bailey46

Thanks to everyone for your advice and suggestions. Much appreciated!

Hello everyone, Myself and some fellow instructors will be doing several AFFs out of a CASA over the next few weeks, and I've been hearing some conflicting opinions about the best setup and exit count for the student (e.g. up/down/out vs. down/up/out; check left or right first, etc.). I would be interested in any feedback or advice from anyone with significant experience with tailgate exits. Thanks!

Thanks to everyone for their responses. Gadget, I've looked at your text file. Forgive my ignorance, but which column is the altitude/elevation? I can identify the lat/long, time, and date, but that's it. Klaus, The Forerunner is a bit out of our price range, but I was also under the impression that those models were intended for ground use only and weren't as reliable for our sport. I have considered the Wintec 201 based on comments from other threads. But I originally wasn't sure if this unit could be turned on at suit-up and would remain on throughout the plane ride and jump. I obviously don't want AFF-I's (or the student) to be concerned about extra equipment just prior to jump. Assuming the unit would be on for 1 to 1.5 hours per student, do you have any idea how many jumps it could hold before having to download the data? Thanks!

Hello! Considering wing suit flyers seem to have the most experience with GPS equipment, I hope you don't mind me posting here. I will apologize in advance for the length of my message, but some background information is appropriate. I am the organizer of the Ohio State skydiving class. Part of our class is spent discussing how your body biologically responds to risk. To help with this discussion, we have some students wear heart rate monitors during their jumps. The program that downloads data from our heart rate monitors reports it to the nearest second (calibrated to my computer's clock). However, determining exactly when the jump occurred and matching the altitude data with the HR data has been difficult. In past years I gave the students my Neptune to wear, but Paralog will not report the exact time to the nearest second that the jump occurred. Considering how short a skydive is, this makes it very difficult to determine the student's heart rate DURING the freefall and canopy stages of their jump when looking after over an hour's worth of heart rates (data points every second). I also spoke with L&B, who confirm that their altimeters/software will not report jump time to the nearest second either. I am considering using a small GPS unit, but am concerned about losing the signal in the plane, and I don't want to put the responsibility of turning it on on the instructors. To sum it up, I need an instrument that: - will record and report altitude/elevation to the nearest second - can be downloaded onto a computer and exported as a text file so it can be matched up with the heart rate data - is small enough to put on an student without interfering - can be turned on on the ground at suit up time - will not lose signal and miss the beginning of the jump Does anyone have any suggestions of equipment to use that will report this data? Thanks for your time! Jen (Note: I did receive a suggestion of calibrating all of the videographers cameras to my computer at the beginning of the day, but getting them to report exact jump times with so many students to process could turn into a nightmare.)