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Haha... Now it shows up finally. I have had 3 chops. 1 was a step through from a packer, documented. 2 were questionable if it was body position or my packing skills...

I changed from the Storm 150 (about 350 jumps) to a Skylark Skipper 160 (about 120 jumps) 18 months ago and have not regretted it. The glide is much better and brings me back from longer spots easily. Unlike most others here I was never really happy with the Storm's openings and flare. It was more fun to fly though.

Yes. This needs to be discussed. 200 jumps, then FFC for wingsuit and off we go. The belly and freelfy rules for losing and approaching the base and formation apply also here. I just noticed this for myself and others.

http://skyvideo.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/skydive-elsinore-wingsuit-school-video-guides/ Has some advice on instability recovery, in the middle of the post. Just wanted to add this here. And no, you have to be able to close your leg wing also on bigger suits.

LOL! Robi would probably say: "Splendid, the more speed you have, the more safe you are. Speed is your friend". Although: With the current setup the glide is already fantastic.

It means that you adjust your altitude relative to someone else by movement in your hip area. Or work with your butt cheeks ;)

Seems to be an issue with the lens, focus. A lot in the GoPro Forums and a fix here: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=26431859&postcount=446 I would wait....

Problem solved! My respect for the Swedish not respecting American standard procedure and UPT being flexible!

Cool! Have a great trip and please don't be the Austrian asking the packers to put your pilot chute into the BASE pouch of your V4 just because you plan to get in there soon and want to get used to deploy properly already. The mods will not like it ;)

Dislike! That explains why Lodi's Facebook page just got back to me with: "too many friend requests pending..." Sad to hear this. It should encourage the more experienced wingsuiters to integrate newbies safely and unregulated professionally by all of us. I would hate to see a virus spread among DZOs now!

Good solution IMHO. Much better than a ban. 200 jumps to start with WS is the minimum anyway. FFC is certainly recommended. Plus a specific DZ briefing for WS (they had that before, sticker on the rig just like in Elsinore). Lodi not being a USPA DZ being leading edge and pragmatic here! Thanks Bill.

Nice!!! I like: - "Glide angle of 4,5" - "I pull at 2500ft, which is a very safe altitude as I don't jump a BASE rig" Now let's have the Pilatus Porters here in Switzerland upgraded with a "wing rack", just like our buses have ski racks. Wanted to add: Why debate about the Flysight mount (Velcro and/or tape do the job perfectly) and wingsuits with handles covered when this man does such a performance with all that stuff on his chest and controls done by bare hand and feet? Not to mention his age, and experience.... THIS perspective makes my weekend bright!

Very good example of worst communication scenario here. Airtec, you really screwed up this one! There were 3 AAD manufacturers until recently, one dropped out. Two to go. I have read probably everything available since the bulletin yesterday but I still cannot stop to shake my head. Either you sold a not so reliable product for years and nobody knew or you did the worst communication and risk mitigation job I can only imagine... This was what the trust in your brand was built upon and we all invested money into it. It will never be like that from now on, no matter what you do! [email] I personally disagree here. If airtec does what they should and effectively recalls the aads to be fixed then im ok with that. and it will justify one of fhe main reasons i bought it.what i have a problem with is being stuck with a known defective product that should be guarenteed aginst just such defects. ..and this is a lot of my point too: I used to jump an Aerodyne Icon rig with Skyhook. One day two years ago I got a call from my rigger: Service bulletin, send it in or you are grounded. Which I did, mod done, paperwork done and nobody really cared at the DZs I jumped right afterwards. I sold it and hope that the new owner did not have any problems afterwards. Since AADs are mandatory at many DZs I wonder how they would check the "reset after every jump" of thousands of Cypres2 manufactured after 09 now. Not that I have considered my AAD as last resort at anytime, which you never should. My Neptune also shows "under canopy since 12500ft" usually when I do wingsuit jumps. The AAD is a reserve device we should not rely on, unlike the reserve parachute and EPs. However...

