Dare you do this (PG pics)

[piisfish 140]

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Cool Advance make some great wings and DVH1-2 is ideal for alpine flying.

Have you flown much?

I'm going to be in Verbier the 1st week in july and will also be taking my freefall rig.

flew a bit ages ago, getting back to it now.

The E4 is an "old Advance", still a Robert Graham one, and to fly a Graham Advance is a very old dream.

I will be in Cochstedt for the wingsuit boogie at those dates

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

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Have fun at the boogie... maybe we'll meet next time around.

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[jakee 1,596]

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I will be in Cochstedt for the wingsuit boogie at those dates[Unsure]

Wow, you must be gutted.

Damn that stupid An-72 boogie!

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

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the thing is the stoopid boogie goes on 07.07.07, date which stupid friends decide to stupidly get married... I have 3 weddings that day... Ad I wand to go paragliding too.

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

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Just FYI:

there is a skydiver who doesn't post to Bonfire anymore based in CO, doing paraglider Dbags from 18,000' with a modified paragliding harness and a skydiving rig to make it legal. He usees a un-modified paraglider, small 5cm"3ring" links.
45min sledding run/through pull with some acro. He reckons he could stay up all day if he was trying.

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As Dobie says... time & altitude (most accidednts are low (can be tree top height!!) and you dont want a 2 (Ram-Airs) out situation.


P.S : I have a cut away on my Tandem... would probably only use it on landing, if it's gusty, small area, obsticles etc. Not likely in the air.

I was thinking some more about this while I was flying, and came to the conclusion that for a lot of flying even with an accurate vario, you have no idea what your true AGL is. This isn't like most skydiving where you can look at your alti and know quite accurately how much altitude you have left relative to a fairly flat dropzone.

This is particularly true I think in the "few hundreds of feet" zone where you're most likely to want to go to your reserve, even if you get familiar with a site you are likely to be flying all sorts of places where your judgement would be close to useless or at best subject to error, throw in the loss of altitude dealing with a collapse or spiral and there are just way too many unknowns to safely chop.