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Great suit for all around flying! Great range for flocking with a small enough wing to make for very easy acro/back flying.

Phantom 3 is a great all round suit for beginners to advanced flyers. If you learn to fly a smaller wing at first you will have more success in a larger wing later. Make sure you are comfortable flying your first wing in full flight, flocking, docking, and acro( backflying, barrel rolls, front flips, ect). When it comes to wing size, it is the "Indian not the arrow". I know many wingsuit pilots that can fly with ws pilots flying the biggest wings because the skill set is in place to do so. The bigger the wing does not mean that the suit will allow you to do more. It mean that the suit will require you to fall back on a skill set that was created by flying smaller wings first. Good luck and safe flights.

01 - Scott Bland 02 - Macca 03 - Robert Pecnik 04 - Jarno Cordia 05 - DSE 06 - Tom van Dijck 07 - Butters 08 - Mike Miller (maybe) 09 - Skwrl 10 - Michal 11 - Kallend 12 - Ralph K 13 - Kyle 14 - Simon 15 - J-Sho 16- Jeremy Tyer 17 - Andreea (SuperGirl) 18 - Matt "You snooze, you loose" S 19 - Veno!! (copland007) 20 - Spike 21 - Jackie 22 - Mark "Birddoctor" Duber 23 - Scott "BSR" C 24 - Eduardo 25 - Christian "AirRebels" Waard (maybe) 26 - Stu Lange

Sad days!! Please Bill, reconsider! There are many responsible wingsuiters from around the world that love to jump at your establishment. Please do not punish all of us due to a few irresponsible individuals. I believe that a tar and feathering may be in order for those that have brought this on our community

The 200 jump minimum gives you time to become a well rounded skydiver. Do it all, RW, FF, and lots of tracking. By knowing how to control you body in all modes of skydiving will put you at an advantage when it comes to learning how to fly a WS. It will make you more aware of how body movements dictate how you fly. Lots of tracking is always a good idea, but do not limit yourself to just tracking dives.

Ring Ring.................... Did we ever find out about the color of Purple Mike's blood? Andrea, Justin, Scotty, Trunk?? Anyone...Anyone...

The question that arises is- the jumper may have a AAD but who makes sure it is turned on?

DSE- Sounds kinky

If you know the community of "flocker" in the states and internationally you find that the percentage of "flockers" that are also accomplished wingsuit base jumpers is pretty high. I feel that there are important skills that are acquired doing both. A well rounded wingsuit pilot should be able to fly in any situation. I would be surprised to hear of many wingsuit base jumpers, who are still alive, that have gone out and flown in proximity to any big wall without having the experience of controlling their suit, in flight, in proximity to another wingsuiter. Flocking, however boring it looks, is a challenge of ones wingsuit flying skill. Adjusting to fall rates, forward speeds, proximity to other wingsuiters is what fine tunes that skill set to become a wingsuit base jumper, or as you stated, start flying for real and not just falling with fabric between our arms and legs. But hey, wingsuit base looks pretty easy on Youtube- I think wingsuit first jump courses should be modified into first wingsuit base courses

http://vimeo.com/11171492 Enjoy!

It is hard to do. Has anyone else found that flailing can get you out of a spin and into a tumble which is easier to fly out of? My recovery procedures in order are fly it out, ball it up, flail and fly it out, or pull and pray ... I found myself in many flat spins over the years of learning how to fly and do acrobatic maneuvers. I found that reacting quickly to a flat spin is key. The longer you take to realize that you are in a "out of control situation" and then react puts you behind the power curve. I have found that reacting quickly, closing your arm and leg wings until the spin slows enough to dive out of the spin works well. The trick is actually closing the wings enough to slow the spin. I have seen many flat spin situation where the pilot says that they closed up their wings. However video evidence showed that what they actually did was close their wings 50% of the way. If you do not feel yours knees together and have your arms tucked in towards your chest chances are the wings are still inflated and inhibiting your recovery. Just my opinion/ what has worked well for me. In this situation I feel there are many ways to skin this cat. Hearing them all just allows for us to determine the course of action we will take when in that situation. Glad you are OK John!

I do not know what happened to that video- however whoever is in possession of that video owes it to the world to release it ;) however- chugga chugga chugga......

Would that be your chew chew shoe?

I had fun too

How many wingsuits are we looking to put in the air on the Oquirhh mountain ridge run? Can not wait fly that one again. Smoke brackets? Smoke? Is that an option again this year?