THE RIGHT GEAR FOR MY NEEDS???

[timski 80]

Hello everyone. I'm new to the site but not new to jumping. I was at FT BRAGG, NC where I learned to skydive and my last jump was back in 2002. I'm ready to get back into the blue this year and my goal is to train up to flying a wing suit off cliffs in Norway! That being said my question is: what is the best rig type to skydive and also use for BASE jumping? Seven cell? Container? ??? Thanks alot.

~Ski

[JohnnyMarko 1]

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[davelepka 4]

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That being said my question is: what is the best rig type to skydive and also use for BASE jumping? Seven cell? Container? ??? Thanks alot.

None really. It's two different things.

What you could do is look for a skydiving container big enough to hold a BASE canopy, so you can jump your BASE canopy out of a plane to practice with it. You'll want a skydiving canopy for most of your jump, because they open nicer at terminal than a BASE canopy, but you can get a big 7-cell for skydiving and wingsuiting.

You'll need a BASE rig as well. I'm guessing you'll want to stack up some BASE jumps before you hit Norway, so look into one of those, and maybe take a BASE course in Twin Falls.

It's a 'lofty' goal to wingsuit off a cliff. If you plan to proximity fly the cliff, it's even more of a project. Fugre you'll need a couple hundred skydives to start with a wingsuit, and a couple hundred BASE jumps to take a wingsuit off a cliff, and then a couple hundred wingsuit BASE jumps before you start hugging the wall. The skydives and regular BASE jumps you can make in the US (if you don't mind breaking a few laws along the way, BASE jumping requires some tresspassing and maybe some light breaking and entering). The big wall jumps can only be made in Norway/Europe, so you'll need to find a way to spend some time over there to get your skills together.

First order of business, get current and look into the BASE first jump course.

[mchamp 1]

For BASE jumping get an APEX rig or Adrenaline base rig.

Buy a Tracking suit either from Phoenix fly or Tube3 from pressurized. You would want to do plenty of skydives with this tracking suit first then BASE jump with that THEN wingsuit

For skydiving it would be beneficial if you got a huge canopy perhaps loaded at 0.8 to practice for future BASE jumping.

Have fun!

P.S if you really want to only BASE then MAYBE look at BASER rigs

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[sky4meplease 0]

Balloon and helicopter skydives are great fun and give you a chance to try out those new suits! Good fun Have luck.

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[timski 80]

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That being said my question is: what is the best rig type to skydive and also use for BASE jumping? Seven cell? Container? ??? Thanks alot.

None really. It's two different things.

What you could do is look for a skydiving container big enough to hold a BASE canopy, so you can jump your BASE canopy out of a plane to practice with it. You'll want a skydiving canopy for most of your jump, because they open nicer at terminal than a BASE canopy, but you can get a big 7-cell for skydiving and wingsuiting.

You'll need a BASE rig as well. I'm guessing you'll want to stack up some BASE jumps before you hit Norway, so look into one of those, and maybe take a BASE course in Twin Falls.

It's a 'lofty' goal to wingsuit off a cliff. If you plan to proximity fly the cliff, it's even more of a project. Fugre you'll need a couple hundred skydives to start with a wingsuit, and a couple hundred BASE jumps to take a wingsuit off a cliff, and then a couple hundred wingsuit BASE jumps before you start hugging the wall. The skydives and regular BASE jumps you can make in the US (if you don't mind breaking a few laws along the way, BASE jumping requires some tresspassing and maybe some light breaking and entering). The big wall jumps can only be made in Norway/Europe, so you'll need to find a way to spend some time over there to get your skills together.

First order of business, get current and look into the BASE first jump course.

Yea it's not an over night sensation. I live fairly close to the new river and BRIDGE DAY so that will be my training grounds... Trust me I've done a little research and know how many bare minimum jumps are required to BASE both here in the states and Norwway... Thanks to all for your responses. I read a bunch of pretty positive remarks about my local DZ in Chambersburg, PA so I'm stoked about hooking up and getting back into the...

[davelepka 4]

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I live fairly close to the new river and BRIDGE DAY so that will be my training grounds...

Just keep in mind that Bridge Day is just one, very busy, day out of the year. The rest of the time is tresspassing, and possibly 'ariel delivery' charges against you and forfiture of your gear if you get caught.

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Trust me I've done a little research and know how many bare minimum jumps are required to BASE both here in the states and Norwway...

Trust me when I tell you that the minumum is just that, and that it doesn't apply to everyone. The best of the best can get by with the minimum, the rest of us need a little more 'experience' before diving in.

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I read a bunch of pretty positive remarks about my local DZ in Chambersburg, PA so I'm stoked about hooking up and getting back

Good deal, I've also heard good things about Chambersburg. Just getting back in the air is the first step, but keep in mind that you want to be 'good' with your skydiving canopy before getting in to BASE jumping. It's not just that you met the minimum requirement, it's that you are skilled and 'good' with a canopy. Ditto with wingsuits, you want to develop yourself into a 'good' wingsuit pilot before bringing a wingsuit on a BASE jump.

There are many jumpers with your same goal in mind. I can recall one who pushed through and made it to the point of doign proxitmity flights, and shared his progression, and it was something like 1000-ish skydives with 600 or 700 wingsuit jumps, 200 BASE jumps without a wingsuit, and another 100 with a wingsuit before doing anything but flyng away from the cliff. I think it took him 5 or 6 years all in to get there.

It's a hell of a goal, and hell of a project, with the good news being that it's just a bunch of skydiving and BASE jumping, and ain't nothing wrong with that.

[timski 80]

Dave my friend your coming in loud and clear! One jump at a time. I'm 42, if I reach my goal of flying a wing suit off a cliff in Norway before I die, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! ;^) Thanks again. Seriously I'll be happy buying my own rig and being a regular @ the local DZ.