Calvin19

live meaning your not dead. and by possible i would say that a jumper with 200^' f111 vented canopy(pin rig you hosers) and 46"pc packed slider off with no primary stow, nose wraped around plackjob, no tailgate or other reefing, jumper exit and fall in feet down position with thrown up PC would walk away 50% of the time. thats just a guess. vents add a little weight to parachute (extraction-line stretch time), no matter what size. but if they are there, the canopy is not just pressurised faster, (even with vents, it would not be flying at 100' FF) it is a larger (if slightly) projected area, as in the first stage of open slider down canopy, its essentialy a round. so i dont know about vents/no vents. -SPACE-

FASTER!! FASTER!!! until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death... the favorite hunter quote of the late Heather...

these are not freefall pics, but capture 99% of what BASE jumping is. getting to the door. all with exposures of at least 5 seconds. sorry about the jpg.

its weird for peolple to pack in 15 min? ?

no, really, even sister liked it a lot. if it was bigger than 11"(?) it would be really cool in some billionairs house, "ahem, and here this peice was the first great work of (blablab)"

after 20' (you said you double the SL length to clear a ledge) the 'snatch force' would be pretty strong. just a thought. sorry i misunderstood you question. my bad there. but i think we established in this or another thread already that i am trying to govern the BASE jumper body and push my rules on them. toolbox. good point though. i agree with you there. but my jumping style, there are a 5 tools. ;36",42",46",(insert cool flip here), and tracking. those are my tools.

I disagree, anyone that says they experience the "roller coaster" effect on a BASE jump is retarded.... come on man.... the roller coaster effect can be described as that feeling you get driving a car, and go ver a hill and feel lighter, i wouldnt call them retarded. i would use the next worse thing. whuffo.

there exists thread with that low of breaking strength. look in paragear, they have everything for rigging. im not sure i get your idea however...

you should put that on ebay... act as if its a famous artist, try to get 400 US for it. it looks pretty cool...

read this whole thread. there are cases of SL failure, and i remember a story posted here of a bridal connection point being torn off from a 'hung' SL- tearing the parachute. i bet closing loop material holds about 400lbs. in a closing loop way, i bet 800lbs. paragear does not specify. and yes, i have made 'soft links' with 50 lb spectra for a paraglider to shave even more weight. google 'into the wind' my old work in boulder co, they carry anything from 30lb spectra to 300lb spectra as kite line, (high quality spectra)

rollercoasters do that? i havent been on one in 10 years. i remember it being boring. but i thought thatit was always zero g or less.

hey man... i say kudos....

hmmm... in my last post... i was not talking about the forces working against gravity... just trying to explain it. now, ill try it that way... so in an otter, or any plane, at straight/level unaccelerated flight, there are 2 forces. that of gravity, being ~9.8m/s^2, and the force of the aircraft working in the opposite direction, ~9.8m/s^2. this is basicaly the same as standing on the ground, only the ground does not cost $20 to hold you up. in 'zero g' in the airplane, first what it happening, is a dive to pick up speed. first, the aircraft is pitched down, changing the forces. they become un-balanced. gravity- still doing 9.8m/s^2 otter- ~9.8m/s^2 there is a transition to the dive, where the acceleration is less than 9.8m/s^2 then, the pull out, this is to start the plane in a parabola, skyward. again the forces are changed gravity-still doing 9.8m/s^2 Otter- ~20m/s^2 and now for the zero G, the pilot pushes the nose over, so the wings are producing no lift, and the engines are producing enough thrust to counteract paracite drag of the Otter. gravity-STILL at 9.8m/s^2 Otter- [depending on how shit hot the pilot is]~0m/s^2 then, pretty much the oposite of how it all started, and level unacclerated flight is returned.

hmmm,... this is getting weird. ok, (and i know you know this... more so than i do) so, standing in one place, on earth, solid ground.... one is FEELING a force equivilent to 9.8m/s^2. but is not EXPERIENCING acceleration of 9.8m/s^2 relative to the earth. this is gravity. when one falls off an object, with zero wind, until relative airflow begins, the jumper is FEELING zero force, equvilent to 0m/s^2. but, this person is EXPERIENCING acceleration of 9.8m/s^2 relative to earth. this is gravity. of course, were i writing a physics book, the vocab would be different. but im not smart enough to write a physics book. we could get into tons of shite about free fall... anything from horizontal push/verticle push off to how coriolis takes an effect on a freefall. but that stuff does not matter... its still magic. edit to add: ll of these should have the " ~ "

fair enough. but you cand just use one tie off on each side. but it is annoying to try and keep the harness aligned... i agree...

thats exactly what it is. it is the late jumper, Clint Ford. I never met him, but some guys that i really respect and that taught me, told me his story. and he is one of my heros. i passed the story on to my sister, who i share my stories with a lot. and a week later, that was leaning against my wall.

yeah man! good job recognising the terrian. it was my first WS jump, a dream i had. D let me jump his suit, and i thought i looked so freaking cool. i had to have them take a pic of me.

'Composite' is what BASE hopers call a 'hybrid' sail. but on some better BASE gear, the topskin is the composite part. the first third of the topskin is ZP, all the rest f111. then there are some that are full zp topskin, and f111 belly. i call it the foreskin.

ahh!!!! dont get mad at me... i think you should do what you want. im just saying that if you dont have to clear a tree or fence or whatever, then there is no point and its not worth the risk(to me) to do a SL without a PC. in those few situations were you need to clear something... double that shit up and do it right... and have a blast. sorry, i was not bashing it... just answering the questions in other thread. . . . dont go in.

Oh... someone said that they needed to clear a fencem and thats why you were trying to get rid of PC for SL jumps... solution- buy a blackjack with zp

your the flatlander with something around 100 SLs... you should do it.

we (i think) were arguing over SL with NO PC... but that was in the other thread. I agree though... PCA/SL is 99.9% what a correctly executed dbag is. and 99.9% easier to do.

Freefalling over hard earth at 100'??? What is your definition of "live"? FOr that matter, what did you mean by possible? !! what do you think my definition of 'possible' is? im not going to do it, but with a small canopy, 46"pc, 9' bridal, a -PIN- rig, i think one would live. and by live i mean you will live. ps- i doubt vents would matter at that point. but they wouldnt hurt, well, maybe they would make the canopy heavier... PPS- im not going to do it. and havent

ok... but the theory of relativity only works if your heading west. stupid face. i was 'wrong' to say you cant do a solo dbag. i guess what i should have written was 'to follow standard BASE guidelines and etiquette, meaniing leave no trace, you cant do a solo dbag safely' like i also said, by way of string-release methods, it could be possible to do a carry-away dbag, but im not going to test it.

In BASE, you almost always start from zero airspeed, so your body is feeling 9.8m/s^2 acceleration [relative to earth, you are static, no MOVEMENT]but... (in physics sense, at your computer right now, you are FEELING acceleration[gravity]) in BASE, you feel ZERO acceleration, for at least one second, then as wind builds, acceleration is beginning to be fealt again, and at terminal, it feels like a skydive. if you have ever been cliff jumping, it feels like that. go jump off a 10 meter diving board at a pool, and you will feel what we feel. everyone feels it, its not like some people escape the realms of physics, just some minds are trained not to notice it. i like feeling it.