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Flying Our Turbine Aircraft Every Jumping Dag! m: So, y o u ' r E not happy unless yDu're hEad down going Mach 2 with your hair on fire! Well, we aren’t happy unless we are building you the strongest toughest reserves that money can buy. PD Reserves feature strength and toughness like no other Reserve on the market. Features like I-beam construction, along with spanwise and chordwise reinforce­ ment make our Reserves the toughest out there. When it comes to openings, flight and landings, remember, PD Reserves are Performance Designs canopies at heart. Responsive, predictable handling, excellent glide in deep brakes and outstanding landings. NOW OFFERING THE PR099 THE PROOF IS IN THE PERFORMANCE Some body positions (i.e. head down, stand up, and long dives) may enable the user to reach speeds and attitudes, beyond which your equipment has been designed and tested. Deployments outside of your equipment's operational limits could cause any/all of the follow­ ing: extremely hard openings, equipment failure, severe bodily injury, ejection from the harness, or death. photo credit: Wendy Smith Performance Designs Inc. 1300 E. Int i Speedway Blvd., Deland, FL 32724 USA (386) 738-2224 Fax (386) 734-8297 www.performancedesigns.com British Parachute Association EDITORIAL editorial Patron: His Royal Highness The Mag, 5 Station Road, The Prince of Wales We have some great stuff lined up in this Ailsworth, Peterborough, PE5 7AH latest Mag. Brian Vacher, immortalised last BPA, Wharf Way, United Kingdom issue as a swooptastic canopy pilot, has Glen Parva, Tel/Fax: 01733 380 568 written an excellent article on the ideal landing Leicester LE2 9TF (U [email protected] profile, expanding on the five second rule \ ' www.skydivemag.com mentioned previously. Hopefully this will help keep Tel: 0116 278 5271 us all safe as well as improving the efficiency of our Fax: 0116 247 7662 EDITOR landings. Lesley Gale [email protected] EDITORIAL ASSISTANT & George Pilkington is back with a really fab beginners' guide to the latest skydiving www.bpa.org.uk WEBSITE CO-ORDINATOR craze - Atmonauti. This includes diagrams and technical information from the Mike Pascoe Atmonauti website and will get us all prepared to fly with Marco and Gi of DESIGN Team Atmonauti at Langar Boogie 2. BPA Staff Andy Vernum Technical Officer Tony Butler ADVERTISING It's always great when we have loads of UK events to report on in the summer National Safety Officer John Hitchen Jayne Notley months. We feature the BCPA Nationals at Cark, the Classics Nationals from PA to above officers Trudy Kemp Warners Group Publications Bridlington, the Speed Skydiving World Cup held at Target Skysports and the Financial Administrator West Street Scottish Nationals at Strathallan. 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BPA Vice Presidents Jim Crotker, John Lines & Bob Cord Treasurer Debbie Carter Pilots Committee Chairman Tony Knight Royal Aero Club Delegate John Smyth CAA Liaison Officer Tony Knight BPA Wharf Way, Glen Parva, Leicester LE2 9TF BPA Gasco Representative Angela Hickling Tel 0116 278 5271 Fax 0116 247 7662 IPC Delegate John Hitchen 1 August 2004 features Landing Profiles Brian Vacher explains the ideal landing sequence Classics Nationals Fran Shashkova-Richards runs through the highlights Speed Skydiving World Cup 24 Brits Mark Calland and Clare Murphy take all M artin Williams describes techniques for larger formations Atmonauti but Nice A ‘How-to’ article from George Pilkington BCPA Nationals 1 BCPA visits Cark and jumps their brand new PAC 7SOXL Scottish Nationals Highlights of this friendly meet We Remember 54 A tribute to those in the Dunkeswell plane crash Frewster Eddie Jones remembers Andy Frew Photo from Lapalisse Spring Boogie by Loic Jean-Albert tsky August 2004 skydive ** August 2004 NOTE: Some of the photos in this magazine may show skydivers without helmets or altimeters, or otherwise not obeying the BPA Operations Manual, in which case they were taken abroad. In the UK it is mandatory to wear a helmet and alti for obvious safety reasons. Students within The Mag are complying with BPA regulations. T m © The Mag All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form; electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, without prior permission of the Editor. SUPPORTED BY The views expressed in T h e Mag are those of the contributors and not necessarily hose of the BPA Opinions in the editorial are those of the Editor, not of the BPA. The Editor retains the right to withdraw any advertisement at her discretion and does not accept liability for delay in publication or for errors, although every effort is taken to avoid mistakes. lO LY M PU Sl The information in this magazine was, to the best of our ability, correct at the time of going to press. Reproduction, printing and mailing take a total of three weeks so some information may be out of date, or superseded. skydive 3 AugustAnmict 2004onn/i Landing Profiles One of the basics of Landing LANDING PROFILE DIAGRAM A safe canopy flight is Profile A INCREASING OR INCREASING OR SLOW DECELERATION OF SPEEO MAINTAINING SPEED MAINTAINING SPEED MINIMAL LIFT REQUIRED OVER allowing the canopy to Profile A shows GREATEST DISTANCE POSSIBLE fly before any input for a smooth glide path - the ideal the landing flare. approach to maintain A technique used by efficiency and speed FINISH OF FLARE many flight schools is to throughout the (NOT A STALL!) count anywhere landing. At the same time this 77777777777/7777777777 g r o u n d 7777777777777777777777 between five and ten path offers the APPROACH INPUT NATURAL RECOVERY LANDING INPUT IF NECESSARY (FLARE) seconds of full flight, to safest approach 5-10 SECONDS angle and if, GOOD DISTANCE allow the canopy to adopted, will recover, before putting ensure you never put yourself in the danger zone. In this case the pilot reaches his point of any input into the flare. final input and allows the canopy to fly on full drive for between 5 and 10 seconds. This allows the canopy to recover and return to an efficient state before any landing input is made. As soon as the pilot makes any toggle or riser input the canopy loses some of its efficiency. Hence the more the pilot allows the canopy to fly, the better the speed, the flare and ultimately the softer the landing. If you watch an aircraft coming into land they have a nice smooth descent with a slow deceleration and flare for an efficient landing. An aircraft does not dive towards the ground and then immediately induce a flare! Underneath a canopy we are looking for the same profile. LANDING PROFILE DIAGRAM B INCREASING Oft RAPID DECELERATION OF SPEED MAINTAINING SPEED LARGE AMOUNT OF LIFT REQUIRED I ////////'/////////// ground...777/////7///77T7 \ APPROACH INPUT LANDING INPUT (PILOT MUST FLARE) RESTRICTED DISTANCE Landing Profile B Profile B shows a very inefficient and, perhaps misleadingly, spectacular descent profile.
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