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That other stuff= not advice, not gospel and not a lie. Its just stuff. The thing you should remember also not yo puppet
The111 1
Quoteis a safire2 loaded at 1.6 really pushing the WS envelope, or is it not a huge deal being that its not a fully elliptical canopy?
anyone jump WS with this setup?
I've never jumped a safire, but I jump a Pilot (docile 9-cell) loaded at nearly 1.6, and I consider myself a very conservative canopy flyer. I rarely get twists, and when I do, it flies straight and untwists itself before I can even try to work on it.
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Flying in a dynamic flock means that openings will not always be on-heading.
What does this mean? How does a "dynamic" flock influence the way a canopy opens?
Ask a wingsuit instructor.
I thought I did.
I don't see what the flock part of the jump has to do with the opening. Are you saying what you do with your Wingsuit prior to break off lingers around and affects the canopy opening? Is it because the main gets all shook up in there or something?
It is a fair question, I don't get the link. Regardless of the jump I like to break off in a nice stable position and pull sometime later. Mixing a carve and an opening is a bad idea, you might want to break off earlier if you are finding that issue a lot.
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Quoteis a safire2 loaded at 1.6 really pushing the WS envelope, or is it not a huge deal being that its not a fully elliptical canopy?
anyone jump WS with this setup?
I don't see any problem with that setup at all. I've been doing this since "this" existed in the USA.
piisfish 137
the onyl remark I would have with that is if Uberchris has effectively 200 something jumps. Maybe a 1.6 loaded canopy is not the smartest idea. But then again I might not be a SoFPiDaRF instructor...QuoteQuoteis a safire2 loaded at 1.6 really pushing the WS envelope, or is it not a huge deal being that its not a fully elliptical canopy?
anyone jump WS with this setup?
I don't see any problem with that setup at all. I've been doing this since "this" existed in the USA.
I love my JFX
I've three line twists with wingsuit so far and all where the same the JFX twist and than blocked in one direction. Also I've one cutaway line over with wingsuit. He opens normally (Sitting up in the harness) and than he spins without evil line twist.
Here is a video. Not only my best openings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=jMcDetsT2B4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZ1OMR6VsQ
simonfly 0
what size is your JFX at 1.5wl?
Are you implying I will some day?
I must have missed the part where I talked about wingsuit instructors and a growing empire in that post, as all I could see was me questioning Simon sometimes advocating weird safety choices, and me personally preferring to stick to the tried and proven ones we've used for years, more related to common sense (that you also repeat later in your post?).
You don't have students? Giving advice, be it online or in person, you have to remember yourself every once in a while that people with less experience will be taking your word as their gospel. So it doesn't hurt to keep that advice on the safe side.
Telling people a more aggressive canopy may end up being a better choice in a very weird wording, to me, sounded like a very strange type of advice, not related to the orginal post/question. Your answer (that small part about X-braced canopies) was the only direct answer I read, but shame you mostly seemed to use it as an opening on an unrelated axe you had to grind on wingsuit instruction.
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