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  1. I jumped X-Wing with 24" ZP kill-line PC on std long bridle.

    I also jumped WS with 32" F111 kill line PC with short bridle(150cm), Bird-Man 28" ZP kill-line PC with long bridle.
    All above gave me a good opening.

    One of my 24" PC started to give some hesitation due to its age/mileage, so I have replaced that.

    I would try skySnatch some day. That could help against some unexplained line twist.

    I'm on the fast and heavy side: 90-100Km/h vertical on start of the opening. I also pull from flight, so my canopy would be deployed through a smaller burble.

  2. metaxzen

    Are there any alternatives to using paralog for getting at my N3 altimeter data? I'd ideally like it as .csv so I could do my own charts and graphs but I seem to be running into a road block of pulling data off it.

    I have updated the drivers and synced the device with my pc. I got acknowledgment from the unregistered paralog that it looked like the connection was healthy.

    Any tips for pulling my log info?



    Alti-2's protocol for comunicating with N2 or N3 is not open.

    There used to be some reverse engineering project for N2 around.

    I have paralog and it is working fine.

  4. chemist

    So I am thinking of getting an epicine for wingsuiting as I have been pretty impressed with the quality of the squirrel suits (they fly like a dream), so I have confidence that quality engineering has transferred over into their canopies.

    Big downside of course is the lifespan, I don't want to have a separate rig for wingsuiting since it's actually easier to put a wingsuit on a rig than it is to travel with 2 rigs.

    Squirrel simply says 'it depends on many factors' how long your canopy lasts. So are we looking at 600-700 jumps, or over 1000+ range?



    Some says if you jump something which is newer than 5 years you are a test jumper.

  6. Exit: rider should be as close as possible, grabbing the yoke from inside, so he/she can be closer. Keep your leg wing closed and arm wing fully extended as long as you get stable

    Flying: I prefer that the rider having knees outside of mine and ankles inside of mine, keep away from pushing the wing and try to be in the center of fore/aft.

    Separation: slide off or open from my back.

    It is easier with a lighter, shorter rider, more challenging with a taller or heavier one.

    I had 5 rodeos on a single day at a WS performance even, WS rodeo category. All were nice and from a Let410.

  9. dthames

    If you go to the Boxman position and sort of flare, throwing your arms up as if to stop the crowd, about 4 or 5 seconds. If you listen carefully to the wind, you can get some clues.

    Some often post on these threads that the change in opening is a result of something else and that many deploy in a full track with no ill results. However, I have been in a HP track that had peaked at 140 MPH down and about 100 horz after subtracting the tail wind. That will give a 3D speed that is way in excess of what a sensible person would want to deploy. So yes slowing down is a really good thing.



    First of all is nice to know speed and velocity and the relationship between them ;). The magnitude of the velocity of your example is about 172 mph,~149 kts.
    150 mph is a quite usual number on the labels of canopies as Maximum Deployment Speed.

  12. [replyI'm not a fan of the magnet closure for that same reason too, and the extremely unlikely but possible "what if my altimeter (digital) finds itself right next to the magnet in my gear bag?"



    Some people does not beleive in electricity. You are welcome to join thier club.

    I have magnets on my wing suit. Those seem to collect all kind of tiny iron/steel waste.

  • mik

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    ***The usual problem with those russian stuff is the quality and the lack of TSO cert.

    Ive asked my instructor about a Hungarian gear. He answered:"fine if you dont jump more than 50 yearly, otherwise it will cost more in the long run than other "

    Safe landings



    A non-Russian friend of mine who has a lot of skydiving experience (18,000+ jumps), who has spent several summers working as a coach at a DZ in Russia and has looked at some of the rigs in detail is fine with jumping with them. TSO is an issue. Quality did not seem to be. We spent time looking at a couple of the rigs and he was of the view that they were really pretty good. He also mentioned that he had been on the DZ where there must have been hundreds of thousands of jumps (more than 100 loads some days, each with 18 jumpers) and had never heard of an issue arising from the quality of a rig.

    Not the same but the Ukranian Skylark jumps suits I bought a few years ago are fantastic, but I have heard the quality may have gone downhill in the last couple of years.

    Have you noticed that I posted that more than 12 years ago?

