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Couple quick things from watching the video. First, you are leaning to the right when you pull. You can see the horizon going wonky. That will turn your burble into a big ass vortex which will rotate your bag/packjob before it gets to line stretch like it happened in this jump. It also means that when you get snatched you get ragdolled to create even more twists. If the packjob gets thrown around it will also open harder as the slider will come off the stops before bottom skin inflation, compundng the ragdolling issue. So dedicate a number of jumps to do practice pulls smoothly and slow concentrating in keeping level and being symetrical, as well as getting comfortable with flying the suit during the pull sequence. There's no rush to pitch in a wingsuit, we are falling relatively slow. Also try and make sure you slow down first efficiently without dirtying the air behind you. The link above has some stuff about it The other thing, once the twists are in full flow there's not much you can do to stop them, and all you might achieve by reaching wildly into the risers is getting your fingers trapped between the twists. What you can do though, is prevent the canopy from diving by ensuring the risers are level. So as soon as you see you are getting twisted grab the risers low down or at the three rings and yank the right/left risers as needed to make them even before the twists lock them in an uneven position. Keep the fight to maintain the risers level until the whole thing settles. With a canopy flying level you got more time to get rid of the twists and is way less stressful. Besides that, storms are notoriously bad ws canopies. Just because they are 7 cells does not mean they are ws friendly. Other things you may want to consider are semi-stowless bags, 9ft bridal and big PC if you don't have them already.

As above. I installed gswoop to have a look and went to uninstall it after a little play, but neither it has an uninstaller nor it shows up in the list of installed programs to be able to uninstall it through windows, even though it shows as an installed app when using the search box. Any ideas how to get rid of it?

I'd strongly NOT recommend MEL Mark Lancaster. You are more likely to be robbed off your money than getting a canopy relined by him. Plenty of posts around about him on that, and if you think that's a thing of the past, he conned me for a few hundred bucks just recently.

You are cute

A guy in the wingsuit forum had a functioning portable pitot tube of some sort he was using on his wingsuit. Might be worth a message. His thread was called "wingsuit IAS" or something like that and it's from not too long ago

I have the feeling that either i'm misunderstanding you, or you are misunderstanding how it works. The IAS for best glide will be unique to each person with their unique suit, for a given body position. Whatever it is for you, flying the one suit you own and that doesn't mean model, but actual suit, will be unique for you and won't be the same for anybody else. If you and me have identical body proportions, but i'm heavier than you, my airspeed will have to be faster for the exact same body position and AoA. If you and me are the same height and weight, but my arms are longer than you, my airspeed for best glide will be slower than yours. We might both be flying a c-race, but my c-race is not the same as your c-race, and they'll have similar but ultimately very different planforms. If you and me are the same height, weight, and limb proportions, but i have bulky shoulders, a beer belly, or skinny legs, both the airspeed and AoA for best glide will be different. Your 'aircraft' and my 'aircraft' have both different shapes, drag, lift and weight distribution. If you and me have different height, weight, proportions, etc. You might as well be throwing random numbers and have as much chance of being accurate as your target IAS. Planes come out of factory all being the same shape and weight, but wingsuits come out of the factory not 2 of them the same, and the lumps of meat strapped inside are all also considerably different. The only way you can find what the speed for best glide is for you, is to achieve the best glide possible, and then look at what the airspeed was when you achieved it. You can't do it the other way around, and that IAS for best glide for a specific AoA for a given very specific body position will only be true for you and nobody else. And that's not even going into the fact that you can probably achieve your best glide airspeed at any glide between 0/1 to 3/1 or whatever is your best glide, since best glide sits close to your stall speed. So if your target IAS is 130mph, you can do 130mph balled up and flatspinning while going straight down, angle flying with the armwings fully folded and the knees dropped dirty, with dihedral and air-braking with your chest, etc. You are however better of looking at the breakdown of speeds, since lets say flying with a horizontal of 120mph and a vertical of 40mph for a resulting glide of 3/1 gives you more info and feedback about what you are doing than just knowing you are doing 126.5mph. On the ball horizontal but too fast vertical? You are probably arching, or going too steep while being draggy. On the ball vertical but too slow horizontal? You are probably flying too flat. Too slow vertical and slow horizontal? You are probably de-arching too much. Too fast vertical and horizontal? You are probably going too steep. Stuff like that .

No i cannot, because i still haven´t managed to fly the best L/D achievable for the specific suits i own, with my own body inside them.

