GoneCodFishing

I totally approve of their product naming of late. I've had some good fun googling for some of their latest offerings. Try doing a google image search for 'squirrel sumo' or 'squirrel funk' to see what i mean

Yeah, i see all the time proxy flyers rocking up to the Lauterbrunnen Waldorf Astoria in Ferraris loaded with cheerleaders and wearing massive goldchains, rolex and Armani suits before jumping into their diamond studded private helicopters to the sounds of Eye of the Tiger being played from the top of the range 100,000db support soundsystem manned by midgets in mankinis. When you used to climb trees as a kid and get yourself into all sort of dodgy situations, were you doing it for money? When you started skydiving, did you do it for money? When you drive your Toyota Prius at 1mph over the limit, do you do it for money? P.s. And this thread doesn't belong here. Get it moved somewhere else.

The tube3 is a bit wild when not flown properly, however the tube4 is out now and one of the design 'objectives' was to make it easier to fly without sacrificing performance so as to stop people whining about it having the oft quoted "knife edge stability", and now everybody can have an instant ego massage with happy ending. Coming from a company with that pedigree i wouldn't expect anything short of exceptional, and the combination of the volume reduction system and b-fly vents surely makes it the ultimate versatile suit. Not flown it yet, so i can't give my personal opinion on it, but they seem to have a load of demo suits which will make it to the US. Strangely enough based at Lodi (???)

I've had to go back and re-read that article, and and i don't think it says the closer-the safer. It does say that if you are going to get close to the ground, you should do it at the steepest angle possible to have more margin, and towards the end it says "The second ingredient to margin, is of course distance from terrain".

Ha! Ninjaed by WW's

That's taken out of context. The key words there are "steeper" and "margin", and it's explaining that the steeper the line or approach the more margin there is, as in diving with a GR of 1/1 to clear something by 50ft has more margin than approaching something with a 3/1 GR to clear it by the same 50ft. In the first case just by relaxing will pull you away from the object if you are not happy with it, in the later you would have to scrape every bit of lift to pull away. Of course, staying well away from everything is inherently safer, but that section is to explain 'get out of jail' margins when proximity flying, rather than saying kicking grazing cattle as you fly between them is safer than doing a line at skydive altitudes.

Out of curiosity, What problem is that solving?

Damn, my edit immortalised there for all to see

Detrimental how? (curious) You use up all your available excuses for landing off before your FFC

That looks like the 'standard' beta firmware to me. They are the parameters for the spoken info. Basically just a voice calling what your GR is, speed, or whatever you want to set it as. Sp_mode - What particular data gets spoken Sp_units - Whether the speed related data is given in normal speed or some archane measurement unit which is still used in a couple countries in the world. Sp_rate - How often the voice in your head talks to you. Sp_dec - How many decimals are called out

They are warming up to it slowly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmiqoxowgg0 (Skip the 1st 45s or so)

MTFU ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4_iEk5ijDw

What he said. The hyena-like attitude of most people here is in my view more damaging to the sport than anything he did. It shows we are really just a bunch of bullies waiting for someone to be down to join the fray and get a piece of meat. Not impressed

If a little drifting and bumping in between a group of highly experienced jumpers is so dangerous, reckless and live threatening, then it's a miracle worthy of the Bible that the majority of us punters are still alive

Somewhere different? https://www.facebook.com/events/609188865769866/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Do you mean air density changes due to altitude/temperature/humidity or air density somehow affected by wind? I never heard of the later... Regardless, air density affects L and D equally, so even though the vertical and horizontal speeds will be affected, the resulting L/D (GR) should be unaffected, theoretically... Not that experienced myself to confirm or debunk though

Which is why if i'm harvesting that sort of data i fly 2 crosswind stages with a 180 turn in the middle. Not perfect but close enough.

No, not at all. That link was an example of what i meant by "2D representation of flight." All positive numbers is what i'm after, that is after all what 'flattens' the 2D horizontal plane into unidirectional (i may have made that word up) 1D to give a total distance of flight regardless of any turns. i.e. going 100ft one way and 200ft the opposite way gives 300ft horizontal flight rather than -100ft. Thanks again

Wow, thanks for that. I'll see if i can get it working

Nope. Just a 2D visualisation of the flight. Let's see if i can explain myself If straight out the door till pull time i fly a theoretically perfect GR of 1:1, the graph would be a 45 degree line. Whereas falling straight down (ignoring the hill for clarity's sake) it'd be a vertical line. A frefaller's graph would be something like a slope from exit going into a vertical line... Now that i think of it, it'd be something like this http://www.dropzone.com/safety/Exit/Wind_Drift_Exit_Order_Graphic_25.html what i'm trying to get from the flysight data.

Hey, yes i came across your old post in that flysight thread some time ago, and played around till i got an excel template that worked on my pc after some fighting to get it scaled right. Unfortunately i somehow lost (by that read i deleted...) that file, hoping there was software that would do it out there Time to get back on it i think

In paralog the X axis is fixed as Time (i think, i couldn't find a way of changing it), with the other parameters taking Y. What i was after is having distance in the X axis and altitude in the Y axis, ideally both in the same scale, so basically a cross sectional view of the flight.

Is there any way to get the above? Flysight viewer 'claims' to do it, but i don't know if the current version is a duff or something. I downloaded it and installed it a few times and not only it doesn't offer the above option, i get innumerable bugs and program crashes. I tried a trial version of Paralog to see if purchase was worth it, and doesn't offer that either. Any suggestions?

Wish somebody had warned me of that before i did...

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