  • odeseni

    Atair from Slovenia, the leading company in BASE canopies have just released a wingsuit specific 7 cell for skydiving. Give them a try or ask for a demo.

    I believe Adam Foster at leading edge wingsuits has one aswell, so you can check it out or demo it.

    I love the 135 and 150 i flew... but hey.. i'm bias.

    My previous experience is a Storm 135 and Spectre 135 loaded at 1.7. I prefer the WinX from Atair.

    Happy flights


    Cool! I see you are a test jumper jumping a prototype canopy.

  • degeneration

    ******As per the title, what are the differences between the Optima I and II? Tried searching but couldn't find the answer.

    Lost my Op.II, and think I've found a 2nd hand Op.I, so want to know if I'm going to lose out on anything significant.


    Optima has only a single set of canopy alarms OptimaII has 4 set of canopy alarms. Optima has a drawer type battery holder, Optima II's battery is secured with a Philips screw.

    Thanks for that. One set of canopy alarms should be fine , only ever used one set on my lost Optima2.

    Got it for 1/3 the price of a new Optima2 or quattro, so can't complain too much.

    I have also bought an Optima as used. I have received a replacement OptimaII after I sent it back with a broken case.

  • degeneration

    As per the title, what are the differences between the Optima I and II? Tried searching but couldn't find the answer.

    Lost my Op.II, and think I've found a 2nd hand Op.I, so want to know if I'm going to lose out on anything significant.


    Optima has only a single set of canopy alarms OptimaII has 4 set of canopy alarms. Optima has a drawer type battery holder, Optima II's battery is secured with a Philips screw.

  • Freeflaw

    I have chopped my Storm 5 times in the last 200 jumps flying big suits. 150 at a 1.3. Florez has had similar luck at a similar loading. I am happy if 50% of my deployments do not have linetwists or something scary/annoying happen.



    I had couple hundred jumps with Cobalt 135, WL 1.6-1.8, than about 100 jumps on Crossfire2 129, WL 2.0+. I prefer to pull from 1100-1300m so I can deal with whatever comes.

    I had 2 cut-away from line-twist on my Cobalt. One of them my own stupid fault, deployment position, my other is still unexplained.

    I pull from flight and pack bridle to pin. I jump big suits: X-Wing and Barracuda.

    There was a time I had line twist quite frequently. I have noticed that the very same caopy opens more clear, less linetwist per jump if the container fit is on the loose side. I have changed couple things since than. I got WS mod: open/dynamic corners and I leave at least 75-100cm lines free packed on the bottom of the container. I don't have too often line twists anymore: 1 out of 20 or more jumps.

  • Anachronist

    I've got a Vector 348 with a semi stowless bag, about 250 jumps on UPT semi-stowless bags. I like them a lot, I've seen some other designs that just looked like people were trying to fix something that wasn't broke. I've never had any issues with them, just pack how the vid describes. It can feel a little funny at first because you don't feel the lines unstowing but you'll quickly get use to it. It basically takes the idea from a BASE tail pocket or reserve line stow system depending on how you look at it; good enough for BASE and reserves, good enough for a main.

    Pros:
    1- Faster packing
    2- Cleaner deployments
    3- Fewer rubber bands to deal with

    Cons: None

    I also had a really unstable wingsuit deployment once and basically tumbled after I pitched (I was jumping a bigger suit than I probably should have been at the time) and the outside vid shows the bag staying completely stable during deployment as though nothing was wrong.



    Some says you are a test jumper if it's newer than 5 years.

  • Quote

    I am finding that the sweet spot is at elbow level and to flare it you really have to get the toggles ALL the way to the bottom.



    Yes, it is quite usual. Flare point suppose to be between elbow and shoulder level and you suppose to use the toggles all the way down.

    Although it is not clear how your break settings would be. A sign of a good settings are you can not stall the canopy with toggles unless you loop it around your fist, but you should be close to the stall point. Other limit could be that you would not pull breaks along the front risers together.

  • JWest

    You mistyped in your second paragraph somewhere.

    200 jumps may be easy for some of you, but us at Cessna/weekend DZs this really is 2-3 years. could be less If you have the money to jump more and a job/weather that never interferes.



    Than you got your rest of life for shooting skydiving videos.

    You should not use a camera if you are not current anyway.