Ground Speed (GS) - Nope, we are making wind (near) negligible and we are measuring the vertical component True Airspeed (TAS) - Nope, as said above the SAS mode compensates for density and temperature changes Calibrated Airspeed (CAS) - No really. The flysight has a smoothing logarithm, but i think that's not active for the beepers, and i don't know if this sort of calibration qualifies for CAS as opposed to just calibrating the pitot tube environent. If it is, then here's the winner Equivalent Airspeed (EAS) - How fast do you fly that wingsuit? At the speeds and altitudes we fly wingsuits, EAS = CAS Indicated Airspeed (IAS) - Either this, or CAs, depenidng on the flysight smoothing or not. But you knew that already... For the purposes of training with a wingsuit it works well enough, but if you want to make your own toys then that's awesome, good luck with it

You can set up your flysight to output SAS, and then fly crosswind runs. A 30mph crosswind when you are doing 120mph will only add 3.5mph, and the SAS output takes into account differences in air density at different altitudes, so the beeper/voice will gain you good feedback on how you are doing. Set the beeper/voice to indicate total speed, and that's your airspeed right there. To have an accurate idea of what the wind is doing give your flysight to the pilot and have him record the ride to altitude every couple of hours, and then use the flysight viewer's wind tool to check the wind's direction at different altitudes.

Don't you just hate it when these guys with their fancy gopros physically force you off the plane in the wrong spot making you take an off landing... It's even worse when they hold your hands in freefall meaning you can't pull a bit higher to ensure making the PLA!

Is that d-bag in the photo a good fit for the container? Have you tried simulating a deployment to see if the bag is catching on the sideflaps making it rotate? With the container fully closed, stand on a chair and pull on the bridle to pull the pin and lift the d-bag, and see if it comes out straight, or maybe one corner comes out first, or there is some resistance from the flaps. Give it a bunch of tries and see if you can spot something. If you can borrow somebody's bag/pc for a couple of jumps it would be a good idea to definitely discount the PC. Did you compare the lenght of the support tapes on it to make sure it's round and symetrical? ETA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auIexsbmmEo

Unfortunately the variables are too great for a simple x does z. There was an study specific to parachute zp, where they exposed it to the sun in the desert and found that strength loss was significant after 24 hours exposure. I think they found that the color of the fabric was also a major variable on how it was affected. I'll see if i can find it

Have you tried googling "UV degradation on nylon"? Plenty of hits at differing levels of nerdyness...

Mini-maillon (the tiny ones, not the #5) or a key-ring works great

Does anyone pay attention at those labels?

PdF Electra. Low bulk (packs one size down), fun to fly, great glide, great openings and great flare, and readily available second hand in Europe at non-PD prices if you know where to look (France).

Hence you allow the user to select the threshold speed. You got a zippy canopy and like to toggle-jockey? Set the threshold at Xm/s and you know that in a spinning mal you won't get a flatliner. You'd rather have the beeper going off when spiraling for the benefit of having a hard deck alarm when under canopy? Set a lower threshold speed or disable the function altogether. Personally, having an alarm going off in my ear for 10/15 seconds at full blast when i'm happily cruising towards the PLA enjoying the view would get old pretty quick

The user manual isn't in the downloads page as pointed to... Can you give us some more info? As in, are the alarm tones all 'predetermined' or is it possible to configure extra tones? How many different tones come on it? Can you set different alarm volumes for different heights? Like having it full blast in the first lets say 3 alarms (freefall) and then not ear splitting volume for the next 2 or 3 (canopy) alarms? Does it even work under canopy or shuts off when vertical speeds go below a set speed? Can any of the above be changed with the app? Up to and including the fall rate threshold for it to disable audible alarms (if it does disable them). We need more details! ETA: Just seen the answer to one of my questions in the FAQ'S Not sure i'd want to suffer the hard deck alarm going off on every canopy ride, specially if it is a "y'er gonna die" siren going off for ages, and if it isn't, well i wouldn't want to have a final "y'er gonna die" hard deck alarm that could be missed somewhat

That's an special ultra-secret design feature to give it more speed. Have you never seen a fish swimming? Think about that one for a second and let it sink in...

Ah, gotcha. I thought he meant rounding off the top corners and using a hood to feed it through the normal way, but reading it again you are right.

I may be about to say something very stupid... but assuming the cutter is rigger replaceable, couldn't it be disconnected, feed the jack through the elastic and run through the cable until the cutter unit goes all the way to the hilt in the elastci, and then just reconnect it to the main unit? It kind of sounds like the simplest solution, which is why i think i must be missing something...

That outside view is good I like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvoh1Z2iR20

Lots of folks use Sharpies by default. There're regular 'discussions' within the climbing world as to whether sharpies, or felt tip pens in general, damage nylon, in particular ropes. The UIAA did a test and found they do 'affect' nylon, whereas independent tests sometimes find they have no effect. There's a lot of confusion depending on brands, etc, and the fact that because the test are specific to climbing ropes if there is any damage only usually the sheath rather than the load bearing core are affected by it. With that in mind, and seeing as webbing obviously does not have a sheath protecting it, i personally avoid solvent based markers in webbing or anything load bearing. Just to give 2 differing arguments. The UIAA notice http://theuiaa.org/documents/safety/Notification_about_the_marking_of_ropes_by_climbers.pdf and a 'test' by a manufacturer who must be said, doesn't manufacture rope http://blackdiamondequipment.com/en_GB/qc-lab-can-i-use-a-sharpie-to-mark-the-middle-of-my-rope.html

Thanks! I'll try to get some of those. They seem to be hard to find in Europe