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I think his thought should have been "How far out to sea are these ba$##%ds gong to take me???" More importantly, did he get the shot?

Trust no one!

I posted the "Why would you cut way the wings in freefall" question hoping to get some of the instructors to chime in with what is currently being taught. I think there are a lot of people with the misconception that cutting away the wings in freefall is going to cure what is wrong. It may, it may not, it could cause other problems that put you in a worse situation. I am not an instructor of any kind, hell I'm not even a good pilot, but I have dealt with many in flight wingsuit problems from bothched exits that tumbled for thousands of feet, to one arm zipper completely blown out on exit, and I have not cut away the wings until I was under the canopy that I intended to land. If you can't get it under control when you have control of all that fabric in the wings, why would you think that you are going to do any better when you give up control of that fabric? just my thoughts.

Why would you cutaway the wings during freefall?

You don't know Avery!

I think running lines from each corner to the helmet would be a bad solution, what happens if you deploy unstable and some bridle ends up behind one of the lines? I think think the solutions offered by billvon and bwilling are on the right track, use some hard foam to form the shape required between the helmet and plate then use billvons fiberglass solution to wrap the foam, although for what you are trying to do I would reverse it. encase the foam in fiberglass and attach the foam blocks to the plate. use some gaffers tape to close the gaps between the helmet and your fiberglass blocks. probably wont take you more than 15-20 hours to get something that looks nice and works.

I would have thought the "one we could respect" would have caused you to spit out your wine. respect coming from Glen and it might even have been directed at someone you know

Congratulations!

With the included battery the length is right at 4.5 inches, the included battery FH50 sticcks out right at .375 inches, a FH70 battery sticks out .9 inches with a toatl length of 5.1 inches.

I think it says, "you can spend your time looking at what is behind us, but I will get us to the goal, even if I have to carry you there"

Really nice article, I can't wait to get my hands on one. noticed one other small typo, I think you meant king in this sentence, "Exmor is currently the kind of small imagers."

It looks like it is the wide plate for a FTP, it hangs out over the sides of the FTP about 1/2".

thanks, that is good enough for what I need. that means that if I mount it the same way I mount the CX7 the lens will move back on my helmet about 3/4 of an inch. I need to look at moving the mount point, or accept seeing the helmet in the bottom of the frame (not happening).

since its sitting in your lap right now, can you answer the question I asked up thread a ways? Where is the tripod screw hole located in relation to the front of the camera? in the photos the plate attached the camera looked like it was significantly forward of the center. thanks

any chance you can measure where the tripod mounting screw hole is in relation to the lens? is it still centered? in the photo it looks like the plate mounted on the cx100 is forward... Thanks

Who told you the grid was female???

If you came in from jumping more often, you might have noticed that last years model the CX7 was called a CX6 in other parts of the world.

not when I'm going to have to hang out 3+ hours before getting a jump in.

I saw him out at Snoho a couple of weeks ago, he had more patience than me a three hour wait to get in the air was too much. (an hour and half was for the fog to clear)

You have to remeber that they will go where John wants them to go!

Happy birthday!

If you have the jump numbers and time in the sport, then maybe you have seen enough other camera helmets and asked questions of their owners to know what some of the things they considered when they mounted their cameras. If you have made friends with one or two others who have already mounted a camera I'm sure they would be willing to supervise you while you mopunt your camera for the small fee of a couple of beers.

Jump #469 was my first wingsuit jump, in july of 2001.

Doc won't be happy to learn that!

Happy Birthday Krisanne!