landing in a church parking lot.
Hallelujah!
"My condolences" =))
Aye look at Brian repping the Skydive Allegan jersey!
I had a jump in high winds last week and opened in some line twists. By the time I fixed it around 2500 feet I was VERY FAR from the dz and barely made it back even with getting small, getting on rears etc. In hindsight I should have probably opened a bit higher or adjusted my decision altitude
Did you end up drifting straight downwind of the target or crosswind?
@Brian Germain crosswind but I was in a type of holding crab until about 1000 feet
@@sivonparansun in this case, stay small, add a little rear risers, and optimize your crab angle. In no winds, 60-70% of the rear riser input is the best true glide. In other words, a little more than halfway down to the stall point. However since you are facing the wind (mostly), less rear risers will be better, as you still want to keep your airspeed high.