sgt_ludy

hm... some kind of Baumgartner-Delta-Wing, or what? i call bullshit.

hi, i recently bought a sony pc1000 and i´m looking for the right lens(es) to buy. i want to film competition FF and tandems, and after doing lots of forum search on lenses, these 3 are in the finals. please tell me what you think about it! i´m from europe, so i don´t want to order from the US or Australia. The x-dream lenses are the only with a 30mm thread, so no adapter ring needed, and they are very low-profile, no snagging danger, less stress on material... but they´re also the most expensive. X-Dream OPtics 0.5 Centerline http://www.xdream-optics.de/xdreamoptics.htm A friend who jumps the Kenko 0.42 said that this lens covers everything from 0.3 to 0.7 because you can zoom and the camera still focuses. i never tried it, just relying on what he said. can this be? Kenko 0.42 http://www.fotokoch.de/dynsearch/search.pl?search=kenko+weitwinkel&fields=4 or would a nice combination be better to change between freefly jumps and tandems (0.43 for FF, 0.5 for tandems?) Kenko Set Fish-Eye + Wide Angle http://cgi.ebay.at/Kenko-0-43x-Fischauge-0-5x-Weitwinkel-f-Camcorder_W0QQitemZ9732789515QQcategoryZ18612QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem thanks for your answers!

thanks for the answers... yes , that would have been pretty cool. filming AND making pics at 2.8 Mio pixels with one devive...

hi, so i bought a new sony pc1000 yesterday on ebay and noticed that it makes pics with 2.8 Million pixels. is there a possibility to somehow make pics while filming, and if yes, to attach a suck/blow thingy or similar item to the cam to shoot stills?

yes, it´s a donier 28, really nice. pic

on many occasions: alpine jump training: 1. fly with heli, 2. pick a nice landing zone from the air, 3. look at map to adjust altimeter to correct height, (or land there and adjust altimeter) 4. jump last year during canopy piloting world cup in austria, the heli from which the competitors jumped offered sight-seeing flights during the breaks. i asked the pilot if he would let me out at 7000ft, and he did...twice. the expression on the sight-seeing passengers face was ...nice...

yeah, i know what you mean, but it was okay for me. i bought the suit this january and was since then preparing for the first flight. on every jump since then (about 130 jumps...) i pulled "wingsuit-style", i also often experimented with different body positions and, the most important, i prepared mentally. i just didn´t have the possibility to jump it till yesterday, because of bad weather, or just not feeling it. so when yesterday came and everything was how it should be it just felt okay. and it was...

made my first 4 jumps with a wingsuit, my birdman s3, today and i´m really stoked! flying is incredible... i still like falling (freeflying, etc...) but this really opens a new dimension to skydiving for me.... here some pix from my first exit http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=5/14416065568.jpg&s=f5 http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=5/14416080918.jpg&s=f5 http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=5/14416111786.jpg&s=f5 http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=5/14416114820.jpg&s=f5

hahaaa, today i tried on a friends brand new RAWA helmet... they´ve warned me it would be impressive but the fit and the weight are really incredible!! i immediatly ordered one and the best thing is: no waiting, i´ll have it tomorrow already, because my friend won´t need it for the next four weeks, so he gave me his and ordered a new one for him!! raaahhh, live CAN be fantastic with friends like this... thanks haso. and on friday i´ll hopefully have my sony pc1000, and everything will be great again...

know what? you´re right! ...but the cam wasn´t too bad, neither was the pro-track nor the optima... damn...

news from l&b: 2 more month of VISOless jumping...

the chin strap was closed, somehow the wind just got hold of it and pulled it right of my head. i couldn´t believe it! too bad no one on the ground saw it fall down, because on the same jump someone had a reserve, so everyone was watching it. when i looked down i saw that i was over a huge forrest, so finding the helmet is gonna be pure luck, but who knows... i did not have time to search, because i had to work this evening... hopefully there´s gonna be some bad weather on one of the next weekends so i can go for a SAR... i bought the helmet on ebay, didn´t know the manufacturer, i think it was something like Sidewinder or so...

on my 4th jump yesterday, during a camera freefly jump, at 6500ft my helmet decided to say goodbye and went off.. with it my camera, my pro-track and my optima. never saw them again, and probably never will, man i´m really pissed.

sooooo, are there any news about VISO timeline??? i´m already thinking about buying a neptune ...

bahh, no boobies on this page...

ARRRFGH! COUPLE of MONTH??? damn...

hi, the optima is not an altimeter. it´s more like a pro-dytter with 3 freefall alarms and 3 alarms for canopy flight. i´m also waiting very impatiently for the VISO... come on L&B...

...and round canopies still deploy faster than square ones do.

with full gear 380sqft, WL 0.8 - 1.2

yeah, but i´m talking about a dark LZ (no lights) with the size half of a soccer field, surrounded by wood / trees. sometimes i´m not even 100% sure if i´m on the right LZ even after i´ve landed, cause i don´t see it until 900ft above ground. maybe one could spot the area where the LZ is supposed to be, but i´ve never SEEN the actual LZ during a HAHO/night run in. HALO yes, but not HAHO. as a small team mainly deploying from small planes (i.e. Porter) we don´t have a jumpmaster with the simple reason that there is no place (except in the herc...)and we´re not relying on the pilots green light. i´m exiting first when my GPS shows that i´m over exit point. the c-130 is great. as a jumper i have half of the worries, because i can trust the pilots information and just confirm with my gps. i´d love to have an experienced jumpmaster to spot for me, but we just have c-130 loadmasters.

HALO jumps are the easy part. Stay close together in freefall, stack up with help of NVG and IR-Sticks under canopy, land in LZ that should be not too far underneath you. HAHO are much more dangerous and prone to error and misjudgment. Relying on precise wind info´s on different heights you calculate your exit point and lots of other points. Depending on what plane (=exit speed) we´re using, we either go with static line deployment (c-130, etc...) or 3 secs. of freefall. We stack up under canopy again with the help of NVG´s and then fly relying only on GPS and Map info´s to our LZ. There is absolutely NO WAY that the jump master, pilot or whoever could identifie the LZ at an altitude of 30.000ft (O2) at night and over clouds at a horizontal distance of 30 to 40 km. Difficult part is to hold the very close formation till landing and to fly without visual informations of your surrounding (in clouds / night), just trusting the GPS. have fun.

there is a new GL Video online, again on www.dropzone.tv, even better than the first one.

hmmm... anyone noticed that the Viso Features on the L&B homepage have changed? there is no more swoop alarm! well, the swoop alarm was the main reason i was interested in one. has anyone more info on this change?

argh, not funny. my girlfriend gets 100yrs old... tzzz...Friday, 16 September 2078! ...how does she do that?

hehe, 88years old, man!