Hi First, thanks for all the compliments I just ran into that post, and althought i shouldn't be surprised to see this on a forum, i am quite disapointed that the bigger controversy is about me being an idiot for following robbie "into the deployment cone" at the end of the jump and the supposed planification of the jump based on a 90s video. I guess that is why we defenitely have to put more talking on our video if we don't want to appear like reckless jackasses, so here are some details: This was i think the 4th repeat of that particular line, refining it and trying to get good video angles (robbie found it much more interesting than the crack one that doesn't have much proxy on it plus Jeb allready showed it in every possible angle ). The plan was to follow the same line than on the 3 last jumps, this time with smoke and trying to catch the entire flight. Notice that what we plan exactly is Robbie's trajectory on a line that leaves me the margin for the reaction time + possible fuckup and to be able to change our relative positions for camera angles if needed. As you can imagine (and see on the last bank left turn) it is quite hard to follow Robbert on a dynamic and aggressive jump followed by a max-glide pre-opening sequence so if we carefully plan the dynamic part, we do not often plan the very last part or the opening shot since i can never be sure that i will still be on his heels at the end of the jump. But i take the opportunity when it occurs, so when we jump together Robbie just systematically makes a sign by waving his legwing 2s before pulling when we jump together, just like it's teached for the A licence. If a safety issue had to be pointed at, I was really more expecting that it would be to the 32''-40" S-turn above terrain. A few years ago i would have considered this insane from anyone to do this, and my golden rule on my first few hundreds jumps proxyflying was to avoid any situation where i would have to turn above terrain or with an obstacle outside the turn. The fact that now, after hundreds of proxy-flights solo and filming, several dozens following Robbie and 3 generations of suits later I feel comfortable doing both at the same time while filming doesn't make it less dangerous. the difference is that it is very rewarding to be able to pull this out AND still stay safe in my comfort zone. I wouldn't be proud of a cool but NearDeathExperience shot... Thanks for reading, fly safe Ludo PS: for those who are interested i always film with a digital still camera with 16mm lens or a camcorder with a 0.5X lens that have the same angle/field of view. PPS: apologies for the bad English
