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Hi Skyfolks Comming back from Spain and now I know a little more about the best angle of SPEED: it looks like it doesn't matter, if you fly vertical first - or from the beginning with 45° angle. Both results where equal in speed. I added a new Video on the site: http://www.speed-tracking.com/english/ And I hope, you'll like it. Best wishes for 2012 to all of you. Marc

Thank you virgin-burner I will come! Soon. And you: come to Ampuria. It's around the alps and the pyrenees...

Thanks piisfish for the garmin advise. 1:1 is perfect. Looking foreward to soem nice tracks. As long as you don't eliminate me. - Because I would like to drink some beers at the end of the day with you and other skydivers, OK? Cheers, Marc

Cool piisfish As long as the weather forecast is not showing a full week of rain, I'll be there too. We could make some tracks together. Or some dives. Don't forget your camera. What kind of GPS do you use for this?

Yess, 5.samadhi. You're my cameraflyer, jumping ahead.

Hi piisfish Thanks for the infos, I remember the name: tracking derby. Impressive, 300km/h. Some of those trackers should join a competition in speed tracking next year. Who would like to join? Usually I jump in Empuria, where I made my AFF in '92 In Switzerland I've been to Reichenbach and Kappelen. And you? Blue skies, Marc

You are right, Moritz, Topspeed should be 300km/h + I'm not sure if I will even take my Tracking Suit for the record. Maybe I'll just jump in a J&F-Suit, like the skiers. Then it would be a record really without any additional aerodynamic help from any suit at all. Just with the body. There's no sense in comparing this with wingsuit-speeds, I think. And you know, there's a difference between a single event like this record from high altitude to an event with specific rules we would have to create first. It's more like an eyecatcher for a "new" discipline. There have been such speed tracking events before, I've heard. Does anyone knows something about it?

Thank you angle228 for your comment The horizontal track is defined: a certain distance (from A to B on land) in a certain time. That's resulting in Groundspeed. But who cares about A and B in the air, when looking for top horizontal speed, right? I'm not sure if this is answering your question, sorry. In training I realised that you can be too steep when looking for max. horizontal speed afterwards. Of course in Speed Tracking you need an angle down towards the ground; lets say its around 45°. Otherwise it would be a flat track, resulting in max. glide ratio. In the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CrU21TEgcM&feature=player_embedded you only see scenes of the training with Babylon-Freefly; not the Speed Tracking itself. There I track much steeper, of course. Why 45°?: because it's just betweeen the two goals: getting as much horizontal distance covered - while getting more and more speed. Both at the same time and according to each other. I think it will be a thin line between those two goals. The vertical speeders have to start from 0.0km/h horizontal speed, of course they will accelerate fast, but in this time they will loose some speed as well, we'll see. One interesting thing would also be: how much foreward speed is produced by true air speed of the skydiver, and how much is resulted in creating lift in the horizontal flight direction with changes of the body position. Maybe it will be a constantly slight change of really stretched speed-body-position - and shaping the shoulders as a kind of "wing". But anyway, I'm looking foreward to datas of speeders. Let's try! And if a speeder shows me his +500km/h or even 400km/h in horizontal flight, I will be the first one in a standing ovation! Cheers and have a great weekend, Marc from Blue-Skied-Switzerland

Hi Moritz Thanks a lot for your passionate answer. You are right, I should specify the goal. It will be b) horizontal top speed. And I'll get in contact with Marco, for sure. How fast have you been on your mindblowing track, Moritz? Maybe there are some SpeedSkydivers around with experience in getting horizontal after high speed dives and share these experiences here. I would like to see some tracks and GPS datas! From aerobatics with gliders I know that you loose lots of energy when changing pitch from vertical to horizontal. In other words: maybe theres no need to steep dive first, when aming for fast foreward speeds. I think it will be a "try and error" to come close to the perfect angle. And of course it will be a dynamic change of body position according to pitch changes anyway. Are there some aerodynamic experts here to help with this subject? Anyway, we will see. I love competition.

Hi Freeflyers Have a look at http://www.speed-tracking.com I'm interested in any comments. Thanks and blue skies Marc

Hi there My name is Marc and I started skydiving in 1994 at Ampuriabrava, Spain. In summer 2006 I will relaunch my "jump-career" in Spain. After about 50 jumps I have to start at the very beginning. Are there any jumpers who can give me some advises about re-entering this great sport after a long break? And could anyone tell me, how difficult or how easy it is to jump again after ten years of nonskydiving? As a good guest I will bring you a small gift to this forum: My new online game: Pixelbirds. You have to count a swarm of birds flying across the screen. Not easy. But great fun. Check it out on a cold winter day. ;-) cheers and blue sky, Marc! http://www.swisspixels.ch/birds/index.php?lang=en