flyinryan

Actually she herself has said she was NEVER raped. It is interesting to read HER accounts and opinion of the ordeal, very enligtening. BASE 853

I agree that if you lose heading control of your opening and have to correct then you would indeed lose any altitude gains. BUT, don't you agree that by using a muti system you could minimze the center cell strip effect thus regaining the altitude gain? BASE 853

So if you were doing a static line in this situation would you use thicker break cord? Like you figured that you should hold with 150 lbs...would you use 150 lbs break cord instead. Tom mentioned center cell strip. BR's much maligned multi might help with that. I think this is significant even for jumps that are over 80 feet. Say a 150 foot static line. Wouldn't you enjoy that much more saftey margin if you could work this out properly? Or how about that 150' object where you can't quit reach the landing area, you get flying higherybe you can make it... Don't know. BASE 853

I just purchased a digital rebel and I noticed that it seemed to fire more slowly when my tounge switch was attached then when I just used the button on the cammera. The 4 shot burst is the same speed but it will take WAY longer to shot after that. I also noticed that if I fire off one pic it will take longer for the number in the view finder to go back up to four than when I just use the button on the body. What's up with that? BASE 853

you know you are a BASE jumper when 1) skydivers are calling you crazy (or saying that you could be a really good skydiver someday if you don't kill yourself BASE jumping first) 2) the term un-jumpable is a challange 3) you are proud of the object that you jumped by yourself that no one else has ever scene 4) people who see you jumping legal clifs in Utah ask you if.. a) you are hang gliding b) you are para-sailing c) free basing (I have heard all of these) and finally my favorite... 5) the street is a perfectly acceptable landing area as it is flat, consistant, fairly big, and has less obstacales than some other landing areas you have hit grrr, is my FOX back yet, I am posting and not jumping BASE 853

I am planing a trip out west 9/29 through 10/6. Is the weather nice in Utah this time of year? Or should I go else where? BASE 853

So My new FFX is coming in the mail next week.

I'm going. I was actually there last Wendsday and thought it was such a cool DZ that I had to go back. Kick ass atmosphere. BASE 853

Hey, I am flying into the Dayton airport to go to the Richmond boogie. Is there anyone in the area going to the Richmond boogie who could give me a ride? My flight gets in the afternoon of Friday the 29th. Thanks! Ryan BASE 853

Just a little addition to this: I talked to BR the other day about just this. If you look on their web site you will see that they do NOT vent their 48" pilot chute. When I talked to them they did NOT recomend a vented pilot chute for go and throw stuff. As it was explained to me there is no bennifit for jumping a vented pilot chute at that low an airspeed as the oscillation does not come about until you are falling a little faster. I have NO data on the subject, just passing on what I was told. BASE 853

Now, the guys he was talking about are tards, no doubt about it, but it does bring up an intersting point. Now this is an argument that is going on in our local BASE comunity. How much does wind effect opening? I would say very little on a free fall jump, here is why. Have you ever noticed on a tower jump how loud the wind can be on top of the tower? But once you exit it gets really quiet then loud again as your vertical speed increases? I would say this is prrof that you are moving with the wind almost as soon as you leave the tower. Now if you are moving with the wind, then that would mean that it has ZERO speed relative to you. Meaning, when you open, RELATIVE TO YOU, there is no wind. So, now I ask, how can a wind that the canopy does not feel effect its opening. I have heard the wind sock argument, but that fails because the wind sock is anchored, and you are not. I supose the question is now, how long after you leave the object are you moving at the same speed as the wind? Again, based on the sounds one hears after leaving an object, I would say not long at all. Maybe this windsock effect might come in to play on static line jumps, I don't know. What have other people experinced? BASE 853

Take a look at the manufactures web pages: www.basicresearch.com www.crmojo.com www.vertigobase.com there is also morpheus base rigs and paratec rigging BASE 853

Yeah, I agree. I love driving by objects that I have jumped just going about my daily busniess, and to look up and think, yup, I've jumped off of that. Especailly objects that I have pionered/been on eht pionering load. That is really rewarding. BASE 853

He He He I love when people get a hold of information they do not entierly understand. Kinda reminds me of the folks who eat organic food. Forget the fact that there really is not regulation on what is and is not organic, so you can call anything organic and mark up the price. Too much of anything is bad for you. Hell, even oxygen is toxic at too high a pressure. BASE 853

Interesting question. I think that an equally interesting is why do you keep jumping? To adress the first question I have to admit I am not totally sure. When I started skydiving I always intended to start BASE, never know to what extent, but figured I would eventually start BASE. I think the draw at the time was similar to what drew me to skydiving, at the time I assumed they were more similar then they are, it was somthing different and new to try. I also kinda considered BASE to be a naturall progression in skydiving, and to not do that would be to totally cut myself from reaching my full potential as a parchutist. After I made my first three skydives there had been a news story on our local news about two guys jumping off a building in my town, one of them got hurt but the other one did not. For some reason this really made me want to jump. I think the fact that it was really life or death type stuff, what I thought skydiving was before I started. About a year and a half later the guy who did not get hurt was taking me off my first A. So now to adress the second question. Why do you keep doing it after you make one? Or why not just jump off of A's in low bust areas, or legal S's and E's? Well, quite simply there is somthing about being in free fall and flying a canopy in an urban area that you cannot describe. I love putting the slider on and going to a 7+ second A where the bust factor is low, but I really love looking at a lit up street in free fall. Or lining up my canopy with a lit up street and flying between buidings. I think that you need to do the urban AND not-urban stuff to really enjoy. I have yet to do stuff that is really in the middle of no where, like the Norway stuff or the water fall in Venezuala (been there but not to jump), would really love to do that sometime to get the full BASE experince. I guess to make a long story short: it's about living life, pushing yourself, seeing new and beautiful things, having fun. There is somthing cool about having one parachute that you packed with your loving hands being the only thing between you and serious injury or death. Uhhh, that was long. Wish the wind would die down so I could go jump. BASE 853