Thijs

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  1. DanielRistow

    Since an RSL is the same as pulling your reserve as soon as your risers realease


    I know two people who had issues locating their handles. One had an RSL and was eventually able to pull the cutaway handle and have a reserve opening because of the RSL.
    Another one could find his cutaway handle, but reserve handle was inside the suit. No RSL. Rode a spinning main into the ground. Luckily landed on the rooftop of a supermarket and only had a broken ankle.

  2. dthames

    My opinion is that these tasks/skills need to be primary and flying skills more secondary. That being said, tunnel time might work out better to be done after some knowledge of what you don't know has been gained.


    A person who already has the flying skills, will be able to focus better on those tasks, than someone who has no previous experience.

    This weekend at my DZ there was a first flight student who was spinning for the most part of the jump. If you can't get the flying right, then navigation and deployment will probably also not be a great success either.

    Of course regardless of how much tunnel experience someone has, they should always get the proper skydive training before starting wingsuit skydiving, and gradually built up their skills.

  3. Yes, definitely, even when other people consider me to be already an experienced wingsuit flyer.

    There is a bunch of stuff to learn and try in the tunnel, especially regarding perfecting precision flying. I was always told the tunnel can be a confronting experience for experienced people :)
    Starting there will definitely give you an advantage over people who have/had to learn everything by jumping.

    If we just look at what the tunnel has done for freeflying I'm sure we are going to see a huge rise in the skills of wingsuiters in the next few years.


  4. RSL/MARD would have made him loose less altitude after the cutaway and give him more time to deal with potential problems. Probably would have also given him less line twists or even none at all.

    While it is a 'personal choice' the statistics on RSL/MARD use are pretty clear. I prefer a few line twists at 1000 ft over a partially inflated reserve at 0ft.

    And obviously, when upsizing your main, it is probably not a bad idea to upsize your reserve as well. Funny how people say they need a big low bulk canopy as a main for wingsuiting, but totally forget about their reserve...

  5. mccordia

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    Otherwise why do we bother flaking or cocooning it? Just stretch the lines, quarter the slider, and shove it in like a stuff sack. Can't wait to hear how that goes. Crazy



    So far 1 cutaway in 4200 wingsuit jumps, watch me pack in 3 minutesB|

    And that wasn't even your packjob ;-)

  6. Bob_Church

    "well, you claim that that was in the package, but we don't know that for sure, so claim denied."


    Doesn't an insurance contract have to specify what is insured and for what amount of money?
    I'm not sure about the US, but I really doubt that argument will hold up for a European court, since one could argue if the company has any intention of ever paying out a claim.

  7. Here are my two cents.

    It's not because a canopy has a good consistent opening outside of wingsuiting, that the canopy is a good choice as a wingsuit canopy. When everything goes right, then sure, jumping with a Valkyrie/Katana/Whatever will not be an issues. It's just when things go (slightly) wrong, due to whatever reasons (unstable pull, pilot chute hesitation, bad luck), that things will escalate more rapidly. If I have a linetwist with riser offset on my Spectre 150, it is usually not a big deal, but the same riser offset and linetwist on a small high performance canopy will more quickly result in a cutaway.

    Also, how comfortable are you landing out with that small canopy? How far will it take you back from a long spot?

    Don't choose a canopy for when everything goes right, but for when it goes wrong.

    I know quite a few load organizers (including myself) who will not let you in on group jumps if you are jumping a too small canopy. You are not only putting yourself more at risk, but also the other people on the group.

  8. Joellercoaster

    So: for the non-4-way-obsessed, the "hill" is RW-speak for the time when you are travelling partly in the same direction as the plane, while your velocity changes (due to friction and gravity) from horizontal to vertical.

    Faster-falling groups are faster-falling because they have less air resistance. Friction due to air resistance is what dissipates forward speed, so freefly groups travel further in the direction the plane is going before they are completely vertical.


    That might technically be correct, but it not the reason why belly goes out first. Your reasoning doesn't work when a plane is dropping with a tail wind.
    The longer an object stays in freefall, the more it will drift according to the winds at that altitude.
    If you would drop a freeflyer and a belly flyer from a helicopter which is flying without moving forward (so there is no hill), they would still open at different locations, simply due to the different amounts of time they are exposed to relative wind.

  9. unclecharlie95

    What spacing are people flying now? 5m? Do you still stair step to give the rows further back site lines on the base? Just wondering if the techniques have changed..


    We tried not to stair step it (Euro 42), so keeping everything in on level, but it is quite hard to keep the people in the back really on level.
    For spacing you can probably just look at the pictures of the record. Setting it up a bit more wide gives you more room to play with the grid.

  10. skydiverek

    ***Audible signal? Really? From a unit packed inside your rig while you're wearing a helmet?



    I believe there will be a seperate audible (from Cypres) in your helmet, communicating with the Cypres AAD in your rig.
    I would actually prefer to have this as a visual signal, vs an audible. Most flyers have one or two audibles already, maybe even a fly sight. Adding another audible signal might be confusing, especially if you would flare out the wingsuit and trigger the cypres to switch to 'canopy mode' at the same time when flying through an audible altitude.
    With a visual signal you could first worry about important things after deployment (your heading, keeping clear of traffic, unzipping...) and when that is all done worry about in which mode the Cypres is.

  11. Ordered my Havok Carve on March 4th. Delivered on April 15th. So 6 weeks order to delivery, and since my order was part of a group order it probably took the dealer some extra time to collect all the orders before sending it to the factory.
    Ready for the new season now :)

  12. DougH

    I would like to think that you aren't representative of the overall wingsuiting community, but if you are, then this further cements the need for a rule like this.


    He isn't. Most wingsuit flyers never have done a (tandem) flyby nor have any interest in doing so. It's just a few people now that want to make some noise because they feel their 'rights' are being attacked.

    I am a wingsuit pilot myself, and personally I think this sends a clear message that flybys next to (tandem)students are a no go. Still want to buzz a canopy? No one is stopping you from organizing a jump with another experienced jumper to fly past his canopy or to do some XRW.

    As far as self regulations goes, that only works when everyone agrees with each other. It only takes one idiot to think he has special privileges to fuck it up for the rest. So please stop blaming 'the wingsuit community' for the actions of a limited amount of individuals.