VectorBoy

the forum has lost its fun! This forum has more than just lost its fun. It was bad enough when it was my instructor is better than your instructor. Our method of tabulating big ways is better than yours. It is full on the absolute most gayest forum on here. Its gone down hill faster with no signs of recovery anytime soon. I can't wait for the future posts from the champian dode gurglers .

If you order an Aston Martin, there is a very long lead time due to the construction process and the people involved. You can get a corvette off the lot that will eat the Astons lunch several times over. The supercar for the un pretencious and spelling challenged. Same thing with wingsuits........ you'll see eventually. I'm in the middle of mid life crisis I thinks I needs me a vette & high performance merican wingsuit would be just dandy too. Cuz frankly I don't care about the people involved other than my benjamins.

Everybody dies, few really live.

VectorBoy speaks the truth. The rigger in question who did the work and I have been bartering work for years, so I have no idea what he charged VB. Fair price for the amount of work it took and more than the canopy was worth but I knew that going in.

I have and know at least a couple other jumpers that had both crw lines and a retractable PC system installed on sport triathalons. Unless you are or know the rigger it gets expensive. Six to seven hours of work plus materials. If you are patient you can buy a crw ready canopy cheaper than doing the conversion. In my case the upgrades cost more than the canopy. Installing the retractable bridle rings is major rigging work and few riggers will want to do it. At resale time few sport jumpers will care about your expensive upgrades.

If you do decide to change it, look into the Shadow, it's like an Acro on Steroids :-) http://www.phoenix-fly.com/products/wingsuits/phoenix_fly_shadow Acro has been replaced by the shadow ( new). Acros are available used. I guess the Acro just wasn't "all that" and needed steroids.

My CRW rig is an 89 vector. 4 jumps today, 10 last weekend. I bet its got more jumps this last ten years on it than its first ten years. Its not the only late 80's vector on our team. Then there is a northern lites ( spl) among us.

Very nice. You've joined the dark side.

A Saphire at your loading will be fine unless you are currently terrible at deployment.

The linesets are the same. The CRW version has a more open nose that is reinforced. It is a dedicated CRW canopy not designed for terminal openings. Call or email Aerodyne for facts. The internet is entertaining though.

Articulated harness is not a issue. Cut in laterals will not work on some models of wingsuits. Some of the zip in suits work fine with cut in laterals.

good call VectorBoy! Its nothing brilliant. Just marketing. You don't think anybody will buy a canopy named " shit for glide" or "lethal to the unexperienced" do you? Oh I like Rock Dragon just in case your derby teams becomes a heavy metal band.

seriously pick a canopy name. velocity blade stilletto lightning crossfire safire black jack dagger Just don't pick softy. Stick with mean sounding names.

Start paragliding or hanggliding and you will learn that the chart is not hacked. The wingsuit silhoutte is way out of spec but the rest are right on.

Are you referring to the incident from a year ago in California or something else? If you are. Well both jumpers had a lot of experience. I learned more about big way canopy formation flying from the female in question than any big way formation organizer or coach. All this just by following her into big way canopy formations. She never said a word. I received atta boys for timely smoothness from the other canopy pilot on the lock up. That young lady had been on several canopy world records and competed in 8 way canopy formations at nationals. She had a lot of skill and showed me a lot of CReW finesse. I would fly with her in any canopy formation. Mid forties is about par for the course in CRW. I think I know 1 guy under 30 who does it actively. A handfull of thirty somethings pushing forty. Its a time honored skydiving discipline expect to see age and experience.

Back fly!

Same here in Australia. Snorkelling only with spearguns or hand spears (hawaian sling) It is actually easier to spear them without scuba. The noise of the regulators and exhale scares most fish away. The better hunters can hold their breath to 50', I can't.

Did you make them buy you a daiquiri?

- FREE hookers and blow :) The hookers would be complaining that their lives are ruint.

Maybe he meant to do it. Maybe he was doing the Handley.[/sly]

The person just got lazy or over their head flying the suit in that manuever. Manuevers like these are difficult because until you practice them you won't know how much input and how fast it needs to be applied to stay in control. Too little to late and you are along for the ride. Too much too soon and you are just fighting the suit and you don't get the result you wanted. Bigger suits that fit too loose make this more of a problem

Ball up now, ball the f@%@#% up, make a tiny tight #$^# cannon ball. TRY lick your balls. what ever it takes for you to realize that death (mid air blackout and praying for a cypress save) is imminent if you try to arch for 10-20 seconds and fight a spin like this. Anyone learning to fly a wingsuit or going up in wingsuit size should watch this video and the red-eye spinner posted earlier in the year. thanks for posting the video scotty, and hope it is a life saver to someone. Really? What if spending 10-20 seconds trying to ball up just makes you spin faster? In this case how about getting out of the fetal position, stretch the legs, keep wings collapsed ( arch or not) until the rotations stop then open wings symetrically.

Why is an unstable downward auger to a side spin, the kind to avoid while doing tandems, referred to as a WS flat spin....... still?

Why is there a need for a "crew"? Most of the wingsuit companies just have a guy or two hashing out the details before production. Even some of the home made suits builders didn't diddle this bad. Eight years of building?!? Get it in the air already, eight years of ridiculous obsolescence is more like it. You are right Chuck this is a great thread.

Unemployed and uncurrent jumper spends mega hours over years building a wingsuit from recycled materials with claims of groundbreaking performance without any casual benchmarking to begin with. Needs a pilot: Who does the suit fit? Uncurrent: Lapse in skydiving license? Broke and uncurrent: reserve out of date At this rate the whole project is headed over a cliff. Base rig anyone? This tread is a train wreck