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What exactly is your goal? A flare is a dynamic slowdown nearing a stall, where stability is harder to control. "Bleeding off forward speed" can be done in many ways other than flaring. If you want to just bleed off forward speed for a more vertical pull sequence, then you can slow down progressively rather than throwing an aggressive dynamic flare. In either case, "speeding up a little" will always be counterproductive if your end goal is to slow down. That speedup may help you decrease your fallrate but overall you will still be going faster. So again, what is the goal? Slow overall speed on deployment? Or simply slow vertical speed on deployment? Or (my favorite) high vertical speed, slow forward speed, i.e. the classic sinkout. Great for soft openings, 1 out of 1 heavily loaded necks agree.

Nice photo Juan! www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Fast forward one year, and it happened again. Not cool at all. Last summer after reading this thread I put slink hats on the risers as a temporary solution. However after several months it became obvious they were getting worn out from me pulling slider past them, and I was afraid before long they would not be able to do their job anymore. So I ordered some new risers and got them modded as suggested earlier in this thread. I got them in the mail just a few days before leaving for the boogie where I had this chop. So a little bit too late, but at least now I know for sure that I really need them, if I had any doubts remaining. Can't wait to put them on and try them out. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Why would anybody call a camera indicator light a safety feature? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

We internet strangers are flattered, but this one suggests that your own safety is actually a higher priority than our appeasement. To death? Excessive what-if'ing can at worst only lead to inaction. Skydiving in an unsafe manner is what leads to death. I'd err on the side of too many what-if's, personally. Although admittedly I might miss out on one really cool jump today while I stop and think about how to do it smarter tomorrow. A parachute cannot entangle with a burble. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Truthfully you don't know how strong it is unless you test it. Use your body weight; see if it can suspend you. If it does, that's bad. If it doesn't, that's still bad since whatever load it does break at may still be enough to break your neck too. But worse, as Spot pointed out, what if it entangles with an opening reserve? I would guess that the amount of force required to foul a reserve opening is less than the break force of that loop. But even if my guess was the other way around, I wouldn't gamble my life on it. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Whatever it is, it's not for safety. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

After nearly 8 years I finally had to make some major upgrades to my CCM (originally posted about here). Up until now, I've been flying it with the camera in portrait orientation as shown in that old post. I originally set it up like that for two reasons: it was the only way I could fit both cameras on the top plate side by side, and also portrait shots are good candidates for magazine covers. But the vertical orientation was always a huge strain on my neck due to the high CG, and inconvenient in other ways too. So I made myself a promise that once I got a camera where the sensor's short dimension was as big as the long dimension on my first camera (the Rebel XT), then I would change my setup to have the SLR landscape, since I could still crop a 300dpi 8x10 protrait print out of a landscape shot. Well, that finally happened (and then some) when the T6i came out (short dimension is 4000px, compared with the 3456px long dimension on the XT). To make the SLR fit next to the video camera while landscape, I had to make a wider top plate. To be precise, the new one is 9.2 inches compared to my old one which was 7.8 inches. The new one overhangs the helmet just over half an inch on each side, which is not ideal, but is not the end of the world either I don't think. I've only put a couple jumps on it so far, but the lower center of gravity makes it feel so much lighter during opening, and the lower center of pressure also reduces neck strain while diving in my wingsuit. It's also easier to clear the door (and move around in general) in small planes. I'm happy with the upgrade so far.

https://vimeo.com/64251059 Yeah, that deploying off the back thing is so under-rated. Underrated w.r.t risk involved, that's for sure. :-/ And overrated for cool factor. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

So... you should criticize Tim McVeigh for thinking the Waco siege was a sign of a tyrannical government, but not for the fact that he killed 168 people while trying to inspire a rebellion? It's almost like if you look at both the motivations and the actions, you get a complete context and then can fairly assess what actually occurred. Bizarre. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Shot by camera! Best post in this thread by a long shot. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Every time somebody responds to an actual point you attempt to make, you change the subject in a ridiculous direction and make an equally ridiculous point, the above being the latest link in the chain. So far we have: "Gun control is bad" "Obama is black" "The leading cause of death for black men in places like Chicago is other black men" Indulging you by going (way) off the original topic... on what is the statement above based? If asked, I would guess that the leading cause of death for black men in Chicago* is old age. But I have no data, so I can't say for sure. So either you have the data (which I'd like to see), or you're just randomly making things up, which I'm guessing is the case. *I am not sure what "places like Chicago" means (unless it means "places where black people live"), so I've reduced it to just Chicago. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

It hasn't been "prohibited" from anything except for flying in front of government buildings. About the only way to make the comparison you are making is to say that government officials are prohibited from smoking pot and drinking alcohol in front of government buildings. And I'd say that prohibition has probably been pretty successful; I've never heard much uproar about it. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Fair enough, agreed.

