The111

There are many resources out there far better than P2P. Usenet, IRC, Torrent, etc. However, for the casual user searching for a good P2P program, get Soulseek. Far better than anything else out there right now. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

MTE. That stands for my thoughts exactly. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Dude, it's not bogus. Dude, the show told me. You wouldn't understand about the whole crew, dude, because you're not one of them. THEY HAVE SHARED EXPERIENCES AND BONDED AS ONLY AN EXTREME TRIBE SCRIPTED CAST CAN!!! www.WingsuitPhotos.com

That is precisely the problem people have with it. The worn out phrase "selling out" comes to mind. I would not participate in some scripted BS reality show version of my life's passion no matter how much they paid me. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Umm, I just caught the end of part 1, somebody exiting from a hang glider wearing a BASE rig. It kinda pissed me off how they made the guy out to look like an adrenaline junkie (he actually didn't need much help with his quote - "I can't scare the crowd unless I scare myself" or something to that effect, with regards to his low pull), and made a big deal out of him jumping a 1 year old pack job in a rig that had been regularly worn as a pilot rig for the past year. Then the quote by the announcer (less than 1 minute after Miles' quote that he was in search of accomplishment, NOT adrenaline), that he was off in search of the ultimate adrenaline rush. Oh the irony... Then the beginning of part 2, they made it out to look like 3 wingsuits in close proximity was some sort of record breaking feat or something. "As soon as the skydivers exited the plane, they realized the conditions were PERFECT for their formation." Hmm, good to know there weren't things flying through the atmosphere to create imperfect conditions. Yeah, I'm cynical... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Well, there are *4* AriA clips, but I watched the one entitled "AriA 1 minute clip", and it sounds unmistakably like Pink Floyd. Or a really good ripoff. Not sure what song. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Scott Miller told me this after an "incident" I had (see below), and it's the best advice I've ever received. It should be common sense, but obviously it wasn't to me. Don't ever make any control input blindly (i.e. I will pull this toggle 2 inches, or all the way down, or whatever). Make inputs slowly and dynamically, observing what happens, and it should be obvious when the canopy is nearing its limits. If you wanted to stop your car at a red light, you wouldn't wait until 100 ft away and push on the brake with 13 lbs of force. You'd start applying brake dynamically and adjust as necessary to get where you need to. On jump 50 I flew a demo Sabre2 170. At 2200 or so I was finished a hard toggle 360 one way (toggle all the way down), I let the toggle up, and before my momentum bled off I yanked the other toggle down all the way. I intended on this being my last maneuver since I was getting near 2k. The momentum of my body kept going in the direction of the first turn while the canopy turned the opposite way. It spun up quite a few twists and started spiralling slow, then faster (a toggle was locked down by the twists). Some people say it probably would have righted itself with enough time, being a large docile Sabre2 and all, but when I was at 1800 and the speed of the spiral was still increasing, I cut away. It wasn't a textbook cutaway either, but that's another story. Anyway, hope that illustrates why you don't want to just do things quickly and arbtrarily, even when you are high. Always use small inputs and understand what they do before you increase them. If your canopy hasn't returned to steady level flight yet from the previous maneuver, it won't respond the same to the next control input (compared to if you do let it return to normal flight). www.WingsuitPhotos.com

It's a fun site to read until an article about skydiving pops up. I'm used to whuffos labeling skydiving as stupid, but the amount of insensitive, inane remarks made in skydiving discussions on Fark makes me very mad and also makes the sheep mentality among 90% of the users very clear. Then again, I guess that's representative of the rest of the world... I'm The111 on there but rarely post. Photoshops are good sometimes... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Voice of reason. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Why do people keep talking in these terms? As far as I know, PD doesn't sell canopies to skydivers. Dealers do. Right? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I think you mean upload, right? I wouldn't mind if she downloaded it for me. Less work for me... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Haha, your shoe corked. You should have bought shoes that know how to freefly stable. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

So did you come close to catching it? And, assuming you kept your eye on it, what prevented you from catching it? I'm assuming it fell way too slow... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Supposedly freewebs.com will give you 40 MB free webspace with no popups, banners, etc. And will up to 100 MB if you request I think. Sounds almost too good to be true, only downside is they don't allow hotlinking of images, but that shouldn't be a concern if you just want to host videos. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Talkback? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

He also said he's been jumping for 5 years but still had a radio on his rig? And the DZO said don't fly over anything you wouldn't land on under 1000 ft? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I stole this from some website, do a Google search to find it if you're curious. I think it's beautiful. I have wanted to try to get in words why I skydive, and it seems to me it has to do somehow with both sadness and love. How is that? The more we allow ourselves to love, the sadder the leaving. We can't allow ourselves to love too much, then; and it's hard to love too much with one's spirit blowing lightly in the wind. There is a sense as one grows older that pridefulness and excessive ego are misplaced-- there is a tendency towards humility, in the face of knowing how much of what we do is vanity. Skydiving is three things: It is a submission after years of willfulness; it is wholly absorbing, and therefore distracting from our cares; and it is the rational, peaceful contemplation of death, and eternity made less fearsome. As skydivers, we can feel less deeply the anguish of knowing the impermanence of love, and of those we love. Skydiving *celebrates* life's impermanence with a brilliant brightness, floods it with a blinding light. Ultimately, it reminds us that life is very fragile, but very brave. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Forecast for this weekend doesn't look good. But it's early so hopefully it changes. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Heh, you caught me Stan, I was referring to you. That's awesome that you can get such decelerations in your track, I hope to be able to do that one day... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Sure, put me official. I'm thinking about coming out this weekend too. And I'm gonna stop post-whoring in this thread noooow..... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Hey John, I'm curious how you'd rate the 3 following "hand configurations" since you said you've experimented with this. (2 of which you already described) 1) Hand flat, fingers all together. 2) Hand flat, fingers "slightly" apart. 3) Hand flat, fingers all the way apart (the symbol for the numer five). I'm thinking in terms of drag, 2>1>3. Totally just guessing. What do you think? I'd be curious to see what anyone else thinks too... this may seem like a stupid thing to think about but it contains the same principle that is present when I wonder whether or not I should put my arms all the way against my body and legs all the way together for best flat track. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I've heard that speed skydivers can pull out of a dive into a track so fast that they create a screech audible from the ground, and I've heard of minimum vertical speeds in the transition/track of 40 mph. I'd bet there is some intense horizontal acceleration at the onset of that transition... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Mine is from a Moby song off of Everything is Wrong, I think. It reminds me of my first jump, AFF, out the door of a Cessna, finally off the hill looking at the ground and my two instructors, performing all my duties. And the one thought running through my head was that we were tiny up here, everything was so big, it was almost absurd and alien, we didn't belong so small and cold 2 miles above the surface of the earth all by ourselves. Now it kinda makes me think of a solo jump where I'm just tracking and knowing I'm hauling ass all by myself up there... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Paper has no muscles or brain. Skydivers do. I'm still not saying it would definitely be possible to control the formation, I'm just saying that your logic is kinda similar to a whuffo who imagines that solo jumpers tumble out of control on every skydive. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

If the premise is that they have to close all air gaps between each other (not sure if that's possible), I'd imagine they'd get together first, then close the air gaps. Again, I have no idea how they would go about "closing air gaps", but that at least addresses how the last guy would get in. www.WingsuitPhotos.com