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From: tcliftonr@cc.curtin.edu.au
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Subject: Re: AFF advice sought
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.200929.7921@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Date: 24 Apr 91 12:09:29 GMT
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> Namely, he has one leg amputated.
> I am not sure of the best way to instruct how to counter the built in
> turn.  


A couple of weeks back I dropped in to York(WAust) dz.  In the plane I found 
that the bloke I had been scratch-matched with had an artificial leg.  But we
agreed on a jump which had four 360 turns and two backloops.

The jump was completed high, and we stared at each other for a while and 
dumped at 3 grand.

On the ground he said that we were turning the points so fast the centrifugal
force was pulling off his artificial leg, so he hooked it over his real 
one and continued turning points. 

He could not have been significantly using either leg for turning, or at
least, he can do without.

After all, for a turn one needs only put on a propellor shape.  We dont need
legs for that.  We mainly use our arms, dipping in the intended direction.

Anyway, theissue is probably about adaption. I bet the student would be s
pretty experienced at that - why not ask him?


Roger Clifton   Kalgoorlie, West Australia