Vertifly

Just got here yesterday before sunset. This place is rad.

in a manner of speaking, i do use it to keep afloat. but hey, it pays the bills. speaking of that, i'm wondering if there's a wireless internet setup in chester?

wats a computer?

Only four slots left for freefly coaching. Get in on it while there are slots still available. Coaching is discounted at twenty bucks plus slot a jump AND it will include packing. See the schedule below to see the times that are still available.

Who uninvited me?

Flocking...regarding canopy or the freefall part?

Thanks J. And thanks to those who have already contacted me for freefly coaching!! I look forward to getting some good jumps in. Please know that Skyfest will have both organizing and coaching every day - all day. Contact me if you would like to be on either list - org's or coaches. Attached is a chart representing the coaching slots for the event. Each day, there is one slot in the AM and one slot in the PM. This way, the organizing will be spread out too. Slots for coaching is half gone. If interested, get in touch with me now via email ([email protected]). Getting a coach slot during the event will be difficult or not possible. Reservations are on the honor system. If you make the appointment, please do me right by keeping it. Thanks and see you there!!!

Thanks to those who have already contacted me for freefly coaching!! I look forward to flying!!!! Please know that Skyfest will have both organizing and coaching every day - all day. Contact me if you would like to be on either list - org's or coaches. Attached is a chart representing the coaching slots. Each day, there is one slot in the AM and one slot in the PM. This way, the organizing will be spread out too. Slots for coaching is half gone. If interested, get in touch with me now via email ([email protected]). Getting a coach slot during the event will be difficult or not possible. Reservations are on the honor system. If you make the appointment, please do me right by keeping it.

Sick and sweet and glad to oblige. Looking forward to the event bigtime!

Hey all. East Coast Freefly is proud to say that we will be providing many of the freefly services at Skyfest in South Carolina from June 1st until the boogie is over. After working it out with the boogie organizers, they've agreed to allow us to come up and crash the party. I am... 1) doing this for sake of skyfest and freeflying, 2) giving away (3) coached freefly jumps for free in the drawing, 3) providing free Load Organizing all with video and debriefs, 4) running a freefly Safety Seminar, Friday at 10AM, 5) leading sunset tracking dives every night, 6) going to be there from June 1 until the end of the parties, 7) and offering discounted coach jumps at $20 (price includes a pack job) plus slot, 8) requesting that you email [email protected] to reserve coaching or to get on the roster for organizing. 9) here to let you know that ALL levels are welcome cause we are trying to push this sport. 10) and going to also offer still camera shots on some loads and upon request. I think the sport needs it. We'll be doing sitflying, headdown, atmonauti, tracking, hybrids, etc. upon request. Hope to see you there! -Vertifly (Dave C) http://www.ecfreefly.com

Freefly organizing is being offered for free by East Coast Freefly coming out of Zephyrhills. I am also available for discounted coach jumps. My contact info is up on www.ecfreefly.com or reach me by email to reserve time. Details - inquire within...see you there.

Hey Marco, Look at the platform here. This is dropzone.com. A medium about the sport. If flying is so important then being online philosophysing about it is irrelavent. Devils-advocates...maybe at best. The words for this in Italian is cornuto concetto. All of these theories mean very little to the 60 second of freefall. Unless there is significant experience flying on an angle or coaching in the discipline, then I see little reason to beat these theories to the end. What does it say that the dude, who calls himself "atmonaughty" has only a handful of atmo jumps? It sounds like a teacher, arguing differential equations with 5th grade math students. Without significant practice in algebra and calculus, you can't understand differential equations. Without significant flying in atmo, how can you begin to explain it? Is this making sense? I think that the body flying positions and angles are unachievable without lift and arching. I know that burbles are in back. Head levels, with relation to the angle flown is important to development of the discipline. I also think that it takes physical practice rather than philosophy and debating. You can't teach muscle memory over the Internet.

dude i think you need to chill

Dude, atmonauti has a tendency to cause a few subjects of dispute. Some people think it is the same as tracking. "oh..we used to do that in the mid-90's man...it's called tracking". Whether or not it is a discipline all its own, or lift is possible or not - in which both cases I happen to see it this way - ...either way...it's fun and challenging to maneuver in the angle. Relative work in atmonauti looks money. Transitioning takes A LOT of practice. Smooth docking has a price in jump numbers. Go fly, make it happen, try to create lift, and be creative with it. In the mark of flying, 45-degree flight has only been experemented. The "tracing" going on at the Nordic Meet and the events that the Italians are putting on are invite-only. The reason for this is that people who practice it regularly are the one's who can do it. It takes discipline to fly in formation. Get out of a plane and try getting good at it. I still am working on it. In America, it is less popular. Luckily, ZHills gets a lot of Europeans and they like flying the 45. Be safe...Peace....Blue Sky's.

Lift, in this scenario, is a relative term. If you are refering to the lift-to-vector speed ratio than yes you're correct. The skydive lasts about the same amount of time as a head down jump. But since flyers are not head down, rather on a 45-degree angle, then there is a difference. If you are refering to a comparison of flat body or simple tracking than the ground speed is significantly greater. The comparison here can be proved by having flyers fly straight on a 45 without arching their bodies. Then do one where they are arched correctly like a wing. I would expect a difference - if only marginal - still a difference.

To understand the illustrations, it's best to first understand how lift works. On the left part of the first illustration: On a 45-degree angle, in a flat body position, less wind will travel across the top of the body. More wind will support the bottom part of the body. Essentially, this will pull your body down quickly. On the right part of the first illustration: On the 45-degree, with an arched body position, a flyer has the ability to fight gravity by creating more forward drive. The trick is to try getting as much wind as possible to travel across the top of the body to encourage the lift property. When the momentum picks up, it has more of an affect by dialing in the correct angle and arch. See the AirPressure.gif illustration: The position is comparible to that of an aircraft wing, if you look at it from the side. Planes lift off of the ground, more because of the wind above the wing than the wind below it. Sorry Bet Midler, maybe you should rewrite the song. The arching can be seen through the majority of this video by Marco in Italy: Atmonauti Vid at Atmonauti.com

If anyone is considering a trip to Zhills this weekend, it'd be a good one to do it. There are a bunch of flyers around this weekend and the weather is supposed to be like summer by Friday. It will be 10 jumps over the weekend to head down flying formations - one or two point jumps with some interesting novelties. Extra jumps could include tracking. There are eight people who wanta do it right now. Outside and inside video is already set. Hope to see you come out. Email me or pm for more information. Peace.

What up. What up. WHat uuuup!

Bolas, you showing up too? Common down and join the party dude. Plenty of liquor (ish) to go around.

Allballs. D#69. That's funny.

i wish somebody puked in my car

Dang that is a really difficult time to make it to Sebastian.

That was pretty good. All very controlled for sure. Thanks for posting that.

All that matters is your own perspective. I mean, why do you ask...Did someone 'not' let you jump with them? If that is the case, then just keep on keeping on. Even when you are into this for a while, you wanta keep on learning and jumping with people who can make a challenge of it. Do you like jumping? Are you having fun?

Actually, he did. Regardless of the speed, the "sound barrier" is a variable determinable by its altitude. Kittinger broke the barrier to which sound is limited in its speed of travel at his particular altitude when he punched through it. If you were anywhere near him at that moment, a sonic boom would have been heard. The sound barrier that I believe you are referring to, from ground level I think, is located at a higher speed because of atmospheric pressure being different near the ground. Regardless, the dude was falling pretty fast; barrier or not. Don't know if I'd have the cahonez (sp?) to do that anyway. I believe he even passed out on the way down. Pretty friggin ballsy from the movies of it.