Calvin19

I meant a pilotchute that has been damaged from actual deployment useage, as in the sail blows out and tears from a deployment. I started this forum because i dont think it has ever happened, Ripstop is Extremely strong, especialy the stuff used for BASE pc's. and in the size of sail a 48" or smaller PC is useing, the total drag is probably a good distance away from the failure drag needed to blow one up. I have used a 46" PC at terminal, seemed to work great, just hurt my neck a bit. anybody know of a PC destroyed from normal useage? CH

I havent blown one, but anybody who has could you please explain and post a picture of the damage? Just BASE specific PCs please. This is in regards to the spoke pilot chute question

Yeah, i agree. first parachute jump in 5 months, i should watch out. im bringing both rigs. one slider up, the other slider down. if no wind, climb to 400 and slider down, if wind, (and there almost always is in colorado) go to the top, and track for 5 seconds. Cheers

cool, thanks kids. i guess i would have done it anyway, my first jump back. Oui! dont crash

So, there is a 320meter A i want to jump from the top with my new gear, a Blackjack 260 and a finemesh slider, i jumped it like this with my dagger/large mesh gear. but my blackjack, fine mesh slider, any problems with that? open nose sliderup packjob, 42" PC, 4-5 sec delay. so... help?

hey man... my first option was "Steel"

whoa... This looks cool, and totaly possible. no more insulting cool things. Who cares if it wont work? they build and we can steal/reverseengineer/buy one and have more fun than should be aloud to have.

I cant remember, but as i thought the reg they violate us under also sais 'use' of aircraft.(so, kiting would also be illegal, as i remember from that post was the paragliders were kiting for awhile, and now and then would 'bounce' or be 'lifted' by their wings for a half second or so. so,,, then i guess they would be doing just as 'illegal' air delivery as BASE jumpers do) but im not sure. somebody post the rules and stuff.

Center cell deformation/ stripping is not really a bad thing,3 point bridal attatchments can help that, but those are kinda scary. i have seen a few PC tows for SCARY long times on those things. but i guess it doesnt matter which one you would do. I have free fallen 180', and static lined 400, if i had somebody to hold a dbag for me on a low jump, i would MUCH prefer that to a statice line. I dont think anybody is actualy SAYING that a Dbag works faster than a SL, but maybe it does work faster. Splitting hairs,at line stretch, a dbag is usualy 5' higher than a SL. and without center cell stripping, i think the Dbag canopy is inflated faster.

I think that the 'Dbag' that most base jumpers are talking abot is not one where the canopy is packed in your container, it is one where a person holds the dbag and you jump, giveing it a heading 'guarentee' and in my opinion, a faster functional canopy. Packed Dbags are scary. and always tie the bag off, WELL. like its not being heald.

Sorry, MOST single parchute jumps from US A/Cs are illegal. of course, technicaly, a lot of certified parachute jumps from US A/C are illegal. (if someone ACTUALY reads the FARs like I do -A LOT- they would see that there is a ot more to it than a notam and in date reserve, IE-ATC control, traffic notification, Exiting OVER own or permissed property, Cloud clearences, distance from runways, Etc, Etc. ) But, From Experience, one CAN get a permit to use a single parachute system LEGALY out of a US aircraft. its just a matter of dealing with the red tape, but, thats a bitch. and i dont like rules anyway. they are bad for the soul. breaking them on the other hand, is good for it. Anyways, my talking out my Arse and your trying to get me to make a mistake (and i have) is not something we shout do on a Hanwags forum. CH Be well, sorry for me needing attention.

I completely agree with your statment, the sailplanes i fly have a water tank in the tail, and in the wings, we fill them with as much water as we deem necesary. I also fly the towplanes, and when the glider is heavy and tail favoring, its gets really fun. normal tows are at 60kts. we do those at 80. sometimes its hard for those guys to keep her steady even then. but of course, your aircraft and a wingsuit are very different. a wingsuit is designed around a human body. the human body was not built to fly, even though with NO wingsuit i have seen paople achieve a track of almost 2/1 GR. the wingsuit is an extremenly variable flying machine. its as if we put full variable wings, Horizontal stab, and every hinge in between on a Duo Discus. granted, DD are at their best possible flying performance already, and are locked compositly into that state, but a human doesnt have to land, we are not a high aspect ratio flying platform. quiet the opposite actualy. we can change our angle of incedense without thinking about it, our pitch angle, and severale other relative wind profiles. From the drawings i have done of a wingsuit, its 4 wings, and the payload, the CG is already WAY behind what a ridged flying machine would be. it has the CG and wing profile of an F16. and anybody who knows about that aircraft, knows about the computer systems it takes to fly. humans, are impressive.

