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My weight is around 245 to 255 out the door 265 to 275 -- 5ft 10 inches --S3 on the pro track I have seen anywhere from 52 to 109 depending on if I am flocking or going flat out . I don't believe the 52 because all the the birds I jump with have a hard time cathing me except Scarry Perry.

I did the same thing with the same results except I hit 175. I got a tip that has helped bring your legs together first then do the barrel role.

Thanks I will try that. On the front flips I assume you bring your arms to your side to get started head down then bring your legs together and bend to your chest. And viceversa for the back loop. Oh I am 5 foot 10 inches 240lbs of rompin stompin female satisfaction. little humor from an old guy.

Thanks,When you start your role do you keep your legs together until after you bring your wings out or both at the same time?

The truth is the barrel role didnt go as planed and I ended up head down which turned out to be a lot of fun so I went with it. My slowest speed is 58 and Iam 270 out the door should I expect to be slower for my size? I have about 20 jumps on wing suit.

I never thought about tring to get a slow fall rate out of the dive. I will try that next time thanks.

I went head down after a barrel role and when I checked my ditter my max speed was 175 is anybody else getting that kind of speed?

I have 6% body fat so I have been trying. This covers 4 decades of jumping and it has been five years since I blew the last one up.

That could be but I am aware of this and try to make sure my lines are tight with 1.5 to 2 inches of line out side the rubber bands. I have blown up lots of parachutes from rounds to squares but this was the hardest one yet.

I pack with the bag ring next to the closing ring, bridle inside the pc. The only thing I can think of is because of the slow and soft openings with the wing suit I have not been rolling the nose. Because of the cold I decided to do an RW jump instead of wing suit dive I set up good for the opening and the canopy had on heading opening but just hammered me. I would not think a bigger pilot chute would make that much difference thats why I think I must have had line dump. Also I weigh 285 out the door my dytter average speed 134 fastest 143 on that jump.

I made a RW jump using my wing suit packing procedures with a new bridle and pilot chute. The opening was very quick and hard. It blew the right tail section top and bottom skin out. I can only think I must have got a premature line dump because of the encreased snatch force of the larger pilot chute. Has anybody else had this problem?

I have owned Reflex,Jav, Vectors, and just purchased a Wings container to go with my Birdman suit. The people at Sunrise Rigging especially Paige could not have been more helpful. I received my Wings container and there were a few problems that were no fault of the manufacture so I sent it back They not only resized the container for me but packed my reserve and my main and shipped it next day mail all that at no charge. You can not beat that kind of customer service I will be a wings user from now on.

Hey I'm just looking out for you (a mile in my shoes that sort of thing)

Richland Washington at Richland SkySports has 2 Bird men on the DZ and 5 that come in and out.

In the old days we use to practice style hanging from a small A frame. has anybody tried seting something like that in a wind tunnel and trying different mods. on a wing suit? If the bird man is tethered right you could change his angle of attack to relitive wind and get abetter idea how things work.

Most of my injuries are from shooting accuracy in the late 60 and early 70d's on round parachutes. # fused left ankle (round 1.1 chute) # operation right nee (round PC) # three broken left ribs and left elbow. (PC landed on belly reserve) # broken nose ( style jump belly reserve) # 3 broken vertebrae in back (Para plane cloud acc jump pulled on back risers dead center but six months recoup # rolled the tendon on left little finger pulling on the back riser on a malfunctioning square ( operation, still crooked) It seemes to me the sport is safer from minor injuries like above but is prone to more fatalities due to the advancement in equipment. I can remember when you had to have at least 50 1.1 jumps before you could jump a PC.

Thanks, Chuck that is valuable information you have passed on. I had a similar problem but I was able to unzip and kick out of it. But when I checked my rig where the lateral band goes in the wing suit one side had a lot of abraissions. The suit still looks good not as much ware.

Now that I think about it I was not as aggresive on my throw out as I have in the past it was more to the side and level instead of up and out. What kind of speed are you getting at the low end I am around 76 on my last jump. How slow should or can I get at 270lbs (I am on a diet)?

I am a newbi at wing suit jumping I have 10 jumps on a SF 9 of the jumps were non evenfull except when I tried a barrel role went around 6 times enstead of one but the 10 jump was different I weigh 270 out the door on a diablo 190 loaded to 1.4 I had a stable throw out but felt the bag hit my right foot, I could not believe how fast that big canopy could spin ( I thought I was going to hurl) I unziped my arms and kicked out of it but it took a long time I started around 4 and go open around 2 so my lesson is I will start the opening sequence around 5 until I figure out how to correct this.

Thanks I will try that tonight.Quote

I just got my suit and have about 7 jumps on it, I have two hook ups one with a wing suit and one with a guy in a regular jump suit. I weigh 250lb without gear so I think this suit is great but I too have problems with a barrel role I close my wings and my legs but end up making about six revolutions should I close my legs and leave the wings out?Quote