piisfish 135 #1 May 22, 2012 did anyone in the "modern" era of wingsuiting jump a round parachute as a main ? thoughts ? Ideas ?scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phoenixlpr 0 #2 May 22, 2012 Quotedid anyone in the "modern" era of wingsuiting jump a round parachute as a main ? thoughts ? Ideas ? That is a really strange idea. I don't think there would be a round system with BOC opening system. Is there any benefit? I can't see any. I did 9 round jumps, I'm not planing to have more. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
urowolf 0 #3 May 22, 2012 I did a Round jump in 1984. My ankles still hurt from that... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
martin245 0 #4 May 22, 2012 Haven't done any ws-jumps with a round canopy yet, but did some jumps with rounds (T-10 & MC-1C) in the Army out of a C160 a decade ago. The landing fall was quite hard, and to imagine I would have to unzip arm-and legzippers of a wingsuit and do a parachute landing fall which probably would not be the best for the material neither...-I can't see any benefit in it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pchapman 261 #5 May 22, 2012 Quote did anyone in the "modern" era of wingsuiting jump a round parachute as a main ? Yes, I did in 2007. There's a post out there somewhere. Who knows, others may well have done the same. Back at the time I did learn that at least one round/wingsuit jump was done in BASE: Skyflyer wrote in 2002 on dz.com, Quote Regarding the round and wingsuit, I saw Bill Stampfle (sp.) wing-it from Smellvegan in Norway last year and land in the water with a round. Good opening and great jump. As for my jump, Jari Kuosma of BirdMan hadn't heard of any other round/wingsuit skydives with his gear so appreciated the photos. I had a ParaCommander, bag deployed, in a large modified piggyback rig with 3-rings & BOC, and a round reserve. With that rig, you know you are coming down on a round in any case. The suit was my trusty old BirdMan GTi. Very convenient to have a wingsuit to fly oneself to a good opening point for the round. Big long rig also made for a very easy pilot chute reach. And few worries about line twists. The opening was nice, softer than normal, probably from a slower than terminal total velocity on the flight path, and the swing from the horizontal movement was smoothly damped out by the round canopy. Still, I only made it back to the DZ parking lot in the lower evening winds, so had to land the PC on hard packed clay & gravel, and ended tripping and falling down since I had not bothered to undo the leg wing. I want to do a wingsuit jump with a belly mount rig some day too. I know that's been done for a BaseR fore-and-aft rig, for example by Yuribase, but not sure if anyone has used vintage gear as I'd like to do. (Photos: Two landing photos and dull ground video captures since I'm too far to see anything other than gray dots.) As for comments about not seeing any point in it: Fair enough, but that's what others say about jumping out of airplanes in general. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
5.samadhi 0 #6 May 23, 2012 ^ thats pretty cool! Has nobody done a phantom round into the NRG? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
voilsb 1 #7 May 23, 2012 A buddy of mine has a 26' GQ Securities canopy on 3-rings ... I may have to try this.Brian Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 135 #8 May 23, 2012 Thanks Pchapman, cool pictures. should be doing "the same" this summer scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
