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From: brent@phoenix.UUCP (Brent P. Callaghan)
Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive
Subject: Re: No lift dive
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Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 10:19:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  8 10:19:09 1985
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Just a word on getting into position above the formation.
I've noticed on lots of exit photos, looking back up at the
aircraft, lots of folks exiting a DC3 and going straight into
a maxtrack or delta.

If you are toward the back of the lineup, your first priority,
after stabilising in the prop-blast, is to kill your
horizontal airspeed.  Most effective is a full flare into the
relative wind (head down), or a dead-spider is even better.

The quicker you kill that horizontal component (it's carrying you
away from the formation), the steeper your descent can be,
(a great excuse for a no-lift   ( Ohhhh...   Wow!  |-)  )).
This is especially useful if your slot is on the other side.

It's easy to measure how effective it is, you feel an enormous
pressure - like a big, soft hand tossing you across the sky toward
the formation.  If you eyeball the other jumpers below who didn't
flare, you can see and feel your descent path lifting above theirs.
Once you're in the no-lift: Zow! you zap right past em !

Exit flare works best from an aircraft with a high exit speed
(DC3).  It's only marginally effective from a 206 or 185 -
then you're in a small enough load that you don't need to
dive anyway.

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