Very good example of worst communication scenario here. Airtec, you really screwed up this one! There were 3 AAD manufacturers until recently, one dropped out. Two to go. I have read probably everything available since the bulletin yesterday but I still cannot stop to shake my head. Either you sold a not so reliable product for years and nobody knew or you did the worst communication and risk mitigation job I can only imagine... This was what the trust in your brand was built upon and we all invested money into it. It will never be like that from now on, no matter what you do!

Yes, you´re right. The Skyflash will receive an integrated, rocket driven, parachute system - This will be build in as soon as we are finished with the hovering tests. Those tests will not be much higher than 1m (3ft) so that a parachute cwould not be necessary until then. We are, at the moment, considering which system to choose. Take a Skywalk Tequila paraglider, controlled by a Spektrum DX 7 for landing and the spare LiIon Battery from the Dreamliner, good to go for 3ft ASL. And please give us the rocket driven reserve, taking us close to the moon from a shity situation below 2kft...

Just my 2 cents and I would like to take the thread back to the initial question of how (if) to mount a GoPro on a G2/3: Spot and Simon have said some IMPORTANT things about this. I switched to a G2 with Contour side mount about 200 jumps ago, at about jump number 400. The side mount works but the (old) Contour gets shifted, kicked off rather easily. In my case this happened a few times caused by the risers, not the PC-bridle. It no longer happens because I got aware of my deployments better and progressed to adjust with a slight timed turning of my head during opening sequence without jeopardising symmetry. For those reading this and not really understanding: This could be due to 1) I am not mother tongue English speaking 2) The known "you don't know what you don't know" syndrome and we should therefore carefully listen to others with more experience and not trust too much in our present experience

It MUST have been you! You also destroyed my dream of flying by just flying better than me, showing mad carving skills etc. Now mods, please shut this balsa wood thread.... ;) Edit to add: Even Boeing might be reconsidering the use of LiPo batteries in their planes these days.

been there... and still think this is a joke (best case) or suicidal tendency but not much in between. Check out Yves Rossi, he does it and has a solid concept, also for landing not just some radio controlled background and take-off ideas... Whatever, this one is entertaining but not really in the right section of the internet here. Or am I wrong?

And with that comment, the thread goes from humorous to hysterically hilarious. So, she's the one in 5:10 of the new PF-Video??? Already thought this was a fake by Jarno and Need4Speed...

At terminal? You mean forward speed causing the burble probably. And the slider was down, twice almost counting the sub100 in. Seems like he got lucky and no injuries to be noted on the vid.

Now that's impressive! When looking at the end of the video, in real time, you could think: What could possibly go wrong? But in slow-mo I thought a dozen times: Man, hopefully the lines don't entangle with his feet... Base jumpers deploy in full flight for good reasons. But they have 230+ canopies, packed to open fast. I would like to bring in the good old: "arch-bendyourknees-pull-pray" for us skydiving wingsuiters to prevent such burbling.

Why don't you just stick it to your helmet with velcro tape, enjoy it and add a simple 5 dollar headset?

Simon, with all due respect, just did your survey: 1st questions: Do you jump.... How many jumps do you have on a TonyWS? 3rd question: Have you had cause to use your safety sleeve to control your upper risers or toggles? No, then survey ends. I can answer as follows: Yes, I have an X2, 35 jumps, could probably reach the risers on opening when my legs are bent. The question that concerns ME: Are you scared wearing anything but a T-Shirt or rash guard long sleeve shirt (lycra, like in kiteboarding) under your TonyWS because there is no cutaway on the arms? My answer to this one would be YES! Sorry...

John, thanks for this and where is the "like" button in DZ.com? I am about your age and can so much feel with your school-teacher-parent-pupil metaphor!

What about 2 4-way diamonds, tight each, doing nice tranistions and the cam carving around like you taught recently? Way to go! The Blue Angels, Red Arrows and Patrouille Suisse don't dock too after all...