No, it's not. I can guarantee you that if we put a long enough zoom lens on your helmet you would not be able to get a shot of your target without a sighting system. The effect of "missing" your target is indeed mitigated at the ultra wide angles most skydivers usually shoot at, but even then the misalignment still exists, which means you are not shooting where you are looking (it just might matter less to you at that zoom level). So if you are shooting at a zoom level high enough that the misalignment becomes significant, or you put a lot of effort into framing and composing your shots, and you want to actually shoot want you intend to without throwing away a bunch of pixels on cropping later on, then using a sight system is a no-brainer. Next time I see Norman Kent I will have to ask him why after all these years jumping he hasn't learned the simple trick of pointing his bloody head where he wants to shoot. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

That's an absurd understanding of the word evidence. It's evidence of one thing only: that they haven't run out yet. Put an immortal man in a room with one million unspoilable apples. If he eats an apple a day for 30 days and concludes that the presence remaining apples are evidence of the sustainabilty of his lifestyle, then he is a stupid immortal. But I already said I'd pretend that part was true. The deeper problem lies with the conclusions your OP seems to draw from that "truth," I say seems because you still fail to explain what the OP actually posits. So I'll ask one last time before giving up: what is your actual point? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

My second paragraph was about the original post. Rather than call you a child though, I will simply break it down for you. The fact that some primitive culture is sustainable (something which is not even established by your post, but let's pretend it is), does not imply a causal link in either direction. More simply: A culture being primitive does not imply that it is sustainable. A culture being sustainable does not imply that it is primitive. Like your post above about having to choose between feeling flattered and offended, this is also another false dichotomy. Sustainability and technological advancement are neither mutually exclusive nor 100% dependent. If we preserve 100% of our resources, we certainly sacrifice technological advancement for sustainability. But on the other hand if we preserve 0% of our resources, there can be no technological advancement because there can be no life. Neither extreme is desirable, which is why this is not a binary choice. But again, your OP doesn't actually make a point. Just subtly hints at a nonexistent causal connection, a false dichotomy, and for bonus troll points it uses a photo called "black warriors." www.WingsuitPhotos.com

False dichotomy; there's also ashamed, but I suspect you don't believe in that either. A->B does not imply B->A. Not only are you confusing correlation with causality, you are also assuming the causal link (which doesn't even exist) is reversible. Really though, you're not making an actual point. Just trolling. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Somebody I know actually bought a Viso II elastic mount, trimmed off the plastic, and punched tiny holes in the neoprene and screwed his Neptune to the surface. He used big washers to prevent the screws from pulling through. He says it works fine and it looked ok to me. I bought one but haven't modded it yet. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Nice photo!

Why do a 9-way for your first attempt at a new (extreme) discipline? Why do the 4 wingsuits take so long to exit? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Just randomly noticed this while browsing a bonfire thread. See attached. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Haven't read this whole thread yet, but LMAO at "don't care what you have to say." www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Good points, especially since I just bought my heaviest Sony yet. Still though, it would be nice if they beefed up their mounts. My Canon DSLR + lens is way heavier than my Sony (especially when you consider the length of the lens and the torsional load that puts on the tripod interface), and there has never been a concern about that mount failing. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I hadn't seen anybody else posting about jumping this camera yet. It's my first experience with BOSS, and it seems to work as advertised. Smoothest I've ever seen my own footage look (the 60fps helps as well). I did two test jumps (1080-60p AVCHD 28Mbps), one with BOSS on "standard" and the other with it on "active." Maybe I'm imagining things, but it did seem that active looked slightly better. Unfortunately even the 1080-60p option on YouTube does not look nearly as smooth as watching the raw video locally, but it's better than nothing if you're curious how this camera performs in freefall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR72X3CsAVw www.WingsuitPhotos.com