roostnureye

wildernessmedic

Considering moving out of California to somewhere I can live better/cheaper. I'm looking at places in Florida, preferably in the lower half. Probably going to end up somewhere in the middle so either side isn't a far drive.

Whats the jumping like in the southern half? Is it year long minus the hurricanes? How often is it winded out? Anything BASE related to jump off out there? Seems like it's pretty flat.
i live in south florida and love the jumping scene.
im on the west coast about 2 hours south of zhills.
from my house its an hour to clewiston dz, 2 hours to zhills, 3 hours to sebastian, 3.5 to deland. there are a metric shit load of antennas and buildings down here that are prime for base. i would heavily consider choosing one side of the state or the other. you will hate the center of florida. its no mans land, all orange tree groves and cattle fields. you will have no life and very few friends if you try and move to central south florida.


Thanks

*********may as well get the list started

Muff Bro Rick
Normiss
Skymama
Jumpdude
Keithbar
florida wingsuit crew

hcsvader

When quatering the slider don't pull the slider down in front of the noise tuck it behind it.

this actually worked really well! thank you!

ive been jumping my crossfire2 119 for a while now, and it snivels for a long time.
im looking to speed up the openings, any suggestions?
currently pro pack, split the nose, keep the center cell exposed, and dont push anything in.
ive tried leaving the entire nose exposed, but on heading openings suffered.
im jumping it with a wingsuit, so heading is a big deal to me with this small of a canopy

roostnureye

***What are the internal ribs made from on the Strix ? Thx

the ribs on the strix are made of "Skytex hard 38 gram zero porosity material with crossports"

I owned an Rbird2, still own an X1, and have jumped a friends Freak a bunch of times.
my Strix just arrived today.
ill post back after i get it aired out.
i am not sponsored by anyone and will provide an unbiased opinion once i get it in the air.


ok i received my Strix, i absolutely love this suit! hands down the best suit ive ever flown. i exited on my back the very first jump. had zero problems with stability and pitch. it felt very natural to fly. transitions are a breeze, losing zero altitude. i was flying with a freak2 and out floating it with zero effort. i put it head down and it was perfectly smooth, no bobbling around. i cannot believe the power this suit has, honestly its really wild. i can flare on my back and gain so much altitude its unreal. i laid the suit on top of my Aura and could not believe how big it was. the aura has longer grippers, maybe 1/2" more tail and a little less arm sweep. when flying it there is no comparison, the aura has very high arm fatigue after floating it for a couple min, i didnt notice any arm pressure at all in the strix. there is absolutely zero comparison to the Rbird2, they are completely 2 different classes of suits, the rbird2 is much smaller. as far as the freak2 comparison, the freak seems to have more arm sweep and does not float as well, forward speeds are basically identical. with the strix i can fly the whole range of speed on its back with out my pitch being affected. i could not do that in the freak2. i can hit the brakes on my back and keep it level no problem. i struggled in the freak2 unless it was close to max or somewhat headlow. im still getting used to a few things on the strix because i didnt fly PF suits much. 1 flat grippers, strange feel but work good in the air, 2 zipper system. im used to the full body length zippers of Tony/Squirrel so gearing up is still feeling weird to me, 3 bootie snaps instead of magnets (i will swap the snaps to magnets) 4 the short leg zipper pulls.
im not sponsored by anyone and paid full price for my suit. this is an honest review. *when i orderd the suit i requested thicker 420 denier fabric instead of their normal parapack, i prefer longevity over light weight

i had 2 out from a wings, the reserve flap was always coming untucked. the rig was sized for me. you know how i fixed it?
i got a vector. ive never been a fan of that short tiny tuck tab covering my pin. now my pin is covered by a flap that closes in the opposite direction and actually gives protection. good luck. it wasnt worth it for me.
piece of mind goes a long way in this sport

flite

What are the internal ribs made from on the Strix ? Thx

the ribs on the strix are made of "Skytex hard 38 gram zero porosity material with crossports"

I owned an Rbird2, still own an X1, and have jumped a friends Freak a bunch of times.
my Strix just arrived today.
ill post back after i get it aired out.
i am not sponsored by anyone and will provide an unbiased opinion once i get it in the air.

keithbar

You the man . What's up dude you living the dream?

I guess that's all a matter of opinion Keith, just got power back from hurricane irma. Pops had a heart attack during the storm, spent 12 days in icu. Hoping to pick him up today. But I've gotten into ppg flying and absolutely love it. Haven't sky jumped much this year. Got a new strix on the way, should be here end of the month. We need to catch up. Hope you're doing good!

Lukasz_Se

Thanks guys, I do remember that article you mention, can't find it though... anyone having some tips on how to do your own inlets?

i put a backfly vent on my xbird and it flies great now on its back. just make a cardboard 3d template. cut out the fabric, sew it up, and attach. then hotknife the wingsuit fabric inside of the vent. i used some plastic as a stiffener to keep the vent open

location of main closing loop.

ive been flying PPG for a few months now, not much transfers over.
flare timing is really different than skydiving/base

Signo

Hi Bryan,

For sure I would be happy to demo a Strix from the good Pecnik. Thanks for suggesting that. Looking forward to comparing the Strix, the R Bird 2, and the Freak 2.

