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    Whew, had me worried for a bit there as being labeled a Brit basher.....



    No worries Jim!

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    Don't forget Mullins and Welker....



    Indeed. I wrote Mike in last time. Not sure I know enough about Chris. Like somebody said, if he's good enough for Mike...however, to me, he didn't come off very well last time around.

  2. Was going to PM the guy and ask but he hasn't logged on in over a month and has only posted once.

    My rigger packed my Voodoo 2 a little differently this time and the riser covers are more difficult to close. It seems that packing reserves in a Voodoo with the right distribution is an art. How many times and by how many riggers was Tim's rig packed by and what was there experience with Voodoos?

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    There was a guy at our dz who's got about 300 base jumps



    Is that Andy?

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    - he said he wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.




    Unless that's an opinion you can back up with reason I don't think you should be perpetuating it.

    The CR quote is very valid though

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    The hardest thing is matching soundtracks effectively to the footage and knowing when to break from the shot, but I think its not too bad, but we'll see how people like it.



    Yeah, I liked the switches between the wingsuit formation and the jet formation fly-by.

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    I hope you enjoyed my mal at the end the swoop by fordy into the bikers



    Thought hooks weren't allowed at the boogie ;-)

  5. Err, how longs a piece of string? Have you had twists that bad before? Could you get out of them? How long did it take? Was the suit hindering you? What was the canopy and loading? If I was on a 2:1 cross-braced I probably wouldn't give it as much time as a 1:1 7-cell.

    What's your hard-deck? (and is your hard-deck different when jumping a wingsuit?) If it's 1600 say, then you had another 1000 feet to work it out. The amount of time this would have given you depends on the canopy. There's no guarantee the reserve is going to work, so I might have worked it a bit longer, but then you run the risk of getting carried away and being too low. You chopped and lived so it worked out, but it's always good to re-evaluate.

    The bigger issue may be to address what caused the twists in the first place...

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    Well she came



    Good, maybe you'll shut up about it now! :-P

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    Question 1:
    How tough is it supposed to be to get your booties on your feet??? When they are on and i'm standing up everything is good, when I bend my legs about 45 degrees they are tight.. the problem I'm running into is that I can't bend over to put the legs on because the legs come up when you bend over.. it's almost impossible to put them on.. how I get them on i'm not real sure, but I do manage to do it...



    It is supposed to be quite tight so you can get the leg wing nice and taught. I rather it was like this than no tension on the wing.

    Simple answer, don't bend over to put them on! My Skyflyer is not as bad as my GTi was but then my Skyflyer is generally loser than my GTi. When standing up, you should be able to wiggle, shuffle and shake your foot into the bootie. Once it's in, you have tension on it and the suit gives in other places when you bend over to zip up (down?) the leg. The leg is a bit floppy and if you can't get into it freely, stand on the tab on the tip of the bootie with the other foot to keepit still whilst you guide your foot in. Some planes just don't have the headroom to allow this (i.e. Caravan) so I prefer to have my booties on before boarding the plane (as long as boarding isn't an issue (i.e. high door and no steps)).

    Alternatively, get a friendly jumper on the plane to kneel before you on the ride to altitude and do them up for you; makes great tandem footage.

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    Secondly, I only had time to jump it once - and my exit SUCKED.... the first time I jumped a birdman suit the exit was good (i guess it's kinda like jumping for the first time - you don't know what to expect so you're not scared) now that I know what the suit is capable of i'm paranoid i'm going to fly up and it the horiz. stab. Jari had taught me to jump out sideways of the plane (otter) facing the front of the plane and as soon as you clear the door ARCH and spread your wings... which when I jumped with him that's what I did and had no problems.. now i guess i'm just a little paranoid.. so I did go out sideways but had everything collapsed for a few seconds ended up flipping over opened up my wings and everything was all good from there... any tips on exits? I woudl like to be able to exit and face the front of the plane the whole time not go flying off in some other direction



    I think you just freaked yourself out. Have you done many hop and pops/crew exits? It's no big deal. If not, maybe some practices would be good. Make sure everything is collapsed, and evenly; if something is out and unsymetric, that will flip you. How much effort are you putting into your exit? You could be overdoing it and put in an involuntary turn. Take it easy and relax.

  7. You could pay $175 dollars for a 0.3X lens from Max Cohn at Generation Freefly, or a bit cheaper ($140) if you import direct from Japan (although shipping and duty may eat up the saving).

    A cheaper version is available from Way Cool Industries in Australia for US$64 (A$115 - last time I calculated that exchange rate in July it equated to US $52!) plus another $11 for shipping.

    I made one of the cheap ones myself. The lens is a Raynox 0.3X clip-on semi-fisheye windeangle lens. I got mine in the UK from Jessops

    It's a clip-on lens and not a very strong one at that. I broke the clips off, removed the spring, glued the clips back in with Araldite to block light coming in from the side that would have occured if the clips were left off, and glued a 37-37mm spacer ring to the lens. I also got one of these from Jessops. This ring will fit PC-100, 110, 115, 120 cameras.

    If you have a PC-7, 10, 1, 3, 5, 9, PC-101, you'll need a 30mm-37mm step-up ring

    Obviously, the quality isn't going to be as good as the $200 lens, but at the price, you can't complain.

    Total cost £28.98 (US$45.18 at today's exchange rate). If you are not in the UK and can source these lenses cheaply then this is a good option.

  8. The record (although I'm not sure where the value came from) is the average over a kilometer, whereas the peak is not.

    Also "record" is a bit of a grey area. The devices are too susceptible to pressure changes to be definitive enough. Also, the competitions are relative, a result from one meet bears no relation to a result from another meet, they are only relative to results in the same competition, hence the points awarded for your position in the ranking, and the units run in TAS (therefore very with met conditions and AGL)

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    /cutaways/OverTheTop.mpg (3 megs)
    Not a cutaway, but cameraman's reserve deploys on climbout over the tail of a porter. Damn!



    What CODEC is that? Media Player 9 is saying the &€mà Codec is required. Never heard of that one.

    Think it's a Beta problem...

    p.s. It's big, but have you checked out The Skydiver's yet?