Slowest speed

[mchamp 1]

What is your slowest speed in freefall without a tracking suit, wingsuit, or camera suit? So how slow can you go?

Personal best was 91mph in a track

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[skydiverkeith 1]

Upper 70s

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Keith Medlock

[kallend 1,679]

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What is your slowest speed in freefall without a tracking suit, wingsuit, or camera suit? So how slow can you go?

Personal best was 91mph in a track

79, in a track, regular RW suit.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[Beachbum 0]

lightweight beanpole here ... sub-100 belly flying, but never downloaded Protrack data to see lowest #, or tried to really just cup hard for a whole jump to see what I could get it to read for an entire jump.

As long as you are happy with yourself ... who cares what the rest of the world thinks?

[pchapman 262]

Also upper 70's in a long track.

(6'1", 150 lbs, tight RW suit, SAS speed from Protrack graph which is normalized to 3000')

[Joellercoaster 6]

I'm about 200lbs and 6'5", I do OK, but I can't seem to break into the 70s.

More practice!

[edit: This is in a RW suit with vented booties.]

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"You jump out, pull the string and either live or die. What's there to be good at?

[thrillstalker 0]

well im a fat ass, triple digits. i can reach 160 in a hard arch on my belly. i should borrow a protrack and find out for sure.

"Never grow a wishbone, where your backbone ought to be."

[brettski74 0]

I have a number of jumps where I hit the mid 80s. 84 was the lowest I saw, but quite a few 85/6/7 as well. I also saw a 68 in my log book, but I suspect that was meant to be 86 and I just wrote it wrong. 68 seems highly unlikely.

These speeds are all in a track at the end of a dive wearing a regular RW suit with booties.

[Hellis 0]

Im not sure if this is correct but my protrack shows me 106.45 kmph (66.15 mph) as my slowest in a track.
Could it be true or is it more likely to be a missread of the protrack?

[npgraphicdesign 2]

Subtle "I need to work on my fall rate" thread.

[kallend 1,679]

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Im not sure if this is correct but my protrack shows me 106.45 kmph (66.15 mph) as my slowest in a track.
Could it be true or is it more likely to be a missread of the protrack?

Unless you were in wingsuit it's most likely an error.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[jbred74 0]

I hit 81 during a tracking dive and I'm 240 lbs out the door... was definitely tracking the hell out of that jump...

[ufk22 32]

I think some of the dives I was on with "Ponce" back in the WFFC days were falling about 40MPH!!!

This is the paradox of skydiving. We do something very dangerous, expose ourselves to a totally unnecesary risk, and then spend our time trying to make it safer.

[JohanW 0]

Low 60s, in a track in an RW suit. That's instantaneous speed from a ProTrack read-out. 6'1" 220#. Can't entirely rule out burble effects, but do keep the ProTrack in a pants pocket, not in the helmet.

Johan.
I am. I think.

[Remster 24]

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I think some of the dives I was on with "Ponce" back in the WFFC days were falling about 40MPH!!!

Remster