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Yeh, I thought the same thing... if the pressure reading really is that sensitive, then wouldn't it make trusting your Pro-Track to beep at the right altitude even more of a leap of faith? I know Stan relies on his Pro-Track entirely in speed dives (he's told me ), so if one of these shadows confused his Pro-Track could he miss his alarm? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Ok, some of you might wonder what I hope to gain from learning the answer to this question... it's a long story, but it came up in conversation the other day between myself (an aerospace engineer who thinks way too hard, and an INexperienced flyer) and a VERY top-notch freeflier. Is stable arched (belly-down) position "self-orienting"? I made this term up... what I mean is this. Lie on the floor and assume your best RW position. Then get Medusa to cast her spell and turn you to stone (stone with a density distribution equal to your normal human body... basically what I'm getting at here is imagine you are perfectly strong and can hold that position under any conditions). Now, if someone was to toss you (now made of stone) out of a plane in ANY orientation, with any amount of instability or flips/rotations to begin with... would you naturally gain stability? I think yes... but the very experienced FFer I was talking to disagreed. What do you think? I mean, I watched all sorts of things fall from the plane in Good Stuff, and most of them got nowhere near gaining stability, but they were in very un-aerodynamic shapes. A frozen skydiver, though no longer able to dynamically respond to the airflow, would still be in a very aerodynamic shape, and I think he would stabilize on his own in a steady airflow. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Does Pro-Track actually calculate speeds directly? Since it's already calculating altitude, and has a clock, wouldn't it make more sense for it to calculate the speed as dx/dt? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Those were my thoughts... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

This is a quick/easy question, and I *do* plan on asking a rigger at the DZ, but I won't be there for a while and I'm curious now, so if you feel like answering, please do. :) Which of these two pics is the preferred way to route my RSL? I've thought it through and it seems it would function fine both ways, but the first one seems like a "better" choice... it sits better there. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Which day was that? Can't say I've ever had venison... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

ACRONYM Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning LOL. I was just trying to make a joke. I used to say that at work, and when people would believe me and ask what it stood for, I would reply, "gullible". Hmm, did some web searching and not sure if ACRONYM is a "true" acronym (i.e. the word was intended to be), but there are several made up meanings for it here. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

A-fucking-men. -Kramer This has been posted before... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

People who try to start cultures and then deny it. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

People who use acronyms I don't know. And don't explain them. Did you know that ACRONYM is an acronym? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

How many jumpsuit manufacturers out there are making innovative designs? I'm not trying to argue any point you made, just bringing up another. :) Honestly, if the idea of a jumpsuit was a new thing and only only truly entrepreneruial (word?) guy was making them, then they'd be much, much *more* expensive. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Four Minute Mile was groundbreaking, but Something to Write Home About topped it for me. I really don't like their new one though. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Ok I quit but now I'm back. I agree with the Harvest Moon, Mellon Collie (and Siamese Dream!), Pretty Hate Machine, and Nevermind. But the main purpose of this post was to get extremely mad at myself for forgetting to mention: The Getup Kids - Something to Write Home About And if you're looking for good punk: Face to Face - Don't Turn Away, Big Choice NOFX - Punk in Drublic www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Thanks. I think you were at the Bytch Boogie but I didn't get to meet you. I'll probably recognize you though. :) Speaking of tracking dives, they are my absolute favorite, but I rarely get to do them. I would do them all day every day if I could. But there aren't as many "trackers" out there as there are freefliers or RWers... the closest is "flockers". Need my 200 jumps to BM! Anyway, think there will be any tracking dives? EDIT: Weather permitting, I will probably complete my 100th jump on Sunday. It would be cool to do a sunset tracking dive for that. Or if I'm really lucky Chuck will strap a BM suit on me and forget about that whole 200 jumps thing. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

