5.samadhi

^ my thoughts exactly! I wonder what dots you are not connecting if you have all your ratings but you still dont know whats up???

Are there other wingsuits other than prodigy 2 that you can grab risers immediately after deploying? I'd like to investigate the pros/cons of these suits compared to prodigy 2. I am a ways away from flying WS but I want to in my future...and I only want to fly a suit that I can grab risers and start fixing problems right away (since I intend to eventually take one off a big wall after I get experience regularly tracking off walls). Only have 3 base jumps and 150 skydives so all of this is very much in the future...so no need to think Im going to be dangerous here.

are you telling me to call the manufacturer? This might sound dumb but I didnt think about that haha

bumping this old thread, I just randomly saw it searching for decelerator. Can anybody put my mind to ease about this issue? I just bought a used decelerator for my rig Im putting back together to become current. I had no idea this was an issue. They ARE legal to jump inside the USA, right? the reserve is TSO'ed to TSO-C23d and is is 8 years old.

honest question: what exactly do you find holding you back from swooping on your sabre2? Again, thats an honest question...not a loaded one please do not read into it! Just curious what you think since Im transitioning from a sabre1 to a sabre2 (and I have in the back of my mind someday progressing away from doublefront approaches toward 90 degree carving approach).

thanks for the straightforward explanation about my question, Dave.

I'm not sure what it was that lead you to that conclusion, but that's (I'll be nice) not that smart. First of all, you can clearly see by the position of the tail that the brakes are certainly stowed on that canopy. Second, you don't see enough of the opening sequence to determine that there was any surge at all. If you figure that a HP canopy will fly at 15 mph forward speed with the brakes stowed, that gives the collsion a 30 mph closing speed. Add in that the jumper was most likely using a wide angle lense, which makes things look further away that they are, you have two canopies fairly close together with a closing speed of 30 mph. How quickly do you think that gap will be closed (here's a hint, watch the video). The answer here is not gear modification, the answer is better planning and technique with the skydive. Both jumpers needed to track further, or straighter, and that either means opening lower or breaking off higher. That's the solution. so setting the brakes deeper does not reduce the closing speed as you put it? Is there a negative to setting brakes deeper so that the canopy doesnt have as much forward speed (ie would it mess up the deployment). This is pretty routine for base canopies from what I was told while I began learning to base jump from my mentor. We set our brakes deep so that if there was a 180 we would not be flying into the tower or the building. I mean I understand if the aerodynamics of a 100 square foot cross braced is differen from a 240 square foot seven cell!!!!

was the blue guy open and toggles popped? If he wasnt then he needs to set his brakes deeper so that he doesnt surge forward so much on opening I would think. Otherwise he needs to learn how to flat turn.

I remembered hearing once for some particular reason that a flat turn is better done by going into half-brakes and then LIFTING the opposing toggle that you want to turn away from. If you want to turn left, then go into half-brakes and lift your right hand. Does it make that much of a better flat turn to do this versus going into half brakes then pulling the toggle you want to turn down a little more?

what about enforcing maximum drops per pass from an Ac? Maybe instead of dropping 20 people we should be dropping 5 at a time??? That sounds a pain in the ass but it would dramatically reduce canopy collisions which are apparently one of the leading causes of death (and since the best argument for restricting wingloading is to protect OTHERS not yourself it would make sense to control the environment of the skydiver rather than the contents of her container). Im guessing a cessna dz has lots less canopy collisions than a turbine dz.

^ do you weigh them at the dropzone before every jump??? What if they lie about their weight 10lb and then strap on 20lb of lead???

licky

DSE, let me make sure I understand your comment re: working with this cam: so you are saying because the video data is stored on a card instead of DV tapes (like the sony cams) that transferring the video to computer for editing would be more time consuming and pain in the ass, thus making it difficult for a videographer working on a busy dropzone? this technology is all new to me so I'm just trying to keep my head above the water understanding...I'm aspiring camera flier...like the idea of a very small cam.

could this camera be used to produce video that would be worthy of selling as a tandem videographer? Or is this more of a thing to capture video for debriefing/memories but not really a "working camera"?

make the sport a more viewer friendly sport and take the WR off a fixed object ... ohhh a cliff

cool thats what I thought. Im in nc. I guess canopies have become much more advanced since the sabre and stiletto i used to fly. Either that or inflation!?!?!? I didnt think I was out that long though ha. I seem to be able to put together a rig for 2k. 785 main 300 reserve 300 container 700 AAD

its USD btw.

is 785 (Im buying) sound fair price to you for this canopy. Original lineset. Hopefully since I agreed to that deal! sounded high to me but I research prices and they seem higher than when I jumped 8 years ago. I was buying sabre 1 and a stiletto for half that i think. somebody said subtract 1 dollar for every jump (600). That would seem more than fair? (now since its saturday lets queue any responses from the people at dropzones that are rained out haha!).