I will contact you separately to set that up.

I recon your comment on research before you buy because there is a all lot more at stake here than the simple price of the suit. My hope when I get a suit is to fly the living light out of it so that the wing becomes innate nature.

One suit for all of the three disciplines that I point out would be ideal in order to be extra proficient with the entire range of the suit performance. Which might become at some point life saving.

Thanks All!

i think the R2 is the smaller of the suits you are looking at. I would say if you want to keep the class of the suits the same, you should look at Tony's foghead2/psycho... it has a longer tail than the r2 so it will be more comparable to the Freak2 and Strix.

you only get 3 alarms, but you can also have it count down the altitude every thousand feet. i love mine

vector makes the same container for taller people, they have the "1" in the size. a vector 306 and 316 hold the same size canopies, but the 316 has longer packtrays. i tried a 306 and a 316 side by side and i chose the 316 because the pud is a lot easier to find if you have a long torso/arms.

sena 20s, but ill be upgrading to the 30s as soon as it comes out.

keithbar

Anyone have any feedback on this suit ?

you need more wing big boy :)

Optimum fabric with ZP nose. It packs smaller than f111.
Also they use the same material on the proxy base canopy.
Openings are very similar to the pilot 7. Seems like a faster opening, lighter weight Spectre to me. It will have a shorter lifespan than zp.
Its PD's version of the epicene, with a better flare.

stratostar

Are you still happy with the 16mm lens? Can you post a couple shots taken with the set up? Got myself a A6000 and currently considering lenses.

Thx

i shoot with the 16mm also. great lense! i have used it for over the top wingsuit record formations and close ups. couldnt be happier. that thing focuses like nobodys business!

GoneCodFishing

I downloaded the grid to have a look, and if it's the same you downloaded (from here http://ipc-judging.org.uk/ws/wingsuit.html ) then the problem is obvious.

Some genius saved the grid file in jpg, which is a format that doesn't save transparency...

If you want to see just the grid overlayed on top of the formation's photo you have a few options.

- In the layer's palette, where the blending mode says "normal", change that to either "color burn" or "linear burn", depending on the background colors.

You can also change to "divide", which will change the color of the grid, but may make it more visible.

- Your other option is to make it transparent yourself.

Open the grid layer only.

Select the magic eraser (right click on the eraser tool to select it from a dropdown menu), remove the tick in the top toolbar that says "contiguous". (The default tolerance worked for me, it came up set as "32"), and click in the white background. All the white should have been removed.

The grid is barely visible as it is, so go to image-adjustments-levels, and crank up the slider at "input levels". I brought the leftmost slider which was set at "0" up to "200" and that did the trick.

Save as "png" format for future use. (I can't attach it as there's a 1mb limit))

Thank you very much man! I can't even begin to tell you how much this helps me. I've been trying to figure out how to budget a mac into my quiver and wasn't liking the timeline. You are the man! I'm at work now, I'll try it out when I get home. Thank again!

johnmatrix

One way is to zoom out using the zoom tool and then Transform - Ctrl+T - to manually resize the grid.
As someone said above, hold down the shift key when dragging with the mouse to retain image shape (i.e. to make sure it stays square).

thanks John! ill try the opacity. Jeff Donahue was helping me last weekend and we could not get the layers to work together.
I can get the photo in there fine, and i can get the layer in there, i just cant get them to work together.
The grid was white and you can barely see the red lines. but i cant get the lines to appear over the photo

I've got photoshop and the wingsuit grid downloaded.
I'm trying to get the grid layer to fit over a still.
I'm using a pc, is there anyone that uses a pc and not a mac?
I could really use some help.
Thanks, Jeremy.

Di0

The N-3, used as an audible, lets you select the volume of the freefall and the canopy alarms (not fine tuning, but something like quiet and loud).
Also, it lets you disable either set of alarms, if you don't like the canopy alarms (or the freefall alarms).

Try an n3a. You can enable/disable canopy,freefall,and count down alarms, as well as set the heights and volumes. You can even record your own wav file and have it play that!

Totally loving my non existent C6 air lol!

Grayhawk

Hi all, Just starting out. I live in Orange County, NY (Near Skydive The Ranch in Gardiner, NY)
Trying to pass my level 4 this week. And I have some real beginner questions which i'll try to find the appropriate board for.
In other news I'm 33, a father of 2 kids, I'm into adventure things. Motorcycles, rock climbing, rappelling, hiking, and pretty much anything outdoors.

Hey man, try and really take in the environment there at the ranch! That doesn't really happen anywhere else At other dzs. Once you start to travel you'll see what I mean. I love the ranch!

1:13 on an aura2!!!!! you go lol!