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  3. Nice one Dave. As I said, as long as the lines are straight, tight, in the center of the pack job, and the deployment is in sequence, it's designed to open. The trick now is to have the confidence to jump your own pack job (hey, you have a reserve!) and to refine your technique. It will get easier! (you'll develop your own methods and the canopy will age)

  4. This may be out of date now, but it's the most recent info I can find online, but according to Item 9. c)

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    ...Airtec’s policy with regard to the fitting of CYPRES Student/Expert AADs on Student parachute equipment, which is; ‘that they strongly recommend that all students under direct supervision of instructors, such as static line students and AFF students jumping with instructors have equipment fitted with the Student CYPRES and not the Expert CYPRES’.

  5. A small tracking competition was held at Empuria Brava over the Christmas boogie. They did it by a duel knockout. Two trackers exit at the same time and race each other. They decide who goes furthest. The winner meets the winner from another duel until everyone has been eliminated apart leaving one victor.

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    How high should you be to exit whit a wingsuit firsttime(BASE)



    As high as possible! :-) Height isn't the only fatcor, but also height to impact and but also how vertical (or even overhanging), in case your exit and inital flight is less than perfect.

    I chose a 4000 foot (1200m) legal cliff in Italy for my first one. Impact wise it's no different from the tallest legal wall in the Swiss valley (~1700 ft (~500m)) but psychologically it is a lot better and there's more altitude to make use of if things go well.

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    which suit would be the best for BASE?



    This has been discussed before on the Wingsuit forum on BLINC but some of the posts seem to have gone missing in the transition Mick?

    Broadly speaking, there is a consensus that the GTi is the best all round wingsuit considering base/skydiving/wingsuit experience. However, I was comfortable and current on my Skyflyer and chose to do it on that. Plus the leg PC pocket was a big psychological help.

  8. My first wingsuit jump was my 54th BASE jump. I also had 745 skydives. I'd done 83 wingsuit skydives (1 on a Classic, 55 on a GTi and 27 on a Skyflyer).

    A friend of mine with more skydives but less wingsuit did his first wingsuit BASE (on a Classic) with 20-odd BASE jumps.

    I also know a old and bold skydiver who's third BASE jump was a wingsuit jump (but he had a huge amount of wingsuit exits from a balloon).

    Of course, this is by no mean any recommendation, just some examples.

  17. Whoops! You, cough, I mean someone beat me to it. Just found it on a CD dated 7th April 1999.

    Can you remember who asked for it's removal? Would re-titling it ChroniclesX and putting it in the Trailers directory placate them?

  18. Yes, although not "official" it is actually part of one of the Chronicles tape. The music is "Same in the End" by Sublime. "Daddy was a rolling, rolling stone" to Olav tumbling through the sky. Also has him doing his head-down run across the sky. Was one of my favourite earliest skydiving clips I had on my computer. Can't remember what it was called though :-( I'll keep looking

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    I will...I'll be holding a red rose, wearing a white shirt and I'll be waiting for you at the corner.?



    :-o

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    Just look for a dude with short red (and I mean RED!) hair and a white jumpsuit with yellow/red flames, big chance it'll be me...



    Look for:

    Jade and silver (i.e. green + grey) Voodoo
    Jade and silver Skyflyer birdman suit
    Navy blue and royal blue Symbiosis freefly suit
    Gold vented Original Lizard freefly trousers and assorted long-sleeve tops!

    Or at the babyfoot table in Surfer's Inn!

  22. One of the biggest differences is the main pack tray. In the original V1 it opened up more. It's difficult to explain. It's more tradionally boxed off now. I have some pictures I took of the differences somewhere, I'll try and post them. This is the main thing I preferred on the V1 as it was more open for wingsuit deployments.

    The riser tuck flaps have gone through several iterations, more than just V1 and V2 at least. Between very small and quite long, they are now somewhere in the middle (with instructions to place the riser over the bottom flap).

    The yoke has changed. There's more definition with an extra panel. This helps prevent the reserve pin flap from riding up.

    The V1 had secondary riser covers which weren't really necessarry (unless you had the rediculously small riser tuck flaps which broke) and have been removed.

    There is now an option for a differnet eye motif, which looks more like a flame. People call these the "vagina" and whilst I can see what people mean, I don't automatically associate it when I see it, but I guess I'm biased. If anything, I think the newer pattern is worse and I actually stuck with the original pattern when the container was rebuilt (also liked the idea of mixing and matching the V1 pattern with a V2 creating something different).

    There must be something going on in the reserve tray because I couldn't use the freebag from the V1 with the V2 and needed a new one (may have been marked as a Voodoo freebag rather than a Talon one as with the V1?).

    Finally, they took the velcro mating for the bridle off the main closing flap just above the grommet on my V2?!


    Still, love my V2!

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    As in, is there safety in performing flips on exit as opposed to flat and stable eixts?



    Much as I hate to fuel you Thomas, I've been wondering the same myself recently (not that it should concern Newbies? Perhaps your question would be better posed on BLINC if anyone
     there takes you seriously anymore). 


    Layouts seem to be a preferred launch for wingsuit flyers to get them going faster...