LeeroyJenkins

edited to not reply to the troll It really has to suck for you that you can't rebut on substance. You going to continue dodging my question? Trump doesn’t win every day. Has he received some wins? Yeah. He has also received many losses. Trade, healthcare, immigration, etc. I’m sure he is winning your heart and mind every day but consolation prizes aren’t really an accomplishment.

Go compare it to a Javelin. Very similar design.

Wings listened and they changed the reserve PC design. What about all of the legacy equipment? 6 years of new pilotchute does not cover off a large fleet of 6+ year old Wings containers in the field. They are all irrelevant to this thread about a new 2018 wings container.

Wings listened and they changed the reserve PC design.

Also to note, both videos with outdated RPC issues were low speed malfunctions. This also causes considerably less drag. Drag has a v^2 in it.

The video that is posted in this thread is 6 years old. The pilot chute has been redesigned and since then, I have not heard of or seen any video of a reserve pilot chute issue. Wings are great containers for their build quality/price.

TLDR: So, you have two options, split the competition via sex, or have weight classes. Thank you for clarifying the first bit, but scientifically/medically there is no debate, only in colloquial usage. Seriously, it's hard to fathom this isn't understood clearly yet: sex = biological reproductive capacity however you want to define that, you'd think "oh chromosomes" but lol, it gets complicated (Google "Complete AIS" and have your mind blown, one of many examples). Anyway, for 90+% of the population that is M and F. Gender is a social construct regarding behavior, appearance, and social expectation. For most of you that distinction doesn't matter and again for a huge majority of the population, is still M and F, but anyway, you want to talk science you have to learn the rules. Merriam Webster is irrelevant. As for the second part, the max additional weight is ~16kg according to FAI ( see link ). Search the document for "Addendum E." With max total weight + added weight, topping out from 93kg to 99kg (205-219lbs) depending on the jumpers initial weight. So for a 60kg female (130lbs) and I think we can agree, pretty "average" athletic build weight, perhaps even a little heavy; their max allowed added weight is 16kg (35lbs). So topped out she is sitting at 76kg (167lbs), lighter than a lot of the guys in swoop meets without any added weight (And I'm sitting here at 220 naked). So as far as raw mass women would generally be at a disadvantage, and then on top of that they would have to compete wearing heavy weight belts and manage that added mass (in the example above + 27% body mass) with an upper body that hasn't been doped up with testosterone for the last 18+ years. So yes, light guys would have just as much of a hard time, but statistically there are a lot less of them, and for women, to be fit and 180lbs (15-20lbs below the male average in the US), they are most likely a body builder. I'm not sure if the first part was directed at me or not but we fully agree and that was a pretty good summary of sex v. gender. As for swooping it seems like weight classes would make a lot of sense. All the PE needs to go somewhere for heavier people.

And can you identify the time frame of those loans? Or do you dare to? Why don't you disappear until you feel like answering my question?

You still haven't addressed my question.

What about wearing them on the way down? That's the concern I see. Not much point in wearing them on the way up anyway. I think the idea is to keep the noise low in freefall. I've felt my ears pop several times in freefall and that's with nothing in them. I would think putting in ear plugs would make that a whole lot worse. The point on wearing them in the plane is that continued exposure to loud noises is very bad for your hearing. One load in a Skyvan makes me lose my mind. You do not want to wear earplugs under canopy because it is important to be able to hear someone scream at you. Ear plugs also will not hurt you in free fall because your ears popping is your inner ear pressure matching your outer ear pressure. As long as you don't have congestion they will achieve equilibrium.