I was flying a 2001 Gin Bonanza, DHV2-3. Never again will i fly above a 1-2, i have a Airea shape as well, but i sold them both. im trying to buy a Ozone ultralight wing, DHV 1-2. The weather was SEEMINGLY perfect, i was launching with 2 paragliding buddies at 8 am. 200 meter hill, just a sled flight. Boulder area Wonderland lake launch. its been said its a advanced hill, but i learned there. the wind was 30 degrees off direct headwind, maybe 3 knots, varrying a bit. the upper windsocks of the hill showed the same, 1V5 airport Awos read the same. soaring index read poor, but the weather report for the day said morning good, but afternoon west wind. I launched, got seated, and had a 30% pilots right collapse, the wing folded uned the left (lineover like) and i was 50' above the ground, spun twice, and hit going downhill. i was the first to launch. none of my boys have flown since. Ill be in the air again in july, I will always limp, but hey. who wont?

Dude. what makes you think im in the rear of the kingair? CH Single and Multiengine commercial instrument pilot i mean, the man took my ticket away from the injury, but ill get it back in a month or so.

shit nick, done the whole rig backwards thing off a S, never thought of it with a wingsuit. wheels... turning. has anybody flown a wingsuit on backwards? turning.... ok done. nevermind but dont give me ideas, i come up with enough bad ones on my own.

static lines are scary.

Personaly, i have more faith in womens' ability to deal with horror than the 19th century attitude.

I second that

We call this THE MR FRANK Equip: total weight (190Alex+160Calvin+60Gear=410lbs) 2 jumpers 2 skydive rigs, but with stilletto 150s, 1 spare riser 1cutaway cable in the 3 ring of the riser, (toggle mech) 1rappel device(grigri) 30ish meters of dynamic rope 1 our secret "mr bill cheat" mechanism Actualy did this a few times... its stupid fun. So, im wearing the climbing harness under my pants, with 30meters of lightweight rope in a stuff sack also in the pants. I "mr bill' with alex, and once we are both flying (hauling ASS) under the stilletto 150, I hook up the rappel to the emergeny cutaway on alex, I rap down to the end of the line, 28meters below him, and he goes creepy on the canopy, it handles SO strange with the dangled weight, he can actualy get pretty close to a real, full "wingover" with me down there, i definatly was way above him on a few of those, looking what fealt likt straight down at him. then, at 3500', i rap off the bottem of the rope, take 10ish seconds, and deploy, we land together, he drags the rope, and me with the harness. After a few days of this, we really thought about what could go wrong so fast, and we decided if we did it the safe way it would not be fun anymore, so we have not done it since. we will probably do it again someday, as soon as i can walk again (or LAND again) But really, some retards treid this with a bungee cord years ago and nearly killed a guy because as i stated, they were retards. we are NOT retards, we quit this because we saw the danger, but we did it. I would not recomend anybody to try this, its kinda, scary. You pretty much have to do it FAST, fisrt time i tried it, it took me 6000' to hook up rappel line under canopy, and i just had to get to the bottem and let go, that was really scary. anyway, DONT try it, just wanted it to be known that we have experimented a lot with parachute/BASE/rope stuff.

i dont normaly 'climbbase', most of the crossover shit we have done has been to get to the top to jump multiple times, as in we climb, rap, gear up, jump, the dissmantal the system. or we have wuffy dudes that thinks base jumpers are gods bring it down. the later works best. i have jumped a lot with a harness on underneath BASE and Skydive gear. just, stow all the shit in your pants if its not glues to your ass, savvy?

who do you think i saw do it? -SPACE-

how do you think i noticed ther was one in mine? I always count.

Aye, well. i guess i was awake, in the coma sense of the word at least. well, i still know its inacurate at speed. at least the ones they use on international commercial airliners are, but hey, i guess thjey dont care where they are

wait... i thought that the good ol' gov puts a cute little anti-accurate thing in the signal, and turns it off when they use killingpeople stuff that has it. maybe im wrong, but when im flying at 18,000' in the kingair, it has a lot of trouble keeping up. or did the good ol' gov turn that cute little virus thing off while i was in a coma? seriously, did they?