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Fordy

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Flew my apache with a buddy last week and fitted my Scala G9 motorcycle communication system to both our cookie G-3's. I think we both agreed after a couple of jumps it was the most sociable skydiving we had ever done. Crystal clear with voice activation (vox) we have each other heads up where we were heading and when we were going to make direction changes without any interference or misunderstanding.

Would be a superb asset to a WS course for first flights Tex to help with body position and basic navigation.

Lots of fun, thought I'd share

Regards

Fordy

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WickedWingsuits

I think it sounds great for coaching and team work but the last thing I want on most of my wingsuit flights is to be sociable! ;)



It's outstanding for team work, but for coaching, we've found it to be a distraction unless the student knows the commands (and is trained in the commands) in advance. One word commands work well in the right circumstances, sentences do not.

Ed Pawlowski, Avery Badenhop were the first to attempt this, I believe, about 7 years ago... we had a 20+ way group with the camera slot calling the formation changes.

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we used those on XRW jump just to timing exits, I also informed canopypilot about distance while approching behind.
i used open face helmet so pading earphones were more like useless to me.
maybe fixing earplug headphones would be better for me.

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here is the Sena 20s on a G3 seems like its the same profile as a Sony AS or Contour, really nice quality. With all the features (FM radio, phone etc) I can see how it could become a distraction.

It has a screw clamp and I have added some in industrial velcro

https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/10514476_820229311355180_2592741712627714042_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/q74/s720x720/10422363_820229331355178_6804375011915626258_n.jpg

the sena BT audio adapter arrives today, I think thats a cool feature but again mindful of the distraction factor.

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i bought me the SMH10R dual

pics attached of the mounting...
ver nice, small and flat!
Connection and voice is great indoors and outdoors, even from indoors through glas to a Person outdoors 20 meters.

been not skydiving with that yet!
but i will let u guys know ;)
http://www.skydive-freistadt.at
https://vimeo.com/rosettenkasper
http://www.youtube.com/user/kefercity

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anyone tried a microphone with an open face helmet? For those of us who don't want to get whole new helmet setup for bluetooth.....

I got motocycle speakers in already which work good for music. I seen videos of guys with mics on open faces but no way of knowing how well it works since the video didn't include sound from it

also anyone know any iPhone apps that can connect to non-iPhone bluetooth systems? Then all I'd need is the microphone to be set. I am imagine the bluetooth on the 6/6+ must have a pretty good range and reliability by now

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