The *water* still has the same density, but you are no longer jumping into water... you are jumping into a mixture of air and water. That mixture is less dense, and has less surface tension, than water. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Yeh, I've thought about that for a long time too but didn't know if anybody did it. I always thought about the possibility of jumping into some turbulent water near a waterfall, but the safety gained by the turbulence is outweighed by the other dangers the waterfall environment probably would create. What is a hot dog skier? Are you saying the water skiers that do the huge jumps land in bubbly water? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Yeh, I did a 35 foot bridge about 10 times before the 75 footer. I wouldn't imagine diving off of either of them though. That's just cause I don't know how. Guess if I had to learn I'd want to start more like 15-20 foot. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I'm not sure I believe that's possible. As far as height, I've jumped (not parachuted) feet first off of a 75 ft bridge, AND I didn't even have most ideal body position when I hit the water... I was vertical, but my feet were flat and my arms were out to my sides a bit (hands about 6 inches from thighs). It hurt quite a bit for a few minutes, but I still did it again. :) I'm sure there are skilled divers who can do much higher, but "several hundred feet" sounds like too much to me. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Way too hard of a question. Comes to mind: Jeff Buckley - Grace Counting Crows - August and Everything After U2 - Achtung Baby anything by Pavement Tricky - Maxinquaye Portishead - Dummy Jawbreaker - Dear You I quit, this is too hard. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I am going to get there on either Fri or Sat... I would love to do any sort of RW jumps, I have almost 90 jumps and decent belly skills I think, but have never really done larger than a 2-way, except for tracking dives which I've done with as many as 13. Don't know if it would be recommended for me to be in a 16-way so quickly, but I'd love to try some small easy RW jumps. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

was directed at those people who have a couple of years and a couple of hundred jumps who have not yet seen their peers ripped limb from limb in their pursuit of happiness. Unfortunately that does include me. Just replace "couple of years" with "less than a year" and "couple of hundred" with "less than a hundred". And no, I haven't seen it yet. And while it won't take me by surprise when it does happen (I try to delude myself as little as possible, I know what the chances are), I still like to hope that maybe, just maybe, I won't have to deal with that. I don't think this is a bad viewpoint to have. Hope is different than expectancy. I very much expect to encounter many tragedies (possibly including my own) in this sport since I plan to stick with it for a very long time and understand and accept the risk. But I sure hope I don't. And I like to think that hope (without loss of respect for my own mortality) will keep me making wise choices. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

If this is directed at me, I'll repeat for the second time in this thread that I do believe skydiving is immensely more dangerous than driving. My comment was slightly off topic in that respect... I was offering a possible reason for why you knew the people who died at the DZ and not on the road. This point is unrelated to "which actvity is more dangerous?". Even if you saw 500 deaths on the road a month you'd still be unlikely to know many of them, since on the road we are generally encased in a metal box surrounded by strangers in metal boxes. Even if only 1 person at the DZ died every 5 years, you'd still have a pretty good chance of knowing him if it was a small local DZ you worked at. I'm sorry if my point got misinterpreted... as I said I got slightly off-topic, and my post in no way was trying to even compare the relative danger of the two things anymore. I just wanted to comment on what you said about your personal relation to traffic victims vs. skydiving victims. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Yeh, I thought of this on my own and had the same thoughts you and Derek are having. It *seems* like it shouldn't prevent a cutaway, but it's still too close to interfering with the 3-ring's function for my comfort. I don't really like the idea of anything sharing space with my 3-ring. Derek's idea of attaching it to the cable housing is the best I think. But for now I'm staying hooked up anyway. :) www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I've been looking at my new rig (Vector 3). I'm not at a point where I would want to disconnect my RSL for anything, but I know a lot of people do in certain conditions. I was playing with it out of curiosity, and noticed that if I were to disconnect it and then jump, the yellow tab and the metal clasp would probably flap around in the wind quite a bit and possibly even pull out that tuck tab part of the RSL, which would make the flapping part even longer. Do people who disconnect their RSL's just let it hang, or do something special with it? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

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