You're trending too close to the gender v. sex debate. I don't know swooping rules well enough to debate them. I do feel that sex doesn't matter and a light male would have as much of a hard time as a light female. if you hang the same weight from the front risers it shouldn't matter.

lolwhy Lol ? Check Cornelia Mihai’s standings. I was laughing at the statement that we don't have male records.

lol

This is a different psycho pack than the one I know. Watch this video or read my explanation. Start watching at 2:00 and stop watching at 3:30 My technique is slightly different to flip it but the concept is the same. https://youtu.be/hGyvLfdTH1k?t=1m59s Trying to keep consistency in terms here. I do a "pro pack" up to the point where you would roll the tall. Then instead of rolling it, I flip it over and lay it on the ground tail side up. I then open the tail exposing the nose. I dress the nose symmetrically and make sure the slider is nice and neat. Then I close the tail and fold the tail/canopy into a triangle, then fold it again into the width of your bag. Once you have the upside down cigar shape, I flip it back over and S-fold it like normal into the bag.

I actually psycho pack since I mostly wingsuit. I’m a bit confused though. I’m not sure how you avoid the S fold part of packing. The way i do it is after flipping it back over it looks like a pro pack and you S fold it into the bag.

Agreed! I said one of the most important because a line check is also very important.

Thank you for verifying that nothing you say regarding packing should be taken seriously. To OP: Do not push the air towards the bottom. Slider control is one of the most important aspects to packing. Get with you DZ packers and they will show you the way. Also don't stress too much about the top skin, it really doesn't matter.

This sounds like what I'm doing, apologies if not. The only difference from my packing and the standard one is that I push the air from the top down and out the bottom. Once I'm at the bottom and pin it with my knees I then S fold it the same as anyone else. Pushing the air up into the canopy with ZP material just doesn't make sense to me and is so difficult that it ends up messing up the flakes. When the air balloons up the canopy it does that at the bottom where all your lines and slider are neatly arranged. I'm not sure what you're saying. If you look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIB6XQ3bpJk and go to the 12:18 mark the difference is that I lie down the other direction. I squeeze the air out of the bottom, then block the bottom with my left arm then turn and block it with my knee. Everything stays neatly in place and I get much more air out of it that way. Maybe it's a height thing. I'm 5'4" and jump a 210 but lying on it the way he does leaves air in the top. Yes, so when the canopy balloons up on the slider side all the flaking is negated and the slider probably moves around too. It makes even less sense when you realize you are shoving air further into the tail as opposed to away from the tail and towards the nose.

This sounds like what I'm doing, apologies if not. The only difference from my packing and the standard one is that I push the air from the top down and out the bottom. Once I'm at the bottom and pin it with my knees I then S fold it the same as anyone else. Pushing the air up into the canopy with ZP material just doesn't make sense to me and is so difficult that it ends up messing up the flakes. When the air balloons up the canopy it does that at the bottom where all your lines and slider are neatly arranged.

The only difference in the way I pack is that I push the air down out of the canopy rather than up into it. I'm surprised that anyone who isn't jumping F-111 still does it the other way. Wouldn't this essentially destroy all of the flakes?

Ipad, you can then use airdrop to share videos. Start looking to sell a kidney.

What's "new" about it? That looks identical to the same 2 square-inch section of any Wings I've ever seen. Also, your pin isn't seated all the way. The person I was talking to said it was difficult to check. I assume his experience was with an older wings since my 2018 Wings’s is easy to check. Edit: Attached pictures.

New reserve pin cover is super easy to check.

The IG reports were released last week, so they wouldn't magically state something different yesterday. If you had read the report, as opposed to letting other people tell you what is in it, you would have noticed the report doesn't say that. But the IG did testify to that fact. Stop changing your story. Either the IG report said it or the IG said it, or you are full of crap. Pick one and stick to it. Stop dodging questions, stop spinning statements, and stop deflecting. I also know you’re full of crap because out of the two of us I know only I watched the testimony. You still haven’t answered my question.

You still haven’t answered my question. Also you must not have watched the congressional testimony about the IG report. It did not look into the Russia investigation at all other than a decision involving Anthony wieners laptop. The report, the IG, the the FBI director were all very clear on this.